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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-07-15


When Mr., Boone was elected May
or of Chicago he appointed Pmker-
ton as detective of the city force.
This was the first appointment OF n
detective in Chicago. In 1852 Pin
kcrton, became, impressed with the
Importance ofcstablishing q detective
agency which would be Independent
of political influence, and by whose
efforts the criminal could bepunished
without fear or personal favor. lie
accordingly associated with him Mr..
Edward T.,Rucker, an attorney-at-
law, and securing the patronage of
several railroad companies, then in
their infancy, they started the "Pin-
kerton Detective Agency. the first
institution of its kind in the United
States. Rucker continued with him
only. about q year, when Pinkcrton
undertook the entire management.
When the agency was first estab-
lished they employed some four or
five men, among the mos; prominent
being George II. Bangs, afterward
General Sunerinteudent, and who
remained with Mr.. Pinkerton until
his death, which occurred last year,
and Timothy Webster, who, while III
his employ, was taken as a Union spy
and executed at Richmond Va, dur
ing the Rebellion. From that small
beginning the detective force under
Mr.. Pinkerton's orders increased
steadily until it now numbers nearly
800 men.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-07-15

We believe in a free ballot and a
fair count, and we recall TO the mem-
DRY Of the people tile noble struggle
oftho Democrats in the Forty-titth
and Forty-sixth Congresses, by which
reluctantRepublican opposition was
compelled to assent 10. legislation
making everywhere illegal the pres
cnec of troops at the polls, as conclu-
sivc proof that Democratic Admin
istration will preserve liberty with
order. vgpa
The selection of Federal officers for
the Territories should be restricted to
citizens previously resident therein.
We oppose sumptuary laws, which
vex the citizen and interfere with in
dividuals liberty. @
We favor honest Civil Service Re-
form, and the compensation of all
United States officers by flxedsalarie >
! Wcfavor the separation of Church
and State and the diffusion of free ed
ucation'l,y Common Schools, SO that
every child inthc land may he taught
the rights and duties of citizenship.
While we favor all legislation
which will tend to the equitable dis
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14

to take a genuine 50 or 81 bill, and COM
pletely remove all the traces of ink from
its surface. Then, with a counterfeit
plate of higher denomination, he would
print upon the genuine paper, and thus
raise the note. Speaking about raising
notes, here is a check on the Third
national bank of New York, which was
raised from $451 to $26, 969, aud paid,
in 1876. The perpetrators worked OFF
with chemicals all that was written in
the check except the signature, and l
regret to say that we have never been
able to discover who did it. Here are
three steel plates which were engraved
by Ulrich for S5 issue. The engraving
is done on soft steel, and When com
pleted the plate is hardened. To give
you some idea of the amount of labor it
takes to engrave these plates can only
say that we have evidence that Ulrich
was fifteen months completing them.
Perhaps the greatest curiosities in our
entire collection are the bills which made
their appearance about four years ago, ex-
eeuted with pen entirely by hand. At
first we thought that it must take great
amount of time for the rascal to turn out
one of those bills, but now we think that
he produces about one a week. The
denominations are fifties, twenties and
tens, and they are turned into the trea-
sury for redemption from all parts of the
union"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
Disappearance of the Reptiles.

Reptiles are at present small and dy
ing race. They have seen their best days
But in the great secondary age, as Ten
nyson graphically puts it, ga monstrous
eft was of old the lord and master Of
earth" At the beginning of that time
the mammals had not been developed at
all: and even at its close they were but
feeble folk, represented only by weak
creatures like the smaller pouched ami
mails of Australia and Tasmania. Ac-
cordingly, during the secondary period,
the reptiles had things everywhere pretty
much their own way, ruling over the
earth as absolutely as man and the mann
mails do now. Like all dominant types
for the time being, they split up into
many and various forms. In the sea, they
became huge padding enaliosaurians; on
the dry land, they became great erect .di-
nosaurians; in the air, they became terri
BILE flying pterodactyls For a vast epoch
they inherited the earth; and then at last
they began to fail, in competition with
their own more developed descendants,
the birds and mammals. One by one
they died out before the face of the
younger fauna, until at last only a few
crocodiles and alligators. few great
snakes, and few big turtles, remain
among the wee skulking lizards and
geckos to remind us of the enormous
reptilian types that crowded the surface
of the liassic oceans.
Long before the actual arrival of true
birds upon the scene, however, sundgY
branches of the reptilian class had been
gradually approximating to and fore
shadowing the future flying things. In
deed, one may say that at an early period
the central reptilian stock, consisting of
the long, 1.-THE, four-legged forms like
the lizards, still closely allied in shape to
their primitive newt-like and eel-like an
cestors, began to divide laterally into
sundry important branches. Some of
them lost their limbs and became ser
pents; Others acquired bony body-cover-
ings and became turtles; but the vast
majority went off in one of two directions,
either as fish-like sea -saurians. or rs bird
like land-saurians. It is with this last
division alone that we shall have largely
to deal in tracing out the pedigree of oul
existing birds. Popular Science Monthly,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
SUNLIGHT ALL THE WAY.

''Good-bye. Jennie, the road is long,
And the moor is hard to cross;
But well you know there is danger
In the boys and the maTshy moss
So, keep in the foot-path, Jennie.
Let nothing tempt you to stray;
Then you'll get safely over it,
For there's sunlight all the way
Sunlight all the way;
So, never you fear,
Keep q good heart, dear,
For there is sunlight all the way"
The child went of with blessing
And kiss of mother-love;
The daisies were down at her feet,
And the lark was singing above.
On on in the narrow foot-path-
Nothing could tempt her to stray;
So the moor was passed at nightfall-
There had been sunlight al the way;
Sunlight all the way;
And she, smiling, said,
As her bed was spread,
81 had sunlight all the way"
And !, who followed the maiden,
Kept thinking as went,
Over the perilous seas of life
What unwary feet are bent.
If they could only keep the toot-path,
And not in the marshes stray,
Then they would reach the end of life
Ere the night could shroud the day,
They'd have sunshine all the way;
But the marsh is wide,
And they turn aside,
And the night falls on the day.
Far better to keep the narrow path,
Nor turn to the left or right;
For if we loiter at the morning,
What shall We do when the night
Falls back on our lonely journey,
And we mourn our vain delay!
Then steadily onward, friends, and we
Shall have sunlight all the way
Sunlight allth way,
Till the journeys DER,
And we reach the shore
OF a never-ending day.
-Harper's Weekly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
The Origin of the POstOffice.

The English Illustrated Magazine says
that the postoffice is an example of the
mode in which things change while
names remains. 1t was originally the
office which arranged the posts or places
at which, on the great roads, relays OF
horses and men could be obtained for
the rapid forwarding of government dis
patches. There was chief postmaster
of England many years before any sys-
TEN of conveyance of private letters by
the crown was established. Such letters
were conveyed either by carriers, who
used the same horses throughout their
whole journey, or by relays of horses
maintained by private individuals, that
is, by private post. The seize of car
rying tho correspondence of the public
by means of crown messengers originated
in connection with foreign trade. A
postoffice for letters 10 foreign parts was
established ''for the benefit of the Eng
lish merchants in the reign of James l.,
but the extension of the system to in
land letters was left to the succeeding
reign. James l., by proclamation Is
sued in 1886, may be said to have
founded the present postofliu-. BY this
proclamation he commanded his post
master of England for foreign parts to
settle a running post or two, to runnight
and day between Edinburgh and Lon
don, to go thither and come back again
in six days, and to take with.
them all such letters as shall be directed
to any post town in or near that road. !"
Neighboring towns, such as Lincoln and
Hull, were to be linked on to this main
route, and posts on similar principles were
directed to be established on other great
high roads, such as those to Chester and
H0lyhead, to Exeter and Plymouth So
far no monopoly was claimed, but two
years afterward second p exclamation
forbade the carriage of letters by any
messengers except those of the king S
postmaster general, and thus the present
system was inaugurated. The monopoly
thus claimed, though no doubt devised
by the king to enhance the royal power
and to bring money into the exchequer,
was adopted by Cromwell and his parlia-
ment, one main advantage in their eyes
being that the carriage of correspondence
by the government would afford "the
best means to discover and prevent any
dangerous and wicked designs against
the commonwealth. The opportunity
of an extensive violation of letters, espc
cially if they proceeded from suspected
royalists, was no doubt an attractive bait
and it is rather amusing to notice how
the tables were thus turned on the mon
archial party by means of one of the SOW
ereigns own acts of aggression. How
ever, from one motive or another royalist'
and parliamentarians agreed in the estab
lishment of state post, and the institu
ton has come down without breal
from the day of Charles |. to our own,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
VOL. XII.
OUT OF LOVE AND OUT OF DEBT

OUT OF LOVE AND OUT OF DEBT
or happy men the happie yet
Is be that's out of love ard debt,
Who owes no kiss to womanzinl,
Who has no duns TO craze his mind;
With heart and thought and conscience free
Where is the man more best than he,
"Out of love and out Of debit
Motto none will e'er regret.
To all surrounding reconciei,
He sleeps as sweetly as a child
By neither love nor debt DISTRESSED,
His dreams but glorify his rest.
He never drea1s the morn TO see,
For days with days il peace agree.
"Out of love and out OF debt"
Motto noae will eer regret.
Who's had his share of debt and love
Knows what the peace they rob him of;
And, once relieved of love and debt,
His slavery never can forget.
No longer will he bend the knee,
But sing the peans of the free
"Out of love and out Of debt"
Motto none will e'er regret.
For all the bliss that love can give,
There's more of woe with love to live;
He plucks the perfect, thornless rose,
Who honored manhood no man owes.
No love, no debt ali there's the key
Of life for him, who'd happy b.,
"Out of love and out of debt"
Motto none will eer regret.
George Birclseye.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
Sngar in TaAacoa.

That tobacco, as ordinarily prepared
by some of the manufacturers, is fire.
quently sweetened with molasses, honey,
licorice, ETC., is not doubted but we think
it will be a surprise to most people to
learn that a considerable percentage Of
sugar is a natural constituent of tobacco.
Yet such has been demonstrated to be the
fact by Professor Attfeld, f. r. s.
Eight samples were obtained from plan
tiers in different parts of Virginia, Ken
lucky and North Carolina which gave, to
100 parts of leaf, from 5-57 to 900 parts
of tobacco sugar, and from S-23 to 1880
parts of total saccharoid matter In to-
bacco grown in unfavorable conditions,
or without sufficient heat, the amount of
sugar is often but mere trace, while for
light-colored or bright Virginia leaf it
will average about ten per cent.-Soiep-
tito Americdn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
Frozen Fish Coming to Life.

$50 you never heard of keeping fish
alive for month out of water? Well,
it's fact all the same, cause I've done it
myself" Frank, a well-known fisher
man who drags his living out of the Mis-
sisippi not many miles above the city,
wRs talking to u reporter about his eX-
perence on the river. They were both
in a resort much frequented by men of
his craft, and Frank was contentedly
sucking his pipe and toasting his shins
before red-hot stove. ''When old
Peter told me that such thing could be
done | laughed at him, aud was just
about to call him liar, but he looked
dangerous like, and | did not do it.
We were taking lunch, and offered to
bet him two cans of oysters to one that
he couldn't keep a fish alive out of water
for day. 1t was very cold and he took
me up. The next morning he caught q
good sized buffalo, and almost before he
had him well out of the water there was
a skin of ice over him, and in little
while he was frozen as hard as a rock.
was having lots of fun laughing at him,
but the next morning he slapped him in
the water. 1t took the fish little while
| to thaw, but just as soon as he began to
warm up he began to move, and in
an hour he was lively MS any of them.
I've kept fish frozen for eight days this
winter and then brought him to life again
in water. I've done it many time, but
it has to be cold enough to freeze him
quick, and you must not let him freeze
himself. st Louis Post, Di&2atch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
Elephants of the Past and Present.

"There were white elephants in this
country running wild once" says an
elephant authority. GLOW so2 Merely
because white elephants occur wherever
other elephants do, and 5000 years ago,
more or less, this country had its herds
that roamed over the land just as buffa-
loes do now. There's not State that
their remains haven't been found in.
Here in New Jersey they have been
found, seven or eight in the same bog,
where they had probably rushed in fear.
The positions in which they were found
showed that they struggled hard to get
out. In Connecticut, near New Britain,
skeleton was discovered some time
ago that was three feet higher than
Jumbo Another has been found on
the mountains in Vermont and the finest
skeleton was unearthed in Newburgh
and placed in the museum at Boston.
According to Professor Dana, its measure
ments are Height, eleven feet; length
to the base of the tail, seventeen feet;
tusks, twelve feet long, two and half
feet being inserted in the sockets. When
alive the height must have been twelve
or thirteen feet, and the length, adding
seven feet for the tusks, twenty-four OF
twenty-five feet.
'In the State museum at Albany you
will find fine elephant that outjumbos
Jumbo. People have tried to prove that
it was buried by Snowman, but the
skeleton was taken from an ancient pot
hole by Professor James Hall, the eminent
| State geologist, and before it was dis
covered there was blasting, and several
thousand loads of rock and gravel were
taken out. Nearly all the timber found
in the hole had been gnawed by beavers,
and as this was at Cohoes, where the
! beavers are rather scarce to-day. 1t is
natural to suppose that the great Gle.
phant dropped in a good many years
ago.
There were good many differen,
kinds of elephants in those days, all ol
gigantic size. The mammoth was as
large as any, and roamed over our North
ern shores, several other kinds finding
their way as far down as Mississippi
One elephant had legs ten feet long, and
body twice the size of Jumbo's, anc
its tusks turned down instead of up. II
probably lived in the water and hauled
itself out by using these weapons as
hooks. In India at this time there were
eight or ten different kinds, from giant
with very small heads and tusks fourteen
feet long, going down to very sharl
point, to Others that were mere pigmies
and had long hair. These lived high III
in the mountains, and have moder'
representative. The very smallest livet
at Malta, and were scarcely over thre
feet in height.
Among the hairy elephants there
were all tints and hues. Some wer
black, others were gray, grizzly white
red, yellow, etc. All this is known, a
pieces of their hair and hide have bee
found The elephants are going fast
There are only :wo kinds left-the Afr
can and Asiatic-and in fifty years,
Africa and Asia are opened up as the
promise to be, they will be entirel.
wiped out of existence. Mao York Sm
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14

ever human beng worel The cheeks
painted blarish green, halfmOons Of
CHASTITY yellow under the eyes, jet.
black ring about the ugly, grinning
mouth, and three blood-red stripes across
the forehead; while the little black eyes
shone with fierce, beastly glitter that
couldn't be described.
"He'd got himself up in a more fearful
shape than% had. He was going to scare
me; but he didn't suoceed-not anyl
"He give a surprised 'whooh' as he
looked on the floor; there was nothing
there but bloody spot. I'd cleared
away the ropes and tossed 'em one side.
Then be looked up and | stepped for
ward, jerked the curtains one side, and
exhibited my git-up to him. With a
sharp yell he threw up both his hands,
and there came over his bedaubed face
the ghastliest look of fright it's ever been
my fortune to behold. l wish | could
have painted it; l should Be famous to-
day,
"'But didn't give him any time to re-
cover; l jumped for him, and struck out
as l jumped. He went his length on
that platform like beef.ox. Then I
grabbed the pieces of rope, and before
he come to himself enough to realize
what the movement meant, ! had him
tied, yes, and had that old deer's-horn
charm between his jaws, bound there
with his own red scarf, tighter than
wax!
cpd bound him with limp muscles, and
he was there to stayl He came to him.
self in minute and glarod at me fright
fully.
"Ha; ha! says I. You'll breathe or
the white dog, will you-you9 Lay there
and learn to let the medicine of the white
man alonep
But didn't waste time palavering at
him. hustled my things out of there,
hitohed onto my cart, and skipped out
and away; and, gentlemen, l never went
fooling round any Comanche village
agin. u Y0uth's Companion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A bad cold-Cold hash.
Down trodden-Shoe leather.
Gala and c+iff Thn ice cr0n-

A bad cold-Cold hash.
Down trodden-Shoe leather.
Cold and stiff-The ice crop.
The crow is the great American corn
remover - Statesman.
GLOW can woman tell2" asked a ro-
mancer. She can't help telling.-H0o-
Sier.
Women will never be as well paid for
lecturing as men, simply because they
have done SO much of it for nothing
Leap-year parties are popular in some
sections At these gatherings the girls
veil ''mouse! !" and the young men jump
on chairs and shrek. Detroit Free Press.
"No, Adela book agents have not
what is known as second wind. Prize
fighters have; but book agents have not.
They do not need it. They never lose
their first wind. d.--PHcS.
"What is this big corner in pork
hear about9" asked Laura, across the
CHEEKY tea-table 1.-THE big corner in
pork, -" replied Tom, who is big, rough,
coarse man, is the ham, "-Haaoheye.
"Hello. Jones, what time is it2" asked
a Fort Wayne man of. another, yester-
dav. cts just time that you paid the
So YOU owe me.n Is it, indeed; l
didn't think it was so late as that. y
H0Osier.
It is sad to contemplate the expression
that settles half an inch deep over
mans face when he finds that his wife
has been using his best and sharpest
razor to whittle kindling and slice cola
ham with. h.-R0se's ToOttpict.
oIs your wife acquainted with the
dead languages6" asked the professor ol
a Newman man. MAY be she Is, ~ was
the reply, ''but the language she uses Is
entirely too warm to have been dead very
long. ."-Ne1opaa1s Independent.
In the spring the summer poet
Dreams of birds and blossoms glad;
In the spring the diners shorax
Scoops the bonelets of the shad.
In the spring the pale arbutus
Makes the wood fragrant mat;
In the spring the airy maiien
Dreams about her Easter nat.
Puck.
According to Burdette, the fellow who
comes home at A. NJ, and can't tell the
kev-hole from the transom and can't PICK
his night-key out from his pocket full OF
toothpicks, is the man who complains
about the vexatious and delaying dead
lock in the house"
SHE REFERRED HIM TO HER PA.
Her fairy form,
Her modest face,
Her charming air.
And wining grace
Enchanted all
The lads in town.
And each one loved
Jemima Brown
She oft was called
The village pride,
And for her love
Ilong had sighed.
l said I'd know
No 10y in life, till she'd
Consent TO bsmy wife. She
Blushed quite red and said
''Oh, 10, 4" and then referred me to
Her pa. His smanner was both rude
aud rough, and when he spoke his tones
Were gruf. l asked him in accents
Bland to give me his daughters hand. !
For answer he gave me his foot encased
within this cow hid de b o I'll
--,SomerUiile Journal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14

There are 81, 900 deaf mutes in the
United States, or one ont of every 1,50t
people.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-03-14

Representative Lamb, of Indiana, is
said to be the hardsomest man in Wash
ington,
The Mineral argus., 1884-12-04

1t is said that Chief Justice Coleridge
hrst obtained notice as a lawyer by the
following simple incident, while he was
pleading the cause of a man on trial for
murder. In the course of his long
ment a candle in the jury box fickered
and went out, leaving the court room in
darkness. He stopped speaking and
the silence in the court for a moment
was oppressive. The scene, with its
dark shadows, its grim faces, the scarlet
robes of the judge, and the haggard
face of the murderer was worthy of Rem
brandt. The usher replaced the light
and Coleridge resumed his address.
Gentlemen of the jury, you have
a solemn duty, a very solemn duty, to
discharge. The life of the prisoner of
the bar is in your hands. You
can take it-by a word. You ex-
tinguish that life as the candle by your
side was extinguished a moment ago.
But it is not in your power, it is not
in the power of any of us-of any one in
this court or out of ito restore that
life, when once taken, as that light has
been restored" A thrilling effect was
produced and the case was won.
The Mineral argus., 1884-12-04
d n Complaints.

The kidneys from a very important channel
for the outlet Of disease from the system. car
rvng of accumulations that poison the blood.
As the lungs remove the carbonic acid. the liv-
er the hillary acid, so the kidneys remove the
uric acid The undue accumulation of this scid
is the poison that often produces rheumatism
and other chronic diseases. The kidneys are
often effected and cause serious disease when
least suspected If there is weakness. heat or
pain in the back or loins, WEAKNESS, nervous
r~estlessness, and any unnatural condition of
the urine, a hot dry SKIN, hetic Hushes.
boating CT the body or swelling of the limbs
annoying headaches, DISTRACTED circulation
with sediment or gravely or albuminous de-
posits in the secretion from the kidneys; or if
that secretion be either extremely pale Or HIGH
cOlored, then the kidneys are evidently not do.
ing their natural work. Many suffer from
serious kidney trouble without knowing what
ais them. No matter in what form the kidney
complaint may exist, there is no better purifv-
ing regulating diuretic and tonic than Burdock
Blood Bitters; its action upon the kidneys ia at
once manifested. Working upon this and all
other channels Of publication in prompt and
per manent manner.