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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-01

There IL nothing better than Kodol for
dysppps.a. indig stiou. spur stomach,
briching of gas aud nervous headache
IL dlgcsts what you cat sold by al
druggists
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-01

DeWitt's Carbol!zcd Witch Haze,
Salve. Il is especially good for piles
Sold by all druggists.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-01

DeWltt's Little Early Rlsers. the fam
Gus little liver pills. Sold By all drug
gists. ~
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-01

Henry =. Daven, who not long ago
paid more than $4,000 900 for tho
famous Rudolph Kann art collection,
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-01
Two Years for SIPS

4 complete history history making years Every Diet
the National Campaign 1905 The inauguration OF President Roo
Fin question The
Country prosperity The entire PROCEEDINGS Congr
TWO fun years. ALL THE NEWS or THE BARTH
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-01

Two bis papers every week Eight or Z
day THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN IN
Journal for THE HOME. unriyallcd as
the REPUBLICAN party. Always bright
ways newsy, always RELIABLE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
The Vermont Election.

To assert that the $4,000 or more plu-
rality for the Republican candidate for
Governor of Vermont means that In
diana, t.ebraska and some other States
which the Democrats put in the doubt
full column are sure for Mr.. Taft would
be to draw agreeable conclusions from
inadequate premises. There are causes,
personal popularity, which may affect
the size of the vote at State election
in Vermont which will play no part in
the larger contest.
In spite of their frequent experience
of all that may happen between August
and November. politicians are given to
believing that 1.-The thing that hath
been. it is that which shall be-" On the
two occasions when Mr.. Cleveland was
elected the September plurality in Yer
mont fell below $4,000. If that had
happened this year the Democrats
would have been much elated and hail
ed it as an omen of victory. The la
Dor of explaining away an unpleasant
Republicans. The Vermont Democrats,
knowing this. ought to have taken more
interest in the contest. They seem to
have polled little over $4,000 votes.
which is much less than in 1892 This
is no sign of growing love for Mr.. Bry-
an in the Green Mountain State
SO. while the 10000 plurality does
not settle the presidential contest, it
does mean that the Republicans have
scored a point. If there are any Re
publicans who are superstitious on the
subject of the Vermont plurality their
fears have been removed. Whatever
discourageme there may be over the
election will fall to the lot of the Demo
Gratis
1t is safe TO say that the managers of
Mr.. Taft's campaign will not be unduly
exalted because of the pleasing result
in Vermont It will not betray them
into overconfdence. They will work
just as hard as they would have done
if the plurality had fallen below the
so-calIed danger line.-Chicago Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

problems are attributes equally YaIu-
able and commendatOry to a people
seeking him in whom they may repOse
the trust of their collective interests
while they turn their increased atten-
ton to their pressing individual de-
mands."
For these and other reasons which
he cited, Mr. Cleveland fOresaw that
the Republican party was moving ION
to a safe victory in November. 1t is
evident by the references to Bryan
which he made in his letter that he
believed this years defeat would loosen
the Nebraskan's grip on the Democracy
for good although there are some Re
publicanS and Democrats who. regard
less of the beating that is just ahead
Of him. believe that Bryan will cap
ture the candidacy of that unfortunate
organization in 1912 or 1916. Mr..
Cleveland, then in the presidency,
voted for Palmer, the candidate of the
National Democracy, in 1896. But
there is no candidate in the field this
year whom he could call Democratic
If Mr.. Cleveland had lived TO Novem-
Der that stalwart old patriot would
have cast a ballot for William H. Taft.
st. Louis GloOe-DemOcrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
PATRICK HENRY.
4 Saint in Religious Matters, but
Different in Politics.


The Virginia Magazine Of History
and Biography has number of letters
by Roger Atkinson, a Eirginian plant
or. who came from Cumberland, En-
gland. about 1850 and settled near
Petersburg. To his brother-in-law,
Samuel Pleasant of Philadelphia, he
writes in October, 1774, concerning Vir-
ginia's recently appointed seven dele
gates to the first Philadelphia congress.
The spirit of the man is shrewd, but
obviously not reverential.
"Ye Sd gentleman, Colo Washington,
was bred a soldier-a warrior, & dis
tinguished himself in early life before
& at We Death of ye unfortunate but
intrepid Braddock. He is a modest
man. but sensible & speaks little-in
action cool, like Bishop at his prayer.
..The 4th real half Quaker, Patrick
Henry. your Brothers man-moderate
& mild & in religious matter a Saint
but We very Devil in Politicks-a son
of -Boan-Erges- Patriotic
Farmer will explain this-I know it is
above your Thumbs. He will shake We
Senate & Some years ago had like TO
have talked Treason in We House, in
these times very useful man, nota-
bic American, very stern & steady in
his country's cause & at We same time
such a fool that verify believe it w'd
puzzle even king to buy him off-he' 5
second Shippen-oh. that he had the
handling of some of our Courtiers-
for instance. was it North or South
Scotch English or Welsh Eye poor Irish
have enough of it in their own country
our Patrick w'd certainly be very un-
ciyil-he is no Macaroni."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
1t Matters Immensely.

What does it matter" says the AL
bany Times-Union, IF wages are re-
duced, provided the cost of living is
also reduced?"
The Times-Union is perfectly will
Ing to destroy the protective tariff, and
it agrees that the inevitable result of
price reduction is wage reduction. and
still it insists that the working man
would be better off than at present
under the protective system
The assumption is that the cost of
living is subject to the influence of the
protective tariff. The mistake in the
calculation is plain on a moments con-
sideration. What people eat costs
them many times annually the price of
the things they wear. Even if clothing
is on a higher price level than may be
the case abroad, America is still a coun-
try which exports vast quantities of
grain and other foOdstuffs The prices
of these things abroad are higher than
they are in the United States. and not
lower. No reduction of tariff whatever
could affect the price of the main body
of an American living
The first and most important result
of warfare on the tariff followed by re-
duction along the whole line would be
to throw a vast army Of wage earners
out of employment in the mills and fac
tories. The cost Of living would not be
reduced to them to any extent except
possibly with respect to their clothing.
but they would get no benefit from
reduction there, with no work and no
wages to buy with at any price. The
whole argument for tariff smashing is
based on false impression.-Buf
News
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

His little friend looked different, some
how, he thought Was it Alison. he won
dered, who had pur those coquettish look
ing roses into the little gray gown?
Annals face looked dimpled and smiling.
Her blue eyes quite shone when she came
back. She and Alison and Roger had a
ong talk, while Miss Leigh listened and
knitted industriously. Missie and Eva
had wandered away again-most likely
to avoid Roger. He had addressed Miss
Hardwick with studied politeness, but she
had tossed her head and hardly answered
him. She would make no terms with the
enemy who had wounded her vanity so
grievously.
We will take one more turn. darling.
and then We must really CO." she had
said to Missile; and in a few more minutes
they heard her calling for Anna.
Come, Anna. don't dawdle. We must
really go now"
Good by. l have had such happy
afternoon, thank you so much" whispered
Anna, with a timid kiss that Alison
warmly returned. One day you will
have me again, will you not?
Come whenever you like, dear. l am
sure We shall be good friends" returned
Alison, forgetting the necessity of lower
ing her voice.
Miss Hardwick laughed afectedly as
she heard the speech.
You are lucky girl to have got a
friend so quickly. Is she not, Mr.. Roger?
Oh. 1 forgot; you are her friend. too
with little spice of venom in her tone.
II shall be most happy to be consid-
cred Miss Annals friend; and l am sure
Alison will say the same" rejoined Roger,
in his downright manner. Good By,
Miss Anna"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
CIeveIand's Appeal for Taft.


Naturally. Mr.. CIeveland's appeal to
his fellow-cOuntrymen to vote for Mr.
Taft is exciting something like CON
sternation in the inner circles of the
Democratic party. The appeal WAS
written only a short time before his
death, and was directed particularly to
his fellOw-DemOcrats. 1t was his in
tentiOn to write two other letters on
the political situt on during the cam
paign, but death overlook before he
had completed his task. So far as is
known he wrote only the one letter
which has just been made public. In
that one, however, he made lis position
plain.
Mr. Cleveland gives. a high tribute
to the qualifications of the Republican
candidate. Personally and officially
have had the opportunity of knowing
many things concerning Mr.. Taft that
were not matter of general know
edge, and with a keen interest l have
watched his large share in the conduct
of our national affairs in very recent
years. His excellence as a federal
Judge in Cincinnati is something not to
be underestimated or overemphasized,
for should he come to the presidential
chair the qualities which made him Il
judge of high ability. which I know
him to have been, will be the most
needful to him as president of the
United States. His high ideals of hon
esty and of relative justice. his great
capacity for severe labor, and his hui
morous wisdom in the face of serious
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
Build u Root Cellar.

In general feeding we often forget
that the animal body is about three
fourths water, and that any animal re-
quires a large proportion of water n
the feed ration. Green feeds Of some
kind should be given at all times Of
the year for animals to do their best.
If one has a silo then silage will fill
the bill. Pumpkins can be fed from
early fall till the middle Of winter,
and roots-carrots, turnips or sugar
oeets-shOuld be grown and stored to
carry the stock till grass comes.
AS evidence of the value Of water in
feeds and green feeds we refer to t"e
rapid growth and good health Of ami
mails on good pasture. Animals of all
kinds will gain flesh and fatten on food
grass pasture, and green grass is from
70 TO 30 per cent water.
Now. if we will remember this in
feeding and supply some green feeds at
all seasons, our farm animals will
make greater proportfonate gains and
turn all the feed to greater account.
Every barn should have frost-proof
cellar or other room where the roots
and other perishable green feeds could
be kept through the winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

only painting beside yoa now" she
thought, with sharp, involuntary pain.
"Oh, how beautiful. if l could only
paint ike that" The words were spoken,
with a sigh, just behind her. Alison
started; she had been dreaming indeed !;
the midday sun was streaming into the
room Poppie had put away her lesson
books, and had run off, and Miss Leigh's
place was empty, and standing just behind
AIison's chair was a young lady dressed
very simply in a gray linen dress and
broad-brimmed hat. At Alison's obvious
start the young lady blushed and seemed
confused.
oh" she stammered, Il an afraid l
startled you. You were 50 busy that you
did not see NE come in. | have been
watching you ever so long"
Il must have been painting in my
sleep returned Alison, with frank
laugh, hut as she put aside her palette
and rose, she cast 4 scrutinizing glance
on the young girl beside her.
She was a slight, pale girl, evidently a
little younger than herself; somewhat
plain in feature, but with a pleasing,
gentle expression, though a painful hest
tation in her speech, almost amounting
TO a stammer, married the effect OF sin
gulariy sweet voice. Even in that first
moment Alison, who had a true artistic
taste in all matters pertaining TO dress,
wondered at the bad judgment that could
select dull, neutral tints for complexion
50 colorless the large hat overshadowed
her features, and hid the soft hair that
was her only beauty.
You are Miss Hardwick, l supposeF
observed Alison, with shrewd guess
that this was the young sister OF whom
Miss Leigh spoke.
Not Miss Hardwick," corrected the
girl Il am only Anna. Eva and Mabel
sent me here because they wanted to talk
to each other, and they always find me
in the way. Will it trouble you if stop
here a little and watch you painting"
"Oh, no; not at all. We shall be nice
company for each other" returned Ali
son, in a friendly voice. i have only
this little bit of background to finish, and
then | shall be free to talk to you"
Alison painted for a few minutes 81
lently; she was. thinking. Then she laid
aside her brush.
If you will excuse me a moment |
want to speak to your sister and Mabel,"
she said, rather quickly, land then, if you
like we will go and sit in the garden I'M
til luncheon is ready"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

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a misconception of the purposes of the
order
The government is not anXiors to be
assured that every military officer can
mount horse and stay upon its back
for a given number of miles To prove
that every officer can do so would be
Hattering to the Craftsmanship of the
service, though it is far from being an
essential in every army. What the War
Department is trying TO learn is wheth-
er the bearers of commissions are ply
sically fit. Horseback riding is one way
of discovering if this be so. 1t is such
a test as lifting weights. or blowing a
tin can full of wind, only a test and
nothing more.
The Cry of the present is efficiency.
1t is the thing that every employer de-
mands of his clerks. of his foremen. of
his ShOvelers {; it is what he demands of
himself. Note this urgency in every
line, from watchfulness at grade cross
ings to running an insurance company.
Though the trade unions declare they
are formed for the benefit of the aver
age craftsman as we'll as for the most
skillful, they are all tending toward
placing capability as among the re-
quirements for card. This is the Sc
cret Of the question asked of the appli-
cant for employment. do you drink ?"
1t is why several of the railroads have
informed their men that the smoking of
cigarets is sufficient cause for dismissal.
Efficiency is the watchword of the pc
riod. 1t is, at once, the menace of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17

drOnes ana the careless, and of the
time-hOnored system of seniority. In
exercising the tests, some injustice will
always be worked to individuals, but,
in the end, the many will be benefited
and the personnel stripped of its weak
lingS.
Since in civil life efficiency is the
command of the day, surely it should
be as much so in the army. To hold
office under the government merely for
a score or so of years should not COM
mend man for promotion, or even for
retaining his position. He should be
made to prove that he is prepared for
any call from his country. Until a bet
ter method of inquiry is found the Off
GERS ought to accept the ordeal of shak-
en- livers and telescoped vertebrae with
out betraying their injured feelings
Toledo Blade
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
The COuntry's Supply of Cash.

The treasury mathematicians tell us
that the aggregate circulation of the
country on Aug. l was $3,045, 962, 54I .,
same date in 1907. The present fig
ures break all the records And the
tendency is upward. Moreover, the
gold element Of the circulation is larg-
er than it was year ago. 1t amounts
to $615, 1SS,276. AS the gold produc-
ton of the country stands chance to
go to the $100,000,O0O mark in the cal
endar year 1908, the gold stock in the
banks and in the peoples hands is rea-
sonably certain to touch record break
ing figures by New Years of 1909.
These big gains in the amount of
money in circulation are calculated to
make Bryan wish some of his predic-
tons Of 1896 and 1900 could be wiped
,st the slate One of his complaints
in his first canvass was that the re-
fusal to throw the minis open to silver
would reduce the stock of money in
the hands of the people to such a de-
gree that there would not be enough
to take care of the exchanges. Like
all his other political prOgnostications
this one turned out to be widely
astray. Not only has money increased
rapidly in those years but it has grown
faster than population. The growth in
the gold ingredient of the circulation
has also been much greater than has
the increase in the number of the coun-
trys inhabitants.
The per capita circulation is now
$34.77, as compared with 1927 a year
ago. At the time, in July, 1896, when
Bryan was starting his little reign of
financial terror, the per capita circula-
ton was $21.1O. The population of
the country has increased "a per cent
in those dozen years, but we see that
the volume of the cOuntrys cash has
grown much faster. The difference be-
tween a circulation of $21.1O in the
middle of 1896 and one of SHIT now
shows the wide divergence between
Bryan's prediction and the actual facts.
Much of this increase in circulation
has been due to the fact that Bryan
was beaten in that year and also in
his canvass of 1900. And Bryan's de-
feat in 1908 will foreshadOw a further
big gain in the coming four years. So
long as Republican policies prevail the
country will have active business and
enough cash of the best sort to
finance it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
Bryan's Hopes,

When Louis Bennett was nominated
by the State Democratic Convention of
West Virginia, he endorsed a platform
which:
Favors. amending the constitution so
as to preserve the purity of the ballot
from evils resulting from comforting such
powers and privileges upon those who are
unfit to appreciate its importance
Jim Grow" resolution was also
adopted, and then a congratulatory
telegram from W. J. Bryan was read
l greatly appreciate the cordial in
dorsement given by your convention, and
share with you in the hope that the
hearty cooperation promised may insure
a Democratic victory in West Virginia
and the nation.
What the colored people might ex-
pect to obtain from the Democratic
party is the mercy the turkey gets in
November, as painless as possible and
quickly over-TOledo Blade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-09-17
Mr.. Bryan and the National EefensS.

MIR. Bryan and the National Eefenss.
AR. Bryan made a speech taa other
day at St. Paul in which he Denounced
the alleged extrayagant expenditures
for the army and navy. The army was
now more than twice as large as it was
ten years ago, he said, and the expense
had trebled. The navy, too, was cost
ing three times as much as in those
halcyon days.
All OF which was an outrage, in his
opinion. 1t meant piling the burden of
taxation on the citizen, who presuma-
bly, got nothing for his money. 1t was
the fruit of imperialism" for which
the Republican party was alone respOn-
sible. 1t was a condition TO be rene
died by wise craftsmanship.
We thus see that in some respects
time has written no wrinkles ON Mr..
Bryan's demagogy. Even defeat has
not chaStened his fondness for the
catchword imperialism" He still uses
it as if it meant something in American
politics. With him evidently nothing
dies harder than a dead idea.
But this speech permits US to see
another thing about Mr.. Bryan. 1t
shows our most distinguished profess
sional advocate of change, our foremost
radical, profoundly conservative on the
question of national defense. Almost
everything else in sight ought to be
changed; for every good he has a pros
pective better. But where army and
navy are concerned the closer the ap-
Proclamation to the status of ten years
ago the better pleased he is.
This attitude of Mr.. Bryan toward
the instruments of national defense is
easily understood. 1t has its roots in
two diverse sources from which he has
drawn. The one is the Democracy-in-
action of Thomas Jefferson, as Xem-
plitied in the ancient embargo and non
intercourse acts. The other is the So
cialism personifed in Mr.. Debs.
All know how zealouSly Mr. Jeffer-
son set about providing the country
with means of offense and defense on
a critical occasion. No effort to make
proclamatiOns take the place of men
and ships has ever been superior. If
the intention had governed, the results
would have been wholly satisfactory
The touchstOne of action showed the
folly of the theory that the country
could get along well enough without
being ready to act. But Mr. Bryan
still clasps it to his bosom.
AS to the other source, Mr. Bryan
has plainly taken in some. of the in
evitable Accomplishments of the social
istic idea. Not only in Europe does
depreciation of the Instruments of ma
tiOnal defense leaven that doctrine 1t
is the same in America.
But neither Jefferson's theory nor
the attitude of socialism embodies the
real American idea. 1t was something
different which even now makes the
Monroe doctrine a fact as well as
prOclamatiOn.-Chicago Inter Ocean.