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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-13
Time to Get Together.

The News prints below an editorial
from the Greensboro Messenger to
which we invite the attention of all
Democrats. especially those interested
in the success of the Democratic party.
1t is for the Democrats to determine
within the next few months whether
Kentucky is to become a Republican
state, or whether it is to return to its
natural place in Democratic allegiance.
Certainly there can. be no question. that
the best interests of the State demand
a restoration of the Democratic party.
1t would be must unfortunate for Ken
lucky if disSentions ST ould permit the
State to fall permanently into the
hands of the organization now tempo
rarily in control of its affairs. We
submit the following good advice
from The Messenger:
the Messenger has reproduced, in
the past week, very copious comments
from the Kentucky press upon the
outcome of the Senatorial contest at
Frankfort Every shade of opinion
has been quoted and readers Of the
Messenger have. therefore, full con-
ception of public sentiment as express
ed by the press.
Naturally there has been much
heat in some Of these expressions. and
the provocation has been great; but
as time goes by men of all beliefs and
convictions must be persuaded that
the time is now at hand for a sober
consideration of what is necessary to
restore the Democratic party to the
impregnabie position it once held in
Kentucky.
1.-The Democratic representation in
the lower House of Congress has been
reduced from ten to seven; in the up
per House from two to one.
"The Democrats lost, last fall, all
the State offices by from $4,000 TO 49,
600 majority.
"The Democratic representation in
the General Assembly has been re-
duced from 10 to 73-and from four to
eight of these Democrats could not be
relied upon in the Senatorial race.
''In every city in the State, save
Lexington, the Republicans are in
power, having elected the Mayor,
Councilman and other city officer and
turned out Democratic policemen and
firemen and other officials.
us it not time, therefore, for Dem
ocrats to quit their internecine con-
tests, wipe out the past and begin over
upright upon safe and better plans?
"We are on the eve of great Presi-
Dental campaign. 1t is in the very at
mosphere that the Democratic party is
destined to triumph this year. Mr..
Bryan, who will be the leader, has a
greater opportunity than ever before
in his career. Thousands Of converts
in every State are enlisting under the
Democratic banner. The belief that
Bryan will be elected is growing daily.
IF Kentucky Democrats, through
fractional differences, should lose the
State this year and thus destroy
Bryan's chance for the presidency. it
would be political crime past all for.
giveness. 1t is time for the biggest
and best Democrats of the State to as
sert themselves in bringing about
more peaceful conditions. 1t is time
for patriotism to prevail and personal
ambitions and enmities to be forgot
ten, and whatsoever appears at the
State convention soon to be called,
with any other spirit in his heart we
believe will receive scant courtesy in
the gathering"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-03-13
1t Does the Business.
PARIS, KY

Mr.. z. Z. Chamberlain. of Clinton,
Maine, says of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve: 1T does the business have
used it for piles and it cured them.
Used it for chapped hands and it cured
them. Applied it to an old sore and it
healed it without leaving scar be-
hind. !" 25c at Oberdorfer's drug
store.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
NEW YORK.

Cooler weather is the handspring of the
moderate improvement in retail and job
bling trade reported at most cities this
week. Additionally helpful features have
been the numerous fairs and festivals,
which have enlarged distribution locally
at many points.
While thnre are reports of holding crops,
notably at the South, where prices are
much lower than a year ago, the crop
movement is liberal as n whole Reports
from industries are rather better as a
whole Good reports come from. the lum-
Der trade South and West. and a good
volume of building is going forward.
Election uncertainties are reported af-
fecting demand for iron cad steel, but
cool weather has helped the coal trade
East and West. The leather and shoe
trades are reported quiet, with cheaper
grades in most demand The wool trade
reports the largest weeks sales for over
a year past. and from 80 to 60 per cent
of the leading interests machinery in OPP
Grafton.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Oct. l numbered 255,
against 261 last week, III in the like week
of 1907, 1876 in 1906, 1S9 in 1905 and
1915 in 1904. Canadian failures for the
week numbered SO, which compares with
80 last week and 30 in this week in 1907.
-Bradstreets Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
THOUSANDS IN SCHOOL HUNGRY
Report starsre. Charitable and Eau-

Report StartIes Charitable and Edu-
cational Circles OF Chicago.
Statistics furnished in report to the
Chicago board of education disclosing that
5000 children daily go to school hungry
and showing the surprising extent of
want and misery among Chicago's school
children have stirred members of the
school board and various educational,
charitable and social circles. The terri
BILE conditions affecting thousands of
school children are barred in report pre-
sented TO the school-management commit
tee of the board of education by sub
committee consisting of W. L. Bodine,
superintendent of the compulsory-ed
ton department; DR.. d. p. Macmillan,
director of the child-study department,
and Attorney Frank Hamlin. According
TO the report, 5000 pupils do not know
what a full meal means and are habitu-
ally hungry, while 10000 other children
in the city do not have sufficient food, al
though their cases are. not as extreme as
those of the first mentioned. In arriving
at the totals 10000 specific cases were
examined and information was secured
from various authoritative sources. In
temperance in some homes and lack of
work are blamed in the report for the con-
ditions. The want and misery is held to
be the real cause of majority of the
truant and delinquent cases among the
bOyS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
Hogs Are tie Highest Since 1908
Chicago Tribune.

garia. Germany, it is announced at
Berlin, has associated herself with
these proposals and will not counsel
Turkey to go to war.
The proclamation of Bulgarian indie
pendence was preceded by conflict
between Bulgaria and Turkey over the
Oriental railroad in eastern Rumelia.
Bulgaria took possession of this line
in September because of a strike and
began to operate it with her military
forces. When the strike had been set
tied she refused to restore control to
Turkey which led to a sharp conflict.
In spite of the endeavors of the powers
the military forces of both Turkey and
Bulgaria prepared for eventualities.
The action taken by Bulgaria and
Austria-Hungary is condemned in Off
cial and diplomatic circles of London,
but the British government is prepared
to cooperate in any steps which may
be taken by the powers concerned. The
principal purpose is the prevention of
2 warlike outbreak.
News no less intere. ing than that
concerning the act of Prince Ferdinand
is brought in the Vienna dispatches to
the effect that Austria Hungary has de-
cided to annex the occupied provinces
Of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Emperor
Francis Joseph has addressed an auto
graph letter to the heads of all the
states in which he explains the neces-
sity of changing the political status of
these provinces.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
The Corn CrOp.

The yield of corn this year will prob
ably be somewhat larger than that of last
year. The drought following the month
or two of heavy rains in the corn belt
cut deeply into the promised, harvest the
reduction in the prospective yield in the
month of August being 122, 100000 BUSH
els.
Illinois, which produces more corn than
any other State, was the greatest sufferer,
the depreciation being 10 points. In
Indiana the falling off was &C points.
and in Kansas g.. Ohio, where climatic
conditions were fairly close to being per-
feet for grain raising. showed only a
slight loss in the conditions. Missouri,
Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa also reported
a. small dropping off in prospects in the
month of August. Nebraska is said to
have actually made gains.
The corn crop OF 1907 was 2.592.320,-
900 bushels with an acreage of 9S,O99,0 900.
The area under this grain this year is
estimated at 10O,996,000 acres. The con-
ditions on the first of September were
1913 as compared with SOC on the same
date in 1907. Considering all these fig
ures the yield will be more than three
billion bushels. The frosts are still to
be reckoned with before the final figures
are written.-Toledo Blade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
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The Disastrous Drouth.

This year will be memorable for one of
the most extensive and damaging droughts
the North American continent has ever
experienced. How great loss it has in
hicted .pon all sections of this country
and large area of Canada is impossible
TO say, but 1t is of enormous proportions.
Forest fires due to drought are said to
be the most destructive in twenty-five
years. They have ravaged the southern
part of Canada, New York, Maine. Wis
consin, Michigan, Minnesota. and as far
south as Pennsylvania. The loss from
this source is probably not less than
S1OO,OO0,OO0. Scarcity of timber makes
the seriousness of this loss hard to over
estimate. 1t will undoubtedly cause an
advance in the price of lumber and may
check building operations all over the
country.
The drought has left Lake Champlain
eight feet below high-water mark and the
Ohio river is fordable where the water
is usually thirty feet deep. A number of
cities are threatened with lack of water
for fire protection and mills and factories
using water power have been compelled to
shut down.
The government has sent experts to
study the causes of forest fires with a
view to prevention. Catching flood wat
ers in reservoirs for use when needed is
now done to some extent The present
disastrous experience with widespread
drought justifies careful consideration of
all suggestions for safeguards against a
repetition of this years devastation
Chicago Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
OF BULGARIA
PROCLAIMED BYPR|NCE
Ferdinand, Supported by Cabinet,
Takes Action at Tirnovo,
Ancient Capital.
THE NATIONS ARE MEDIAT0RS.
Powers Will Try to Prevent War
Over Balkan Trouble, and
Diplomats Confer.

Bulgaria, tributary principally
under the suzerainty of the Sultan Of
Turkey, Monday proclaimed its indie
pendence of Turkey. This action was
taken at Tirnovo by Prince Ferdinand,
who was elected Prince of Bulgaria in
1887. The Bulgarian cabinet was with
the prince, having met him at the from
tier and journeyed with him to Tirnovo.
Tirnovo is the ancient capital of the
Kingdom of Bulgaria, and it was there
in the old days that the kings were
crowned.
Turkey is not inclined toward war
with Bulgaria, and London advices say
that she will likely call conference
Of the powers to consider Bulgaria's
proclamation of independence Indica-
lions from the other capitals are that
the powers will intervene to prevent
hostilities in the near East. France has
decided to act as mediator for the pur-
pose of preventing war, and Great Brit
ain also has made mediatory proposals
to the governments of Turkey and Bull
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
KILLING PRAIRIE DOGS.
Uncle Sam This Year Poisoned
100000 of Them.

Mercilessly, Uncle Sam has been on
the warpath during the summer, and
more wholesale murder has been the
result than at any time in the history
of the country since the ruthless ex-
tinction of the buffalo. This savage
warfare has not been waged with pow
der and shot, but with subtle poison,
ana the victims have not been men or
rattlesnakes, but the pretty and appa-
rently harmless prairie dogs. For years
the prairie dogs have been the pest of
western farmers, who have tried, but
lneHectively, TO get rid of them. The
department of Agriculture. quick to
alu the farmer in every possible way,
look hand in the matter this sum-
mer, and, after trying several other
ways Of humiliation. decided that poi
son was the most practicable means
of Kidding the soil of the pests. with
the result that nearly a million vic
tins fell at the hands of the official
eXecutioners.
The prairie dog is a great hindrance
TO agriculture. If he chooses a spot
that appears suitable for a pleasant
home, he gathers his kith and kin,
and in comparatively short time his
tribe has multiplied at compound
rates until solid acres are not COM
modious enough for the family. They
make the soil almost useless Their
holes are connected by miniature tun-
nels, so that, while the ground may
appear solid, 1t is in reality unsafe
and dangerous to man and beast
The death of many riders on the
plains is a silent testimonial to the in
EQUITY of the prairie dog.
The stockmen of the West urged the
Department of Agriculture to take
some measures, to check the increasing
annoyances from the dogs, and the re-
lentless warfare followed. Range inn
provements in national forests is one
of the chief objects of grazing regula-
ton, and the forest service Was
charged with the work of extermina-
ton. The first experiments were made
in parts of Leadville and Pike national
forests, where the prairie dogs popu-
lated a territory of 800 square miles
A dog town Of 10 acres was selected,
and poison was prepared by coating
wheat with strychnine solution made
alluring by molasses and anise seed,
combination which no prairie dog Gan
resist. This poisoned wheat was placed
at the mouth of each hole, and the men
soon became so expert at their work
that they could ride along on horseback
and drop the death dealer with great
rapidity. The dogs ravenOusly ate the
poisoned grain and in less than an
hour 80 per cent of them died. The
crafty ones which escaped the FIRST
feast or those who were not hungry
at that time, were killed on the second
trip of the foresters, and in a short
time every dog was dead. Next spring
the forest service promises to go into
the killing business on a larger scale.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
The Campaign.

One of the new methods of stimulating
popular interest in the presidential cam
paign is the distribution of photograph
records of speeches by the leading candi-
dates. Hundreds of thousands of voters
may thus hear the voice of the party nom
inees, even though they may see only a
picture of the men themselves.
AT the same time, the number of sal
aried campaign speakers is much smaller
than in former years. Those who talk
are expected to give their time to Their
party because of their belief in its p1in-
ciples.
Political campaigns are quieter and
more business like than they used to be.
The speeches of the candidates are re-
ported in the press, and the voter thinks
the questions out at home. The political
rally does not attract generation of
newspaper readers as it aroused their
fathers in the old days when talk was
cheaper than print.
Yet the voice of a man of conviction,
the living words of a great leader, will al
ways be a power. There is magic in the
personal contact of the politician with the
voter, and political speeches can never go
wholly out of fashion. Even the phono-
graphic reproductions, interesting and val
liable as they are, will not quite take the
place of the real thing. But people are
getting too intelligent to have their con-
victions swayed by "spellbinders," who
receive fifty dollars a night for their eff
forts to save the nation from disgrace.
If a lively campaign is known by the
amount of shouting and eloquence, per-
haps we shall never have another one. The
vitality of a political contest depends on
the interest the people take in it, and their
interest may be intense although they sit
at home and say not word until the time
comes-Youth's Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to sos; sheep fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, 97c to soc;
corn, No. 2, 76c to lie; oats, standard,
47c to 4Sc rye No. 2, Toe to 76c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $11.00; butter choice creamery, DC
to 26c; eggs. fresh, 19c to DC; potatoes,
per bushel, G2c to zoe.
Indianapois-Ca Cattle, shipping, $500
to 500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $7.20; sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to 500 wheat, No. ,, $l.03 to
$1.04; corn, No. white, 7Sc to &c. oats,
No. white SOC to 5lc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $40; hogs,
$500 to $40; sheep. $500 TO $4.33;
wheat, No. 2, STOP to SOB; corn, No. 2,
74c to 75c; oats. No. 2, 47c to 4Sc; rye,
No. =, nc to 79c.
incinnati-Cattle. $500 to 1925;
hogs, $500 to 5000; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. >, $1.04 to $1.05; corn,
No 2 mixed. 7Sc to 79c; oats, No.
mixed, 49c to SOC; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to Soc
Detroit-Cattle, 500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep. $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. .. 99c to $1.0O; corn, No.
yellow, SOC to ST. oats, No. 3 white,
SOC to 52c; rye, 40. 2, TIC to 7Sc.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
$1O2 to $1O4; corn, No. 3, 76c to TIC;
oats. standard. 49c to SOC; rye, No. l,
75c to 76c; barley, 40. /, 65c to Csc;
pork, mess, $14.95.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $6.40; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $7.20; sheep, common to good mixed,
800 to $40: lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 500.
New York-Cattle, 800 to S6.10;
hogs. $3.50 to $500; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. S1.O5 to $1.07;
corn, No. 2. SIC to SIC; oats, natural
white, 53c TO 5Jc; butter, creamery, 24c
to 27c; eggs. western, 20c to DC.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 99c to
500; corn. No. 2 mixed, 79c to Sic;
oats, No. mixed, Acc to sic; rye. No.
2, nc to 1Sc; clover seed, October, $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
$500, 1000 DAMAGE in GALE.
Marine Men Believe Steamer VOL
VERNE, Overdue, Has Foundered.

VERNE, Overdue, Has Foundered.
Marine reports received in Detroit in
dictate that the gale which swept the lakes
Monday and Tuesday was responsible for
wrecking or grounding of at least six YES
sells. The most serious of the disasters
is probably that of steamer Wolverine
long overdue at Selkirk 1t had aboard
twenty-five sailors and passengers. Ma
rine men feel sure she has foundered. The
steamer Neshoto, which stranded on Crisp
Point Sunday afternoon was torn to
pieces by Monday nights gale. The loss
to the vessel and its cargo of 1000 tons
of iron ore will reach nearly 5000
The 420-foot steel freighter Calumet of
the Lackawanna feet of Buffalo was div
en- hard aground on the upper end of Stag
island. Captain Simpson of the steamer
City of Mackinac reported the vessel far
out of water and listed. The steamer
Arthur Orr of Duluth is aground on Bots
Blanc island and has been temporarily
abandoned. The Dunbar dredge, Gladia-
tor, employed on the new Livingstone
channel work in the lower Detroit river,
was burned to the waters edge, with a
loss of more than 100000. Twelve men,
including two government inspectors,
barely escaped Another Dunbar dredge
was put out of commission in a collision
with the big freighter Amazonas of the
Davidson feet, the freighter itself being
injured. The total damage will aggregate
100000. Scarcely 40 per cent of the
tonnage of the lakes is in commission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
LIVES OF MANY BABIES SAVED.
New York Conference on Care of In
fants Proyes To he Success.

New York Conference on Care of In
fants Proves to BE Success.
With 72T fewer deaths among children
under l year of age in New York City
from approximately June / to Oct. l, as
compared with the same period of last
year, DIR. Thomas Darlington, the health
commissioner, is so we'll satisfied with
the work of the conference on the summer
care of babies, that he expects to organ
ize the same force for a renewal next
year. 1t was early last June that DIR.
Darlington called a meeting of the manag-
ers of the charitable and other organiza-
tions of the city which work among the
children of the poor. DR.. Bensel organ
lied a plan for united effort, a committee
was appointed to direct the work and late
in June the crusade was begun. The
forces of the department, consisting OF
about 40 physicians, an average number,
and eighty-one nurses, were divided into
groups. Some were detailed to investi-
gate births, to visit recreation piers and
the summer schools and as general
duty report disabilities among children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Government regulation of the meat in
dustries will be hailed as dear to me
packers heart at the coming meeting of
the American Meat Packers Association,
which is to be held at the Grand Pacific
hotel in Chicago. Fullest cooperation be-
tween packers and government in order to
hold up the grade of meat will be urged.
and the federal inspection act will be
called a boon to packer as well as public
in the papers that are to be read.
If the recommendations adopted at the
twelfth annual meeting of the interstate
association of live stock boards, at its
concluding session in Washington, are
approved by Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, the federal quarantine regula-
tions for preventing the spread of the
Texas or ''tick" fever in cattle in certain
Southern States will be raised next year.
Cattle in certain areas in the States I'M
der quarantine are said to be entirely free
from the Texas fever.
John Barke, a prosperous farmer liv-
ing near Henderson, Mimi, has the cham
pion COW of his section. This bovine
gave birth to three calves. They are all
heifers and give promise of doing well
An unknown incendiary set fire to and
burned four settings of grain belonging
to ]. NJ. Buckley, and those belonging
to z. Kieff of Morris, MINI. About
week ago some party set fire to Edmond
Barry's granary in the same neighbor-
hood, and although the building was de-
stroyed, some of the grain was saved.
There was no insurance in any of the
cases.
A new class for draft horses has been
added to the premium list of the Mime
sofa State fair, for the purpose of recog-
nizing high-class draft horses of various
kinds. The horses entered in these classes
were exhibited each evening in the horse
show and hippodTome in the live stock
pavilion.
The interstate association of live stock
sanitary boards has elected these officers:
President, W. Fl. Dalrymple, Baton
Rouge, La vice president, S. B. Nelson,
Pullman, Wash; secretary, Charles E.
Cotton. Minneapolis. Measures were
adopted for the extinction of tuberculosis
among cattle.
1t is understood that the three trans
continental lines running into ST Paul
will put in a tariff on wool which will
allow storage at the Minnesota trans
fer in transit. This will virtually make
st. Paul wool market, since it is prob
ably the object of wool growers to compel
eastern manufacturers to come West TO
do their buying instead Of patronizing
Boston and Philadelphia markets. 1t is
estimated that between ten and fifteen
million pounds of wool viii be stored in
the Central warehouse this season
Bill Hatfield, who is in the Grayson
county jail. Texas. was identified as
James C. Durham, who is wanted ar San
Jose, Cal, for the murder Of six people.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-13

The German population of the world.
Ia nearly 100,000.00 strong.