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Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-02

Carmack may be defeated, but the
temperance question is not A greater
war than ever will be waged against
the forces of the whiskey devil by all
thinking and reasoning people.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-02

An article from Representative"
regarding the religious controversy, is
held over till next week for considera-
tion as we have rather lengthy arti-
Gle from "Watchman" in the paper
this week. One article of this nature
a week is probably all our readers can
stand this hot weather.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-02
Best IN World Affords.

1T gives me unbounded pleasure TO
recommend Bucklen's Arnica Salve. -
says ]. W. Jenkins, Of Chapel Hill, n.
@. II am convinced it's the best salve
the world affords It cured felon on
my thumb, and il never fails TO heal
every sore, burn or wound 10 which it
is applied. 25c at Whitwell Drug Co.'S.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-02

SO far no democrat has offered to
run for Sheriff or Trustee of Marion
County. The truth is, the present in
cumbents are so well liked by both
democrats and republicans that it
would be cyclopean task to defeat
either, and hence, no move is made.
Both Westmoreland and Kelly have
made No. officials, and the people
appreciate the fact
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1908-07-02

Read the News-SOc per year.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

two or three in his kit. aud they are
used TO form that artistic bowknot
around the collar OF the blouse which
gives the sailor a jaunty. natty. Dew
il-maN care air as he rolls down the
street or lines up on deck when the
bugle blows assembly"
They are thlrty-slx inches square
and made of the finest black silk oh
.tainable They are worn with both
the white and the blue sailor uni
forms. and number OF them are
needed every year. They cost whole.
sale. In lots of 90 900 or thereabsa;9.
So or 80 cents each, and Jack f. per-
mitted to buy from TO I per cent.
above cost. so that there Is no profit
In them for the Government.
Some time ago bids for the neck
pieces we're asked for, but all were
rejected and second batch Of bids
Was opened few days ago. While
the contract hasn't been awarded. II
Is said at the department that they
viii probably be manufactured in Pat
erson. n. J. This large order Is
not intended to supply the needs OF
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01
Ties for sailor Boys.

Uncle Sam, who never does things
by halves, is about to place a pretty
stable order for neckerchiefs. In a
short time he will give a contract for
60 900 handsome silk creations for
the jackies OF the American navy,
These neckerchiefs will cost, approx
imately s54 900. and some of them,
If the contract Is awarded soon
enough, may circumnavigate the
globe around the necks OF the boys
OF the Pacific fleet.
The "handkerchiefs," as they are
sometimes called, are not used by
Jack for his nose-unless emergency
compels. Far from II. They are
more properly referred to as articles
|of neckwear. Every sailor boy has
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01
WHO ARE THEW

We do not understand the anmosity
of certain Republican newspapers.
They do not seem TO care whether tn,
Party wins this year or not, so they
can injure Secretary Taft. They know
in all probability he will be nomin-
ated. The whole country knows he Is
fearless and honest. Yet we see the
st. Louis Globe-Demoorat playing M
Ia conspicuous place on the from;
page an article, purporting to be de-
NAL by Secretary Taft of an alleged
story, heretofore unpublished, that he
bribed w. j. Oliver. of Tennessee
with a contract in Cuba. The main
part of the Globe-Democrat's article
does not deal with the denial, but
with the colorado facts, which might
indicate some reason why Mr.. Taft
should need TO bribe Mr.. oliver. The
alleged facts given by the Globe-D DEM
ocrat rs a basis for the story ar,
false. and must be known to be false
by the paper.
II SAYS that after oliver was turned
down on the Panama contract he got
busy in Tennessee and secured a state
delegation instructed against Secre-
tary Taft. Now, Mr.. oliver did not dc
any such thing, but If he had, II
would avail Mr.. Taft nothing to bride
Oliver after It was done.
Anyone. who remembers the dis.
graceful proceedings of the trump
controlled by Mr.. oliver. which as,
saulted and beat the state chairman
and drove him from the hall, prevent
ing him from calling the convention
to order, and then proceeded drregu
larly to hold a convention, knows how
much standing the East Tennessee
DULLES. Oliver took to Nashville on q
special train, will have before the ma
tional convention.
II Secretary OF War Taft denounced
Boss Cox in his own state and defiec
Foraker. he can hardly be suspected
of bribing a man With half million
dollar contract for the state of Ten
nessee, while the whole north and
west, excepting the "Favorite Son
states are for him.
On the front page of the same is
sue the Globe Democrat gives Missis
sippi's delegation to Foraker, and OF
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01
HOTEL ARRIVALS

81. Nicholas john Mclntire. Ey-
ansyille; Theo. Burton and wife. Los
Angeles; j. e. Barker and wife.
Birmingham. Tom Winborn. Savan-
nah; X. +. Babb and wife. Corsicana.
Nj. and Mrs Parker. St John; o.
K!ebler. Golconda; II. NJ. Peeler, Chi
cago; c. ID. Davis and wife. Cars
Vile; o. vanWinkle, Anderson.
Palmer-Wm. NJ. Naylor. Spring
field; J. B. Rogers. St Louis; Charles
Read, Mound City; A. Winter. Chi
cage; L. w. Benson. Bardwell; r. p.
Butler. Lexington Carl Henderson
Marion: w. l.. Krone. Kuttawa: +.
H. Kluga, Mt Vernon; John +. Pot
| ter. Chattanooga; j. n. Leslie, Gin
lcinnati; b. II. Patterson, st. Louis.
Belvedere-J. b. Honningford. Gin
cinnati; W II. Houston, city; Roy
Edwards, Murray; II. Snyder. Mem
phis; j. II. Haynes, Nashville: Chas.
Weber, Cairo; /. c. Barton, Brook
Ign: Bob Johnson, Memphis Guy
Hollingsworth. st. Louis; w. s.
Hagerman, Louisville; c. NJ. Eide.
field, Louisville.
New Richmond j. f. Myers,
Brookport; j. S. Bambey, Newark; j.
S. Peal. Bandana; c. A. Dunnagon,
Golden Pond; Gentry Gray, Star Lime
Works: c. ID. Davis, Carrsville; l.. q.
Whitnel, j. w. Whitnel c. l.. Pool,
J. NJ. Hurt, Murray; W. II. Lay.
Birdsville; L. Parker, Louisville; s.
ID. Hall, Clarksville.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01
THE DECISION AGAINST DEBOE


By the decisive vote of eight to
one, the Republican state central COM
mittee declared J. c. Speight, of May
field, the associate of F. NJ. Fisher
First district chairman, and Jerry NJ
Porter, Of Clinton, candidate for con.
gress, thereby expressing its disap-
proval OF w. j. Deboe's conduct at
the district convention, and indorsing
the action of the Taft men in revolt
ing from his ruling. Deboe himself,
in an impassioned speech. in which
he called everybody bad names, who
didn't agree with him, said his honor
was at stake, and we believe it was.
There are men in Kentucky, who
honestly supported Fairbanks for the
presidential nomination. We believe
they are of the same mind as The
Sun, which ardently supported Will
liam II. Taft, but desired only a fair
test of public sentiment in Kentucky.
But these men are not those who
led the Fairbanks fight. The lead
ers of that side early manifested a
desire to gain control of the district,
state and national delegations, not in
the interest of Charles w. Fairbanks.
but of themselves. Note the plea they
put up for uninstructed delegations
in this district, and their organiza-
ton of the abortive Foraker club.
Their mischievous Interference with
fair expression of the will of the
Republicans of Kentucky may result
in the state going Democratic next
fall; for they have not hesitated TO
attack the national administration
and the name of the leading candi
date for the presidential nomination.
They do not care whether the state
remains Republican or whether the
next president is Republican, If they
may control the organization in Ken
lucky.
The conduct OF the district chair
man at the convention in this city,
of which he had boosted before hand
was only part of the whole perfidous
scheme TO steal the state and exploit
IL for the political ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
few. Deboe's conduct was just a
trifie too raw for the state commit
tee. and it did an unusual thing in
absolutely reversing the ruling of tbs
district chairman and declaring the
convention over which he presided a
rump, and the one which revolted and
organized without him, regular Be
fore Deboe had organized his conven
tion in Paducah Taft men by acclama
tion elected a chairman in his place
and proceeded with the order of bust
ness right in his presence, while he
and 521z OF the lao delegates tried
to do the same thing, but failed.
The rules OF the state COMMITTEES
prescribed that in a contest the chair
man should recognize the right of the
delegation. bearing credentials signed
by the county chairman. to vote on
temporary, organization. Eight of the
thirteen counties were for Taft, and
had credentials properly signed. This
gave the Taft men SIN on temporary
BY clever mathemati-
,al calculation Deboe's folIQxsrs had
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

the inside page II describes the Mis-
sissippi convention in these words:
Half the delegates had their heads
out of the window looking at fight
between the police and the Foraker
element" Note the consistency and
impartiaiity of a paper publishing two
such statements in the same issue.
Hired rowdies and DULLES to intim-
idate the people, If possible, to break
|up the conventions otherwise, is the
policy of the opposition to Taft. We
do not know, who is financing the
|scheme. II requires a lot of money
An effort was made to drag the chair
man into the hands of the DULLES at
the McCracken county convention and
police interference was necessary
The similarity of tactics adopted ev-
discloses one general
scheme. We believe the interests
that have felt the moral sting of the
presidents big stick and they are
neither Democratic nor Republican.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01


lascertained just where they would
have to contest in order TO make out
prima facie right to consideration.
One of those places was Graves coun-
tty, but before they came to Graves
county Dehoe permitted the contest
ing Fairbanks Galloway delegation,
with credentials signed by the county
chairman, to vote, and he gave as his
reason that the credentials were so
lsigned.. When he came to Graves
county he seated the Fairbanks dele
cation, in spite OF the fact that the
Taft delegation had credentials
signed by the chairman. That is
where the split came.
1t was so palpable fraud that It is
strange he had the audacity to con-
test before the state committee. But
it was part OF bold scheme that was
state wide and financed from some
outside source. That faction spent
thousands of dollars in this district In
the name of Fairbanks.
The First district convention was
called March IL, six weeks before any
other district convention in the, state.
The reason for the early call Is APP
parent in the conduct of w. ]. Deboe.
His co-conspirators expected him to
carry this district by his arbitrary
methods. thus showing to the whole
country early in the contest for dele
gates. that there was a strong Fair
banks sentiment in Kentucky and
that the solid south was not for the
national administration. II might
have worked. had there been any sort
lof Fairbanks sentiment in western
Kentucky, but his real followers are
so few and the Taft sentiment is so
strong, that nothing short Of the des
perate tactics resorted 10 would avail.
and now the state committee has re-
buked Deboe.
Whether that slap will serve to
warn the other conspirators It is i'm
possible to say. At the county con-
ventions the Taft wave swept the
state, but the Deboe bunch has
shouted fraud from the housetops
and contested everything that went
against them. How much truth there
is in their insistence that the people
of Kentucky are for Fairbanks is re-
vealed to us in the necessity that i'm
PEELED Deboe to ruthless methods at
the district convention. and in the
Cracker county convention. The a.
legged Fairbanks leaders declare they
will bolt the state convention, If they
are not given what they demand
They bolted everywhere in the south.
We presume they are paid the same
amount for boiling in Kentucky, that
the colored voters of Florida were
paid.
But they will get what they de-
serve. Ignominy will be melted out
to them at the state convention. The
honors will go to the winners. There
will he some political black eyes ad-
ministered when the delegates meet
in Louisville next Wednesday, and no
politician would wish TO appear in a
national convention with a black eye.
would he?
But the struggle has been worth
the while. For twenty-five years De-
Doe has stood in the ring taking
sound pommeling every year for the
last several. The decision went against
him for a foul; but it was because he
couldn't raise his hand above the belt
this time. His limp form is hanging
over the ropes never to rise again.
He has been doughty warrior, If he
is a trifie awkward in handling the
parts of speech.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01
Daily Thought.

Each mans life
The outcome of his own living is:
The bygqne wrongs bring forth sor'
row and woes,
The bygone right breeds bliss.
Edwin Arnold.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

After a self-made man finishes the
job he closes the factory.
After a girl baby gets too big to
play with her toes she begins TO flirt
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

Why don't they correct that ridicu-
lous charge: Men are not arrested for
carrying concealed deadly weapons;
but for failing to conceal them.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

Small Eleanor" Papa have YOU
paid the doctor for the new baby
YETI"
Papa NO, dear Why DO yol
ask %
Small Eleanor Cause. Il he
charges ! wouldn't pay a. 1t amt
near az big as the one he left next
door. Chicago Nows.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

Evans fleet. although some Of them
may go there. They will. when pun
chased, be sent to the storchouse az
the New York Navy Yard. where they
will be kept until needed
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

That orator says ne feels that he
can never repay his constituents FOR
the honor they have conferred upon
him"
Yes answered the voter. that's
his polite way of telling Us We needn't
expect much from him in the way of
actual work Washington Star.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

Average for March, 1907. 49,. .3S44
increase ........ ........ ~
Personally appeared before me, this
April 1, 1908, r. d. McMillen, BUSH
ness manager of The Sun, who affirms
that the above statement of the cir
culation of The Sun for the month Of
March, 1908, is true to the best Of his
knowledge and belief.
My commission expires January
10, 1912.
PTTER PURYEAR,
Notary Public.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT

Every dose makes you feelbetter Lsx-Po
keeps your whole 'nsides right Sold on the
money back plan everywhere. Price b cents.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

To hope and not be impatient Is
really to believe.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01

May can thank April for that rain
that saved the fruit.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-05-01
Continued from last Issue.)
CHAPTER XXvII

EELING the way forward. the
cruiser was soon caught In a
maze of cross currents. Hiti.r
and thlther she was bornc.s a
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
THE OCTOPUS.
It's Terrible Army of Suckers and It's
Powerful JRws.

Both the octopus and the cuttlefsh
have arms that are clothed with a
formidable array of suckers which are
the sucker comes into contact with an
object the central piston, rsving pre-
yiously been raised so as to complete
ty fill the cavity of the sucker is at
once withdrawn and a perfect vac
1um produced. explaining the great te-
nacity with which the suckers cling.
They number upward of 100 pairs to
each arm of the octopus. and once they
obtain grip on the victim, unless the
arm is actually torn away from the
body of the octopus, it is practically
impossible for its prey to disentangle
itself.
In addition to these suckers the octo-
pus has a powerful pair of jaws, shap-
ed like the beak of a parrot, behind
which is a formidable armor plated
tongue used as a rasping organ. The
octopus will attack and kill crabs and
Holsters of considerable size, ripping
open the body by means Of its powerful
jaws and devouring the contents. In
SpIte Vi bclHS creature VI SUCH awe
inspiring looks the octopus has several
enemies in various species of whales,
sharks and conger cells. In fact, the
latter are particularly fond of devour
ing the smaller octopuses.
Conger GELS hunt for the octopus and.
when found, proceed to browse on its
limbs. The octopus tries to hug the
slippery, Shiny conger tight, but in
vain. and, finding its limbs growing
less, discharges its ink in the face of
the foe and under cover of the turbid
water beats a hasty retreat. 1t Is to
escape the too pressing attention Of
Its foes that the octopus possesses the
power of changing its color to CORE
spond with that of it's surroundings.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
MEXICAN POLITENESS.
In the State Of Miehoaoan chivaIry 10
Compulsory.

In the State Of Miehoacan Chivalry IL
Compulsory.
IF any man opines that the days of
chivalry and the true knight Grant
spirit have gone forever. let him start
forthwith on far southwark journey,
not halt his steps until he brings up
capital Of the Mexican state of
Michoacan." remarked a travelling
man.
Having arrived in Morelia, he will
at once see that the chivalrous spirit
still survives. l was down there not
long ago, and the gallantry of the men
and their extreme readiness to extend
courtesies to the fair sex pleased and
surprised me. When l noticed the
alacrity with which the native males
jumped up on the crowded street car
to offer their seats to the first senorita
that entered, l thought to myself how
much more gentlemanly are these
Mexicans than many of my own coun-
trymen. They do not wait to see il
some other man is going to get up. but
each tries to beat the other in cour-
teously proffering his seat to the lady.
II spoke about the matter to the pro-
prietor Of the hotel and Immediately
he began to laugh.
"'You must understand. senor.' said
the innkeeper. that the governor Of
our state issued decree that if any
man keep his seat in a street car.
thereby compelling a woman to stand.
he is liable to arrest and a fine. The
police have been instructed to execute
this order severely. and l think this
has much to do with the prompt polite
ness of which you speak, since none of
our population wishes to become in
volved with tie police and to be pub
licly branded as lacking In gentility.'"
Baltimore American.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
HAYsTAcK MONUMENT:
Marks birthplace of Foreign Mission
Work In This Country.

Many a visitor TO Williams college Is
taken to the birthplace OF American
foreign missions, marked by a unique
monument in little park near the col
lege grounds.
For once in the history of the world q
prayer meeting is commemorative by a
monument. In Mission park in VIII
Jamestown stands a shaft which was
dedicated on Sunday. July IS. 1867. TO
the memory OF Eve students OF Will
liams college who met at the close Of
one sultry summer day In the year
1So6 TO hold a prayer meeting. as was
their custom. They We're overtaken by
a sudden shower of rain and were COM
PEELED 10 seek the friendly shelter af-
forded them by a neigtboring hay
stack.
The group OF young evangelists who
were present al the prayer meeting on
that particular occasion consisted of
Samuel j. Mills, James Richards. Fran
els l.. Robbins, Harvey Loonis and
Byram Green.
sheltered from the rain by the hay
stack. they continued amid the conflict
of the elements their devotional exer-
cises and discussed religious topics OF
deep interest 10 themselves. While the
storm ragged Mills communicated to his
fellows the plan OF executing a great
life work. 1t was nothing less than q
mission 10 some heather land and the
ultimate evsngelization Of the world
They communicated their plan TO
such Of their fellow students AZ they
believed would sympathize with them
and organized the Society of Brethren.
a secret society, which had for ies OBJ
ject the establishment of foreign mis-
sions.
The result OF the prayer meeting was
the organization In Bradford. Mass, In
1910 of the American board OF COM
missioners for foreign missions. From
this start grew the great society Of the
American board. which has distributed
millions OF dollars. Since the FIRST
meeting OF ave persons its corporate
and honorary members have increased
to over 10000.
Years after the students had formNA
their great scheme of evangslisation
the spot where they held the prayer
meeting was marked by a cedar stnks.
This led to the purchase of Massion
park by the alumni OF Williams col
iege and in 1867 TO the erection and
dedication of what IL now known az
Haystack monument The cedar stake
| monument became marble through
Harvey Rice of Cleveland, who de-
| signed and at his own expense reared
the prayer meeting site marker.
The monument stands on the iden-
teal spot where the haystack stood. II
is a strictly Berkshire county produc-
ton, composed OF berkshire marble.
quarried at Afford and wrought In the
workshops of the Berkshire Marble
company. It's height In twelve feet. IN
shaft, cap and base square polished. its
color a silver blue-New York Tribune.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
n-anIfe WhiaLera

The name "whiskers" is applied 70
feathery crystals which gather upon
dynamite The "whiskers" are more
irritable" than dynamite itself. A
case is on record where sticks OF dyua-
mite had been thawed ont In hot wa
ter and the can Of hot water in which
it was done left in the blacksmith shop
without being efnptied Of the residual
scum Of grease and whiskers. The first
blow of the blacksmith's hammer on a
nearby anvil was sufficient 10 set of
the whIskers by conclusion. The can
was blown to pieces. but fortunately ro
one was hurt.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-13
British Contrasts.

Their wealth, their luxury, their cul
tivation of arts which we have not yet
had time to seriously contemplate. their
civilization, their strange class distinc-
tons, but above all the great wealth
and the great poverty Of their people.
stir our wondering faculties more than
any other things can ever do. When
we behold their wealth we are as poor
children brought suddenly into rich
child's nursery and lost in astonish-
ment at the number and profusion Of
toys strange to US. When we see their
poverty we are Pharisees who thank
God that we are not as these others.
But in either case are we beset with q
great amazement.-From AN Outland-
er In England