The Paducah Daily Sun Newspaper, June 9, 1898, Page 2

"station on the South Side, a chemical A pal Extra= Ordinary — Offer oereooes The recent sale of carpets by the manufac-| Hex turers has enabled us to offer: Smith’s best quality velvet carpets, worth $1 yard, for 75c yard. Smith’s Axminster carpets, worth $1 yard,|esze is tie canker which eats away for 75c yard. Smith’s moquette carpets, worth $1 yard, for 75c yard. Best quality of tapestry Brussels carpets, worth 90c yard, for 55¢ yard. Nine pieces one of the best makes strictly all wool two-ply carpets, in latest: style pat- terns and colors (not Lowell’s), worth 65c a yard, for 49c a yard. Two pieces heavy bright colors, worth 25c yard, for 19c yard. These prices do not include making and laying. It will pay you to these carpets and have as these prices apply to stock on hand only. Big lot of short end suitable for druggets and rugs---at half price. Special prices on Smyrna and moquette rugs this week. two-ply carpets, pretty come down now, buy them put down later, s of two-ply carpets--- isin full blast and bloody fights oc- cur and others are expected near Manchester. Why docs not Cols- on’s regiment enlist these bold bloody fighters, ent in their dying let them be of some servic: to their country, ‘Tur medical corps says the army would fare better in Cuba, than in Florida, Men always do better in active operations than laying around They need exercise and changing scenes of action, The mind must be employed and stimulat- ed by the excitements of aggressive motion, Anything is better than the smelting and exhaus‘ing routine of the stationary camp. glory and medals ae T do not believe there Js a case of dyspep- sia, indigestion or any stomach trouble that cannots be re: lieved at once and permanently cured by my DYSPEPSIA SURB. MUNYON. druggists, in camps. is society smile and try to look on ihe silver-lined side of the war cloud sadness, And many a prospective pleasure of the summer has beer abendoned, because of the absence of so many brave boys with the defend- ers of the glorious stars and stripes sought by men of almost every land, and ambition leads the way to peril- ous and dizzy beights, All these gratifications pale before the mouldy A mort- HOW SHOULD ONE Pronounce “seLiey 2?" mortgage on @ man’s home. Discussion of army and navy af fairs are frequent, largely taking the place of the usual society small talk at the social gatherings. In speak- ing of the proper pronunciation of Commodore Schley name a few evening’s ago, a Tennessee lady whose girlhood was spent in Mary- land, and who 1s ac: quainted with the commodore and his family, said that the mistakes made in the pronunciation of the name, while perhaps natural, seem ridiculous to her, The proper way e ly the were spelled “sly | the bappiness of even the greatest. The Alabama people recognize this, | and while Congress showers deserved honors on Lieutenant Mobson, they remember the dreary blight of a mortgage on Hobson's home, and are now subscribing liberally to pay it off, in order that be may have a place to rest his bead when the war This mortgage is to be fore- closed on the 15th inst., but friends in Mobile say this morigage shall not destroy, but be lifted,driven | off, from Hobson’s home. All honor | to those who remember the brave and | y's personally is over. his if A SIMPLE SHIRT WAIST. As the wardrobe of every well- groomed woman should contain eight or ten shirt wais's, and as some new idea in the manner of making them is always desirable, original designs continue to crop ont. A simple waist, suitable for gingham, lawn or any flne material, has the back made perfectly plain, without a yoke. The material in front is laid in five p from the shoulders aud pouches slightly at the belt. The regulation shirt sleeves are finished at the waist with a narrow cuff, are more fashior than the standing collar and sre usualiy of white pique. save the home of those who courage: | ously fight the battle of their coun- try. From the election returns of the state of Oregon it appears the free silver ailment is in subsiding. This epidemic swept over the country is passiog from amongst the people, and in a few months will have subsided alto- some measure which ks gether. The Republicans elected the governor and the whole of the legis- lature on a platform distinctively for WHITE PIQUE OUTING SUIT. eoeeeoee “ Modes and Fabrics” for June, the best fashion magazine,] aerness—from the wild free for the asking, now ELLIS Phillips Rudy & THE PADUCAH DAILY SUN, ¢ Published every afternoon, except Sunday, by THE SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY. SNOORPORATED iy NT Vice Px ENT SECKETARY ‘TREASUREM R W. Cewen7s yohn J. Dorian W F-Paaron DIRECTORS F M. Fisher, W.F. Paxton R.W.Clements, 3 Williamson Jobn J. Dorian Office: 3} 214 Broadway. Daily, per annum in advance. $ 4.50 Daily, Six months 2.25 Daily, One month, “ * 40 Daily, per week.......... 10 cents Weekly, per annum in ad- vance Specime 1.00 copies free THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1898, CITY FINANCES. At the begioning of the city administration it was announced present by gentlemen high in authority, who, if they did not know better, are not capable of properly calculating, much less managing the affairs of the peo- ple, that there would be a large de: ficit to be met by the present council. ry deficit $ official organ, This deficit, or imagir as explained by the c! which may be relied on only to. mis- represent and misstate facis, anc he- come eloquent when it is sufliciently “‘riled,’’ is a legacy from the ‘Busi- nezs Men’s’’ council and «the people have been solemnly warord that die befall and the city forever ruined financially disaster will certaialy in consequence of having had such a council. The end of the fiscal year is now here, and although the people are deprived of the privilege of perusing the annual report of the finance committee, which not been published, if it has really been made yet, we are informed by the council's has quarterly report of the city treasurer, submitted and read’ at the last coun- cil meeting June 6, 1898, that he bas On hand the sui of $19,795.94. We understand that about $15,000 of the above amount must yet be used to pay for the main sewer and pumping station according to contract, as the work | rogresses. This leaves the bavdsome tum of $6,793.94 o hand after all obligations are met. During the two years of the bus. iness men’s administration, just pre- vious to the reign of The Finan- ¢iers,’’ many expensive and perma- bent improvements were made, some which we will name: A new fire | them, | ready. Call and get one. tipe and hydrants in Oak Grove; and they provided means for paying for all out of an average levy of one dol- lar and forty cents on the bundred dollars. By way of comparison it may not at this improvements provided ed valuation of $175,000 in the tax rate is fixed by the present council of be amiss to state t year with no permaue: for and with an as of more th property D excess of previous year's, “‘Financiers’’ at one dollar end fifty We cannot figure the necessity for such a high rate of taxation, and with all deference to the present council we are of the belief that they have failed to apply such business thoughts to cedts on the hundred dollars. the affairs of the city as the people The com- that it would have a right to expect. parison demonstrates surely be a blessing if we could re- ithe much talked of and misrepre- sented business mens’ couucil to in- still a few sound ideas into the pres- ent council of ‘Financiers,”’ in name only. Tur (flushing of the gutters on | Broadway was a good thing and not | done before it was badly needed, Ir 13 now Col. William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Vols. This gives the |country a rest from the of | silver eloquence, until the war is over, | or Willam resigns. So mote it be. for lack of other storms | on | ‘Tue Uavanes employment, sre digging ditches, | throwing up ps and otherwise fortifying the city to be ready for the lay when the Americans shall march pets over them, —— very good citizens are bee ginning to inquire what kind of a Som city admiaistration this one will turn out to be, Its claimed some high- banded and autocratic transactions are occurring along about now. —_— Tur Evans-Lodd fight for the Re- publican nomination for Congress is bow on, and for some days to come the shelling of Santiago by Sampson will hardly be a circumstance to this canvass. ‘There'll be a hot time the old town,’ eté ——___. Wun. Dewey’s ships ride on Ma- nila Bay he is not alone in "he natives have been around and are making sad havoc amongst the Spaniards, Whenever it rains hard, the insure geits attack with long knives, while the Spanish guns are greatly shora of effectiveness—and Spanish comes out second best and bunged up. honor badly engine and fifteen bundred fect of hose, street worker and roller, a com- plete system of sewerage, a pest Norwitnstanpine the war in the Philippines, Cuba, and in other hot 4 Sif, feet of water] places, the aoetnhg mountain feud* the gold standard snd in equal terms The majorities range from 5,000 to 10,- 000. from the wil- for made the seashore of white pique, Although this is rather a warm material for hot weather it makes up so charmingly, a gown of itis necessary in very well dressed woman’s summer outGt, A white pique suit which is somewhat out of be had further east the same results | the ordinary has the skirt made per- will follow and the igous fatuus of fectly plaio, with a stitched band of the waterial at the foot. The lose its phosphorescence | bas a rounded effect, coming down darkness. With | over the bips and back in the form of Bryan in soldier clothes and the/a basque. It is trimmed with stiteh- warning from Oregon, it may be}ed bands. Worn over dainty waists safely concluded that the silver craze 1s ended, like any other debauch, Vox populi, vox Dei. SOCIETY NOTES. rreneur, A striking outing gown mountain or declaring against free silver. This is a voice and wooly west—the home and birthplace of the silver misventure. As elections shall silver will and subside into a decidedly dainty costume, A TUCKED DRESS Tucking is so ve y p)pular this sea son, for gowns of every variety, fror cloth to the that qu often some singular effects are obtait ed in the effortfto be original, A go* which is stuoning for its or made of tan colored drap l’etc the skirt decorated with three distin groups of four tucks, t point in the frout and runo A robin who bad soared too high |the sides, The bodice is ma And felt a little lazy | plain, with the t 8 resting Dear a buttercup cisely the manper ho wished sbe were a daisy. |skirt; this mode of ornamentatior also forms the trimmiog on the sua leg- ADVICE TO A Down in a field one day in June The tlowers all bloomed together, Save one who tried to hide herself And drooped that pleasant weather. has coming to ks arrarged in pr Ww same as on t ‘or daisies grow so trim and tall—| She always had a passion For wearing frills around ber neck Just in the daisy fashion. multon sleeve, Some ove who claims to know that thirteen Now York wowen jewels worth enough to equip fifty two American regiments. They are Mrs, William Astor, Mrs, Ji Jacob Astor. Mrs, Ogden Miller Mrs, Oliver Belmont, Mrs. Frederich Vanderbilt, Mr Gould Mrs, Bradley Ma . Kor Mrs. Troombley, Williat C. Whitney, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Henry Mrs, Frederick Gebhard, nAd buttercups must always be The same old tireless color ; While daisies dress in gold and white Although the gold is duller. “Dear robin,’” said flower, “Perhaps you'd not mind trying To find a nice white field fo Some day when you are flying.”” the sad young George “Mrs Harry Sloane a “You silly thing,’? the robin said “I thiok you must be crazy! I'd rather be my honest self Than avy make-up daisy. Military number of instances in why disguised as men have entered the army and dis\ioguisbed themselves on the battlefield, their sex not t discovered until many years after ard. In 187 who had Jenlisted auder che of I Ds attracted her husband again who was then serving in India | A woman who that she] had a unique career, died in 17 She served as au ordinary seaman ¢ se | men-of- where her tru sex was not once suspected As opposed to these have fought in the no less thaa eight women ¢ the German army today, whom draw their pay regularly. The are the Empress of Germany, the| dowager empress, widow of the late Frederick Charles of Prussia; the Queen Regent Sophia, the Duchess of Edingburg, the Duchess of Con- naught, and (Queen Victoria records contain quite ) Wome ‘You are nicer in your own gown ; The little children love you; Be the best buttercup you cau Aad think bo flower above you, soldier “Though swallows keep me out of "hee sight, We'd better keep our places; Perhaps the world would all wrong With one too many daisies, boasted go ‘Look bravely up into the sky And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttereup Just here where you are growing.’’ women whi ranks there ar lonels in several of WHERE SHALL WE SPEND THE sUM+ MER? The anoual flitting of society peo- ple to the various summer resorts in the mountains has already begun, There are few, however, who* remain out of society for the summer, In- as | stead, there i i ying fol | resorts, either a few hours’ travel], Mf Will C. Leech from the city then a return home for | ft Cincinnati, en route a week or two, then another trip, | CTek, Colorado. perbaps with a congenial party of| Mr. Thomas Morton is visiting friends, to some otber retreat, “Man | Eddyville. : poor man, that is, the business man, Mrs. Will Clements entertains to may growl at the heat of his ottice, | morrow at 10 o'clock in honor of but when he takes the car to lis su- | Miss Glass of Madisonville, Lud, ,and burban home and sits on bis own] the Young Ladies Cinque club | lawn, enjoying the eool evening - | zephyrs, itis bard to convince him BUGGY INJURED, that he ought to take a ttipto the —- | country aod endure the discomforts | 4 clephone Wire Played Havoc ag well as the pleasures of hotel or Rhacdinn kteae: With a Rig Last Night, | | ft last to evening Cripple | in} THE DILEMMA OF THE SUMMER GIRE, Last night Dr. H. T. Rivers re- What the summer girl, on a pretty | ceived a call to go out near the old} night with the moon serenely mellow, | fair grounds and attend a patient, | is going to do this season, is a prob-| On bis way out something struck lem that is yet to be faced, his buggy, tearing part of the top Many of the young men who have/off. An investigation revealed the for seasons past played star engage: | fact that the obstruction a guy ments at the d'fferent summer resorts | wire left there by the telephone line- bave accepted various commissions} men. Lt was stretched across the either with the regular or volunteer | road st a convenient height to tear army. 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LOUIS, MO, THE STORY OF MANILA. the Battle of May 1 Deseribed | hy Some of the Officers Who Took Part In It. [We left Manila May 5, Dewey was ia possession of the shore forts and Considerable ammunition aud some fai captured When the troops arrive fom San Franciseo Adiwiral mand the tmmediate surrender of the city aud the troops statiosed there If the refusal is given, f will be taken Comp'ete subjection of the will Admiral atseaal. guns were Dewey will des reible At once Sy possession forces in plished without tr little danger to Ameri “The insurgents are orders of Admiral Dewey Dr. Kindelberger of the Olympia and Gunner Evans of the Boston had been ordered home before the battle of Manila, t when they learned battle was imminent they asked per- mission to remain wi the od the gtoup ne ble aud with very an life a under The Spaniards Had More Guns, But Their Marksmanship Was Poor—Heavy Spanish Loss in Men and Property. participate, TAX NOTICE, for tl ynth o ‘al., June passengers who arrived Tuesday from Heng n who participates anila bay San Francisco, (¢ Among the the Belgi Nong were four w the fight at Vhey were Paymaster G. A. the McCulloch; Dr. Kindleber- on of the Olympia; Ralph}? secretary to the captain of McCulloch, aud J, C, Evans, wer of the Boston. The left Manila My dune will Taxes are due 1808, office during the 1 atS. H. Wir Seventh and If one-half a not paid by July 1 er cent added amount due MH. F, La City Tax Colle i's drug store Wa be ington Loud, | corer of streets unt es are will be N Dr Por Kent, on Apply to ackson street, near Di) their sea time. Paymaster id and Mr. Phelps will return te MeCualloc They the wniards fought bravely, even after e last vestige of 1 stayed by their guns as long as y could be used, . Kindieberger ¢ graphi t of the terrifi He was the Olympia throughout it a first assault the fl the other vessels n her wake at four The Spanish fleet ved by Isps, ntestants nearer tc By this plan the American vessels 1eutly poured broadsides into the enemy, but were themselves more ex- posed to fire During panish adwiral’s j out of line t The jentire Amer entrated | their tire on ber and she was so badly Injured that she put back. At ture the Olympia let fly paige an S-inch shell which strack herstero] iat when the time sh 1 pierced ti length, and gine s0m4 F. M. Fisuine all 8 to Ad salesman at Sly WANTED—A good sell the Superior washer hope had gone. ! ams street Coal. If you want a load of clean nut coal, telephone No, 70 2imim Bakky & Hexnenencen ves the lead GREAT WHEAT CROP IN KANSAS. He to Secure Men ea n bringing rs Farmers t gether . Phe this the pu Kansas., June terop of central Kan will be so enormous th; of the hip put | be Olymy un fleet ¢ fight the avely question of how to secure enough er the offered anywhere fre ver day ludes turned around and " grain bas arisen ) meet and io s board not ands vod does seel ores of fearing i and s tract the heb buoyie eaders ul ugh x will be unable to secure iT py 1 agent yrds over exploded tinally th en ore wutry for hands are DO! essful The wheat crop is 10 fine Shap The hot weather of past without rain, rs already chinery lt fT ithe captain and 60 men and set the vessel on In the heat of t! boats moved out They were 800 yards Olympia sen t all on td, and riddled The nd bos was later turned upon the blood Jo the second shtthe Baltimore was sent to silence the forts at Cavite ud of batteries on the nea has helped it to develop sur They pros relieve it wil Faw allowed to ¢ withio last year feeling ects that when the pa $ enc rop. the ounly co! wile from the (tom with the other, found with ope to t sioners of Harvey county met today there were @ half-dozen « is of over- tion by a condition lof for years past. getting out of the wheat relt to escape work sang of over fifty went through here yesterday They say they fear being involuntarily pressed into harvest service, as they were lyst year The Harvey Kingman counties, pactterritory in this part of wheat raising belt, will be not than 10,000,000 bushels, and expect to see it 15,000,000, PRAISES THEM. Ex-President 1 ments Our Nayal Her, at as a board of equali veach cove noes r omy assess all her She plunged and opened fortifi In a few minutes a shell struck in the ammunition and the fort blew up with a deafeving roar, After the principal lestroyed, the Concord, Kaleigh and Petrel, light draft, were sent in close to handle the remaining vessels. ‘They nade quick work of them The Spanish loss footed up 400 killed, 600 wounded and a property loss of anywhere from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 The day of the fight was 1ot. Nota breath of ai Experts fi volume of guns of the respective f battle was three for the Americans against seven for the Spanish, It is lear, then, that the superiority was a the men and ships themselves, Gunner Evans of the Boston, was »ne of the men who sent the Spanish ships down, He directed the fire of tions, Sedgewick, and Sumner, Butler, forming a >in ships bad been Haan Goats the less many Chicago, June 9.—‘f consider the Awerican avy, ship for ship, gun for guo and man for man, une vd by any navy in the world today, former President Harrison, ‘The courage and daring of our men, the oneal Gis bi ns on the cruiser, | personnel of the officers of our ships, As such an officer he was at times}the gennery, the nerve and spirit satly exposed hut did not receive a| manifested in all done, offer to the ’ Boston] World the spectacle of a navy for which there is no superior,’’ While declining, for obvious MeCulloch durisg the battle, could pos, to discues the war itself, Mr. ce every movement of the American | Harrison spoke with enthusiasm of avd the battle plans of the} the greatness of the act of Lieut Hobson in sinkiog the Merrimac in said Lond, ‘the | the harbor of Santiago. stead Mhuoder kept-ap, J “Phe act of Lieut. Hobson,” he thought we would be beaten, said, has few, if, avy parallels in the “After the tire had been kept up| history of the world, At Manilla the act of Commodore Dewey was brave, but he entered a hostile harbor able to give shot for shot to beat down his assailants, to triumph by the force of bis own arms ‘Lieut, Hobson and his heroic crew not only went with the Merri- mac into the range Of anawful fire, unable to reply, but the finterior of their own vessel was loaded with tor- pedoes for, her destruction at the proper time. aman on the ch. Paymaster Loud, who was on the 1 shot. hips Spaniards. **For two hours,’’ really for an hour it looked like every gun vo the Spanish ships was turned loose on us altogether and the shore line was a yerita cle blaze of fire from the batteries. The din was indescribable, ‘Tons upon tons of shot fell over our ships. Tuere was steel enough to have sunk our entire fleet, Oar salvation was in the bad mark- manship on the Spaniards. 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