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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
Sale Of Christmas stamps.

The sale OF the Christmas stamps
was given an impetus this morning
when a sub-station was established in
the lobby of the postoffice. The sale
startei of we'll today. High school
girls will be in charge of the stand
every day. Miss Ruth Koegel and
Miss Ora Pryor we're on duty this
morning and this afternoon Miss
Allie ID. Foster and Miss Cora Smith
We're selling the stamps.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17

Constantinople, Dec. 1.-THE sui
tan, accompanied by chief officials.
drove in great state from the palace
to open the new parliament. He was
wildly hailed through the streets.
Great precautions were taken, how
ever, to prevent attempts at assassi-
nation. Many messages were received
from foreign countries congratulate
ing the sultan, on granting parlia-
ment.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
Two Drown

Milwaukee. Dec. 1.-Two per-
sons were killed when A. ]. Sofliday.
owner of the Solhday Auto company.
drove his machine through an open
into the Milwaukee river.
A heavy storm prevented his seeing
the draw open. o. Y. Bartlett and
Albert Kunz were drowned. Solliday
was rescued, but badly injured.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17

The McCracken County Medical
society met last evening at s:15
O'Clock at the once OF DIR. n. w.
Childress. Columbia building. Or.
Childress read paper on Eye. Far,
Nose or Throat" The Paducah Medl-
cal society will meet this evening at
O'Clock In the Office OF Or. Frank
Boyd. Brookhill building. Or. Boyd
has prepared a paper to read at the
meeting.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
City Election

II Is probable that the general
council will be called to meet In joint
session next week to elect officers for
1909. License inspector, physician.
marketmaster, weigher, sewer In
spector. sanitary inspectors and
wharfmaster will be elected.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
IS Minute Schedule

To accommodate the Christmas
shoppers the Paducah Traction com
pany will put Is minute car service
on the Rowlandtown line. These cars
will be run day and night as long as
the traffic demands it. Extra cars
will be put on the other lines to &C
commodate the passengers If needed.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
Boys Athletic Club

The older boys of Grace church
met Tuesday night and organized an
athletic club. Two basketball teams
will begin practice at once under a
competent coach, and Immediately
after the holidays gymnasium will
be installed In the parish house.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
HILL LYNCHED BY
RUSSELL COUNTY
MOB LAST NIGHT

Monticello. Ky. Dec. IT. Especially
Elmer Hill. charged with murder
and assault on Mamie Womack, of
Russell county. was taken from the
Jail last night by a mob Of 26 men
and lynched. He had been brought
hare for safekeeplng. The mob
from Russell county overpowered the
taller.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17

for more are
coming in by ev-
cry mall. The
demand is alto
gether beyond
our expectations
and our printers
are as much en-
barassed by them
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
CoIorcd brakeman Dies.

Dudley johnson. colored brake
man. died this morning at 10 o'clock
at the Illinois Central hospital after
an illness with abscess Of the lung.
He lives at Dawson Springs and
leaves wife. His body will be
shipped home for burial.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
Planters Association Meeting is
Held at McCracken County Court
House---Prominent Men Speaking
TUBERCULOSIS.

New York. Dec. f7.-1he re-
port OF the National Association
for the Prevention Of Tuberculo-
sis shows only $4,000 hospital
beds for 100000 consumptives.
There are 100000 advanced
cases for which there are no
hospital provisions.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
Break shot Machlnc.

Some thief smashed a slot machine
In front OF Rogers grocery. Twelfth
street and Broadway No money was
secured as the drawer had been emp
tied the day before.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
No Extra Session

Frankfort, Ky, Dec. 17.-(Spe-
cial. )-Governo Wilson again made
the positive announcement that there
will be no extra session for temper
ance legislation.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17

John Bolen, colored, was arrested
this morning by Patrolman Mike Du-
gan. While locked up the police are
investigating charges that he is
guilty OF stealing material from the
sherrill-King mill in Mcchanicsburg.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
PRESIDENT ASKED
FOR INFORMATION
BY CONGRBSSMBN
Want to Know Grounds For
Insinuation That They
Fear Secret Service
Senate Hears Speech on Postal
Savings Banks.
ROOT TALKS TO COMMITTEES

Washington, Dec. 17.-The house
adopted the resolution of the special
committee named to examine Roose-
velt's message, regarding the secret
service. The resolution calls on the
president to submit Information on
which he based his insinuation that
members are afraid of being investi-
gated by the secret service.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17

Frankfort. KY, Dec. II. Especially
Major Bassett, of Hopkinsville, is
promoted to lieutenant colonel for
meritorlous services.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
Golden Stream of Money Pouring
Into Dark Tobacco Country Since
Movement of Crop Has Commenced
IMPOsTORs.

Some imposter is collecting
money and gifts In the name Of
the salvation Army and Captain
stanton has received a number
Of complaints. Captain and Mrs.
Staunton, who are In uniforms,
and Sister HuliD. who has Gre
dentials, are the only authorized
collectors for the Salvation Army
here.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
Association Disposes of I 500
Hogsheads For Total of $21
5000 to Italian Regie-Loose
Leaf Selling Well Here.

Part OF the golden stream" of
money being paid Kentucky farmers
for their tobacco will be directed to
western Kentucky within ten days,
when warehousemen will begin mall
ing checks to farmers for tobacco
that was sod to the italian govern
ment this week. Today 1902 hogs
heads have already been sold at the
Paducah, Murray and Mayfield sales
rooms of the Planters Protective as
ISOLATION at an average Of IS per
hundred pounds or $3.50 per hogs
head, which will bring the farmers
something like $4,000. Paducah
and Mayfieli tie for the honors of the
largest sale. about $50 hogsheajs
being sold at each place, while Muir
ray will sell about 200 hogsheads.
The money will be paid through
the Citizens Savings bank of this
city. Mr.. Kennedy's bankers.
The big sales follows a general re-
grading OF all types of tobacco con-
trolled by the association.
Besides the big sale of the 1907
crop held by the association, indie
pendent farmers are realizing good
prices for their 1908 crop, which is
being delivered to Italian and indie
pendent buyers. Beginning yester-
day T. j. Stahl & company. who con-
duct warehouse at Tenth and Har-
rison streets, are receiving an aver
age of 100000 pounds daily, for
which they pay an average of s
cents loose on delivery and are pay
ing out $4,000 daily. Sales at the
loose leaf warehouse have averaged
$4,000 daily and which is steadily
being increased.
Loose Leaf Sales.
twenty-five thousand pounds OF TO-
baoco was sold at Bohmers loose leaf
warehouse this morning. prices rang
ing from $500 to $3.50. There was
no good leaf offered and the prices
were considered good. considering the
quality of tobacco offerei, and there
were no reflections. The market to-
day showed depression because of a
large amount of tobacco being offered
on the stalk. and there are but few
buyers who will bid at all on tobacco
unless Il Is stripped. Farmers who
wish to realize good prices will find
II profitable to strip their tobacco be-
fore bringing it to market, as they
will have the great advantage Of COM
petition from all buyers.
The summary: Trash, $500 to
s425; Tugs. 5000 to seas; leaf,
81 90 to $3.50.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
CHRISTMAS STAMP SALES In KENTUCKY
MOUNTING TO EXTRAORDINARY HEIGHTS

Louisville. Ky. Dec. IL Especially
We have sold 81. 100000 Red
Cross Christmas Stamps and orders
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17

Willemstajt. Dec. 17.-Reports
from Caracas are conflicting regard
ing the situation. The town appar-
emily is quiet. One report says
Gomez has gained control. Other
dispatches say 1t is merely the calm
before the final storm. IL is believed
here the government will be over
thrown.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17

the chairman Of the Henry. county
Tenn, committee.
In discussing the suit for a receive
filed in this county, Congressman
Washington, of Tennessee, said priv
ately that he did not consider II serl
fously. Mr.. Washington said that tn,
organization was not in debt aht
there was no excuse for a receiver be
ing appointed. He declared II wal
a part of general plan OF those who
opposed the association from selfist
motives to make all the trouble fol
the organization possible.
Attacks Newspaper.
In his speech this afternoon Hon
Joseph Washington, of Tennessee
said that the suits Instituted to throw
the association into the hands of a
receiver were melted by the emp,oye
OF a subsidized newspaper. This was
the first reference to the action.
Lee Walters, the plaintiff, who
swore to the petition in that case
declares he will stick. Service was
secured on Ewing, Charles Fort and
other officials in the case during the
meeting, the summonses being served
by Deputy Sheriff Gus Rogers.
Washington reviewed conditions
around Paducah and said that there
were originally 10000 hogsheads
here and that 100 have been soh
He referred TO the big sale of yester.
day and said 500 more hogsheadE
will be sold before the week is out
This tobacco was damaged and has
been regarded to get out OF II what
they could.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-17
WAR Is DECLARED
BY VBNDZUBLANS
AGAINST HOLLAND

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE state
departments ajvices from Secretary
Hibbin, of the American legation at
Bogota, say that Venezuela has de-
CARED war on Holland. The messages
quote dispatches from Caracas to the
Columbian government, making the
announcement that war is declared
in retaliation for the capture OF
Venezuelan warships.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
Building a Big City

From East Lake, in the land of the
rising sun, to Pratt City, in the land Of
smoke, citizens full of a laudable civic
pride will endeavor next Monday to
establish a central city that will be
fairly representative of this district.
The only opponent that those citizens
fear is Indifference, or the inclination
to say that the proposition will be af-
Tentatively voted anyway, and one vote
will make no difference. This is mis-
take. Every one of the $500 votes in
the present city should be cast, and
so should the votes of the outlying dis.
tricts. Everybody should vote. Every
body should give day to the work
A vote against Greater Birmingham
would be a vote that would deprive
hundreds of children of superior edu-
cational facilities. 1t would be vote
that would condemn lovely valley to
chaotic sanitary regulations and dis
ease-breeding filth. 1t would be a vote
against a sub-treasury, a larger gov
eminent building and the greatness of
Jones valley. 1t would be vote
against higher property values and a
return of confidence that would enable
us to ignore or at least to forget the
crisis This, in short, is the time to
make good from one end of the valley
to the other.
No qualified voter should stay away
from the polls on Monday. But he
should not be content with the casting
of his own vote-he should take up
at once missionary work long his
neighbors. The $500 votes in the pres
ent city should be polled to the last
available man in favor of city of $780,
900 population. The opportunity comes
now, and it will not come again until
1920.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
LAWYER Railroad Fares

The railroads of the southeast are
perfecting a solution of the passenger
rate problem that has long perplexed
the people in these states. All the
states and most of the railroads from
the Potomac to the line Of the state
of Mississippi are about to act in uni
son in the matter of passenger rates.
The new terms will become effective,
it is reported, on April 1, and the At
lanta papers say they will consist in
the adoption of a fiat 21a-cent inter-
state rate so far as single fares are
concerned, with interchangeable mile
age books added at 2 cents mile.
The new arrangement would be very
satisfactory in Alabama. The South
ern railroad has long favored an ad-
justment of passenger fares in &C
cordance with reductions in other
parts of the country, and the proposed
concessions are certainly dictated by
a sense of justice and fairness. The
proposed arrangement means railroad
peace, and no doubt it will lead to
harmony between the states and the
railroads in the matter of freight rates
and general railroad regulation. The
railroad managers are men who know
d situation when they see it, and they
know how to meet it. A condition of
warfare is not considered desirable,
and the people who are their patrons
will be glad to meet them half way
In bringing about good will and peace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
Music Festival Possible

For a number of years Birmingham
enjoyed high reputation as a musical
center. In music festivals it lead all
the south, and under the direction of
Benjamin Guckenberger, master mu-
stefan and Birmingham pioneer, but
now citizen of Boston, these delight
full annual events were beginning to
rank almost with the famous festivals
of our namesake in England. But it
has been five years since this city had
a festival, and those who take an in
terest in musical art and those who
are jealous for the culture side of Bir-
minghams reputation should delay no
longer in reviving an institution that
not only afforded rare pleasure to hun
dreds of residents and hundreds of
visitors, but that was educative in a
large and far-reaching sense as well.
A chorus is one of the features of a
festival. 1t is, indeed, the basis of all
important festival work; but along
with the chorus there must be a grand
orchestra and solo artists. The first
thing to be considered, then, is the
chorus. Is it possible for chorus of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
A Fiuht for Lower Rent

A tenants union or league, impro-
vised for the first rent day of the year,
is progressing steadily and firmly
among the tenements of the East Side
in New York. A reduction of 10 to 20
per cent is demanded, and the tenants
refuse to pay more when collectors
demand the January rent. Some are
dispossessed, but many more are
granted reductions. The United
Transfers union have come to the
assistance of the tenants by refusing
to come at the call of city marshals
armed with dispossess papers.
The landlords are now up against
the tenants as an organized body, and
the strike has headquarters and full
equipment of committees and volun-
teer lawyers. They say the struggle
will be maintained until rents are re-
duced in every tenement of the East
Side. tenement after tenement is
being organized, and it is hoped to
have every tenement house fully or
ganized before the February rent is
due.
No family refuses to pay rent bill
provided a reduction is made in its
amount, and the landlords are rapidly
becoming convinced that a reduced
amount is better than none at all, for
no family can be induced to move into
rooms from which tenants have been
driven by dispossess proceedings. The
really surprising feature of the move
ment is the perfection of the strike
organization among the tenants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
BALLOONS FOR THE ARMY

From the Army and Navy Journal.
The signal corps of the army has sent
out the specifications for the dirigible
balloons authorized by the ordnance
board to be bought for use in military
reconnaissance. The shape and size OF
the balloon are left to the judgment of
the bidder. but the gas bag must not be
longer than 100 feet. The weight Of the
material of which the gas bag is made
must be 5S42 ounces yard with break
ing strength of 62.5 pounds per inch
width. This material will be required to
conform to sample to be furnished by
the signal CORDS 1t will be silk covered
with an aluminium preparation and re-
ouire no varnish. Inside the bag there will
he one or two balloonets with tubes con-
Meeting with a centrifugal blower for
maintaining constant air pressure. A
type of frame that can be easily taken
apart and put together Will be sought
and the balloon must carry two persons
having a combined weight of $50 pounds,
and 100 pounds of ballast to compensate
for increased weight when operating In
rain. A speed of 20 miles an hour Is re-
quired in still air, but bidders are asked
to submit prices based on the speed at
tanned by their balloons. Speed is to be
graduated down from 20 miles, taken as
100 per cent to 16 miles. which is regarded
as 40 per cent. A lower speed than II
miles an hour will be rejected.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
Mr.. Hobson's Journal Idea

Mr.. Hobson is letting no congress
sional grass grow under his feet. When
he is not advocating a big navy he
wants something else equally gener-
Gus and general His latest PROPOSE
ton calls for an official journal to be
published weekly or oftener, to con-
tain all government news, judicial, ex-
ecutive or legislative, the whole edi-
ton to be furnished free to the peo-
pie.
No doubt Congress could print and
distribute a government journal, but
ould not make the people read it.
say, they do not read the
4 Record with ayidity, and
stand to reason that they
1 journal that covers the
ID of governmental activities.
foposed official journal would
has. be pretty bulky if it carried to
every district all news or local inter
est as well as the matters of general
Importance. Every issue would be a
book, and it would not be a book that
would interest the average reader ex
cept in spots. Too much condensa.
ton would not be acceptable to those
interested in given subject, and
free reports of all subjects would be
bulky and almost overwhelming. The
scheme is plausible, but not feasible
and the newspapers will continue tc
hold the popular EYE against an Off
cial journal or any similar public de
vice. Mr.. Hobson will do better to
stick to the navy, even if he is inclined
to urge Congress to grant greatly
exaggerated one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Price of Pig Iron.

President J. C. Maben of the sloss-
Sheffield Steel and Iron company has
returned from short visit to New York.
while in the east" said Mr.. Maben, /
met a number of men prominent in the
iron and steel world, including Mr.. W. E.
Cory, president of the United States Steel
corporation, and found them all hopeful
of revival in the market. 1t is yet
a little too early in the new year to ex-
pect anything like an active buying
movement, but I see no reason why there
should not be a fairly good demand for
pig metal before the end of the month.
ut is understood that a price will be
maintained which will mean $3.50 Biz
mingham on No. 2 basis. We had been
holding at $14, but a steady market at
$3.50 should be satisfactory to all inter
ests. The fact that stocks are light and
production is light will make 1t COM
paratively easy for the market to start
off we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05

100 or $50 voices to be organized and
trained between now and the latter
part of May? Persons prominent in
musical circles say that such an under
taking would be entirely feasible.
Let those of our citizens who appre-
eiate the importance of starting
festival movement meet and consider
the matter at any rate. With a bust
ness-like organization at the head of
festival project its financial success
would, it is believed, be assured. There
need be no question about the artistic
side of the proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
NEW WEAR IN CHICAGO.

Chicago Dispatch in New York American.
Chicago celebrated the dawn of 1908 BY
going riotously mad. To know what
was done 1t is only necessary to read
Police Sippy's Don ts," issued In the
form of a peremptory letter, yesterday.
Here it is:
There will be no cigarette smoking by
women in the restaurants
There will be no saloons open after 1
a. m.
There will be no serving of liquors in
the cafes.
There will be no blowing of whistles.
State street will not be permitted TO
go wild.
In open defiance of each and every
item Of this order, women in every prom
inent restaurant in town followed the
sanction of M. Martin in New York and
smoked cigarettes, saloons merely drew
the blinds at 1 o'clock, corks still popped
in the restaurants and cafes, whistles
blew the old year out and the new year
in and State street resembled foot
ball grounds just after the home team
won.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
1.-TWO IN ARCADIA"

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
There has never come to us from the
book-world a song more musical than
Lucine Finch's 1.-TWO in Arcadia" The
polish and rhythmic flow of verse equal
Tennyson's. This gifted daughter of the
south sings her sainted grandmother
spirit into these words:
There are snow peaks in your heart,
And a grayness that is cold.
But wisdom comes with loving, sweet,
And all your moods my love can meet
Because my love is bold
We bow in homage to her art and love.
The south is proud of her unique artistic
perception, her genius: but above all,
her sentiment remains true to the aroma
of the southland when she speaks of the
wind singing through the pines:
1T hear the wind sing to the pine-tree,
I hear the pine-tree whispering as she
sways.
I cannot fail thee,
Why dost thou fear me?
I hear my heart cry to your heart,
1 hear your heart beating 'gainst my own
I cannot faily thee,
Why dost thou fear me?"
MRS. SAMUEL w. JOHN.
Birmingham, January 4, 1907.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-05
HOUSTON WELSH RAREBlTs.

From the Houston Post.
The Welsh rarebits of Heavenly Hous-
ton make a fellow dream that he is a boy
again with his mother telling him to go
into the pantry and help himself and the
schoolmaster saying, go fishing, my son,
whenever you like" We mention the mat
ter because we want Col Franklin Adama
to know that the last time we enveloped
an Engel Welsh rarebit we dreamed that
somebody strapped us to the car tracks
on Death Curve and ordered the Broad
way cars to hold a parade over us.