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Arrivals ine lash Dress Goods 0000eooe Y hams and natty novelties by and by, and you will want them in a hurry. ou would better take them now, while they are fresh, pretty and cheap. Everything favors your buying early! ‘OU will want these dainty ging The Newest <{ Fabrics Toile du Nord Ginghams occupy the leading positions among materials especially adapted to children’s wear, as well as the latest designs for ladies’ waists. These goods are unquestion- ably the best fabric in the market at the price 10 cents a yard Standard Madras Cloths—one of the best and most popular new fabrics of theseason. Our assortment comprises a variety of dainty woven effects in checks, plaids and stripes, warrant- ed absolutely fast colors.... ssegees Price 12'o cents Dainty New Challies—A beautiful line of all-wool filling chal lies with satin stripes, regular 25 value, we offer at 10 cents a yard Grampian Cloths—A delightful soft, cool fabric of cheviot char- acter, designed for shirt waists, blouses and children’s dresses. All the newest colorings .. sees e S8 cents a yard Silk-Figured Djalmattas—A woven fabric as novel and unique as the name it bears; a rare combination of silk and cotton in a great variety of fancy weaves, in which the cross bars and figures of silk are strikingly prominent. For this rich and exclusive novelty we ask the modest price of ...-.25 cents a yard Mousseline de Soie—The great imported novelty for 1898. They comprise the newest shades in this beautiful silken fabric that is eminently suitable in weight and coloring for summer and evening wear. Our price only 50 cents a yard THE WHITE GOODS SALE CONTINUES Domestics—Masonville, Lonsdale and Fruit of the Loom domestics... .6 nts a yard Hamburg Embroideries—We are of fering an immense assortment of one, two and three-inch width extra quality Hamburg embroi- deries at ....5 and io cents a yard Fine Laces and Edgings—A perfect line of beautiful patterns in fine Torchon, German and Valen ciennes laces, insertions, nain- sook and Sw.ss embroideries, cheap SPECIAL MUSLIN UNDERW: A PRICES Are moving our big stock right along. It will pay you to attend this sale Take the elevator to second floor. ELLIS, RUDY & PHILLIPS BROADWAY 221 219 Evetything in Its IS _ THE RECORD Season abe Becc UR stock of staple and fancy groceries is complete and up-to-date. Splendid line of canned good Our meat market is unexcelled, having everything in the line of fresh and salt meats. P. F. LALLY. OBERT'S BEER Is'rapidly becoming the favorite with the people of this city, It leads ali others, for the reason that it is ABSOLUTELY PURE HANDLED IN BUTTLES AND BY TIE KEG BY PADUCAH BOTTLING CO. F. J. Bergdo!l, Proptietor. Tenth and Madison streets Telephone 101. Orders filled until 11 pom Soda Pop, Seltger Water and all kinds of Temperance Drinks, Telephone 118. Cor. oth and Trimble. ESTABLISHED 1864, 0 Miss Mary B. E. Greif & Co GENERAL INSURANCE Telephone 174. PADUCAH, KY DON’T CUSS THE PLUMBE He may be entirely innocent. Maybe his work was good but hes been mistreated, Whatever the cause of the break or leak, or bad behavior of pipes, don't waste time about R Published every afternoon, except Sunday, by THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, INCORPORATED PRESIDENT AND MANAGER coceseeeeeeWO8 PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER M. Pisien v CLENENT ohn). Dorian |W ©. PaatoN orneoTons W. P. Paxton hn J. Dot FM. Fisher 38, Wiliiamson J » Standard lock, 116 North Fourth +8 4.50 2.25 annum... Daily, Six months Daily, One month,. 40 | Daily, per week. . +» 10 cents per annum in ad- nen copies free | FRIDAY, . 4, | The average Daily Cireulation of the Sun for the year 1897 was 1589 copies, as shown by the d y records of the office and prov- ed by the sworn affidavits of four responsible men, { The Sun claims the largest cir- leulation of any daily paper fn Paducah From the day of its first issue it has made its cireu- |lation publie and asks its adver- tisers to make a complete inves- | tigation of its circulation books at any time. No other paper in Paducah wi'l state its circula- tion. Ir the Legislature will pass the Dill now before it impusing a heavy selling ot will admit making, we fine on one ‘smoking cigarettes, an body is not altogether an ted evil Tur present legislature has a disposition and in fact an eagerness to ‘reform’? everything in the stat of Kentucky outside of Louisville; but Louisville is in the bands of ‘the | gang necessary, shown aud ofcourse reform is un- Sous of our aspiring Democratic Frankfort who are shap- ing legislation at leaders at and making records time should the same mind that sometimes a politician's record takes him out of the ‘availa. ble’ too much of a good thing. ¢ It is possible to have scheme incubators at Frankfort, has bill boards of education. introdaced a creating One of the board to is be elected from each district 1898, and the board shall perform all | county member | magisterial in November, the duties now conferred on county When this Legis- d from ble bodied Dem- superintendents, lature shall have pas: labor to refreshments, the a ocrat in Kentucky who is not a mem- | ber of some ‘‘commission’’ will be a fit subject for a dime museum. Tur Ge appointment of three of elections has bel election bill for the commissioners been framed, as a Democratic paper says, to prevent the recurrence of ‘‘the rank Repub- lican frauds that were undoubtedly ted in the mountain counties 1896 Whether the bill will, if it becomes a law, pre- vent wholesale frauds, perpet lection of i in the Democratic such as were perpetrated in ville at the last election, is we Louis- pre sume @ matter of minor importance in| the ey who are now very conspicuously on deck st Frankfort, esof the political Pharisees Tn acts of the present Legislature sed under protest,—by the people. The McChord railroad bill is opposed by the railroad peo- ple are being p: ; the Orr tobacco bill has aroused the growers ; the Bronston prison commission Dill is bitterly opposed by the éonserva- tive Democrats themselves ; the Chin: school buok bill has incurred the op- school boards all over the state, and when election day comes the people will register a protest against the active principle at the bottom of all this pe- culiar legislation, —Bryanism, MRS, FRANKLIN'S AGROSTIC protests of the tobacco position of educators and On Miss Bradley’s Suggestion as to the Christening of the Kentucky, Frankfort, K¥s Feb. 2.—(Special to Louisville Dispatch.)—Mrs. Ag- nes L. Franklin, wife of ex-circuit clerk Walter Franklin, and mother of the well known and popular common- it, but have it fixed up, We sre ready to make repairs promptly and economically. We are ready to put a job of new plumbing into your house that will give you more isfaction and less anoyance than you ever experienced before. * ED D. HANNAN & 132 South Fourth Street-Telephone 201 HIGH-GRADE BICYCLES AND BICYCLE SUNDRIES. it fav the highest grades of Bicycles made. We are prepared to offer 60 Don’t fail to see our 845.00 Ov d Rugb —bem on the mat! Prettiest wheel made. Don’t tall to noes eee wheels before buying. We are the only exclusive Bicycle house in the eity. mplete re) shop. Free riding schoo! to those buying wheels from ua. pe fail to call—remember the place, ycle Works, | Paducah C 196 and 126 North Fifth street, near Palmer House, christien Gov. Bradl has written the following acrostic ou Christine Bradley, who will the battleship Kentucky, y is very proud of it. Clesrer dawns the nearing future. “Hark! ‘The herald-angels sing’? Rise, ye daughters of Kentacky— In your midst a lovely maiden Spurns a custom of the nations, ‘Tells the world Kentucky's honor In her hands—so kindly given— yot with death draught shall be symbol’d— E’en though heroes Blend with statesmen. Robed with right—invincible— A fair girl stands Weside the sea, Dips with dainty hand pure water, hisses from great] § censure from some Miss Christine Bradley will \ bear inj Senator Bronsrox, one of the] | upon his colleagues, and he endeav- most highly and friends, wealth’s attorney, R. B. Franklin, | J0Urmal Bureau is one of the best and most popular Washington. ably correct in his forecasts and his opinions are eagerly sought for son Watterson Stealy is one of the curable constitutional dise in fro ten case it fully to eure, ‘Ad PERTY | the battleship Kentucky wil water means to the writer is fe . In Mol Co shew pressed by the acrostic n McCrackeh Govnty, As Shown By Supervisors’ Report. WASHINGTON NOTES, | ruc report ot the county auper-| visors has been compiled, and is ready to be submitted, The total} value of property listed by Assessor Byrd for the ensuing year In Me- Cracken county is $7,194,875. ‘The report shows: Land owned by white people in the county, 148,483 acres, valued at p ; owned by colored peo- res, valued at $26,185. Town lots owned by whites, 3,- 919, value, $4,512,210; owned by colored persons, 377, value, $134,- 760, Bonds, mortgages, notes and cash, S514,195, Personal prope Property exet $193,020, Polls, white, 3,709 ; total, 4,534, Total white pe: $165,950 A Newsy Letter From the Na- tional Capital.— Che Great Issue, the Kentucky Delegation That the State Has Every Reason to Be Proud of. | One ii rty, $1,086,560, Washington, Feb. 4.—(Staff cor- ted from taxation, respondence of the Suy.)—The ther- mometer being down to about ten de- grves above Zero, and the streets cov- ered with sleet and the air full of snow, makes indoors the more plea nt and gives me an opportubily write a short letter. Any one who has spent any time at all in Washington realizes fully | that be is in a political atmogphere. In fact it is all. politics, and#@ man} who cannot talk politics, or Who has not a theory as to how certaiy con- tests are going to terminate is really apparently out of place here, This city 18 surely political headquartets for the United States. The political question erence’ in the minds of all here is thi per- taining to the curren The Free) Silverites are making the most noise and never fail to doa good deal of| talking, but the Sound Money men are doing some thinking themselves, and it is brain work and not talk merely that counts in the long run, There is no question but that the issue in 1900 will be silver, and the battle will be a hard one—harder even than in 1896. Sound Mone: however will win and Populism will be buried forever. The Kentue legislature has . panaged to get itself talked about a] 2 tecolimended an internal | pre- reat deal, and has been the subject | Paration—known as Botanic Blood f much ridicule on account of the] Balm, (“B. B.B."'). which T have resolution that it passed asking Sena. | been using and feo about we tor Lindsay to resign. Tt is making | Years; she usal three boities and al ce of legislation, but it is pro.| Pimples have disappeared : her eit bably doiug the best it can. It/!8 soft and smooth aud her geners might be a good idea for the people| health much improved, She expresses of Kentucky to abolish theit legisla. {Herself mach gratified, and ean | ture for a term of years, but then the] Commend it-to all who are thus H ah fa fected, Mrs. S. M, Wirson, people would miss lot® of excitement, | 4°" res The friends of Senator Lindsay | Monntain, Tesme. here are legion aud will stick cisoer| For sale by Druggis |to him now than ever He is cer- tainly an honor to old Kentucky and | one of the most capable men of the Senate. able property owned by to HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL, To be beautiful you must have pure bloud and good health. To do 80, purify the blood and build up your health with the best Tonie and Blood Purifier of the age, Botanic Blood Balm, ('B, B. B."') It is the old standard and reliable rem- edy. It never falls to eure all man- ner of Blood and Skin disease, whete eminent physicians, and ali other known remedies have failed, Send stamps for book of particuliits, _to the Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ge, Price $1.00 per large bottle, POSITIVE PROOP, A lady friend of mine bas for sev- eral years been troubled with bumps and pimples on her face aud neck, for which she used Various eosmetics |in order to remove them and beauti- | fy and improve her complexion, but |these local applications were only temporary, and left her skin in worse condition, g 0! af- Iron Is It Dwelle Koow Thete Nelgh Why We hed the pleasure of meeting Senator and Mrs. Deboe and their litde daughter last eveuing, Mrs, Deboe 1s a w st amiable and “@harm- ing lady, perfe at homie ia Wash- ington, always giad to meet. Ken- tuckians, aud fills the enviable posi- tion in society that she occupies here with grace and digni build, arkable things in « day nineteenth century urban lif custom of people not knowing Other in flats.. It is only necessary t considér all the reasons and indu ments for women living separ buildings knowing eact highéy, astonist don't or rath lived in the each ‘Other tl te . Congressman Wheeler» has ,made many friends here within the short time that be has been here. He is well liked, and his speech in the House on the financial question was the crowning cvent ia this bis first term in Congress. The people of the Firat District have every reason to be proud of Charley Wheeler. He is capable aud has impressed that fact) ye ors as far as possible, to be not merely a perfunctory member of Con- gress, but to Voice the sentiments of his constituents and to be an actual representative of his peeple, At the} present time Mrs. Wheeler is visiting friends ia Baltimore. Kentucky's representati gress is above the averag | the larger part of the deleyation is Democratic, All acknowledge that Congressmen Colson, Davison and Pagh are men of particular merit and ability, and all being young men, will be heard frem in the future. Congressmen Evans is considered one of the ablest members of the House. Kentucky would do herself proud to select her next governor from among these men. Who knows but what some day she will do so! While Thos. B. Reed is the Czar of the House and controls with an iron hand when necessary, it is nevertheless a fact that it takes a tromg man to make a successful speaker. As a parliamentarian peaker Reed has no equal, both tn knowledge of parliamentary law and in executive ability. The conduct of the House at times lacks that dignity that one would expect in so august a body 9s the House of Representa- tives, a fact that strikes new visitors with astonishment, and it is evident that adetermined speaker is a neces- sity for the dispatch of business. day where @ fals throw them Snto their ne t neighbor to a most frigid f the mo: bu migh those st up Senator Hanna is the most popular Senator in Washington. He is al- ways approachable, ever ready to aid a friend and positive the oc- casion demands, His popularity will increase for those who know him best are those who appreciate Lim the in fact his best when of the up the n Col, O. O, Stealy, of the Couriers CHARITY IN FRANCE. newspaper men in He has been remark- , of the h the most ¢ ures, will perfor in the most une Infirmary for Cane taining the most fea examples of that repulsive 1 regularly attended by of ra who have their fixed days of duty, when, each in turn, they dress th with their hand a’Uzes, one of the best-knows of fashion, whose splendid f fill the chronicles of the leadi papers, ne of the showing an adroitness of her c able funct hin duces her care to be particularly de+ sired by the y tients I know of great fa His m berole ac Dise best hustlers, after he city, news items in F. M. Fisuse, For a great m d it a local di wounds Duchesse eaders tivities eonstitution sl tr manufactured by #. J.C is mos. I n ‘om the blond and mucous surfaces of the sy im. “Chey offer one hundred dollars for any id for circulars and F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Drogists, Hall's Family Pilis are the best ons whi estimonials, ilies who, wher residing in their country hou have Laves the ‘Battleship Kentucy, xive Ye “What the rual Power! Our Brave, One,| , 17 4 7 trong: All druggists, 500 or 81, Cure guaran announcement that] werling Remedy Co, © 7-0 Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Lan Away, | TeKUlAr days in the week when the uit tobaceo easily and forever, be mag | dtughters of the family dress wounds allot Li erve and vigor, take No-To | and sores ainong the surroundir g pe hewonder-worker, that makes weak men| antry. The mothers in repress energetically any morbid sensi- bility whicl? might interfere with sueh att nn Bookles aud sample free. Add duties, “Wh: after life if you will you be fit for ip nuot command your feelings?” T have heard said by «# venerable marquise who looked as If she had stepped down from the frame of one of the pictures in her chateaw, 1 may quote another instanee, of a lady in a less high position, who éook in a wretehed beggar child on a cold wintry night, performing maternal ofMfees as regards removing the consequences of his neglected condition which were 86 repulsive that her physical strength gave way and she was taken violently {lin consequence. On my praising h charity, she exclaimed almost. nantly: “What! when our Lord Washed the fect of his diseiples, yon would have ime shrink from doing whatisneeessary for a poor, wretched child, merely throngh a feeling of disgust?” I sald nothing? bit could. not help thinking™how amamty avenyl have left the care to others, It must be acknowledired, however, that by the side of acts of berole cha: there is, aving exceptions, a great of that genial kindness which shows it- self to equals fn any trouble by many little friend] ns in England Caw COCCC CECE ny se of the G ; Century. this part ef the country new arrival of a Klondike ofc “Well, sir, theugtest stat piled this mor ctackers to each inhabit Constatent Griet, “Do you think Jul N alway on mourning for her hus “Yes: she t named Mla Phe FIRE LIFE and TORNADO tlaves, who ¢ and have rem méibbered that t rMthy veturne Sor T Y of the wever, and of these ad Chatham e ® There are po than 15 living here now of did pot retur 1, tik their day inger generation Ma. The gre rtune they have experie by almost total y city hot t time r freedom. are gettir e 406 Ww sete BPOADWAY WwOooD y Do you w I Trimbh Try one ordet North End Wood Yard. Future seeming ecor sewing ms lished repu © tle property in t TENSION 1 (devices f showing tl a few of emphasize character of Send for our catalog. Whit» gant HLT. { . Noubliez pas. About the old story of the camel—how three philosophers heard about the an- imal he folios of th had been said about the beast; the man'went into his study, locked the door, lit his pipe ception of th Sahara to s You eat his week we're gh as $6.00 ni determined to investigate. lishman hunted through the he British Musem, to find what and began to evolve a con- animal from his own con the Frenchman went down to ee heard a good dk ile ng ness VI clearin. | about the going on here. ladies’ shoes worth as 1d Children's at The styles ut 1. $1.50 an 00, Misses’ ¢ worth up to $3.00. are not the latest, and we haven't all sizes of each lot See for y garding this great sale in five minutes at the store than we could but why not do as Frenchman- urself? You'll learn more re- tell you ona le page of this paper Rose & Paxton. Give you All Kinds of Insurance Over Citizen’s Saving Bank. OOD ¢ Wiite Sewine Macuine Co., CLEVELAND, O. ‘DR, BELL Pine-Tar-Hor " tan’ They ppy with a su ve ad of money Most f matt i s bett wh 1 man and a woman to be married } nift 4 onally lin uples will gradually Hipecer Ba ind get more happiness out het 1d maic which they were g then f life th st peaceful « 1 are old six fi Attempis have rece France by Prof. Alfred Bir net to * xperimenta+ ing @ series of figures yy to Lhe subject, at a regular speed of ~The common pond fetime ie 12 to 15 years, ‘og's nate Ber Rr rel A. S. DABNEY, $7, JAMES HOTEL DENTIST, \rates, 8ST. LOUIS,—~ $2.00 Per Day. Room and Breaklast, $1.00. European Pian, $1.00 Per Day. Goov Rooms Goon Meats, Goon SeRvie ST. at AMES FOTEL HKOabway <#o Warxor 1 J Galt House LOUISVILLE. KY. an $3.00 to $5.00 per wms only $1.00 and upwards, A. R. COOPKR, Manager WAY HOUSE. n the city lat est rooms, AY. Ub street ent When in} p at the STATE HOTEL. £1.50 a day, tropolis Special rates by the D. week A. Baily, Propr, tween 4th and Sth on Ferry st Boarders Wanted 408 COURT STREET. Good Rooms, Good Table, Best of Attention. KRECTZER. STARR BROS, Repa'ring Watches, Clocks, tl Guns, Umbrellas, Locks, Etc, Corner Ninth and Trimble, next door to Breeden’s Drug Sore. IF YOU DRINK, ORINK THE BEST YOU CAN FIND IT AT THE /liEW RICHMOND HOUSE BAR Mitchell Bozeo | Proprietor Finort of Wines, Liquors and Cigars | | always on hand, Dillam & Bowden, Attorneys-at-Law, jUiraAnLe Bipe,, Loupvitse, KY livlity Trust and s, V, Go. : al Bank, Quigley & Quigley, Tacs Bows ee -1.W, Moore, DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries, Cauned Goods of All Kinds, Free delivery to all parts of the city, Cor: 7th and Adams, J. J. PURSLEY {All Kinds Uoholsterine and Repairs ON FURNITURE, Mirrors replated and made good as new. Mattresses made toorder, Old stoves and second-hand furniture TAKEN IN EXCHAN FOR WORK, Send word, and I will call and make estimates on work. Charges very reasonable, No, 712 South Fifth,