The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, January 11, 1897, Page 2

TWE PADUCAH DAILY SUN, America is almost coufined to the south, only nine of this total number Published every afternoon, except imine occurred north of Mason and Sunday, by Dixon’s line. The state of Louis- JHE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, |iana tea witn 25; Kentucky is credit- INCORPORATED, ®MLF Prestoenr J our Misi) | ; t J. J. Dorian PAXTON J.P. Hops a DIRECTORS: VM, Fisher, J-R. Smith, RW. Clements, J i, Williamson J.J THE DAILY SUN given as fully as space will ‘parmait Mritbout re ue 1HE WEEKLY SUN ts devoted to the interests of our country, pat: way and e- otiining’ while keeping, tts readers posted ‘on all political affairs and topics: wile it will or a ebrleas and tireless exponent of the. doc: frites and teachings of the National Republi- ean party, CORRESPONDENCE. A special feature of the weekly edition of Tae ~Uw will be its Correspondence Depart: ment, in which 1 hopes ably to represent every locality within the limi of ue cfrew at ADVERTISING. Rates of advertysing will be made known on application ¢OMce, Standard Klock, 115 North Fourth Attret Subscription Rates. Daily, per anmun..« $ 4.50 Davly. Six months. . 2.25 Daily One month. . “a 40 Daily, per week. . 10 cents Weekly, per annum in ad- vance 1.00 specimen copies tree OS ¢ minishing crime. ed with nine. The average number of lynchings in the United States du- ‘y | Ting the last twelve years has been |} 167 per annum, the total being 2008. While the exercise of mob law has ite the outside world puts upon Fr im. It is hardly to be expected that our boys and girls, reared in such an at- mosphere, will place a very high esti- mate on intellectual worth or public side world will judge us. Our young men and women who seek homes or employment in other cities will have the burden of proof laid on them to show that this is not true in un exceedingly demoralizing influ-| their individual cases, and thus nd 7 story sl enter society and business at a dis- ence on the people, history shows Abd tases, 0 babs that where it has been most exercised it hashad little or no effect in di- The surest, safest and best method of holding the criminal classes in check is the swift and cure enforcement of the laws, in accordance with the means provided therefor. A Cecepratioy was held last week in Ireland of an event which has had much to do with the history of Ire- land and gave name to the esculent whieh forms so important an article of food in all civilized lands, the Irish potato. Just three huadred years ago Sir Walter Raleigh, the fa- mous English explorer caused the planting of some tubers he had trans- porte! from Ameriva in the garden Sir Walter is also respousivle for the introduction into Europe of that les« valuable adjunct of civilization, the tobacco plant. In passing we may be permi':ed to mention as matter of MONDAY, JAN. 11, 1897. Tuere is little doubt that a num- ber of the legislatures now in sess'on will give attention to the matter of telephone rates. A bill introduced in the Missouri legislature sets the} _ ball rolling. —_————— A petecation of colored called upon Major McKinley at Cleveland on Saturday and presented the matter of the frequent lynching of colored men in the South, It 18 said Mr. McKinley was favorably im- pressed by the presentation made and will probably record in his mes- sage to congress his disapproval of moh violence. Tux Texas cowboys, known as the “Lone Star’? brigade in the Cuban army. have again distinguished them- selves by routing a force of Spanish far superior in numbers and captur- ing a wagon train of provisions and munitions in its convoy. They tri- umphantly conducted the train into Rivera's camp, together with the captain of the Spanish troop, whom they captured. The famous Texas ranger seems to have a worthy son in the more recent cowboy. men Vest has been unani- mously renominated for the senate by the Democratic senatorial caucus of Missouri. Mr. Vest will have served his 24th year in the United States senate if he shall live to com- plete the term on which he 1s about toenter. Seeing that that state is joined to the silver idol and none but a silverite could be elected, Missiouri has done well to return Mr. Vest. He is a man of recognized ability. Senator ‘Tue stomach of a cow killed re- cently at Flemington, N. J., was found to contain co less than ninety- five pieces of hardware, ranging from nails and screws of all sizes to pad- locks. It is added that the health of the cow was good. She must have had a digestion almost equal to that of our free silver Democratic friends, though the conglomerate me-s that was rammed down their throats dur- ing the campaign would certainly | have been too much even for that| cow Re vpine the Democratic papers of the pr ‘0 ld be led to be lieve Republicans among themselves after the manner of the famous felines of Kilkenny. The wish is father to the thought. Never were Republicans peace with themselves and all man- kind than in this first month in the year of our Lord 1897. They have the best of reasons for beng in good tone were more at humor and thus they are, to the last- ing discomfort of the aforesaid Democrats. —_—_——— As an educ he well-conducted It is prow newspaper lias no equal per and right for our children to be Well carved i ihe history of ancient aud medieval times, but it’ is of even vrenter importance that they be informed on the current topics of our own day. ‘The habit of reading the newspapers should be cultivated in the children, But ia this proper care must be exercised, as to the character of the literature placed be- fore them. Much of the matter ap- pearing in the newspapers of the day is unfit for their young minds, but there are a multitude of safe and de- lightful juvenile publications which furnish just the information needed by the children on all current topics, and with some of these should every famlly be supplied. quarreling | interest that the sion of Myrtle -| Groves in which Sir still standing after 300 years and is one of the best preserved specimens of the Elizabethan architecture. How many of the buildings erected in America in our day wi] be babit- able three hundred years hence ? ter dwelt 1s Joun Suemman is accused of in- consistency by some of the Demo- cratic organs because of his present atti'ude toward the greenback. He is quoted as having expressed, at the time of the passage of Wie law, more than thirty years ago, 9 doubt as to its constitutionality. The man who could not, after more than thirty years, and after the question of the constitutionality has been forever settled by the supreme court, lay aside an opinion then held, merely because he would be called inconstat- ent, would not be entitled to rank as a statesman, Times snd conditions change, and what may have been good legislation thirty years ago might be exceedingly unwise legislation under present conditions. No truly able public man can present a perfectly consistent record. The man who can may be set down 4s ong without the spirit of progress. Senator Sher- man stands far and away ahead of | any other American op all subjects pertaining to national finance, and no one familiar with bis record can hon- estly question his rectitude. Arter having been exceedingly bitter in his attacks upon the corpo- advantage. ever tried to establish a reputation for anything when there was a suspi- cion to the contrary, however un- founded it may have been, know the difficulty and unpleasantness of the situation. We therefore owe it to our chil- dren to do our part in helping to es- tablish this library. But there is an- otber consideration more important even than this. The records show that cities that take least interest in public libraries, are also the most scantily supplied with good private libraries, and if any one doubts this rule is fulfilled to the letter in Paducah, let him investigate. Thus it comes about that we do not read the literature of our time; and the individuals, or the class of individuals, who do not read ex'en- sively in this age of letters can lay no claim to even mediocre attain- of his estate in Ireland, Myrtle} ments. But the greatest evil, es- Groves. The celebration referred to| pecially to the young, lies Bp a, “ that not having formed the habit o! s ercentenary of that ev nt : ie A bhp senda ax tame fe reading, they spend their time on the streets,amoug undesirable associates, or possibly among the vicious and evil. If parents would establish a |atrong band between the children and the home, let them interest their children in good, healthy and inter- | esting books. This is only ove of many reasous support to establishing a public li- | brary, but it is certainly a good one, that of providing for the enjoyment, training and success of the coming generation, E. A. Fox. EVIDENCES OF BUTCHERY. Large Pit Discoyered Filled With | Bodies and Limbs of the Slain. Key West, Jan. 11.—Evidences of awful butcheries at Guanabacoa ac- cumulate daily. A great pit filled with corpses and human fragments was discovered Monday in a cane- y |fleld not more than a mile from that |place. A careful investigation re- | vealed at least twenty whole bodies and many more legs and arms, other parts of the dismembered bodies be- jing missing. Permission to bury the | remains was brutaily refused. The edict refusing permission to remove furniture and other things, unless asked for twenty for twenty- four hours _preyiou vantage of by the Spanish soldiers to wreck buildings and revile and in- sult, if not kill, persons suspeeted of Cuban leanings. Some families in the poorer section of the city, who did not know of the edict, started to move Sunday night. | After they had loaded their furniture |on wagons the police snd soldiers | fired on them, killing eight persons, including several innocent passers-by. Havana is much agitated by ra- mors of victories won by Gomez's army, of the successful crossing of | the trocha into Pinar del Rio, and of several routs of the Spauish troops. Gen. Weyler is execrated on every hand, but on account of the severe rations during the recent political| censorship and Weyler's system of campaign, when it was necessary to with a plea in their behalf in which he says, among other things: ‘The state cannot afford to make war on avy legitimate interest—for| war means to tear down and destroy not to create and build up. property of corporations is the prop-| erty of the citizen. It is entitled to the same measure of protection ac-| corded the possessions of others, and | should be required to bear only its! just and equal pr-por'ion of the pub- lie burdens. — Just laws for the gov- eroment of corporations should exist, but no law which unfairly discrimi- nates against them should be enacted No important legislation shoula be attempted until the situation it deals against is injustice. A spiril of ree sentment should never give direction to public polivy, nor wield av influ- enve over those charged with public functions. No man fs worthy ‘o fill public station who consents to do} wrong, however great the temptation, or fears to do right, no matter who | or what he antagonizes. | These are true words and well! But when Governor Stone arousing the ig- spoken. was on the stump, demagogue becomes “all things to all men’’ thathe may advavce bis present ends, —_—_—_———. A Public Library for Paducah, That Paducah has no public li- brary is a matter of regret, if not of mortification to every citizen who has , | the welfare of our beautiful little city at heart. The same spirt that 1800 years ago prompted the question,Can any good thing come out of Naz- ereth, is alive in the world today Men are wont to ask can anything be expected of a city where lecture | courses are failures for want of pa tronage; where a Y. M.C. A. has to struggle for existence, and where pubhe libraries are unknown / Friends, this is a matter worthy of ‘Tune were during the year 1896 no less than 10,652, homicides re- ported in the newspapers or an aver- age of more than twenty-nine per this number 131 were day, OF The lynching is peeul- lynchings. your careful, as well as financial con- | sideration. Next to one's personal | reputation and that of his family, is; the reputation of the city in whic lives; not only la this true in regard to hisown personal feeling, my take several days, but it is} call at this spies, no one dares say a word aloud. very one thinks his neighbor a spy make political capital, Governor) anq jittle can be learned from any Stone, of Missouri, closes his vale-| ono, dictory message to the legislature Looking After the Dauntless Washington, Jan. 8.—The Secre- tary of the Treasury has received a telegram from the Collector of Cus- toms at Jacksonville, Fla., stating that the suspected filibuster, the Dauntless, had returned to that port and had represented that she had |been on a wrecking expedition ana now asked for clearance for Neuvita, Cuba, with 9 cargo of arms and other munitions of war, The Collector asked for instruc- tions, and in reply the Secretary di- rected the Collector to make a fall report in the case of the Dauntless. Until this report Is received, which the desired clearance papers will be withheld. with is fully unders'ood, and the ef-| ‘Tbe captain of the Dauntless bas fect of the legislation thoroughly | made the necessary affidavit which weighed. The thing I counsel is|has been forwarded to the treasury moderation; the thing I advise| department acd it is expected clear- ance will be granted a4 soon as the Papers aro examined at Washington, PINE TAR HONEY, Advances a New Theory in the Treatyent of All Cough, Lung and Bronchial/lroubles—It Cures, and/Cures Quick- /ly. Absolutely armless and pleasant DR. BELL'S | otake. It ¢utg loose the mucous noranc — prejudic of the people! without exertibn or straining and against the corporsions no one stops the cough atonce by healing Would have dreamed be would dare, the inflamed parts ; gives vigor and ty speak them, [tis thus that the | Yitality to the respiratory organs and vices a condition in which gH the e exerted with regularity and harmony. For sale by Geblschlaeger & Wal- ker, Fifth and Broadway, Important Notice, All persons knowing themselves in- debted to the firms of Rogers & King and John “Rogers & 56n are hereby warned to calk and sgttle the same at once at my dice’ No. 127 South Fourth street, aa thereby save to themselves costs, hs I will be forced to proceed by law to collect same, Unless otherwise settled promptly, Ep H. Puryear, Receiver of Rogers & King and John Re & Son. - d26tt Hiskury ftove Wond, For nice stoveyvood telephone 29, $1 per load. ¥ : Omto River Sade axp Rim Co, Hf You Want Old Papers To put on shelves or ynder carpets, office. Twenty for five iarly an American institution and ip] equally as true in regard to the esti-( cents. Our January Cloak Sale spirited achievement, and so the outs | why our citizens should give their | pounds, Is in full swing. There are hand. some Jackets in our Cloak Room as when the season began. Many of the finest styles are bere yet, as is often the case the best is left be- cause of their expensiveness, We upset the price and cut all of them in half, They are juat as stylish, good, but theyare not so Remember the\ prices are just ove-half the original prices. Handkerchiefs. See for Yourself What values we are offering in Ladies’ Handkerchiefs. During the rush before Christmas several dozen handkerchiefs got crushed and soiled We offer the entire lot at 17¢ each or three for 50c. They They are our 5c, quality, are scol- oped edge and embroidered, and most of them are all linen Also 20 dozens of ladies’ all linen and embroidered Handkerchiefs that were 35c. now go at 25c. |Scissorg We have about 10 dozen scis- sors, big and little, that we have been selling at 25¢ We want to close out the entire lot, and offer them at 10c per pair Ladies’ Mackintoshes. This is the time to buy a) Mack intosh, for this is the time of the year you need it We have two excellent numbers at $350 and $195 We also have a few odds and ends of numbers that we have stopped buying, We offer them a 49c. each; Many of them are worth $2.50, Lb. iid GATHERING RUBBER IN AFRICA, & Women Missionary 1 Tells How the Ne tives Collec! It In the month Mareh and April durimg the rainy season one secs busy Vie in the native towns of the French Cougo. The men are preparing to go to the bush to cut rubber. Every wom- (a and aild seems to have something te 1q, and even the men do not lounge about as usual, but are sharpening their knives and machetes and putting thelr Zuns into proper trim, The women are digging euxsava, and some of them are washing it and preparing chiguanga or native bread. Others are cleanius the cassava with knives and tying it into mattets made from paim leaves. This kind of cassava is roasted over the fire and eaten warm, while the bread is gaten cold and is mostly used on te road. The men carry their guns so they may kill the game which abounds in the forest When all is ready a drunken carousal and dane are given the night before the start by way of saying farewell to the villagers left at home. Some: times a good place with plenty of rub- | ber plants is found after a march of two or three days, but often the journey token a week or more. In this case the men keep carriers on the rond with food for them, becanse there is nothing to be had in these parts with the exeep- tion of game. Whe rubber tn central Africa is not & tree, but a Fine, often three or four inches in diameter. This vine general ly climbs up the tallest trees, and the natives often use ame of the vines to gecend the tree, After the branches are | Teached, which in most cases are at | least 50 feet from the ground, the men proceed to cut the vines away at the top, leaving only one for their descent, ard this one, if possible, not a rubber vine, It seems stringe thet the nattves cut away the rubber plants and ao de- | stroy them Snutead of tapping them, Dut they are too tazy to learn any other | way. | After the vines have fatlen they # cut into lengths of three or f and the Juice Is collected into iren pots. | W This is a tedious job. The piece of the vine is held over the pot, first by! of end, then by the other | the Jui Then the piece is eut et at any julee whieh may left in the middle. After a pot is nearly full a rest is taken, and this juice is boiled for nearly two hours. “erie . é H and, during the boiling ‘process, ix mixed with the juice of other vines and some lime jujce, so that the mix- ture is more sticky and easier formed into balls. Fi As soon ns it cqols down sufficiently to be handled the hardening rubber ts shaped by winding it at first around & stick, Afters bit (he stick Is pulled out and the ball is re-wound to finish {t off. In some places these balls weigh three pounds or more each; in others, five of them make a pound, The purity of the rubber depends much iipon how much other juice has been added. The best and purest is that obtained from the juice without boiling. This is only found in the shape of bracelets, the natives wind t out around their wrists and let it dry there, When perfectiy dry it stipe alt easier, ‘This would be transparent rab- ber if the skin and fingers of the natives were not so very dirty. The natives often used to put for- vlgn substanses, auch as small srones, palmouts and little valls of grass Into the rubber ball to make it heavy, They were soon found out, and every ball ix now cut through the center to reveal its mixture, Often the rubber is bur- fed for some days peeause tt Apaars the moisture from the ground, whigh ajlds to the weight. Cheating is re sorted 19 begayse the pay is Ko poor. it takes a party of eight or ten men and boys six to eight weeks to gather | = from $0 to 100 pounds of rubber, The value of thin, if all is first-class, is from 200 to 250 yards of cotton cloth or 40 ea nx of rum or three or four flintlock eyes, Rarely this Is pour pay for this hind of work, Brill, the natives rejoice greatly if the men from one town return with 100 It seems lke a fortune to them, posi they need so little that ll taken to the rubber reglone—N. ¥ Ye sen, a Patek Plain and pivilized people erave and pay for. When thie iit Je fortune iy spen| son) we Ornamental Weather permits, another trip 224 Court St, We hope not. stock d: Drug Store. a Furthermore we throughout the coming year, and if you do get sick, come to us for drugs. have everything you want. ly and are your nearest . Cor. 71h and Jackson Sts. wish you health But, if you are sick, We ee adding to our Are and best Family | Do i BACON & CO., PHARMACISTS — ie ae ALLY — Is HEADQL ARTERS FOR—~ Fruit Cake Holiday Groceries, aterials, Apples and\Oranges, Fresh Ca HOME-MADE LARD A ‘SPECIALTY. Telepnone 11! The lowest place in tow Cor, Mth and Trimble Sts, ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY AT LOW PRICES, We Make a Specialty o! \ High Grade | Work, n to get rst-class PHOTO. GRAPHS for the Holidays is at 2S. Third Street. DONE BY J DONE Job Printing 0B PRINTERS, DONE CHEAPER. BETTER. 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