The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-06-03
Written at Random.

Local river men think that the cause
of the blowing mp Of the towboat Fred
Wilson near Louisville was gas IN the
boilers Because the boiler metal Is
blue after an explosion" remarked one
old-timer today. lis no reason that the
water in the boiler was low. Steam
sometimes gets so hot and dry that il
10 invisible. and this is sufficient to
color the boiler lie is well known,
however, that often some kind of gas
accumulates in u boiler from some un
known cause and it explodes, just as
sewerage pipes have been known to
explode under ground and tear up
large areas Of sidewalks and streets,
which was the case once in Louie.
vile. In regard to the towbo,,t OK.
plosion at Louisville recently. how.
ever, il will probably never be known
what caused It, The Indications are,
from. the evidence, that it was through
no one s negligence,
1.-THE rail stealing time OF year is
known to every section hand that ever
worked for railroad in an agricul.
tural country" said q we'll known
railroad man last night. "You will
think il ridiculous. but almost any
farmer you can find in days ride
will steal rail They have 10 be built
mighty honest IL they resist the temp
tation. The reason is that a steel rail
is the best harrow that can be found. |.
Ii Is farming implement which rep
resents value OF about $40 at least.
A farmer takes steel rail, bitches
mule TO each end and drags IL over a
field. II brings the clods down Just as
level as your hand, and pulverizes
the earth completely. A railroad
corporation is generally regarded as
legitimate prey. and for that reason
section bosses are greatly annoyed in
the spring by losing the rails which
they distribute for track repairs
When farmer is caught he is usually
let of with bad scare, and few are
ever indicted. In fact, never heard
Of one being hauled into court on the
charge" *
1.-THE attraction a brass band holds
for boy is something Sonderful to
observe, an old time bandmaster de-
clared MS he stood watching young
man proudly mnrch down Broadway
with a small drum hung about his
waist beating tihe TO II few dust-soilsd !
musicians who were apparently labor
ing hard to drag their instruments !
along
when started out in the band /
business thought there was nothing
like II. and IL l could Just get out on /
the road and SEQ the sights / thought l
the world would be mine. A few
years cured me. however. But some
are tradesman, and able to command a
salary of o. a day. One musician |
know. for instance, makes o. day
and yet he would rather march about /
the street, neg,ecting his regular voca-
ton or business, with bass band
than to earn twice as much as he is
paid for the music, and all for what
nothing but the glory of being in
the band. Ii will. to my judgment,
take him just several seasons Of hard,
rough 'trooping' TO cure him, and he
will be the wisest boy alive when he
does finally wake up to realize the
emptiness of a band musicians life. -
"a successful baseball team is one
which is subjected to the fewest
changes during the course of the sea
son." a fan declared rs he noted the
excellent work of the Indians, who
stand in the lead in the percentage
column.
Take for instance the Paducah
team of last season We started cut
with about thirteen OF fourteen play
ers and they were being continually
up. One time the first base
man would be played in the field and
next time behind the bat; or maybe
he would be placed on third base-any
old thing to get nine men placed on
the diamond. The players could not
work together as 9 team successfully
because OF this continual changing