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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-19
River Stages.

River stage at Z O'Clock this morn
ing. 81. rise of is since yester-
day morning. Rainfall last night and
until I o'clock this morning was 40
inches. Providing the rainfall is gen
leral and especially at the ,headwaters
of the Mississippi. Ohio. Tennessee
and Cumberland rivers, q Is certain
that the rivers viii go above the flood
stage. Rivermen say II the rainfall
all over the country Is like II Is here,
the river here will go several feet
above the flood stage. AT the present
time II the Mississippi was up we
would have a stage of 40 feet at Pa
ducah. but the Mississippi II low and
the water Is running out Of the Ohio
rapidly.
The steamer Kentucky arrived in
port this morning at S'o'clock from
Rlverton and way landings with a
arge cargo OF freight aboard for Pa
ducah and Brookport She went on
down the river this morning to un-
load and receive freight aud will re-
turn tonight The Kentucky viii
return tonight The Kentucky will
leave tomorrow evening for the Ten
nessee.
The Dick Fowler got away on time
this morning for Cairo and way land
mgs WITH a good freight and passen-
ger list. She will be due tonight
about o'elcek.
The steamef George Cowling made
her Two daily trips from Metropolis
and return doing a fair business on
botd trips.
The steamer Royal came IN .,this
morning from Golconda sapd left, on
a return trip this afternoon aat 4. 2
O'Clock. She did a right good busi-
ness in and out OF this port
The Peters Lee will probably get
away from Memphis this afternoon
for Cincinnati and will be due here
Sunday afternoon on her way up.
The river again took upon itself TO
be rough last night and today. com
polling boats with tows to tie up to
the banks.
The American came into port yes
terday afternoon from Cairo. where
she delivered a tow OF ties. She had
expected TO leave for the Tennessee
today, but on account of the bad
weather she probably will not leave
It'll tomorrow. -.s
The Martha Hennen. In charge OF
Capt. Ed Pixley, has arrived at Mo
bile. Ala, after a stormy voyage from
New Orleans to Mobile. The Hennen
was over a week making the trip in
the salt water and during that time
she burned her boilers by using salt
water and was delayed. In good
weather 1t would take the Hennen
about three days 10 make the trip
from New QFlsdns to Mobile.
About 400 cbrds of cottonwood
that had been cut floated down the
river yesterday from just below
Brookport. The ]. T. Friend. a tow
boat from Cairo came uD TO Brook
port and recovered some of the wood,
but most Of 1t hoated on down the
Ohio. Several cords were recovered
at Metropolis.
The Wash Honshell that passed
down yesterday morning was com
PEELED to tie up at Turner's landing
on account OF the wind
The Margaret is loading ties for the
Aver & Lord Tie company between
Paducah and Cairo.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-19

The Ohio river is acting as il it an
ticipated a trip of the battleship fleet
up this way as far as the Cairo
bridge.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-19
you DON'T HAVE TO WAIT.

Every dose makes YOU feel better. Lax-ros
keeps yocf whole insides right. Sold ON the
Money-bIek plan everywhere, Price 80 cents
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-19

Prices OF all living increased; only
exception Mrs. Austin's pancake
-four. Same old price at all grocers'
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-19

The Mauretania has broken every
thing on the ocean but her screw.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-19

Borrowing is the canker and death
of every mans estate.--Raleigh.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-19
CIRCULATION STATEMENT.
january. 1909.

Average for January, 1909. ....5150
Average for January, 1908 ....Ss2s
Increase .......... .-.... io@i
Personally appeared before me
this Feb. /, 1903. r. D. MacMiaen,
business manager OF The Sun, who
affirms that the above statement OF
the circulation OF The Sun for the
month of January, 1909, is true to
the best Of his knowledge and belief.
My commission expires January
January 10. 1912.
PETER PURYEAR,
Notary Public McCraeken Co.
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IF IT'S ONLY A HEADACHE

why cornelison's Rea iahce Liver Pills vii
cure that 10 cents, All Druggists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
Is TT TARIFF WARP
France Withdraws Her Minimum
Rates Against United States.

Rates Against United States.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, September 20, 1909.
What may prove to be the first prelim-
mary skirmish in war Of tariffs with
the United States has just been per-
formed by France. A government decree
has been issued, which, as a reply to a
similar measure taken by America, re-
peals all previous enactments, which al
lowed to American imports into this
country the benefit of the minimum tar
it, From November 1 next all goods
from the United States coming into
France will pay the rates Of the French
general tariff" that is to say, the high
est duties chargeable.
The question is, whether the United
States will not retaliate, in which case
France will have no weapon left for a
creases her general tariff, step which
public opinion is not prepared at all to
sanction at the present moment. Yet
the general feeling against the action of
the United States is very strong In trade
circles.
The only business which prefers the
new tariff to the old one is that OF pic
ture dealing, which, very heavily .penaliz-
ed in the past, is now to be more mercf-
fully handled. In the interest OF at least
temporary peace, the French government,
while issuing the above decree, is at
the same time beginning negotiations
with the United States I'm the endeavor
statue quo until August. or at least
March, 1910. II these negotiations prove
successful, the tariff war would not be-
gin until oe of those dates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

Capt. Condor and John O'Callaghan
Honored in Ireland.
Of The Star

Foreign correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, September 10, 1909.
The event of the week in Ireland has
been the arrival from America and the
gloriication of Capt. O'Meagher Condor.
the Fenian leader Of 81, and John O'CaI-
laghan, secretary of the Irish League Of
America. Though rival nationalist fac
lions quarreled as to the quality of the
welcome which should be bestowed. Con-
don and O'Callaghan have no reason to be
dissatisfied with their reception.
They have passed an eventful week.
A body of admirers sat up all Saturday
night to receive them at cockcrow Sum
day morning. and eulogistic addresses
were showered upon them every day.
They rode in the lord mayors carriage at
Dublin, received the freedom of the city
at Limerick and had countless invitations
to dine. Condor was gravely assured in
one of the addresses that if he was not
now a dead man it was because the
craven men who condemned him to die
were afraid to carry out their sentence"
One enthusiast at the Dublin reception
sang 1.-The Smashing of the Van" in spir-
tied style. Another sang The West S
Awake" and God Save Ireland" the
phrase of which Condor is credited with
being the author, rang out everywhere.
In fact, their whole reception was one
continuous festivity in the true Irish
spirit. Both ENJOYS declared very often
that they came from America with no
particular mission, but only on a return
visit to John Redmond.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
A TAXLESS TOWN
Free Water, Light and Saw Mill in
English District.
of The Star


LONDON. September Is, 1909.
The harassed taxpayer will look with
envy upon the happy community of the
Wolferlingen, near Wiesbaden, where
local taxes at all events are unknown
The commune owns large tract of for
est land. from which much revenue is
derived. For the last six years this in
come has been applied to the establish
ment of works for the public benefit
First, the construction of a modern drain
age system was taken in hand. Then
Wolferlingen was provided with free
water, incluulng free fittings in every
house.
The next year every householder was
presented with free electric light in
stallation, the first set of lamps being
also supplied gratis. This was followed
by the installation of an electrically
driven thrashing machine, saw mill and
bone-crushing machine for chicken
food, all of which were used in common
by the inhabitants of the Wolferlingen
district. The latest addition to the COM
munal facilities is a bath and wash house.
and still there is a goodly balance on
the right side.
Here is an example of what may be &C
complished by communal property under
wise management, as opposed to small
holdings when radical English ministers
advocate as a panacea against poverty
and agricultural depression. 1t was tried
in German communes years ago. with the
result, as the economist Prof. Butcher
records. that 1.-The holdings of many poor
peasants quickly passed in exchange for
hands of spectators, who had been long
waiting their opportunity, so that in the
end these poor people were far worse off
than before
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
Treated Like Cattle.
BAMBooZLEs ENTIRE TOWN.
Clever Swindler Deceives All, From
Governor to Hotel, Help.
ign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence OF Inc star.
VIENNA, September 20. 1909.
From Saloniki comes a report that the
entire town was for several days taken in
by a swindler, who deceived, with the
coolest impudence. society from the gov
ernor general down to hotel walters.
AS the constitution now allows much
liberty to the imperial princes. who were
formerly strictly under guardianship, it
excited no surprise in Saloniki when
Prince Schehabeddin. grandson of the
Sultan Abdul Aziz and nephew of the
successor to the throne, Jussuf IZzedin,
arrived at a Saloniki hotel, stating that
he wished to pass some days with the
Young Turk committee.
The chief persons Of the latter FASTENED
to visit the prince, and were followed by
the governor the civil and military dig
ntaries. consuls and the chief members
Of society. To dinners given by the
prince thirty or forty guests were in
vited. jewelers. and other tradesmen
gladly gave unlimited credit
parture for Vienna the directors of the
Oriental railway offered him a special sa-
loon carriage, which was wired for to the
managers in Constantinople. These made
inquiries from the ministers and were in
formed that Prince Schehabeddin had not
left his kOnak in Scutari for several
weeks.
This announcement caused no little as
constituent in Saloniki, and the pseudo
prince was again visited by the governor
and the chief Of police. who conveyed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
Initiative and Referendum.

They have the initiative and referen-
dunn systems here, and whatever prin-
| ciples the people declare for at the polls
must be formulated into law by the next
| legislature. At the same time every law
that is enacted by the legislature must
be ratified by the people before it be-
comes effective.
This system of legislation ought to in
| sure a sane and sound volume of stat
utes. But the legislature Of Oregon has
| been notorious for the number Of eccen-
trio laws that have been passed by that
body.
| For example, last January 1t passed a
bill prohibiting women from wearing hat
pins more than ten inches long, which,
| it is said. was forced through by q
| rural statesman who had his face
| scratched while he was standing in
| crowd Of women at the entrance to a
theater. Several attempts have been
made to regulate the size of women &
| hats, but the feminine influence has been
| too strong to overcome.
The law requiring sheets on hotel beds
| to be nine feet long, similar to those
passed in Missouri, Arkansas. Oklahoma
and Kansas. has also been adopted here.
| 1t is the result of the efforts OF the COM
mercial travellers associations, supported
| by the State Medical Society, whose rep
resentatives testified before the legislative
committee that the greasy calico comfort
| ables commonly used upon the beds OF
country hotels were dangerously insani-
| tary and full of disease germs.
There Is law that guarantees every
| hotel guest a clean towel, and prohibits
! any towel from being used by two per-
sons.
In Kansas no glass or drinking cup car
be used by two persons without being dip
ped in hot water, and when q railway train
crosses the boundary of that state the
porter of the sleeper Immediately locks
| up the tumblers that have been under the
| faucets Of the icewater tank. in order to
avoid liability Of arrest. The local con-
stable at any station where the train may
stop has authority to arrest the conductor
| or porter of a sleeping car, or both. or the
conductor and brakeman of the train, If
! he finds a glass or cup being used by the
passengers in common for drinking pur-
poses.
The butcher or newsboy carries q
supply Of cheap cups Of pressed tin to
| meet the emergency, which he sells for s
cents each. The law Is evaded by people
| who loan them to each other as they are
needed. Sometimes a cup will be passed
all the way down the aisle. That can be
done without danger, because the owner
Of the cup Is the only person liable, and
| if interrupted no one will admit owner
| ship.
Cups made Of celluloid, paraff1n paper
| and other cheap materials are sold at
newsstands in the stations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

What the Proposed New Budget
Would Mean to England.
espondence of The Star

Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, September 90 1909.
A member Of the present British liberal
cabinet not long ago made the statement
that England would remain a rich mans
country. even IL the budget, with its
heavy. fresh taxation proposals, were ac-
cepted by the house Of lords as 1t stood
The cumulative effect OF the proposed
new taxes indicates, however, that the
contrary would be the case
AS an illustration: Let a man own
G250,O00, of which EJO,OOO is invested in
land. On the income derived therefrom,
say, 10000 year, he will have to pay:
First. income tax, at IA pence in the
pound mot quite per cent?, and the
supertax Of 21s per cent on income over
$4,000 annually: roughly E75S. Second,
land tax, 9273. Third, the death duties on
this estate, provision for which wealthy
people and property owners generally now
make of their income, would be f35,OOO
Assuming the expectation OF the average
middle age subjects life to be twenty
years. this would be R1,75O a year Extra
settlement duty, ESQ. Fourth, licenses for
servants, dogs. guns. carriages, automO-
biles, EOS. Fifth, duties on wine, beer.
spirits. cigars. tobacco consumed by
household and guests, estimated, s1OO.
Total annual taxation on an income Of
E10.OOO. f3,0J6, which is over 30h Der
cent. truly an enormous proportion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
QUEEN BEFRIENDs TRAMP.
Feeds Starving Man and Sends Him
to His Home.

to his dOmo.
Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
SAN SEBASTIAN. Spain,
September 20. 1909.
A bricklayer whom the queen mother
saw fainting with hunger In the street
and charitably supplied with money has
returned to his home at Manzanares
happy and contented. with money in his
pocket.
The queen was motoring through the
Gallo Zubieta when she saw the man. She
stopped and learned he had tramped for
many days in search Of work and had
been taken Ill through want of food.
The queen at once emptied her purse.
containing about $3.50 TALL the money she
had with herr, and handing 1t to a police
officer. ordered him to give the man q
good meal at a neighboring restaurant
Afterward he was to be taken to the Mir
amar palace.
The man. whose name was Jose Rueda
Pelaez. was accordingly brought before
Queen Christina at the palace. Asked
what he most wanted. he replied simply
that he wished to return to his native
place.
The queen thereupon gave instructions
that he should be comfortably lodged at
a boarding house and afterward sent nv
train at her expense to Manzanares.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
= Land Available for Hops.


very large area is available for
hops in this locality. Not 10 per cent OF
the land is under cultivation. The river
bottoms produce the best crops and can
be purchased all the way from $50 to $3.50
an acre, according to locality and quality
Of the soil.
reach maturity and 1t costs about $40 an
acre to bring them up to that point The
vines then produce twelve to nfteen
years In succession, but they have TO De
cut down to the ground every year. when
the hops are picked. and the dead vines
are burned.
From to 10 per cent have to be re-
placed annually where they die out from
accident or exhaustion or have been bad
ly treated by the pickers, and the ground
est expense is the picking. The mere Gull
tivation of the crop does not cost more
than $12 or $15 an acre. Every nfteentn
vine in the row Is a male and bears no
hops Some hop , train h, ter hut
is more popular to string them along
wires about six feet from the ground
where they hang In beautiful lestoons
and are more easily reached by the pick
err There is nothing more graceful than
a hop vine, and a field that has reached
maturity is a very attractive sight.
After being picked they are hauled to
dry house in the immediate neighbor-
hood Of the field and are cured by burn
ing sulphur and other chemicals under
them. Thei dry hops are then packed
into bales and shipped Immediately to
market.
They deteriorate rapidly after curing
and must be sold at once. so that the
brewers and yeast manufacturers who
absorb the larger part Of the crop often
buy them before they are picked. A
hop grower cannot take the risk of hold
ing his crop for better prices.
Hundreds of hop pickers are employed
in the orchards and fruit canneries In
the spring, where they make equally good
wages. All fruits except walnuts are
picked from the trees with the fingers
and handled with the greatest care to
prevent bruising. The limbs Of walnut
trees are shaken violently so that the
ripe nuts will fall to the ground and
those that are unripe will stay on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
EFFORT TO END SLAVE LABOR
ENGLISH SOCIETY ASKS COOP
GRAFTON IN AMERICA.
Consumers Here Requested to Join
Boycott Against Cocoa Produced
in Portuguese West Africa.
reign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, September To- 1902
Lord Monkswell and Sir POWELL Buxton
president and chairman respectively OF
the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protec-
ton Society, are appealing to the public
for support to an effort to extend to the
United States the boycott of slave-pro-
duced cocoa Of Portuguese West Africa
Several years ago attention was called to
the system Of recruiting labor in the is
lands of San Thome and Principe in order
to produce the famous San Thome cocoa.
The revelations then made were confirmed
on investigation, and they led to the de-
cision of leading English cocoa firms to
give up the purchase of raw cocoa from
that part Of the world until there was
positive proof that 1t Is no longer pro-
duced by slave labor.
1.-THE effect of their action" says the
appeal of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines
Protection Society, has been to drive the
San Thome cocoa on the American market
at a cheaper rate, SO that the situation
is largely in the hands of the Americans
1t becomes therefore, of the highest i'm
portance to influence public opinion in the
United States against this survival of
slavery, and with this view the society
has resolved to send Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Burt as deputation to the people in
America in several important centers Of
the northern and eastern states"
To Visit Washington.
The society proposes to raise sufficient
funds by public subscription to meet the
expenses Of Mr.. Burtts journey to the
United States, and it is hoped that his
itinerary will include Boston, New York.
Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburg, Chi
cago, Detroit, Rochester and Albany. Mr..
Burt has himself twice visited Portu-
guest West Africa. and Is the author Of
the report drawn up for the English cocoa
firms three years ago.
The society declares that 1t has received
abundant evidence, official and UNOFFICIAL
Of the nature of the so-called labor sys-
tenn which involves slave trading and
slavery. Quite recently Mr.. Swan, an
Englishman, who was for twenty-three
years a missionary in Angola, visited the
colony and brought back with him a
statement signed by nineteen missionaries,
belonging to English and American So
cieties at work in the country, testifying
from their own personal experience that
natives continue to be bought and sold
and have no understanding of the nature
of the contracts into which they enter.
Treated Like Cattle.
The Daily Chronicle, in sup porting the
society's appeal, says:
1.-The cocoa is cultivated by an army of
'servicaes'. as the slaves are called, num-
boring from 10000 to $1,000. These for
lorn beings have been torn from happy
homes in Central Africa and are brought
to the coast, many hundreds of miles
away, in large and small gangs fastened
together by night with wooden shackles
to prevent them escaping. thousands OF
them perish along that horrible highway,
scattered with the bleaching bones Of
former victims"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
TRAINS MAD FLIGHT.
Runs Through Station, Jumps Ditch
and Travels Over Fields.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star
PARIS, September Is. 1909.
An extraordinary railway accident hap
pened recently at Bagneres de Bigorre,
near Tarbes, in the south of France. A
passenger train which should have stop
ped at the station ran through it at a
speed of twenty miles an hour. Tn
fortunately it had been intended that
the train should not proceed farther. and
the points had accordingly been turned
SO that the train ran into a siding.
1t completely demolished the buffers.
passed without breaking a single coupling
over a ditch, knocked down a garden
wall and continued it's cross-country run
for 400 yards over fields, when it was
brought to a standstill.
Though the passengers were much
alarmed. nobody was hurt, as the speed,
after the first shock against the buffers,
decreased at every obstacle. The driver
declared that he applied the brakes in
the usual way, but they failed to grip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27
Piper Heidsieck Champagne Flavor
chewing tobacco is the highest degree of
acknowledged superiority.-Advt.

Entries FOR the fair Of the Rappahan-
mock Valley Agricultural and Mechanical
Society. which commences in Fredericks-
burg, Va. Tuesday, are coming In rapid
ly, and the prospects are good for a most
successful exhibition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

Mrs Mary Tragic, wife Of E. Elwood
Tragic of the Tragic Drug Company.
Richmond. Va, died at the Memorial
Hospital. where she had been under treat
ment for several weeks. Mrs. Tragic was
thirty-eight years old
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

him to the prison at Jedikula. The pris-
oner, whose name is simply Schehabeddin,
has been recognized as an active reac-
tionary. who personated the prince in
order to obtain funds for flight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-27

School near Salem earned more than e1O.
coo last fall picking hops in the hop
fields