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Step four, lodging creditors.
 Step five, swindling.
 Of the steps that remain there are only two, and they are easily taken:
 Step six, arrest and conviction.
 Step seven, prison or the pistol
 The descent to the Avernus of the mod erns is easy because the steps are logical. They follow each other as do the links of chain. One step leads easily and naturally to the next. Once started downward on the steps 1t Is difficult to stop. It is not impossible to stop, but difficult. The way to the modern hades Is no toboggan slide on which, once started, it is impossible to reverse motion and slide upward. One does not go gliding from the heights of innocence down to the depths of degradation in a trice. The way goes down slowly, leisurely, by easy stages. It goes down by well defined steps-broad, easy steps. The descent is halting, though sure.
 once.
 And no man who goes the downward way expects to go to the bottom.
 But 1t is so much easier to step down othe level below than to lift oneself to the level above! There is law of gravity in the moral world as in the physical world.
 And at the bottom is the mouth of hell
 A train on the Frisco road is found- ing a curve near Tulsa. The engineer of the train is Christopher Bentz, whose home is Monett, Mo.
 Another train is bearing down upon the train pulled by Bentz. His fireman shouts to him to jump. Collision is in- evitable. Death Is almost certain.
 You jump, Jim!' exclaimed the en- gineer. 'Im going to stick to her!'
 Bentz stuck to his post. and his poor mangled body was taken from under the tangled mass of twisted iron into which the engine was smashed.
 The fireman who jumped escaped seri- ous injury.
 The heroism of Christopher Bentz saved the train. It was very clear that had he left his engine many passengers would have been killed.
 Bentz knew it when he died for them.
 He saved others; himself he could not save.
 With the rustic of Haunting flags over head and with the echo of the ringing buge charge in their ears men will die. With the flush of conflict on their cheeks and the fire of fighting in their eyes men will lay down their lives in the mad impulse of the battle shock. But
 When death suddenly appears in the guise of horrid wreck; when 1t looks you in the face in a flash and dares you to duty, instant un1inching-
 That's another thing.
 Under such stress human flesh and blood ouais before the horrid ordeal, and only the mighty spirit of a supreme self sacrifice can hold 1t to such fright full destiny. -
 Behind the heroic engineer in the ves- tibule coaches the passengers lolled and chatted and smoked They were un- mindful unsuspecting
 They loved their lives. But so did he.
 They had their homes and loved ones. But so had he, Christopher Bentz. home and wife and babies.
 Would he widow his wife and leave his fatherless children to the cold mercies of uncertain future? Yes! For duty calls.
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while the humber American worshIper is taxed .. per cent upon the Bible that points his way to heaven
 s. s. Cox moved to strike the duty out, and that republican House sustained the motion by vote of los yeas to 57 nays. And so we have free quinine to this day, thanks to Mckenzie of Ken lucky.
 The following year Gov. J. Proctor Knott appointed Mckenzie secretary of state of Kentucky, and for four years it was delightful to visit Frankfort, where there resided Knott, Mckenzie, McCreary, Robert Burns Wilson and Aleck Grant. Every night was a symposium, and when the legislature was in session a, fortnight at that capital was a good education.
 When Mckenzie was in Congress he was considered the most entertaining conversationalist here, The diplomatic corps, the army and navy. cultured visi- tors from Boston, Garfield, Blaine, John Randolph Tucker, Dan Voorhees,, Lamar, Bob Ingersoll, John Mccullough. Law renee Barrett, Joe Jefferson, Frank Hurd, Proctor Knott, Senator Vest "Old Roman Thurman. and scores of others loved to hang on his words in private converse, and he was conceded first man of any company here in that particular
 He was minister to Peru under Cleve- land, and there his eyesight was nearly destroyed. He returned to Kentucky and lived some years in retirement, until the memorable summons came and he was gathered to his fathers.
 James A. Mckenzie was not a great man, but for brilliancy he was the equal of the foremost American of his day.
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liam of Orange in his habit as he lived; who called out Locke and New ton from the students cloister, and showed them to us as the great re- generators of the ruined finances of England. surely such a man as Mac aulay was no mean thinker
 The phrase rhetoric" then. as ap- piled to speaking which is supposed to be poor in thought, seems to origi- nate in loose thinking. No man can speak well who has nothing to say. All real rhetoric presupposes ideas in the speaker. The rhetoric of Dryden himself failed him when he under took to write rhymed arguments upon matters with which he had really little acquaintance; and some of the effu- sions of this great writer-the most ingenious reasoner in verse that ever lived-are now buried in the oblivion which they rightly deserve. The power to write historically is of little use to one who has nothing to say.
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cons of time. A modern poet groans, We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it.' Any disparagement of the exercise of mans or woman's level best; any lurking tendency to enroll ones mama in the book of martyrs while health and strength remain; any living wherein our freest gestures are coerced, can only mean rungs lost to us on the ladder of con sciousness.
 Let the whole melody and soul go about the beautiful natural exercises unafraid and without too much thought of the peace that follows. Perchance, finding ourselves in the midst of work our soul cries to be finished, we shall be 10th to leave when the vespers sound. If thought of a downy pillow and sleep recurs constantly to @ workers brain through the long day, not only will his earnest efforts be hampered, but when night comes and rest is his portion, not so perfectly shall he rest as will he who, out amidst his sober tasks had little thought of compensation; perhaps his peace shall be sweeter for the forgetting.
 At the outset of our paper, regret was expressed that me' failed to heed the
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The mightiest force. let us know, to coerce malignant expression of the past, is to environ the first gestures of crime with as clean, moral atmosphere as pos sible. Also. let the offspring of criminal or indigent parent be charged that outlying before him or her are count less avenues wherein it is the highest duty to find ones right working place.
 To you and me. who are delegates and guides in fashion for all mankind. does the call to work come as well as to the weak, and 1t behoves US to lose no chance for ministering. Not as teachers only. but as right valiant workers ourselves shall the dream be soonest forwarded to the bright fulhllment when men shall work together as brothers. Let the dis solute one, or the criminal, or the lazy not find in your life or mme cause for tardily approaching his right working place.
 Your words which praise the down-tear- ing of obstacles and the upbuilding of stately ideals, should have for witnesses and attorneys seal your brave living &C., tions-better than all printed or spoken word.
 Epes, Ala.
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who. in our day have spoken our lan- guage are William D. Gladstone and John Bright. Does anyone regard either of these great men as poor thinker? Rich ard Fuller was probably the greatest rhetorician that ever spoke to our gener- ation of Baptists; and his thoughts were often of the highest order A. B. Browns style was equal to that of any preacher since Robert Hall preached in England; and no one who knows what thinking Is will deny that Brown was a glorious thinker. Dr. William II. McGuffey, who was professor of rhetoric in the Univer- sity of Virginia when John A. Broadus was chaplain there, said that he had heard Brondus preach 'extempore' ser mons, whose style was absolutely fault less Who doubts that Broadus was a thinker? At the Baptist Congress in Lynchburg, the two finest speeches as to style were those of H. H. Harris and J. B. Hawthorne. It would be difficult to decide which was the finer piece of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-31
Copyright, 1909, by Edwin A. Nye.)

(COpyrlgnt, 1SU5, Dy EuWlH A. Nye.) WY HEN diminutive, stub nosed, red A/ headed Colonel Funston brought W the Twentieth Kansas regiment to the Preside on its way to the Philip pines the San Francisco people poked fun at the country jakes' and their colonel
 That was during the Spanish war.
 few years later, when earthquake and fire had devastated that city, red headed Funston was the idol of the Frisco peo- pie.
 The doughty little brigadier faced the most trying situation of his life. Fully 8oO00O people were homeless, disorganized. many of them distracted Thieves preyed. Harpies attacked the dead bodies. The situation required more than courage. Poise, keenness, vigor, were needed.
 Funston was equal to the emergency. When he ordered the soldiers to shoot the looters on sight and to compel idle and unwilling men to work at the point of the bayonet he took great risk.
 Would the war department support him?
 
 on the hell that was beginning to rage and sat upon it.
 No West Point man would have dared such a thing without consulting Wash ington. And that is where the volunteer officer has the advantage-if, like Funs- ton, he has the brains to use the oppor- tunity.
 They put another officer over Funston later on-when the work was done. But history can never rob the little brigadier of the supreme hour when he saved San Francisco from itself. Luck Funston" they call him in the army.
 And they say he Is a poser. But how could the gallant red headed Kansan help 1t if the correspondents pictured him as swimming the Bagbag river with a rope in his teeth?
 At their worst the correspondents only slightly exaggerated the real Funston. Because
 Down deep beneath his little swaggef the Napoleonic general has sagacity Judgment and the grit of bulldog. He has proved that ever since he went down lone handed to help the Cuban insurgents. Lucky?
 He has been lucky as Napoleon was lucky and Charles Martel and Phil Sher- idan.
 Let no American boy read the biography of Frederick Funston to fortify his theory that men go the upward way by means of luck.
 Exactly the opposite Is revealed in the brilliant career of this American general. A once brilliant social favorite of the east--a rich, handsome, popular man-has been arrested in Shanghai, China, for obtaining money under false pretenses. Which reminds one
 The ancients who lived near a volcanic lake not far from Naples called the place Avernus, and they believed, or affected to believe, that 1t was the mouth of hades The descent to this place was an easy one. whatever the steps to tho ancient hades may have been, the steps by which the once popular New Yorker has gone down are easily traceable. They are: Step one, dissipation.
 Step two, extravagance.
 Step three. borrowing money.
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F-f ORD Bacon's eulogy of strong
 drink was this: Tt is the duty of Az every gentleman to be drunk once a month." Of it Robert Burns wrote:
 When neebors anger at plea
 An just as wud as wud can be,
 How easy can the barley bree
 Cement the quarreli
 It's aye the cheapest lawyers fee
 To taste the barrel.
 And 1t was the prince of orators and the favorlte of good fellowship, Pagan Bob" Ingersol. who, sending a flask of choice whisky to a friend, paid it this tribute:
 send you some of the most wonderful whisky that ever chased a skeleton from feast of painted landscapes on the brain of man. It is mingled souls of wheat and corn. Tn it you will see the sunbeams chasing each other over the billowy fields, the dews of night. the wealth of sum- mer and autumn's rich content, all glided with imprisoned light Drink it and you fair. mingled with the laughter of chill dren as they sing the Harvest Home" Drink 1t and through your veins you will feel the starlight dawn, the dreamy, tawny dusks of many perfect days. For 40 years this liquid joy has been imprisoned within its slaves of oak. awaiting an opportunity to touch the lips of man.
 Whether that letter was originally ad- dressed to "Quinine Jim" Mckenzie, or some other choice spirit matters not
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~ BEING that beautiful results invarl- N ably attend any wise expenditure of A~ energy and that throughout all society there continually comes call for workers, one who has found in sincere application very precious and wise guide is disposed to lose faith in men the degree that they fail to answe- tQe high call. More especially Is = a's- posed to lose faith in humara Ger ty. considering that not for p' is oH- asked to exercise brain -4Hn as- yond the finished tasl sNHItt no matter how Q or zs5a.6l the task may be rwafd .s5- portionate to tt a5n t and aence of the achievaue
 The thor"' asE aar implies compens 44 o1 s=as z s-o ser and the old O astlo- HH au to be paid?" the infa lets fall before 5 as npan. This, of course, asiHs ea.e ir eEae# and quite the meth i1e orid the employer if he be
 sYs vha. he considers the worth
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WIZ frequently hear this phrase N used in what is meant to be an
 W uncomplimentary sense. When it is uttered in our hearing we always un- derstand that it is intended to be dis paraging to the speaker, or to the writer, to whose composition 1t is applied. Let us inquire into the proprlety of such a use of the phrase.
 And at the outset, let it be admitted that the whole matter turns upon the question, "What Is Rhetoric?" If rhetoric consists in the appropriate, adequate and precise expression of the thought of the speaker then rhetoric is, upon the whole a good thing, and does not deserve to be disparaged. Webster defines rhetoric as the art of oratory or addressing popular assemblies; the art of persuasion; the art of prose composition; pathological criti- csm, oratory. eloquence" In these sev- era definitions we find no hint that this able Photographer was at all inclined to depreciate rhetoric According to his view
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as a cart wheel. He drags himself to a faucet and lets the cold water revive him sufficiently to get down to the office at 7:30.
 No breakfast for him.
 There are many errors and ensures in his book His hands tremble; his stomach is nauseated; tn ere is a seal brown taste in his mouth; his liver is clogged and his vitality lowered.
 Will he reform? He will make re- solves, but his will power will fail to grip. Next week he will be out again with the gang. And some day he will go to the hospital-or the morgue.
 Who is this young man?
 His name Is Legion.
 Mrs. W. A. Stone, who lived in a western Pennsylvania mining village in a fine home with her husband and five children, ran away with a MT. Martin, her affinity"
 Nothing very strange about that. Such episodues are all too common.
 The strange thing is the conduct of the deserted husband, who is the min ing magnate of the village and worth
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
NO CROSS INDEX
DECEIVED POOL
HE SUES HIRAM SMEDLEY AND
BONDING COMPANY FOR
$1,000 DAMAGES.

Failure to cross index a mortgage
Is the basis on which a suit was
filed by S. p. Pool against Hiram
Smedley and his bondsmen, the Title
Kuaranty G. Surety company for
$4,000 damages. Pool alleges or
August 20. 1906, a mortgage cover
ing a one-third interest in the Pa
ducah Undertaking company was
filed in the county clerks Office by
l.. o. Stephenson to his wife, Jennie
Stephenson. lie says that Smedley
or his deputy failed to cross index
the mortgage. and on November Is,
1906, he examined the index and
failed to find the mortgage. on the
strength he says he purchased the
one-third interest from Stephenson
for $1,000. Since then the company
has made an assignment and Pool
says Stephenson is insolvent, and
seeks TO recover $4,000 from Smed-
ley or his hondsmen for the alleged
error. The suit was filed by Attor-
neys Burns a. Burns.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
Bankers Go on Record Against the
Postal Savings Banks and Deposit
Guarantee as Being Socialistic
Agree to Meet Next Year at
Los Angeles and1Adjourn..
National Banks Talk OF Ac.
ceptins Savings Accounts.

Chicago, Sept. 17.-"Getaway"
day of the bankers convention is a
busy one. Votes are taken on all
question. Morgan spoke this morn
ing and had great reception. Offi-
GERS will be elected and installed this
afternoon.
The next session of the bankers
will be held at Los Angeles. The
bankers went on record today as op.
posed to the Postal Savings banks
and deposit guarantee. This action
was taken when Chairman Reynolds
read his report of the committee on
federal legislation. He called the
guarantee "social!stic and subver
sive." The convention was in a dis
pute over the proposition of national
banks to ask permission to handle
savings deposits. the savings banks
bitterly fighting the proposition.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
PULLMAN COMPANY is
SUED FOR BIG DAMAGES

Alleging that she was elected from
her sleeping berth and forced to
stand in the cool night air and COM
plete her journey in a day coach
Mrs. Douglas Hughes filed suit
against the Pullman company for
$4,000 damages. She alleges that
she went TO Texas for the benefit OF
her health, and had recovered when
on February IA. she purchased a
ticket on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad from Goldwaite to
Cleburn, Texas. a distance OF 200
miles she also purchased a berth
in the Pullman coach, and retired
about $3.50 O'Clock. At l o'clock in
the morning she says employees woke
her and forced her to leave the
berth without giving her time to
dress. At Temple, Texas, she was
forced to stand in the cool night air
and finally had TO enter the day
coach In order to complete her jour.
ney. Her health was damaged per
manenty to the extent of 1900
and she was Obliged to pay $500 for
physicians services. and seeks to
recover damages.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
CANNONIsM AND ALDRICHIsM.
Blind Senator Sees a Chance for
Democracy.

Oklahoma City. Okla. Sept. IT,
"Democracy's opportunity next year
In the congressional campaigns lies
in a systematic and effective opposi-
ton to Cannonism and Aldrichism.
which means an opposition to the in
terests they represent and a fight for
the people" said Senator Thomas p.
Gore. "Aldrich doubtless will be a
central figure again this winter. by
chaperoning pet measure of his
looking to the establishment of a
great central bank, ! can only inter-
pref his methods as meaning that the
ultimate object of such a measure
would be to make the National City
bank OF New York a Standard Oil
institution. the governments central
place OF doing business"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
Odd Fellows Will Go to May.
field in Interest Of Charles
B. Hatfield.
Sovereign Body Meets at
Seattle, Wash.
THE DAUGHTERS OF REBEKAH.

The eighty fifth annual communi-
cation of the sovereign grand lodge
of the Independent Order of Odd Eel
lows will convene at Seattle, Wash.
Monday, September 20, at 9 O'Clock
a. m. Acting Grand Sire w. L. Kuy-
kendall, of Saratoga, Wyoming, will
preside. Grand Sire John l.. Nolen
of Nashville, Tenn. having died last
December. causing a vacancy that is
filed by the deputy grand sire until
the next meeting. The other sOyer-
eign officers are John b. Goodwin
grand secretary, Baltimore, Md. NJ
Richards Mickle, grand treasurer
Philadelphia; J. Edward Kroh, as
sistant grand secretary, Baltimore;
w. J. Canter. grand chaplain, Fair
mont, w. Va; E. L. Pilsbury, grand
marshal. Charleston. Mass; w. o
Carbis, grand guardian, Salt Lake
City. Utah; VIII A. Steidley, grand
messenger. Leedswlle, La.
The representative from Ken.
lucky are b. NJ. Arnett, banker, Of
Nicholasvllle; VIM. II. Cox. lieuten-
ant governor. Maysville; John S
Gaunt. lawyer. Louisville, and J
Whit Potter, bank president, Bowl.
ing Green.
The report of the grand secretary
will show more than fifty homes for
the care of widows and orphans, own
ed and supported by the I. o. o. F.
representing an expenditure of s3,-
100000, and providing for some
1000 widows and orphans. In ad-
dition to the Home now owned by the
order. a fund amounting TO s175.0 900
has been accumulated for the pur.
pose Of erecting other homes.
The selection of the place for the
session OF 1910 promises 20 be an In
tering question as both Richmond
Va, and Birmingham, Ala, will
make a hard fight for the meeting
having entered the contest and ex-
tending the invitation a year ago
when the meeting was held at Dem
yer.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
West Union Association.

The Baptist Sunday School Union
OF the West Union association con-
vened last night at the Friendship
Baptist church, Lone Oak. with a
large and enthusiastic attendance. De
votlonal exercises were led by the
Rev. j. II. Stewart and Messrs. s. +.
Peak and q. W. Potts told OF "The
Parent Problem in Sunday School
Work" The exercises were brought
TO close after a short sermon by
the Rev. @. u. Smalley. pastor OF the
Second Baptist church of Paducah.
The meeting will be adjourned this
afternoon. having been In session
this morning. Reports from all Sun
day schools In the association showed
favorable attendances an1 each school
was represented Mr.. A. NJ. Rouse Is
presiding over the convention. on
GERS for the union will be elected
next month at Barlow when the regu-
lar convention Of the western union
association proper will be held. Pro-
gram are being arranged for a sue
cessful convention there.
The program at the meeting today
was carried out in full. II was as
follows:
$40. Devotional Services-Rev
J. p. Riley.
9:45. Adult Bible Glass Move
ment-Mlss May Ellis. Rev. T. "
Shoemaker.
i0:15. Special Days In Baptist
Sunday Schools. (a) Children's Day
r.. w. Jacob. OBJ Rally Day
Jesse Bell. tc) Decision Day--IRev.
j. r. Stewart. td) Easter, Etc
Rev. T. NJ, MCGEE.
1890. Soul Winning In Sunday
School-Rev. y r. Clark. II. X
Lukins.
1890. Primary Problems--Mrs.
L. C. Wallace. Mrs. q. r. Haley.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-17
DECEIVED THE SHERIFF.
Three Men Release Allen Henderson
From Jail.

Byrdstown, Tenn, Sept. IT.
There men, one of them tied with a
rope, appeared at the jail here Mon
day night, and securing entrance on
the plea that the roped man had been
arrested for a grave crime. succeed
ed in liberating Allen Henderson, un.
der sentence of assault with intent to
commit murder in the first degree
The sheriff was deceived into beliey-
ing the men with the roped prisoner
were officers. When Henderson ran
out two of the men held pistols in the
sheriffs face. and later all three left
and took to their horses. 1t is sup
posed the liberators were Hender-
sons friends from Kentucky.
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Louisville. Sept II. Especial )
BY agreement between former state
Senator Newton Utley, of Lyon
county, and Attorneys Walter Krone,
of Kuttawa, Wheeler Campbell, of
Louisville. and Carl Henderson, OF
Marion, 1t is settled that no steps
will be taken by Mr.. Utley to press
his damage suit against the attor-
neys until Federal Judge Walter Ev-
ans has passed upon the appeal OF
the defendants to transfer the case
from the Lyon circuit court to the
federal court. Mr.. Utley was named
in several night rider cases in fed
eral court as defendant. In suit
filed in the circuit court of Lyon
county, over which Judge Thomas
Cook presides. Mr.. Utley made the
allegation that he is dragged into
the case. not because he is thought
to have had any connection with the
night riders. but for the purpose OF
getting a settlement. Henry Ben
nett was named as defendant, but