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The first run he made he ma was very well satis there The caller ¢ _ FURNACES, TIN, SLATE AND IRON ROOFER. 129 South Third Street HENRY GREIF, EXPERT HORSESH¢ his head and repli had enough and if he went out head that got m of the opinion t sacraficed in such a cause. Expert Track Shoeing. BUCGY RE- CARRIAGE AND shed their t tot | No No f and upwards, Wall aper! We're always the | aie to show IFALL STYLES They're in now game the city this morn’ his name and addre his mc George Harris donned a new outfit of attire, but wou wear a white shirt and collar that these might be deemed a justifi- cation of homicide in that locality, and result in bis untimely end, Mr. W. A. Wickliffe wen for any emergency, biut jt of the grand jury he is Picture Mouldings Have you seen the latest? A YARD OF FACES. Vrices Reason. for GOOD work L. P, BALTHASAR, Under Parmer House A. W. GREIF, Carriages and Buggies. ALL KINDS OF BLACKSMITHING DONE TO ORDER, Horse Shoeing a Specialty, 4 Court Street, Between Second aad Third. old anti-bellum darkey of the forties and the man who first told it is un- known: *“Unele Peter’? the old darkey was] } called, and be is an olden” time} preacher who lives in Princeton, Ky “Uncle Peter’’ is ed from the fact th GITY OF MEXICO siroai Ticket HARRIS & CRIGE Attorneys : at - Law, 125 8. Fourth—Upstairs. A. H. Hamson @ PA, Chivage ._—_e tuk my tex’ an’ preach a pow’ful sarmon. Childy she — "peared mougbty sow'ful dat night an’—an’ I knowed de L A. L, HARPER, J AT TORNEY- AT-LAW, 1 Row—Upstairs, ck on de mo’nah’s bench, I say, ‘cum onto me, an’ Iwill gib yo’ rea’, Childy cried an’ cum up. weahs a white dres: she draps down in de w an’ innocent Isk, ‘Childy,’ sez 1 Mati, Effinger & Co Undertakers and embalmers, he’ ne Brinton B. Davi ARCHITECT. gy BROADWAY. ! onic Au,-Ger, Nat, Baok Bilg Jana peeks fro’ .y thing the WAITTEN _AT RANDOM, A little tot who possesses more n the average brightn dren of her age, was at the piano the} | other day watching her aunt execute | what fotched me out.’ “An' dat's rapid galop of | Childy wifout a lively qnickstep, She followed as| best si 1 th nimble floge ver the responsive | some hesitancy, Say, Bella!" “ What?’ was the reply “Is T dot as many finders as ‘00? asked the little miss in perplexity She imagined from appearances that | her aunt had fingers all over the key- | Short Tatks With ¥ About board “Do you keep the “Moon” hei ed n verdant looking yokel of a local newsdealer today Yes, that's about all I do with unsold copies spoke magnate, was wandering about last night in quest of someone who| very excellence of the es a desire upon the part of the zh the mail addressed | reader to form a ‘‘reading acquaint with the writers, and to know It is compe at least he said it looked like that to him, althe thing, so far as he is able to tell. He is is very eager to learn the contents gh it may be most any old ation despite the horrible suspicion that it ¢ and a delusion of | Writers | A well known ¢. atleman who rail- roaded for ten or twelve years of his fe recently gave up bi ess and again accepted a po yer, and when he reached he 1 to remain round to et him out yesterday, but he shook A ‘nit, th in all probability : 1 next. He is of valuable to my is far te It is evident that thousands of je in the United States | vd ba further than to sympathize with Cuba and the oppressed nation that is fighting for freedom. Hun- | States senate Jinch a ver ire lucah can nund t ngness, in enthusiastic terms, to od in the Cut f necessary, and there is no reason | of people in Pi na jiffy, and if indications count| pen name of Mr, similar is not} and was adopted by him after re , much of the Savoyards of Switzer- Mr. Newman’s taste for highly developed, age of the at all iy | torical reading is \d I believe him one of the posted men in the mediae of England and Continen who left re daylight The quartet of witne for Barlow City lard county testify, if they survive long enough in the Shelby-Taylor case, went with | an overwhelming apprehension of | 8 never gazing upon their native heath] again County Attorney Houser} eft all his valuables with friends, | and carried a walking cane bearing to be used in ¢ his remains should perchance be found some where in the wild and wooly woods, — Attorney Jesse Gil- bert held family prayers just before arty and wore im smile of resignation and a} late inscribed with his hhe can be identified besides the plate and the afterwards nentous de uring ace most any kind of danger. The unhappy four told jall their friends | good-bye, and although half of this| was done in a joking mood, serious- ly speaking trouble is feared when | the case comes up today The intensely bitter feeling that prevailed between the two| is likely, . espec " ally on such | an occasion, to result in The following story is told of ao] what renown ‘Childy,’” without asking for her. which has been a source of consider- | § able encouragement to the unbappy| bachelors of Princeton, — Peter was | { recently asked to relate his experi- ence, and fina do so to a crowd of drummers, one of whom retold it to the writer, y condescended to **Yo’ see, gemmen,’’ he began, **1 wil wuz arter her De nex’ night Childy she cum a leetle h, an’ de nex’ night she got rat **Den de baptizin cum off, Childy an’ dez w'en h so sweet shol’ yo'self stiff, so’s I ken git yo" | outen de w a. ‘But ‘fo! de Lawd, gemmen, my foot it slip, an’ Childy cayn’t foteb elf up. ‘I’se gwine marry de man whut gits me out,’ ‘I’se sho’ gwine marry de man whut gits me out!” she say an U’se quick den fob to foteh ber cut, Peter and Childy hi keys, and presently inquired with] years together, and she seem ashamed of the fact that Peter did not have to ask for her. FOR THE YOUNGER SET. - | donyrm it,” was the reply, as the news deal-| news sive he | cre through sheer Gath’ is a miliar to the rea Enquirer’? the world would adv | nati ancy new actly to the liki jown. | western Kentucky, boyhood in Edmonson county, I lieve “M. Quad” isthe peculiar name ed by Mr. Chas. M. ‘Lewis to his humorous writings that dppear in the Detroit ‘*Free Press, frequently s plate-n Mt MeGre 1 outbreak | Mt, and bloodshed, and until the trial is over there will be little repose of conscience among the Paducah crowd, at least, | » Monday 1 tone Square L nd Mouday in each month INDEPENDENT ORDER t he got his wife, | 00) KT street, No, 817, Arter de panties f oes aroun’ door b Childy’s room, and dar she set ew ging’am dress on ’ L axed, is yo’ gwine to president; Mise She ges’ ‘Yaas Brothah sof chil-/an’ presen'ly she sex, marty de Petah, U'se gwine to ing Incognit > pen names, or y young the older ones too, to rea gued by this nom de Gath” is the pen name of Geo. | Alfred Townsend, « st newspaper corres Jin this or any other country. . | has done much to make Enquirer’ one of the leading dailies of the world. 1 saw Mr. Townsend once of ve that they are not in exrn- | readers est. Tonight a mass um will be} Some of the very best rn jd at the city hall «i the mon: iow being sent out tration promises to be something ington city is being published in the unusual A few hundre men from | Louisville ‘‘Courier-Journal each state could go down and crush] Louisville «Times t every vestige of Spanish tyranny | donym of ‘‘Savoyard.”* found on this Mr. Newma Timorny COLORED DEPARTMENT. COLO ED LODG MASONIC. nnah ¢ each wionth vb Patriarchs No 79, G UO very second Friday mth at Colored Odd F g Men's Pride Le UNITED BROTHERS OF FRIANDSHL St Paul Lodge No 6—Meots every second rth Monday eveniog in each month at wound Way rs of the Mysterious Ten, #t t Tuesday in cach month a ot the We The Tube Rose club will meet Fri- day evening at 4:30 at the resid of Miss Lena Skeltom, South Fifth All members are requested to be present, as there is some very important business & dar wif’ a presented to the members for their Miss Carrie Dodd Lena Skelton, sec- meeting of the one mandery { last night the named officers were elected how I cum to git forthe ensuing year W. Walker, E Isimore Lee Boyd J. A. Morton, Captain General ». Skelton, Recorder Wilson, Treasurer Ed Singleton, § Wm. Hunt, J. W. They will ha e lived many public installation ing Readers jext month at Odd Fellows’ Hall The Trilby Social Clab will with Mr. and Mrs, Collin Thompson out on Harrison street tonight 'y member is requested to be of current writers ance to attend to. vers and periodicals are doubt- | ting along nice «lly at the hig bundle of | Jess fund iar to ‘the young readers of te free Boosoeg te Sux It is a fact that a large Mr. John Little, the well known ]of the best reading matter appears fictitious signatures, productions | jalong nicely. And is the only place proportion |r, \spares no pains in making it pleasant for everybody. you want to see the world on fire Queen Sarah No, 30. Mrs. Keeling modesty of the Not a few of these names, | jist owever, were adopted by the writers timidity iu when they themselves were not proud their productions ted pen names through while some people, believing there is something in 4 name,’* written high soundi | ision of some very low grade’ list, matter Tuck Russell ‘py man is always a healthy nature that ers of the butterflies the better, but when they are made of very . sessor is usually con of moderate size. The most exquisite of these ornaments are made of di- cheerful or useful whed one is suffer- plum | day suffering from these distressing lisorders when relief is so easily ob-] fly's head and the markings upan his e of the best He | cures cou, bs and colds of all descrip It is swift and sure, Sold by|%4 then, however, there is a butterfly whose beauty is dependent upon less costly gems. whose counterpart ma; summer day, poised on garden flow SANITARY MAKESHIFTS. |Simple Means of Ff cle ever the model housekeeper may table nonpareil per may y who signify their will-| experience, added to his natural bril- | gives him thoroug , and he serves er vigilance in th ds not alone the I as their whole lenying matter over the und {t is the business of the to know the cause, it Is al Eugene which the last book of the nent was finial the ruler of Armenta, was converted to Christianity by St. Gregory. menia was at th ince, but its ru tnd @ gon! deal about germicides and She should know that neteen-twentieths of th sands of the ed primarily for the and profit of the inventor Jarily for the taki He delights to mingle t historical knowledge “specials,” which gives | richness and an individuality a per has be n Asia, Rut the standard of Him who cied seourity by th lied on Calvary, an y Intest and most have been aving passed his having passed termost ends of the w 4 the first principles carvely better than and which are ut in the atter’” to many other publi- ations. Mr. L nd versatile writer, | good humor brings him a prieely Being @ practical newspaper uo Mr. Lewis bag Jpicked both his pen name and [his great fame right out of the ‘eases.’ as from our dwe is is and held at more or less high pric h possess any special merit, nulne utility is concerned of them are orname many things in and which wou It is a very simple matter to learn t put in or take out a trap or to id be so arranged as to be ca: of the nails striking t is the work of bu’ AM woodwork v turie u tioned y native princes a ed protperity. The eleventh cent 4 Broadway, third Ladies: ¥ ODD FLLLOWS e and hard work 7h ellows' H ‘emple—Moets se in each month al 131 Broadway It will keep the fire Tabernacle, No, 6, meets | p coud and fourth Thursday bighis tn each Pride of Padueah Tent, Ne arday afternoon in eweh month {Paducah Tent meet Joy Dm. 1D ea | have the green stuff and t is a great sanitary might be avoided, to 1) pleasure of freedom fro: sights and smells. GLITTERING COIFFURE, mounting Their Colle of arms of Jeweled Insects ‘There is a uew way of wearing jewels delight to the young which affords gre woman whe Weg te bs ae lilinois Washed Coal. If you want the best coal in the city you can get it of Illinois Coal Company, w! o handle: the celebrated ST.- LOUIS - AND - BIG - MUDDY - COAL, No clinkers, no dirt; but pure, clean coal. Our Ege f Coal far excels all other coal for grates or stoves. Our J: Washed Pea Coal beats the world for furnace or cooking. | We only charge one price the year around. The poor MA get their load of coal as cheap per bushel as the rich their thousands of bushels. Try our coal and you will use no other. Lump, 10c.; Egg, 9c.; Washed Pea, 6c. of glitter and scintillation. This nethod is called the butterfly coiffure, and the basis of it is a high-piled structure of coils and puffs and curls, arranged in the manner most becoming to the pretty face beneath it Tiny curls cluster about the forehead, and coquettish lit: tle ringlets hang close together at tho back of the neck. So much for {be foundation, Scattered over it is a pér fect swarm of jeweled butterflies, There ore @ hundred pretty ways of arranging the gorgeous insects, and al most any fashion is likely to be becom ing. The aim is to get as brilliant an effect as possible. The general feeling in regard to this eems to be that the larger the BAKNES & ELLIOTT, Proprietors Ilinois Coal Company, jewels their pos nt to have them amonds finely set tn gold, the butter cate wings being formed of brilliant es, emeralds and sapphires. Now A very lovely specimen be seen any some delicate is made of wonderfully low topazes, Black pearls are set at intervals along his wings.—N, Y. World. —George Meredith, {t is said, presenta 4 copy of his novels to every servant In his employ ARMENIAN PERSECUTIONS. Steadfast Adherence of the People to the Christian Faith Amid Tribulation. In no country on earth, perhaps, has the Christian religion contended wgainst such fearful odds asin Ar menta. Away back in the fourth century * than 300 years from th nd, Tiridates th time a Roman prov- was a native prince, was followed by thou »ility and common peo- From that time down f owr 1,500 years, Armenia the bulwark of Chris he preseng, ven in the ut- racticed “ held aloft by this determ xoept 1 the most adve Soon after the death of Tiridates and when the little band of Armenian h r surrounded them ntry was literally over- Persian fire-worsh Hardly had it recovered f n raid before its Christian pi lecimated—this time mmedan caliphs who prow > put every man and woman, rd who Would not publiely but God, phet watch fires did not during the prev- at storm of adversity hieh pe times which nearly anized that isolated 1 during the ninth and era of masse the almost fenscles tians being this me th the Greeks and untry but ¢ nees, They withstood al test, us they had several however, and came out as the ‘United Armenian Provinces" within In the th y the Mon gals took t t wiped the Ar ecarth, but they prom tin A middle ot the f hen their try was divided between Persia Turkey. Then came a str . tween the two eount for the poss the laring himeelf te be the “protecte Christian rights in Ar menia, The British have pro claimed themselves champions of Chris tianity in the east, but the massacres { Armenian Christians by Turks, s and pagans continue, just the same as they have, except the arative quietude, for ) years, Any people who e* wake will suffer one eon: od and gen serves the tervals of com more than 1 for stant nightmare of war, bi ral oppre sympathy and shonld command the help and support of every Christian na tion on the globe.—St, Louis Republic n surely ¢ Under Control, "I frarikly admit,” said the meek lit- Je member of the sewing society, “that but little influence over my hus. Pshaw!" exclaimed the ble lisdainfully, “I can make husband do anything he wants to."— Washington Times, Tis Nature, “Here, waiter; where's that turtle soup T ordered? What makes it so slow w. S. Greif, HAS REMOVED TO NO. 132 S. THIRD STREET —-Where you ean find a complete line of—— WALL PAPER, WINDOW SHADES, Picture Frames and Mouldings COME AND SKE ME. Stable---Corner Third and Washington Streets Jas.A.Glauber’s Livery, Feed and Boarding Stables, V ELEGANT.CARRIAGES, FIRST-CLASS DRIVERS, BEST ATTENTION TO BOARDERS ' Also various temperance drinks— Cider, Ginger Aie, ete, Telephone orders filled until,11/o’clock jatfnight during week and 12,0'clock Saturday nights, 4 »M. B. dONES, =, CORNER COURT AND SECOND STREE’ PADUCAH, hire, Ss —This is the week to buy your. Pictures and Easles! FOR XMAS PRESENTS. J Your Girl Is Expecting One. Go and see all of the Latest NOVELTIES and LOWEST PRICES in PICTURES at G. G. LEE, F. J. BERGDOLL, ‘PROPRIETOR. Paducah - Bottling - Co., SELEBRATED A LOUIS O’BERTS BEER, Of St. Louis. In kegs bottles, ja Pop, Seltzer Water, Orange elephone 101. 10th and Madison Streets, PADUCAH, KY. Paducah Electric Co. INCORPORATED. M. Broom, Pres, R. Rowxanp, Treas, F. M. 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