The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, November 22, 1897, Page 3

Robins Maine -_—___— ear £ There’s a Hot Time in the Old Town Especially down at Gardner Bros,’ Furniture Store, where they are continuing the special sale on Rockers this week, Just think of it—solid oak snd imitation mahogany, leather and upholstered seat ~““~ROCKRERS~~ With arms, from $1.50,to $3.50. Solid leather, upholstered seat, tufted leather back Rockers for $5.50. Re- menfber, we can furnish your house from cellar to garret, cheap for cash or on easy weekly or monthly payments, Telephone 396 GARDNER BROS. & CO. 208-205 SOUTH THIRD = WRITTEN AT RANDOM, Dr. Holland, of Grahamville, tells this story on Jailer Joe Miller, Be- fore the recent democratic primary, . Miller stopped at Dr. spend the night. He his opposition in the r and was into the tooth and toe nail. The jailer's tace on this occasion was long as a populist speech, and calling the doctor out behind the barn ofter supper, he began, his at- tenuated face wearing a ghost-like appearance in the moonlight: ‘Doctor, I want you to help me. I want you to talk to the people about here for me and my race for jailer.” “All right, Joe, Vildo the best I can for you. What must I tell them ?"’ answered the doctor, **Tell them that I've to have the pla I'm wn old man now, and » Lhe ‘ell them that two or three little white he “lt chil nat home now crying fur bread ell them I can't bear ¢ee my family starve,”’ rejoined the candilate Judging from the result of the primary, Dr, Holland must have p r- formed his duty well, for Mr. Miller was nominated by a handsome ima- jority. The time Dr. Holland came to town he met Jailer Miller q with his face wreathed in smiles. A great transformation had taken place “Hello, Joe,” he said gleefully “Why, how dy do, doctor,’’ cheer fully responded the jailer. ‘How did you leave all the folks? Come nght now and go to dinner with wm “No, I'm obliged to you, but I must decline,’ hesitated the doctor “Ob, come on, what's the matter was strong, mpaign with ya large the y © are next r with you onyhow? My wife will be expecting you,’’ insisted the jailer, ’ “No, Lean't do it Joe,’’ iterated the doctor. ‘Truth {s, you know 1 never could persuade myself to take deren away from those hungry little white headed children of yours.”’ “That's all rig laughingly concluded the other, as he drew closer and said in a lower tone: ‘Doctor, I'm not quiteas now as I used to be!” And he and the doctor dined with those little white headed children that day ‘An amusing story comes from the Massac section of the county, illus- trating the importance « rural incum- bent attaches to a very insignificant office. A man recently elected con- stable is fitting himself up as if he were going to start adetective agency or a branch government arsenal, His neighbors say he has bought all the guns and pistols in the neighborhood converted the family table-knives into daggers and bowies, and swapped off his plow for a pair of hand-cuffs and shackles. He came to town a few days ago to purchase a pair of bloodhounds to use in running down crap shooters, belligerent rural youths and obstinate debtorst but couldn’ttind a pair to suit him. The man he beat for the all important position has @ pair of the animals, but he has declined to sell, probably because he got beat His excuse is, however, that he ex- pects to run for office again in a couple of years, and might need them in finding votes. «+ Well, well, it looks like none of the good old-time things are left!" exclaimed in disgust a prominent gen- tleman the other day when he had finished reading an account of the hanging. ‘I don’t know what in the world is going to become of us if they keep on bringing in those new- fangled ideas, The world is daily growing worse, our jails are full, our asylums overflowing, and the news papers continually crowded with counts of crimes that are never pun- ished nor atoned forin any wi And still,” he continued in a pessimistic strain, ‘here they’ve held a hanging who direct it, when a hanging, it it is bound to take place, ought to be in the presence of everybody who ald possibly be brought in to see it, 11's the fault of the law, though, I ¥ Win truthfully say that we have some of the damphooldest laws that could possibly be conceived, “Now, to be more explicit, I say that the law 13 not intended solely to punish the offender, but to inflict punishment on him simply that it may act as a discouragement or a detri- ment to crime in others, It is in- sd to be an object lesson. yreventative rather than @ puoi ment. What's the sense in having ‘an object ksson when there’s no one but a few to witness it? Lremember years ago all hangings were public, Whenever there was a hanging the people tlocked in by the thousand to witness itand it was held where all could wit And there were not such innumerable and atrocious crimes in those days as there are ow, either. You can call it morbid ty, a demoralizing disposition, | that, that prompts a man to ay ‘ god all to afew favorites of the officers goto abanging. 1’ll tell you right now the purpose is to make such an impression on his mind that it will re- main with bim forever, and act as an everlasting caution to forbear should he ever be tempted to commit crime, and this is just what it accomplishes. You can say what you please, but if you've ever seen an execution, you know that the impression it inakes is one that could never be produced in any other way. If that hanging had been public, those of such fastidious sensibilities that they cannot look at anything of the kind, could have stayed away, But all the worthless colored people, the low-down whites, the people in whom brutality predom- inate, and the crime-stained, would have been there. They would have seen bow such things are punished, and it would have had a most saluta- ry effect on them. Maybe if they'd seen something like it before they would have been different kiod of people. ‘These are the kind of peo- ple who are a menace to society and (hese are the ones the law is designed principally to Ot. Yet some of those were at that banging, and so far as (he original parpose of the banging is concerned, it was a miserable flas- co. Something 1 radically wroog. When L first came t Paducah we had & ‘whipping post.’ Since then the moral idiots have decided that it as barbarous—-bratal—uncivilized ! Fodge! La those days the jail waso't full of petty thieves who were gelling a better living off the tax- than they could ever have wade themselves outside; the lockup aod chaingang were wot crowded with wife beaters, drunkards and other offenders, tor they took such payers *}eattle out ia fall view of their fellow: men, stripped them to the skin and gave them a good whipping. It didu’t usually require but one whip- ping to cure them, either, The physical pain deterred those who didn’t care for being humiliated, and the humiliation deterred the high- toned. But it was barbarous! Now, who cares how barbarous it # so the effect was salutary? we judge the merits or demerits of anything by its effect—don't you judge the tree by the fruit it bears? “Bat to revert to the banging, I say all hangings, if they must be held, should be public. I don't be- lieve in capital purnishment, myself, I'm an advocate of more scientific (beory of eliminating crime, bat if chat execution had been public, this town would have been full of people from everywhere to see it. Men who saw it would remember it to the last day of their lives. The; might some day be tempted to i a fellow man, but the ever recurring |) vision of that lifeless form swinging to a grewsome gibbet might—I don’t say would—cause bim to shrink from woe deed, If we had a whipping. post men who had a tendency to beat their wives, get drunk, cheat, steal or Oight would feel in their imagina- tion the stiog of the lash, or see the humiliated culprit writhing in public pain as be received the punishment meted oulto bim. He might then reconsider. Hangiwg doesn’t punish a wan, except that it takes his life. Chere is no pain. Anordivary bune felon or ‘boil’ causes far more suffer- ing than the momentary paug of such a death, But I don't see avy use in urying to convince the people of this, I could talk for a week, and then not get through’ Loften sit and muse vver What things are comiug to— uothiag left of old times except us —with wmost of the men tuning for office aud a large per{¢olumn should be addre: pulled over his eyes. There was no button on his coat “Where you going, Ed.?'’ asked, “I'm going around to the photog: rapbers,’’ he reluctantly declared **do you know, I'll he shot if I didn’t get the wrong baby§after all!’” he The people of Paducah who appre- ciate acrobatic performances should drop around on North Fourih street some day. and watch Coun Rinckleff learn to ride the ‘bike.’’ He can hit harder not to make any ible impression on the street, than any other man in the city, it is said. ° The resemblence of council:na.- elect S. H. Winstead and Mr. Ben Weille 1s something quite remark: and often results in very embarassing predicaments to both. The other day Mr. Weille went to afuneral, He rode his bicycle, and was selected asa pall bearer, He called afriend and asked bim to take charge of the bike, and leave it at the store. The geutlemaa agreed, fndas he passed Mr. Winstead's drug store, opened the door and left the machine inside. Mr. Wivstead found it, and was at a loss to under- ind why it was left there, bardly thinking that it had been dovated by some candidate who wanted a vote. Mr. Weille went to the store after the funeral, made diligent inquiry lor the bic finally had to go to the gentleman's residence and ask him what in the world be had dove with his bicycle. The latter explained that he had wis- taken Mr, Weille for Mr. Winstead, and thought he was doing the proper thing in leaving tt at the last uamed’s drug store. Mr. Weille was also importuned a great deal before last week's caucus by office seekers, who mistook him for the councilman-elect. One old fellow button-holed him, and began in a prefunctory manuer to enumerate his good qualities. He concluded by saying that he had lived here twenty one years, had foughi four years in the Confederate army, and was familiar with every detail of street work. He wanted to be street inspector. Mr, Weille of course had to ac- quaint the candidate of his mistake, aud it somewhat dumfounded him. Quickly regaining his composure. however, he defiantly exclaimed, ‘Well be you who you may, I want you to understand that I'm a candi- | date for street inspector !’* | Another story told on the two gen- tleman is that Mr. Winstead's own | mother-in-law one day mistook Mr. | Weille for her son-in-law. Everybody Says Bo. rets Candy Cathartic, the most won: derful medical discovery of ‘the age, pleas- aut and refreshing to the taste, act gently ‘and positively on kidneys, liver and bo cleansing the entire system, dispel. col re headache, fever, habitual constipation d biliousness. Please buy and try a box . C. C. to-day; 10, 2, 50 cents. Sold uaranieod to cure by ald druygists. COLORED DEPARTMENT. All communications and mat- ters of news pertaining to this cout. of the women riding bicycles}C, W. Merriweather, 221 South aad trying to vote!” » its zeaith, place somewhere in the region of ‘bi while the girls wear pr anybody—so it’s a mai tograpbers have taken hundreds them and the number has increased den has been comp. lied to pin al ‘The button photograph fad is now Nine vut of every ten] Seventh and ‘Trimble streets ay wea you meet has in a conspicuous] have heard screams aad shreiks !ast lapel the indelible shadow of wife, child, sweetheart or somebody else, ures of most Local pho- so rapidly that Photographer McFad- those he takes to the iuside of a case Seventh street. Those who live in the vicinity of i i and let the enthusiastic victims of chis when they come after it, sturyis told on Mr, and wore it around for several When he wi spied the button. here?’’ he asked. plied proudly at the button, “Why that’s not your baby,’” plied the othe child several times, ‘Well now I guess I ought t to know my own baby,,’’ insisted the former. His friend siid no wore, and left as an aunt of the baby drop- ped in, A few miuutes later he ob- served Mr, Bonds walking rapidly down towards Broadway with his bat re- button craze select their own likeness Speaking of this button fad¥ good Ed. Bonds, He had a picture of his litte girl taken on a button some time ago, it down towa one day eof his friends dropped in and “Hello, what's that you've got Ob, a picture of my, baby,’ re- the former as he glanced who had seen the that threatens to tear your throat Into shreds-—how are you going to stop it? The easiest way is the best way. A single dose of DR. BELL’S PINE-TAR-HONEY SOOTHES AND HEA! This remedy cuts the mucus and takes out the inflammation, curing the cough and its cause. SITIVELY — it is not an expect- orant. It cures ail throat, bronchial and nasal troubles—makes weak lungs vigorous, It affords the easiest way, the quickest way and the safest way of curing any kind of av gh. Sold « srywhere in bottles—25c, 50c and $1,00, BE SURE YOU GET OR. BELL'S Pine-Tar-Honey iman| Lee Hale. sed to ea Seema Friday, such as no buman had ever before nor may never hear | again. It made the welkin ring. It lit the very heavens, window panes ttled, leaves fell from the trees, and people put theirflogers io their Kylah F ears. The people over athe depot Son thought it was a murderer butchers Day.—Sehool one Greer. ly Briggs zier, simply arose in all their might and] asserted their right to fight, to be free and independent, For fifteen or Jand yirl twenty cats to be compelled to live} Song together within the confines of a gr wk, was just a little more than these representatives of a future Maple the noise of Seventh and Trimble last Friday, The following program will be ren- |” dered at the Garfield school Wednes- day afternoon, Nov. 24, at 2 o'clock }©0¢ Mortoa. in honor of Mothers’ Day and Phankegivigs Saaz—Schodl, Thanksgiving: + Recitation ay Praise. — ‘eid | Pearl Matthews. Song—School. Drive the Nail Arght—Bigger male. ttle Keys—Alvin Glore. Rules for Good Health—Mable! Edwards, Thanksgiving Diggs. A Welcome Gray. The Moon—Emma Hester. Never Play Truant—Sammie Over- street. The Lamb—Maggie McClellan. The Thanksgiving Frait—Anna| The I Boys. —Celia Brown ‘Turkey — Lucy Holiday—Octavia The following | rende | chure | day, Nov Song—Sehool on Th Politeness—Addie Melbura. Guess Recitation—Marie Rudd. | James Rickets, Solo—Jennie Frazier. | Haste is Waste—Melvin Thomp. | son. j Song—School. | Beginning of Vice—Alvin Cot-| ter. i Recitation—Lovie Red. Guess What's In My James Ricketts. Shree Johnson. Three Little Mi liama, Pocket— Good Morning—NavnieTyler. | Recitation —Seorge Three Little Singers—Florence| Recitation Johnson, A Christmas RB A Jolly Miller—Carrie Jackson. Son, Shoir. Three Little Mice—Henry Hynes. | ‘Thanksgiving Day—Wells B.Will- | iams, | The Little Dogs—Virgie Faqua Recitation—Nellie Franklin, Recitation—Georgia Sled. Reeitation—Jolinnie Walker. A Christmas Kivel Happy and ‘Thankful Hearts—Het- tie Rhodas. Praye Song—Choir. The Origin How the Da |B. G. Monta: res Solo—Lucy Diggs. Pp Ww Reeitation—Ulia Mimms, ter of the The Birds’ Thanksgiving Dinner— Pilgr on Addie Chatman, Barks, Thanksgiving Day—Ama_ Dicker- son. Rocffation—Tommie Sherman . Recitation—Horace Lewis Recitation—Addie Melbura, Recitation—Haitie Owens, Recitation—Willie Mitcherson, Song—School. Miss Mavup P, Mansrrevo Teacher First Grade Kecitation—M Cl H, Burks. and G. G. Triiby Address—Rev. W. E. Glover. i Song—Fill The Baskets —School, | ¢¥e Recitation—First Tuauksgiviog— | Thompson, 1 Letha Johnson. Memory Boys and Girls. Song—Barn Yard.—School. The cake .ns—Mother.—Kight will be led Wedding Presents > We have hundreds of nice things s it- able for presents—anything you want. Nice presents from $1.00 to $100. Ladies’ Desks Combination Cases... In mahogany, oak and bird’s-eye maple. Bea tiful styles and very cheap. Yo sho Id see them at once and make yo r selection. and Recitation—Strength For Today. ecitation—Thanksgiving Day. — Thanksgiving A ing to death some victim of his rage. Ne Give Thanks. —School But no, two young men had gathered Avros!ic—Thanksgiving.— Twelve together an old grass sack full «f;boys and girls cats. These cats, not desiring to be{ Song—Give Thanks. School so close neighbors to each other, Memory Gems—Thanksgiving.— hoys and girls Leaves,—Four boys Bob White Thanksgiving —Saline calogue—Harvest race could, or would stand, hence all}tie Boyd and Lily Che Six Boy tation—Ilow To Spea grim’s ‘Thanksgiving—S\ Recitation—A Band Song—Ameriva. —School Annie Paviise House First and second grades. All parents and friends are inviled out to wi'ness these exerciese’ ed at Burks’ Chapel, A. M. E oksgivivg eve Sth, at 7:00 o’vlock. Beginning of Vice—Alvin Recitatios—Louie Red. va Whut's in My Pocket joo Morning—Winnie Tyler. Little Singere—Florence | A Jolly Miller—Carrie Jackson, c Thanksgiving Day—Wells B. Wil- The Little Dogs—Virgie Fuqua. Recitation—Nellie Franklin. | Johnnie Walker. he Pastor. of Thanksgiving Day . 1. 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