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ments, such as the Stevens County Fed.
Grafton OF Commercial Clubs, that tends
towards the development of the county
ana Its many resources; knows the re-
quirements necessary to promote these
ana believes in giving the rural sections
every possible facility in the way of
roads that will enable them to improve
their districts, and be on competitive
OASIS with older. settled communities.
lie advocates every legitimate improve
ment tending to the upbuilding of the
county, and guarantees economy in it's
affairs, and his high standing as c,ti-
zen of sterling qualities is irrefutable
evidence that he will give the county
such an administration.
These candidates will stand the closest
inspection. No one can successfully
question their ability as to high moral
standing, and every voter who favors
clean progressive government of the
highest efficiency and economy cannot
but give them unqualified support.
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Notice to Creditors

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASH.
INGTON, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF sTEvENs-
IN PROBATE.
In the Matter of the Estate of Anna L. Wilson.
Deceased-Notice to Creditors to File Claims.
tary on the estate Of Anna D. wilson Deceased.
were granted to the undersigned on the Sth
day OF October. 1870 by the said Superior Court
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to present them with the neces.
sary vouchers to me at my Office at Newport,
washington, within one year after the date OF
the first publication of this notice. or they shall
be forever barred.
Dated at Newport, Wash, first publication,
18th day of October, 1910.
ALvA s. SHERLOCK, Executor
P. 0. Address, Newport. WASH 22-4
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About century ago an artist named
Cranch was standing one day in front
Of fire in his home at Administer.
Over the fireplace was an oaken man.
telpiece. and it occurred to Cranch
that. this expanse of wood might be
improved by a little ornamentation.
He picked up the poker. heated It red
hot and began to sketch in a bold de-
sign. The result pleased him so much
that he elaborated his work and began
to attempt other fire pictures on pam
els Of wood. These met with a ready
sale, and Cranch soon gave all his
time to his new art. This was the be-
ginning Of what Is now known as
typography.
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s~~Ae0 sAAV Ass0w AVS00O
the taxable property of the state
has increased $3.50, 100000 annu-
ally, aggregating an increase OF
$,2OO,OOO,O0O in ten years. Ten
years ago our property was taxed
on Is per cent basis, amounting
to 1927, 444. The total taxable
property this year at from IS to 80
per cent valuation amounts to
1851 100000. Kansas today
stands second amodg the states of
the Vnion in property per capita.
The census will show that it stands
first in home owning citizens.
Ninth-The brewers are wasting
their time and their money, too, in
speeches and documents trying to
arouse public sentiment and refer
ence to pauperismi in Kansas. Fifty
seven of the 1O5 counties of the
state have no inmates at their poor
farms. Cook county alone, in ILL
nois, with all its palatial saloons
and vibrating breweries, has little
over five times more paupers than
we have in the entire state of Kan
sas. The good state of Illinois has
Just 100 per cent more paupers
than Kansas, according to popula-
ton. And I venture to say that
Illinois would have still more were
1t not for the temperance progress
she has made during the past few
years. I have heard great many
mean things said about prohibition,
but have never before heard the
charge that it causes pauperism.
Tenth assert that Kansas is
more free from mental and nervous
diseases than any other state in the
Union, and that authenticated sci
entific facts will prove that our
temperance policy fer 80 years is
largely responsible for this condi-
ton. Kansas has "a counties with
out an idiot. It has 81 counties
without an insane inmate. Cook
county alone sends more of her
people to the insane hospitals at
Dunning than Kansas has in all
her charitable institutions of every
sort, including blind, deaf, dumb,
insane, inebriates, feeble-minded,
incorrigibles and orphans. With
20 per cent of the population of
New York, Kansas has less than 1O|
per cent of its insanity. The brew
ers 60 so far as to say that temper
ance increases divorces in Kansas,
although we have made it plain to
them several times that the first
few years of prohibition in Kansas
showed As per cent decrease in
divorce cases. Their logic seems
to be that a man must get drunk
and beat his wife in order to inten-
sify her love for him. Ninety.six
counties in the state have not
single inebriate. Six of the nine
counties furnishing inebriates last
year were, strikingly enough, coun-
ties bordering on the wet section of
Missouri.
Eleventh. assert that prohibi-
ton is the best friend of education
and that wherever temperance is
observed the school shows it's high
est and best development.-Gov.
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Neglected Opportunities.

This is the site Of an ancient city,"
announced the Arab guide. LAS you
see, not one stone remains upon an
other
You fellows lack enterprise" COM
mented the tourist. why don't you
take some Of this building material
and construct some ruins ?"-Pittsburg
Post
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GENERAL DIRECTORY
CIVIC SOCIETIES.

MASONIC-Newport Lodge No. IA f. & A. NJ.
meets LIST and Bird Thursdays in Vawter's
Hail. AE Reid, w. M.
s.. Rogers, Sec'y.
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under the drain of the saloons have
become debtors of reliability and
standing. and bad accounts are a
rarity. .Garnishment cases have
practically disappeared from the
courts.
Seventh assert that the charge
of higher public expenses, on ac-
count of prohibition is practically
untrue. A bulletin issued by the
census department makes a really
wonderful revelation in favor of
prohibition. 1t shows that the
general and special service expenses
in Wichita are 1921 per capita, in
Sringfeld. H., $11.S8, and in Chi
cago. $3.50. The bulletin shows
the cost of the police department at
So cents per capita, at Springfield
$1.26, and at Chicago $2.e4. From
another authoritative source | get
it that the cost of the police and
militia establishment in Kansas is
only $402, 600 annually, while it is
$4,79O,OOO in Illinois, or twelves
times heavier with only about four
times as much population.
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The best way Of answering a bad
argument Is not to stop 1t, but let 1t
go on its course until 1t overleaps the
boundaries Of common sense.-Sydney
Smith.
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Stevens County Republican Ticket

For StateSenator-
A. W. ANDERSON.
For State Representative
HENRY r. sPEDDEN,
81. APPLEMAN.>
For County Clerk
W. LON JOHNSON.
For Prosecuting Attorney
HOWARD w. STULL.
For Comfy Treasurer
BLISS PHILLIPS.
For County Auditor
LIE JESSEPH.
For Sheriff
WIN. MILLER.
For County Assessor
JAMES ALGIE.
For County Engineer
c. A. HEBERLING. =
For Superintendent of Schools
LOUIS ]. BOWLER.
For Coroner
H. NJ. WEST.
For Commissioner, First District
FRANK FERGUSON.
For Commissioner, Second District
w. w PALMER.
The above are the candidates pre-
nted by the Republican party to tn
)ters of Stevens county for their con
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THE BATTLE IS ON.
Shot That Told and will.
tADvERTIsING)

ooCletY, caCIng out Inc VltalS and
threatening destruction, and all at
tempts to regulate it will not only
prove abortive, but will aggravate
the evil.
There must be no more attempts
to regulate the cancer. 1t must be
eradicated, not root must be left
behind; for, until this is done, all
classes must continue in danger of
becoming victims of strong drink.
If it is crime to make a coun-
terfeit dollar, it is ten thousand
times worse crime to make a
counterfeit man."-Abraham Lin
coin.
Say voters, in the light of these
words, what about that hot air be-
ing blown about the streets of New
port of business mans saloon?"
Is it not only another struggle of
the serpent to hide and preserve
himself from the doom that threat
ems his extinction? Has it not
been proven that his bite is just as
deadly from his gilded hidings and
are his best decoys as his darkest
dens? Why then should any one
vote to continue this worse than
highway robber? Do you wonder
that the good people of this section
would stand against any such
thing?
Here is a pointer for those who
think the saloon helps to pay taxes
lone has seven saloons, yet the
council made as high a levy for the
current year as they are making in
Newport-that is, 10 mills on the
dollar. Now, people. we have had
the saloon rule for a long time,
and under it thousands have been
ruined, and villainy has run riot.
Let us try the dries a little and see
what will be the result. This coun-
try is just as good as Kansas, and
see. what her governor says for pro-
hibition, and remember this is not
the report OF some irresponsible
person, but of the highest authority.
when [ was a candidate for gov
ernor in 1908, | made the campaign
for my nomination and election on
the proposition that if elected to
this Office every saloon, joint and
place of every kind whatever, re-
gardless of the sentiment of the
community, had to be closed. This
proposition was made in my CAM
paign speeches to the saloon men
in wet communities as we'll as to
temperance people; stated public
ly all over Kansas, in Pittsburg. in
the mining districts as we'll. as in
the localities where the law was en-
forced, that any man who estab-
lished himself in the saloon bust
ness in violation of the laws and
constitution of Kansas, would be
regarded the same as any other
outlaw, and all the power and force
of the state government would be
used to punish and destroy his
business.
This does not mean that we have
no violation of the prohibitory law,
| for if there were no violations such
law would not be necessary. 1t
does mean that prohibitory law in
Kansas is as we'll enforced as other
criminal statutes, and that when
men violate it they are arrested,
convicted and promptly sent to
prison.
Prohibition must be Judged by
results-it must stand or fall upon
its merits. The people of Kansas
are very progressive, very positive
and intensely practical in their
ideas and habits. If the prohibi-
tory law had not given us better
fertilization and higher type OF
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Decide hut onea.

When you decide more than once not
to do thing 1t is sure sign that you
will do Il sooner or 1ater.-Atchison
Globe.
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Information.

Customer-Have you the papers for
q week back? Newsboy-Fer q weak
back? Yer don't want papers; yer
wants porous plaster.-Exchange.
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manhood and womanhood it would

manhood and womanhood it would
have been repealed years ago. If
1t had increased drunkenness, crime
and perjury, as saloon men claim
it has done, the saloonkeepers
would all be supporting the law in
stead of fighting it, for it would in
crease their revenue.
First-I assert that drunkenness
in Kansas has been reduced to such
a point that / have not seen
drunken man in the city of Topeka,
a place of $4,000 inhabitants, dur
ing the last 10 months; that do
not have any recollection of having
seen drunken man in my home
city OF Lawrence, a place of $4,000
people, for several years; that in
making campaign throughout the
entire state and delivering public
addresses in 80 counties, I do not
recall seeing a drunken man during
the year.
Second-I assert that in 105
counties of Kansas that / do not
know of conviction for perjury
growing out of the prohibitory law.
Third assert that the prohibi-
tory law is now as easily enforced
as any other law on the statute
books.
Fourth-I assert that crime has
decreased in Kansas under the in
fiuence of temperance legislation.
At the present time more than so
per cent of our county jails are
without prisoner under convic-
ton. Last year 40 of the los coun-
ties did not send a prisoner to the
penitentiary. We have only one
convicted prisoner in our county
jails for 1000 inhabitants. an al
most unbelievable fact in criminal
statistics. And the attorney gen.
eral estimates rs per cent of these
prisoners are in jail for the viola
ton of the prohibitory law. Of the
$50 convicts in our penitentiary
only 143 are natives of Kansas.
And it is a singular fact that while
only II per cent of our prisoners
are natives, l have figures from the
wardens at Joliet and Chester, Ill.,,
which show that 40 per cent of our
convicts are natives of Illinois. We
have no powerful saloon men in
Kansas to use their pull in keeping
the criminals they make out of the
hands of the law.
Fifth assert that the business
of Kansas has made remarkable
progress since the Punishment of
the ssloon and adoption of prohibi-
ton. The records of the State Bank
Commissioners and comptroller of
the federal treasury, which I have
with me, show that in ten years
deposits in Kansas banks have in
creased from $69,O0O.OOO to $780,
100000, and during the past ten
years under a more rigid enforce
ment of the law, bank deposits, per
capita, have increased from 500 to
$113. Since complete prohibition
became effective, May, 1909, bank
deposits have increased $11,0O0,-
600.
Some years ago Carrie Nation
purchased and donated to the AS
ISOLATED Charities a home for
drunkard's wives. During the year
preceding the closing of the joints
this home was full to overlooking.
Within about year after the joints
were closed there was not an in
mate and it has now been converted
into a school foregirls.
: STANDARDIZATION has worked
wonders in the private credit of the
state. Grocers and butchers tell
me men who were dead beats"
under the drain of the saloons have
become debtors of reliability and
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You never lift up Z life without be
ing yourself lifted up.-EmeFson.
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-07

bill extending widely an old aci. eiv-
Ing the state the right 20 take over
at valuation any discovery Of min
,erHl riches on private lands
German manufacturing and min
ng. says Scr.bner's Magazine. ls
rather more completely under the
control OF combinations then is the
Industry Of any other country The
closely organized syndicates In tha
ooai and iron industries central pro-
duction and selling prices more cf.
fectlvely than does the United States
Steel corporation In the United States
The Prlssian government. In is de-
sire TO have a seat a the coal syndi-
cate, determined three years ago TO
buy n controlling interest IN the
shares Of the Hlbernia Coal company,
mining 7 per cent Of the coal In the
RhiEe-Westphal.an region. The Dresl-
ner bank. acting under private a.
lrangemcnt with the Prusran treas
ury. bought shares on the stock cx-
change until a majority Of the capi-
tallzat ,on had been acquired. Tho
announcement mat Prussia had
bought the control OF the company
10 vexed the group OF coal owncfs
who had previously ruled the com
pany that they increased the capitaii-
zatlon and issued new shares 10 them
selvee, thus reacquiring a majority.
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-07
I'russia's Great Revenues From
puhlic HrOnerties

The state income from public prop
Icrties amounted, in 1908, to some
what more than the total income
from taxation and from borrowings
The railways were the largest source
Iof income. and netted s149,755 900.
or about per cent on the total in
vested by Prussia in its railway sys-
TEN since the state began TO buy and
build railways. In 1S4S-49. Prussia
derived from other sources, from it's
crown forests. the leased farms. the
iron. coal, potash. salt and other
mines, the porcelain factories. bank
ing and a variety of less important
Industries, $4,000. 900. The policy
of Prussia. which dominates the en-
pire, is strongly In the direction of
increasing the participation OF the
government I'm Industrial enterprises.
The Prussian legislature. acting upon
a recommendation of the emperor. In
the speech from the throne at the
opening OF the Diet in 1906, passed q
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-07

sermon preached yesterday morning
by the Rev. III. w. Burwell at the
First Presbyterian church. He said
certain people. who believe so-called
science and the gospel contradict
each other with approaching the
question of religion from one stano
point, and science from another. lie
said that in the most accurate OF
sciences basic facts are taken for
granted, not understood, and faith is
necessary-faith in that which the
human mind cannot understand. But
men apprcr-t. scientific Investigation
through the known to the unknown
and reach the mystery by way OF
sequence of fact. Then they have
faith in the unknown and unknow-
able. They refuse to be fair with
religion; but lok at its mystery and
turn their back on ii, declining to
consider the facts, which lead up
the mystery. He said IL men would
accept the facts of the gospel. they
would have no trouble with faith in
God.
At night he preached a sermon
from the text How Old Art Thou"
showing that the man, who is true
TO himself and to his God never dies.
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-07

Eaton opposed the resolution: Sen
ator Eaton says he offered an amend
ment and the amendment was only
to put the power of distribution in
the hands of the clerk instead of the
sergeant-at-arms. Not very strenu-
Gus opposition is it7
Furthermore. Senator Eaton said:
'the amendment was offered by me
simply to meet the differences exist
ing between Senators Bertram and
Arnett." Their differences were rad
ical. Senator Bertram was opposing
the appropriation vigorously as a
bad proposition and IL Senator
Eaton had been opposed to the reso-
luton. IL seems to us that he would
have joined with Senator Bertram.
What he really did was to offer an
amendment displeasing to Senator
Arnett without in the least satisfying
the demand of senator Bertram that
the appropriation be defeated If. as
the News-Democrat never showed in
It's report from Frankfort, Senator
Eaton voted against the appropria-
ton, after his own amendment was
defeated. We are left to the sole con-
fusion. that he opposed the sergeant
lt-arms distributing the money and
rot the appropriation itself.
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-07

Landing. KY. whce she rcce Sed
freight. she returned. passing here
al ) O'Clock Last night headed for
Evansville. she had a hig trip con
sisting of produce corn aud farm
ing implements.
From Waterloo. Ala. tho clyde ~
due In port tonight she makes a
return trip at 6 p. m. "Wednesday.
The towboat Blue Spot clcarei
port yesterday for Pripceton. Ky.
where she went after corn.
The big towboat j. u. Finley pass
ed at 1880 O'Clock this morning
with a big tow Of coal for New Or
leans.
4 pair OF new rudders are being
made for the Dick Fowher. Shc de
parted FOR Cairo on time this morn
ing with a good trip. and viii return
az O'Clock tonight.
The towboatE +. H. Davis and Con-
dor came mp from Joppa last night
and returned this morning with tows
OF ties each.
The towboat Hazel was In port
from the Tenncssee river yesterday
and returned With several bargcs.
The Clyde lett for the Tennessee
this morning
One OF the largest log RATS ever
brought out OF the Tennessee river
was pulled out yesterday by Captain
+. Await with the gasoline launch
Cutawag. The raft consisted Of l.
400 logs and was delivered TO the
Paducah Veneer and Lumber com
pany.
The gasoline yacht Joe Scott was
moved up TO the Lack Sing,etree
landing In the Tennessee river yes
terday by the Cutaway on account OF
the falling ricer. She will be re-
paired here and leave next week for
her home port at Pittsburgh
The usual Sunday quiet prevailed
along the levee yesterday. The alb
sence OF a ferryboat is becoming
more noticeable and arrangements
are being made TO secure one TEN
porarily.
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-07

The worst enemy of business is
the slum. About eighty-five per cent
of the people of this country are
classed by the sociological experts as
poor or very poor. Whatever tends
to increase this sum of poverty
strikes in two ways at the heart Of
business. 1t interferes with consump-
tion and ii interferes with produc-
tion. Nothing could be worse.
In the last twenty-five years Eng
land and Germany have entered up
on desperate duel for the CONNER
clal kingdom of the world. At the
beginning England was everything
in international commerce, and Ger
many was next to nothing. Now. to
speak quite plainly. Germany, fight
ing with skill and tenacity, is the as
sured victor in the battle. and Eng
land is going down to defeat. How
did Germany manage to make such
a marvellous showing in this tremen-
dous conflict?
The secret of Germany's success is
no secret at all to those who know
the relative condition of her working
population and England's. England
has allowed the slum to take care OF
itself and the slum has turned upon
her and eaten out the heart of her
strength. The real strength of a ma
ton is not her banks. palaces, rich
men, ornaments, guns. battleships,
splendors, park lanes, royal state,
pomp and circumstance: the real
strength is her men that work with
their hands. That is her only asset
worth talking about; her physical
condition depends upon their physi-
cal condition. England has allowed
her working populations to deter
iorate in slums; Germany has labor
ed TO abolish the slum and to rear
her working populations in the full
measure of health and vigor. When
the two working populations clash
In the commercial battle. down goes
the English line.
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THE PUBLIC FORUM.
Business and the sInms

Nothing is so foolish as to ter,
business that It ought TO be food
says Charles Edward Russell in
success Magazine" Evolution will
take care of that. Either business
VIII come to be operated on broad
clean, humane methods, looking far
ahead to great results, or it will de-
Feat itself and man will be compelled
to find some other source of primal
supplies.
For instance, the vice and graft
alliance, although it enhances the
days receipts, does not really paw In
the long run. You can not in any
city have a wide open policy without
very great waste. That is inevitable
IL you sanction graft in one way you
sanction II in all ways. Booming
Red Light districts means a lax city
administration with loot of the city
treasury, dirty streets, bad pave
mems. reckless appropriations and a
municipality down at the heels. In
evitably and always II means Just
this. In time all these conditions
react upon business. The game isn't
worth the candle. Taxes and bond
issues increase, dust from the dirty
streets Injuries goods and spreads dis
ease, the bad transportation service
keeps customers away, the stolen as
sessments multiply on your heads.
The Paducah evening sun., 1910-02-07
dangerous TO All Cities.

1.-THE people of Owensboro want to
hit that Claypool amendment hard.
II must be defeated. Every city in
the state not of the first class should
be lined up in the fight against IT,.
There is more harm in that amend
ment than many suppose. II 1t be-
comes law, every city in the state
that has a water, gas or light plant.
street railway, or other concern
operating under franchise. must
grant new franchises to these con-
Germs when present ones expire or
take over these utilities by purchase
from the corporations which own
them. 1t might be true that a city
would have just cause not to offer
for sale a franchise to a public util-
ity corporation. as is the case on the
part of the city of Owensboro to-
ward the Owensboro Water Works
company. still the city must buy the
plant or grant a franchise to the cor
poration. If the Claypool amend
ment becomes a law.-Owensboro
Enquirer.