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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-23

A young railroad man Of Atlanta has
come to tho front with an invention in
tho way of ticket that will bring him
fame and an enviablo bank account. 1t
is simply this: Tho purchaser Of an iron
clad ticket is not to be required to write
his name or mako any formal declaration
as to his intention in regard to tho ticket.
Nothing of the kind. The agent who
sells tho low rate round trip points his
little camera at you while he gives you
your change. II records the image of the
purchaser In On instant. The agent pulls
out tho slide, rubs his chemical sponge
over tho sensltized paper and-there you
are. In tho upper left hand corner Of tho
ticket he pastes that picture, puts 1t in
under stamp that embossos the edges,
and unless you can find somebody that
looks enough like you to risk the chance
of return on your image tho ticket will
carry the original purchaser and nobody
else.--Atlanta Constitution.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-23
mistaken Identity.

There's certain well known reporter whose
writing Is 30 bad that even his best friends do
not attempt to read it. One afternoon ho
dropped several sheets Of his notes on tho
floor OF the surrogate's Office and they were
afterwards picked up by one of the attaches
of the office, violinist. He took them homo
and played from them, but was surprised
when Sidney told him they were news notes
and not violin notes He could not be con.
WINGED, however that they were not intended
vor music-B,iffalo News.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-23

There nre 100000 freight cars on The
various railrpad lines in tho United
States.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-23
rho Efreet. o. Noyel neaaIns..

The mischief Of voracious novel read.
ing is really much moro like tho mischief
OF dram drinking than appears at first
sight. It tends to make oil other literary
nourishment intolerable, just as dram
drinking tends TO mako nll truo food In
tolerable. and TO supersedo food by drink.
The voracious novel reader of today. os
wo have said, rejects Scott. because Scott s
novels contain SO much good food that 1t
Is not mere story telling. Tho genuine
novel reader detests what he calls tame
stories, stories in which the interest Is
not exaggerated and piled up ten times as
bigh as the interests Of ordinary life. He
wants always to be feeling thrill Of ex-
citement running through his nerves, al.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-23

An elaborate investigation has shdwp
that the number Of blind people in Russin
is very unequally divided among the diff
fcrent races, there being only 8 blind In
each 1000 Poles, 10 in each 10000 Rus.
slams, and as many as SO in each 10,00J
Votyoks. No less than one.eighth Of the
cases Of blindness arc due TO small pox,
and only onehalf to direct eye distases.--
ArkanssSv Tyaveler.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-23
A THRIFTY PEOPLE.
MILLIONS OF MONEY LAID BY FOR A
RAINY DAY.

Tho Saving Mans Dollar, and How Ho
Houses 1t In Boston BanlSs-watching
tho Crowd ON q Busy Day-Doposits and
Dcpositors.
, 1888-09-29
Tho Eneet, of Novel Reading.

The mischief of voracious novel read
ing is really much more like the mischief
of dram drinking than appears at first
sight. 1t tends to make all other literary
nourisbment intolerable, just as dram
drinking tends to make all true food in
tolerable, and to supersede food by drink.
The voracious move reader of today. IS
we have said, rejects Scott, because Scott's
novels contain so much good food that it
is not mere story telling. The genuine
novel reader detests what he calls : tame
stories, stories in which the interest is
not exaggerated and piled up ten times as
high as the interests of ordinary life. He
wants always to be feeling a thrill of ex-
element running through his nerves, al
ways to be living in imagination through
the concentrated essence of the perils of a
hundred adventurous lives, instead of
toiling calmly through the ordinary hopes
and fears of one.
No state of mind can be more unwhole-
some, because none is more calculated to
divert the energies from the sort of quiet
tasks to which they should be habitually
applied, and to keep them stretched on
the tenter hooks of expectation, waiting
for a sort of strain which is never likely
to occur, and if it did occur, would GER
tainly not find a mans energies any the
better prepared for it for having been
worn out previously with a long series of
imaginary e~xcitements. The habit of
dram drinking, it is said, leads to fatty
degeneration of the heart, i. e., excessive
fattening round the heart, and weak
action of the heart in consequence
So, too, the habit of exciting novel
reading leads to fatty <degenera-
ton of the literary mind, /. e., to an
unhealthy and spasmodic action of the
imagination. and a general weakening of
the power of entering thoroughly into the
solid interests of real life. So far as we
know. the only effective cure for this
habit of literary dram drinking-a cure
not always forthcoming-is a moral shock
Of some kind which exposes the hollow
ness of all these unreal interests, and
makes them appear as artificial and melo-
dramatic as they actually are. That,
however, is a cure which is an extremely
painful one, almost cruel in its disillusion-
izing power.-London Spectator.
, 1888-09-29
People of New brunswick.

They are a splendid people here. There
is o certain dignity about every one of
them far more striking than with any
English in England. And what is better,
they are truly kind hearted and polite. 1
used to know, q quarter of a century ago,
some of those grand old Hudson Bay com
pany's factors; and fine fellows they were
brave, cultured, chivalrous, gentle and
good, but with a roaring sort of way with
them that suggested the enhancing Man
itoban Indian summer with q lurking,
bowling blizzard element beneath. These
are like them. Climate has had to do
with it; true culture of brain and Drawn,
more. They are near enough to the states
to be cumulative; far enough from Eng
land to abhor incivility.
They-and all New Brunswick folk
are less ~pretentious than we; more toler-
ant than others of their nationality. In
all that makes sociologic distinction,
these people are immeasurably better
than Englishmen, and infinitely less the
time servers and snobs than some Ameri-
cans. should say they had got further
away from the England we profess to
condemn than many of us whose cheeks
should flame for our cockney apings; that
they were. in moderation, level headed
ness, clean culture, and in the freedom
from feverish ambitions and vanities. far
in advance of most OF our communities;
that they possessed the best of Old
World equipoise and conservatism, and of
New World virility; and that If by any
good fortune of diplomacy or war their
country should become our ntr we
would secure 9 fine bit of possess.
and as admirable a class of people as 8
now within our farthest boundarie.,
Edgar L. Wakeman's Letter.
, 1888-09-29
Propagatins Trees by Budding.

In propagating trees otherwise than
from seeds, as by budding or grating,
it may be said that the limits of the oper-
alton are not very clearly defined, but for
all practical purposes it is limited to the
members of the same genus or closely
allied plants; that is, oaks may be budded
on oaks, naples on naples. the cut leaved
birch on stalks of the more common
kinds, and generally the more nearly re-
lated the species the more successful the
operation.
Occasional exceptions occur where
woods of two species belonging to the
same genus cannot be made to unite and
form a union. The operation is usually
performed in summer soon after the buds
are fully developed on the young wood of
the present seasons growth. The stock
or branch in which the buds are to be in
serted must be in a similar condition, al
though at the point of junction it may be
more than one year old, but in no case
must the bark be thick and rigid, as the
bud is to be inserted under tho bark of
the stock. In general, the small slice of
wood taken off from the shoot with the
bud under the eye is allowed to remain.
, 1888-09-29

The family cat is regarded with far
greater respect in England thar America.
Every householder in New York, when he
packs off for the ummer, leaves the cat
to live in the streets. The consequence
is that during the hot weather the cats of
the Empire city cry aloud and shout; they
wall in anguish to the ~earless moon in
means most musicall, most melancholie."
They make night hideous for callous
hearted man, who ignores their affection
and rejects their companionship. Among
cranks, commend me to the animal loving
crank. He is a bit weak headed at times,
but softness of heart is quite compatible
with strongness of mind. Whether the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts was cranky or
not as a connoisseur in h%usbandry she
shows admirable judgment in the care of
animals. And her care for them when
they cease from age or malady to be SER
viceable beasts of burden entities her to
public homage. At Holly Lodge, her
beautiful suburban home at Highgate, she
keeps her worn out horses, donkeys,
cattle, dogs, cats and other pets in well
tended pastures and stables until they
die. And she visits them with the re-
gularity of a doctor, sparing nothing that
can give them comfort Others here and
there do the same.
| ave seen pedigree cattle with famous
names and records living in luxury to a
grand old age, and have also seen poor
folks broken down horses and pets kept
in country quarters at IN expense they
could but i'll afford. THE merciful man
is merciful to his beast" What of New
Workers and their cats? If they sheer at
the bare idea of initiating the example of
those who havo established a home for
cats in London, let them do something
better. For q very small fee the Lon
doner who locks up house to go a-holiday
making can have his cat properly cared
for until the family return. This Is com
mon humanity and common sense. If tho
wealthy New York houseowner cannot
afford to keep his cat all the year round,
he should have it killed rather than
cruelty subject it to the horrors of New
York street hfe.-New York Cor. Globe
Democrat. 81
, 1888-09-29

A young railroad man Of Atlanta has
come to the front with an invention in
the way of a ticket that will bring him
fame and an enviable bank account 1t
is simply this: The purchaser of an iron
clad ticket is not to be required to write
his name or make any formal declaration
as to his intention in regard to the ticket.
Nothing of the kind. The agent who
sells the low rate round trip points his
little camera at you while he gives you
your change. 1t records the image of the
purchaser in an instant. The agent pulls
out the slide, rubs his chemical sponge
over the sensitized paper and-there you
are. In tho upper left hand corner of the
ticket he pastes that picture, puts it in
under a stamp that embosses the edges,
and unless you can inc somebody that
looks enough like you to risk the chance
of a return on your image the ticket will
carry the original purchaser and nobody
else.-Atlants Constitution.
, 1888-09-29
A smokers Novel Continuance.

Calling upon an acquaintance one even
ing recently | found him writing at his
desk and smoking a long Dutch clay pipe,
the extreme end of which was inserted
through a hole punched in the brim of a
broad straw bat. which he had on his
head. While | was laughing at this curl
GUS contrivance he explained to me that
it was h only available way in which TO
combine the comfort of pipe smoking with
work beneath the study lamp.
The bowl of the pipe being on the
other side of the brim," said he. keeps
the smoke from half binding one. while
you have a shade over your eyes at the
same time. and here he proceeded to en-
veiop himself in a hugo cloud from his
calumet in order to demonstrate the ad.
vantage of his scheme. The idea is by no
means original to my friend, however; for
old Bishop Burnett. who in his latter
days could pever write a sermon without
a pipe in his mouth. made n similar de-.
vice for his comfort and would sit for
hours at n time and puff tobacco smoke es
he wrote down the word of God.-John
Preston Beecher in New York News.
, 1888-09-29

|,Iy should tlaI, @3IlCn and CHI. -
do of disease at ali? There is 10 r~r
vision for death in early life except D.,
accident, ignorance of tho laws Of health
and neglect Of duty toward our neigh
Dor on the part Of somebody.
Why do some die, and soro r~ccorcr?
Why should disease be fatal at all? T.,
tally is connected to some extent via
the surroundings in which the patient
has lived before The became affected, &2
is living at tho time at which tho d.
case commences in q given district. II
there has been q large number of fail
cases of Inflammation of the lungs. Won
may be certain that the air of that dis
trict is not so pure as it ought to be, and
the habits of the inhabitants are not so
prudent as they might be. No man dies
of inflammation of the lungs in middle
life, or indeed of IL acute disease, be it
what it may, if he has lived healthily
both rs to habits and character of sur
ro%undings.
If a district has a death rate OF twenty.
four in tho 1000, it is double what it
ought to be. The half of tho deaths
which take place might havo been pro.
vented if tho people would obey the laws
Of health, keep their houses and their
persons clean, dispose of their excreta in
Il proper way, and be temperate in their
habits Of living, and at tho same time do
their duty to their neighbor by avoiding
tho sophistication of articles of dict, or
the mischief of adulteration.-Dr Alfred
CARPENTER.
, 1888-09-29
stooks ana Cattle Markets.

New YORK, Sept. 2S.-The stock
market was active and strong. Con
trary to the expectations OF the bulls Lon
don was a seller to a considerable extent
in this market to dav and hat tact damp
ened the confident feeling some what, and
there was throughout the day free liquid
alton of long accounts which prevented
the general list from ad vanclng much.
The heavy sales of New England which
all indications pointed to before the inside
account was also a serious clog on the
bullish temper Of the room. The traders
were generally ranged upon the side OF
higher figures and the expected important
meeting of the trunk line officials to-day
to adjust rates was "A stimulant to trunk
line stocks, aud Nanderbilts especially
were very active and strong.
Governments quiet and steady. Money
2(93. Mining shares active.
Congratulated steady. Lake. SLIGO.
Petroleum opened strong at 943. and
after a slight decline in the early trading
advanced to 96g on covering by shorts.
Heavy selling by the West then caused a
sharp decline, on which the market
closed weak at 94s.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6's. l2l; American Express.
ITO: Canada Pacific, Ssh; Canada
Southern, sol; Central Pacific, 35t; Bur
~lington, ll5l; Delaware, Lackawanna,
l433; Denver & Rio Grande, POI; Eric,
30; Lake Shore, 1893; Louisville X
Nashville, 6O!; Michigan Central, 0ls;
Missouri Pacific, S38; Kansas q Texas,
u; New York Central, ll04; Northern
Pacific. PA; preferred, 6l!; Northwest
ern, rs; Oregon improvement, 69l;
Navigation, 95, Transcontinental. 3lf;
Pacific Mail, $50; Reading, 32t; Rock
Island, lll4; Milwaukee 4 st. Paul,
6S; Texas Pacific, 25!; Union Pacific,
62@; United States Express 70; Fargo,
1856; Western Union, SAT.
CHICAGO. Sept. %. Misunderstanding,
1900. market steady, heeves SO 2ll@
6.S5: steers, s. 50(G6 90; stockcrs and
feeders, 81 00(a3 10; Texas cattle, Sl.55
az 90; Western rangers 50. 1904 So
Sheep-Rrceipts 1000; Market steady;
natives. 50 OO(a4 %; Westerns, So. 25t@
3.75; Texans. 81. 75(G3.4O.
Wheat-Market a shade easier. Cash
l494, O to5er 9S3 bid, December 9S4,
May 1905.
Gorn-Market steady. Cash 4ls De-
tober AZ, December 3Ss, May 3Ss.
, 1888-09-29
couldn't Got Away with Much.

United States Sub-treasurer Sutton,
suppose a thief should get into your big
vault some night2"
No thief can get in there
But suppose he could?"
1T is impossible"
But say that some clever fellow did
get in, how much could he carry away in
gold?"
Not more than $25, 900. We put
that much in double eagles in a single
bag, the weight of which is 100 pounds.
That is a good deal of weight in q mighty
small bundle, making it hard to carry. A
thief would have hard work to run with
one of those bags, and he couldn't n
to lug two to save his life. You have no
idea how hard it is to carry q 100 pound
bag of gold. The weight is SO concen-
trated. But, after all, no thief can get in
there. The safes are absolutely proof
against burglars. st. Paul Globe.
, 1888-09-29
Never Give Up.

IT you suffer with asthma, bronchitis,
or any other disease OF the throat or
lungs. nothinGs can surprise you more
than the rapid improvement that will
follow the use of Santa Able. If you are
troubled with catarrh and have tried other
medicines, you will be unable to express
your amazement at the marvellous and in
Simultaneous curative powers of California
Cat-R-Cure. These remedies are not Sc
cret compounds, but natural productions
OF California. Sold at 81 a package;
three for 81. 50 aud guaranteed by DR.. w.
Y Hunt.
, 1888-09-29
THE LIMIT OF LIFE.
AFTER ONE HUNDRED YEARS MAN
GROWS OLD RAPIDLY.

Chronological Records Not Altogether Re-
liabIe-The Tale Told by the Census of
1sSO-TabIe of Comparative Longevity.
The ProlonEation OF Life.
There is no doubt that after a man has
turned 100 years he grows old rapidly.
Months become to him as years were be-
fore he reached that limit of age. The
human machine is well nigh worn out,
and the motive power nearly exhausted.
Therefore we are not surprised to hear
that Col. Perkins. the Norwich gentleman.
ian. died one month after his Tooth birth
day. and that NJ. Chevreul. the French
-centenarian. was too feeble to receive the
friends who came to honor and felicitate
him recently IN his 102d birthday. Like
Col. Perkins, the venerable French chem
list was in the full possession of his facul-
ties at 100, but that stage of his life's
Journey passed, the race became difficult
for him. and his steps began to totter.
He has distanced Col. Perkins by two
years. but he seems to be near his limit.
There are recorded instances of men
and women who have endured far beyond
100 years, but none of them is well
authenticated, they having lived at
a time when no accurate chronological
records were kept. Thus the countess of
OtoLlOlu ultu III lie Eelpu VI JdLleS l.,
some time after 1903. at what was alleged
to be the age of 145 years, but modern in
vestigators are skeptical as to the fact.
Though there is evidence enough to show
that she was O c~entenarian, and was vi
vacious and in full possession of her facul-
ties up to 100 years, it is probable that
she did not get much beyond that limit.
Thomas Parr, better known as Old Parr,
died in 1885 at al age which was estima-
ted as 1872, but his years were rather q
matter of tradition than of well substan-
tiated fact, though he. too, had doubtless
passed his Tooth birthday, and was in all
respects a remarkable old fellow.
ABOUT I'M HUNDRED YEARS.
Somewhere about one hundred years
seems to be the present limit of the span
of the life of man, and the proportionate
number of instances where it has been
reached will undoubtedly much increase
as medicine advances in the preventative
art. The census of 1880 gave 4,O16 per-
sons as of 100 years and over, and not far
from the same number, or 1878, as from
30 to 90. The chances, therefore, are that
when a man has got well past 90 he will
round out the 100. 1t is before 5 years
and after so years hat life is in most
danger under present conditions and with
the medical art as it is. In 1880 there
were LAG, 1862 men and women in the
United States between so and 81 years,
but the number from So to 80 was only
1855. Yet there were more at 95 thar
at 90 or o..
Putting, then, the limit of age for
man at 100 years, it thus compares with
that of some of the lower animals, the
table being on the authority of Professor
Owen
, 1888-09-29
A Fondness for vowels.

The Scotchman has long been noted for
his %fondness for vowels, a popularity in
language illustrated by the following
story: Going by a Diapers shop a man
noticed a coat and asked, Jaw 'oof'' AYE,
aw' 90" replied the shopkeeper. "Aw'
a 'oor' was the next question. AYE,
aw' a 90, was the reply. In English the
dialogue would nave referred simply to
the fact whether the coat was ali wool
and all ono wool, the answer being yes to
both questions.-Chicago Herald.
, 1888-09-29

My name is Johnson" said a gentle
man to a chance acquaintance. win
you favor me with your name, sirH" Ger.
tainly." said the other. My name is
Popover. Hum. don't you consider
that a very unusual manner mo, sir. |
have been familiar with 1t all my life. -
Chicago News.
, 1888-09-29
Go to Greentree's for a nobby suit.


The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
all skin eruptions. Will positively cure all
kinds Of piles Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
W. N. Hunt at 25 cents per box by mail
80 cents.
, 1888-09-29
SO to Grrentree 5 for TALL o~vercoats


The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter. chappcd hands, chilblains,
coTns and all skin eruptinnS, and positively
cures piles or no paw required. It is
guaranteed to rive perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by d W. n. Hunt.
, 1888-09-29
Longevity
81 -@--.
Longevity

Some of the cold blooded animals and
birds, of course, live much longer. Pike
and carp, for instance, have been ascer-
tanned to live $50 years. eagles and crows
more than 100 years. But with intelli-
gence to guide him, and medical art, the
most progressive of all the learned pro-
fessions, to aid him, man ought to keep
up with the elephant in longevity, so that
the ago of 100 years will not be as ex-
traordinary as it is now.
The p~rolongation of life-that is tho
great object of endeavor for the students
of the art of medicine. now so generally
occupied, not in curing disease merely,
but in warding off disease and preserving
the human machine in the best condition
for long use. AS it is, the best work, the
wisest and the highest, is lone by men
who have passed 60 and are approaching,
or already have reached and gone beyond,
h Psalmists limit of life, threescore
years and ten.-New York Sun.
, 1888-09-29

y bad trade dollar passed by mi, take
II holder will return to Alexis, Chey enuC
Club, the same will be redeemed.
, 1888-09-29

Ben Hellman is in New York and Man
ager Gus Lehman is cutting prices to beat
the d.
, 1888-09-29

Fresh mountain trout received daily at
the Saddle Rock.
, 1888-09-29
For bargains ira child
ren'S clothing call ora IF.
Marks, SeCent eenrh and
Eddy streets.

Special sale of boys and chilireus suits
at Hsllman's
, 1888-09-29

Go to Greentree's for a trunk.
, 1888-09-29

Spring chicken at the Saddle Rock.
, 1888-09-29

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives
, 1888-09-29

For rundown" debilitated and overworked
women, DR.. Piercehs Favorite Prescription is
tho best of all restorative tonics. 1t is a potent
Specific for all those Chronic Weaknesses and
Diseases peculiar to Women; a powerful. gen.
eral MS well as uterine, tonic and nervine, it
inparts vigor and strength to the whole system.
1t promptly cures weakness of stomach, nausea,
Indigestion, bloating, weak back, nervous pros
tration, debility and sleepleSsness, in either sex.
1t is carefully compounded by an experienced
physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. Purely vegetable and perfectly
harmless in any condition of the system.
R-zzzzT SEaVOrite Prescrip-
1MAppkuTrn tiono is the only medicine
Wpn1hn EU.E for women, sold by druggists,
Aa----@1 under n positive guar
autee Of satisfaction in every case, or price
(S1.00 refunded. This guarantee has been
printed on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully
carried out for many years.
For largo. illustrated Treatise on Diseases OF
Women 1G0 pages, with full directions for
hOTC-trcatmcnU. send ten cents in stamps.
.AGAT"sS, WORLD'S DTSpESSARY MEDICAL
Association. CcG Man Stree. Buffalo. y. j.