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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08
VERY ENTERTAINING
ARE RECTOR SYKES INTER
PRETATIONS AT HIGH
SCHOOL.

This morning the pupils of the
High school assembled in open session
to hear Rector Sykes interpret the
trial scene from the Merchant of
Venice.
Rector Sykes has been giving read.
ings aud interpretations to the pupils
every Friday morning, and this has
proven very interesting and instructive
and will be continued.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08
MANY RAISES
COUNTY SUPERVISORS MAKE
$50, 900 INCREASES IN FIRST
DISTRICT.

The Supervisors Of the county tax
books have finished going over the as
sessment for the first district, and
have made increases over the assess.
ment amounting to about $50. COO.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08

Representative Claybrook, Of Wash
ington county, has prepared bill pro-
viding for the establishment Of a
branch at the Lakeland asylum for the
treatment Of habitusl drunkards.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08
MANY
VOTES
Sent in for The Suns Worlds
Fair Contest Today. ,
Widespread Interest Il Being TAX.
en- in Each
One.
WILL GROW EACH DAY

The number of votes sent in for The
Suns great contest to see who will
have its free trips to the worlds fair
this summer grows with each day ami
shc =" great interest being taken in
each contest. The number of votes
cast today is the largest yet FRIENDS
OF the contestants are finding out the
value Of the special coupons and put
ting in good work getting them.
In the end this feature Of the con.
test will be one Of the determining fac.
tors and every one should study 1t.
In April for instance 81 80 paw for
The sun for one year and calls for
special coupon Of $50 votes
The same amount, o. so, paid in
now, calls for special coupon Of o.
eco votes and subscription TO Tke
Sun for one year
Shorter time subscriptions have the
same value pro rata II paid in Jsnu-
ary four times the value Of the same
subscription IN April. the last month
of the contest
These contests are the greatest ever
conducted by local newspaper aud
are attracting widespread interest. IL
will grow with each day and IL be.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08

The general council of Danville has
voted itself a salary for the first tine
in the history OF the city.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08

Tho statement is made that the
Duke Of Deyonshire intends Co return
to the Liberal party, and that he and
Lord Rose berry have rIade mp.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08

and expect TO do fully as we'll in othe r
seven districts. They will probably
be in session at least four weeks.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-08

Dog gave long chase Hare The Dog having
long since made good meal all hungry and
qunce IN no hurry end to the sport He would
ey ran snap at the Hare and at others lick him his tongue
fay cried the prosecuted and bewdered Hare you
or an enemy IT friend why do bite so? and enemy
WHY me ,"
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said to be made of coal dust and oil. treated by a secret process that rem ders it smokeless. It is claimed that the cost Of this product will not be greater than the present cost of ordi- nary grate and stove coal The com pany has established in one of the pub lie galleries of the city of Nantes stoves in which exhibition fires may be seen burning daily. In this connection Petit Phare, a local newspaper, says: It means not only ease. comfort and cleanliness in housekeeping. but. what is still more important to the French nation, smokeless men-of-war, cruisers and torpedo boats. thus suppressing the tell-tale and treacherous smoke column which So often discloses ones presence to the enemy"
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COULDN'T 11yn 5sKAssAs.

Kansas is a splendid State. but the assertion is made that the prairie chicken can't live much longer i'll It, and is even passing away now. This as- sertion calls attention to the fact that other animals have not been able to continue to live in Kansas. The buffalo, for instance. Great herds of elk once roamed the plains of western Kansas. Thirty years ago the antlers of elks could be found all over the western re- zion. Forty years ago wild turkeys were plenty along the streams of west ern Kansas, and they were killed in De- catur county as late as thirty years ago. They departed and so did the beaver and several other fur-bearing animals that once were trapped in great num- bers. In the buffalo days there was a little animal on the plains locally known as the swift" It was a fox-like
 creature, capable of incredible speed for short distances, and dogs were never known to catch it. It lived in holes in the ground, and to shoot one or dig it out was rare achievement. The swift has wholly disappeared and the plains
 no longer know him.
 This os recent times. The Kansas City Journal thus speaks of old times Tt is possible to dig down in western Kansas almost anywhere and unearth the fossil remains of mastodon. an elephant. a rhinoceros. But these are mere lap-dogs romping about our door yards when viewed with the awesome Mosasaurs, Pterodactyls and Plesio- saurs which once roamed the plains of
 Kansas. These were beasts so mighty and terrifying that even the Great Red Dragon with which our Populist friends used to trouble our dreams would seem a household pet to eat out of ones hand when placed in comparison. But they went away in response to the great un- fathomable plan of Nature, leaving only such insignificant things as mosquitoes and house rats for the people to worry
 about.
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premises and then allow them 10 be molested by cats dogs or even children.
 The greater the number and variety
 os suitable bird houses we have ready when the birds begin to arrive. the
 greater number Of tenants we may hope to retain For the bluebirds We may
 have many styles of homes ready for occupancy. Neat boxes may be nailed against the house or barn, decayed
 stumps which have been hollowed out
 by wood9eekers. may be brought from
 the woods and set up in the garden, or
 holes may be bored in an old outhouse,
 and boxes or tin cans nailed up inside.
 Similar preparations may be made for
 the house wren. though, being smaller bird, smaller accommodations will
 answer. If we do not cut down all the
 deeayed trees in the premises, We may
 possibly have woodpeckers. nuthatch- es, and even chickadees and creepers
 for tenants.
 If we put up a good-sized bird house
 with several openings and apartments,
 on the top of a pole twenty-five or thirty
 feet high, We shall tempt the sweet voiced purple martins if there happen to be any in our part of the country.
 These are the largest and handsomest of our swallows, and colony of them, returning year after year to house erected in our garden, will make us wonder again and again why we did not invite them before.
 If we are living in our own home we may enjoy the delights of planning a permanent bird garden. There we cannot only make use of all sorts of artificial resting sites. but we can make natural ones by planting such trees and shrubs and creepers as birds delight to build in. Nor must we neglect the question of food, a most important one at all seasons. A mulberry tree on the premises is a great attraction for many species of birds, some of which eat the fruit itself, and others the insects at- tracted by the berries. Choke cherry trees are also useful in a bird garden,
 as are also mountain ash trees, iuni- pers, rs-les and spruces. Barberry bushes, hawthorns, blackberries, rasp-
 Der ies, sumach, bittersweet and score i6r other shrubs, all bear fruit which att CA AoNt btANo OA OltC Alftu UT dilOlItIs WflllS, colunbines, larkpurs, trumpet creepers Isalvia and many other flowers will act Hike magnets on the ruby throated Ihummingbird. Water should of course
 be present in such a garden and in
 generous quantities; enough not only for drinking but for bathing. Running water is best, but where this cannot be supplied shallow pans of any material may be set on the lawn or on the tops lof low stumps about the grounds If Iof the household cat. and the neighbors'
 cats of course, we shall not only enjoy the delights, of a bird garden but we shall prove ourselves true friends to the birds.
 ERNEST HAROLD HAYNES.
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been studied nowhere else in the world. They had attacked it's problems with the microscope in one hand and the scalpeI or the stethoseope in the other. They had labored by every means in their power 10 substitute for the mass i of chaotic confusion and traditional faI- lacy which had hitherto prevailed-a genuine and precise cancer-science. as sure foundation for all future re- search. And in this attempt they had failed-utterly and miserably failed. And now on all hands they found schemes of cancer research. Those also must fail-must of necessity fail-until some step was taken to clear away all the traditional lumber of past centuries and to formulate precisely what was known with certainty, what was known only imperfectly. and what yet remained to be ascer- tained. Cancer was not one but many diseases, including as it did ten genera and thirteen species. Each va riety was established by different cause or chain of causes. Each proba- bly required a separate line of re- search. He had long thought that proper scientific investigation of the physiological reasons for those remark able diversities, referring mostly to the action of the lymph glands on the can Ger protoplasn, would assuredly far advance the practical knowledge of cancer, and might even lead up even tually to the ideal non-surgical cure. But he heard no rumor of any such contemplated investigation. At present all was groping in the dark-or little more.
 This isn't anywhere near as hopeful as the talk of those who have cancer cures to sell. but it may be nearer the facts.
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PREPARATIONS FOR BIRD TEN
 ANTS.

Although the severity of the past
 winter has caused the death of many
 thousands of birds throughout the country, it is not unlikely, I think, that
 the disaster may prove a blessing in disguise. Great numbers of people who never before gave a thought to the com
 forts of birds at any season, had their
 attention called to their suffering feathered neighbors, hastened to give
 them relief, and thus became en-
 thusiastic, bird-lovers. The school children were especially enthusiastic, and many of them wrote to Audubon
 societies. pledging themselves to feed l the birds for the remainder of the win- ter. A letter from little Indiana
 school girl is a fair sample. She said: q, one of number of willing school
 children am most anxious to assist you 1 in your charitable work of feeding the
 birds. I never thought of such a thing
 as our wild birds starving! To be sure | it was a great shock to hear it, and shall set about at once to remedy my shameful neglect. Every morning I set out food for the birds around my home
 but never thinking that the wild birds
 our best singers, are starving. I live
 but a few blocks from the open country
 and you may be sure the birds shall not suffer that pass over here hereafter. l can climb most as we'll as any boy, and though it may seem an undigrified act for a girl to be perched up in a tree, shall do it nevertheless for the sake ot
 my feathered friends
 That seemed the spirit in which the problem was met by the school children 1 all over the country, and if the wild bird gained many friends like that plucky little girl, the thousands, which starved to death before the facts were
 generally known, did not die in vain. Ii
 is quite possible that the sympathy awakened in so many people by their coming in closer touch with the gentle
 creatures which last winter were thrown upon their mercy, will grow and eventually result in further legislation
 in favor of the birds.
 1 As spring approaches. those who have | had host of feathered visitors in their yards and gardens will doubtless fee more or less disappointed at seeing their guests depart for the woods and fields and for their homes in the north. But 1 this is the time to make preparations for receiving other bird guests, many
 of them even now on their way from the south. These birds are coming north to seek honest in which to rear their young; ! they will certainly nest somewhere, and if we can give them the conditions
 they require, they are as likely to re- main in our gardens as anywhere else The climate conditions of course we cannot control, but We can control most of the others to a greater or less extent. First of all if we would have bird ten ants, we must provide them with suit able sites, and to be suitable they must above all things be safe. It is quite un- ] fair to encourage birds to nest on our
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TESTS.

Customer-Say, you'll have to, take this thermometer back. Dealer-Why? Customer-Well,i one day it says one thing and the next day it says another. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Mrs. Crawford-In what way is your little boy too delicate to attend the public schools? Mrs Crabshaw-AHe isn't strong enough to call home all the books that the children have to study-Leslie' $ Weekly.
 We had known each other slightly said Miss Evvy Waite, but never to speak to until one day while out skat- ing I fell down quite near him, and--"
 "Ah, yes, replied Miss Peppery,
 that broke the ice, of course."-P Phila- delphia Press. aisa
 Did you ever appear in problem play?"
 Yes" answered MT. Stormington Barnes. Last season I was doing sums with hotel bills, time tables and box office statements all the time I was out" Washington Star.
 A Fair Test.-Briggs-I believe the time is approaching when every ques- ton will be submitted to arbitration and all people will agree
 Briggs--WelI, if you wish to be unde- ceived just make an attempt to settle q dispute between the owner of house and tenant.-Brooklyn Life.
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is the most cowardly animal that roams the hills. He is a worse thief than the northern wolverine, and at the same time better natured than half the farm dogs the hunter chancesupon. A pair at play will furnish more amuse- ment than a three ring circus run like scared deer if you but show your self through the brush; in short, the rown bear is the most 'ammosin' cuss" of all if approached properly.
 But don't be misled into picking a fight with either of our small bears. un- less you are well armed. for the black or the brown bear Gone and the same animal under variations of pelage) will fight ferociously when cornered. You will come upon them, too, in the most unexpected places; not even the wilful jacksnipe can beat brown bear in variability of moods or choice of feed ing ground. Travelling in the noun tairs one is apt to come upon Sir Bruin drinking from a little wayside stream, and the very next day, having descend ed into the foothills, find possibly a pair playing about some poorly guarded sheep cdiHp.
 Good natured as is either of these smaller bears, which weigh from 400 to 800 pounds apiece, it is best to know how to hunt them before attempting it. As with most big game, the best way to hunt them for sport is alone, armed with a reliable rife and good knife, though there is seldom occasion for us- ing the latter if the hunter keeps cool If one. is hunting for hides, or to rid a section of undesirable bear neighbors, a well trained little dog is probably the best ally. Fox terriers usually are best as they are quick, resourceful and brave to a. degree. A little dog brought up in a good bear country, where he has roamed the hills all his life, has had the best training possible, and is a prize to be taken care of.
 As has been said, a black or brown bear seldom keeps. one address long, but likely most of them just now are down among the oaks. where the fallen
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4 SURPRISING wRINkLE

In the State of Minnesota there are seventy municipal lighting plants oper- ated and sixty-eight are conducted by private capital An investigation has shown that the average of weekly wages Of each class of electric workers was higher. where the plants were un- der private ownership than where they were under public ownership. Thus the wages of firemen under the private ownership system averaged $1o.S7 per week against $S.79 under the municipal ownership system, and the wages of other employees ran respectively as fol- lows: Linemen. $12.46 against s11.s6; lamp trimmers. s12.31 against s1o.77; engineers, s14O2 against s1SS5, and of- flee clerks, ss.77 against SABA.
 This is rather surprising wrinkle in the municipal ownership of public util- ities. If it doesn't pay well enough in Minnesota to be able to give as good wages as private ownership does an ap- peal in it's behalf to the workingmen wouldn't be very seductive.
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civic. the aab.s.

We were gathered at the table. sasd the
 cook had served the soup, When my sister said the voter vas weak,
 unknowing dupe Then my father looked assonished, and he
 hammeIed with his hand. While asserting that the voter was the bull
 wark of the land. But my brothe' interrupted, and sarcas-
 tical'y laughed While he gead dozen chapters of tThe
 lnHer Truth on Graft Then my mother raised her eyebrows and
 invited us to hear Mrs. Buzzy's splendid words on ''Is the
 Ballot Woman's SDhere?" And she read them to the finish, supple
 mentiHg them with notes She had taken on lecture on The Dicker-
 ing in Votes" Then my sister answered mother: ITS a
 noble message. Yes,
 purple dress? Mother never even noticed what my sister
 said to her;
 Are and as They Were; Then she turned to soclallstlc arguments
 and made it clear That the pickering for office was indeed a
 thing to fear; And she said the hand of woman from the
 tree should pluck the fruit Of the governmental harvest--and my sis
 ter said, How cute!' Mother went from that to Darwin and to
 Spencer and to Kant, Showing that the straightest voter had
 little bit of slant But there came a sudden ending of her oratory deep, For We cfanced to look at father-he was
 sitting sound asleep. And the soup was cold and cheeriess, for
 we hadn't tasted it; Then the cook came in and stated; Since
 you never eat, I'll quitr'
 W. D. N, in The Chicago Tribune.
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CANCER.

There are many cancer cures, and, sad to say. there are many cancers in spite of the cures. At the annual meet ing of the directors of the London Can cer Hospital the other day, Dr. Herbert snow the senior surgeon, a specialist .of many years standing, spoke of the present prospects for the discovery of a cancer cure. He said that he and his associates had studied the disease as, to the best of his knowledge, it had
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ROMA.

The inhabitants of Oklahoma want it understood that though their territory may be little fresh 1t isn't wild. Ok lahoma has seven educational institu- tions of higher learning under control of the territory. and many schools and colleges under the supervision of relig- ious denominations. She has more than s5o,oOo children of school age, and 5000 young men and women jrC the institu- tions of higher learping. There are in the territory ag this time about 1000 churches Valued at $1,OOo,OOo 1000 Sun day schools with 12.O00 officers and teachers, and 100000 pupils. Oklahoma .also has 2,2O0 district schoolhouses, worth s1, 800 OOO The total amount of land reserved for the common schools, universities and public buildings for the future State of Oklahoma is 2,O52,0O0 acres, a large part of which is leased and at the present time brings an In come to the educational interests of the territory of s1,0OO per day. Within the next year and before Oklahoma can be admitted as State this sum will be in creased to $5O0,O per annum.
 Good work. Oklahoma will make a good State, and it will not be long be- fore she will be one.
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No said Peter. firmly. '.yosir ere oentials are not satisfactory. You can not enter here"
 -'oh. all right" said the new arrival. wearily. If you'll just let me have half dozen souvenir postal cards to send to my friends down below don't care whether stay here or not '-Ex- change.
 Tommy" said the economical moth CT to the boy with the loose tooth. I'll give you 10 cents if you'll let me pull that tooth"
 The boy thought it over and then went to his bank. .'rhe fun of doin' that is worth more'n 10 cents" he said. I'll give you 15 if you'll let me pull one of yours. rs."-Chicago Evening Post.
 Classifying Him.-."'There goes a typ ieal Georgia Cracker" said the native.
 ''Indeed2" exclaimed the northern visitor. Goes in for moonshine whis- key and all that sort of thing. I sup pose"
 No; that fellow, happes to be a pro- hibitionist.''
 'Ah.a regular water cracker. adelphia Press.
 Your case" the doctors told him, lis absolutely unique. In the whole range of medical annals there is no record of anything like it. It is an entirely new disease. We congratulate you.''
 You congratulate mei' feebly re- piled the patient. Am I going to get well?p We can't tell yet
 Then what are you congratulating me for?''
 We are going to name the disease after you. Chicago Tribune
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acorns afford them an easy living. There are possibly a good many along the willow fringes of the larger water courses, but once let the bear get first sight of you there. and he will make off into a tangle of elder scrub. willow underbrush and blackberry vines. in which you and your dogs will last about three minutes.
 Is a bear could be persuaded to play football, he would make the swellest line bucker ever on 8 gridiron, judging by the way he goes through tangle of undergrowtl1, and the way bear of any species will attend to a dog that dares to follow him alone into such a retreat sis certainly scandalous. Los Angeles Times.
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Anurpr1s1Nc RATES

Situations, Wants. Rents and other small adyertIsements, One Cent Word each in- sertion. Five Cents Word for full week
 Display advertisements. per inch, one ln, sertIon, S1 20; each subsequent insertion, iO cents; one week. $S.20; one month, $lO; one year, $40. -
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse. l3 cents per line. Notices of Births, Marri- ages, Deaths. and Funeral. 90 cents eacn. Local Notices, h cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business Gall matter to be unobjectionable), and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
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A project is on foot in Alexandria for restoring the Sphinx, near the Great Pyramid of Ghizeh, to it's original con- dition. Thick layers of soil completely cover the head of the monument, while the lower parts are greatly obscured by accumulations of sand It is proposed to clean the head completely. When the work has been completed the Sphinx will once more appear, if not in it's first freshness. at least in the grandeur of it's original proportions.
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Every year more than 5OO,oOO Japan ese youths qualify by age for regular military service, and 100000 begin to serve either with the coIors or as su- pernumeraries.
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Mrs. Sarah B. Hadden, heroine of Utah Indian wars, is dead at her for rner home, Ephrairn, Utah, aged ninety years Mrs. Eadden crossed the plains with her husband as part of the Nor mon expedition from Nauvoo, Illinois. They located at Ephraim and almost continually for five years were forced to fight Indians. Blackhawk. the great chief, made war on the little settlement several times, but without success. Mrs. Hadden, because of her being a fine shot with rifle and pistol, became known by Indians as ''the white she devil" She finally won their esteem by kindness and BlackhawlS issued or ders that she and her family were not to be harmed.