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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02
Is Threatened IL United States
Holds Out.
Fatherland Insists That Reciprocal
Concessions BE Maze ny This
Government.
STATE DEPARTMENT MOVES.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 2.-Un-
less congress at its next session
makes IL possible for the president
10 direct that German goods import
ed into this country be given privi-
legged treatment by customs inspect
ors. there will be tariff war be-
tween the United States and Ger
many, the serious consequences of
which cannot now be certainly fore
casted.
Oficials Of the state department
regard the present tariff situation
with Germany as most serious and
declare that they have been reliably
Informed by representatives Of the
Berlin government that IL the con-
gress persists in It's refusal to grant
reciprocal tariff privileges to Ger
many the latter will insist on the
payment by United States exporters
OF the maximum German tariff
schedules.
Because Germany was satisfied OF
The honest Intentions OF the execu-
tive branch of the United States gov
ernment, Il extended for year from
last March the favored nation
tariff treatment Of the United states.
This was with the dennite under
standing between the Berlin foreign
Office and the state department thai
tho congress OF the United States
would be importuned by the presl-
dent to pass legislation permitting
the executive TO grant the reciprocal
tariff demands Of Germany. Con
gress adjourned without any den.
Mite action being taken on this high
~ important matter and the German
government Is displaying Impotence.
The serious consequences OF a
tariff war between the United States
and Germany. II is declared at the
state department. are not wholly un-
derstood in this country The loss
to American exporters sending goods
to Germany would amount to mil
lions Of dollars a year. II is frankly
admitted at the state department
that the German government is In a
much better position to carry on
such a fight than the United States.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

Joplin! MO. Aug. with half the
skin removed and the exposed flesh
blistered by the blazing sun, a COW was
found by Harry Meade and |. n Threl-
keld Dust outside the city limits. The
owner was notified and he killed the
unfortunate animal at once. Citizens
OF the town are greatly aroused over
the discovery of the brutal crime and
vigorous prosecution is promised II the
perpetrator is located. II is supposed
that some one with a grudge against
tn owner took this means of showing
his feelings.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02
slated for Gen. Smiths Place.

Washington. Aug. Judge Jas.
y. Tracy. OF the Philippine supreme
court. Is expected to succeed Gen.
James +. Smith as vice governor
general OF the Philippines when the
latter assumes the governor general
ship In September. according to adj
Vices from Manila.
No confirmation OF the report that
Judge Tracy has been slated for the
Office can be had at the bureau Of in.
sular affairs.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

Anderson. Ind. Aug. Five
thousand persons this afternoon Wit
messed the burial of Joseph Role
camp, farmer and the heaviest
man in Madison county. Mr.. Rode
camp weighed i6O pounds. The
coffin was 3 feet wide, 2S Inches
deep. Z feet lond and weighed 200
pounds.
Ten pallbearers were required
and II took sixteen men to lower the
coffin into the grave. No hearse
would admit the coffin and 1t was
hauled in casket wagon. Mr..
Roiecamp was 81 ears old. He died
from the effects of carbuncle.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02
MUTINEERs WIN.
Reported That They Have An Hut
Two Islands.

Stockholm. Sweden. August 2. -
The latest news received from Hell
singfors says tho mutlneers have
gained control OF the whole Svea-
borg fortress except two Islands OF
Sandman and Harak. which are CON-
prlsed In seven islands within the
Notifications. The explosion of mag
azine on Ugusselmen island killed 40
mutlneers today. The loyal troops
lost heavily during the fighting.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

THE man who wins my admlra-
ton" said the serious girl. must
no one who can stand firm in his
convictions in the face OF ridlcule.
opposition and personal danger" 81
see" said Miss Cayenne. ,"Your
ideal Is a baseball umpire. Wash
ington Star.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

THAT new farmland Of yours
used to be bookkeeper." How do
you know" Every time he stops
for minute he tries TO put the
pitchfork behind his ear"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

"Yon have to refuse a good many
girls jobs during the course OF a
day" Yes" said the head OF the
Arm. N"And yet they always go out
smiling. How do they manage it?'
al tell 'em we think Il inadvlsable
to employ extraordinary beautiful
girls. "--I.ouisville Courler-Journal
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

Mr.. Tippler = Mos stornary
thing. Can't remember where I've
lef' me umbrella.
Landlady-.Well. Mr.. T., 'ere's a
directory giving all the public 'ouses
In London. It might 'elp yer to re-
member.--Pick Me up.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02
DO YOU REALIZE

That we are giving you advanced
styles In footwear direct from the
BEST and foremost Manufacturers
We are showing a better class OF
shoes than was ever brought to Pa
ducah, and if you want anything In
the line Of footgear we can supply
your wants.
We make a speciality Of bench
made goods and guarantee q fit in
every case. We stand back Of our
shoes and are pleased to make good
any defects In our goods.
We take pleasure in showing you
our goods whether you are ready to
buy or not. Call around aad see our
way Of doing the shoe business.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

They who are effervescent in meet
ing usually have nothing left in
their bottles when they get to the
thirty world.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-08-02

Some people think that weak
ness for rest gives them right to
wear wings.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
Tunnels without Roofs.

Nature-seemed TO be niggardly with space
In making the canyons through which the
Moffat road passes One OF these is Byers
canyon and the other the famous Gore
canyon. In both of these there is merely
room for the road to run beside the river
bank and such space as has been secured
TO lay the tracks has been obtained by
blasting out the solid rock. Part of the
rock blasted from the canyon walls has
been thrown into the stream, so that the
mountain torrent rosrs along with ever
increasing fury, but is powerless to cut
away the almost solid stone entertainments
OF the line.
Byers canyon and Gore canyon are t--o
OF the available places for crossing the main
range OF the huge mountains that lie 10
the westward OF the continental divide. At
either OF these points the passes made by
nature through the mountains saved the
Moffat road many thousands OF dollars In
tunnels.
There Is little choice. however, between
the boxed canyons and tunnels aside from
the difhculties OF construction. The walls
rise high and straight and no more passage
for teams can be found through the narrow
defle than n It were, indeed. a tunnel. II
IL merely to ali intents and purposes a
tunnel without roof-Denver Republican
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
NEW STATE OF OKLAHOMA
Fine Type of western Hustle and GET
There-surprise for Eastern
Eyes.

Oklahoma amazes an fastener, writes
NJ. @. Cunin in the Worlds Work. The
wide asphalted streets. the plate glass
fronts of department stores, the clean
sidewalks. the well-dressed. unhurried
shoppers, the finish. the metropolitan air
you find in Oklahoma City. for example.
seem marvels to find in a territory only
II years old. But do not say so.
A New Yorker. who went there on bust
ness complained that fate was thrusting
him into a wilderness, and his Oklahoma
associates could not reassure him. But
coming down to breakfast the first morn
ing, as his hotel in Oklahoma City, he
, started around in wonder as he entered
the dining room.
This" he exclaimed. This is Okla
Ishoma Why. do you know" he added con-
hdentially, Il even found a porcelain
| bathtub in my room"
WELL" said an Oklahoman drily. don't
| they have those in New York;"
1t is better not to be surprised---better
to say that the department stores seem
/ to do a large business, or that the trolley
ride to the suburbs Is pleasant; indeed,
| any comment that satisfies your inter
| locutor that you expected TO fnd him
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
A COLOSSAL SODA FOUNTAIN
Demand for Enerescent Drinks starts
Search for Substitute

One of the latest monographs of the
United States Geological survey is devoted
to what is in a certain sense a new mineral
industry. Not so very long ago manu-
features of soda water and others who
wanted carbonic acid gas obtained 1t by
artificial means. They treated pounded
limestone with sulphuric acid passed the
fumes of burning coke through potash I've
or made other chemical combinations which
would produce the same general result
There are. however. large natural stores
of this useful commodity. as is shown by
the effervescent quality of the water nom
mineral prings.
Beneath the surface OF the earth in and
near Saratoga, for instance, is an immense
reservoir of carbin dioxide, and the bust
ness Of utilizing it's contents. independently
of the bottling of the waters for which
that locality has long been famous, is now
conducted on a large scale The daily out
put of the gas wells is not far from 10000
pounds, and fully half of that amount is
recovered and marketed first going through
a process which robs IL OF its moisture and
then being compressed enormously for ship
ments in steel cylinders.
A picturesque interest is impaired to this
story by the speculatlons OF the author OF
the monograph relative to the origin of the
gas. Carbon dioxide might be formed, he
shows, in any one of a number of ways,
and there is not enough evidence yet to
indicate conclusively which method nature
employed in the present case. Still. some
of these processes seem to be excluded from
consideration because the conditions favor
able to their operation have apparently
been lacking. On the whole, perhaps the
most credible suggestion is that the gen
Grafton OF the gas was promoted directly
or indirectly by volcanic influences long
time ago and that 1t has since remained
in storage.
An abundant IL not unlimited, supply OF
cheap carbonic acid gas will doubtless
promote some of the more recent appli-
cations of that useful agent to industry.
Its service Is by no means limited to the
production of soda water and the impart-
ing of an effervescsnt quality to other bcv-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19

followed him with fascination TIL ne ceased
whistling Bryan. chuckling. made haste
to call sheedy from his house. and tainted
him with the fact that his whipsnake was
not 20 loyal TO the green as he bad Boosted.
II was determined TO settle the matter In
the only possible way. and each in his own
beloved melody. Imagine the surprise OF
both when from beneath woodpile and
woodshed glided two separate and distinct
snakes drawn forth by the fascination OF
the two hostile tunes. Bresthless from
much whlstling. Sheedy and Bryan stopped
at length and supported themselves upon
the rail fence that divided the back yards.
Then Il was that the snakes caught sight
OF one another. In a trice there was
squirming, coillng mass OF serpent as the
two struggled for the mastery. When the
wearing the the Green" snake had sue
ceeded in swallowing half OF the 'Boyne
water" snake alive. sheedy and Bryan in
terfered. and, finally after the exercise OF
much force the two writing serpents were
disentaneled end carried of each 20 It's
respective bailiwick. Neighbors interfered
also, but in spite Of the fact that sheedy
and Bryan related their stories with every
evidence Of sincerity the next morning, the
police Justice fined them 80 each for disor-
Derby conduct.-New York Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19

eraSes. 1t Is being substituted for COM
pressed air in the working OF block signals
on railways, possibly because II is more
economical In certain localities to rely on
cylinders of gas than to install a COM
pressor plant. Again. In Europe II is en-
ployed more extensively than in the United
States for mechanical refrigeration The
machinery in which 1t is used is much more
compact than that required with ammonia.
Pressures of 1000 or lao pounds to the
inch are deemed not only feasible but safe
with carbon dioxide, while $50 and go
pounds represent the common practice with
ammonia. Besides, when an explosion sud
denly liberates a large quantity of ammonia
vapor the effect Is not infrequently fatal
to those who are near enough to inhale e.
No such consequences attend the escape
OF carbon dioxide.-New York Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
PEOPLE WHO ROCK THE BOAT
There Are others Besides Those who
Co out on the waters for
n Time.

Since early in the season the cheerful
idiot who rocks the boat has been busy
and more than one hearse has held his
handiwork Slngularly enough, he himself
can seldom swim and as a result there Is
some satisfaction in the thought that when
the inevitable happens and the bodies OF
his victims are finally recovered 1t Is rea-
sonably safe to assume that he won't do It
again unless lakes and streams are
hitherto unsupported feature of the scenic
attractions of his new location.
More people are given to rocking the
boat than he, however. 1t is a popular
pastlme and is INDUCED In by all Of US In
some degree Of damfoolishness from the
cradle to the grave. The average man will
confess that he didn't wait until he shed
his Fauntleroy trousers ere he began to
rock the boat just little in recognition OF
his coming majority-and she too Is not
altogether exempt from a desire, about the
time she bids her dolls goodbye, to teeter
her life-craft Just little bit and watch
the waves Some keep we'll within the
gunwhale limit-others persist until they
get a good ducklng which cools and often
cures-and many there are who suddenly
find themselves in deep water and unable
to reach shore. There are lifesaving crews
and life lines in plenty-to say nothing of
well understood cautions and danger signals
which are designed to protect fool from
his folly Many are warned in time and
many are rescued-and many perish miser-
| ably.
The young man who gets gay with the
girls and butts into booze is rocking the
boat and jeopardizing not only his own
future but that Of his family and friends.
| The young woman who walks the streets
and not only accept but seeks the atten-
lions Of chance acquaintance. and is seen
| at all hours and in questionable places, is
| rocking the boat. The clerk who spends
more than he earns, the accountant who
discounts his salary, the laborer who buys
more beer than bread and the business man
whose expense and cash books don't bal
ance-all are rocking the boat. The hus-
band who has eyes only for other women
| the wife who neglects her household duties
| and becomes slattern In dress and de-
meanor at home and dons her best gown
| and her sweetest smiles for other men,
| both are rocking the boat The bank
cashier who bets the races or the board Ia
rocking the boat. Mr.. Employer and Miss
| Stenographer, whose acquaintance began
with formal good morning" and has
travelled the route of favoritism and flowers
and theater tickets to a cold bottle and g
bird, are rocking the boat, you bet, and
will soon be overheard.
To rock the boat is dangerous-ofter
fatal; but not for such as we-only Tho
other fool.--Blll Barlow's Budget.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
MOST DEADLY NEW DISEASE
Zympherfitis Its Name and Was
worked Successfully on an
Unwilling Patient.

Nov, Just put up your hands. be
amiable and quiet. You are up against II"
The burglar dropped the plumber he had
accumulated and loked into the muzzle Of
DR.. John Jameson's revolver.
Send for the police" said the burglar.
II am ag'in It,"
mot at ALL" said the doctor. 81 often
sit up nights studying. The minute you
came in here knew you were suffering
from zympherltis. You displayed every
symptom; so l watched you and deter
mined that you were full-nedged victim.
In fact, you are the only thoroughly devel-
oped case in America. Sit down. There
are two cases authenticated in Europe.
Zympherllts is the most deadly disease
in the world. You are the third man to get
It, Here, take this"
The doctor had been mixing up some
thing and when he handed II up TO the
burglar the latter gulped II down
It's horrible" said the burglar Why
don't you shoot me or turn me over to
the police"
Here, take this" said the doctor, as he
mixed up something that fzzed
The burglar took IL and doubled up on tho
floor in q carooning agony He stood on
his head. tried to climb the walls and
finally sank In a chair.
TITS q terrible disease and horrible
remedy" said the burglar.
ut is" said the doctor. Come back in
a week. Here, I will show you where you
ara at Now. notice how the fearful
germs OF zympherlltis show themselves
They need but forcibIe action"
The doctor twisted the cuticle in Car
ter's neck and an ugly lump appeared
Then the doctor handed Carter a mirror.
"oh, Lordr' said Carter. 1T seems &c
! be growing"
1T is growing" said the doctor. IT'S g
bad case OF Eympherlitis.'
/ A meek and subdued burglar left the
house.
Jim Carter wouldn't drink: he wouldnt
even smoke, and TO his friends invitations
he replied; I can't do IL; I've got this
Eympher. and I'm only one OF three mer
that's got IT," or course. he went to SEE
DIR. Jameson at the end of the week
| Doctor" he said. that lump on my
neck is CROWN and guess that zympher
litis has got me"
Jim" said the doctor. you take this
and he handed him a small vial-"one tea
spoonfdi- hour until you go to sleep
50 you can't take any more. and wher
| you set over that cussed zympherlitis, Jim
I want you TO come and take care o.
those horses OF mine"
And Jim got over the zympheTlltis and
has worked for Doc now some twenty
years. Jim stilI wonders about Eympher
litis and he smiled one time in a vague
half understanding way when. while rum
mating among some OF the doctors OLD
papers, he found one signed by one Of tn
doctors old elassmate friends, which read
Dear Doc: ! always claimed that thu
idea OF subsection was a greater curativ'
power than that OF medicine. That yol
succeeded 80 we'll with your burglar anS
your Eympherlitis only shows that we liv'
in a world where what we are taught Il
absolute. Is absolute not"-Brookiyn citi
sen.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
FIRST PRIZE SNAKE STORY
Rare Musical Instincts of Two Rep
tiles Who Tried 20 swaI-
low Each other.

Before a High Blum. Mich. police justice
was unfolded the other day a snake story
so remarkable that we are going TO break
a pledge we made 10 ourselves when snake
stories began their regular summer run,
and tell II. Mrs. Patrick sheedy, hanging
out her wash in her back yard one morn
ing. happened TO whistle few bars Of The
Wearing OF the Green" when she was sur
prised and startled TO see a large whip
snake glide out from a pile of lumber near
by. and with head erect and body gently
long as she whistled. Her husband, to
whom she told the story that night on his
return from New York. went forth incred-
ulously to verify her statement He had
scraceiy whistled two bars. when the snake
appeared and began the same undulatory
motion that had go astounded his wife.
Changing his tune TO Yankee Doodle, +"
sheedy was agreeably surprised to see the
serpent turn tail and crawl on 10 its wood
pile The shesdy children took It up and
soon the reptile became tame enough to eat
out Of their hands. The continuous whist
ling OF the Wearing OF the Green" IN time
wore on the nerves OF the sheedys next
door nsighbor. Dan Bryan. For Bryan was
sn fisherman. Protests proving Of no
avail. Bryan determined 20 retort In kind.
One evening from the bryan potato patch
"Boyne Water" It was Bryan's turn then
20 be surprised. for out from meath his
own woodshed giided a long whipsnake that
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19

living in a modern city. even though he
dashed into Oklahoma county but few
years ago and scrambled for a homestead.
improvements have marched with swift.
ness In Oklahoma and in Indian Territory.
II n bigger than oil the New England
states together. as big rs Illinois and
Ohio combined, and it's red lands TEEN
with all the crops that any state raises
from the Canadian border to the Begin
ming OF the sub-tropios in Florida and
Texas. There are no drones. Everybody
Is busy New land IL being broken New
buildings are going up. New trolley lines
are starting. New waterworks are being
put in. How can the work be done so
fast7 In one town l slept half hour
In the Commercial club. In that busy
time half the leading business men came
In to discuss some enterprise or other
In which all were interested.
III a man comes here to enter business"
said the secretary, land he doesn't put
his shoulder to the wheel and cooperate
to push the towns fortunes. he soon
learns that the community does not want
him. Oklahoma makes rapid progress be-
cause its citizens pull together" and he
turned to speak with a storekeeper who
had offered a prize to the Oklahoma
farmer who could raise the best cotton.
He said that II helped his business to
have the farmers raise good crops.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
DUPLEX TELEPHONE SYSTEM
PennsyIvania Investigator Succeed,
I'm Making Voices Pass on
the Wire. ..

After long experimenting, Charles west,
general superintendent of the Consolidated
Telephone companies Of Pennsylvania, has
succeeded in constructing a device whereby
a telephone wire may be used for two con-
versations at one time.
Probably the greatest of all the inven-
lions OF Thomas A. Edison was that en-
abling quadruplex use of telegraph wires:
that is. the sending OF four messages stimuli
taneously, two in each direction. Ever
since the application of the telephone to
commercial use 1t has been the dream OF
inventors to get duplicate service wires.
They found that to send Geographic i'm
pulses was one thing and to enable human
voices to be projected over a telephone
wire two conversations at a time, quite
different.
Mr.. West has accomplished this long
sought result by means OF n device which
is called the duplex phantom" system
II has not been perfected to such an ex-
tent that II is truly duplex, but on two
wires three conversations can be carried
on simultaneously; on three wires five con
versations and on nine wires seventeen
conversations. That is the limit TO which
the device has been applied. II there wer,
| 100 wires there could be 19s conversations a.
! once.
| The headquarters OF Mr.. West are a
| Allentown, but he made his experiment.
! between Scranton and wilkesbarre ant
Scranton and Carbondale, for the reasos
! that wires are numerous in this section
The discovery has been applied to every
| day use as a commercial factor and ar
rangements are being made to put the in
vention into general use. 1t will be an In
/ valuable factor in telephoning between
cities where trsfic is heavy.-Philadeiphi
1 Ledger.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
Bowel CompIaIat In chIIaren.

When six months old the little daughter
Of e N. Dewey. a we'll known merchant OF
Agnewville. Va. had an attack of cholera
infantum. Chamberlains Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy was given and ef-
feoted a complete cure This remedy has
proven very successful In cases of bowel
complaint in children and when given ac-
eording to the plain printed directions can
be relied upon with perfect confidence
When reduced with water and sweetened
II IL pleasant to take. which is of great
Importance when a medicine must be given
to young children.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19
Men Not Entombed.

Business propositions advertised In The
Bee go into the homes OF the best people
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19

letters Gold Top Beer delivered 10 al
parts OF the city. Telephone No. s.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-19

BRISTOL. Tenn. Aug. ls-The report
thar fifty men were entonlbed In the
Ciinch mountain tunnel, now under con-
struction by the South g. Western railroad,
is incorrect.