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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

Gates Young, OF Greensboro. was her
several days recently the guest OF
DIR. Watson. He was here a couple OF
years ago and made many friends.
Mr. Young was for one session u
rage in the Kentucky Senate and
last winter was Assistant Sergeant
alarms. He is now on the staff Of
the greensboro Inquirer, an evening
daily, as sporting and society editor,
Mr.. Young is a young man Of much
promise and will some day be promi-
nent in the politics of Kentucky.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

The great Cook & Robenson shows
will give two performances at Fort
Gay OH Tuesday, June 80 and no
one should fail to see these big
shows. They have large menagerie
and come very highly recommended
by the Eastern press Don, forget
the date-Tuesday, June 3 lat Fl
GAY.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

Thursday and Friday June 25th and
26th, there will quarterly meeting
at Borders Chapel. A large attend
ance Is desired as Rev. J. NJ. Ackman.
District Superintendent, will be with
us. All are invited to come and en-
JOY the feast. Z. +. Mieras, paslo
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

The Big Sandy river has been up CO
stderably this week 4 part OF the
coffed dam put in by contractor Thorn
as at this plae washed out Wednes-
day. ..-
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

hlilt Adkins has returned from Ash
land and will farm with Eliza Ball.
Jesse Miles of Prosperity was here
last week.
John Alley was at Alvin Moore's
last Friday.
Mnsa Rack
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

anne OF base ball will be pit
Iuntaln Park Friday afterIl y
Ia week between the bust
hd the professional men
i Game called at 2 o'clod !,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

bes From The Convention
Interesting paper presented
leetlng held in the NJ
! south on Sunday even
was read by its author
Nash. The NEWS las, y
to give the proper srodi'I
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

Born. to Mr., and Mrs. w. d. Bird,
at Holden, W. va.,a daughter.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

will be a meeting q
lodge No, 1876 at the Hal
evening, June 2s, at 7
|to arrange for the enter1
" visiting Masons on
Ia other Matters. A full
Z is urged, 9. E, Hill
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

|eg stand has been erected
llbllc square by the county
OF speakers, bands, etc. !
D Court appropriated $50
urpose at the April term.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

he will be a festival at Fallsl
L X. G. +. Hall on satu9
June q. Proceeds for
h Of the church. Eyeryh
daily invited.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26
Glass cans at sulliyan's,

caliCos Sets yard at Pisrce's.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

Millinery for half-prIce at Plerce's.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

Special price on sugar this week
at Sullivans.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

See the west,coolest summer dress
fabrics at Pierces'.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

d storage beef at sullivans
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26
Big Sandy Men,
FRIDAY. June 20. 1908.

sure with Wallace. Life, |
Bent, etc. Office near depot
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

lal Pickles at sullIvans
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

y GetSu seen that novel q ~
pc at C. b. BromIey's ST b.
Nh pay you to investigate
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

Ina eose free with shoes boz H.
|esSs. T
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26

TtEawrence Fiscal Court
HoNecial term here on
July "A
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1908-06-26
childrsn's Wash Suits.

All our chlldren's WAT SHIFTS m in
Tits Big Sale.
1850 Grade, sale price sl2O
l25 Grade, sale price. ..-..,,..l.o 90
100 Grade, sale price 50
10 Grade, sale price, ..... 60
10 Grade sale price "A
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Moss Back.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
RELIGION AND POLITICS.

One of the deplorable and most
despicable methods of campaigning is
to attack a candidate on the score of
religion. 1t is SO utterly at variance
with the real spirit of Americanism
that 1t is only resorted to in the des-
peration of a losing case. Very sell
dom have the people of this country
ever been confronted by a candidate
whose morality and integrity was not
such as would bear the closest Of scru-
tiny, and for this reason no religious
issue is ever honestly raised.
The constitution of the United States
says: mo religious test shall ever be
required as a qualification to any Office
or public trust under the United
States"
The constitution Of the state of Ne
braska says: "All persons have natu-
raj and indefeasible right to worship
Almighty God according to the dictates
of their own consciences. No person
shall ever be compelled to attend,
erect or support any place of worship
against his consent, and no preference
shall be given by law to any religious
society; nor shall any interference
with the rights of conscience be per-
mitted. No religious test shall be re-
quired as a qualification for office, nor
a witness on account of his belief, but
nothing herein shall be construed to
dispense with oaths or afirmations.
Religious morality and knowledge,
however, being essential to good gov
eminent, it shall be a duty of the leg
islature to pass suitable laws to pro-
tect every religious denomination in
the peaceable enjoyment of it's own
mode of public worship and to encour-
age schools and the means of instruc-
ton"
Nebraska not so many years ago was
very widely stirred by the activities of
a political clique who undertook to
prescribe the members of a religious
denomination and o~stracise them in
every way. The strife e~ngendered at
that time was bitter and the lessons
of that experience were costly in many
ways. The people of Nebraska have
no desire to enter into the %rancorous
folly of another religious campaign
and the purblind partisans who are
undertaking by innuendo and covert
allusion to inject a religious issue into
the present campaign are making a
most lamcntable mistake.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
THE eERMAN- AMERiolN ToTF.

L. AHA ~ hANAN VI -
Mr.. Bryan's press agent az Lincoln
! clearly is OVERRIDING Il in the matter of
making claims. Mr.. Herman Ridder,
the editor Of the biggest paper in
America that is printed in the German
language, spent some time with Mr..
BRYAN the other day and the next
morning this dispatch, under a Lincoln
date line, appeared in most Of the
eastern papers:
Mr.. Bryan secured much qualification
over the bour's consultation he had at
Fairview today with Herman Ridder Of
New York, and head Of the democratic
German-American bureau. Mr.. Ridder told
Bryan that the German-American vote,
which has never been for Bryan. is being
swung to him as a unit this year on the
tariff issue.
1t is safe to assert that Mr.. Ridder
never made such prediction or asser-
ton. He is a shrewd observer Of men,
has had exceptional facilities for be-
coming familiar with the character n
wishes of the Americans of German
descent and doubtless knows better
than most men that the German-Amer-
leans are thinking men who invariably
show the courage of their thoughts on
election day. Their votes are neither
| p~urchasable nor swingable and the
time has passed when political leaders
pay much attention to men who pre-
tend to carry the German-American
vote in their pockets, ready to be de-
livered on order.
Mr.. Ridder possibly may have told
Mr.. Bryan hat the German-Americans
were pleased with the democratic po-
sition on the tariff question, but it is
difficult to understand why such should
be the case, If it is true. The German
| Americans are protectionists and not
free traders. They have always
thrown their strength in favor of pro-
lection, when tariff was IN issue in
national campaigns and there is no
reason to believe that they have ex-
perienced any change of heart or
opinion on that subject. They were
opposed to Mr.. Bryan before on both
the free silver and tariff issues and
there is no reason or cause for any
change on their part in the present
campaign.
Granting that the German-American
voters favor tariff revision, they must
know that their only hope of securing
that lies in the election of the repub-
lican president and congress, The
election of Mr.. Bryan, with the senate
certainly republican for at least six
years to come, would serve to COM
pletely end n hope of tariff revision
during his term of office. Whether
the statement sent out from Lincoln
came from Mr.. Ridder, Mr.. Bryan or
Mr.. Bryan's press agent, 1t is an insult
to the intelligence of every American
of German birth or descent.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
LABOR In THE CAMPAIGN.
Can GOmpers Deliver Free Americans
to Bryant
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago Tribune.
The following remarks OF Mr., Gompers
on Sunday are significant and important
II true. Said Mr.. Gompers:
l want to repeat that the men of labor
are not partIsans. They are neither re-
publicans, democrats, socialists nor indie
pendence party men. We are working men
who propose TO exercise our political pow
ers Tor the preservation of oar rights and
liberties. We are going 10 make the fight
now, not ten years or nifty years from now,
but in this campaign. It will not Dc an
opera bCuIfe Iignt for a phantom and a
but a fight for a principle and Tor a party
that viii win.
We approach this contest purely as work.
ing men and We, Will be as free from par
tisanship after the election as we were be-
tore the campaign began.
We believe a little consideration of what
this assertion involves will separate intel
ligent working men from Mr.. Gompers' i'm
p~erative I'VE decisively and finally. We
believe the American working man will re-
sent being put in a class by himself with
Mr., Gompers as self-selected dictator. We
believe the American working man con-
siders himself a citizen in the same sense
and degree as the farmer, the doctor, the
lawyer, the merchant, and realizes that
this full cltizenFhip involves a full consid-
Grafton of all the problems which confront
the nation, to the wise and patriotic solu-
ton of which il is his duty, like any other
citizen, to address his intelligence.
Mr.. Gompers, assuming to represent this
free citizen, says I'm effect: IL have decided
that one of the planks In the platform of
one Of The parties is more advantageous
or more conciliatory to you than the plank
inserted upon the same subject in the other
party platforms. Therefore 1 invite you
to swallow this party's candidate and this
party's whole platform. hide, hoof and
hair"
We do not believe the American working
men are so abject or SO narrow-minded or
so unpatriotic as TO do this. IL any of
them vote for Mr.. Bryan 1t will not be
at Mr.. Gompers' preposterous invitation,
but because as citizens in the full posses
sion of their political rights and In the
full realization of their responsibilities they
have considered all that his election means,
all that he is pledged TO do OF not do, all
that he is likely to do or not do, all that
his party promises and is likely 10 per-
form.
The American working man is a good
citizen who will act like any other good
citizen. His welfare is inextricably bound
up with the welfare of his fellow citizens
and of the whole nation. And II he is as
wise as we believe him to be he will not
nut much reliance In the democratic In
junction plank TO bring him safely through
the sea of troubles into which MI. Bryan's
election would precipitate u.s.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
HOT FINISH IN THE LEAGUES.

Back in 1897 Baltimore won the
championship in the National league
by 10 percentage points, representing
a difference of three games won and
one game lost, and never since that
time until now has there been a prom
Use of such a heart-breaking finish in
the race for the pennant in the differ
ent base ball leagues. Base ball fans,
who represent a healthy majority of
the population, have a wealth of ma
ton, figuring and speculation. In all
of the leagues the teams are now in
the homestretch, nearing the last lap,
and the outcome is full of uncertain
the leaders and so uncertain the work
of the t~ailenders.
In the National league New York
and Pittsburg are separated by less
than 10 percentage points, while Chi
cago is only IS points behind Pitts
burg and within easy striking distance
of the championship. if odds break az
all in favor of the Cubs. In 1906 and
again last year Chicago had a walk
over in the National league. New
York had the honors in 1904 and 1905
without much effort, and Pittsburg
won the championship in 1901, 1902
and 1908. In each of those contests,
however, the p%ennant winner had a
good lead established long before the
close of the season, thu robbing the
contest of much of the vital interest
that marks this years struggle in the
stretch.
In he American league the finish
has usually been close. Detroit cap
tured the flag last year, beating Phila-
delphia by but 6 points, while the 1906
championship went to Chicago by 10
points over New York and 26 points
above Cleveland. The Philadelphia
Athletics had the pennant in 1906 by
16 points over the White Sox. Boston
ran away with the flag in 1903, cap
tured it from New York by a close
margin in 1904 and has since beer a
tailender.
In the Western league the fight is
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
Personal NOTES.

Nine. Melba's music teacher in Mel
bourne, Australia, was Nine. Kellermann.
the mother Of the famous Annette, the
great swimmer.
After having consumed twenty-five chops
on a wager, the champion local glutton was
stopped by choking on a bone. For some
reason people took the trouble to remove
the bone.
New York and Boston brokers invading
Canada by special train were held up By
customs officials, who considered that the
tourists had too much liquor abroad.
Across the line they seem to know nothing
of the capacity of a broker.
DIR. Edward F. Gleason, champion trap
shooter Of America and a former gold mine
president, has filed in the United States
district court in New York an application
in bankruptcy, giving his liabilities as ST.
7s9 and his assets as g, 4S5.
A practicing lawyer. who is also a prac-
ticing author, has some curious experiences.
Arthur Train, who wrote THE Stories of
Crime and a number Of other books. de.
scribed in one of his stories a certain Col
onel Bunkum. who carried through a con.
fidence game and escaped. The original
of the character was captured the next
year and Mr.. Train, as an assistant district
attorney, had the pleasure of trying him
for the very crime he had described and
of convlctlng him..
Dorando, who stormed the British with
his supposed moral" victory in the Olym-
pic Marathon race, was dismissed from
England with a degree of emotionalism that
made him feel at home. All sorts of peo-
pie saw him off at the railroad station.
He was kissed on the cheeks by men.
They took his picture. They obtained his
autograph. They threw him roses. They
sang the Italian national anthem. And all
the way home his was a %triumphal progress.
Five bands met him at Turin and the vivas
brought tears to his eyes.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
THE AVIATOR CRAZE.

Remarkable progress unquestionably
has been made in the science of avia-
ton, but we are some years-likewise
a few months and several days-from
the era when mere man may claim to
have accomplished the conquest of the
air and made the elements his play
things. The achievements of Santos
Dumont, the Wright Brothers, Henri
Farman and other airship experts,
have, in the humble opinion of earth
huggers, been given undue significance.
For illustration, the record of Orville
Wright, in a series of tests for the
benefit of the army officials at Fort
Meyer, Just across the Potomac from
Washington, has so aroused the en-
thusiasm of the usually conservative
Associated Press that its report de-
clares that war on land and sea will
find in the %aeroplane, it is now o n
coded by military men, a valuable
means of reconnaissance and possibly
carnage"
Mr.. Wright, 1t appears, with a heavier
than-air machine, made two flights
OF one hour each and another lasting
for six minutes, and the military ex-
perts at once declared that the prob
lem Of the air had been solved and
that all that remained was to work
out the utility of the machine. Ac-
cepting the premise that the conquest
Of the air has been accomplished,
Washington authorities are already
specializing on the effect the
triumph will have in war,
on land and sea, and in all of the
activities of the government, An au-
thority in the Treasury department
hints at i possibility that contains the
elements of real alarm and concern
He suggests hat just as soon as the
airships get into real working order
smuggling will be reduced to an exact
science and the revenues of the gov
eminent from tina source depleted OF
eliminated. All the Smugglers' union
would have to do would be to have
their airships meet the incoming
steamers, drop on deck for a sociaI
call, collect the diamonds, jewels
works of art and other dutiable goods
and hike off to Omaha, Butte or some
other inland city and plan for the dis.
tribution of their loot. OF course, II
would be the duty of the government
TO go into The airship business anC
keep a force of inspectors up in flee
flyers watching for smugglers, but the
opportunity for evading such inspect
ton are too great, and heavy loss IL
certain to follow the adoption of air
ships by smugglers.
This is only one of the many posi-
bilities opened by the perfection of thu
science of aviation. In that fielC
Imagination and speculation may rul
wild, but, when all is said and done
the stubborn fact remains that tn,
utility OF the machine is to be worke,
out" The theory has been prove,
correct. II is also true that the theor,
that there are countless billions o
gold in the waters of the ocean ha
also been proved beyond question. bu
the utility of the proposition is Z
be worked out" In the light OF prog
2 ress made in the science of n~avigatin.
: the air, greater developments may b
expected, but 1t is much too early ye
Ito be planning excursions or inquiT
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
ing about tourist rates on the Upper
Air Limited.
WANTED. PROOF OF ENTHUSIASM.

At the risk Of calling down upon our
selves further excavations from a few OF
the faithful and fanatical, we make bold
to remark that the Indifference Of the
South Carolina democrats to the cause Of
Mr.. Bryan seems to justify our prediction
some months ago that the campaign would
end with the Denver convention. We wish
that we could be disillusioned; we wish that
the democrats OF South Carolina and Of the
country would sharply rebuke us for saying
that there was an absence Of enthusiasm
for Mr.. Bryan.-Charleston News and
Courier.
The Charleston News and Courier is
not a republican newspaper, nor a
mugwump. 1t is democratic to the
core, of the old Bourbon type, its edi-
tor being a recognized political leader
In the south and a prospective United
States senator from South Carolina.
1t is true Editor Hemphill showed a
little enthusiasm some weeks ago by
starting a contribution for the benefit
of the Nebraska candidate and sue
ceeded in collecting a fat hen and a
pedigreed Hongkong gander. The
Hemphill family had a potpie, southern
style, of the hen and the gander was
ratified off for the benefit of the Bryan
campaign fund, netting $25.65, which
apparently represents the sum total of
South Carolina enthusiasm for Mr..
Bryan, and the condition in South Car
DINA on that proposition obtains gen
orally throughout the south.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
THE IDLE {
e. KIser in the Reeord.HeraId

s. Z. Kiser in the Record-Herald.
Sile Hopkins. at the grocery store, al
lowed that life was sad;
He said he paid twice over Tor each bless
For everything that gives us joy he
grumbled, I'VE must bear
A dozen Kinds OF troubles, and 1t don't
seem hardly fair;
A few git all the pleasures that the many
ought to claim;
We hate to die, but dead men are burned
lucky, just the same"
Old Uncle Jonas Prjtchard set in and
calmly chawed away;
things sile had to say;
Every little while he'd kind of twist his
fingers so they'd crack.
Or else mebby stroke his whiskers and
then yawn and settle back.
'"rhe Rockefelers loaf around 10 suit
themselves" said Sile;
And when they travel through the land
you bet they go in style;
They needn't worry when IT'S wet nor
The carr t!iing noT they r9is want hey git because
they've got the price to buy;
We have to toll the year out and never
And ali the world forsits us just as sooa
as we are dead
Old Uncle Jonas Prttchsrd sort Of hitched
round In his chair.
And calmly chewed away and run his FIN
gers through his hair;
He whitfield at a cheese box on lu,
counter by hts side,
And a smile lurked round his Visage that
lie didn't try 10 hide,
The rich are gittin' more and more, the
poor are maxim less"
Said SIle, still gittin' madden, and the. %
keep 1t up, | guess,
Till the people rise, at last. and chase lic
~loafers from the land;
It's comm just as sure as fate-the l'm'
Is near at hand:
They take II easy all their lives lodl
round day after DAY,
While we are crushed by troubles and
work hard for little pay
Old Uncle Jonas Pritchard closed his
knife up with a snap,
And we seen that Stiss Hopkins was about
to git a rap:
SAY, Sile," said Uncle Jonas III pam
loafin's sech a crime,
Why the deuce do you keep KIND OF hanS-
IN round here all the timer
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
railroad Expansion,
Wall Street Journal,

When It is said that the gross earnings
OF the railroads OF the United States in
creased from N,122.O9,773 in 1897 to $685.
sl3, OO2 in 1907, one obtains some idea of the
enormous expansion Of the railroad bust
ness in ten years, That expansion is one
of the marvels Of American business. The
Increase in gross earnings measuring the
expansion of the trade Of the United
States, amounted to. about 100 per cent In
ten years. In the same time the popula-
tion Of the United States Increased only
20 per cent and the money in circulation
less than 20 per cent. Is it any wonder
that the railroad problem has assumed
dimensions so colossal as to make the
heaviest demand upon the technical skill
and the financial ability Of the world?
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11
military BamooninE.
Baltimore American,


General Allen. chief Of the United
States army signal corps, is very hopeful
Of this country becoming a leader in mill
tary aeronautics, and he says he has
reasons to support this hope. At present
European nations are ahead of us in this
respect, but according to General Allen s
plans. congress will be asked for ar ap-
preparation to procure at least two dirig-
bles. and with the foundation the army
signal corps has at present experiments
will be made and Investigations go on
until the aerial service is made prac-
ticabIe. Since other countries are going
ahead with this as part of their military
service It will not do for this coun-
try to lag behind. It should be, as
General Allen hopes, a leader in a serv-
ice which is engaging the serious thought
OF the world as an important adjunct
20 army equipment.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-11

A good many lessons have been
pointed from the various returns made
from the late primary, and none i'm
pressed with greater s%olemnity than
that the discriminating voter will go
down the list far enough to find the
name of the man he seeks. Just what
consolation these moralists can derive
in the contest between the AS and the
BIS, as exemplihed by Alden and Bar
ton, does lot ppear on the surface.