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The Paducah sun., 1906-01-24
People Think They are Fur
nishing Free Homes.
Letters Received From Many Sources
From Many Who Want
Aid.
STARTED FROM CHARITY ACT

"The two old sayings give some
people an inch and they'll take an
ell,' and that 1T never rains but II
pours' have been forcibly illustrated
to the police during the past several
days." declared Detective Will Baker
this morning. at hasn't been very
pleasant. either, can tell you.
why, lot of people now seem to
think We are running department
for furnishing free homes. That we
are mighty philanthropists with dead
oodles of money and an itching to
spend it on anyone who wants some
thing. That our mission in the
world is to build houses for people
who haven't time to do 1t themselves,
or are little short Of funds. And
the worst part of it is that it all
started from the little act Of charity
that made us all feel good, and never
once suspected that it might later
cause us any annoyance.
"You see, several weeks ago a
widows house burned near the foot
of North Fifth street, and she being
a deserving woman, Chief Collins
and l and others set about to build
her another. We did build the house
and furnished il, and the woman was
formally installed shortly after
Christmas. Now, s.nce the public
became generally acquainted with
the facts, we have received countless
numbers of letters from widows here
and elsewhere asking that we do
something for them; to build them a
house or pay their rent or something
of this nature.
"The letters have become numer-
GUS and this morning / received
letter from a widow who has grown
daughter working down town. The
woman seems to be in good circum-
stances, comparatively, but had the
nerve to. ask me to take up sub
scription or do something to help
her get home"
The patrolmen declare that a per-
son not familiar with the facts would
be astounded to know how many
people there are who are not only
willing to accept charity, but actually
seek it, and annoy anyone from
whom they think they can get It,
often when they are able to get
along without help.
The police are always willing 10
help anyone who really needs II, but
they are not philanthropists, and are
not engaged in the laudable but
somewhat costly practice OF building
homes for people, although they ala
build one for a poor widow VINO
hadn't any other, no relatives and no
one else to help her.
They are very much wrought up
over the numerous appeals made to
them from many places and people
since their house building stunt, and
IL they built all the homes they have
been asked to build it would keep all
the carpenters in Paducah busy for
an indefinite period.
The Paducah sun., 1906-01-24

erhood in herself. as evidence IN the
character and phy ysical attributes OF
her own sons and dauehters.
Al who are Interested in the right
training OF children will be made
very welcome toIdn rJs afternoon at
this meeting
The Paducah sun., 1906-01-24
This Years Horse show.

II Is likely from present indica-
tions that this year the Paducah
horse show will take place in Sep
tember instead OF October. and be at
the race track proposed to be built
near the Hinkleville read.
The Paducah sun., 1906-01-24
Good Way.

Tom--l'ye got a grudge against
Jackson, but I'm going to get even
with him this Christmas.
Jack--How?
Tom-Going to send his boy a fife
and a drum.
The Paducah sun., 1906-01-24

A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES
Itching, Blind, Bieediug Protrudipg Piles.
Druggists are authorised to refund money II
PAzO OINTMENT fails to cure in to "a days.
5oceuts.
The Paducah sun., 1906-01-24
WOMEN VINO CHARM
HEALTH IS THE FIRST ESSENTIAL
Il Helps Women TO Win and Hold
AEeu's Admiration. Respect and Love

woman'sgreatest gifts the power to
inspire admiration, respect, and love.
There is a beauty in health which Is
more attractive to men than mere regu-
larity of feature.
The Paducah sun., 1906-01-24
Colds Cause Sore Throat

Laxative Bromo Quinine, the world wide Cold
and Grip Remedy, removes the cause Call cot
the full name and look for signature Of y. w.
Grove. s5c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16

in La virglne col Divin Figlio' of the Uffizi Gallery. The artist here clothed his theme in simple natural beauty. The ChristChild and the Madonna are sur rounded by lovely cherubs Two of them are placing a crown on the head of the Madonna, while the Christ-Child looks toward his mother with yearning and inspiration.
 Remarkably different from those of his predecessors are the representations of Andrea del Sarto. His Christ-Child, like many of his other masterpieces, possess remarkable beauty, but they usually lack the soul-like beauty which the great painter did not possess. The ex- ception to this is found in the Madonna del Aepi, which is in the Uffizi Gallery. There is a joy and purity in the ex- pression of the Child and Mother. as well as the Angels at either side that give superb tone to the picture.
 The great Corregio treated this same theme similarly; his angels are always portrayed with grace, charm and smiling faces But it is in the Virgin with the Infant and the Assumption of the Vir- gin that he created his two great mas r-paintings. In the first picture the mother knees in adoration; her head is bowed and her hands are raised in prayer. The soft light from the child is reflected on her countenance No less beautiful is the Assumption of the Vir- gin. The picture represents the Madon- ma and her child waited heavenward in blissful ecstacy; sweet-faced cherubs follow in their train. thrilled with feeling of glory and joy.
 No less loving, though more conven-
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tionally treated, are the Virgin and the Child (by Qornio) and the Mother With her Infant and Angels (by Lorenzo di CredD. In these paintings the Child looks older and less human. This effect is heightened by the nimbus about his head and around that of the Mother. Much as these painters did. it remained for Raphael to give the theme of Child hood it's noblest expression, and to paint the Madonna and Child time and again. Like flowers in garden in spite of their numbers, they have no suggestion of monotony. They are possessed of so many moods and feelings.
 The most cherished of these are the Madonna detta di F'oligno the Madonna della Seggiola and the Madonna di Sin Sisto In the Madonna detti di Foligno there Is q playfulness about the Child as though he wished to break loose from his mothers arms for merry play. In the Mother di Sin Sisto the mother does not hold the infant to her, but rather as though she would give Him to hu- manity saying: He is your King; re- ceive Him."
 But the simplicity and serenity of child-life is depicted with consummate skill in the Madonna della Seggiola; the child rests in his mothers arms as though he felt her devotion and love. Tranquility is the keynote of their coun- tenances though the Baby Johns face is full of sorrow These great master painters are no more, but the theme that inspired them to their richest fruitage is in the world today and Is celebrated by Christmas as 1t was centuries ago.
 DELLA AUSTRIAN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16

EN HE beauty of the Christ Child is best H represented by the great paintings
 of the European galleries. In the gradual budding and blossoming of art the theme of the Christ-Child has lent it. self as source of inspiration and artistic expression. Great Italian painters from the early days of the Thirteenth Century through the renaissance, when art reached the most perfect development selected the Christ Child as their favor ite theme. Without this source of in- spiration the greatest masterworks of Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael and Michael Angelo would have re- mained undone.
 Though many artists have used this theme, they have treated it in many ways. At times the Christ is alone or seen playing with the baby John: again he is with his mother. or they are ac- companied by St Anne and Elizabeth.
 One of the earliest painters to present these groups was Grotto, as Is revealed by the frescoes that remain in the Santa Croce Cathedral in Florence. Though they are now partly covered with white wash, they show traces of past beauty But the simplicity and naturalness of his genius are shown to best advantage in the "Coronation." The work has Il hrillancy of coloring and expression of joy that are delightful. When Grotto laid his brush aside there was another painter called Botticelli ready to take up the masters work. He had no desire to give great physical beauty to his Christ Child: he wanted him to appear human and natural. This is clearly seen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16
MetropoiS-oW Great City Prepares for Christmas

the seeing New Workers on the tall auto}- mobiles and very genuine horrors for the other kind of seeing New Workers, they don't make any preparations for Christi mas. Farther up, around Mulberry Bend, you come upon one section of little Italy where they take Christmas very seriously, unless they have become acellmated to our way of taking 1t. Here they make it fiesta of flowers and solemn devotion without gifts, for the Italian gives his gifts at Easter Also somewhere about here is the great Ghetto, the largest and most important community of Jews inf the world, where they do not recognizD the holiday at all. When you get up iFl Little Hungary. where the Austrians anf the Magyars have set up their coffe'e shops and their fragrant bakeries. ydu come upon real center of Christmas preparations. Here Is where the holiday is kept In Its most genial and full, $t fashion. And then, still farther up, where your pure Teuton lives, you come to much industrious scrubbing and washing, and the land of delicatessen shops looks as If its denizens were cleaning for prize. This is where on Chriscm Eve. you may see late at night, those many Christmas trees we saw over on the flat cars on the West Side all blazing with those many colored candles which the Standard Oil Company monopolize In manufacture. One day 1 counted over 500 cars full of Christ mas trees in the yard of the New Yt Central. This was only a portion of trees shipped to this city. Almost all the Christmas trees New York gets come from Bath. Me.
 ID describing how New York prepares for its Christmas one must never forget it's ubiquitous street hawker. There seem to be millions of him. He Is everywhere and everywhere is he driven In herds from one pavement to another by the po- lice And he will grow in numbers as the crowds grow. until on Christmas Eve he will in his proportion be just as numerous as the thousands, even millions of good natured people who throng the streets. To see the New York Christmas crowd 10 a sight one will never forget.
 ARNOLD KRUCKMAN.
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many ways is the equal of many in this city. 1t has been there longer than have been In New York, yet 1 was not even aware that it was in existence. Down in Harlem, which is that section of the city below the Bronx bounded on the south by a thread of stream called the Harlem, which separates 1t from the Is- land of Manhattan, Is where the socially ambitious of rather abbreviated means live. It's a pleasant section of New York, with broad streets and in spots Teutonie genlality and leisureliness of habits that gives a distinctly local char acter as different from Manhattan as night is from day. The immigrant of Little Hungary or Little Italy, or the Ghetto or Germany, always aims to have a home in Harlem when his means per init. The Harlemites do all their shop ping on One Hundred and Twenty-ffth street if they have any local pride.
 The street is fully as busy as any shop ping district down town. One could spend many minutes In Harlem, but there is much to see and to speak of in New York, and so you cross the river on one of those curious drawbridges over which the Elevated runs. You don't strike any particular business section on the island until you get down to Fifty eighth street on the East Side; but It isn't considered important. so one con tinues on the elevated road until one reaches Thirty fourth street. From Thirty-fourth and Sixth avenue to Four teenth street is the shoppers mecca. Here you will find the Bronxite and the Harlemlte and the lady who lives In a Fifth avenue palace rubbing elbows with the lady who does a turn at Keith x Proctor's It's the shoppers democracy. On Twenty-third street there is square from Sixth avenue to the intersection of Fifth avenue and Broadway made fla nous by Madison Square and the Flatiron Building, which has q coterie of semi smart shops. Down on Fourteenth street from Sixth avenue to Broadway is where the East Side shops, and when the New Yorker speaks or the East Side he means those people who have not been so fortu-
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nate as himself in the matter of accumu- lating money. It is considered, generally speaking. unfashionable to live on the East Side except for a certain stretch up town.
 The real East Sider-the down East Slider who speaks English as she sounds to a foreigner-does his shopping on Grand street, which is away down in the old section of the city, amidst many busy factories and warehouses. But the real East Slider does not do very much Christmas shopping, for he is generally a Jew. Men who work down in the financial district of the island do great deal of their belated shopping down on Lower Broadway, between the historic old City Hall. where Nathan Hale was hung, to about old Trinity Church. There are also many shops with allurlng prce-tags and signs in old Mas sau street between Wall Street and Park row. There always has been shopping on Fifth avenue, but 1t has been of such a character in pride that you were sure you would pay two prices for the value of one thing, although what you buy with a Fifth avenue mark upon It Is dependable. Lately IL has grown to be more of a shopping street between Twenty-third street and Forty-second. Over in Brook lyn they do their shopping on Fulton street. Now there are subdivisions again in all these separate sections in which the New Yorker makes his Christmas preparations, but to go Into them leads to paths ad minimum. l have told about the main districts to give you an Idea of the magnitude of New York's prepara- tions And how the New Yorker does prepare. Down in Wall Street. to begin at the end of the island. they literally juggle the stocks so as to make some ex- tra money to put in Jimmie's or Maudie's Christmas stocking. At the Battery peo- pie are waiting for their friends and their relatives whom they expect to land mas with them.
 Up off the Bowery, In Pell street and in Mott street, where the yellow peril runs fake horrors for the delectation of
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portions of the cargoes simply pass through New York, which acts as sort of mercantile clearing house. Vast DOT
 tions of these cargoes remain to be bought by those $T5,o00000 which are expended before Christmas. From Ger
 many come over 80 per cent of the toys and Christmas tree ornaments which are sold in this country. Every toy and every ornament from Germany or Austria passes through this port You can all ways find the stamp Made in Germany" somewhere on the toy you purchase, asked the largest toy dealer in New York and probably on this continent why he sent to Europe for these things He said that we could not begin to compete with the Germans; that they made toys so exceedingly cheap that in spite of high duties it was profitable to have them shipped over. In Nurnberg. he said, the entire population was engaged in the manufacture of toys from the child up. and 70 per cent. of the dolls and goods which are manufactured there are annually shipped to New York.
 From France New York gets large car goes of china and glass ware designed especially for its Christmas trade, and England sends oyer wooens and leather goods. and Ireland sends linens made es- peciaily for the holidays. Every country on the globe contributes something for this monster city to purchase when its giving mood comes on. And all this stun comes into the little Isle of Manhattan. The oranges and the raisins and the grapes which come from Italy and from Spain are taken in hand by the com mission dealers. who purchase them as they are auctioned off at the boat as they are unloaded. Of course. the larger number of oranges and bananas and other fruit come from California and from the South. These are received on the Jersey side of the city, from which New York is separated by the Hudson River. which along the Manhattan end of its course they call the North River It is estimated that New York on Christmas Day alone consumes 100000 oranges. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-16

eats 3,O00,000 bananas and over 3,oO00O of apples. It's consumption of candy Is estimated at over 1000, 900 pounds which would make a mound about a city square in diameter and three stories high. Its nuts, which come from all sections of this country and every country where nuts grow, amount to over 100000 pounds on Christmas Day alone. and In this estimate we have not considered that it continues to feast rather longer than other American cities. New York plays hard and works hard It has abnormal vices and almost unearthly virtues. It Is d city of tremendous potentialities and figures in every way you rake it. Is there any other city of which you know which can dispose of four million pounds of turkey in one day? These turkeys are carefully gathered mp actually and In prospect months before Christmas time and are brought in by the commission people from all over the country. It Is said that Armour practically controls the turkey supply. Cranberrles go with tur- keys us man with woman, and 1t is esti- mated that l00.500 quarts are sold for the New York Christmas dinner.
 I tried to find out how much ham was purchased, but they could not give me the figures and they did not dare to esti- mate. In spite of the great quantities of beer and ale which are taken on Christ mas Day. together with cider, and wine men told me that it was very consefva- tive to say that 60O.00o gallons of wine of every description is poured down the throats of New Workers on Christmas Day. This wine has accumulated in the city for months and months in anticipa- ton of it's tremendous demand, and comes from California, from the various states of the Union and from abroad. l was curious 10 know how many pounds of raisins are used, and was told that 600
 GOO pounds was last years figure, and would be far overtopped this year. A poultry man who Is particularly inter ested In chickens estimated the consump- ton of this variety of fowl at about 1,0o0- 900 pounds. There were great many
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~ HERE are some 5000. .0oood persons in that group of communities known - as New York city. It is estimated that each of these persons spends S25 fin excess of their ordinary living expenses before Christmas and pertaining to Christ mas. This makes a total of 75,oo0,o0o of good American dollars. Just stop to think that in one city of this great commonwealth more than $T5,000,000 change hands during the six weeks preceding Christmas. The sum is in- conceivable, so far as our power of grasping what 1t really means Is concern ed, and if you had had the assignment of finding out how the New Workers prepare for their Christmas by spending this money you would realize why l felt so hopeless when l tried to get at some tangible facts. Your average Westerner and Southerner are usually very much disappointed when they first come to New York. From everything they have read and heard they expect in some vague way something so tremendous, something so colossal to all the senses, that they can't understand, as they wander up and down the streets of little old New York (where- by the New Yorker means Manhattan ls- land), that this Is the famed city which they approached with bated breath. It really doesn't seem to be very much different from those large sprawlng cities of the West. But when you have lived in New York for while and understand what its real life is-what Is around it and what New York city means-you will understand why 1t Is such tremendous city, and why In such an effort as l am making 1t Is so hopelessly dazing to get at exact facts.
 First, you must understand that there is what is called New York proper or Manhattan Island This is the original settlement where the good old Dutch made the beginning, and here is where our stupendous commerce. with the world Is carried on. This Is the part of New York where the ships run in during the six months proceeding Christmas from all parts of the world laden with everything that your imagination can picture. Vast
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other things l wished to know, but 1t was manifestly difficult to get the data even in approximate figures; but l was very curious about the consumption of cigars. and was told that at least 3,OO0,0O0 would be smoked on Christmas day. My in- formant did not say just how many would be of the doubtful quality associated with the Christmas cigar, but he prob ably had some such idea in mind when he suggested that if you were to burn all these weeds at once the odor would as- phyxlate an ordinary town of the interior of New York state. After you take into consideration just few of these items and the enormous quantities that are used on Christmas Day 1t is not diticIlt to understand that s75o0o,OoO Is not such a preposterous sum of money for New York to spend
 of stores and establishments which would be of very great importance in other cities there is no end; 1t is simply impossible to count them. But there are 30 department stores scattered through the various portions of the city, which, with their mail-order trade and local trade, are estimated to do an aggregate Christmas business of S3.0O0,000 each. This includes all the sales beginning with the 1st of October This 500, GOO worth of business is done in that division called Brooklyn. in Manhattan. in Harlem and in the Bronx. And this brings me to the fact that there are monumental depart ment stores in this city which New York CTS themselves have never heard of. When l was gathering the tangled skeins of this narrative wandered up to the Bronx in my effort to get an approximate esti- mate of department-store business. The Bronx Is that part of the city where the rent is considered to be most reasonable it is the section where the small, comfor- table householder who has no great social ambition lives. You ride from 45 to 60 minutes on the elevated to get there. The subway probably clips this time off by 15 or 20 minutes. Third avenue Is its prin- cipal business street. On this street found a large department store that in
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-10-16
Court Notes.

At yesterdays session OF depart.
ment No. OF the circuit court Judge
Burnett made the following docket
entries:
r. l.. sabin against r. II. Dakin,
action for money; judgment for
plaintiff with order to sell attached
property.
Alice Cole Pressler against Oscar
Cole. administrator OF the Levi Bart
mess estate. motion for order on
former attorney TO pay money; on
motion OF defendant order Is Issued
directed 20 w. II. and Webster
Holmes. attorneys OF this court. re-
quiring them on or before October
29th to pay TO defendant $3.50 or
show cause why they should not be
punished for contempt and that this
order with defendants motion and
affidavit in support thereof be served
on said attorneys and each OF them
on or before October 18th.