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FALL STYLES Ip all the la lesigns ar They're in now Saturday NEW ORLEANS wa ftcrseny st vaiie tp the Pf Aa } on wery 3 ‘or iman (rou ist Sleeping, Cat Chere oe Age tro : 1 jow Orleans southern 1 s as LOW 2S i RIG FO THREE GREAT “Kniekek’ Miyeon St. Pi veland, New York a vii y yp Southwesten! Lin tween Cincinnati, Colur Yorit, Cleve! sf “White pity Spee ‘tween Cincinnati, India Chieago 0, MoConmiok, i sfopras Mi Gen, Pass \ ker Speci In 1, te Aut UR” RALNS. lig iapolis i Boston ited.” New 1d und Boston, ial. napolis and D. B, Mantes, & Ticket Agt |Picture Mouldings In the ¢ Have y a seen the latest | A YARD OF FACES. Prices Reasonable for GUOD work L, P, BALTHASAR, 425 Bway l G. R. DAVIS, ler Panmwen Hot Front \ Rank FORNACES, TIN, SLATE AND IRON ROOFER. 1 “HARRIS\S GRICE, Attorneys *at - Law, 125 8. Fourth—Op South Third Street A. L, HARPER, Fee Ace, AT LAW, 120 8. Fourth, Room N 4 Good Meal Call in at SALOQN \AND RESTAVRAN™ Table supplied wih) eve.ything the market a¥erds. 117 BROADWAY. The harm in Whiskey mostly comes from the Yast amount of impure, green, aloctored stuf with which the mharket is flood- ed, When yon want a perfectly pure article for hame and medi ‘inal use you Will find it in our famous OLD BATTLE AX at 82 per gallon: SCHWAB LIQUOR CO, 206 Broadway. ew Orleans # Cincin aa F cket Company. TEN | AT _ RANDOM. dead | in March, is willbe «red letter, and one unusual easy year with the saloons, for it is| will be that Commonwealth's Attor- candic “Dic Miller, during of silly nights a numb young dance, mac cake ov He slip and sai me poor was the But whi detaker etta, “Ot said ow Sunday the ¢ the boy many bank in howl One 1 be an ¢ had on i Yest as burryin Last port am chase it desi pictur me and pin don’t h self."’ “You withsta: see me. said h fet not droj I told b | tried to sell me an old wr He looked surprised must b told me sell this whee! to a man |to think it was too cheap, and he told | business. me to try my band at it | just de Bat in side. assist i Pearsot named pine. commodate the friends, and the result not a few people are extra handkerchiefs and drinking hot | the manner of the discovery of Uncle lemonade toda over thirty degrees. any particular average specialty if apologizing to the being alive. e to lea and dance felt want in a sr number * was the mec for four years, sheriff beat me to the into the office one Saturday and said | yas arrested, work for nothi saw. So, when willing to take my chances on a pur-|meujt my wife said to myse “That's what 1 | hung be better article than that; and he went away transaction, aud I felt proud of my- “Exactly. him I had one of the same make of- when he struck $41 he said he would the biey been on the other side, those he has assisted in getting their ates’ year, ‘They will have to|ney W. F. Bradshaw and County keep open most every Sunday to ac-| Attorney, usually associated to- candidates and their | gether, will be on opposite sides. saloon keepers may | ri even get independent enough to pour! ‘phe original of Mrs. Hearriet|store this morning, but there was a an extra quart of water into each Beecher Stowe's celebrated ‘Uncle|letter in the box for him which ans- gallon of whisky. ; Tom’? will be in Paducah next Sat-| wered for the same purpose. 6 lurday. ‘The old darkey was resur-| ‘The big sidewheeler Bostona ‘Phere was an unpleasant tumble in| rected at Lexington only a week ot | passed up yesterday from Memphis the thermometer yesterday, and a8 ajtwo ago by a company playing/en route to Cincinnati. She lay here carrying| ,‘Uncle Tom's Cabin,” somewhat in ‘There was afall of Dan Emmit, author of “Dixie,” by | Al G. Field year before last. George |Harris is the venerable “Uncle ‘Tom’s"’ real name, and he is attract- ing no little attention in the state, a great many people having a great curiosity to see him. He will prove a good attraction, for but one season, however, for the American public is very fickle in such matters, and BM dibs terag 10" |is constantly clamoring for something new. and thirty cent show a few ~~ ag, and of course there were| yer of specialty acs. ‘One| ‘There was along line of freight fellow, who did a song and) Cars on a side-track at a little station came out, and the talk the {headed by a bright, ghstenir — en- up to the turn took the gine. ‘The engineer leaned out of his er anything I have ever heard. |¢ab and looked down the long line of ped out of one of the wings diminishing ties. Presently a small id with pathos: ‘Alas, boy, clad in a pair of ragged trousers rold mother is dead, She (and an air of unmistakable import- only friend I ever knew, | nce, rushed up and said, ‘Mister, ile we are waiting for the un-|the conductor says to move her for- I will give you a little song| Ward about a hundred feet. Let her go—‘Henri-| The conductor could have been re you met her?’ seen down at the caboose end if the : ® engineer had looked for him. But ilog ,, | he paid no attention to the boy, and course I have owned a paper”’| diq'not move up at all. Directly r friend Miller at the Palmer | the poy ran up and yelled, «Say, the “T undertook to fill 8 long | conductor back there wants to know | Texas town &) why you don’t obey orders? of years ago. 1 was! GyYou go back and tell wditorial” department and quotor I say go to h—I,”” I hired for $3.00 per week] retort, hanical department. |" "When the conductor heard this he {you ever,”’ said our friend {he snuff drummer, ‘take notice of how the artist comes out the play and makes some kind talk before he does his act, as | alas ; the con- was the wrote editorials, locals, heads, clipped | rushed up to the engineer and de- the telegraph ed the plate, ete.,|manded in a load and angry ve while the mechanical department) «yoy G— d—s—— — move that made the fires, kicked the press and] ovine up about a hundred feet or|* corrected the galleys with a pair of] }+]) Knock your G— d— brains pinchers, © monkey wrench and al out. . hatchet. I put in 365 days each year) «phat's railroad talk, now I un- and about half 85] derstand you all right,’’ quietly re- nights. One day ,, the little | plied the engineer, and pulliag open the town “busted” and some- |the throttle, his engine crawled for got mixed up in the assets./ward the desired distance. The rning afew days after, the| moral is that railroad talk sometimes office, and that} makes a vast difference in being un- led part of it. | derstood. it, or rather I stepped down and out, and all I| et \ 0 are’ hard | « wok waht eat aaa deting| Acartain old and respected citizen ee iadkss just had one. |Who in by gone years exhibited a] 1 . lingering fondness for the flowing ; 35; |bowl, but for many years past had ka Jabstained from its indulgence, has Speaking about papers,’’ said /falien from grace. He was induced to| r friend Miller, “when Twas pub-|take @ drink about Christmas time, | M : The Weekly Bladder and) gng like many another, could not Farmers’ Vindicator’ ia Texas, | ston at one. The result was, his great big awkward young man came] condition soon became such that he and the following day tired of farming and wanted to was fined. ditor. He said he was willing] One of the for awhile He} city chanced to be in court when the tty 1 clothes and 1) old man was fined, and evinced great he wasn’t much help 88 8N/ surprise and regret, saying that it] t be able to borrow his was the first time the old m to work. ‘The! taken drink for maay years, and| _rereaney nd Ti that he heard him fixed in the police | nan to keep an eye! curt here years ago. fay.” Ho tight be ale.toj° ete 1 few locals. Monday - e came in and handed me There are a lot of tin-hora gain y. Here is what he had | blersand avowed thieves in Paducah vrday was Sunday. The sun| Who bang about certain places like ual, and people we sarrion bids, waiting for th and do nothing but over z to and fro to church i! night was Sunday night. The|These men have live unmolested yw out with unusual bril-jallowed to were still shining as we|in Paducah, and the resorts they fre- seen been pon |quent have never been broken up, al- | though itis «well known fact (hat |right in the heart of the city there ‘No,"’ remarked Mr. Wadkin | are dens of iniquity that are worse with a meditative, faraway look, ‘I than the worst combination on Court shall never try to get another bar-| street in, Lf any bargains come into our! “phese gamblers are not permitted household hereafter they'll have to be | tg jive in Cairo or Metropolis, where piloted in by Mrs. Wadkin.’ | their character is wel! known, and if “What have you been buying?'’|the police here would pay more at- inquired the friend who makes it tention to watching some of them in- part of his business to listen to Wad-| stead of watching each other, there kin’s trouples: would be [a more law abiding com- “A bicycle. My wife told me once ‘ * munity. that I always bought the first thing I bs Tcirculated the re- | foe Heard in Mike Redd’s establish-| my friends that I was | You said the w wurst ) that line, I resolved to show that I was not the target for) y ng avarice which she had nt," the tamale replied, Time. When aman cag) to/ so I'm satistied offered me a bicycle at I “Whatever y J lo, FIWOOD urty. p DRIFT a very} low| rs was _ ON GATHERED But I anted a& re | finally | closing the thought ack and told him I ARRIVALS, Geo. H. Cowling. City of Clarksville... DEPARTURES, . Metropolis +E’ town without had shown your ability to! Ashland City. Deaville nd importunity.”’ lJoe Fowler on vansville In two or three hours} pigk Fowler.... .Cairo another man with a bicyele me to! H.W, Buttorff. Nashville He had a machine that he| Goo, H. Cowling. .......Metropolis would sell for $45. I told] bE, dime for $40, ‘Well,’ he said,| Business fair on the levee this ‘I'll take $44.’ I was obdurate, He | morning. me down to $43, then to $42, and! ‘The Dick Fowler was out for Cairo at 8:30 a, m. The government gauge showed 6.5 this forenoon and falling very slowly. The local inspectors, Wyatt and Green, of Nashville, are in the city so I took th Je and paid the money. ‘Then man who bad| k for $40. | mM ‘That toda: ve been my brother, He)" on this morning he had tried to} The Geo. H. Cowling made her who seemed |twodaily runs today, doing a» fair nother cent ; him about the aud Keep] ‘The Joe Fowler was as usual away I could get more than| to Evansville, carrying the muil this ington Star, morning at 10. The Ashland City lit out for Dan- | ville on time this morning at 10, car- County Attorney Johnson Houser! tia good load. will soon blossom forth as a defender, | YS * 8908 oat For maay years past he has alws One of Capt Barrett's barges was taken out on the ternoon for repairs, serts at the hands of the law. ‘The steamers, Grace Morris and March he will be on the other/Jobn L. Lowry, were inspected by for he has been employed to, the local inspectors this a, m. n the defense of young Arthur] ‘The towboat Kenton after com- n, charged with a man! pleting her repairs left for her sunken Smith, at Benton, some time | tow of coal boats up the Cumberland ‘The case comes up at Benton river late Saturday afternoon, She and many are feature oldest lawyers ia the] ® n hadj|', ways Saturday af-|, "oy ny | ell endeavor to raise them and pro ceed on to Nashville with the coal. ‘The City of Clarksville is due here owt of the Ohio this afternoon and leaves on ber return to E’ town tomor- Tow at noon.» The H. W. Battorff left en route up the Cumberland for Nashville this morning at 10 o'clock, earrying ‘a good trip. Engineer George Aaron was not present at the meeting at the boat several hours discharging and receiv- ing freight. This morning being a cool one the steamboatmen that congregate daily around the river front, were huddled together around the big stove in the rear end of Petter’s boat store, and each one had his turn at telling the biggest “yarn.” ‘They told of incidents from old ante bellum days to the present date. Those who participated were Capt’s. Eph. Bal- lowe, Joe Letridge, R. Ballowe, Buck Roberts, Dave Woods, Capt. Powell, Jas. Mortimer, Amon Pric John Fernand and Pat Moore. Eugineers were Clay Warden, Sargent Mos: Hugh Moore, Sam Hudson, Chas. Trainor and Cook, Billy Barger.‘‘It’’ was still in session at the time of this writing with Clay Warden on the floor. COLORED DEPARTMENT. cavl RCHES. Sua ay school 9 a " tr? fev c. a Burks Chapel, 7 day school, 9 am m., Rev. E 8 Bui ‘Washington Street Baptist Church. —Sunday school? am, Preaching 8 p m. Rev. Geo. W. Dupee, pastor Seventh street Baptist school, 9 am. Rey W.S. Baker, pastor St, Pant A. M. B. chur m., preaching li a. m, an Stanford, paste Preaching 11am and # 8, Pastor. Church.—Sunday Hamand’ pm M.B. chureb, 1 COLORED 1 ODGES. MASONIC. 4 Bro: Masonic Hall way, third floor 2) -Meota every first 8t Paul Le and fourth Mo Baoadway ers of the Mysterious Ten, * No %—Meets the firet Tuesday tu each month at lat Broad way n Rule y in each ‘Temple—Meets second Thurs onth at 181 Broadway emontal Tem tind Tuesday nig >. 30, meets se # tn each month 2, meets first and ich month No, 6b, meets highis th each of the West Tab 4 and fourth Thu mth, “Pride { Paducah Teu ‘afternoon in each month. rof Paducah Tent meets second Satur m. in Lily of t p.m, in each month, Grand Army of th and fourth Tue U.K, T. ball Miss Mary Leigh and Mr. Alvin Logan returned home Saturday after having spent the holidays visiting friends in Evansville, Ind. Miss Anna P. House arrived last night, after spending ten days visit- ing in Memphis and Paris, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. E. W the holidays with relatives in Hop- insville, Ky. ‘They returned hom Saturday, but owing to the illness of Mr, Benton's brother he was wired to come to Springfield, Tena., yester- Benton spent day. Mr. Wm. Clemons took sick Sat- urday and died Sunday morning at 9 o'clock, He was sick but a few hours before Ins death. The funeral was this afternoon. He was buried under the honors of Stone Square Lodge No. 5, of which he was a member, Miss Luvenie Brown was seriously hurt yesterday by jumping out of a hack. The Lyceum Club will render the following program tonight at the A. 6 ebureh Solo—Mr. E. Grundy. Essay—M. W. les, »p-—Garfield Carter. —John Amos Recitation—Mrs. L, Benton Recitation—Mrs, C, G. Garrett. Recitation—Miss Rosena Jones. Recitation—Miss M. Origin of Afro-Ameri J.C. Jones, Past, Present and Future of the Negro Race—Rev. G, M. Burks, The Trilby Soc Club meets to- night with Mrs. Dora B, Le’ All members are requested to come out, as there will be business of impor- tance to be attended t Mus Mas. D. Lewis, Secretary. This, Jan, 4, 1897. ray. ‘an! Race— MPSON, President. fect! you what you y claim is just imes 4 little more profit induc » todo this, Dr. Bell’s Pine Tar Hdpey is the , cold and\grip cure, Aft you try it once Ae Will like it Loo Well to accept any Aubstitute, For sale by Oghlachlaeger & as good,” »| frowned, PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL, —Cora Hortense Smith, of Arkansas City, Kan., who is described as “young, pretty and unmarried,” owns a large ranch and 5,000 head of cattle, —In one room of the Maine Central railroad general offices are employed a son of Joseph H. Manley, a nephew of Arthur Sewall, and a nephew of Thomas B. Reed. —It is related of a Durham cattle man tifat he went to Kansas City, Kan., and while drunk bought a block of town lots which a few days afterward he sold at $6,000 profit, —A writer in the Windsor Magazine says that “even Mr, Gladstone, that greatest of all sticklers for official reti- cence, held that a cabinet minister might impart secrets to his wife and his private secretary. —Sir Henry Keppel, 87 years of age, {s now the senior admiral in the British navy list, but Sir Alexander Milne, who ts 90, and who entered the navy 80 years ago, Is the oldest admiral, aud the one who has served longest. —President Britlin, of the New Or- leans city council has directed the com- mittee on budget and assessment to transfer the amount of his salary, $6,- 000, to the contingent fund, as he does not intend to accept any money consid- eration for his official services. —Mrs. Langtry has begun her third suit for divorce from her husband. The action is brought in London, the others having been in the courts of California, They were married 21 years ago, but have not lived together since she went on the stage, in 1881, Mrs, Langtry ts now 44 years old, She has acted but lit- tle in the last two years, but {s con- sidered pretty well off in this world’s goods. THE GOLDEN STATE. California Is Cel ated, Bug Lit- Know! In the first place California is not known by what millions of people have seen, bit what millions have read. Eu- rope is better known by contact t Americans than California, A promi- nent American author recently “dis- covered” California and filled the news- papers with the interesting and sugges- tive impressions it had made upon his mind. He had been to Europe 20 times, and to the Pacific coast once, which is onee oftener than many other distin guished travelers of the eastern sea board. Still further, the Anglo-Saxon race {s dealing with new conditions in California, Coming from dense foresta, from a land of heavy ra and from a temperate climate where winters are long and stern, it settled in treeless des: erta, in o land of slight and peculiar rainfall, and under a sky that never knows the winter, Finally, California is in its infancy, having recently cele brated its forty-sixth birthday as an American commonwealth, Born in a paroxysm of apeculation— one of the wildest the world has ever seen—it has outlived a trying experi- ence of lesser economic ep: and come to the threshold of its true ca- purified by the process, In less than uury severa? far-reaching changes have swept through the in- Justrial and social life of the state, altering the conditions of labor siness. Even far those ng st of these events, {t has been cance and e ultimate eople estimate their influence o1 rof the to the outside ‘ornia has me inble of gold, palms and Jed millionaires a rs, of enviable far usly on small sections of world Cal peared like ntime ap oranges, of { hopeless pat living luxuric paradise, and of servile alien laborers Ww. Ss. Greif, HAS REMOVED TO. 132 S. THIRD STREET ——Where you can find a complete line of—— WALL PAPER, \YID"DOW SHADES, Picture Frames and Mouldings COME AND SEE ME. Jas.A.Glauber’s Livery, Feed and Boarding Stables, ELEGANT;CARRIAGES, FIRST-CLASS DRIVERS, BEST ATTENTION TO BOARDERS Stable---Corner Third and Washington Streets NO. ——tThis is the we ek to buy your—— Fine Pictures and Easles: ‘For XMAS PRESENTS. | Your Girl Is Expecting One. Go and see all of the Lates’ NOVELTIES and LOWEST PRICES PICTURES at Bee O; Grieve Paducah Electric Co. INCORPORATED. M. Broom \Pres. R. Rowzady, Treas. M. Fisuxr, Sec, STATION 217 N. SEGOND ST. . } { You can turn your lights on any time—whenever you need them. We give continuous service day and night. We don’tuse trolley wire currents It’s @angerous. Our rates: \ for lighting. Over 10 lights to 25 lights, 36c per light per month. Over 25 lights fy 50 lights, 35e per tight per moth, These low retes fdr 24 hours’ service apply when \pill is paid betore Sth of succeeding month, A. C. EINSTEIN, Vice Prest. and Mgr. Miss, Mary B. E. Greif & Cy — herded in stifling tenements? Such spects of the Golden ose who view them from afar in Century. ous among them the vulgar little dren of the not long rich, repulsi disagreeable to the world in general GENERAL INSURANCE | AGENTS. «0.4 .\. e174, “te PADUCAH, KY Telephox but pathetic in the eyes of thinking men and women. They are the sprout ing shoots of the gold-tree, being |v destined never to en they becaus¢ will be always able to buy whet men fight for, and will never j t is really to be had only for ; and the measure of value wi not be in their hands and heads, but in bank books, out of which their man ners bave been bought with mingled affection and Surely, if any thing is more vulgar woman, it is @ vulgar child, ‘The poor little thing is produced by all nat and races, from the Anglo-Saxon to the v. Its father was happy in the strug gle that ended in success. When it grows old, its own children will per haps be happy in the sort of refined existence which wealth can bring in the third generation, But the child of the man grown suddenly rich ie a living misfortune between two happi nesses—neither a worker nor an en- joyer; having neither the sat! faction of the one nor the pleasures of the other; hated by its inferiors in fortune, and a source of amusement to its ethic and esthetic betters. — Marion Craw: ford, in Century. The Logic of It. “I wonder why, it is wite murderers nearly always put in a plea of in- sanity?” asked the sweet young thing. “Is it because a man who could #0 cruelly mistreat the partner of his Jo; and sorrows must naturally be con- ered mentally out of balance?” ‘aw,” said the Grumbling Bachelor; “the mere facs of his being married shows that he was weak-minded to be gin with,"—Cincinnat! Enquirer. Had to Do It. New Roomer (sareastically)—Is this all the soap there is in the room? Landlady (decidedly)—Yes, sir; all 1 will allow you. New Roomer—Well, I'l take two more rooms. I've got to wash my face in the mornin, imore News. i There are about 1 the United States, talians in rd of them Halt of these are laborers, Fifty per cent are illiterate, ‘They are hard and steady workers, very saving, and anxious to improve th When they have no chance to work at their own trade they will accept any other kind of work. and any w ging. Has any reader of this ever been stopped by an Italian and asked for a nickel? In the record of charitable in- stitutions there are very few Italian names One-th are settled in the principal cities. “Bqueiched Him, “Your money or your life," he hissed, The girl, who was taking advantage of the gloaming to mount b wheel, “Sir,” she answered, wit! trace of irritation in her manuer, “If I felt that 1t were necessary for me to bo held up I should employ a regular instructor, Good evening. — Detroit Tribune —In oxygen gas a piece of heated Iron wire burn with remarkable brily lianey, throwing off intensely Lright Walker, Fifth and Broxdway, sparks, FB. J. BERGDOLL, PROPRIETOR——— Paducah - Bottling - Co., AC ) CELEBRATED LOUIS O’BERTS BEER, Of St. Louis. In kegs bottles, = drinks—-Soda Pop, Seltzer Water, Orknge Also various tentperance Cider, Ginger ‘Ale, ete, Telephone orders filled until 1 1fo’clock ‘at}) Saturday nights, ight during week and 12 ‘Telephone 101” 10th and Madison Streets, PADUCAH, KY, Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, Cutlery, Calgenters” Tools; Ete. CORNER COURT AND SECOND. STREET: PADUCAH, ° : . JW, pray KY 00F8, eR IN Staple and_Fabcy Groreries, Canned Goods uf All Kinds, Free delivery to all parts.of the city. For An Easy Shave or Stylish Hair Cut 10.19 JAS. BRYAN'S BARBER SHOP 405 BROADWAY: Nice Bath Rooms in € nection, | 7th and Adup& | A. 8, DABNEY, ® \\ DENTIST, 406 \BROADWAY. pies DL) Brinton. B Davis, ARCHITECT. Office Am.-Gegd. Nat\Baok Bldg Undertakers and embaimers, | Qrnamental Residence Telepuoue *\ 1308 Third] 924 Court St. hE, N HENRY GREIF, EXPERT HORSESHOER, 9 SOUTH POURTH ST, Expert Triek\ Shoeing. Saddle and \Harness Horses @ Specialty, CARRIAGE AND ‘BUGGY PAIRING (RESIDENCE OVER SHOP) RE- R.M. McCUNE, Store Telephone 125 Pa