Advertising Cities

Too few municipalities take advantage of the publicity which they can gain through the columns of the local paper. Many cities expect the newspapers to give them all kinds of space gratis, and as a rule they are disappointed because the paper doesn't whoop and hurrah continually over their advantages. It is only natural for a newspaper which receives proper support from a city to boom that city as much as possible, but there is a limit to giving away space just as there is to forbearance. As a rule, it is the municipality of which the business men give the local paper rank support, that feels entitled to a vast amount of free publicity. There is nothing like good newspaper advertising to help build up a town or city, yet, while the fact is appreciated, few municipalities avail themselves of the opportunity the newspaper offers them. In some instances it is the fault of the newspaper for not getting the good hard cash for the advertising they give the city. In other instances. if newspapers properly set forth the value of their columns to the city, they might be accorded a certain appropriation each year to pay for publicity. Newspaper advertising is as beneficial to a city's progress as it is to any business in the city. -  Newspaperdom.

Colombia has knocked out the Panama canal treaty. This result is said to have been brought about largely by the money of the great transcontinental railway systems of this country. They are said to fear the results of the canal upon their business and hence do not want it constructed. Just what the next step will be cannot now be stated. President Roosevelt has been given authority to negotiate the necessary treaties for a canal across Costa Rica and Nicaragua and proceed with the construction of a canal by that route, possibly and probably some additional effort may be made with Colombia before that route is entirely abandoned. But just what the next step may be or when it will be taken the near future will disclose An Isthmian canal is a thing of the near future and if it be not by the Panama route then it will be by the Nicaragua route, for it will certainly be built.

The Western Union Telegraph company won the suit brought against it by one Arthur Boyer, a former operator, who alleged that he and others were discharged solely because they belonged to the union. The Western Union demurred to the bill and the United States court sustained the decision in every respect. The court holds the Western Union can dismiss its employees for belonging to a union or for any other reason. The court holds that the right to discharge employees not under contract is absolute and there can be no conspiracy to do a lawful act. In the very nature of the relations of employer and employee this must be so. An employee holds this right sacred and yet if it belongs by inalienable right to him to quit work whenever he pleases, the same right to discharge an employee must belong to the employers.

"Pop" Goodell, the "clay pipe statesman," wants to go back to the state senate. He has changed his mind about remaining at home on the farm. So far as any good to the people results from his being over there, it would be just as well to return the clay pipe and leave "Pop" at home, but possibly the pipe might not do quite as much for those who want "Pop" there. As long as the majority of the senate remains as it is now "Pop" answers the purpose as well as anyone else would. If the time ever comes, however, when the people of his district desire to be represented in the senate some other man will hav to be sent.

Now comes the statement that Gen. Leonard Wood is to succeed Gov. Taff of the Philippines when the latter be comes secretary of war. Wood is a good man, but it has already become apparent that he is being sent up the ladder of promotion quite as much or even more because of the fact that he is a favorite of the President's than because of merit. He has merit, but there are others who have fully as much and longer faithful service back of them, who get no promotion. There is danger of injury to the meritorious favorite as well as others in such a course.

"Itching hemorrhoids were the plague of my life. Was almost wild. Doan's Ointment cured me quickly and permanently, after doctors had failed." C. F. Cornwell, Valley Street, Saugerties, N. Y.

Curtís Jett and Thomas White, the alleged murderers of J. B. Marcum, were convicted on their second trial and have been sentenced to life imprisonment. These men are the first to be convicted on account of the feuds in Breathitt county which have cost somewhere from twenty-five to forty lives. It is peculiar that under the circumstances they escaped the death penalty, but this is supposed to be due to some one on the jury opposed to capital punishment. But if they be sent to the penitentiary and kept there he rest of their natural lives, the ends of justice will be served. By their conviction Kentucky has in a measure redeemed herself from the odium attaching to her for permitting so many cold blooded murderers to go unwhipped of justice and without an arrest. It is to be hoped that this good beginning will be followed up until the lives of decent and law abiding citizens will nee more be made safe in feud cursed Kentucky.