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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
Passenger Traffic slump.

Passenger traffic on the railroads
has taken a slump since Christmas,
but the last of this week II is expect
ed that the traffic will resume, as
after January 1 many of the Padu-
cahans will return from their Christ
mas visits. Low rate tickets on the
railroads are good until January C
and many will wait until the last day
of grace before returning home.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
Mine Explosion Fatalities

Maybury, W. Va, Dec. 80. (Bulle-
NIT is certain so miners are
buried in Lick Branch colliery fol-
owing the explosion last night
Twelve dead have been recovered.
oorty collins were ordered. Forty
wo miners were rescued.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
Governor Hnnl,,s Special.

The special train OF Governor
Hanley and his Official stan. OF In.
diana. will pass through Paducah to-
morrow morning about 7 O'Clock.
The party has been 90 Vicksburg
Miss. where a monument to the In
diana soldiers was dedicated The
train will stop in Paducah for only a
few minutes.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
Anna Gets Children

Paris. Dec. 3d. The court ruled
against Boni and gives the Princess
de Sagan custody OF the three cht-
dreD It reserves the right to with
draw the custody IL she proves un-
worthy of the responsibility. 1t de-
crees the children be sent to board
ing school
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
Transferring Gold

San Francisco, Dec. 30.-The gov
eminent is transferring s225. 900. 900
in gold from the mint to Denver. 1t
has been secretly removed for weeks.
officials won't talk. but il is known
this is a precaution against possible
seizure in case. of a war.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
Mr.. A. T. Smith

Mayor and Mrs. James p. Smith
are the proud parents of a nine
pound son. born last night. The lad
has been named Augustus Thompson
Smith in honor of Mr.. A. S. Thomp-
son, a close friend of the mayor.
Mayor Smith has four children, two
boys and two girls.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
ITALIANS SEND MONEY.

Chicago. Dec. 30.-The Italian Red
Cross cabled $1,000 relief money 10
the Italian foreign minister. II g.
expected that $50, 900 will be pledged
by night.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
ROBBERS OF BANK
FIGHT CITIZENS
FOR THREE HOURS

Wellston, Okla, Dec. 30.-Slx
robbers held of citizens for three
hours this morning while they ex-
ploded fourteen shots of nitro-gly-
cerine to wreck the vaults Of the
Wellston bank. They escaped with
$1,000. Posses are pursuing.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
RELATIVE OF WILLIAM ANNIS LIVES
AT METROPOLIS INTERESTED In CASE

Capt james A. Anhis, pilot of the
steamer George Cowlang. who resides
IN Metropolis. is a cousin of WillAam
e. Annis, for whose murder T. Jen-
kins Hams Is on trial at Flushing, Ia
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-30
Mine Strike Over

Somerset. Ky. Dec. Especially
The strike of miners is practically
ended. All at Stearns is quiet. Wad-
dell is going into the mountains with
a posse 10 find Berry Simpson.
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In New York.

New York, Dec. 3O.-The Italian
colony Is overwhelmed by the dis.
aster. New Years celebrations are
abandoned, The money wiz go 90 the
relief fund. Crowds are besieging
the Italian consulate seeking news of
relatives. The consul general, the
itsiian chamber of commerce and the
Red Gross manager are receiving re-
lief contributions. Newspapers have
started subscriptions. Tammany Hall
has given $1,000.
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Washington, Dec. 3O.-The execu-
tive committee OF the Red Gross
voted 60 send 5000 TO the Italian
society.
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FIREWORKS SALE
MUST BIZ STOPPED"
SAYS ATTORNEY

Warrants against two merchants
for selling larger fire crackers during
Christmas than those permitted by
ordinance, were dismissed in police
court today on motion of City Attor-
ney Martin, who stated that his rea-
son for so doing was that the ordi-
nance was generally violated and ii
did not seem just to prosecute one or
two parties after Christmas was over,
and allow so many others to go with
out prosecution. Mr. Martin stated
there was a general misunderstand-
ing the terms Of the ordinance.
governing the sale and use OF fire
works in the city, and merchants had
sold them ignorant of the violation
Hereafter, Mr. Martin announced, all
persons selling shooters or fire
crackers other than tho .smaM one
viii be prosecuted.
The Docket.
Other cases were: Grand larceny.
Bob Greer, examination waived
Preach OF peace, Frank BranFford
dismissed; Robert Brown, IS. Carry
ing concealed weapon. Roy Moore,
$25 and ten days IN jail
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COLDER

Generally fair and much colder to-
night and Thursday. Cold wave in
west portion. Highest temperature
yesterday, 81; lowest today, 10. Rain
fall 90.
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Wounded soIdler's story.

A wounded soldier said: "The spec
tacle was terrifying beyond words.
Dante's inferno gives you but a
faint idea as to what happened at
Mess'HT. The first shock came before
the sun had risen II shook the city
to its very foundations Immediately
houses began to crumble. Those of
us not killed at once made our way
over the undulating streets. Beams
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Rome, Dec. 3O.-i,stimates of dead
vary from 10000 TO i25.OOO. The
tiisaster il the worst since Jctido. now
Toxic. was wiped out, killing 2OO,-
900. Pneumonia and meningitis APP
pcared among the survivors and IL Is
feared thousands will die from the
diseases, wounds and starvation. Hum
dreds OF insane are ranging the coun-
try like beasts. Identification Is Inn
possible and the dead are being bur-
led In ercat trenches. Fires are still
raging In many towns. A refugee
from Reggie says the sea rushed in
and engulfed the town and IL utterly
Disappeared. Nearly $4,000 persisted.
King Victor and Queen Helena ar
rived nj Messina and were almost
overwhelmed by the sight. No word
was received from the many Ameri-
leans In Messina. II is feared all
persisted.
All Italy Mourns.
Stunned at the magnitude OF the
calamity which has overtaken their
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All Nations Extend Aid.

The hands of all nations have been
extended TO Italy in her afiiiction.
From rulers have come messages OF
coincidence and from the people a
spontaneous promise OF air. Great
Britain. France and Russia have sent
their warships. quick as the fash of
telegraph could carry the orders, 10
lend assistance TO the stricken cities.
Relief funds have already been start
ed and hundred ships and trains are
on the way carrying supplies and re-
Inducements south. Rome, Milan,
Florence, Naples and other cities are
sending physicians. police and fire.
men. Today ambassadors and minis
tiers expressed sympathy with the
ministers OF foreign affairs. Tttoni,
whose emotion was profound.
At the time OF the earthquake the
torpedo boat Sappho was lying in the
harbor.
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81. Louis. Dec. 3O.-Seven thou.
sand sicilians are organizing for re-
lief work.
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British and Russian Ships.

Already British and Russian squad
rons have arrived at Messina. Sailors
and mariners have been disembarked
and they have performed COURAGEOUS
acts in rescuing the injured and re-
moving the wounded.
Large numbers Of survivors have
been transferred 10 the warships
which are transformed into great
floating hospitals.
Special dispatches from Calabra
confirm the destruction OF Reggie.
They report that the situation there
is as bad. II not worse than at Mes
sina.
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Horror of Italian Earthquake is
Growing as Reports Are Received
From Stricken Lower Provinces

fellow countrymen, all Italy mourns
for the sunken province OF Calabria
and the Island of Sicily. Accustomed
for centuries 20 earthquakes, Italy
stands ever In dread. but none was
prepared for the disaster, which, in
the fraction OF a minute, yesterday
devastated cities and towns and
caused the death of thousands.
Messina. whose tragic history has
been marked by tidal waves and war,
and which was the center Of yester-
days terrestrial maelstrom, was shak-
EN- to ruins. Flames burst forth to
complete the city's destruction, and
TO burn alive untold numbers help
iessly pinioned beneath the fallen
wallis aud broken tlmbers. The
Straits OF Mess.na was shaken and
twisted by the earthquake. Mariners
report that the channel is altered be-
yond recognition. Ports and villages
on both the continental and Siclhan
sides were wrecked or inundated and
adj light houses along the coast were
swallowed up. Navigation now Is
dangerous
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Stunned at the magnitude OF the
calamity which has overtaken their
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-11
THE vERM1N IN THE DARK.

In stored Venice, down whose ripping
streets
The stars go hurrying, and the white
moon beats,
Stood the great Bell Tower, fronting
seas and skies
Fronting the ages, drawing all men g
Rooted like Teneriffe, aloft and proud,
Taunting the lightning, tearing the fly
ing cloud.
It marked the hours for Venice, all men
Time cannot reach to bow that lofty
head;
Time, that shall touch all else with ruin,
must
Forbear to make this shaft confess its
dust,
Yet all the while, in secret, without
sound,
The fat worms gnawed the timbers I'M
foreground.
fear the vermin that shall undermine
Senate and citadel and school and
shrine
The Worm of Greed, the fatted Worm
of Ease,
And all the crawling progeny of these
The vermin that shall honeycomb the
towers
And wall of state in unsuspecting hours.
Edwin Markham.
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ing Bayard?' said the friend. "No, >
said he; "but don t you remember that
on May 2 a great and charming poet
Alfred de Musset, breathed his last g.
On the 9th of the same month: "Whom
are you mourning for nowF' FFor
an honest man; General Caviagnac. -
On the 30th, crying terribly, he said:
"Ah, Joan of Arc! On this date, in
1431, handful of Englishmen and a
miserable bishop put the gallant maid
to death" On July Is he took bath
in memory of the assassination of
Marat. On the 10th Beranger death
1 gave him a fatal shock On the 18th,
having read of Napoleon IS departure to
st. Helena, he felt better, but on the
23d the bombardment of Dieppe by the
English, in 1894, confined him again to
his bed. He was taken with a fever
and died on the 22d, muttering: SIN
a month, the massacre of St. Bartholo-
newt
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley, the govern
ment s famous food expert, was talking
at Mackinac island about impure
WHISTLES.
81 once saw an old Kentuckian, !"
said DIR. Wiley, "take up glass of
whisky, sniff it, set it down and shake
his head sadly.
Zone thing he said, was never
seen coming through the rye, and that s
the kind of whisky they send us nova
days. -
Cardinal Logue, during his visit to
Poeantico Hills, was asked how many
sermons a preacher could prepare in a
week
Smiling, Cardinal Logue answered:
elf the preacher is man of extra
ordinary ability, he can prepare one
sermon; if a man of average ability,
two; if blockhead. ten or twelve"
Richard Harding Davis, one of West
chester county's new deputy sheriffs,
came into White Plains with his ken
mel master the other day. While await
ing his kennel master outside a dog
biscuit shop, Mr.. Harding Davis dis
cussed sport.
"Sport is as good here as it is
abroad - he said, tbut abroad they are
more punctilious. Your Englishman
must always be correct. He has a
wardrobe of smooth, sleek, dark clothes
for town; a wardrobe of kniekers and
thick woolens for Alpine winter sports;
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--Hs%s0s-

The Pianola renders all musical
works with the precision of time and
exact expression that the composer in
tended It is a good musical educa.
ton for children in itself. Bergstrom
Music Co., Ltd.
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At dinner in New York during his
disastrous American visit Henri Far
man, the traveller, complained of the
American customs regulations.
"With their afidavits, declarations,
examinations and what not, said Mr..
Farman, "there is too much red tape
about your customs. A man gets lost
in all this red tape, as they say a
foreigner was once lost in the red tape
of the British postofiee.
tThis foreigner stood, one luckless
evening. before the newspaper box in
the London postoffice. The box has a
huge mouth. Newspapers are thrust
into it in bales. AS the inquisitive
foreigner bent over it, a bale of news
papers struck his shoulder, and with a
dull thud he fell into the box.
"Bis friends ran round to the coun-
ties to rescue him. The clerks, how
ever. paid no attention to their de-
pands. The foreigner was in the mail
box. Accordingly they would treat him
as mail matter.
'And the clerks gravely stamped him
on the stomach and threw him in a
compartment along with the provincial
newspapers.
FThe unfortunate man. g friends
went to the chief The chief listened
calmly to their tale. Then he said:
WAS your friend addressed?'
No. thew replied.
Very well. ,, said the chief THE
matter is simple. He will remain for
six months in the bureau. At the end
of that time, if no one applies for him,
he will be burnt as a dead letter. -
DIR. Simon Flexner, discussing the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in New York, said
that their sympathy for animals was
as misplaced as the sympathy of
Aurelien SchOll IS Frenchman.
This Frenehman, he explained, IN
luckily bought an almanac that gave
the dates of the worlds chief events.
From that day on he lived a life of
mourning. Thus, on April 80, he had
Grape on his hat.
tHave you lost relative7'' a friend
asked. "'Not exactly" said he. "But
today is a sad anniversary for the
French people. On April so. 1924, the
Chevalier Bayard died. - 'Still mourn
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wardrobe of fannnels for the sea
shore, and so on, with other wardrobe:
for Devastating, for fox hunting, fol
driving, even for smoking and drink
ing.
81 remember once, in my early
youth, | was shooting over duke Is
covers. A very grave and elegant
young marquis was stationed near me
Suddenly the duke shouted to the mar
quis:
There goes a hare! Let him have
it!'
"But the marquis shook his head.
Il It, duke he said: sI'm in
my pheasant costume. -
''The late Senator Allison,'' said a
Dubuque lawyer, twas a stickler for
personal cleanliness, even for personal
elegance. There was no quicker way
for a man to get on his black books
than to be unshaven, to have the trous-
ers impressed, the boots unpublished
I'VE used to have here in Dubuque a
decidedly slovenly lawyer. This lawyer
appeared one afternoon at meeting
with a rose in his buttonhole. The
sight of rose in the buttonhole of
such sloven excited a good deal of
comment.
" Il wonder where on earth he got
it9'' said /.
"Senator Allison smiled.
" Probably said he, sit grew
there.
President Eliot of Harvard said the
other day that it was not true that
the colleges were the hotbeds of So
cialism in America. He said that So
cialism could not come until man
changed utterly-until he changed from
a selfish to an unselfsh being.
President Eliot illustrated the pres
ent disposition of man with a brief
story.
San ardent socialist" he said, civ
ed in a country village. He did no
work; he had no money. Gan his time
seemed to be passed in the general
store, preaching rabid socialism and
borrowing tobacco.
Suddenly this man disappeared
Nothing was seen Of him for ten years.
Then. one day, he turned up again IN
his old haunts.
90 We'll Jabe,' said the storekeeper,
'you re still a socialist, I supposed
E' Not on your life, Jabez answered
warmly. CT got cow now.
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Charles Frohman, who is rapidly es-
tablishing a ''world theater "a
fheater where the worlds first play
wrights and performers work on Amer
lean lines under his Objectionable
ed the other day about content.
al don't work for money" he said.
sfThe hardest workers never work for
money. When did money bring con-
eentf
ffYou know the story of the satrap
and the Persian physieianf A certain
young and profigate satrap, exhausted
alike in body and in mind, sent for a
famous Persian physician and said:
"'I have squandered my youth in
riotous living. Ny frame is enfeebled
like an old man IS, and my mind is dis
ordered with remorse and horror. Can
you help met
t'The Persian physician, looking
graveiv at the pale satrap, answered.:
80 'You have but one hope. Go forth
and find, if there be such, a perfectly
contented man. Persuade this man to
exchange shirts with YOU, and you will
straightway be strong and happy
again.
ssThe satrap set out upon his search.
He travelled many months in vain. But
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Told by Prominent People


81 had the honor, in London las
month, of supping at the Savoy wit
Maud Allan, the SalOme dancer. !
was n great experience. -
The speaker, a young actor, sighe'
and resumed:
s'Maud Allan talked 20 us about he
Salome dance. about the kissing of tn
head of john the Baptist. She sai'
she could see nothing wrong about tn,
kissing. on the stage, Of a papie1
maehe head. when the real head is con
tinualIy being kissed by the dev6ut.
- The real head!' said 1. where
is the real headi'
''Then, with a laugh, Miss Allan
told me story about the Able de
MarOlles.
"This famous able once visited
Amiens. They took him through the
splendid Amiens cathedral. Then they
showed him the head of John the Bap-
fist.
1'The Able de Marbles, devoutly
pressing his lips to the relic, exclaim-
ed:
'f'Heaven be praised. This is al
ready the fifth or sixth head of the
saint that have had the good fortune
to kiss. "
The average novelist, it is well
known, thinks little of the average
playwright, and the playwright thinks
less. if possible. of the novelist.
At the PLAYERS Club in New York
they say that Clyde Fitch, at dinner,
sat opposite a popular novelist. The
novelist criticized the American play;
he seemed to think very little OF 1t.
FINALLY. yawning. he said:
''When / am played out as novel
list, intend to write for the stage. -
"Begin at once, them" said Mr..
Fitch
The late Bishop Potter, at one of
the delightful reunions of the Episco-
pal academy in elphia-Bishop
Potter was educated at this venerable
and aristoeratic sehool-eondemned
modern finance.
al condemn at least he is report
ed to have said, "that sort of modern
finance that consists in getting some
thing for nothing. I once knew boy
who would have made a splendid fnan-
cier
ssThis hoy, strolling idly through the
streets-he never had anything to do
met another.
'''I WISH he said, that I had
nickel. Then I'd buy a good scent
cigar and go into the woods and have
a smoke
al have nickel, said the other
boy.
i''Have youG' the first cried eager
ly- 'Then let's form a corporation
fAll right. How is it done?'
90 II be the president. You'll be
the stakeholder. The nickel will be
the capital, and we II invest it in to-
baeeo'
ssThe thing was agreed to, and the
president, taking the stockholders 5
cents, bought the cigar forthwith. |
Then he led the way to the woods |
There he sat down on a log, lit up, |
and began to smoke skillfully.
<sThe stakeholder waited for his |
turn to come. He waited very patient |
iy- But the cigar diminished. One
third of it. two-thirds of it disappear
ed, and still the president showed no
signs of safety.
90 Say exclaimed the stakeholder
at last, 'don Z get a whack here7'
"The president, knocking off the
ashes. shook his head.
Fs'I don't see it, he said.
But what, shouted the angry
stoekholder, do I get for nv capitalf'
Well, said the president, 'you
n w Emit Y
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at last he heard OF cobbler who was
said TO be absolutely contented.
1.-The satrap came at last to the cob
/ HERS door. The house was but howell
and on a board before it the cobbleI
/ Law asleep. Awakening him, the sa-
! tran asked if it were true that he was
ouite contented, and the cObbler, with
/ a laugh. declared that IL was.
| - Then said the satrap. Il have
a boon to ask at your hands. 1t is
that you will exchange shirts with me.
For thus, a wise physician has said, l
NAV become strong and eontented
Also
But the eobbler shook his head.
.. Most eheerfully would l grant
your request, young man, he began,
but
{" Nay, nay, deny me not, the sa'
trap cried. Il will pay you any sum
that you may name .,
90 4 seek not your gold, youth,
said the cobbler, 'but-'
- But what?'
90 THE truth is. I have no shirt. -
ssMr. Edison said one of the great
inventors assistants, els going to
abandon commercial work and go in
for pure science. He will drop electri-
eity for a time in favor of chemistry.
He hopes that in these new fields he
will not become a crank.
"'Mr. Edison believes, you know,
that overmuch research, research that
has no practical or commercial end IN
view, tends to make man eccentric
For example he points to friend IN
Flushing, a lifelong student of chem
istry.
'This old man, retired musician,
whenever there comes a ring at his
doorbell, goes to the door himself,
bottle of ink in his hand. Without a
word of warning he throws the ink
over his visitors coat. Then, IN an
swer to the visitor s protests, he laughs
and says:
% sNonsensel It's all right. Come
this way. 1 have something to show
you
Gle leads his guest to the kitchen,
dips a rag into a bottle of cleansing
fluid of his own invention, and, rub
bling briskly the ink-stained garment,
he rattles away, as glibly as street |
vendor.
90 This liquid is not corrosive. It |
removes, cleans and dissipates, with one
application, all stains, smears, grease, |
paint and so on for ten minutes or
more.
"This old man rarely, if ever, re-
stores these inky coats to their original |
At every failure be says re-
proachfully to his guest:
90 well, well, well! 1t isn't all |
wool. -
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'FBut the marquis shook his head
Il can It, duke, he said: 'I'm in
my pheasant costume.
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g There goes a hare! Let him have