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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22
Joseph Rhinock the Nominee.

Covington, KY, August 22.-Rep-
resentatiye Joseph Rhinock was de-
clared the congressional nominee Of
the Democrats of the Sixth district
by the committee here this afternoon
A convention had been called to be
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22
bridge COnnanY.

The stockholders OF the Beatty
Vile and Proctor Bridge company
completed organization yesterday by
eleoting officers. Half the capital
stock has been subscribed and a con-
tract let for a bridge to be complct-
ed by December 1.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22

Mrs. Knox-Your conversation. Mr..
Ledden, reminds me of some cham
payne.
Mr. Ledden-Ahl SO sparkling as
all that?
Miss Knox-No; but it's extra dry.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22
First Kcntncky Goes Hnmc

The First Kentucky infantry broke
camp at Henderson and entralned
for Louisville. after the most enjoy
able state encampment ever held
Henderson citizens had only good
things to say of the soldiers.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22

She-"Would you really die fos
me?"
He-No, dear I would not"
She-"There. thought you
wouldn't, and yet YOU talk Of love-"
He-"My dear. my love is Of the IN
dying sort"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22
THE Big LEAGUES
National League.

Chicago 4. New York 2; batteries,
Brown and King; Ames and Bow
erman.
Pittsburg s, Brooklyn Z; batteries,
Leifield, Philippe and Phelps; Strick-
lett. Mcintyre and Bergen.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22

held today at Walton. but was call
ed OFF. J. Lynn Gooch. Rhinock's on
ly opponent. Withdrawing from the
race
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22
Nursing Mothers and Malaria.

The Old Standard Groves Taste
less Chill Tonic drives out malaria
and builds up the system. Sold by all
dealers for 27 years, Price so cents.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22
Base on halls-on WoodrIng. 2,

Bases on balls-On Woodring, ?;
on Brahic. 1. Struck out-By Wood
ring, z; by Brahic, 5. Hit by pitched
ball-Haas. Left on bases-Cairo,
s; Paducah. 6. Time of game
hour and 35 minutes. Umpire-Quills
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22

CAIRO TAKES TWO
ON THE LAST DAY
Indians Leave Bad impress
sion at Farewell.
Superior Quality of Ginger Displayed
by Cairo Wins Double
Header.
TEAM STARTS OUT ON ROAD.
Team Standing.

Yesterdays Results.
Cairo, 7-3; Paducah, 8 0.
jacksonville. 6; Vincennes. ;.
Mattoon, 8; Danyi'le, 0.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22

Home run-Queisser. Bases on
balls-on Miller, a; of johnson, 4.
Struck out-By Mp'er, 1; Johnson, ..
Hit by pitched ball-Blauser, Queis-
ser, Wetzel. Left on bases-Cairo,
6: Paducah, 4. Time of game hour
and SO minutes. Umpire Quilts.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22

Beltites Still Winning.

Jacksonville. H., Aug. 22.-The
Hoosiers are still on the slide. The
locals beat them again yesterday.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-22

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Buying a Gift Book.

Edwin Markham in Success Magazine"
 To the generation just behind us, nour- ished on Felicia Hemaps and Amelia Vel by, an approved and acceptable gift was the gided and funereal annual celebrat- ing the grassy grace and the broken heart Our generation Is more robust in it's liv- ing and giving. Our book stores are flood ed with books touching every field of hu- man activity. "Oh, that mine enemy had to choose a Christmas book.' one might cry, on entering a throngng store. We are embarrassed by superfuity, as though cadde on to Choose handful of flowers from a wilderness Of bloom
 The principle of choice should in gen. eral, follow the taste or need of the friend for whom you are selecting book Yet it is also well, now and then to open a new channel of interest by giv- ing a volume outside of your friends ha- btual line. We are often thankful to a friend who had drawn us out of our men, tai sheep-traeks.
 There are a few writers that stand as permanent figures in the modern literary world-wrters who have given out sem field of thought. Chief among these men arc Shakespeare, Carlyle. Ruskin, Finer son and Victor Hugo. Until a library possesses at least the best writings of these five men, it is sadly deficient. You are doing kingly service when you make these men known to any thoughtful mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
WHEN THE KAISER TRAVELS.
Works Hard and Is Accompanied by
 Staff of Government Officials.

From the American Review of Reviews.
 Even when travelling the Kaiser is at work, for being the chief of great nation he must keep the government machine in notion
 A large staff of government officials accompanies him. A high official from the foreign office attends to the duties of foreign politics, makes reports on the af- fairs of state. receives the orders of the sovereign and keeps up the communica- tions between the Kaiser and the chan cellor Then there is a priyy councillor who takes dictations, deciphers telegrams and transmits the same. Besides, two adjutants accompany the suite.
 For the very lively exchange of mes sages between the Kaiser and the chan eellor special arrangement is made by the imperial postal department. Tele- graphic messages must be presented at once to the kaiser. When necessary to be deciphered a postal official is in the nearest telegraph office to attend to this duty
 When the kaiser is out hunting a special messenger goes after him in case urgent messages must be delivered Even at a late hour in the night the Raised has ordered that regardless of his own conve- nience he shall be awakened if important communications arrive. In addition to these telegraphic reports, mail matter, which arrives daily by courier, must be answered; then, also, attention must be given to the reports of ministers from other departments, conferences must be held at all times of the day, and long dictations given in the study where the kaiser is stopping, be it on. board of the Hobenzollern or ill his sleeper.
 Added to this must be recokned the hours when he is working alone, consist ing of the reading of newspaper clippings the active correspondence with his wife, from whom he receives a daily letter. and the correspondence with royalties or friends.
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pie. These help him, or think they do, when he has to climb over houses which stand in his path, or get through windows under which the bounds pass. Also, when the party meets any man by chance dur ing it's progress. it proceeds gravely to bump that individual; but if the person met should be a lady, she is given the choice as to whether she will be 'bumped'' or kissed.
 Nor is our own country the only one with such compulsory kissing ceremonies 1talmagen, in Austria, has an annual fair on St. Theodore's day, at which every man present has the right to claim one lady and to kiss her without her having any right to object. This strange custom is the outcome of a raid which was once made on the town by Turkish brlgands who carried off all the women as captives But band of men travelling in the dis trict chanced to meet the captors and forced them to give up their vic ctims who were then kindly escorted to their homes and friends. In grateful remembrance of the day the maidens of Halma gen annu- ally offer their lips modesty and freely to the strangers who frequent the town dur ing the fair of St. Theodore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
KISSING IS COMPULSORY.
English Country Village Has an An
 nual Osculation Bee.
From the London Answers.

From the London Answers
 The charming country town of Hunger ford, in Berkshire, has an annual kissing day each April. when it celebrates it's Hoelltide festival. Then certain duly ap- pointed officials hold a court. collect the tithes, and claim a kiss from the woman of each house they have to visit during the ceremony The two fortunate officials thus appointed are known as "tutty men,, or tithe men. and usually there is no small competition for the honor among the eli gibles of Hungerford. The custom is hun dreds of years old, and neither husband nor wife, as a rule, objects to the advent of the tutty men, with the inevitable re- suit
 Once every five years the good town of Newcastle -on-TXne has been in the habit of holding a festival known as barge day" on which day the mayor and corpo- ration go down to the river in fine state barge to claim the rights of the town to certain dues at an appointed spot. Then the procession returns up the riveer to a wel-known stone, where the mayor selects i, any woman he likes from the large crowd generally there and kisses her before the assembled company, and-let it be said softly-before the good mayoress herself. His worship then gives the favored wo- man a sovereign as present, while the mayoress, 10 show that there is no i'll feeling, adds a gift of her own, such as q satchel, purse or other appropriate arti- cle.
 Not only is it the duty of the mayor to do the kissing in this fashion, but the ap- pointed sheriff, not willing to be left out in the cold on such occasions, also duly carries out similar privilege. He chooses another lady, and after Saluting her gravely or other, he also hands to her a useful present. This curious ceremony. which is supposed to take place quinduen- nially, was last performed I believe. in the year 1901; but. of course. it always rests with the mayor for the time being, whether it shall be performed.
 When the pretty Thames town of Maid enhead takes it into it's head to have a beating of the bounds" the steward ap- pointed for that purpose is always accom- panied by a large crowd of curious peo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
POT AND THE LID.
Words That Have Special Meaning < Along Shores of Gravesend Bay.

Well" said a man whose home is on the shores of Gravesend bay, i've made enough to last me, now, while the lid on'
 i The lid here referred to is the ice that covers the bay in winter, and what the speaker meant in saying that he had made enough to last him while the ltd was on was that his profits from the day in the season now closing were enough to keep him, without drawing on his capital. through the winter.
 2 While the ice that covers the bay in winter is 10 the baymen who dwell along it's shores known the lid, the bay it. Self is the pot; for from it, as from the pot on the fire, there can always be drawn i meal Sometimes the bay is called the farm.
 2 It is like farm in that crops can bc regularly taken from it. and While fine bayman neither ploushs nor soWs Tn ihe bay, yet he does in some ways cultl- Hyate it. In 1t he sets his traps aud nets, as the farmer sows his seeds in the earth, with the expectation of return and frola the notsam of the bay the bay 3aan draws his supply of fireWood, as the farmer gets his from the trees he
 
 "In short the bay may be called tho bayman's farm. for from it's water he draWs the means of his subsistence as trulys as does the farmer from his acres on dry land, and the bayman knows the boltom of the bay, under water, as well as the farmer knows the visible stretches of his farm, and practically he can see it AS plainly He knows every foot of the sandy bottom there, and every patch or mud and every hole and pocket and gully, every shallow and every deep, and where the grass grows and where the channels are. the bottom of the bay is all as plain to him as though he saw it spread out on 8 map; and for fish of the various sorts in their various seasons, and for Holsters and claims the crabs, whatever products of the sea the bay affords, he Knows just where to go and there he goes for them with just the same cer- tainty that the farmer goes to his corn match for. corn or to his potato field for potatoes.
 So the bay, that to the layman presents but a broad eXpanse of water. is to the hayman who knows it is as well below as he does on the surface, something quite different; a pot he can dip into at any time for a meal a farm whence he can cull regular crops for himself and for the market
 Where once around Gravesend Bay there dwelt many fishermen. there are now, what with the growth of the city thereabouts, but few, and so these old terms are not now there so familiarly heard; but to the few old fishermen re- maining the bay is still the farm, or. as 1t is more commonly called, the pot and the cover of ice that nature puts over the pot in winter is still to them the lid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Education By Absorption.

Orison S. Marden in Success Magazine.
 John Wanamaker was once asked to in- vest in an expedition to recover doubloons from the Spanish Main, which, for half a century, had lain at the bottom or the sea in sunken frigates.
 "Young men, he replied, "1 know of better expedition than this, right here. Near your own feet lie treasures untold; you can have them all by faithful study.
 Let us not be content to mine the most coal to make the largest locomo- tives to weave the largest quantities of carpets, but, amid the sounds of the pick, the blows of the hammer, the rattle of the looms and the roar of the machinery, take care that the immortal mechanism of Gods own hand--the mind-is still full-trained for the highest and noblest service"
 The ignorant man is always placed It a great disadvantage. No matter how much natural ability one may have, 1T he is ignorant, he is discounted. It is not enough to possess ability, it must be made available by mental discipline. We ought to be ashamed to remain In ignorance in a land where the blind, the deaf and dumb, where even cripples and invalds manage to get a good edu- cation. The trouble is that many youths throw away little opportunities for self culture because they cannot see great ones; and they let the years slip by With out any special effort at self-improVe- ment, until they are shocked in middle life, or later, by waking up to the fact that they are still ignorant of what they ought to know.
 It is not absolutely necessary that an education should be crowded into few years of school life. The best educated people are those who are always learning. always absorbing knowledge from every possible source-and at every opportunity. l know young people who have acquired better education, finer culture, through a habit of observation, or carry ing book or article in the pocket to read at odd moments or by taking courses in correspondence schools than many who have gone through college. Youths who are quick to catch at new ideas, and who are in frequent contact with superior minds, not only often acquire a personal charm. but even to a remarkable de- gree, develop mental power.
 The world is a great university. From the cradle to the grave we are always in Gods great kindergarten. where ev- cry thing is trying to teach us It's lesson. to give us its great secret. Some peo- pie are always at school, always storing up precious bits of knowledge. Every thing has lesson for them. It all de- bends upon the eye that can see, the mind that can appropriate. Very few peo- pie ever learn how to use their eyes. They go through the world with super ficial glance at things; their eye pictures are so faint and so dim that details are lost. and no strong impression is made on the mind
 The eye was intended for a great ed ucator. The brain is a prisoner. never getting out to the outside world. It de- pends upon Its five or six servants, the senses. to bring 1t material. and the largest part of it comes through the eye. The man who has learned the art of see ing things looks with his brain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Had Plenty of Confidence.
New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 Augustus Thomas, the we'll known play wright was talking about first nights and the heartrending anxiety of them.
 ''On my own first nights" he said q am pitiable object utterly without hope, convinced in advance that my play is bound to fall.
 'At such times l often wish I had the self-confidence that possessed Charles Reade. He, after he had dramatized his novel of Never Too Late to Mend, wrote on the margin of a certain mes sage.
 If the audience fails to weep here, the passage has not been properly acted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
AS REPORTED IN ARIZONA.
President Roosevelt's Panama Trip by
 Country Editor.

From the Stafford (Ariz.) Guardian
 Teddy upon his arrival boarded the railroad coach and rid" across his s'is- mus Gas now speld), and waded out nine miles into the Pacific ocean. where it was knee-deep, just to show the man-eatng sharks and numerous marine gupchuks that he was "game'' On turning round to foot it back to shore, he discovered d school of whales in his path. He squared himself for a real good kick into the gang, but was only partially successful as his Rough Rider spur, which he happened at the time to have on, caught in a three acre bunch of seaweed, and his effort landed only eleven full-grown whales ashore, including the big bull of the flock
 On his way back on the train he jumped off near the Culebra cut, grabbed ii 600 workmen by the hand in exactly three- quarters of minute, schedule time, with the expression "De-lghted' for each man. Then, seizing one of the fve-ton steam shoyels, spit on his hands and began 10 dig toward the Atlantic ocean. He plunged that gigantic shovel eleven feet into the bosom of Mother Earth at his first mo- tion, and the PanAmerican republics took it for another earthquake when the vibrations were felt. Within just 12 min utes and F seconds he had dug that ''is- mus canal one mile and three-quarters.
 While awaiting for his train to convey him from the cut he held a "levee' with the workmen, which numbered some 200 English-speaking persons and something over 5000 imported shirt -hop-consum- ing animated Chinese pigtails, the latter warmly greeting him with "Hoopla, Ted dy, him belly good Melican man." During this brief interval and in exactly fl sec onds, Teddy made a six-year contract with three of the coolie pigtals to do the White House washing up to the end of the next presidential term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09

ahead if it be pointed east, and the sleep ing hundreds beneath will wake up in the morning to find their timepieees all wrong.
 The helmsmans s watch comes to an end when the call of the lookout from the crows next announces another day The beautiful sea cry is taken up and repeat ed down the long deserted deck:
 Flight bells and all's well. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Man Chased By a Spider.
London Standard.

A story is told by an explorer of large and fierce South American spider which chases men if they come too near its lurking places. On one occasion he was pursued by one.
 "Riding at an easy trot over the dry grass" he writes. "T observed spider spursning me- leaping swiftly along and keeping up with my beasts
 "I aimed a blow with my whip and the point of the lash struck the ground close to it, when it instantly leaped upon and ran up the lash, and was ae- tually within three or four inches of my hand when I flung the whip from me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Relatively Speaking.

From the Chicago Record Herald. .'Is he relative of yours?''
 Not by blood or marriage "If he isn't a relative by blood or mar riage how else could he be?''
 His wife and mine patronize the same T o1so,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Might Send Missionaries Here.

From the Chicago Post.
 Rigid censorship should prevent the Cu- bans and Filipinos from reading details of that peculiar form of barbarism known as the college class rush
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
Identified.

From the New York Sun.
 Wayfarer-Did you see an auto go along the road?
 Farmer-No, but I passed smell a mile back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-09
FEW LANDSMEN KNOW
 BRIDGE OF A LINER
The Captains Domain is Not
 for Common Folk
CENTER OF PRECAUTIONS
Here Is the Wheel House From Which the Ship Is Steered-A Quiet Re- treat That Is Impressive
 at Night.

From St. Nicholas.
 Few mere landsmen ever come to know the bridge of an ocean liner we'll When you are so fortunate as to be invited to one, says a writer in St. Nicholas, you are led up a narrow flight of steps from the deck to the bridge and thence to the pilot house.
 The bridge in fair weather will be found to be very quiet retreat. At this height you no longer feel the deep throbbing of the engines while the busy decks seem to have been left far below
 Thre are seldom more than two persons on duty here; one, an officer, paces quiet ly back and forth across the bridge; the other, a seaman, stands with his hand on the wheel intently watching the pinnacle in which is suspended the compass. No conversation is allowed and scarcely an unnecessary word is spoken.
 The bridge may be sixty feet or more in length, probably five feet or more in width and with a considerable open space at the sides of the wheel house. At sea the front and sides of the bridge are likely to be built Up with canvas to pro- tect the officers from the force of the wind
 A row of telegraph signals and a series of speaking tubes are grouped at the cen ter; at either end is a broad low seat
 The wheel house at the center of the bridge is a heavy structure of polished wood. On entering it a landsman is awed by the complicated machinery on every hand. His attention is first attracted to the wheel, or wheels, for often there are two or more of them, one directly In line with the other.
 The first of these is an insignificant looking affair perhaps a foot or so in diameter, which seems out of all propor- tion to the work it must accomplish Directly in front of it stands the ships compass, while back of it are massed the levers which transform the slightest mo- ton of the wheel into the force which guides the ship.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-23
FOR STATE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.
Four Players Left to Continue Fight for the
Title Tomorrow.

Chess players from all parts OF the State congre-
gated yesterday at the West Side Republican Club
No 29O7 Broadway. in this city. where the New
York State Chess Association held it's annual mid
winter championship and general tournaments.
There were sixteen players in each class namely
c. Jane. w, Z, Libaire Otto Roething L. B. Meyer
D. G.. Baird, II. Zirn, j. s. Ryan. r. Helms +. y
Marshall s Rubinstein, a. J. Souwcne. II. Rosen-
field {. Delmar. y. Ettlinger. c. Koehler and l.
Eisepberg, In the championship class. and DR. Bald
win C. ~ Barth. A. Bernstein, D. F. SearIe c.
Broughton. N Nicholas. ]. stapfer. a. Ziezler IL
Anderson s. Rosenthal, S. u. Chittendon J. Ring
n. Wltkow NJ. Moody, A McMaTttn and Dlcken-
son, in the general tourney.
The general tournament by Rosenthai
with a score OF wins; stapfer took second prize.
with 81. and chlttenden. Bernstein and Dickepson
took the remaining prizes, with wins each.
In the championship class Baird. with s polnts.
Helms and JANE. with Pa each aud Zirn who won
the toss from Etulnger, who had even score
with Zirn OF each, win play at the Manhattan
Chess Club tomorrow afternoon at ESQ o'clock for
the championship.