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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15

is going on in Prague between the Ger
man population still very respectable
minority, and forming the bulk of the
wealthy merchants, of the artists, lit
erary circles, etc.-and the ambitious
Czechs creeps into every relation of life
there, and makes things in general
very uncomfortable. 1t sounds almost
incredible, for instance, but is fact.
that stranger of distinction reaching
Prague is at once forced to take sides
in this interneciue quarrei; he is put
down as friend of the Czech or OF
the German, according to the particu-
lar hotel he stops at.
If he happens to visit the German
opera in town, possibly because he I'M
derstcnds it or because it is really bet
ter than the Slavic performances, he
risks having the window panes in his
room smashed by an enthusiastic
young Czech" In short, the nation
alistic war there has been carried to
such point that it's very extremeness
must bring change pretty soon.
In all other respects, however,
Prague is worth visiting, for it is one
of the most interesting cities OF
Europe. AS landmark, for instance,
the old Jewish cemetery and syna-
gogue ought to be seen. The cemetery
dates, it is believed-and the belief Ia
backed up by formidable age-begrimed
Recommendation the sixth century,
and the tombstones, as one reads and
deciphers them row after row, furnish
in themselves a veritable cyclopedia
of the history of the Jews in Europe,
for there lies buried some ancestor-or
a number of them-of nearly every He
brew family of distinction in the capi-
tails of the world, from the Rothschilds
I to the Hirsches, and from the Mendels-
sohns to the Meyerbeers and the
Heines In the older epitaphs the
tribe of Israel from which the deceased
sprang is generally indicated.
WOLF Won SCHIERBRAHD
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15

Prague all over the empire, and It
reaches In some branches as far as
Berlin, Moscow, Constantinople. while
the unexcelled Pilsen beer is still as
good as Of yore, but it is now sent d.
rect as far as Australia in one direc-
ton and as far as Chilli and Persia in
Others.
Pilsen beer that really would de-
serve chapter of its own. But suffice
it to say that it tastes much different
and much better when consumed on
the spot than when drank after a
transoceanic voyage AS matter Of
fact the Pilsener which is exported is
brewed specially for the exotic" taste
las they style it's stronger in alco-
hol, but not nearly so mildly exhilarat-
as the home brew.
Among the unpleasant features of
the Prague of to-day is the combative,
pugilistic, unamiable character its
population has developed, as con-
sequence of the twenty years. strife
that has been going on between the
two elements--the Czech and the Ger
man. After having their national Czech
aspirations suppressed for two hundred
and fifty years, the reaction has been
particularly violent one, and now they
want to ''Czechisize" everything and
everybody, as under the former regime
they were Germanized. Czech is a
language which, after all, is spoken
by but five million persons all told
including the Czech of Moravia, of
Silesia and those who have emigrated
to America, Russia, etc. Common
sense ought to tell the Czech that 1t is
futile to expect the rest of the world
to'learn a language so excessively diff
cult and of so little practical or aesthet-
ic use as his.
But the fact is that the Czech in
Prague expects every stranger, every
body he meets in the street, to know
and talk his language, and he gets
actually mad when stranger accosts
him in any other tongue-French, Eng
fish, German, or anything else except
ing Russian. When he hears Russian
he smiles and bows, for he is now a
part Russophite. Everything is now
Czech-from the bill of fare to the
street signs-the eye sees nothing but
the queer triangular accents and the
apparently unpronounceable combina-
tions of consonants without vowels
The latter, am told by an expert, are
inserted in the pronunciation, accord
ing to certain complicated rules, and
when correctly pronounced found
these same words quite bearable to the
sense of hearing.
Then the animosity and struggle for
national supremacy that has been and
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15


Carrying Out the Strange Provisions IF an
Animal Lovers WIN.
At Bridgeport, Conn, provision in
the will of Francis Ives was lately car
ried out, his fine horses and well-bred
dogs having been put to death.
says the New York World. Mr.
Ives was distinguished member Of
the Fairfield county bar and rich old
bachelor. Rumor had it that when he
was young man he fell in love with
the beautiful Miss Julia Jones, daugh-
ter of Rev. and Mrs Henry Jones and
granddaughter of Noah Webster. Mr..
Ives proposed to Miss Jones and she re-
jected him. Afterwards she married
Rev. Thomas Beecher, brother of Hem
ry Ward Beeche= From the time of
her marriage Mr.. Ives separated him
self from the society of women. He
owned a fine stable of thoroughbred
Itrotters. Two of them, Prince and
Gypsy, were his greatest favorites, and
as he speeded them he seemed to be
forgetful for the moment and happy.
He owned kennel of pedigreed point
ers and settlers and he was an enthusi-
astic hunter. Mr.. Ives died last winter,
leaving a large estate. His will made
his lifelong friend, George Hayes, his
executor, and, outside of few small
requests, left his whole estate to his
sister, Mrs. Whiting, of New Haven.
But the eighteenth clause Of his will
betrayed Mr.. Ives intense affection for
his horses and dogs-an affection
which, necessarily diverted from it's
first object, had centered itself on
them. In this clause Mr.. Ives directed
his executor, Mr.. Hayes, to chloroform
to death all the animals that he might
own at the time Of his death in the
month of June first following that
event. In explanation of this act of
seeming cruelty Mr.. Ives wrote in his
will:
II fear lest my dogs and horses will
fall into the hands of some one who
will not treat them kindly"
Mr.. Ives was well known to be hui
name and kind-hearted man. His exec
utor considered his order binding upon
him
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15
THROUGH THE AIR SHAFT.
Sounds That Break in the Silly Night on
the Ears of the Flat Dweller.

Sounds That Break in the Silly Night on
the Ears of the Flat Dweller.
SIN the hot nights, with the windows
into the air shafts all open," said New
York fat dweller, 1--WE hear the voices
of old and young in all sorts of tones
and modulations, and speedily become
used to them and pay no attention to
them; they are part of the routine of
life to which we become accustomed,
as we do to the sounds of the streets, to
the rustling of trees or the flow of
waters. But suppose you wake up in
the night in intense quiet; your own
air shaft windows wide open and all
the rest the same. The voices you
heard in the evening now are stilled;
there is no sound. Then you hear the
striking of clock, and then you hear
more clocks; some close together, some
far apart, but no two striking together.
and they are as different in manners OF
stroke and sound as they are in time;
there are no two alike There are
clocks with sharp, quick, shrill
strike, clocks with slow cathedral
gong, colorless clocks, charming clocks,
medieval clocks of the kind they made
forty or fifty years ago-you know
them by the strike, Gothic in pattern
and perhaps with a picture of Melrose
abbey or something of that sort painted
on the door under the clock face. Iron
clocks, wooden clocks, marble clocks,
onyx clocks, nickel clocks, all sorts of
clocks, old and new, rise before the
minds eye as they tell each it's tale of
the passing time, and when they are
all done there comes after an interval
one more, deep, ponderous, distant
boom, and after that comes silence
again"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15
sale Rlakes sugar sweeter.

Who would think of making sugar
sweeter by the addition of Ealt? SUCH,
however, is asserted to be the case by
Prof. Zuntz at a late meeting of the
Physiological society of Berlin. From
his experiments he finds that if to So
luton of sugar there be added slight
amount of salt and water so weak that
il excites no saline taste, the result Is
extra sweetening Of the sugared water.
The weakest of quinine solution is said
to produce practically similar result.
The explanation given of the above
seeming incongruity is that the ever 20
feeble sadness or bitterness imparts an
increased sensibility to the sensation Of
taste by the simultaneous stimuli, and
hence an appreciation of additional
sweetness.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15

Enough looking back upon past that
Hoses itself in the midst of prehistoric
7Gimes, the population of the town num-
,5oered little over 100000 German was
71he dominant tongue-German signs
everywhere, German spoken by the
natives in the hotels and the ushers
in the theaters, the policemen in the
streets and the officers and soldiers
one met everywhere in public. Czech
undoubtedly was also spoken some
where, for the majority of the citizens
were of purely Slavic blood even then,
but it was one of those things the
stranger did not notice anywhere. The
newspapers, the officials, the courts
all were German, and anybody inquir-
Eng his way in German or stepping
into beer garden and ordering his
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15
Do:
You
Suffer

From indigestion, sour stomach, head
ache, fatulency, distress after eatingf
Or is it a case of lost appetite. want Of
energy, weakness, debility
Are you nervous, restless, sleeplesa worn
out in body and in mindf
Have you pains in the bao alps, side
head, arms, shoulders, chestf
Are you filed with NAL ia--sallow
complexion, coated tongue, ht iweatA
dry cough, chills and fever2
II any of these troubles arc yours, the
thing you need is DIR. KINGS
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15
THE BOHEMIAN CAPITAL.
Prague Is One OF the Most Inter
esting Cities In Europe.
Changed Within twenty-five Years from
sleepy Old Town to Great Com
rnercisi Center--Curious Political
Condition of the City.
Special Prague bohemia, Letter

No city in the Austro- Hungarian
empire shows more plainly the radical
changes wrought in that monarchy
since the new era of ''nationalistic
compromise" which set in in 1867 than
docs Prague, the capital of Bohemia
In 1869, when raw youth, paid that
ancient and highly interesting city a
brief visit At that time Prague was
wholly medieval in architecture,
sshonght and mode of living. and
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15

Charles N. Smith, who murdered
his daughter, Louise, and sister-in-
law, Edna Buchert, at Decatur, ILL.,,
nine days ago and pleaded guilty
Oct. 3, has been sent need to be
hanged Friday, Nov. ~. The pris-
oner asked the Judge to set Feb Is
as the day of his execution, that be-
ing his baby's birthday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-15

Prevention
better than cure. TUFTS Liver
Pills will not only cure, but if
taken in time will prevent
Sick Headache,
dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria,
constipation, jaundice, torpid
liver and kindred diseases.
TUFTS Liver PILLS
ABSOLUTELY CURE.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
ssSmith the Unknown" Suiclded.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 19.-Dr. Bozaro, a
we'll known character about town, who
travelled with. Coxey's army as "Smith
the Unknown" was found dead, hav-
ing committed suicide with morphine.
He was man of striking personality,
having long black curly hair. He
claimed to have been an Indian medi.
cine man. On the disbanding of the
army he returned to Cleveland and be.
gan the practice of medicine. He left
long letter in which he related nu.
merous earthly woes, among them be-
ing domestic troubles.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
BRlCE MEN B0LTED
Split in the County Democratic
Convention at Cleveland,
Ohio.
SILVER MEN IN A MAJORITY
Followers Of Brice Left in a
Body and Held Conven-
ton Of Their Own.
LIVER MEN IN A MAJORITY

CLEVELAND, Aug. 10. AT the Dem
ocratic county convention held here,
Alfred Whitaker of Bedford has bee n
elected chairman by decisive vote
over his opponent. James Lawrence.
The selection Of Whitaker indicates
that the delegation from this county
to the Democratic state convention
next week will be for free silver and
anti.Brice.
Brice Men Rolted.
A motion by free silver delegate to
appoint committee of seven to select
delegates to the state convention
caused row that for time threatened
to result in more than a war of words.
The fight resulted in a number of the
gold and Brice men, headed by James
Lawrence, retiring from the hall with
the announcement that they would at
once hold G''rump" convention. After
their withdrawal, the motion to select
a committee Of seven to select dele
gates to the state convention prevailed.
This couMittee as selected was com
posed entirely of free silver and anti
Br.ce men.
The seceders to the number Of about
75, at once went to another hall, or
ganized and elected SO delegates to the
state convention. Resolutions Were
adopted condemning the methods pur
sued by the so-called regular conven
ton, and after giving three rousine
cheers for Senator Brice, adjourned.
Resolutions were passed by the reg.
ular convention opposing Calvin S.
Brice as United States senator and ia
voring the free coinage Of silver. After
the adoption Of the report of the com
mittee on delegates, the convention
adiourned
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
Railroad Scheme Revived.

Sioux CITY, Ia, Aug. l9.-Local cap
italists have revived the Chicago and
Baltimore, one of the Sioux City enter
prises swamped in the panic Of 1893,
with the object of completing the line
The road was intended to give Sioux
City an opening toward the South and
East. 1t was surveyed to run southeast
from here, connecting with the Rock
Island, Burlington, Keokuk and West
ern, Iowa Central. Baltimore and Ohio
and the Pennsylvania systems. 1t is
expected to begin work on the line
next spring.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
INTERESTS ENGLlSHMEN.
Race for the Americas Cup a Topic 4,
Discussion.

Race for tho Americas Cup a Topic for
Discussion.
LONDON, Aug. l9.-As the date for
the races of the Americas cup ap-
proaches, interest in Valkyrie III and
the performances of Defender in
creases. The brief cable dispatches
from New York, published here in the
English newspapers, are eagerly read
and much discussed. There is no
doubt that the yachtsmen here are far
from feeling confident that Lord Dun
ravens yacht will bring the cup back
to England, but it ia generally admit.
ed she has better chance to do SO
than any of her predecessors. Natur-
ally the greatest interest OF the experts
centers in the question whether Val
kyrie Ill will, or will not, have to allow
Defender time, and therefore there
was much disappointment when it was
announced that the measurements Of
the cup defender will not be known
until shortly before the race
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
THEY ARE ALL BUSY
Work in Manufacturing Lines
Something Exceptional for
the Season.
BIG IRON OUTPUT CONTINUES,
Midsummer Quiet in CONNER
cial Circles Becoming
Noticeable.

NEW YoR Aug. l9.-Bradstreets
says: Midsummer quiet is more con-
spicuous than week ago, though less
so in industrial than in com mmercial
lines As rule, leading manufactur-
ing industries are exceptionally busy
for the season, and it is worth adding
that he increase in output of demand
and prices for iron and steel still con-
tinues. Gross and net railroad earn
ings returns for the first half of the
present year show very satisfactory
aggregate gains over last year, a period
90 great coal and railroad strikes and
of financial and industrial depression
and arrangement. The best showings
in net earnings are made by the Gen.
trail Western, Eastern and Southwest
ern roads, while the only decreases
noted are in the granger and Southern
roads. Jobbers in the more important
staple lines at Chicago, st. Louis, Kan
sas City, Omaha, Milwaukee, Mime
apolis and St. Paul report an improved
demand. The outlook at all those
points is for an
Active Fall business.
Kansas City dealers do not regard an
early advance i'll prices of livestock
probable. At Omaha country mer-
chants are said to be buying more
freely than for years. At San Fran.
cisco leading commercial lines are
quieter. Hop picking is about to begin
ON that coast, with the outlook for
only moderate crop. The wheat crop
in California is rather less favorable.
Washington crops are good. Tacoma
reports easier collections, lumber ship
ments about equal to those in the pre-
.ceding month, and the receipt of 1O,-
600 tons of freight this week from the
Orient. Portland, Or, wires that the
spring salmon catch on the Columbia
river is large.
Throughout the Southern states
general trade remains as quiet and in
some instances quieter than week
ago.
| The Iron and Steel Ind u<try.
The sales of steel rails in 1895 to
Aug. were $40, 900 tons and the de-
liveries $4,000. Wages in this indus.
try have been generally advanced and
strikes are few. Minor metals change
little, though large sales lift lake cop.
per to 124 cents. Textile imports have
been very heavy and advances in cot
ton goods to some extent check buy
ing, while Fall River spinners are or
ganizing for restoration of wages
paid before the panic. Woolen manu-
facturers find in their way large sales
of foreign goods at prices which cause
official Investigations. The sales OF
wool were 6,313,O0O domestic and
5,279, 900 foreign this month, against
IL. $40, $50 domestic and 1902, 500 for
eign last year, and II, $50. SO2 domestic
and 4, 566, 500 foreign in 1892, indicate
that domestic wool is largely held fo,
speculation at prices about cen,
higher than manufacturers feel able tt
pay.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
DAVIS A CANDIDATE.

The Minnesota Senator May Be Said to he
Out for the Presidency.
ST. PAUL, Aug. l9.-The Dispatch
says: Senator Davis is full fledged
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for the presidency. The announce.
ment was made in an interview The
Dispatch had with Captain H. A. Cas-
tie, who is acknowledged to be one of
Davis closest friends and capable of
speaking with authority.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
NO USE FOR YOUNG.
Movement to Get Rid OF Sioux City
Chief Of Police.

Movement to Get Rid OF Sioux City's
Chief Of Police.
Sioux CITY, Ia, Aug. l9.- Owing to
numerous complaints of corruption and
incompetency against the local police
force II citizens committee has been
formed to demand the removal of Chief
Young. In case the mayor refuses to
comply with this request he will be
asked to submit the matter to the po-
lice committee of the council, which is
said to favor removal, and if this also
is refused proceedings will. it is de-
clared, be begun for Young's impeach-
ment. The chief witnesses against him
are understood to be ex-Captain Petty
and a number of less important men,
bers Of the force who were recently
dismissed by the mayor, and who have
since been making covert charges of
corruption against the chief.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
Jim Swallow oes Free,

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, Aug. 10.
The examination Of Jim Swallow for
killing Black Hawk has ended, Swal-
low being discharged. Judge Barclay
could see nothing but self defense on
Swallows part against two drunken
Indians, Highnocker and Black Hawk,
they having drank quart of whisky
each in three hours. Swallow says the
Indians will not harm him.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
DEEP WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION.
Some Of the Subjects to He Discussed At
tho Cleveland Convention.

Some OF the Subjects to He Discussed ~
tho Cleveland Convention.
CLEVELAND, Aug. l9.-About 20, 900
invitations have been sent throughout
the United States and Canada asking
for public bodies to send delegates to
the first annual convention Of the In
ternational Deep Waterways Associa-
tion in this city Sept. "a, 25 and rs.
The presidents annual address will
discuss international comfy and CO.
operation, and other addresses will dis
euss the following subjects:
Progress OF the deep waterways
movements, economics o. deep water
transportation, ultimate effect OF deep
water from the lakes to the sea on the
leading industries, and many other
subjects Of the deep water movement.
Delegates to this convention, when
chosen, should send their names and
addresses to the executive secretary, F.
A. Flower, West Superior, Wis. The
international president of the asso'
citation is o. A. Rowland of
Toronto, and there are state
and provincial vice presidents from
AAesAJ oA viz SeatSo oAu piONiASOo VI eAAo
United States and Canada. The officers
of the association Will have their head.
quarters at the Hotel Hollenden during
the coming convention. Formal invi-
tations to attend the convention, have
been sent to all senators, members OF
congress and leading thinkers, econ
omists and engineers all over the coun-
try. Members of the association will
receive free the reports and pubilca'
tions, copies of all speeches and papers
and public documents issued by the
association. Membership may be OBJ
tained by addressing Captain }. >.
Durham, at 2lO South Water Street,
Chicago. The fee is 81.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19

MONTREAL, Aug l9.-Great excite.
ment was caused by the statement that
$40, 900 worth of securities have been
stolen from the safes of the city treas
urer in the city hall. City Treasurer
Robb admits the truth of the story in
SO far that the securities are missing,
but the man who has charge of them,
William McDunnough, is sick in bed
and cannot be seen.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
st. Paul Union stock Yards.

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Aug II. 1895.
HOGS-Market barely steady on heavy
packing hogs. Good light butcher hogs
firm. Range of prices. a. .3O(d44O
CATTl.E-Steady on fat steer, stockers
and feeders. Cows and common stuff
slow and weak
SHEEP-Steady at recent decline
Lambs, $2.9O03.2, muttons, 81 30
common, 81 l.OOG2.CO
Receipts: Hogs $50; cattle $50; sheep,
$50; calves, 10.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19
Dedicate the Hill seminary.

ST. PAUL, Aug. l9.-The St. Paul
Theological seminary will be dedicated
Sept. 4 by Mgr. Satolli, the apostolic
delegate. Many prominent Catholic
priests and laymen will be present. and
the event will be one of great import
ance to the members of that creed in
the Northwest. This seminary is the
gift OF J. ]. Hill, and it will be the cen
Ter OF Catholicism in the great North.
west.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19

CHICAGO, Aug. 10. 1T is stated that
the brewers agreement to advance
prices to retat.ers in Chicago now lacks
only four signatures of comprising all
the beer producers III Chicago The
first effects OF the brewers agreement
will be to drive ouG OF business at least
1900 of the present 1,00o licensed sa.
lOonkeepers i'll the city.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. ~. - Claus
Spreckels, the sugar king, has let con-
tracts for construction in this city of
the tallest building west Of Chicago.
It will be situated at the corner Of
Market and Third streets and will be
Is stories high The estimated cost is
q 900, ,OOO
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-19

DUBUQUE, Ia, Aug. I'D H. Mann,
grand worthy chief. Good Templars of
the Word, was in the city Oh his way
to Iowa Falls to attend the Iowa grand
lodge. In an interview he stated that
the order was organized in New York
city in 1851, and is the largest temper
ance society in the world. New York
is first in membership and Iowa sec.
ond, with nearly 1000 members.