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Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16
Birthday Cele bratiOn.

On last Sunday. the 18th. the
seventy.third anniversity Of Mr. 6.
G. Hammond's birthday was cele.
brated in a way and manner long to
be remembered by all present. The
affair vas planned by his good wife
~ho. aided by the children 10 ST.
Louis, Evaniville and Marion. gave
this great old man the surprise Of
his life. a. he knew nothing OF what
was to take place until the train
brought the visitors and they were
deposited despite the inclemeucy Of
the weather, IN two bus loNds at the
home Of dear old father and mother.
All that Mr.. Hammond did know
was that he had. for several weeks
been fattening as 6ue 'possum as
was ever caught out Of Crittenden
woods, that he expected his wife TO
prepare for what turned out to be a
great feast day All the boys and
their wives, came loaded with every
thing nice that man or womans
mini could conceive o. oysters.
asparagus, celery. lettuce, a variety
OF grapes, nuts. candies etc. aside
from a nice SUIT OF clothes and over.
coat for father aud nice dress for
mother 1t was a happy occasion
and a happy lot Of children and
grand children that made it.
TIE children we're:
Mrs. G. .. Shankln, Of East st.
Louis; Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver johnson
a nd children. Mrs. James Lotus and
children. Mr.. and Mrs. Ken Ham
mond and Luke Hammond, all Of
and Mr.. aud Mrs. J. Fl
Young and Harry Hammond, Of
Marion. The only visitors we're
Miss Gertrude Gsntner. Of Evans
VILE. and Mr.. and Mrs. y. 4.
Gaines.
The long table groaned under a
Dad Of every good thing to eat
snowu to a good housewife.
Mr.. and Mrs Hammond can we'll
eel proud of such children, every
me Of them, men and women we're
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16

1t is twenty miles from Marion to
Sturgis aud twenty miles from Stur-
gis to Marion, and il is but seven
days from Christmas to New year
while from New Year to Christmas
there are 358 days. See,
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16

handsome ard intelligent Mrs. {.
q. Shankliu conducting pros
porous business IN East ST Loui..
while each Of the children IN Evans.
Vile are either 10 bushes, or holding
prominent position.
Surely 1t is consoling To- this grand
old ecu lie TO kuoE. that IN their old
age. they are SO loved by their
children.
May they live TO see mAuy more
such birthdays
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16
E. GAINES Editor and PubIisher.
If the people were as ready to give

If the people we're as ready to give
the poor devil Of an Editor the dollar
for his paper as they are to condemn
him if be should fail to publish free
Just even one birth, one death, one
obituary or card Of thank, all the
Weddings. the tobacco tidiugs, what
the Society of Equity. Farmers
Union, the Stemmiug District Asso-
citation. lodges, churches aud preach
ers are dong, saying nothing about
taking care Of all the graveyard no.
tees and the space expected bv
Uncle Sam for Incorporating his
army. poor fellows, together with
pumberless other things, there would
be cheer and comfort around his FIRE
- -, Christmas morning as we'll
- %. Jour own. Perhaps his little
VIE would look as happy and sweet
a. your own in her neat modest dress
and the faces Of the sWee, children
God bless them. would be wresthed
in happy smile. aud could repeat
ioG you.
Away 10 the manger
No crib for his bed,
The little Lord Jesus
Lay down His sweet bead,
A star 10 the sky
Looked down where he lay
The little Lord Jesus
Asleep in the hay
And the poor father could go to
church IN a decent suit Of clothes
without having TO buy one leg Of his
trousers at a time, coming back to as
happy home where the queen Of all
the earth 70 him, had 10 waiting for
hin aud his happy little aocs, just
such a meal as can be enjoyed but
once a year.
When a man came IN the other
dsy with an article OF material benefit
to the writer and those concerned, /
asking if we charged any thing for
it We. in our desperation said 90, Of
course not. Everything free from
Genesis to Revelations and Jerusalem
to Maine save county commissioner
notices aud Fiscal Court statements.
SO realizing that it takes a whole
lot Of money to run a good county
newspaper walk in the fret time you
90 to town and hand 10 dollar and
4git borrowing your neighbor's pa
per aud even then crilizising it if it
Ices not suit you. !
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN.
Paris is Full OF Them and Nearly
All Use Partisan Sage.

la the beauty sbow at the metfop.
oils tvo wear. ago Gold medal. we're
awarded To FIVE different women
To the most beautiful woman be-.
tween 20 and p, between % and 80.
betweep 30 aud IS. bet-een 35 and
80 and betreen 80 and -.
A society reporter Who intervievcd
al i've women in the intrres, 81 Nh,
papers, reported that all Of them had
beautiful hair, and ,ha, each Of 'bs
i've Enthusiastically attributed her
luIurian' hair TO Partisan sage.
Hayncs * TAYLOR sell Partisan
Sage Tor 81 cents large bottle
Ttey guarantee il TO cure dandruF
IN two weeks to stop falling hair
aud itching Of the scalp. II makes
any womans hair beautiful. soft and
luXuriAnt
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16

The Court Of Appeals has decided
that James II. Parrish must serve
FIVE years in the penitentiary for
wreckiug the Owensboro Savings
Bank and Trust Company.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16

A little ch..d was drOwued in a
horse trough the other day while the
father "a, sttoodinc the funeral Of
i,s mother.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1909-12-16

President Taft will shortly visit
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
Civil Service Examina-
tiOn.-.CIerk-Carrier.

An examination for clerk and car
rier will be held at the postefflce in
this city on January %, 1893.
Age limit, Is to45 years, on the date
Of the examination.
Married women will not be ad-
mitted to the examination.
Unmarried women will be admitted
to the examination, but are eligible
for appointment only as clerk.
Applicants must be ply sically
sound, and male applicants must be
not less than 0 feet inches In height
without boots or shoes. and weigh not
less than 125 Tounds without over
coat or hat.
For application blanks and full
information relative to the eKamina-
tiou, qualifications, duties, salaries,
vacations, promotions, etc, address
Immediately
CASPER P. SWANK,
Secretary, Board OF Civil Service
Examination, Postofice, Chanute,
Kansas.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
THE NEW LEGISLATURE.

Kansas is about to have another
session of her Legislature, soon the
solons will meet in Topeka to grad
out another batch of laws. We
wonder how this state ever managed
to live aud prosper twenty or thirty
years ago. There have been 10
Vulnerable new laws passed there
for her welfare and each session of
the legislature g,lnds out arother
big batch. Wondered we will .ver
get through
We hope the coming Legisl ire
will confne its deliberations to new
laws that may be needed and to cor
rection of defects in laws we aIreacv
have. This is no tims for freak
Legislation. We need some uniform
road system for the state, our school
interests necd attention aud some
modification of our tax law is i'm
"efative. If the Legislature would
give good share of its attention to
these questions and a few others
that the people are demanding and
devote less lime to digging railroads
aad other corporations In a sense
less wsy. more good will be ac-
compliehed and less evil result.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
Country Produce Wanted

cut gets no State support from the
general assessment, and Ohio gets
but oRet third of per cent of its
State revenues from the general
property assessment. So with some
other States, where separation Of
the sources of revenues has been
undertaken. A third recon- meuda
ton of the commission is the enact
ment this winter of an inheritance
tax, based on the Wisconsin law,
which has passed the tests of the
courts ami is taken as a model.
Wisconsin adds to Its State revenue
of SIos, 900 by the inheri
tsnce tax law. Other recommends
tions are the Limitation of levies by
taxing bodies, the assessment of
companies owning cars other than
transportation companies, assess
meat of express companies by an
excise tax, and some incidental
to the present tax law. I
This report is valuable as a dis
cussion of the general subject of
taxation in the State and for the in
formation given. It is conservative
on all phases of taxation and in its
accommodations for more law
Capital.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
URGES TARIFF ON LEMONS

"The 2, 900, 900 boxes of lemons
annually imported from Italy, If
grown in America would furnish
continuous employment, at good
wages, to 5000 people and would
comfortably support 5000 families
in the United States"
This is the assertion Of A. F. Call,
leading lemon grower of Corona,
CAL, and one of the committee of
growers who represented the Ameri-
can lemon industry before the Ways
and Means committee at Washing
ton.
Mr.. Call continued: "Should the
duty on lemons be reduced, it means
the wiping out of the business of
every lemon grower in America.
When the bulk of the California
lemons are on the market the i'm
porters' organiza alton floods the
Eastern market with lemons at a
price that the American growers
cannot meet. Then&s the American
crop is disposed of, the importers
increase t&cir quotations, the re-
suit being that the public is com
PEELED to pay an exhorbitant price.
All the American lemon growers ask
is a market that will enable them to
continue ia business, increase the.
acreage and pay American labor a
fair wage.
"With the home market safe
guarded the orange industry has
been developed to a point where
better oranges are being sold for
less money here tha2 in any other
place IN the world. With the same
safeguards it will be only a few
years until the same can be said of
American lemons. Ia 1889 the i'm
portation of foreiga oranges had
dwindled to $4,000. At the same
time the people of this country have
cheaper oranges than ever before.
For we are no longer at the mercy
of importers. ."-Philadelphia "Pub-
lie Ledger"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
Still. IN SERIOUS CONDITION

The earthquake sufferers In
southern Italy and the island OF
Sicily are still in a deplorable con
dition.
The whole world started relief
measures at once and many cargoes
of provisions and supplies have
reached portions of the stricken
country, but there are yet thousands
Of suffers who are still in destitute
and starving condition. Our great
fleet is now approaching, through
the Suez canal, and it will furnish
all the relief within its power.
Looters and robbers are swarmlng
over the ruins Of the stricken cities,
pillaging the houses, stripping the
dead and -terrorizlng the living. The
officials, assisted by sailors from
foreign vessels, are guarding all pos
slble points as best they can, but
they cant be everywhere. They
have orders to shoot the miscreants
at sight, and they don't seem slow
in obeying orders. 1t will be some
time yet before any systematic re.
lief can be established. In the
meantime eruptlons and rumb'ings
in the earth continue and the peo'
pie are in constant terror.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08

work it reformed the tariff back
again, and our mills and factories
started up again. Our workers were
employed at good wages. So instead
of being a lot of dependent paupers
we became a creditor nation, and
we had balance of $500, ooo, 900
IN our favor and our workers have
lived well-beeh paid well, and
where economical, have money in
bank. S. G.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
tariff Reform" Under
Cleveland.

Editor Chicago "Tribune": We
hear much now from both parties
about "TarIff REFORM" We bad a
touch of It under the Cleveland ad-
m;ulstratlon and a sad experience Al
was, too, to every one. How short
our memories are!
Visiting the German exhibition of
cutlery during the Worlds Fair
remarked to the manufactures in
charge Of one section: "You have
a fine exhibition here, sir" ayes, "
said he. land l have a warehouse
full of it ready made up to ship In
rs soen as your tariff is removed!"
II was removed and our w0rkmen
loot their knives little cheaper, but
they lost their jobs of making them,
and other commodities, and we had
silent factories and mills, as we'll as
idle paupers with the attendant soup
and lodging houses and living on
charities.
As soon as possible after the Nc
Kinley administration could get to
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08
THE GOOD ROADS MAN.

We are soon to have appointed
by the commissioners a man to act
on the good roads committee for
this locality. We W nder what the
object of this office is any way.
Is 1t to satisfy somebody's politi-
cal ambition or for some ones
political debt, or is that the public
highways may be improved?
This is an important appointment
for the community and one in which
tne tax payers ars vitality interested.
The men who put up their good
money to pay the expenses of this
position and to do the improving he
may favor, want value received for
the expenditure. We cannot see
that it makes any difference to the
people what may be the political or
religious bslief of the appointee, but
it does make a great difference to
them whether he is practical man
and knows good road from hog
wallow and has some definite ideas
about road building and what it
takes to make and maintain a good
scientific road.
The mayor of the city is by virtue
of his office member of that com
mittee and he may be a man who
knows about as much about what il
takes to make a good permanent
road as does an ordinary Democrat
about the tariff. We hope when it
comes to appointing this Ean the
commissioners will look only to the
qualifications of the man, re }ss
of his politics or popula; Il We
want the man who is fitted for the
place and can see that the work is
done in a systematic and scientific
manner.
The great and crying need of this
country now is improved reads. |
The time hes come When we can no
donger afford to drag to and FROM
town through mud up TO the axles.
With the prettiest country to lock at
in the world, where nature has done
so much for us there cannot much
longer be any excuse for aur un
improved roads. Sufficieat and
complete drainage seems tc be the
chief element Of good roads in this
country as well as any other. Many
of our roads can be rendered alto
gether good the year ground byl
proper drainage and persistent use
of the drag. Many sections need a
top dressing of rock AID gravel. la
many places a good dressing with
oil is all that is needed after drain
age and grading are locked after-
We want a nan on thiscommittee Of
good com@on sense and SQUAD
iudgmenr, Enore than a kid glove
aristocrAt. We hope cur commits
sioners will select such a man.
L here is too much money to be
handled and the interests are too
great to give the matter but a pass
ing thought or to appoint a man
because some one owes him a po-
litical debt. Let us have a good
man for the place regardless of all
other considerations.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08

Several OF our streets are now nicely
maeadamiEed and they are a fine
street to drive over, but oh my. the
dust. Wonder what we are going 70
do sbout that? IL seems much worse
than the natural dirt.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08

who do you want for mayor? l. is
about time TO express yourself or ever
afterwards hold your peace. There
are also several councilmen aud msm-
bers Of the school board to elect.
Better get some good men out for
these places.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-01-08

THE IRONY or POLITICS.


What might be called the irony OF
politics in popular government is
revealed by the discussion in con-
nection with the reputed offer to
Senator Long of Kansas of a place
in President Taft's cabinet. Sena-
tor Long denies the offer, according
to the reports, and declares he
could not afford to accept such an
honor if it were rendered. He says
he is too poor 10 maintain the po-
sitlon of cabinet minister-mean-
ing, of course, that he could not
afford to 1--we in the style which is
required of such an off ficial in Wash
ington society.
Here is a man who has been a
faithful and efficient public servant
for ten years or more; who has held
one of the highest and most i'm
portant Offices under our govern
ment; who has given some of the
best years of his life to the service
of the people, and yet, in the prime
of manhood and the flower of his
maturity, he is cut off from promo
ton and forced to retire to the
shades of private citizenship on &C
count of his poverty, or, rather, be-
cause of the excessive demands of
snobbish society at the national
capital. 1t is of no consequence
that he merits romotion, and that
the public, and Washington society
in particular, should delight to hon
or such a man. The fact that his
talents and works as senator won
the admiration and friendship alike
of Presidant Roosevelt and Mr..
Taft counts for nothing against the
foolish edict of an ostentatious,
empty-headed society clique which
dictates the social customs at Wash
iagton.
That such a state of affairs is
radically wrong all sensible people
will admit. Senator Longs poverty,
relatively speaking, is his crown;ng
badge Of honor. During his years
of service in the house and senate
he could undoubtedly have accumu
lated a fortune by simply turning
his knowledge of public affairs to
acc ount in Wall street. Upon count
less occasions when important NJ meas-
ures were pending in the senate he
could doubtless have sold his know
ledge of the secrets of committee
rooms at his own price-but that
idea is beyond discussion for the
simple reason that there is not a
Kansan in public life, in high sta
ton, who could be bribed to betray
his country's secrets at any price.
And so the fact that Senator Long
is a poor man is much TO his credit.
But the ugly situation remains
that by reasoO of his honesty and
disiRterested public service all these
years he is to be banished from pub
lie life and debarred from continu-
ing TO serve his country in a higher
place in which his ability would
have fuller opportunity to manifest
is value to himself and the people.
And this is the country in which
democracy is seen at its best and
where the plain, coramon people
City Journal.
Civil Service EXamina-I
Blue-grass blade., 1909-09-05
Blue GRASS BLADE.


tress His home was filed with guests almost continually
as the host loved company.
In his boyhood he took dislike to religion, and In his
manhood was infdel. He despised politics and poll
cians mo decent gentleman is politician" was his
contention His hatred for the clergy in general was
intense He also believed that when man became
MORALLY i'll he should not wait for death.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-09-05
REV. HOUGH CONVICTED.


We are constrained to express complete satisfaction at the
result of the investigation entered into concerning Rev.
George A. Hough the Episcopal preacher of San Francisco
and the late NJ d. Leahy founder and instructor of the
erstwhile Freethought University, at Liberal Mo.
When the statements of Mr. Hough first brought to
our attention sufficiently familiar with the facts
to essay reply with any degree of satisfaction concu
sveness Our active work on the Freehought lecture
platform did not begin until $780, and the institution at
Liberal had become defunc Through correspondence we
had become acquainted with but person residing at
Liberal namely George H. Waser, and it has been many
years since heard from him, not knowing
whether he still be in the land of the living has entered
the realm of the dead In order to get at the facts the
Blade called for information from those who were in
position to know, and did know, that the reading public
might be given information and efforts in that
direction have not been in vain There sufficient evil
dence hand convict this Episcopal preacher of having
grossly wfuly and malicousy told the members of his
congregation in a Sunday sermon, untruth concerning
N. D. Leahy and fitting climax take pleasure in
publishing in this issue of the Blade, communication
from brother of the dead Freehnker which is conclusive
the subject
1t will be recalled that Mr. Hough insisted that ngero
had given $4,000 the institution and that it pet
scheme of ngersos but lived only about three
years. That M. d. Leahy, its first president afterwards
became converted in the privacy of at Great Bend
Kansas by lady evangelist and spent the balance of his
life in trying undo the wrongs he had done and had
preached Christianity extensively in the Southwest This
statement of course made to his congregation aone
and had been for the manuscript copy he had furnish
ed the papers of San Francisco for publication further
notice would could have been given it. and these state
would have passed unchaenged The of
danger to Mr.. Hough lie in the fact of the publication
That brought his utterances the attention of Others and
the investigation undertaken by the Blade.
Rev. Hough is convicted of having told untruth in
stating that the National Freethough University at Lib
eral Mo-, pet scheme of Ingersolps.
Blue-grass blade., 1909-09-05

Rev. Hough has been convicted of having told unrutn
by stating that NJ d. Leahy had told him that Ingerso had
given $4,000 to the support and maintenance of the in
stution.
Rev Hough has been convicted of having told unruth
when he said that M. d. Leahy converted.
Rev Hough has been convicted of having told unruth
when he said that M. d. Leahy had srven to undo the
wrongs he had done by his nbeef and had extensively
preached Christ and him crucfed.
Rev. Hough has been convicted of having fabricated a
story of absolute fiction connected with NJ d. Leahy for the
purpose of disparaging the and memory of dead
Freehinker who defend himself, and to draw the
cash out of a credulous and unthnkng congregation.
Rev. Hough has been convicted of being anything but
gentleman and possessing utter disregard for truth.
For these findings the Blade is grateful and thankful to
c. E. Alexander of Chanute Kansas, who has rendered
capable and valuable help in this undertaking. and it is also
thankful to T. j Leahy the surviving brother of NJ d.
Leahy author of the communication which appears this
ISSUE
From careful perlsa of the letter in question, our
readers will be able understand something of the nature
of the Attending Kansas Normal College, at Fort
Scott Kansas from which he graduated in 1885, M. d.
Leahy thrown in with George A. Hough who
teacher in penmanship therea also worker In the
Y NJ O. A., and Leahy being nfdel to the Christian
religion at that time Hough had very little for him,
and, T. j. Leahy suggests naturally gave him little
credit a thinker" We understand the animos-
ty of George A. Hough and also understand why
this intoleran bgory should be made manifest long after
NJ d. Leahys DEATH for is not George A. Hough, formerly
a teacher in penmanship Episcopal preacher, and
do Episcopal preachers of the Hough stripe appear will
ing to defame the dead whom they disliked in lifeg
Fortunately have Also from the same source learned
something of L. A. Hanson, Hausam, as Mr.. Hough
renders the same and it appears that his unbeief as
professor simply consisted of his being Christian
Scientist but with dstorting fact, Hough had
this converted the time and place by the same
lady evangelist of whom nobody has the slightest knowledge
That M. D. Leahy should confne himself to lectlring
upon educational topics alone, after the demise OF his
University at Liberal is not strange to those who have e
perenced the force of Christian bgoy intolerance and
hate M D. Leahy had to live and he had to earn the
means of livelihood Without saying augh concerning
religion for it against it, he lecred other subjects,
and this taken by of narrow bera and evil mind
to imply a. conversion to Christianity.