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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
A Gat Exhibition--,Kentucky State
Fair Offers $4,000 in Good Prizes

and grain, H. c. Lovelace Boston. su.
perlntendent; Geo. ID. karsner, Lexing-
ton, assistant superintendent; tobac-
co, NJ. II. Froman, Client. superintend.
ont; S. II. Robertson, Calhoun, assist
ant superintendent; plants and flow
crs, Henry Nanz, Louisville. superin-
tendent; woman's department, Miss
Evelyn Porter, Louisville, superintend-
ent, Miss Julia Dupre. Louisville, and
Miss Eva n. McGrew. Bayou, assist
ant superintendent: horticulture, NJ.
+. johnson. Buechel. superintendent;
J. II. Bates. Buechel, assistant super
tendent; collie dog show C. II. Thorn
as. LOrisville, superintendent: farm
implements and machinery. ]. d. Wal
ker. HOpkinsyilie. superintendent.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

money People think II they car
get enough money to develop their
business they are serving God. Be-
cause they are honored by the bust
ness world they think they are all
right Money meyer has satisfied God
and just with money Will never sat
isfy
But Christianity may be spelled
with four letters-''Loye." Our life
should be touched with religion as
well as our work. In closing DR..
Bourquin gave pointed argument
on the need of the religion in ones
pleasure and in ones home life.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

"The most popular remedy n OF
sego county. and the best friend Of
NY family" writes Wan VI Dietz. cd
tor and publisher of the Otsego
Journal. Cilbertsyille. ~ Y. "is Dr.
Kings New Discovery. az has proved
TO be an infallible cure for coughs
and colds. making short work of the
worst OF them. We always keep a bot
tie In the house. believe II to be
the most valuable prescription
known for Lung ana Throat diseas-
es." Guaranteed 10 never disappolnt
the taker. Sold by all druggists.
Price soc and 800. Trial bottle
free.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
INTERESTING SERVICES WERE
HELD IN CHURCHES YESTERDAY
The Reu. William Grohter Installed
at German Lutheran Church.
christianity Spelled With
Four Letters"

religion Spelled With -Four Let
ter was the topic of an interesting
seron delivered last night by tho
hel William Bourquln at the Ger
ma Evangelical church. THE
VOL has many questions to ask re-
llglsly. Children have questions
andhe same questions the children
askle sages ask" he said Among
all ces of men we may find the
seal for truth. we may find the
seat for God, and the story of a
herter and all religions are to a
cerp extent correct"
The preface of his sermon he
poini out clearly the need of get
tinguth and getting religion in
oneheart. Christianity is spelled
witlt letters. A different word is
an fanation to the word as we
lookato our dictionaries for syn
onyI Men have been trying to
spelhristianlty with nine letters
sacre. Bur il is not sacrifice
aionnd without the spirit that is
not istianity.
~ men have tried to spell
with eight letters
thing" They have not tried to
md lgion but TO find knowledge. |
Othehave tried to spell 1t with
seveitters charity" lie spends
his ny to help the poor. yet he
may ! from his employer for so
yearsd after enjoying ease may
give Pity for one year and think
he is right.
"Sd men have tried in sno,I
Chrlstty with six letters
"churl We may have attendance
ana nind women that are in their {
pews = Sunday. but church going {;
Is notlgion although It may be {
part. does not make better men ,
ana VII by going we had better
stay Some have tried to spell 1
Christf with five letters I
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

Some must work II others play,
There are deserts wide and bare,
Where the rose shall bloom some day
Eager men must labor there.
Some must sail though others DRIFT
There are ingots to be coined,
There are mountains 10 be cleft
So the oceans may be Joined.
Some must dare, If others fear.
SO the world may claim its due;
who would dawdlo at the rear
Numbered with the useless few?
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
The Limit OF Life.

The most eminent medical scien-
fists are unanimous in the conclusion
that the generally accepted Imitation
lie is many year below
the attainment possible with he adj
yanced knowledge Of which the race
lis now possessed The critical period,
that determines its duration, seems
Go be between so and 60: the prop
or care Of the body during this de-
cado cannot be too strongly urged;
carelessnoss then being fatal 70 lon
geyity Natures best helper after so
Us Electric Bitters, the scientific tonic
medicine that reyitaiizes every Or
gan of the body. Guaranteed by all
irnggLsts. sc.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

OF what she wants, but she nearly
always depends entirely upon the
clerk to know her staste and ideas.
II customers would only think OFT
at home what they want, how much
they can pay for it and where they
would perhaps be likely to secure
what they wish, time and worry
v ould be saved.
IL takes so much time to show
goods when a customer has not def
mite idea as to price, quality ard
amount of material needed. The
customer should inform herself as to
the different prices OF the different
qualities of the same material.
1t is the best plan always to give
a clerk an idea what the material Ia
Eeeded for and how much one cares
to pay for it.
Women shopping are so deeply In
terested in their shopping expedition
that often they forget to give any
consideration to the girl behind tina
The courteous and considerable wo-
man will usually find she will receive
consideration from those
who wait on them.-Philadelphia
Press.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

Their disposition upon the mart
Oh 'he Al public to display a tired
ieeiihg the announcement is
ilade ol for a new exposition. In
Amerlcl In the old country. they
nave o9ming rather fast OF late,
and therIence of the managers
OF the Jlown Exposition lends full
weight argument which fayors
having few and far between.
ms lsthe case, however, with
state + Like EmersoR's brook,
they go 4 on forever, the interest
lhcieasi each succeeding exhibit
'loh apps. Certainly this is true
oil me cky State Fair. From
every 81 OF the commonwealth,
and, introm MANY sections os
other cowealths, there is shown
n strikliire to make the 1907
hentuoke Fair more than twice
as big alof 1906.
4 Statfution created hv tho
ueheial bly,, operated by the
state ny Agriculture and sup
por'cu rye measure in a pre-
mum walton, this spirit of
friendllnl 10 be commended. The
mahagere State Fair are build
ing II aipst libeYal lines so far
as all cldepartmonts are con.
ccrhcu' f-fiye thousand dollars
III cdsh III In prizes at the COM
ing exiilp be held In Louisville
Sept. 16
There exhibit denartments
All OF 'hartments are in charge
OF inemnthe State Board of
Agrlcult'te Hon. Hubert Vrec-
iand, Chbf the Board, who is
now Com or OF Agriculture, has
Tor MS d'nts, poultry. pigeons.
collie dotcco, plants. flowers,
horticultIh implements and ma.
chlnery. her departments are
headed as: Dairy cattle, sheep
and goatssor NJ. A. Scovell d.
rector experiment Station at |
Lexington and woman's work.
u. n. N Bayou, Livingston |
county; 1le. w. II. Norman,
Jr., Glendreckinridge county: |
horses, ND jacks, Guthrie M. |
Wilson, In, Nelson county.
held seedvegetables and mel
ons. wilkins, Cynthiana, Har-
rison couher members of the
Board, whit assigned TO exhibit
department who are active In
other dir9 making the fair a
success. tence Jones. Louis
vile. Deslinridge. Lexington.
and John Iyo, Palntsville, Ky.
In manNents the members
In charge 'ointed superintend-
ents and u superlntendents.
These arflows: Mules, VIII
liam Sinfhepherdsville. SUI
perintenddk stock. w. s. ,
Gibbs, 81 superintendent:
swine, Hpgleheart. Union
town. sufnt; poultry and
pigeons. Good. Louisville.
superintendent ii. Young,
Louisville superintendent:
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

mas Issued an order reducing the
freight rates ten cents a hundred on
corn and thirteen cents on wheat.
The centennial of the first trip of
Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont
up the Hudson river was celebrated
at New York.
The report of the rural free deliy-
cry service for the month of August
shows that there were in operation
on July 80, -37.73O routes.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
Her Misrepresentation /.

Farmer Hornbeak Gin the midst OF
his reading) 'Well--heh.- heh,-
here's kinda funny advertisement
In the Weekly Clarion: THE landla-
dy of the Occidental hotel wants "a
man to wash dishes and chamber
maid"
Mrs. ITornbeak (virtuousiy) -"The
shameless critter."-Puck.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
Mr.. Pearson Lockwood.

Personal Work" was the subject
of Mr.. Pearson Lockwood's sermon
at the Kentucky Avenue Presbyterian
church yesterday morning. His text
was The Love of Christ Constants
Us. The subject was ably covered
In the discourse, being a plea for
more personal work In soul winning
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
NEWS NOTES FROM SUNDAY PAPERS

Sitting at Lexington, Judge w n
Moody. special judge in the case
against the men charged with tn,
murder of DR.. b. ID. Cox, declined I,
grant the motion to remand the case
10 Breathitt county and set the hear
ing for August 26, at Sandy Hook
Ebert Hargis, Bill Brlton and Johr
Abner, the defendants. filed an afi
davit charging Floyd Byrd and T. p
Cardwell with forming conspiracy
10 have them murdered during a trial
at Jackson.
For the first time in Louisville's
history a raid was made for the pur-
pose OF searching all men who were
thought to be carrying concealed
weapons, with the result that twenty
negroes and two white men were TAX
en- into custody. The raid lasted
thirty minutes, and two hundred pa
tralmen were pressed into service.
Charles Jones, negro charged
with numbering two white men and
throwing their bodies into the Cum
berland river, was given an examin-
Ing trial at Tompkinsville and held
without bond He protests that he is
innocent, and the violence against
him is the statement of negro
roustabor.
The Bluegrass fair at Lexington
proved success financially and In
every other respect.
Admiral Brownson, chief of the
bureau of navigation, has issued in
vitations to a large number of both
naval and army officers 10 live on the
big battleships during the coming
maneuvers for the purpose of work.
ing out practical battle problems.
John Word;n, of London, England,
grand opera baratone, "roughing
IL as deckhand on the steamer
John Harper in port at Sandusky, O.,
fell through hatchway into the hold
and was instantly killed.
Augustus e. Wilson. Republican
nominee for governor. opens his cam
paign at Maysville. when 1t is expect
I'd that a large crowd will attend
rom small towns in that section of
state.
At Claysville yesterday Mrs. Susan
s'ryman., aged 101 years, celebrated
he anniversary of her birth, sur
by four generations OF her
descendants and some 500 neigh borr
md friends.
tuberculosis has made its appear
nee in the fine herd Of dairy cattle
wned by j. Pierpont Morgan at High I.
ana Falls. n. Y, and six OF his high
red cows have been killed. 4
Admission is made that the city of
Jew York is hard pressed to pay its
Ills, due TO the present tight money
iarket and consequent inability to
ispose of city bonds.
Gus G. Richardson defeated Albert
thompson by ninety-one votes in the
democratic primary held in Meade
ounty to select candidate for rep
sentative.
Government officials are interested
l story that comes from Honolulu.
the effect that Layson island. has
Robert X. Gill, cashier of the Sta
Teton National bank, OF stapIeton
l.. has been arrested, charged with
cling $4,000 short In his accounts
The Nebraska railway commission
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
Courtesy to Clerks.

II customers would only stop to APP
preciate the trying conditions which
surround the average salespeople
there would be more courtesy shown.
The average woman makes little
preparation when she starts out on a
shopping tour. She has a vague idea
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
Dark Types.
nnN.r GRIrMaIr

from Rheumatism Buy a bottle n,
Ballard's Snow Liniment and get in.
slant relief A positive cure for Rheu-
matism. Burns. cuts. Contracted Mus
Giles, Sore chest, etc. Mr.. T. r. BoRy
prominent merchant ut Willow Point
Texas. says that he finds Ballard !
Snow Eminent the best all round Lint
ment he ever used" Sold by J. III. Oehl-
schlaeger, Lang Bros. and c. q. Ripley.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

Benedlct-Not married. eh I'm
bet you're fond Of a girl though.
Bachelor-Ohl yes. indeed Benedict
Who Is she? Bachelor-lIer name
Is Legion Philadelphia Press.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
Regular as the Sun"

Is an expression as old as the race.
No doubt the rising and setting of
the sun is the most regular perform
ance in the universe, unless 1t is the
action OF the liver and bowels when
regulated with DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. Guaranteed by all druggists.
Use.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
Gets Drunk ON Gasoline.

Getting drunk on gasoline Is fail
ing of young George b. Hill, who was
brought before Judge Sulzberger, iR
the juvenile court. Yesterday. by DR..
Bernstein. of Nineteenth and Chest
nut streets.
Judge Sulzberger was both inter-
ested ana puzzled when he heard Of
the boys peculiar form of wicked
ness. says the Philadelphia North
American.
Gets drunk on gasollne," he ex-
claimed. what do you mean?"
oh" said the doctor, at is a
common trick among the children OF
the downtown section. They get some
gasoline. soak handkerchiefs or
stockings in It. and put the cloth
over their noses and mouths. In few
minutes they are as drunk as though
they had drunk a pint of whisky"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

why do you telegraph your con-
grstulatlons on their marriage? A
letter would do as wellr "Oh. no.
They may be divorced before letter
can reach thom."- Cleveland Lead
err.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

Have you friend with an auto
mobile?
No. | wish had.
But | saw beautiful car standing
In front of your house yesterday.
Oh! that was the plumber.-St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19

Migrants. like weeds, are simply
growths whose use has not yet been
discovered
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-08-19
MUCH INTEREST IN TOBACCO
Seven Hundred and Seventy Dollars
offered at the Kentucky State
Fair In Premiums.

The money Uttered in premiums at
the Kentucky State Fair to be held in
louisville Sept. 18TH to 21st should re.
suit In the largest display Of tobacco
ever seen in the south. Four hundred
and seventy dollars is given by the
State Fair Board, about equally divid-
ed between hurley and dark types. The
Louisville Board of Trade has added
to this $3.50 for premiums as follows:
Burey Types.
For best sample representing
Hogshead of not less than 500
pounds net, Bright Burley Leaf
Tobacco ................. $15
For the best sample representing
Hogshcad Of not less than 500
pounds net. Red Burley Leaf To-
bacco .................. $50
Dark Types.
For best sample representing
Hogshead of not less than 1900
pounds net, of Fire Cured To-
bacco .''............... SIS
For the best sample representing
Hogshead 81 not less than 1000
pounds net, of Unfired Tobacco. $50
Samples OF tobacco competing for
hese awards are to be drawn and
sealed by the Louisville Leaf Tobacco
Exchange Inspection. not limited to
crop, and open to all exhibitors.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31

E.The boy, Mary. Let me write
sword about the boy, Don't bring him
up to forget me, Tell him about me
frankly, what / did, what [ suffered
for the doing, and then put into hls
little mind all you can of the real me.
1t will come out right in the end il vou
do.-this. ! don n't want. pity, or false
sympathy. Let me live in his meomrv,
faults and all. and in the end he Will
think ol nc right. You cant know
how my arms ache for him this after
noon. This Office seems rs bare as the
desert when ! look about ~ with wish
for the boy in my heari. If J
thought be d ever be The kind Of man
I've been. thoughtless, selfish, unappre-
ciative-I would hope he might not
grow up. That g why ! want YOU TO
show him me exactly as ! am. 1t VIII
be n kind Of example-the ono 10 avoid,
perhaps-and vet if he gets an idea
how | suffered for my sins. he il surely
give me something OF love m the end.
''Today ] am so hungry for compan-
ionship, for you. MARY, for the boy,
that ! we lost my grip on the plain
ethics of right and wrong. In fact, for
q week now the whole situation has
grown clearer and clearer until | see
my life in n glare of light which lays
every moment of II bare-my MANNED,
oneslded life And n man s no kind
of man when he gets there. II s no
place where n human can stay and keep
sane. and so ! think he s better out Of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31

me sit up and sharpen my wits. But
prison did it. That damp, cold,
cramped little cell was as fatal 20 my
peace of mind as the grave. And ! II
confess now that | never regretted
what | had done until ] got to thinking
good and hard. That farce OF 3 trial
didn It affect me. nor did the stripes.
But when something in my brain got 10
going round and round inside and point
ing scornful fingers Mt me-when | got
TO be lSinetoscope of memories rather
than a sound man-ihere was bound TO
be some result ! think when you LEFT
me and took the boy that something
pierced my shell n little, but / WAS bit
ter then. and bitter for 4 long time
afterward, so that I woudn L see the
light at all, but turned my back on IL
II | were TO morali2o, rs you and / used
10 do when everything was all right
with us and we really knew not any
thing, ] should say chat my soul got
a chance the first time / turned my
back.
"But why make short story long2
] I'M going TO quit. IN tired, and I IN
going 10 quit. We about come 10 the
conclusion that this is all there is of
life anyway. though you believe To the
contrary, But you don { really believe
there is God and a future life, or
YOU d have stayed by me. 1t s a great
thing for a man to have n woman TO
face the world for, boy to call him
Daddy little, red-cheeked tod like
ours TO hurry home TO at night ]
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31

didu L know it once, but I know it
now. 1t took the loneliness of prison
cell to teach me this. And when /
came out at last and you were not
there to meet me, when ] never saw
the boy at all, and had but short
note from you saying you ID gone to
your father and taken him along to
stay until | made things right with tho
world-God | wonder if you knew how
hard you were'
Cup 10 that moment 7 believed you
loved me. Mary, though sometimes in
my cell the thought had stung me that
you never did. But then [ knew you
did not-and | know it all the better
now.
''Bc sure I'M not writing this as any
plea for justification OF suicide. There
is none that / know of save the posi-
bility of rest, of absolute and impene-
trable slence-both of which my tor
tured soul cries out for. /
think YOU will know when you read
this that | love you--if J. did not
should not write at all But when two
people have been together US we have,
lived in each other S lives, shared each
but there! IN stop. So many
thoughts struggle for expression in
these last minutes that I'd never get
the thing over with at all should |
give them rein. .'
He put down the pcncil and sank
back in his chair. pressing his fingers
hard against his hot eye-balls Present
~ he shivered and sat up, grasping the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31
What John Barker Heard
by VALERA DE MUDA KELSEY

John Barker got up from his chair
and lowered the green blind that made
witnesses from the outer Office impossi.
BILE. Then he returned to his desk,
took revolver from an inner drawer
and examined it carefully. Finally, sat
isfed that it was in perfect condition.
he placed it on the desk in front of
hlm and, taking up pencil. began to
write rapidly.
Dear Mary" he wrote; "what s
The use Of trying TO keep up the game
any longcrl Any man who has served
sentence of imprisonment is better
Off dead than trying to live IL down.
Even my money can { cover people, IS
looks. And / IN dead tired of having
people stare. and feeling them nudge
each other when they pass me. After
SIX months of freedom it is still an
everyday occurrence TO hear people say,
That's him. That s John Barker Got
eleven months in the pen for using
other people IS money It's simply
Killing me, Mary, and m going to get
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31

away from it.
off only / were not guilty! But
am. / had some kind of n notion when
| stepped into my own clothes again
and put the key in my own Office lock
that / could set things right, that peo
pie would gradually forget what had
done and give me chance 10 make
good, You read much about the hu
manity in men. how II sympathiZes with
our weaknesses and appreciates n good
fight, You know I paid the money all
back. 1t was not great deal, anyway,
and / a never have been prosecuted had
it not been that / was caught in tho
reform wave which swept Maginn be-
fore the campaign that fall.
II had plenty of time to think be,
hind those old walls on the hill, and
got TO know myself better than ever
in my life. For not once before then
had | ever faced the real me, You
see, ID never had any hard luck to set
me thinking. Things had always been
easy. Plenty Of money, every chance,
YOU to love me (MaryD, and not n
thing TO take the edge off and make
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-31

"I1II'' -, -, She tried to ,no.
put her hand TO her throa, 'pe,
begged To come, - she snid o.
a voice almost apolopet;c' nna
thero was no one else 70 br;no .a' ~
Johns hand fumbIed amor.
pcrs on the desk and drew sarss
sheets cautiously over the rcvoi,,'
still he did not speuk. lie U'olv' W
His chest was heavinp. hi. '9u
staring, his entire bodp trnso no
at highest pressure. ''
But the woman could net an =.
silence. 1t convicted her asa;n a'
she already knew herself o,,;it, ;H
crept nearer. her hands reaeb;s
him With q power Of feeling &
not rcpress. snf
"John.' she whispered. uo
had to come couldn't { sta,
any longer!' - ''',
4" Mary!' he burst out a. !.
collapsed into his chair. shat,
sobbing, his arms about the how
'Ohl'' she cried, falI;r"y- uoy-
knees beside him; "take =.
John, Take me hack!" '
For a little while the man !
man wept together, tears Of ran
ard love relieving the pent ~
months. while the little bov, los
in wondcrment, his own eyes slo'
ing in unconscious sympathv
John lifted mis- face. which alrea
upon il the light of relief, and
if to himself:
''Tt was Cod 1t was GodI y