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+e Beet ale ee oe New Goods a ‘NEW GOODS New Goods RO If we simply state the facts of the goods we have to offer for this week, without any attempt to describe them it ought to bring you to our store before eight o’clock Monday! morning. BE A Lawn Special. Two cases Irish Lawns, 40 inches wide, guaranteed to be fast colors, for 5 cents the yard. These lawns are the best will be offered this season. A PERCALE SPECIAL One case, about 2000 yards, of fast colored standard precales, called manufacturers’ seconds, the regular ro cent quality for 5 cents, An Organdy Specil. 20 pieces beautiful colorings and patterns in French American made Organdy, worth 25c the yard, for 15 the yard, A LINEN SPECIAL. Six pieces 64-inch genuine Scotch linen, the kind that stands every-day use and comes out of the tub looking better each time, worth 65c yard, for 50c a yard. A Dress Goods Specil Twenty-five pieces of neat small plaids and checks, all the newest effects, for 25c the yard. New Sashes and Knotted Fringe Ties Our 59c knotted fringe tie is the one you are usually asked 75c for. New taffeta silks for 69¢ yard: Line of printed China silks, best quality,’ 59c yard. Line of percales, fast colors, 10¢ yard. value finished are ee IN OUR SHOE DEPARTMENT buys man’s heavy s hoe, former pr ys men’s heavy kanga edge, lace and 2.50 buys m: globe toe shoe, sold 3.50 buys man’s vesting t new toe, sold at 5 3.00 buys man's cordovan shoe price 5.0 1.98 buys man for 2.5 3.98 buys man’s wide toe kangaroo] or Congress, sold at 5.00. We are short on sizes of above. Come early and get choice former box calf shoe 't ‘Woman's Department $2.00 and $2.50 buys any woman's welt shoe in the house 2.00 buys woman's bicycle shoe, suitable for general use 2.00 buys stylish dongola boot, lace or button —a dandy In fact, our inventory develops many lines of goods broken in sizes'that mu out. Examine our stock, We will not send any of above out on appr Polishes—We Have the Best 15¢ buys one bottle Gilt Hdge. 15¢ buys one bott 15¢ buys two bottles roc polish(all colors) 15¢ buys two boxes pate Repairing Department. All kinds of repairing quickly and neatly doue, ct formerly 3.00 aud 3.5 Boston, nt leather past eoeoeooe ELLIS, RUDY & PHILLIPS 219 BROADWAY 221 BROADWAY | DON’T CUSS THE PLUMBER Maybe his work was good the break He may be entirely innocent, but has been mistreated, Whatever the cause 01 or leak, or bad behavior of pipes, don't waste t it, but have it fixed up, We are ready to make 1 promptly and economically. We are ready to put a j new plumbing into your house that will give you more satisfaction and less anoyance than you ever experienced before. *ED D. HANNAN ® 132 South Fourth Street-Telephone 201 HIGH-GRADE BICYCLES AND BICYCLE SUNDRIES. hest lea of Bicycles made, We are prepared to offer 5 .GODon't fail to see our, 845.00 Overlands and Rugbye —best on the market, prettiest whee! made. Don’t {ail to see our line of wheels before buying. We are the only exclusive Bicycle house in the city, Complete repair shop. Free riding schoo! to those buying wheels from us. Don’t fail to call—remember the place, Paducah Cycle, Works, 196 and 198 Herth Fifth street, near Palmer Honest it for 1806 ns for 1) complete confiden TWE PADUCAH DAILY SUN, every afternoon, except Sunday, by THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPARY, ENOORPORATED Published RW. CLaMENts: Viev W. FP. PAaTON FRIDAY, M cor. apgremeanne nage | | | c se of 1892 and were t f th 1 au Precedents have es: | utside cause € excess of those of the cent. in ex As t th tablished that in such cases the only sponding week of last year. | course is for an indemnity to be de- ild that be refused, war Uni-| manded. She |demnity by Spain would be simply a} eater | lemnity by Spain 1 be simply {the figure was 50 per cent [than that of the of the present year faith. Those demanc rantee of her good responding week who bellicose individuals, war in any event, are very | Tuose who study business cond:- jtions and front and do the flighting. The war, hopeful for the work of the coming] if it comes, will not be the McKinley, but will be the sh ac prospects are extremely season the country over hipments | President the business centers] result of S} d, in- The lent will be such ss to ons entirely. Presi- of money fr to the Mis deed position of the maintain to he utmost the nation’s honor, but at he same time put the responsibility haye confidently Thus livity with the opening of| refusal to pay the indemnity dema j the spring All indication int to} ed would be tantamount to a decla- the year 1898 as likely to be one of| ration cf war. and business The States fully precipitated « this reason is | ppi Valley rts of the Country are re- heavy and giv ported unusually ement to those whol great encours reased | of a war on pains expected Spain busin ment of the United izes that war may be business activity Gover in the United States, Ir must be very gratifying to Pres. | ident McKinley and bis friends and immediate supporters to the] general expressions of confidence in| grea succe: moment, and for eparing for that as fast and completely a3 possible. Assistant Secretary of War Roosevelt said on Saturday that ‘everything dbmt can {float will be put in commission for and the country emergency just anil as note his wisdom and firmness with ref Cuban situation, and his associates ence to the he fact that he going about the work of invest are ” | immediate service, “| may rest assured that the navy will care and in a manner which shall not} jed. Congress has been asked by the pro- Navy Department for permission to merchant vessels as create unnecessary friction or voke hostilities is generally approved. all quarters show} 7 equip i Expressions from Roditoe 1.500 more seamen in order to man the Columbia, Minneapolis, Miantono-| mah and other ships not In short, everything indi- it authority to enlist », irrespective of party, on the part of the great mass President's wis- he tion citizens, in the et in com-} | Jom, and equal confidence ad ogo mission, cates that the navy will be will maintain the honor of the na whatever may be the] in this « it is now and silver was 20 per Cuba s once, There is aiso , cent. higher than at present eM Rea a tne GME be hard to make the average farmer] Cut but that the Philippine Islands | would be seized at ouce by our Pacit= of silver ce believe that the price trols the price of wheat | ic squadron, and thus two fatal blows be dealt Spain. The United states when he re-| al both of these members that wheat was worth about} 50 vents a bushel and silver 65 cents] Prepared to d 4 blows at once when war becomes ai an ounce when those remarkable ta-| ee bead 1 fact. bles made their appearance in t Congressional campaign of four years ago, and when he further considers The Scaipers Beiore ( The followiog is an editorial ap- the Jauuary number of uigress. that wheat is now above the dollar line, with silver down to 55 cents an ounce. oe tickets, or unused portions of such Tur, statement that the fall in the | tickets, and reselling them to the prive of farm lands 1s -due to the| Public at lower rates than regularly treatment which silver bas received] C#8"ged by the railroads, is an evil that bas been too long tolerated by at the hands of the lawmakers of the} the decent people of this country. @ practice has been conducted under the respectable title of *Ticket Brokerage,” but the geueral public, recognizing the true nature of the trafic, has given it another name; the public calls it *Ticket Sculping,’” and the name is in keeping with the facts, the «dealers are leeches who ake their wits and ingenuity against the honesty of railway officials and the intelligence and cupidity of the quarter of a century public. They add nothing to the the actual reduction in the price of| world’s wealth. They tratlic in prop- n coincie| erty in which they have no tile, and scarcely sustained by the New York mmissiover of Labor has just pul He shows that the farmers country is figures which the state lished, report a fail of from fifty to seventy. five per cent. in the value of farm lands im the past five or six ye When it is remembered that the sus- of free coinage ¢ rred a pension go and that farm lands seems to have be dent with the election of a free-trade + eal : ; ure of their deception and forgery. President and Congress, there will be} “rye railroads have made many 4 suspicion that the reduction in val-| yigorous efforts to cast off the bur- ion rather] den put upon them by this nefarious traflic in tickets by unauthorized dealers, Their efforts have met with persisteut opposition from two fac- tions besides the scalpers. The va- {from the] rious organizations of commer Maine disaster is still vd.| travelers have fought openly for the War preparations are being hurred|cut-rate ticket dealers. The argu. ments pre¥ented by the traveling men ues is due to tariff le ilver, THE WAR SITUATION, than the relating to resulting Tue situation uncha as fast as possible and all is as active ru pr a beeen | ; UNITED STATES CRUISER “MONTGOMERY boa beig, dade hes: pee ever ee T TO HAVANA TO REPLACE THE BATTLESHIP MAINE. ending February 2 These sh “ that at thirteen leading cities, OUt-| war will not necessarily follow, even | The other influence bebind the sideof New York, the bavk €X-| should the Court of Inquiry report] sealpers has heen hidden from the changes were 10.6 per cent. inexcess! that the Maine was blown up by an|PUblic. ‘There bas been much sus- | picion regarding it, and the scalpers willing | and the s that some one else should go to the} perately pressed when work of} ing the recent disaster with great! ). ready for use if it should be need-| have stood like the Rock of Gibral- cruisers, to the law makers, and now they can their success depends upon the meas- |}, | |CITIZENS’ 4 SAVINGS BANK, 226 Broadway, Paducah, Ky, Capital and Surplus, $120,000.00 Open from 9 a. m, to3 p.m, On Sat- urday nights from 7 to 8, Interest Paid onTine Deposits OFFICERS. Jas. A. Rupy .. W. F, Paxton R. Rupy.. President o- Cashior Ase’t Cashier DIRECTORS, Jas. A.Rupy, Jas. R. Smrrn, | F. M. Fisier, Gro, ©. WALLACE, F. KAMLEITHR, = W. F. Paxton, Geo, O. Hart, KE. Fanvey, R. Rupy, re Galt House) LOUISVILLE. KY. | American Plan $3.00 to $5.00 per} day. | Rooms only $1.00 and upwards, H A. R COOPER, Mana, have made many dark hints of collu- sion with certain railroads. Lately they have gone so far as to declare that ninety-five per cent. of their int BROADWAY HOUSE. iness comes to them direct from pg ne Bs babe ree ies ‘The de railroads Best hotel in the city. ruary were pumber,|manding of an indemnity is not] make the matter plain, it is] — Best accommodations, nicest rooms Which is 1 cceurred | Placing @ ‘money value’ on the lives] claimed by the scalpers that certain WHALS 25¢—9400 PUR OAY, Jin the correspondiog week since! of Out patriotic men, as seme of the|roads, wishing to violate agreements Corner Broadway and Hig he ‘ ah , sensational papers state, but is simply made with competing lines of road, J. Meavows, Prop! | the beginning of the Cleveland the intervational method of giving | '4 to defeat the law governing inter - | administ The number of nebo eich BIVIOR | state commerce. have carried their ous tao 803 averaged 259,{the| Al! responsibility for the terrible sf-|scalper aya medium through which highest number bee in 1804, when| fit} while the payment of an ins}to reach the public, Honest men — : ; will recognize this defense as beiog| Items of Interest Gathered From little better than a confession of dis. honesty. Itis certainly an admis- sion of conspiracy to defeat the law, alpers ust needs be des they attempt to justify their acts by this juestion- able defense, But a recent decision |" 7. 1a finer Mars #429 Also of the supreme court of Georgia will] ~The river is falling Ka eetes iss force the scalpers to present another |!¥ DOW with 19.8 on the gauge thi plea for justification. The court of | #fternoon. last resort bas said that agreements| |The Tennessee is due out of the| of this nature between railroads and | Cumberland river tomorrow bound the River Front for the Sun Readers. The Buchan, from Caseyville, wit) | a tow of coal arrived this morning Noubliez nas, About the old story of the camel—how tlirce philosophers heard about the an- imal and dante to investigate. The Englishman hunted through the folios of the British Musem, to tad what had been said about the beast; the Ger- man went into his study, locked the door, lit his pipe and began to evolve a cone ception of the animal from his own eon- sciousness; the Frenchman went down to Sahara to see, YOU'VE h a good dgal about the great clearing-out sale going on here. This week we're selling ladies’ shoes for $1.00, $1.50 and oo, worth as high as $6.00. Misses’ and Children’s at 75¢, worth up to $3.00. The styles are not the latest, and we haven't all sizes of each lot, but why not do as Frenchman- See for yourself ? You'll learn more re- garding this great sale in five minutes at the store tan we could tell/ you on a whole page of this paper, (1 ceano_orren To keep our great factory busy. and introduce early our aplen- did YS models we have concluded to make a marvelous offer direct to the rider, For 30 days we will sell samples of out swell ' bicycles at met cost to manufac- ture and will ship, C. O. D. on approval to any address on receipt of the nominal sum of $1.00 (if west of Denver, $5). Thi ly to show good faith on purchaser's want tosend money in advance, send ent s guaranty for charges one way and +f you don’t want the wheel. deposit is mer part; if you yourexpressa we will pay them the ot rode, embodying every late improve. ve, 1's ineb imported tubing, flash large detachable $29,00. ment. Special price on sample Aeplendid mac’ GOSsack. seainlens tubing, t finished and d& high grade eyuipment m, dart 5 1), inch tubing, etriped and decorated, arch sealpers sre opposed to law and or-| for Evansville. der and are void The Clyde was still due out of the] It is difficult to see how the senate| Tennessee today at noou, She is ex-| can do otherwise than pass the Anti-} pected to arrive some time (his after: | scalping bill, which is now being con-| noon. tered by a committee of that body.] The City of Sheiicld is due here he measure has been before con-| this afternoon out of the Tennessee | gress for along time, and was passed | river en route to St, Louis. | by the lower house during the last The P. D, Staggs got ay "| session by an oyerwhelming majority ‘ennessee river this moruing at 1 The senate corimittee bas patiently | oiock with a big trip. ” listened to the scalpers, the traveling pi . . | men and the railroads. All have| The City of Clarksville is due here presented their claims, and it is to| ‘is afternoon out of the Obio river: he hoped that the committee will now and leaves on her return to Plizabetly report the bill back to the sevate for | 'W® tomorrow at noon. action. Mr. George H. Daniels,| The towboat Peter Hontz is due |general passenger agent of the New| out of the Cumberland river with «| York Central system, has handled tow of ties. The Chattanooga is also | | the matter for the railroads in a mas- | expected out of the Teunessee. terful manner, and his arguments} Capt. Ad Graham went to Cairo this morning in tnterest of the waye, tar against the threadbare claims of| with the expectations of putting in a |the scalpers and their allies. The bid to repairing a transfer boat at | whole rotten story has been laid bare| that place. Le was accompanied by Messrs. J. §. Jackson and L. Love. ‘The saw mill boat Woodruff,is now do nothing less than cast their influ- ence and their votes against illegal traflic in railroad tickets. at the mouth of Island creek, re- ‘Che President ana Peace. ceiving her new engines, recently Louisville Post built for her here. Kngineer Al War means destruction, death and| Mason is putting her in repair and jdisaster. The outcome is not in| Will have her ready for service in a him into hostilities, Let us wait, | medicine over forty years,origiuated, Time is needed, and patience and| used and claimed that Botsnic Blood sion should not sway our councils, | Balin, (B. 8. B.) which has now There are 300 houses desolate be-| been in use about fifty-five years, was cause one ship went down in the|the best Tonic and Blood Puritier night, but war will send many ships}eser given to the worll, It never into the decps and death will ride on|fails to cure the most malignant every waye. ulcers, sores, rheumatism, cvatarrh e were watching for the Cham-|and all skin and blood diseases, tse- pagne for a week, with nearly 500} ware of substitutes. Use this stand- men and women aboard; anxious,|ard remedy, disturbed, distressed. Its coming is} $1.00. today hailed with joy intwo conti-| arren seveKAL pocrors FAILED, nents. These are days of peace, 80] J have been alllicted with Catarrh we knew the Champagne had to con-/for many years, although all sorts of tend only with the elements. == medicines and several doctors did But in the war the enemies’ ships | their best to cure me. My blood scour the seas for these ships of com-|was very impure, and nothing ever merce and a new terror is added to} had any effect upon the disease uvtil those we know nov , {Lused that great Blood Remedy Patience; patience and peace. The! known as Botanic Blool Balin, (B. | president is not slothful. He has/ i, 35 ), a few bottles of which effect. | learned of war on the field of battle.Jeq an’ entire cure. I recommend | Well may he hesitate, and when he lit to all who have catarrh, I refer Day W William | Vrice per large bottle All retainers, beet Indiana or aw $19.00. oon sample ‘ame, Gear, etc. Fully Guaranteed, Brauswick tires, standard equipme NOTE. Choice of Color, Style, Height of You will be surprised at rn 1 quatit: f these wheels, Don't wait, order now while this olfer fa open. Pr {higher soon, You ean make Big Mone} as our Agent, selling foros. Vs te cholse of cash, the free we Of © eat Shel, crgitt of ordi Fs beet, Want Cheap Wheels? se litile sho ' ‘= " $12.00 to $16.00. Wheels Slightly Used, Modern Types, - + $8.00 to $12.00. Do You wn throaghoot the country, References, any of the Oar business and ry Licago. Art Catalogue free, Becure agency at once, express companios, oF The J. L. Mead Cycle Co., = Chicago. ESTABLISHED 1864, ° Miss Mary B, E. Greif & Co GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS. ....... __ PADUCAH, E¥ /Telephone 174. oo Akealécint necessary, to do its part in indlicting | doubt; the way will not be long, yet | few days, eloy one of those quick, tremendous blows| war is never @ holiday pastime, and a] The Dick and Joe Fowler were the : WHAT? Lose delusive tables which were! *#ich decide the issue in modern! war with Spain would be most deadly | departures this morning, the former | : ag 1) orcas ah ne ened OE REM Jand most destructive. going to Cairo at 8:30 s. m.,and the} oa eA 1h) intended to show that whest and sil-/™ ta come the administrae|,ADd yet war may come, It/latter left for Evansville at 10 a. m. PBPINe ty ver kept pace in price will scarcely ‘ me he sain should come after all’ the arts of|doing good freight business in ad. ate Jbe useful in the campaign of the) ti Would make no mistake by send-| peaceful diplomacy have been ex-{dition to a good. list of passengers ( \ j coming year. They made their ap- inadequate force to Cuba to} hausted. Itis easy to declare war;] and mail. ) vol geek Jtake and to hold it. The policy| it is dificult to conclude a peace. -~- i s {pearance about years ag when] ? Let us wait in patience. Let no An Old Docvor’s Favorite. i : aenii will be to strike a tremendous blew Li “ wheat was worth just about alt] 1 OO illate Spoutsty contach ig Mort come to the president to hurry] Dr. L. M. Gillam, who practiced || : YES The '98 model of the New Densmore is ball bearing in all. See sample with Oo. B. STARKS, Agent for Densmore, Yost and Caligraph Typewriters. Supplies for all standard machines. The § Monk ¢, DAMVee Future comfort for present seeming econ. sewing machine with anestab- lished reputation, that guar- antees you long and satisfac- tory service, & ot tt ot Coughs must go—Catarrh vanish, The reign of clear heads and sound lungs begins with the introduc: tion of MIN DR. BELL’S e Will contract to pay y nd hotel bills, aud nu charge } | re | have aches and ‘pains, Mu mouth, Si hroat, Pimples, Copper ored spots, Uleers on any part of the body, Halr or Eyebrows falling out, it is this Secondary ‘Tar readers of this pa true spirit of the American people R. BR. Sautren. chosen rules usherivg impulse, of our tlag! Let us keep this nation A SPECIALTY | “Tbe repubhe is pence.’ War |] X2u.can ve treated at uome for the same | | | cost of the poor, Itis the game of will bey ive cure uow known to have been of # very questionable M v character, but they have been per- The Court of Inquiry is still making] sistently pressed, and have undoubt- investigations. What its report will] edly had much influence in sustain- be, no one can tell, although num-|ing the illegal trafic. Legislative] * bodies have regarded the traveling as if war were almost a certainty, berless forecasts have been published as authoritative, In waiting for this report, those persons who are advo- there has been a disposition to com- ply with their wishes, So the matter eating war, should bear in mind that] has dragged along. men as a worthy set of fellows, and] }*or Send tor tes hesitates who will dare to pass him? tg any merchant or banker of Athens, when it says: For sale by fi le by druggists ‘Are we ready to commit the two- y ee the regime of barbarisin and of Llovd : | IMCLONE) ‘Let us stand by the president! in the noble path in which the fathers ms » f maanet wort at her—the standard-bearer of ae poet eraageuiy ne? price under If you prefer strengthens the power of the few at{p (oe? 7. the expense of the liberties af the the kings; itis the last resort of a free people. tone dre: Ss. e thatectence has been able to cure io all Catarrh being a cen. | requires » constitutional | The Washington Post speaks in the Gq, and will reply to inquiries, fold crime of discrediting our own { Let us uphold the diguity and honor|] BLOOD POISON ; ud pure and splendid civiliza- tical” icine CURE IN 15 TO 35 DAYS many. War enriches a few at the $100 Reward, S100, tis Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh all's’ Catarrh Cure 4s taken in: | WE GUARANTEE TO CUR We solicit the most obstin: ting directly upon the blood and {J challenge the world for a riaces of the system, thereb eure indation of ‘the dixease, Sk of th 00 000 ationt siren by building jon and ae ry pature ine ra ts Sppticati i ropretors have so much faith in ppiicatio powers, that they offer one hun- | adress COOK Itt rs for any Case tha’ Mt fails to cure, 10 { Testimonials, Address IKNBY & CO., Toledo, 0, Sold by di rgseiAts. Tho, Hall's Pamly Pilis are the best, *INE-TAR-HONEY the greatest known. cure for throa lung and bronchial troubles, It is nota lolent cure—not_ an. expectorant. It kina mild but certainmanner At your Rottles, as sizes id $l. does itsw Try it ITS PINCH TENSION AND. TENSION INDICATOR, (devices for regulating and BELUs RIN § TAR showing the exact tension) are DR HONEY a ch of the Meares that Pine.Tay. tie | Semphasize the high grade Pine-Tar-Honey Ef | S character of the White rere Send for our elegant H. T. catalog. Wwite SewinG Macnine Co., CLEVELAND, 0. | Residence, 3 Washing For Sulefoy reiderick, tent street sa Sreadeey Paducah, &