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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07
The Monon Route.

If you have occasion TO visit the
Chicago and the Northeast, be sure
your ticket reads via tho Monon
Route, from Burgin, Louisville, Gin
cinnati or indianapolis, and you may
rest assured that such arrangements
are In effect 40 will assure you a
pleasant trip. For particulars ad-
dress II. w. Gladlng, Thomasvillc Ga /,
orH. A. Hathaway, Cor 4th and
Market SITS, Louisville Ky.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07
TANGLED GRAVES OF HUNDREDS
The X. p. A. Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Ken
lucky press is now being led ia
Greensboro. Nearly every paper in
the state was expected to be represen-
ted. Gov. Duckner aud other invited
guests are also on hand. The pro-
gram has been published heretofore.
Yesterday and to-day were set apart
for the business sessions. The ad-
dress of welcome by Reuben A. Mill
err, the response by Col. T.. Polk john
son, the annual grafton by j. Soule
Smith and a paper by Miss. Dollie
Higbee were on the program for last
night. After the business is con-
Quoted to-day, the festivities will be-
gin and banquet, followed by a
grand ball, will be given. About
400 plates will be laid, one half of
them ladie'snd gentlemen of Ovens
boro. There will be six toasts,
two of which will be responded to
by Mr.. Watterson and Gov. Bickner.
AT 9 O'Clock Saturday morning the
editorial party will leave on an ex-
cursion down the river, aud at Evans.
vile viii take special train for tho
Mammoth Gave, passing here In the
afternoon. The courtesies of the
cave have been extended to the party.
After seeing the cave they will dis
perse. The Hopklnsville papers are
represented at Greensboro by Mr..
Chas. NJ. Meacham, ofthe KENTUKIAN,
and Hunter Wood and daughter of
the Neio Era. Miss Lallie Woold-
ridge, Miss Fairmine Shanklin aud
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Wilgus are also
attending the meeting. Other repre-
sentatives of the KENTUCKIAN will
join the party as it passes here to-
morrow and take the cave trip.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07

Hon. John Young Brown, of Hen
derson, is an avowed candidate for
Governor. Mr.. Brown is one of the
ablest men in the State, and If nomi-
mated wonld make canvass seldom
il ever equaled in Kentucky for bril-.
liaucy.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07


Justice Gray, Of the U. 8. Supreme
Court, and Miss Jeanette Matthews,
daughter of the late Justice Mat
thews, were married at Washington
on the 4th inst. They will spend a
month in the country and then go to
Europe.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07
TOBACCO NEWS.

Sales by Wheeler, Mills s. Co.
June 5, of 90 hhds as follows:
20 hhds. med. to good leaf 81 so /,
10 90.
10 hhds. com. leaf SO rs to 5 %
6hhds. good Tugs 81 so to 2 so.
Market lower on common and
medium leaf at least lc per Id.
Sales by Alternately & Long of Al
hhds. as follows:
25 hide. common to medium leaf
from 81 90 to 7 so.
10 hhds. common and good Jugs
from 81 so to 3 90.
Market about one-half cent lower
on all grades except common Tugs.
LOUISVILLE TOBACCO MARKET.
Furnished by GLOVER DuRRKTr.
bales ON our market for the week
just closed amount to 1875 hhds with
receipts off ,2l5 hhds for the same
period. Sales on our market since
January LIST, amount to $3.50 hhds.
Sales of the crop of 1888 on our mar
ket up to this date 7,2S3 hhds.
Since our report of week ago the
whole State has been favored with
copious rains and in many localities
a considerable per cent. of the crop is
already on the hill. We do not find
it necessary TO report any change in
the market during the week. The
following quotations fairly represent
our market for dark tobacco both
old and new.
Trash 81 90 to 2 90.
Common TO medium lugs 81 so to
3 so.
Dark Tugs, extra quality, So so to
4 rs.
Common leaf 81 90 TO 5 90.
Medium TO good leaf IS 90 TO 6 90.
Good leaf extra length IS so to
7 so. .#r
Rich wrappery leaf 81 so to IL rs.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07

Squire j. w. McGaughy has been
mentioned as a probable candidate ia
represent this county in the next
Legislature, and If the Squire con.
cludes to make the race, there is not q
man in the county who can make q
better one.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07

The New Hampshire Legislature
has elected David G. Goodell, Repub
lican, for Governor, and his inaugu-
ration will take place to-day.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07

Gen. Jubal A. Early visited Win.
chester, Va, Wednesday, for the first
time since the war.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07

The Samoan Conference has ended.
The United States gets all she de-
manded.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-06-07

You can get all the news for 81 0
year by taking the KESTuoKIAS.
The true northerner., 1889-11-13

the sunlight it admitted, did not at
tract the farmers attention. He must
have been deeply engrossed in his own
thoughts, for he continued his solil-
oquy:
Who'd have thought that wheat
would go ten cents higher, when
there's goin' to be n full crop--at least
about here? l s'pose it's short other
places, though l was fool TO borrow
that last S5,0 to try and save the
other fifteen. What1l folks say when
the notes come due in two months, an
old Eben Hayes is closed out? Jeff
Wheeler1l be glad, SOIL Sol Smith an
Dick StallSmith, but / reckon Bill
Barr IL be little grain sorry, cause
he won't be able to borrow any more
money off me. / guess its n feelin'
that Parson Lake wouldn't indorse,
but / do wish that this city fellow
would marry Bess, or get engaged TO
her, at least. before we have to move
out OF the Hollow, where she was born,
and | before her"
Fred Faxon heard something which
sounded very like a sob, and then stole
noiselesslv from the barn and rejoined
Bessie, whom he had left in the grape
arbor near by.
A week later, when the farmer re-
turned home from the wdleat-tield,
where he had been assisting his men
in the glorious work of harvesting. he
was astonished to find Fred Faxon
seated with his daughter upon the vine
shadowed porch.
Didn't reckon on seeing You to-day, )"
said the farmer when the first saluta-
tions were over.
At the same time he stole a glance
at the fair face of his daughter, which
seemed an embodiment of happiness
and content.
I've been admitted to practice.
"Oh Glad to hear it.
And the city courts not being in
session"
Don't be silly" interrupted Bessie,
blushing like peony
I'D like to speak with you in pri-
vate, Mr.. Hayes"
mo need of it. Ny daughter and /
have no secrets from each other"
well, she has promised, subject to
your approval of course, to become my
wife"
Even that was no secret. / read it
in her eyes the minute l turned the
corner"
And you consent? 2"
Il s'pose I'll have to-"
Wheat took an awful drop this
week, sir.
II hadn't heard of it.
"The European war didn't material
ize and reports from the Northwest
came in much more favorable, and it
dropped twenty cents"
THAT beats me-"
1T didn't me. never mentioned
the fact to you. but l have $50, 900
The true northerner., 1889-11-13

inder the types are automatically sorted,
so that each channel of the stationary
cylinder contains only types Of the same
kind.
Composing is effected from a key-b oard
like that of typewriter on somewhat
larger scale BY the depression of any
key, through an arrangement of levers
and rods, the lowest type in the CORES.
pondng groove OF the cylinder is pushed
radially outwards on very rapidly re-
volving disc, which carries it to an open
ing in the stationary guard surrounding
the disc and delivers it upon moving
belt, on which the types are carried la
their proper order 10 a revolving litter,
which raises them in succession into long
setting stick at the upper end OF an inclin-
ed channel or galley. In justifying, a
section of the COMPOSED line of type is
drawn 10 the mouth Of the justifying stick,
and is justified with spaces taken from a
case containing channels for the different
spaces and the hyphen, the lowest or which
are pushed partially out by electors
worked with treadle. The lines of type
when no longer re luired for printing can
be inserted i'm the grooves of the distribut-
ing cylinder from a specal galley by
means of slide with which a whole line
at time is pushed bodily into a groove.
Three persons are required to operate
each machine: one at the keyboard, a
second to break up and justify the lines
and the third to keep the distributing cyl
inder "loaded" and maintain general
supervision. With expert help one ma
chine will set and distribute six thousand
ems per hour, or from five to six times as
much as the most rapid hand comuositor.
The work is not particularly laborious, and
il is found by experience that intelligent
girls are fully as we'll adapted as men to
become efficient operators. The machines
are so light running that a single horse
power is sufficient for half dozen ma
chimes.
Considering the purpose for which the
machine is intended, the construction Is
simple and there appears to be no diff
Guilty or hitch in the working. Ii should
be remarked that by manipulating the
keys in one direction only, several keys
may be touched simultaneously, without
risk of the characters becoming transposed;
in working the opposite way each key
must be touched separately. The machine
is driven from a shaft by two small belts
One belt transmits motion TO the revolving
disc below the typesetting cylinder and TO
the type litter, whilst the other belt, by
means of a tightening pulley and ratchet
gear, produces the step-by step-motion OF
the distributing cylinder.
The true northerner., 1889-11-13
A MARVELLOUS MACHINE.
THE THORNE CONTINUANCE FOR
SETTING TYPE.

A Labor-saving Invention that Seems
Adapted to the Practical Requirements
ofa Printing Onice-A DescriI Isiion of tho
Machine.
Whether or not type can be successfully
set by q machine, and whether the ma
chine can pe adapted TO the practical re-
quirements Of printing Office, is ques-
tion toward the solution OF which the eff
forts of inventive genius have been con-
tinuously directed for many years. From
one point of view 1t may be regarded as
strange that the wonderful results that
have been reached IN other directions i'm
the production of machines capable of
performing the most complicated opera
tions with almost human intelligence aud
more than human precision, have not been
sooner paralleled IN type setting, in which
so largea proportion of the work is purely
mechanical. On the other hand those
practically familiar with the details of the
work of the composing room have cher
ished grave doubts whether a machine
could be devised and perfected
that would perform the work
OF setting type in such way as to make it
practicable TO supersede the method Of
hand setting that has been in use ever
since the art of printing was invented.
Difficulties have been encountered which
have not met the inventor in any other
field, and the operation of putting the
types in place, so simple in appearance
when done by hand, becomes involved in
countless complications when it is sought
The true northerner., 1889-11-13

type setting and distributing machine
seems TO overthrow that oft repeated pre-
diction.
The Thorne of which an accurate illus
tration is given in the accompanying en-
craving, is the invention of Joseph
Thorne, from whom the machine and the
company now engaged in its manufacture
wers named. The invention dates back to
1880, although the Improvements which
the last eight years of mental and mechani-
cal labor upon it have effected have so meta
mophorphsed the original that the pres
ent perfected machine scarcely resembles
the crude affair which first embodied the
inventors idea At various times the
Thorne has been exhibited and tested in
competition with other type-settlng ma
chimes in Europe aud America, with re-
suits most decidedly in its favor. 1t Is
doubtful, however, il any other machine
has ever been subjected TO the severe test
which has been applied TO the Thorne. one
Of them Deing IN continuous use in the
Office of a Hartford, Conn, daily paper
for nearly year-a test which may be
said to have thoroughly demonstrated its
practicability, not only for general com
position but also for the sterner require
ments of daily newspaper work.
The Ttorne type setting machine con-
sists of two iron cylinders, about fifteen
inches in diameter, placed perpendicuIarly
face Of each OF which are cut longtitudin-
ally ninety channels or receptacles for the
types which are to be used in it. Within
The true northerner., 1889-11-13
His Honor Was Wounded.


Just after the war there was crowd
of us ain the billiard-room of hotel
one evening, says New York Sun
writer, and among the "touchy" South.
erners was Colonel Gray of the Ten
nessee troops. He was said to be a
duelist, dead shot, a fearless man,
and all that, and was, therefore, held
in awe. Among those present was q
typical Yankee who had come down To
smell out cotton. He looked humble
and harmless, and had been hustled
around good deal without losing his
temper. BY some accident in moving
about he bumped the colonel, and the
latter promptly wheeled round on him
with:
"Sir, you are as clumsy as an OK"
Don't get riled, kurnel; L didn't
mean to" was the reply.
1t was good time to bluff, and the
colonel drew himself up and replied:
Then apologize, apologize at once ~
Il said | didn't mean it, and didn't,
but | amt going to crawl, you know. +"
Who are you, sir?"
well, meow, I'm Isaac Williams ard
VINO might you be
"You have insulted me, sir. There's
my card. "
Williams took the pasteboard, looked
it all over, slowly read the name, and
returned it TO the colonel with
"Hev YOU any cotton to sell, kurnel -?
If so, I'm your huckelberry."
If YOU have friend, let him consult
with the major here!" replied the fire
eater.
Some one explained to the Yankee
that he had been challenged, and he
scratched his head, whistled his sur
prise, and following the colonel to the
bar, he said;
See here, kurnel, don't want this
blamed thing hanging over me all night
and disturbing my sleep. Let's have it
out now"
He fished up Remington from his
right hip pocket, second from his left,
and handing one to the colonel, he ad-
vanced his right foot, and said
"Toe to toe, kurnel, and muzzle to
breast. That guarantees sure work
and no fooliug. Somebody count five,
and then we'll begin the sllirmish. My
will has been made for two years, and /
reckon the papers will inform Hammer
how | turned up my toes"
The colonel took the revolver,
started to advance his foot, drew it
back. turned as white as snow, and. lay
ing the weapon on the bar, walked out
of the place without word to any one.
The Yank had raised him out of the
The true northerner., 1889-11-13

"Oh. fatheri Some one besides that
sensibleman Of whom you were just
speaking has been talking to yol about
him. A false suspicion never origin
ated in your honest old heart
well, l won't deny-never mind
that now"
Mr. Hayes paused to remove her
pleading white arms from his neck.
"Oh, fatherl" faltered she, the tears
once more yelling up into her eyes.
"Well, them" spoke up the farmer,
who evidently felt himself to lie weak
ening, well let the matter rest ms it is,
and il you're not satisfied within six
months-yes, six weeks-that he's un-
worthy of you, then matters can hum
along, and l won't say word. But
nothing of this to him. Mind that"
Three minutes later the farmer was
Harvesting "a horse.
Il wish / had my life insured, for if
they close down on me it III kill me, an
Bess III be left without a nickel"
Eben Hayes was indulging in his old
habit of talking to himself as he
buckled the harness-strap.
AS he made this remark, Fred Faxon
entered the horse-barn.
1t seemed strange that the sound
caused 10y the opening of the door, and
The true northerner., 1889-11-13

to adapt the machine TO its performance.
Meanwhile invention and improvement has
progressed with great strides in other
branches and departments of the printer $
art, so that while the art as a whole has
reached a marvellous stage of development
and achievement the operation of type
setting has remained in u primitive
state.
Numerous as have been the attempts TO set
and distribute types by machinery, it must
be confessed that, up TO the present, there
has not been one machine which'has OBJ
tained general favor or which has an
swered the expectations held out. Gener.
ally, the machines have been delicate and
complicated and the results so very uncer-
tain, indeed, that no newspaper proprietor
would rely solely upon them in case of ur-
gency. These repeated failures have led
compositors, and employers too, TO venture
the prediction that until a machine could
be endowed with brains the compositor
would be indispensable. But recently the
perfecting of what is known as the Thorne
The true northerner., 1889-11-13

"Good good!" cried Fred Faxon,
clapping his hands and laughing heart
ly.
Il don't know that it's good" said
Farmer Eben Hayes, "but it has the
merit os bein the Lords TRUTH
And that's everything, father" said
his petite and pretty daughter, as she
seized him round the neck and gave
him hug that brought quick flush
to the face of both men-pain produc-
ing it with the elder, envy with the
younger.
Hayes Hollow, as the farm had been
called for three generations, was the
finest and most productive of all in the
beautiful valley, and its owner was
considered a wealthy man, being rated
much as millionaire Is in a large city.
Bessie was his only child and the
prospective heiress not only of the
form and its appurtenances but, as
many believed, of a good deal of wealth
which was invested in other ways.
Fred Faxon was young man who
for two years had been reading law in
the city twenty miles away, and was
soon to be admitted to the bar.
He had met Bessie Hayes the pre-
ceding summer while spending q vaca-
ton in the valley The decided mutual
attraction between the two had been
increased by subsequent meetings and
no end of letters, until it had reached
the stage where the word "love" could
alone express the situation
Mr.. Hayes had been much pleased
with the young man, and at the request
of pretty Bessie, who generally carried
her point, had invited him to spend his
weeks vacation at the Hollow
1t had been a happy time to the
lovers-those little seven days; but
they had flown by all too quickly, and
the train that was to bear the pros
pective lawyer away from fields of
wheat, drifting in waves of silver to-
ward the harvest, to the city, with its
dust, and CRIME. aud w;ckedness, would
be due within an hour.
IL must run across and say good-by
TO the Turner'S, remarked Fred, look
ing through the open door TO a farm
house on the opposite side of the broad
country road.
"Wait moment, and I'll go with
YOU
"No, daughter, let him go alone. /
must hitch up TO take him to the depot,
and want word with you first"
"What is 2" asked Bess, just lit
tie petulantly, when Fred had started
on his erraud.
"Don't invite him here again
"Who? 2"
Fred Mr.. Faxon, ] should say"
"You don't mean"
Words failed the little maiden, but
her wide-open eyes supplied the deficit,
and expressed the most unfeigned as
tonishment.
81 do, daughter, just that"
"But you've spoken so highly of him
oil along and besides"
Again words failed the girl, but this
time tears glistened in her blue eyes,
and completed the sentence.
SIN sorry, Bessie, truly sorry, but
j think it's for the best"
Nothing can DO for the best that
separates us for lifo What have you
against Mr.. Faxon Z"
II accuse him Of no crimc, but Ifear
that he is unworthy Of you"
The true northerner., 1889-11-13
Miss Caldwelps Love Grown Cold.

A young lady who is visiting here,
jand who is n very intimate friend of
Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, has
just received a letter from the young
heiress, whose engagement to Prince
Murat has attained so much notoriety.
Miss Caldwell writes to her friend that
the formal betrothal has been indefi-
nitely postponed on account of an un-
written law of the French and Italian
aristocracy, which requires the con-
tracing parties to produce, at their
betrothal, the baptismal certificates of
their parents and grandparents. That
Miss Caldwell is unable to do, as there
is no record of her grandmother's bap-
tism, and hitch in the proceedings is
the result. Miss Caldwell intimates
that she would not care at all if the
wedding should not take place. Miss
Caldwell's friend thinks that if the
whole thing falls through it will not
be the fault of the bridegroom nor of
the laws of aristocracy, but of the fair
fiance herself. This is not the first
time Miss Caldwell has promised her
hand in marriage and has reconsidered
her action after the engagement had
been made public. She was engaged
to an Italian prince about three years
ago, and the match was considered the
best to be made in Europe, but, like
several others before, it was broken off
by the young lady. Miss Caldwell's
first love was a young lawyer of this
city, bat the engagement was objected
to. He has since married. In a former
letter Miss Caldwell said: "You NAV
be sure that L always intend to be my
own financier. / am willing TO allow
any husband l may have a sufficient
income to enable him to dress we'll and
pay his club dues, but he will never
have the management of cent of my
principal" Mary has a will of her
own," said our mutual friend, "and she
means what she says. Perhaps Prince
Murat found this out before it was too
late. - Louisville Post.
The true northerner., 1889-11-13
Because you're one Of the whitest
boys alive. You can't do it. siri"
en,.k NJ. Ho.oa Il

Because you're one of the whitest
boys alive. You can't do it. siri"
"But, Mr.. Hayes, T."
"You can't steal my thunder that
way. I'm going to give it to her my
self"
But heard"
"What?"
"That-you were embarrassed and on
the brink of failure. In fact, it was
the information that you had lost
everything, through the recent boom ia
wheat, that induced me to sell the
same commodity"
"There amt word of truth in 1t
never speculated in my lifel"
But L heard"
a pack of lies I'm worth Sl5, ZOO
over and above this farm, and don't
owe cent in the world !"
Then / must have been dreaming 2"
"No, but you placed too much re-
lance in the idle talk of an old fellow
who likes to speculate in his mind, and
who thinks it no sin to suppose case
for his own amusement"
"And you're satisfied that Fred
wasn't after Hayes Hollow?' queried
Bessie.
"Entirely- / don't believe that
John will remember about those calves.
He's getting awfully forgetful."
Thus soliloquizing, Mr.. Hayes walked
discreetly away, leaving the happy
lovers in sole possession of the vine
protected porch.