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Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-26

x. X. Smith, or "Bob' Smith. is
President j. b. Dukes chief lieu
tenant. He is said tie receive a sal
ary Of s25, 900 year, and is also
reported TO hold thousands of shares
Of the companys stock and ranks as
topnotcher along with Standard
Oil. He is affable, polite, courteous
silent. hard headed, and Just as wise
as Duke or Rockefeller. Even the
growers like Mr.. Smith.
Clarence LeBus, president of the
Growers, is a farmer and a capitalist
of Cyuthiana. HIS chief assets are
a good business head and back bone
that surpasses in size any one that
has developed in Kentucky in some
years Out of 730 Of two years he
spent $50 days away from home, and
has lost thirtyodd pounds in weight.
His friends say he has never received
cent of salary for his services. but
1t is said that II movement is already
on foot to reimburse him handsomely
LeBus has been harshly attacked.
but the attacks on HIM never stopped
him from fighting. He is said to
have told j. b Duke that he would
make HIM buy the tobacco.
LeBus declares the growers organ
ization has been so strengthened by
the deal that it is an organization
that has come to stay for all time.
The reason given that all lawless.
ness will stop Is that all the growers
who renamed out of the pool will
now get in, and there will be no
divisions such as those that promoted
night riding and barn burning
The charge is made that many of
the growers will not benefit at all, as
moneyed men in the organization
have bought up the warehouse Ger.
titcates and will get all the profits.
1t is said, for instance, that practlc-
ally all the tobacco in the Bracken
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-26

the Independents are uneasy. In
the first place they are worried rela-
tive to the amount left 10 the pool
and IN the second place they are
alarmed over the prices that may
govern. However. it is said, the
growers will sell to the independents
at the same price they sold to the
American Company. They say they
do not know whether the tobacco re-
naming in the 1906 and 1907 pools
and the shotgun crop of 1908 will
be enough to supply their wants.
Some estimate all of the burley to-
bacco remaining at %, 900. 900
pounds, but inasmuch as the 1905 is
outside the pool the independents
will have to bid for it on the breaks
against the American Tobacco Com
pauy.
TIE Independent, declare that the
American Company wanted all the
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-26
TROUBLES OF JUDGE BOOZE
ARE TALK AT FRANKFORT,

Frankfort. KY, Nov. %. Moth
ing was talked about in Frankfort to-
day except the shortage of Judge
Charles +. Booze, who is claim clerk
in the Auditors Office, and rybody
expresses the greatest sympathy for
the man who is in trouble. Judge
Booze, friends have come to his as
sistance, aud Republicans, as we'll
as Democrats have been to see him
today to offer their assistance. If 1t
was only question of paying the
shortage and if that was the only
charge against the accused man it is
believed that enough money could be
raised to pay the Indebtedness.
However, there is forgery charge
against Judge Booze and it is feared
that this cannot be wiped out without
trial. Judge Booze is IN much bet
ter spirits today than he has been at
any time since he was accused and
he has regained his natural color and
normal spirits. He feels deeply the
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-26

President Clarence LeBus has call
ed a meeting of the Executive Board
of the Burley Tobacco Society to be
held at Winchester last Tuesday.
He also addressed kilograms and sent
registered letters to all independent
tobacco manufacturers advising them
to be on hand promptly at 9 O'Clock
If they wanted to buy any tobacco.
The independents are blue lot.
They are wondering where they are
going to "get off. " \. ". Dillon,
of Detroit, Mich, the largest indc
pendent manufacturer IN the coun.
try. rushed up to President Le Bus
aud selling him by the coat said
LeBus, tell me, can We get any to.
bacco?"
"Of course, you can, he ,cpliod.
ave have aaved il for you ' But
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-26
Pointed Paragraphs About
the Biggest Deal in
History Of Tobacco
Trade.
DEAL EPITONlXED

BUYER American Tobacco Co.
Burley Society.
Place - Louisville.
Time Thursday afternoon.
Crops Sold All Of 1906 aud part
Of 1907.
Prices --204 cents and II cents.
Aggregate Amount---$l4, 600. 00O
District Affected Central Ken
tucky
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-26

Continued on fifth page,0
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HUGH LYON ASKS PRES
IDEkT EWING QUESTIONS,

Eddyville, Ky, Nov. 22.-Hugh
Lyon, a member of the executive
committee Of the Lyon County Dark
Tobacco Growers Protective Assocla.
ton, has sent salty reply to the
recent response Of President Ewing
of the same organization, in relation
to the action taken by the Lyon coun
ty tobacco growers at meetings held
at Kuttawa, and Lamasco on Novem-
Der eth.
There is SAID to be great dissatis-
faction existing among the farmers
of Lyon county, who claim that tinan
cial stringency among them has been
bought about by the policy pursued
by the officials of the Dark Tobacco
Growers Association. The answer
Of Mr.. Lyon is very caustic and it is
said to have the Endorsement of the
growers of Lyon county, who allege
that they have lot been given a
sqaure deal by the managers of the
association. The reply is as follows /:
ITO the hon. F. G.: Ewing
Dear sir: Was the lanters' Pro-
tecuve Association organized to
promote the welfare of the tobacco
grower or to promote the welfare Of
its officials?
"Aren't the members Of the asso-
citation entitled to report of the
business and transactions Of the as
ISOLATION?
Twill you hand each tobacco
grower 500 and accept his receipt?
"Do you think the association will
live long under present methods and
conditions?
DO you not know that the voice
of the tobacco growers and the voice
of all other workingmen must be
respected?
"You state In your article in the
Tobacco Planter of Nov. II that
other counties have sold out. Then
why is it impracticable for Lyon or
any other county to sell out?
"Do you want us to drive our
merchants to the wall, cramp our
banking institutions. starve ourselves
say our prayers and die, Just to graf
ify our desire to overthrow the
Ameri can Tobacco Trust?
"Dou't you know that we will
have more respect for you if you will
have the same for us?
"Will you and the association
obligate yourselves to us for as much
as you want us to obligr-e orr..l,.-
to you?
"Will Won ont t.- ,...c.r...
grant us our pctl."r. a.. lrl t.l y t.
9Th, are will !ou not?
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
MARS SEASONS.
Vital In the Vesetative Economy Of
the Planets Year.

the Planets Year.
Were Mars not an old planet. cor
relocating by absence Of cloud the
general course Of planetary develop
ment, our knowledge Of it would have
been slight. TO begin with, it enables
US to, mark the permanency in place OF
the planets features and so to time
their axial rotation, by which we come
to knowledge Of the planets day. This
day proves to differ little from our
own in duration, being "a hours 40
minutes long instead Of "a hours. Next
it discloses the tilt Of the axis to the
planets orbital plane, relation which
causes the seasons Of the year. Now,
the Marian tilt as we'll as the Martian
time Of rotation turns out to be singu-
larly like our own, being, in fact, "a
degrees as against 1914 degrees for the
earth. The year Of Mars, however, is
twice ours in length, which, Joined to
great eccentricity Of orbit, gives it di-
versifedly long seasons. Thus in the
northern hemisphere spring lasts 199
days, summer 1S3, autumn 147 and
winter 15S, while in its southern heml-
sphere the figures stand reversed.
The numbers have more than aca-
Gemic importance, for absolute length
is as vital a factor in a seasons in
fuence as the fact Of the season itself.
Much may be brought to pass in twice
the tire which could not develop IN
thc shorter nerioa. and it is not little
interesting thu: precisely Ills poSsiD!l-
ity actually turns out to be vial in
the ve-ctative economy Of the planets
year.-Pcrciva Lowell! in Century.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
fiE2 TWO PRAYERS.
Beth Were Answered, but the Results
M.crn Discoura-

Beth Were Answered, but the Results
Were Discoura5ir-.
During and for many years after the
civil war there livet. in Franklin cH'l-
ty. Mo-. whore TIE Old STATE road, built
before tie days cf railroads, crossed
Boeuf river. Il Mrs. Samuel Hutton.
who met with the misfortune OF haV-
ing two of her prayers answered, and
thereafter. her neighbors used to say,
she never prayed again. And this hap
pened during the civil war.
"Sam being away in the Confederate
army" was the way she used to tell 1t.
81 got lonesome among so many Drag
ging stay at home northerners that one
day got down on my knees and pray
ed for the southern boys to come and
clean out the neighborhood, and it
wasn't a week before along came Cen
eral Pap Prices army, and, it being
near dark, the whole outfit camped
along the river COnfiScated all my
stock feed, robbed my chicken roost
and burned half the fence rails on the
place without asking my permission.
AS l didn't know where Sam was to
tell him what the scamps had done. l
prayed again, asking the Lord to send
the Federals to chase Pap Price to the
jumping off place. 1t was about sum
down that day when I looked up the
road and saw my answer coming, and
the northern boys stopped at the river
for the night ate what food the Con-
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
federates had left me and destroyed
the balance of the fence rails."-Buf-
falo Times.
Soft Hearted Bill!

"Ah, dearie me" sighed the woman
when Mrs. Pipkins, the sympathetic
parishioner, called upon her. Eyes.
there was worse men than my poor
Bill, but there, 'e's took now-gone. e
'ad his good points, 'ad Bill"
IT am indeed glad to hear it" said
Mrs. Pipkins.
"Poor Bill" went on the bereaved
woman, "'e-well, e weren't exactly
'andsome, but e were soft 'earted
enough to smoke like a chimbly when
ever e left the 'ouse."
'Indeed!' broke in the visitor. "But
fail to see the connection between
smoking and"-
''That's becos you never seed my
poor Bill" put in the widow. "Bill
weren't pretty, and e knowed it-but
there-sooner than Scare hinnercent
little children into fit Bill always id
that terrible mug O. is in a cloud O.
smoke. Yes, e was soft 'earted and
thoughtful for others, was Bill
London Answers.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
A Permanent Place.

There was not even standing room in
the 6 o'clock crowded car, but one
more passenger, a young woman,
wedged her way along just inside the
doorway. Each time the car took a
sudden lurch forward she fell help
lessly back, and three times she land
ed in the arms Of a large, comfortable
man on the back platform. The third
time it happened he said quietly,
Hadn't you better stay here?"-NeW
York World.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
THE DOWAGERS.
Titled Widows Go to tho Rear In the
Social Procession.

Titled Widows Go to the Rear In the
Social Procession.
Little sympathy is bestowed on IT,
tied widows after the first few days OF
their bereavement. Of course when
an earl dies his widow remains
countess, but with the unwelcome ad-
dition "dowager," which often is mis-
leading as far as her age is concerned.
Thackeray. although he professed
good breeding. looked on dowager
duchesses as fair targets for sarcasm.
So did Du Maurier, though the only
offense of the poor women was that
they had lost their husbands. 1t IS
double blow to a woman Of title when
her husband dies, for if grief leaves
her time for reflection she realizes
that, no matter how young she may
be, she is relegated to the rear in the
social procession. The new duchess or
marchioness or countess steps into the
limelight, and the dowager is lucky to
find a place in the last row of the
chorus, for the very term implies old
womanhood. and in most cases she
only wastes time if she combats the
impression.
Ordinary widows may have better
chances for matrimony than deDu-
tantes, though that's doubtful. Dow
ayers seldom contract new marriages,
for few men have courage to lead
them to the altar SO in all the affairs
Of society they make the best OF the
custom that dictates they shall follow
meekly in the wakes Of their tattered
daughters rs-in-law.-NeW York Press.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
Corporal Punishment.

Corporal punishment formerly had a
wider significance than mere whip
ping. Henry de Bracton, chief justici-
ary of England in the reign Of Henry
III, divided corporal punishment into
two kinds-those inflicted with and
without torture. The stocks and the
pillory would rank as corporal punish
ment; also mutilations and other grim
tortures when imposed not to extort
confessions, but as penalties, and the
branding in the hand for felony, which
was not abolished until George Ills
time.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15


The members of Lexington club are
hereby requested to meet in the court
house on Saturday afternoon, April
25, at o'clock.
Frank w. Shealy, Sec.
Ballentine Democratic club will meet
at Ballentine on Saturday, April 25th,
at O'Clock p. M, to transact such
business as required by County Chair
man. A full attendance is desired.
Jas. w. Shealy,
Secretary.
The members of Boiling Spring
club No. 2, are requested to meet at
the school house at the Saxe-Gotha
mills on Saturday afternoon p. M,
on April 25th, 1908.
J. H. Warren,
Chairman.
Peak Democratic club will meet in
Town Hall, April 25th, at p. m.
O. l.. Mayer, Pres.
The members Of the LeWiedale
Democratic club are hereby request
ed to meet on Saturday, April 25, at
p. M, to elect delegates and execu-
tivemen to the County Convention.
We hope a full attendance will be
present. L. Hallman, Sec.
The Batesburg Democratic club will
meet at Batesburg, S. c., Saturday,
April 1S, 1908, at 3 o'clock p. m., for
the purpose of reorganizing, electing
delegates to the Lounty Convention,
&c. A full attendance is defired.
w. B. Hite, Pres.
w. S. Hite, Sec.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
BURNED FOR CENTURIES.
Curious Stories Of the Wonderful
LAMBS of the Ancients.

furious oIOTiSS vi tnS sSSiaSi ~
Lamps Of the Ancients.
When the tomb Of Pals, son of
Evander, who is mentioned by Virgil.
was discov cred about the twelfth cen
tury by a countryman digging near
Rome. it is said that lamp was still
burning over his head. which must
have been lighted more than 1000
years before.
! Baptista Porta in his treatise on nat
ural magic relates that about 1850 a
marble sepulcher Of the Roman period
was discovered in an island near Ma
pies. On opening the room was found
a vial containing burning lamp. The
lamp became extinct on breaking the
vial and exposing the lamp to the open
air. It was supposed that it had been
concealed before the Christian era, and
those who saw it reported that the
lamp emitted a splendid fame.
In 1850 a remarkable lamp was
found near Atestes. Padau, by rus
tic, who unearthed terra Gotta urn
containing another urn in which was
a lamp placed between two cylindrlca!
vessels, one Of gold and the other of
silver. Each was full Of very pure
liquid by whose virtue the lamp had
been kept shining upward Of 1,oOO
years.
This curious lamp was not meant to
scare away evil spirits from tomb,
but was an attempt to perpetuate the
profound knowledge Of Maximus Oily
bus, who effected this wonder by his
skill in the chemical art.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
Their Standard.

"Say," asked the first messenger
boy, "got any novels ter swop"
81 got Big Foot Bills Revenge
replied the other,
rs it a long story?"
Nav. Ye kin finish it easy in two
messa s."-Philadelphi Press.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
Democratic Club Meetings.
SANDY RUN CLUB.

pursuance to the call of the county
chairman, Sandy Run Democratic
club will meet at Oak Grove academy,
Saturday, April 25th, ats o'clock p. N.
The club will be reorganixed, dele
gates elected to attend the County
Democratic convention, to assemble
at Lexington G. H., Monday, 4th day
of Nav next. A full attendance is
desired. N. B. Wanramaker,
President.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
His Reasoning.

Bobby-I believe you are engaged to
Mr. Snooks at last sis! Sis-What
makes you think so? Bobby-Because
he's stopped giving me pennies!-Lon-
don Opinion.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15

The Delingo Democratic club will
meet at Delingo School House, April
25, at 4 P. m.
D. Pickens Roof, Pres.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15

HOLLOW CREEK CLUB, 2.
Will meet at Hollow Greek church,
at 4 O'Clock, April 25, for reorganiza-
ton, electing delegates to convention.
D. F. Price, Secretary.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
RROOKLAND CLUB.

BROOKLAND CLUB.
Brookland club will meet in Shull
hall Saturday afternoon, April 25, at
8 O'Clock for the purpose of electing
delegates to the county convention.
By order Of Secretary.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
Sore Nipples and Chapped kaads

Are quickly cured by applying Chamberlain's
Salve. Try it; it is success. Price IS ce' IS.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
GILBERT CLUB

GILBERT CLUB
Will meet Saturday, April 25, at 8
o'clock. All members are requested
to be present as there will be import
ant business to attend to.
P. H. Craps, Chairman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-04-15
EnMJrND CITP.

A meeting of the Edmund club is
called for Saturday afternoon, April
25th, at 5 o'clock.
Geo. A. Shealy, Pres.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-31
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY TO
BE KEPT BY GRAND ARMY
Local Posts Appoint Committee TO
Wait on Mayor, Who Promises
to Declare the Date
Public Holiday

Committees from the three Grand
Army posts of the city met in the hall
of the builders exchange Tuesday
evening to arrange for the celebration
of the one hundredth anniversary of
the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
There We're present: From Bartlett
Logan post, A. J. Wilson, j. w. Van
Horne. r. Hefflefinger and NJ F. Price;
from Stanton post Charles Il. Case, w.
S. Daubenspeck, H. q. Osborne and =.
M. Quinn, and from Kenesaw post,
Daniel Jones, S. B. Gregory and C. r.
Stevens.
A. j. Wilson of the department COM
mittee acted as chairman and j. M.
Quinn was appointed secretary A.
committee was appointed to ask Mayor
Harper to declare February II holt
day, which he has consented to do.
Committees were appointed on Sc
curing a speaker hiring a hall and pro-
curing music The patriotic instruc-
tors of the three posts We're consti-
tuted a committee TO arrange with the
school authorities for the proper OBJ
servance of the day in the schools of
the city.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-31
SUSPECT PROPOSED ROhD
OF BEING CITY PROPERTY
Engineer VIII Make Special Surveys
to Determine Title to Real Es-
tate Lying Contiguous to
Eysian Park

In order to determine whether pri-
vate property owners are trying to
deed to the city land for street pur-
poses that it already owns, Councilmen
Clampitt and Dromgold and City En-
gineer Hamlin made an automobile
trip to the property in question yester-
day morning. They were unable to
reach conclusion in the matter, and
the city engineer must make surveys.
Dick Hunter, owner of the Hunter
ranch, and others interested with him
wish to improve the old Los Feliz road
that runs along the eastern side of
Elysan park. They want the city to
accept the road as a public street as
far as it extends into the city, which is
about mile. But the council has q
suspicion that a portion of this road
runs on city property.
The city formerly owned about ten
acres on either side of this road, but
portion of it was fenced off by private
property owners without protest from
the city, and these owners have ac-
quired title to it by squatter rights
The city still owns a portion of this
land, and it is believed the proposed
improvement is thereon. BY accepting
the street the council fears to leopard
ize what interests the city may have
left.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-31
LOS ANGELES MUST
BUILD OWN HARBOR
SAYS THE ADMINISTRATION IS
AGAINST FREE PORTS
city's Representative to Rivers Con-
gress Reports official Sentiment
Opposed to Opening Free
Water Terminals

That a public harbor and docks never
will be granted for San Pedro by the
national government and if Los An
geles expects such a harbor 1t must get
it through its own exertions is the sub
stance Of the formal report submitted
by Joseph H. Call TO Niles Pease, presi-
dent of the city council.
Mr. Can is the official representative
sent by the city to the national rivers
and harbors congress held recently at
Washington d. c. He was a member
at large of the committee on resolutions
and platform, the special courtesy be-
ing extended to him for suggesting the
position.
In his report Mr.. Call says he found
such an unanimous sentiment among
congressman and government officials
against opening free national harbors
that he is convinced Los Angeles never
can look to that source for a free ma
tional harbor at San Pedro.
His conclusion is as follows: "In con-
clusion, | venture to add that / have
formed the opinion that the opposition
to the opening of harbors and improve
ment of waterways is so potent
throughout the United States and in
the senate and house of representatives
that we need not hope for a public
harbor and public docks at San Pedro
or elsewhere upon this coast in the
vicinity of this city unless they are
constructed and owned by the city of
Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-31
HOPE STREET LIKELY
TO OBTAIN ITS WALL
PLANS ADOPTED BY BOARD OF
PUBLIC WORKS
Vrooman Assessment District May Be
Formed and Cost Above $4,000
Assessed to Property Own
ers Interested

After three years of what has looked
like lingering death the Hope street
retaining wall seems in a fair way TO
be built. New plans for the wall We're
adopted by the board of public works
yesterday and the city engineer was
instructed to draw up specifications.
Changes have been made in the plans
The long wall is to be ornamented
with pilasters and a broad stairway
will be placed about the center
Engineer Homer Hamlin has esti-
mated that the actual cost of the work,
minus profit and percentage, will be a
little more than $4,000. The council
has appropriated $4,000 as fund for
building the wall, but the board of pub
lie works has induced several council
men to agree to cut this down to $1S,-
600 and compel the property owners to
pay all in excess of that amount.
The plan is to adopt the specifica-
tions, advertise for bids and then, be-
fore the contract is awarded, make a
Vroonan assessment district and APP
portion the cost above $4,000 to the in
terested property owners.
The wall will be constructed in the
center of Hope street. from Third TO
Second, and the street will be made a
double grade. The western half of the
block will make a gradual uphill slope
and the eastern portion will run down
to the Third street tunnel.