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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04
Miss Phillippi Hughes to be the
yaledictorian Of High School.
Mr. Vaughan Dabney Will be Saluta.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Made
This Morning.
COMMENCEMENT WORK BEGINS

The honors of the graduating class
of 1904 have been awarded to Miss
Phillips Hughes and Mr.. Vaughan
Dabney, the former obtaining the first
honors, that of valedictorian, and the
latter the honors of salutatorian. The
decision of the honors was learned
Saturday after a careful auditing OF
the grades for the past three years,
and the result was announced before
the entire school this morning during
exercises held in the auditorium.
The grades of the two honored pu-
pills were slightly above "a and so
CLOSE was the per cent that only 1.75
distinguished the higher.
Mr.. Warren Sights also had a high
grade which differed by a fraction
only, and he was this morning elected
TO the Office Of Spade, his duties be-
ing those held by Mr.. Vaughan Dabney
who had to resign as spade" in order
to accept the higher honor of salutato-
rian.
This morning at $50 the classes
were called to order and in appropri-
ate exercises, the names OF Miss
Hughes and Mr.. Dsbney announced
before the class as the successful stu.
dents. Prof Payne, the principal.
made short address complimentiug
and congratulsting the successful pu-
pills end this was followed by speech
by Miss Birdie Lee Jones, who pre-
scented Miss Hughes, the highest hon
ored pupil, with a small class color
flag with the initials T. II. s., 1904,
sewed on in white. The flag was pre-
sented by Mr.. Ben weille. former
member of the school board. Miss
Hughes responded in short bu,
graceful speech in which she thanked
the presenter and acknowledged
thanks for the many compliments she
had received individually from hel
classmates, and from the class as ,
whole.
With a song the exercises were
closed and the pupils set to studying
The class representatives will be as
signed subjects for commencement ex
ercises Immediately and begin prepar
ing for the entertainment. The song
and choruses will be rehesIsed undei
the supervisor of Miss Grigsby, thu
music teacher.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04
DRUMMER BOYS
Elected Officers and State Dele
gates Saturday Night.
Also Selected the Chairmen Of the
Various Committees-Th Local
Post Has eos Members.

Post A, Travellers Protective asso'
citation, held meeting at Dubois,
Kolb & Co.'S Saturday night, and
elected officers, delegates and chairmen
of committees.
The following are the new officers
President, Harry Lukens; first vice
president. A. II. Grouse; second vice
president, Brack owen; third vice
president, Jerry Porter, of CLIFTON
fourth vice president, Charlie. Spill
man; fifth vice president, Robert
Chastain; secretary sud treasurer,
George Dains; physician and surgeon,
DIR. j. r.. Coleman; chaplain, Rev.
David Alexander.
Directors: George Powell, $. G..
Bryant, f. Lsckey, W. II. Bowman,
Finis Lack and Andy Bauer.
Delegates to the state meeting: W.
II. Bowman, A. II. Grouse. Harry
Coles, r. Lackey, II. A. Potter, A.
Bauer. Brack Owen, Harvey Phillips,
Ed Atkinson. George D. Hart. Harry
Lukens, Gus smith, FInis Lack, Jer'
~ Porter, DIR. J. X. Coleman, George
II. Powell, John Yancey aud Louis f
Kolb.
The delegates were not instructed
as to state president.
The ohairmen Of the various com
mittees are; Railroads, II. A. Pct
ter hotel. Louis Rubel; employment
Gums Smith; press, James SEWERS
legislation. Harry Coles; sickness and
relief, 4. @. Gleaves.
Post A took in ten new members
during the year, now having 2os
The state convention is TO be held Al
Louisville May z, ana noxt year at Pa
ducah. The national convention Il
at Springfield, ILL.,, June z.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04
DAILY TOURIST sLEEPERS Tc
CALIFORNIA.

Iron Mountain Route operates Pull
man tourist sleeppers, st. Louis to
California, leaving $3.50 .. m. daily
via Little Rock, Texarkana, Dallas,
Fort Worth and Ell Paso. The Ideal
Route to California. Fast schedule.
Cheap colonist rates in effect daily
during March and April, 1904 to CAL
ifornia and the northwest Pullman
tourist sleepers via Missouri Pacific
railway. Leave st. Louis every Thurs
day Q a m. from Kansas City We'd
nesdays, Thursdays and Fridays $50
p. m. going via Pueblo, d. and r. g
system through Glenwood Springs
Salt Lake City to Ogden, etc. Home
seeker and colonist rates TO various
points in the west and southwest ev'
cry first and third Tuesdays each
month. For map folders. descriptive
literature, rates, ETC.. consult nearest
ticket agent, or address,
r. T. G.. MATTHEWS, t. P. A,
Room 30l Norton Build ing. Louis.
vile, KY.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04
Roman Altar plseoverea

At a recent meetina OF tho Ncwcas-
tie. England Society 81 Antiauaries
member described Roman altar
which workmen employed by the Tyne
Commissioners had found embedded
In the river bottom. 10 said II cor
responded with tho altar Already pos
seseed by the society which was
found during operafsosis for the swing
bridge. The two affairs probably
formed the right and left sides OF
sanctuary dedicated 10 tho dictics typ
fled on the faces Of the stones. Both
were found on tho site OF the old Rom.
an bridge.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04
Mr.. Ed LEIGH.
Is ON A BRIEF VISIT TO PADU.
GA THIS WEEK.

Mr.. Edward o. Leigh, private sec
rotary for Governor j. @. Beckham,
is in the city on brief visi. to his
mother and his friends. Col. Leigh
is enjoying the first vacation he has
bad in several months, and deserves
it. He is undoubtedly the hardest
working man in Frankfort, and also
one Of the most popular.
Mr.. Leigh reports politics rather
quiet at present and is glad to gel
back to Paducah If only for few
days.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04

The federal grand jury at Portland,
Ore, will return 10 indictments in
connection with the land frauds.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04
Child Prodigy.

Torquato Tasso was famous through
out Italy before he was nine years old
IA an accomplished Greek and Latin
scholar. and the author OF clever and
polished verses; and az thirteen he
was the intellectual center Of the bril-
liant court nj urbino.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04

Mr.. Julian Grear has gone to 81.
Louis TO purchase machinery for a
machine shop he is to start in Padu-
cab shortly. He was for ten years
a machinist before becoming butch
or
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04
10 euIld Church In Africa.

st. Andrews Is tho Oldest Presbyte-
rian church In South Africa, and II has
for nearly soyonty-fvo years been the
garrison church for Presbyterian sol.
diers In Cape Town. II Is proposed
10 erect a building 10 seat about i.soo
DpOpls
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04

Capisses have been issued for sew
eral prominent city officials of Mil
waukee who are charged with bribery
and boodling.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-04

Agents of the department of labor
and commerce are in st. Louis to in
vestigate the operations of the social
ed "Beef Trust"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12

belts together and brought them
around Harrison's body and over the
cable. Keep hold" he said, land you
can't fall - - Ga $50
But Harrison was now dazed and
only half conscious. When he began
to slide he grasped feebly at the cable,
and then it slipped between his
fingers. His body shot down heavily
and stopped with a jerk that all but
snapped the cable. For a moment he
dangled at the end Of the belt straps,
then he whizzed across the street and
drove headlong into the post on the
further side.
BY this time Kirk and Ford had
lost all trace of swenson. Smoke and
flames enyeloped <the entire building,
and from the shouts in the street be-
low they knew that the wall would
soon go down. Suddenly Swenson
shot out Of the smoke, spun a mo-
ment on the cable and fell at their
feet. His hands and ankles were ter
ribly lacerated and burned where they
had slipped on the cable. But all
four of the firemen managed 20 hob
BILE downstairs without assistance. On
the first floor they passed thru a COM
pany Of hotel guests talking to re-
porters about their narrow escapes
three women had tainted and one mar
had fallen downstairs. ..1
zone hundred thousand dollars fire
damage" said the headline in one Of
the papers next morning, but no live:
| lost" -,, .y.,-,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12

All this had taken place in less
than three minutes. The whole build
ing was burning now and the air was
full Of cinders. Swenson could not
see the street pavement. but he"
caught glimpses of the white rods Of
water driving into the windows be-
low him.
"straighten up-steady now" said
Kirk calmly.
Swensoh stood on the stone ledge
with one hand gripped inside of the
window casing. Then he lifted the
ladder and threw it up round by
round with his right hand, pausing be-
tween each hitch to be sure Of the
balance. So much for the fire drill
When 1T was nearly up he strained
hard, and Kirk and Ford, who had
buckled their belts together, dropped
the loop around the hooks at the end,
drew it up, and fitted it firmly over
the cornice edge. Swenson swung out
on the lower end of it, scrambled to
the top, hand over hand, and rolled
| out on the roof.
They were just in time to see an
other section of the roof go down with
terrific crash that sent the flames
and cinders leaping a hundred feet
in the air. The whole building quiv-
cred, and for a moment they thought
the walls were going down. There
WAS IRE on every SlQe OF CAem ana I'M
der them, and the smoke cut off the
sky from above. Their faces were al
ready scorched with the heat.
| Directly across the street from the
Wellington hotel and about sixty feet
away there stood a four-story apart
ment building. A telephone wire
cable little more than an inch in
diameter extended from the roof of
one to the roof Of the other. On the
top of the hotel it was fastened to a
stout post, and it pitched off over the
edge Of the roof at a sharp angle
1 downward to the other building
/ Kirk. being the lightest, was selected
to go first. swenson and the other
three men, fearing that the cable had
been injured beyond the post, laid firm
hold of it and braced their feet. Kirl
sat on the edge Of the cornice with
his feet hanging over. Then he sliG
off, crossed his legs over the wire as
over a life line, and slipped down
The cable sagged until it seemed
about to snap. Hand over hand, Kirk
slid across the chasm, lettering anG
/ swaying from side to side until the
men on the roof turned their heads
4 away When Kirk was over Ford fol.
1 lowed him without a word, and Geigel
followed Ford. Each time the cable
sagged deeper and the post bent fur
ther down. Swenson buckled foul
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12
an ADVENTURE OF TRUCK SIX
lN7JAP
By RAT STANNARD Baker

and again, but there was no reply.
The smoke was fast becoming unen-
durable, even to a seasoned fireman.
and they turned and ran back, open
smoky interiors Of the rooms as they
passed. Presently Swenson stumbled
and all but fell over something In the
hallway. Geiger held his lantern. A
man on his hands and knees, with
a handkerchief over his mouth, was
crawling on the floor.
where's the stairway?" he num-
bled.
Swenson lifted him up and guided
window at which they had entered,
they were startled to see the hose
line crawling rapidly down the hall
floor and Wriggling out Of the Win
dow like some long snake. The brass
nozzle head rang sharply on the stone
! ledge and was gone. The room where
| the pipeman had been at work. was
vacant and upon looking out of the
hall window Swenson saw the flames
| bursting up from the photograph gal
lery, the flimsy roof Of which curled
| before them as if it was made OF
| pasteboard. The ladder reaching to
| the fourth floor was already down
In the street below Swenson saw Hill
and his men running to safety across
| the street. 1Hey Ildu SldSed o. 1llo-
| ment too long. There was no escape
| from that side Of the building.
At Swenson's order, Kirk and. Ford
drew up the scaling ladder that hung
! from the window, and they all CROPPED
their way thru the smoke, which was
now driving thru the hallway in dense
4 choking currents. Swenson opened q
door leading into" one Of the rooms
which faced the Cass avenue front Of
the building Here he threw up the
window and looked out. The street
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12

doomed, The fire looked from every
window in it's five stories. Ihere was
only one thing to do--save as much
as possible Of the front l. and prevent
the fire from spreading to the other
buildings of the block. In half
minute Collins had disposed his forces.
Three streams of water drove In the
windows Of the upper floor near the
corner Of the hotel; three companies
closed in at the rear along the alley
way, and truck 6, Swenson, lleuten-
ant. wheeled up close to the curbstone
and ran a Bangor ladder to the roof
of the photograph gallery. The lad
der swayed and dipped like poplar
pole and then rested lightly against
the cOrnice. SWenSOn and his men
scrambled up with their lanterns and
axes. Captain Hill Of engine IA and
four Of his company followed with
lead of hose. From the top of the
gallery swenson raised another lad
der until it tipped the fourth-story
window. From this point a short
scaling ladder was pushed up and
hooked to the stone ledge Of the WIN
dow on the fifth floor. Swenson drove
in the sashes, frame and ALL. and a
moment later they dragged the hose
down the carpeted hall and into q
room that opened on the court. From
the window they. could command the
other l.. Hill signaled for water, and
they dropped a hundred-pound stream
into the thick Of the fire. .......
After establishing the lead Swenson,
with Kirk, his axman, and two truck
men, Geiger. and Ford, went down
the hall to. find suitable place for
the second hose line which No. was
dragging up the ladders. At turn
Of the passageway they heard voice
shouting:
Geiger went ahead with his lighted
lantern. Kirk and Ford shouted again
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12
ANCIENT SHORTHAND.
London Chronicle.

Apparently there were schools Of
shorthand as early as the third cen
fury, and in Egypt. A recently dis
covered papyrus which DR.. Grenfell
described at the meeting Of the Egypt
Exploration fund, was a contract be-
tween a shorthand. teacher and a gen
tleman who wished one of his slaves
to acquire the art. The fee was 100
drachmae, 40 to be paid on appren-
ticeship, 40 at the end of the year and
the balance when the slave was pro-
ficient Shorthand writing was then
presumably not so easy of attainment
as it is now. Among the other doc
ument~.of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri is
the account Of a fatal accident and of
the body Of the victim being examined
by the coroner Of the day in company
with a public physician. That dates
back to the second century of our era,
In which, judging by other discoveries,
the formal Invitations to dinner might
be literal renderings Of ours at the
present time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12

dertaken save under the direction and
control Of a physician. The rules laid
down for home muscle building are
too often the same for the stout and
the individual save in the exceptions
which prove the rule. have found
young men whose hearts were in bad
shape on account Of their following
some Of the systems for physical
culture without thinking to call upon
condition to undergo such self train
ing. It Is dangerous to the health
of anyone to undertake such course
save as have outlined.
Each city we visit shows some
characteristic in the makeup of the
applicants for enlistment. Denver's
young men had magnificent teeth.
Fine physique and good height were
notable at Cleveland. Detroit was bad.
as there were only enlisted 81 out OF
800 applicants examined.
Minnesotans' Strong Point.
Minneapolis is distinctive In that
the young man whom 1 have exam
ined have all carried splendid weight
for their height. We have trouble
everywhere we go in getting proper
weight for height. That has not been
true here. Vision is good with Min
| neapolis applicants, and SO far we
! 1leLVC 1AOI AoOi0 q SoSC VI IubSA SoAooi4
in over 200 applicants examined. Ca
tarrh Is a frequent cause Of rejection
in Minneapolis, and we have found
some heart trouble, will also add
this for Minneapolis young men: They
are the cleanest lot Of applicants 7
| have encountered in our tour Of the
cities Of the country.
From my experience of the last
year 7 cannot believe those who de-
clare that we are degenerating In
I physical makeup. The young men
who have passed thru my hands have
been, as a whole, finely set up and
stalwart specimens of American man
hood" y
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12
FOX FARMING
A New Industry Which Has Been Started
In Maine.
Illustrated Sporting News

Illustrated Sporting News. o
One OF the most interesting farms in
New England is that which is devoted to
fox farming In Piscotaquis county. Maine,
where large quantities of foxes are bred
for various purposes, largely for their
pelts but also for hunting clubs, menag-
cries and. ZOOS in various parts Of the
country.
The idea of breeding foxes occurred to
the Maine farmer about three years ago.
He owned a rocky, Improbable farm.
and had half concluded to abandon it and
seek the great west, when he was asked
by a stray gunner from the city If he ever
caught foxes to sell to hunting clubs.
The question opened UP to him a new
possibility, and he set to work to cap
ture foxes. which were fairly numerous
in that part Of the country.
His farm covers about three acres, and
this he las had thoroly fenced with heavy
wire netting, seven feet high, and buried
three feet in the earth, that Master Rey-
nard may not burrow out of his corral.
Scattered about the farm are a number
OF small buildings not much larger than
Lighthouses. In these the foxes may seek
| shelter If they do not care for their bur-
| rows.
! There are about $50 foxes on the farm
| at a time. Those which have the finest
pelts are killed off each winter at the time
fur is at its best, and, as the foxes ara
very well fed, these pelts bring the high
| est market prices. These range from So
to So each-truly surprising rates when
one considers that a good fox pelt eight
years ago, brought but 81. The foxes that
are not so good are sold at various prices
to hunt clubs menageries, zoos, ETC..
There is a steady demand for both the
skins and the live foxes. SO that business
on the Maine farm is always good.
i When the farm was started only tia
native red Maine fox was reared, but
since the venture has proved such vast
success the farmer has obtained, by ex-
change, numerous other varieties Of foxes.
including the silver gray fox and the
Alaska blue fox, whose pelts bring the
highest prices. being made into boas and
nuffs. No pelt of the silver fox brings
less than 500, and that Of the red fox not
less than $50. Some of the common red
fox pelts are dyed brown or black, and
thus bring handsome price.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12

here he has gone to Baltimore where
he will be permanently stationed:
Why Men Are Rejected.
"a multiplicity of causes enter into
the rejection Of applicants for admis-
sion to the navy" said he. 1T is hard
to assign any one defect as predomin-
ant in the applicants. Defective vis-
ion is a fruitful source of rejection and
in examining over 5000 young men in
the last eleven months find that those
In the factory towns. and in the cities
where soft coal smoke assumes the
proportions of a nuisance are bothered
the worst. 3t. 4. ,'ss 4
Tobacco hearts are common. Now
I have no prejudice against cigarettes
for men. Mind you, I say men who
have attained on tne 3 fu 6pa
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12

lungs Is rigid and If, after, passing thru
all of this, the candidate has good
hearing and there Is nothing wrong
with his ears or nose he Is accepted.
It takes full half hour for each ex-
animation, and these examinations
are made by men trained in the work.
II accepted; the candidate is sent down
stairs to the chief yeoman where he is
enlisted. II rejected, he Is asked $50
to notify the yoeman. The command
"Put on your clothes," at any. stage of
the examination Is equivalent to the
statement that the applicant IS re- re-,
jected. tn - VI 4 I
Surgeon Devries talks entertainingly
of his work. In the last year he has
been travelling in the recruiting serv-
ice but concludes his work with the
close of the Minneapolis office. From
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12

kM@ HE Wellington hotel was
burned on the 10Th OF
April On the following
morning the papers con-
n tanned columns Of descrip-
ton, but the adventure of
Lieutenant Swenson and
his men received only a few para
graphs. A somewhat more extended
account was given by the "citizen,'
Harrison, two days later In the hosp1-
tai. When I asked Swenson about it,
he only said: 1.-The marshal told me
to go up. an went up. She got too
hot. an I came down."
Geiger and Ford, however, finally
gave me the details, tho piecemeal and
somewhat shamefacedly.
in the afternoon when the cook of the
Wellington hotel rushed up from the
basement and pulled the knob of the
red fire alarm box back of the clerks
desk. In the laundry behind the
kitchen the flames were. spreading
along the walls and REACHING out OF
the windows and doors. Five minutes
later they had found the wooden ele-
vator shaft, where they leaped with
roar to the top Of the building and
blazed out over the roof like smoky,
red torch.
The Wellington hotel stood at the
corner Of Cass avenue and Thirty
first street, in q comfortable residence
district Of the city. 1t was of brick,
five stories high, and built in the form
of big l., with a roomy, Whitewashed
court in the angle at the rear r AID
joining 1t in Cass avenue stood a thin
frame building, two stories high, occu-
pied on the first floor by q dealer in
hats and gloves, with a photograph
gallery overhead.
Fire Marshal Collins saw at a glance
that the Thirty-first street L was
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-12
YOUNG MAN OF TO-DAY NO PHYSICAL DEGENERATE $$s ss
w. - AvING examined more than
5000 applicants for naval
enlistment, in the last
eleven months. Surgeon J..
IL IA c. De Vries, recently on

Fl u
III G. De Vries, recently on
duty In Minneapolis, speaks
by the card when he says
tho young men of to-day are not de-
generating physically. Incidentally
he can make some exceedingly inter-
illogical conditions in various cities
Minneapolis shows UP we'll in such q
comparison.
The young man who successfully
passes the physical examination re-
CURED for admission into the navy is
a good risk for life insurance COM
panies. He must come within proper
limits as to height and weight and has
to undergo a more searching examina-
ton than Is usually encountered by
applicants for life insurance.
When he decides to enter the navy
the young man must first gain the
consent of his parents, If he be under
age, and II he Is over age he must be
recommended by some responsible
citizen. In the old days of navy re-
cruiting any one was taken. Now It
is different. After the applicant has
met all of the requirements OF the
legal nature he must go thru the
apprentice, who pass upon his physi-
cal condition. He enters their rooms
and presents an order for his eX-
animation.
Take Off your clothes.' Is the first
order he receives.
He complies, standing before the
examining officer as he came into the
world. He is first placed on the
scales and then his height is
measured. After the figures are
recorded he undergoes vision
test This Is much the same as
that Of professional optician.
Each eve Is separately tested.
Successful in passing this ex-
animation the test for color blindness
follows. In q small box are a