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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-28
To Reduce Assessment.

County Judge II. I. Lightfoot an
nounces that he will reduce the as
sessment of the Paducah Dry Docks
company, at the foot of Jefferson
street, from $500 to $1,000. The
board of county supervisors declined
to reduce the assessment and the dry
dock people appealed to the county
Judge, who decided that $4,000 is a
fair appraisement for taxation.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-28
Death i'm Marshall.

Sanford Wolf, Jr., aged 3S. died
at his home near Fair Dealing, Mar
shall county leaving a wife and
child to mourn his demise He also
leaves a father S. A. Wolf
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-28

The Maytield papers, in their
egregious egotism, seem to think
that the only reason the proposed
new railroads are to be built, is to
get to Mayfield.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-28

If Breathitt county has been saw
ed as a brand from the burning it
owes its thanks to the press. For
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-28
The Texas Wonder

Cures all kidney, bladder and rheu-
matte troubles; sold by ]. II. Oehl-
schlaeger, Col Broadway, DR.. e. w.
Hall, Office 1926 Olive ST.. 81 Louis,
No.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-28
DEATHS


Smithland. Ky. Feb. 2S-William
Beard and ID. w. Cunningham. two
well-known residents, died of pneu-
monia here.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1906-02-28

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gives genuine buckwheat flavor. Ask
for Mrs. Austin's Buckwheat -four.
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you DON'T HAVE TO WAIT

Every dose makes you feel better. Lsz-Po'
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Daily Thought.
LOOK WHO 1T is.

"Life's outgo makes its increase.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
RIVER IMPROVEMENT.

The upper Mississippi River Improve
1nent association will hold its fourth an
nual convention in Minneapolis this
coming October. The object of the as
ISOLATION is to make Mississippi '.nd its
chief tributaries navigable for large
steamers and to encourage the inhabi-
tants of the river states to male use
of their great natural highway River
transportation, say the members Of the
association, is cheaper than land trans
portation. Moreover it caa not be
monopolized. Every man VITO can build
a boat may take part in it for there are
no expensive and exclusive rights Of
way
The plan to rehabi1itate steamboat
transportation on the Mississippi and It's
tributaries probably will end in failure
as it has done many times befor~- 1t is
not many years since Kansas City at
tempted to establish a river boat service
to St. Louis and even went SO far as to
put three vessels in commission, but
where are they now2
There is one great obstacle in the way
Of restoring water transportation and
that is the question of time The steam
boat is too slow for the present age in
The man with merchandise to market
wants to reach the selling point while
the prices are somewhere near what
they are when he starts his shipment.
A car load of wheat Or corn at Kansas
City can be sold in st. Louis on almost
a certainty that It viii reach its destina-
ton within "a hours from the time Of
starting.
The delays and uncertainties attend
ing river navigation are such that the
shipper can afford to pay a higher
freight rate if necessary, for sure
thirg and in most cases he viii do it.
The days of steamboating on large
scale IN the Mississippi valley probably
are over for all time.
About the most that the River Inn
provement association can hope for is
to secure a good big appropriation from
congress for the territory in which its
membership is especially interested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
THEY WILL MARCH.

After witnessing the annual parade OF
the Grand Army of the Republic, The
editor of the Minneapolis Tribune is
convinced that it is time to call it off.
The Tribune says:
It is high time to abandon Or greatly
reduce the annual Grand Army parade.
The veterans are leaving US fast enough
IN the course of nature. Soon there Will
be none left to keep up the tradItions Of
valor and self-sa crifice by visible exam
pie. Their disappearance is fastened by
the exhaustion of this annual march.
The youngest soldier Of The civil war
was saw much service is over co. Many
are weakened by wounds or disease suf-
fered in field and camp. This Offsets
the natural superior vigor of picked
men hardened by years Of army life.
The veterans are no stronger tnan the
average man Of their age How many
men from so to so could endure to march
a mile under the broilipg sun of every
August2 The veterans endure it be-
cause proud memories sustain chem hut
il kills more and more of them every
year
It is a fine thing for grand officers
and marshals who ambIe on easy Steeas
that cover the sidewalks and roofs. It
is a lucrative opportunity for property
owners or tenants who rent stands and
windows. But how about the rank and
file who drag their feeble limbs over
the toilsome course2 For them It Is
more exhaustIng than the forced march
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe. ]

[From the Atchison Globe.1
One sign of an old fashioned man is
a vest worn in hot weather
An apology never gives satisfaction
to but one person: The one who
makes it.
If you must kick make it swift and
sure, and do not prolong the agony by
making excuses
Occasionally you find a very unlucky
man: He has had two or three wives
and not one has made" him.
When a woman has company, don't
sympathize with her. She probably
brought it on herself by going visiting
If a man has always been good, will
he be given his choice as to which Of
his wives shall meet him at the Pearly
Gate?
No, Daysey Wayne Appleton's porch
is not filled with young men callers
every night: That which passersby
take for cigars in the dusk are bits Of
punk which she has lighted and stuck
Up to give the impression that they are
cigars with young men behind them.
In the books when a girl marries,
and goes away, her old room is left
lust as she left it, that she may come
back to 1t at any time. Not so in real
life; the other brothers and sisters
have a quarrel as to which shall have
her room the day her engagement is
announced, and some one has moved
In before the wedding party has reach
ed the gate.
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as they two bent over the DIPPING 81
she felt her heart ache xor pooh
Dorothy.
And then, as Jolly called It ever
after, there came the day of decision
It was gray day, threatening squally.
bringing with It a premature tang OF
September chill. Graham was going
out IN his yacht, the Lorelie As ne
came down the steps OF the piazza
Dorothy Joined him, tall and slender,
In her raincoat and hatless.
Graham hesitaed. and glanced 10
where Irene stood
eAfraid?" he asked laughingly, and
she took the challenge, not because OF
his words, but because OF Dorothy ana
There's storm coming cylled
Jolly. "Tll get the life savers READY &c
go out after you.
later Jolly, in his big-hearted, rough
way, would have given all he owned 10
call 1t back. For out On the gray sea
the little white winged yacnS swirleu
and dipped as the storm swept down Oh
ii. and when the darkness had lifted
there was a cry from those watching
from the Inn, and down at the little
white life saving station below the
lighthouse they we're pushing out the
ifeboat.
Keel up. the Lorelie drifted. out be-
fore the lifeboat reached 1t they FOUND
figure swimming for shore. a hearty,
Graham who had kept his presence OF
mind. and resolved to save said Dudley
Graham's precious life at all hazards.
GO ahead" called Tom Handy, the
captain of the crew to him. GO ahead,
you're doing finely. Keep It up. We
wouldn't stop you for the world
And they left him swimming for snore.
and made straight for the overturned
yacht, where two girls held each other
above the peril of the sea.
Take Irene first" said Dorothy.
Dolly first" gaspsd Irene, gs Tom
lifted her into the boat.
The next morning, jolly sat ~ the
piazza. smiling buoyantly at TWO figures
III the hammock.
He went on the early boat he said.
blithely. Congratulations J3uS wasn't =
he a really lovely specimen? for fair
weather, / mean. Wasn't he
Jolly" interposed Dorothy, "even the
inevitable can be postponed, cau't it,
We-Irene and have decided that cur
inevitable man must be twins"
Copyright, 1906. by Ruby Douglas)-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The prevailing heat wave may have
originated up at Clay Center.
Human life is held so cheap in Japan
that the exchange Of five OF the
mikado's subjects for 200 sealskins
probably is regarded as a good bargain.
AS soon as Mr.. Bryan declared that
silver is no longer an issue the gov
eminent began to buy It for coinage
A Dakota bank president has been
discovered stealing horses as a side
me AFTER all, perhaps this is better
than stealing the money of the depos-
TORS and It is certainly attended by
samuel Gompers. head of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, is accused of
playing the part Of the dog in the
Manager He won't furnish the hands
70 dig the Panama canal and he OBJ
's''S 10 having any one else do It,
The state of Massachusetts, has a
nome for incorporate women. If
there We're more real homes for tenn
perate women perhaps a home for the
other kind would soon become IN
The newspapers of Chicago an
nounce that gas has been discovered in
tnat city. It is sewer gas and is To-
Gated in the city hall.
x
Seventeen individual ice dealers and
six ice companies of Boston have been
given q chilly feeling by indictments
charging them with conspiracy ITO
regulate, advance, and fix the price of
Ice for public sale" After ali. being
the Ice man IS not what it is sometimes
cracked UP to be.
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CHEAPER PASSENGER FARES.

Encouraged by its success in obtain
ing a 21z cent passenger rate and a
straight $50 1000 mile book from the
Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania state
board of trade and the homeless IS
have organized a movement to have
all fares reduced to two cents a mile
in the state. The state board Of trade
represents many commercial bodies
throughout Pennsylvania, while the
homeless 26 is an association of com
mercial travellers. Both bodies feel
that Pennsylvania manufacturers,
merchants and travellers are at a great
disadvantage, as compared with Ohio,
where a two cent rate is in force. They
say that while two cents is charged in
Ohio when interstate traffic Is in
volved, patrons Of Pennsylvania rail-
roads are obliged to pay three cents,
thus being Disseminated against by
the transportation companies. The
campaign to be made contemplates
election to the legislature of men who
favor a two cent law. Every candidate
is to be asked to make a definite state
ment as to his position. This leads the
Buffalo Express to say:
IF Ohio could enact a two cent -aw,
there is no reason why Pennsylvania
should not have.such a law. The gen
eral tendency Of all transportation
charges is downward. Furthermore, a
vast amount of passenger traffic is now
carried. by means Of special excursion
rates, at even less than two cents a
mile and at a large profit to the trans
portation companies. A general two
cent rate probably would induce more
travelling"
It is a well established principle in
business that a reduction in price in
creases trade and there seems to be
no reason why 1t should not apply as
well to railroads as to other enter
prises. That the excursion business is
profitable there can be no doubt other
wise the railroad would not indulge in
1t. Why not then have perpetual ex-
0T4pSfOn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
JAVA WKER JOTS

The Horton Headlight tells Of the
sale OF one farm three time in one
week.
lie Roy boasts of a sunfiower grown
IN that vicinity which is Il inches in
diameter
Blue Valley farmers are afraid to
oner their farms as low as 500 per
acre lest somebody snap them up.
J. w. Moore. Democratic candidate
for congress in the Fourth district. will
use four horses In making his cam
paign.
Blair Station is to have a co-ope-
rative store with a capital stock of
$4,000, which will be financed by
netghboring farmers.
The BelleyiIle Telescope is convinced
that It hears Opportunity knocking at
the city gates and wants a commercial
club to let the visitor in.
The enormous fruit crop of Donf-
phan county has brought with 1t a
certain amount of woe. st. Joe deal
ers in baskets and barrels have doubled
the price.
In lola the police judge lets drunkards
who use squirrel whisky off with a
fine of one dollar and costs, on tie
theory that the man who gets drunk on
squirrel" whisky has already been well
punished
The business men of Harrington have
formed an organization to reach out
after more improvements The town
will be advertised all over the east and
improvements and enterprises will be
sought. The population is now nearly
1000 and growing fast.
After the Republican county conven-
ton in Cloud county the other day the
Concordia Blade remarked that the
Republican nominees are all good men. .
and the next day it had to double Up
on its knees and apologize to the bright
and popular schoolma' am who was nom
mated for county superintendent
Manhattan Nationalist: Fifty-one
years ago Jonse S. Williams drove up
the Kaw valley and camped at night
on the farm in Ashland where he now
lives When he looked about the next
morning he liked the appearance of
things so we'll he concluded to remain
there and he has never been sorry
that he did so. There were no neigh
bors to tell him whether he was max
ing good or poor choice. The 200 to
800 bushels of peaches he has for sale
from his five acre orchard are fine. but
he has lots of other things for sale also.
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question, regardless Of what the state
platform says. Men are running Tor the
legislature in different parts Of the state
appealing for Republican votes declar-
ing themselves to be tariff rippers- b.
F. Wright. of Charles City. former pro-
hibitionist. and former Democrat, ar
nounees his candidacy for state senator
in a long circular in which he pledges
himself for free coal, free lumber ard
a revision of the iron and steel sche-
dulles in the interest Of the consumer.
And he says he viii not scare worth a
cent by being told that this is Demo-
cratic doctrine. He claims 10 quote
Mckinley for his side of the case, rs
many tariff rippers do. Every few days
some so-called progressive newspaper
says that all hope of increasing foreign
trade by means Of tariff revision must
be postponed for time. etc. These
matters indicate that there is Il vital
difference between the Republicans On
the subject Of the tarif. Probably there
are $4,000 Republicans in Iowa who
would vote the Democratic ticket in
preference to the Republican ticket be-
cause the Democratic platform definite
" declares for tariff ripping.
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POINTED PARAcRApHs.

80 ~&&4CdSO News
stitch in time NAV clos. -.
mouths Of gossips. the
little widow with a f7fnnnl. =,
dangerous thing. pc Is
Wealth and religion have practto.,,.-
nothing in common. - iosliiy
Compiling family trees is a, t,,z.....-
SUBJECT to more or less graft
It's easy to get satisfaction hv so,r.
to law-if you are a LAWYER - eoiiis
And the green grocer fs in nos,+...-
to acquire a lot of ripe exnerfehr,eess iOii
Our idea of a hopeless liar Is ~
takes. iS MS
A man may be poor and proud. but
VINO ever heard Of mans being rich
and humble? 1ISH
It doesn't cost half as much to live
as It does to make favorable frnnras-
sion on the neighbors.
It sometimes happens that after a
man gets his price the law stems ~ so
compels him to hand it back.
man Is very apt to think marriages
are made In heaven until he has heen
married about six months.
When a Wornan's, husband IL the
subject OF neighborly conversation
she never says what she really thinIra
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.

[From the Philadelphia Record
Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
not even a lawyer.
1t IS much pleasanter to skip a board
bill than to walk the plank.
Many a man finds it harder work to
borrow a dollar than to earn it.
Many a fellow who does his level
best to be funny is really very fiat
The only way some fellows shine in
society is with their coat sleeves.
Most men of prominence are highly
esteemed by those who done know
them.
Hoax="Did you do any shooting up
in Canada?" Joax-HOnly few
rapids
It takes US half our lives to learn
who our friends are. and the other
half to kee-, them.
Rlobbs='tPoor old Bjonesi The doc
tor says he won't live six months -
Slobbs-"I've been telling him that for
the last two years.
'sOh, would I were 8 bird" she sang,
But ere the song was done.
The brute remarked without a pang:
''Oh. would were a gun."
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Genesis oil 20. Henrr.,

The following account comes from
Pittsburg newspaper office of one Of
O. Henry's earliest appearances in his
descent upon the east. The Sunday
editor was repeating his rosary of pro-
family before buckling down to work.
At this critical moment the door
opened Every novelist who knows the
A B c of his trade. when his story is
getting slow, knows enough to write,
There was a rap at the door, and
straightway, if he has any faith in him
self at all, he will be as deeply inter
ested as his most impressionable read
er could be, to see who is going to
enter But the man who blew into
that newspaper Office that afternoon
did not take time to rap. He was in a
hurry because he was hungry. He
had an inside coat pocket bullying with
manuscript and a vacuum in the COM
partment consecrated to small change.
His clothes were past that stage when
the thirty housewife can still ne
gotiate them for pots and pans. He
looked as if he had seen much of the
world, and a good deal of 1t had stuck
to him. He evidently had no safety
razor, and wasn't going to court I'M
necessary danger. For all that, he
looked as happy as a philosopher, and
all he wanted was a dollar or two for
some of those manuscripts, to provide
himself with pate de foie gras and
peanuts before marching on to New
York" His story though good, was
not taken, and 80 the stranger from
the west wandered on, after borrowing
a dollar. his inside coat pocket still
bulging. his abdominable concavity I'M
diminished. Two or three months
later the story refused by a Pittsburg
paper appeared in prominent east
ern magazine. 1t made people sit up
and ask who this new writer was. And
today there isn't any name that Is bet
ter known than o. Henry, the pseudo
nym for Sidney Porter. The Reader
for August
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-20
EROM OTHER PENS
LACK OF LIQUOR DID II.

San Francisco without crime for two
months because no saloons were run
ming is the greatest sermon ever preach
ed to American cities on the cause of
crime declared the Rev. Isaac j. fan
sing, Of Scranton, Pa, who filled the pull
pit Of the Rev. z. II. Pence at the Fort
Street Presbyterian church sunday
night. Mr.. Lansing stated that it was
not alone the military rule that ga re
San Francisco its peace and quiet in
the face Of the terrible calamity, but the
abolition of the liquor traffic San
Francisco, the worst of all American
cities, with its saloons closed became a
city free from vice. while Oakland's bull
pen was filed with criminals.-Deuoit
News
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Of 40 miles IN their prime. Their lives
are as precious to their country now as
them Their example is worth as much
as their service. Why waste them with
out need?
Abandonment Of the parade has been
talked Of for years. It IS time TO do it.
The grand organization should begin
at once TO think out some less trying
demonstration in place of the annual pa
rade. The annual meeting should give
It power TO act, either through its off,
GERS or through a special committee.
Still the Grand Army might select a
cooler time Of the year for its annual
encampment and continue the parade If
it likes.
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Ihe Sourds are ripe and shaking
III, IN the zephyrs that go by,
4 ne grass, last week all lush and green
Has now begun to die.
L ne little birds, bare-naked
IN the spring, have learned to fly.
and so 60 by the changeless days
30 tulI Of endless change;
a morning glory blooming now
Would look exceeding strange,
ana soon we'li put the heaters up.
And exc the Kitchen range
And soon the ice box in the hall
WIN know of ice no more,
ana soon We II spend for cords of wood
JUST as We have OF yore,
our hard earned cash, and, as of yore,
Most fretfully deplore.
ana mamma and the girls will come,
Home from the beach, and root
or winter clothes for rout and ball
ana papa's pockets loot;
And ne, for winter underwear,
VIII wear bathing suit.
ana SO the changeless days go by
liled fuli with change, and men
anu wives and maids go the same gait
~ town and sea and fen
AL summer and in winter save
TO DO 1t Ger again
Judd Mortimer Lewis
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Relentless as fate, Secretary Hitch
cock continues to move against the pub
lie land thieves, regardless of = their
wealth and station. The latest convict
in Oregon is a newspaper publisher and
a former United States Commissioners.
He gets thirteen months imprisonment
for subornation OF perjury. Two as
sociates in his conspiracy are already
serving sentences. We have at last a
secretary of tho Interior who Furnishes
raseals; and the rascals hock to the
general land office, the Indian office
and the pension office, all parts of the
interior department. as buzzards gather
around delphia Record.
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REFLECTIoNs o. A BACHELoR.
Iron the New york Press

IFTOn Inc New / OK FTess-I
Not everybody can afford the ex-
pense of a divorce suit.
A dollar goes a long ways when it is
somebody else's and you are trying to
catch uO with it.
If a woman had nothing to be un-
happy over every once in so often 1t
Y ould make her very unhappy
How can writer's expect people to
buy poetry when they wouldn't read it
II they were paid to do it2
The most successful way to be a
liar is to do it so much that you can
fool people by occasionally telling the
truth.
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FIJI, LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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away during the summer may have
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Stats journal VIII be TO you Ike
daily letter from home-
Advance payment is requested on
sTness short dine subscriptions 20 save
bookkeeping expense.
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RELIGION IN THE COILEGE

Men learn that religion is not a system
of philosophy or a secret society, out an
impulse and an endeavor to make this
present world a better place to live in
That, so far as I can learn, is the heart
of the religious life of the American coll
lege. It beats true and in time with
the heart of the Christian gospel The
Outlook.
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BIG APPLES

A. T. Pef1ey brought this Office
samples Of his Twelve Ounce Pippin
apples Monday, raised on his. residence
property here in town, that We're i'm
mense- Two Of those brought this of
fee weighed % ounces. He picked 70
apples that weighed 1877 ounces or an
average of a fraction over 10 ounces
each; the largest weighed Is ounces
FL Dorado Republican