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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30
DEEP MYSTERY.

Louitville, KY, Nov. 80.--It is not
likely that the mystery surrounding
the death of the raan whose corpse
was found on the river bank near the
city Saturday will ever be cleared.
An Iver-Johnson revolver, with two
chambers discharged, was found near
him, but there was no wound in the
skull, and the rest of the body hav-
ing fallen away TO q skeleton, it was
impossible to disclose the nature of
I be death wound The man was clad
in blue serge suit of good quality.
He was about Eve feet seven inches
high, had gold tooth in the upper
front row aud two upper front teeth
missing.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30
Best Liniment on Earth.

Henry d. Baldwin, supt. City Water
Works, Shullsburg, Wis, writes; Il
have tried many kinds of hniment,
but have never received much benefit
until l used Billiards. Snow Liniment
for rheumatism and pains. think it
the best liniment on earth" 25c, Soc
500. Sold ny Dubois. Kolb 4 Co.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30

"rhe charter of the Nashville
Transportation company was filed for
registration this morning at the court
house The capital stock is $4,000
and the incorporators are John B.
Ransom, John w. Love. Walter
Keith, A. !. Hayes. T. G. Ryman, Jr..
T. NJ. Gallagher and Shepard Green.
"The company will run a line of
towboats and barges in the Cumber-
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30
SUNDAY CLOSING DEMANDED

Lexington, Ky, Nov. 80 AS a
sequel to the murder of william
Moore in q saloon hee last Sunday by
three negroes who fred upon white
men and TO guard whom from mcbs
the military was called out, and whom
large force Of deputy sberiffs still
guard, tine congregations of all the
Lexington churches have passed reso-
lutions demanding Sunday saloon
closing. Committees to wait on the
mayor were appointed. Collections
for the widow aud orphans of the
murdered man were taken mp,
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30
RURAL ROUTES
Graves and Galloway Gets III
Free Delivery.
New Carriers Appointed For Gra
New Postmasters Named.

Washington, Nov. 3O.-Thess rur6|
routes are ordered established jaime
ry2:
Pennington, Graves county, aodi-.
tional service with one carrier, ares
covered 22 square miles, population
375; Custom, Meade county, with two
carriers, area covered s0vquare miles,
population sse; Kirksey, Galloway
county. with one carrier, area cover
ed 81 square miles. population $50.
These rural carriers are appointed;
Fredonis. regular. Louis o. Lowry;
substitute. + G. Lowry; Wineo. reg
ulsr. William K. wiuslow; substitute,
Ernest Winslow.
Postmssters have been appointed as
follows:
Great Crossing, scott county, Liz
zie Reber; Rogers Gap, Scott county,
Walters Dickerson; warick, Mood,
ford county. CYNTHIA A OTIS.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30
DIED In ASYLUM

Hopkinsville. Ky, Nov, 80 Chsrles
Shackelford, for forty years well
kno sn physician of the county, died
at the Western asylum, aged So. He
had no relatives in the vicinity.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30

The postofice department at Wash
ington has just issued an order re-
ducing the river mail service between
the cities of Louisville and Evans
Vile and only four boats instead Of
six are carrying mail between the two
cities each week.
Boats move too slowly and most Of
the mail is sent by trains. Uncle
Sam gets impatient at delays and al
ways takes the swiftest route to all
points. A letter will be sent hun
dreds of miles out OF its way to save
few hours time.
The quantity Of mail along points
between Louisville and Evansville
has been gradually diminishing
Nearly all points are now covered by
star routes connecting with railroad
towns.
This is equally as true Of the points
between Paducah and Evansville. 1t
was fully expected that the packet
service between here and the Indiana
city would be discontinued this year,
but only a few months ago the con-
tract was renewed for another four
years. The service is often useless
a great part of the year. the only two
boats carrying mail having been fore
ed many weeks ago to lay up on ac-
count OF low water.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30
HEAD SPLIT OPEN.

Flemingsburg, KY, Nov. So-Ame'
lia Lewis, aged 40, a mulatto woman.
with several children, was the VIC
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30
LEADING ATTORNEYS.

Jos. 2. GrogAn, Attorney At law,
room 400 Fraternity building. Phone
$50.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30

ment to the recognized honesty and
integrity OF the railway mail clerks
over the country. They have always
enjoyed a rare reputation for honesty
and up until this time the govern
ment has never even required a bond
OF any kind from them. although
clerks In almost every other branch
OF federal service are required to
give bond
Il has long been the opinion OF the
postofflce department at Washington,
however. that railway postal clerks
ought to be required to furnish bond
as a precaution to protect the govern
ment. They handle more valuable
packages and registered letters than
postmasters, and they are always
alone or among themselves in the
small cars. and have the best oppor-
tunity in the world to extract money
from registered letters were they so
inclined. They have always been
compelled to give a receipt for all
registered mail delivered into their
hands.
A registered letter can be traced
from the sending Office to the receiv-
ing Office with ease. Instances OF
dishonest postal clerks have been
rare.
About eight railway mail clerks
running into or through Paducah are
affected by the change.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-30

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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
P!TH AND POINT.

You are not expected to accept all
of your invitations.
Quit talking when it is plain the
other fellow isn't listening.
We wish we could have as good a
time as young people think they are
having.
Our punishment used to hang on a
nail behind the kitchen door. Where
did yours used to hang?
No matter how rich or influential any
man becomes, he can never be as in
dependent as a hired girl.
All the old people seem to be look
ing for the impossible-young people
with no foolishness about them.
Occasionally a nan talks of railways
wanting to do what's right as if he
thought he had a monopoly ON the
desire.-Atchison Globe.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Easy to Be An Expert pi.to1 shot.

Easy to Be an Expert PistoI Shot.
ANY man with ordinary nerve can
become a fair shot with a revolver
from the saddle with a few weeks
practice. l believe in a short time a
man can become sufficiently expert to
make 95 out of 100 Shots said a regu-
lar army officer,
"You see, it is all in learning when
to shoot. The aiming is a small part
of pistol and revolver shooting. The
aiming is just like pointing your fin
ger. A man can naturally point his
finger at an object accurately. If he
can do that he can ain a gun by SIM
ply throwing it out in the same way.
The reason an Impractical marksman
is no marksman at all is that he stops
to aim and gets off the mark or be-
comes unsteady in pulling the trigger.
He must learn his gun, SO he will
know just the exact instant when it
goes off, just how much and how long
a pull he must make to snap the trig-
ger. When he learns so that it is Sec
ond nature to shoot just as he points
the gun, he will hit any ordinary mark
within reasonable r~ange."-Des Moines
Register and Leader.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
"Poor Pay, Good Tenant"

ut isn't always the tenant who pays
his rent on the first of the month who
is most desirable" said a household
er the other day. "Your prompt ten
ant is likely to hold you his debtor for
that virtue and feel perfectly free to
ask for numerous improvements. My
best paying property is leased to a
man who is always two or three
months behind in his rent. OF course
I lose the interest on my money for
that time, but that is all. In the three
years In which he has rented of me he
has not had the nerve to ask me even
to paper a for him. l haven't
done it, either. In n instance he had
some plumbing done at his own ex-
pense when he should have charged it
to me. I am constantly afraid that he
will get prosperous some day and
want to pay me on time. Just as
sure as he does l will have to spend
several hundred dollars on the house."
New York Tribune.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Artificial Eyes.

The trade in artificial eyes is ex-
tensive llot only from the number Of
people who need them, but also from
the fact that they only last for about
a year in consequence of the action Of
the secretions of the eyes upon the
enamel.
The process of manufacture involves
eight distinct operations, which call
into play considerable artistic ability
and patient skill, and for this female
workers seem specially adapted.
The enamel has first to be fused,
then the globe is blown and colored,
after which the shaping, tempering
and polishing have to be attended to.
The minutest details, even to the coral
veins on the %sclerotic coat and the
broken colored iris, are SO faithfully
reproduced that the imitation can rare
ly be detected save in times of great
emotion.-London Standard.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
A TITLED Dandy.

At the court of st. James in 1913
Lord Villiers appeared, according to a
writer of that day, in a coat of pale
purple velvet, turned up with lemon
color and embroidered all over with
SIS of pearl as big as peas, and in all
the spaces little medallions in beaten
gold-real solid-in various figures Of
Cupids and the like" In that day the
dandies rouged and powdered and car
ried nosegays as big as cabbages. Wal
pole records an occasion in the house
Of commons when, to hasten the adj
journment, some of the exquisites vot-
ed against their own opinions, because
the house was very hot and the young
members thought it would melt their
rouge and wither their nosegays."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Passing Of the "Rube..

The 'countryman'' promises to be-
come extinct in the United States.
The ''rube' is to follow the mastodon,
the Indian and the buffalo. The gen
GRAFTON that comes after us will find
it hard to understand some of the pres
ent day jokes of the "b'gosh," II
swan" and 'gol dern' kind. Already
quite as many city folk buy gold
bricks in the country as country folk
do in the city. In fact, the biggest
and brightest gold bricks find their
market in town. A city bred man is
about as apt to tangle himself up in a
street car fender as Uncle 81 is, and
not all the people that blow out the
gas come from the tall timber.-Wash
ington Star.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Coal Nam. chief worker.

Coal has become mans chief worker,
and horse labor and human manual
labor are slowly being pushed aside.
In the great transformation it has
been brain power that has triumphed
over brute strength. Man first sought
to shift his burden to the backs Of
the beasts of the field, and the horse
became his patient friend and assist
ant, but now he seeks to harness the
elemental forces Of nature to do his
bidding. The burden is thus lightened
without cruelty to any living creature.
Neither man nor beast has had his la
bors increased, but steadily decreased.
st. Nicholas.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
ORIGIN of Some Names.

Many religious sects are now known
by what were originally nicknames.
These epithets, coined in derision, have
appreciated" and grown into honora-
BILE epithets. "Methodism'' was q
nickname originally, an undergraduate
nickname, applied to Wesley and his
friends because they lived by rule and
method. Every n knows what it is
now. So people use the word Quaker
without any ~contemptuous co%nnotation,
and v a word like "ranter' was on
the way toward responsibility when
ranting seemed to fall out Of fashion.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
PEARL FISHERIES.
How the Gems Are Obtained and Dis
posed of In CeylOM.

posed Of In CeylOn.
Since Keats told how .the Ceylon
diver held his breath and went, all
naked, to the hungry shark many
poets have exhausted the OF
their imagination in trying to describe
the wonderful pearl fisheries of Cey.
Ion. A few facts about them may be
Of interest, if only as al antidote to SO
much poetry.
The pearl fisheries are the property
of the government Of Ceylon. The
divers are paid no wages, but receive
one-third of the oysters they bring up,
the remaining two-thirds being taken
by a government agent and sold at
public auction to speculative buyers,
who gather from all parts of the orr
ent. The pearl fishery usually lasts
from thirty to forty days, but does not
take place every year. If it did the
oyster banks would soon be ruined.
Sometimes several years are allowed to
pass by without a fishery.
The diving is done after a primitive
fashion, and the stories told about the
marvellous length of time the divers
will remain under water are quite un
founded. The record is / minute 49
seconds.
The auction, which lasts for several
days, is n of the most interesting
sights to be seen in Asia. The oysters
are sold in lots of 1000. and of course
the purchaser is buying "a pig in a
poke" There may be no pearls in any
of his oysters or the first one he opens
may give him a fortune. This risk ap-
peals to the gambling spirit of the
orient, and pretty nearly all the races
from the Persian gulf to Japan are
represented at the sale.
The prices paid usually start low on
the first day. Then if the buyers have
found pearls in fair quantities bidding
is keen, and the prices jump skyward.
One year they varied from 15s. 4d. per
1000 on the first day to f12 It's. 1Od.
on the second. .
1t is remarkable that the fisheries
are still so profitable, for there are
historical records that they were work
ed there 300 years before the birth of
Christ, and it is impossible to say how
many years before that date.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Yorkshire MOors.

There is no better walking to be had
within the four seas than across a
Yorkshire moor. The air is intoxicat-
Ing. The suns heat may be tropical
elsewhere. Here it is ever tempered by
breeze If not by high wind. One Is
knee deep in honey sweet heather; the
grouse rise In numbers at your feet
and sweep down the wind with the
speed of an express bullet.-Temple
Bar.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Hew He Was Identified.

Josiah Quincy of Boston told with
glee of how he was once identified
by a laborer who was enlightening a
friend. 'That is Josiah Quincy" said
the first laborer.
AN who is Josiah Quincy?" de-
manded the other.
Don't We know who Josiah Quincy
is?' demanded the first man. q" niver
saw SIGH ignorance. Why, he's the
grandson of the statue out there in the
yard"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
SAFE From Burxlars.

"I'm so glad the boys Of your com
pany gave you that handsome revolv-
err" said the militia captains wife.
1--WE need have no fear now Of the
burglars infesting this neighborhood.'
That's what" replied the gallant
captain. 1--WE got it locked up in the
office safe where they can't get at it
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Unrepentant.

Visitor-But there is an essential diff
ference between right and wrong.
Conviction, there wouldn't have been
so much difference if l had a good law
yef.-Puck.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Three Famous Smokers.

Fabulous things have been said
about Grants smoking p%ropensitles.
My word of honor that Grants cigars,
over which he meditated and about
which so much has been senselessly
published, were cast aside, but never
relighted, while Sherman and Meade
would make the air blue like. volca-
noes.-National Magazine.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
supernuous Qualification.

who's that unhappy looking fellow
over there?"
That's Scribblers. He writes for the
funny papers,"
He doesn't look as though he had
any sense of humor."
who said he had?"-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Her Two Degrees.

ut was only two years ago that Mrs.
Weddin took her B. A. at college.
wasn't it?"
Eyes. WhyT
"She has just taken a higher degree
MA in the school of life."-Philadel-
phia Press.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Both Plentiful.

Did you ever have all you wanted
of ~anything?" asked Wandering Mike.
"Yes," answered Flooding Pete. 1.-TWO
t~hings-advice and w~ater."-Washing-
ton Star.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
wiIlin. to Demon.trate.

"Do YOU really Lcl:eve that the proof
Of the pudding is in the eatingY"
"Sure! Give me the pudding and I'll
prove it."-San Antonio Express.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08
Her Intended.

Ada Why does Clara speak Of
George as her intended? Are they en-
gagged? Alice No, but she intends
they shall be.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-08

The best thing Josh Billings knew
OF was q first rate wife," and the
next best thing wal Z second rate
one"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-12-17
Lessons.

1t is a fact that when one hog gets an ear
of corn every other hog will trot along be-
hind ready for bite; but just let that hog
get his head fast in a crack and every other
hog will Jump on him and help tear him to
peces.-Lincoln Hera'd
And Philips Boy" evidently himself
once very rich, says sit is just so
with men. As long as one is prosperous
and has money he can't keep friends
away with a ball bat. The moment he
is unfortunate and loses his wealth he
is not only snubbed by his former friends
but they begin to do him all the harm
possible. When IA man starts down
grade the world stands aside and greases
the track
Then follows the moral of the Obser-
Walton don't be like hogs; be human.
Help the one i'll need. The prosperous
one doesn't need your help"
Wonderful how many lessons can be
drawn from hoggishness
1t is just possible that if there We're
no hogs i'll Il town there would be- fewer
examples of the hog to go by.
And that if an individual ought to be
"human," the government, which is
the individual en- mdsSf, ought to help
those lin need"-not the prosperous
ones" who do not need help"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-12-17
The Brownies
TOWN AND VICINITY.

The JOURNAL has before expressed its
belief that very much of the apprehen
sion of water scarcity which is now and
then felt can be removed by the adoption
of water metres.
This belief was not founded upon pre-
oedent or example, for the JOURNAL
knew of none, but upon the general
proposition that when people have to
pay By mras"ro they will be economical
and i'll the Use of water economy by each
| individual means a better supply i'll the
reservoir.
Besides. it is an anomaly to measure
water By time. As well measure oats by
the yard, or hay by the gallon.
These remarks are melted by an ar
ticle which appeared in the Luray (VaD
| Courjer last week, taken by that paper
| from the Charlottesville (NaD Progress,
as follows:
Petersburg for many years went through
| a similar experience OF dread ann appre-
| hension of Il water famine followed by at
| temptS to meet the eXigency of the situation
| by increasing the reservoir capacity. After
| going to an expense of S7OODO, if we are not
mistaken, to build an additional reservoir, 1t
was not long befor the same contingency of
| a scarcity of water arose, and the Council
| began to seriously consider the necessity of
getting water from the Appomattox river,
| 1t was at this juncture that the experiment
| of water-meterS was tried, and with a result
| that surprises even their warmest advocates.
| Not once since their adoption has the sup
| ply of water in the original reservoir been
| insufficient to furnish the city with an
| abundance of water, and at a lower cost
| than under the Old plan. From that day
| down to the present, the new reservoir has
| been unused except as skating pond during
| the winter months
| - IAtt, Il
| Petersburg has been almost parallel up to
| the point of using meters. With the first
| scarcity OF water. the council of tins city
| constructed pumping-Statlon winch, to say
| the least, has proven an expensive luxury
| Later, it was compelled to erect a s'and-ppe
| on Preston Heights, and now comes the
proposition to connect the pump with a
| branch of MoOre'S Creek = If
metres offer the sensible economical and
| effectua solution of the question, it is foolish
t. refuse to adopt them.
1t is most likely that all the cutlery
| against the eaSt-Side reservoir, medical
and otherwise, as an argument for il
new reservoir is i'll behalf of an eX-
travagance that can be avoided. 1t is
absurd to contend that the reservoir can
not be made leak proof and equally SO to
contend that it cannot be protected from
drainage-these at very far less expense
than buying ground-''mineral rights
I reserved''-and digging hole on the
| top of hill.
These improvements can be mdd@, and
ought to be made. Then take what is
left of the proposed $4,000 and supply
every consumer with metre. Run the
works for at least Il quarter and if 5000
a month must be had, charge for each
200 gallons accordingly.
All concerned will then be assured
that, nobody wasting water, there will
be always plenty in the reservoir, and.
what is nearly as satisfactory, ecergbody
| WW pan he same rdt".
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1904-12-17
BrcvitieS.

The editor of the Shannon IllD Re-
pOrtFr, IL country newspaper, met with Il
serious accident one night recently.
just as he was going to step into his
$40, 600 automobile three bed-slats broke
and let him fall with a smash on the
floor. It's good thing for him, how
ever, that he was not about to pull the
trigger of a signal gun.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-02
! tumn to try for the under water swim
ming, record.
Vine for a GuSher.


A correspondent from Chandler, o.
T., sends the following to the Kansas
City Journal;
Miss Ethyl Houston, a local school
ma'am, established a precedent when
she christened the oil well which is
being drilled near the town here. While
there viii doubtless be few young wo-
men with the temerity which she ex-
hiblted. in climbing the ladder and
breaking a bottle of champagne across
the bar at the top Of the derrick, no
new oil comDany in the Territory can
J start out. under auspicious circum-
stances unless this is done.
Miss Houston is a quiet. unassuming
little woman and had no idea of chris
tening the well when she, followed by
her classes, went to the well. Some
one suggested that the well be chris
tened before active operations were
commenced and Miss Houston, in a
spirit of banter, agreed to perform the
ceremony If some one would get the
wine. This was easily done and. true
to her word. Miss Houston climbed the
75-foot ladder and broke the bottle.
When the board Of directors heard
of the act a meeting was called and
Miss Houston was voted free pass to
the St Louis exposition and to have
her other expenses paid during her
stay there. as we'll as coming from
and going 10 the fair