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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
Utopia and Chickens.

= Sir Thomas More had a strong objec-
ton to sheep farms, declaring that the
sheep ate up the people. Accordingly
we find that on the Utopian farms till
age was more particularly advanced
and that great. number of chickens
were Matched, not in the natural way,
but by means of a gentle equal heat, a
prophetic vision of the incubator. AL
though husbandry was science COM
mon to all alike, the people had each
their proper handiwork. either cloth
weaving, masonry, smithcraft or car
pentering, for no others to speak of
were known. Sir Thomas held the, the
DRY that If all persons were made to
work, including women and priests,
there would be no need that any should
labor more than six hours day. In his
sketch of a Utopian day, however, no
fewer than nine hours are allotted to
work-six in the morning and three in
the afternoon. Two hours are allowed
at midday for dinner and rest, one after
supper for play and eight for sleep. The
remainder of the day the people might
spend as they pleased, though not In
riot or sloth, but rather in the study OF
some branch of science, lectures being
given early in the morning that all.
might attend. One can not but feel that
Utopian Jack may have been rather
dull boy.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENTS.
Work Comes Nearer than Anything Else
to Solving the Problem

In recent sermon Dr. ParkhurSt
proposed that rich women should have
the names of poor women on their call
ing lists, and should formulate sys-
tenn by which they could convey to
their less fortunate sisters the methods
that hold in every well-regulated home
and are known only to the careful and
thrifty housewife. The idea is, in short
the same that is in vogue at the college
settlements, where higher intelligence
is valuable in masking superiority and
assisting the weIl-bred to live down to
the level of their neighbors, equally as
they are able to lift the unintelligent to
their level. The work at the university
settlement comes more nearly striking
the bulls eye of the social problem
than any other branch of philanthropy.
Perhaps no work in the whole garment
OF charity comes so nearly being a la
Dor of love as the college settlement
work. The college graduate who is
eligible to the sacred charge of residing
among the poor for the purpose laid
QUIT. e., that of improving their con-
dition through object lessons. and daily
contact and personal sympathy--nust
have, in addition to superior intelli-
gence, not only rare philosophy, but
also a grace of spirit that is Of divine
origin; should feel sorry to see the
society women make an attempt to fur
Their this work by the feeble imitation
of spirit which the organized charity
worker would bring into it,. Society Isl
a work in itself, and the woman who
meets its demands is all untitled to
benefit the nc r by her personal con-
tact. The society woman is sweetly
satisfied with stereoscopic views of pow
erty as exhibited to the board of man
ayers of the usual popular charity.
Women play at precedence In charity
work, the same ais they do in rugs and
furniture and pictures and pedigree.
Visitation committees to teach the poor
would be another travesty on charity. |
and heaven forbid it!
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
PRESIDENT CARO- IS A POET.
His Translation of TIE "Iliad" is Held In
High Esteem.

His Translation of tie "niad" is Held IL
High Esteem.
President Caro- of Colombia, who Is
now having trouble with the revolution.
lists, is one of the best-known poets OF
South America. His TRANSACTIONS Of the
'Iliad' is considered in the Latin coun-
tries to the south of the United States
to be the finest in existence in the
Spanish language. DR.. Nunez, his pre-
decessor, was also a man Of consider
able literary attainment, says the New
York Tribune. Gen. Rafael Reyes, who
is now making the campaign against
the rebels, will. If he is victorious, prob
ably be the next president of the re-
public. Gen. Reyes is over six feet tall,
and, like President Diaz of Mexico, has
a preponderance of Indian blood In his
veins. Some years ago Gen. Reyes was
at dinner in Bogota, at which the
guests exulted in their lordly Spanish
style about their ancestry. Repeated
toasts were drank to "Our great-great
grandfathers.' Finally Gen. Reyes
arose and said: 1--WE have drank to our
t-great-grandfathers on the Span
ish side. Now 1 propose toast to our
e-little-grandmothers on the other
side of the house." The toasts were
drunk with shouts which shook the roof.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05

MEXICAN MOTHER AND BABES.
To-day in Mexico Especially in the
least travel-crossed parts) the daily
lives of the children are more like the
daily lives of the children over whom
Ferdinand helped Isabella to reign than
are the daily lives of the children who
to-day sun themselves in the bright
realm of SPANS boy king.
have said that most of the children
of Mexico are Of mixed blood. There
are, however, few proud old Mexican
families who have never married with
the natives. Certainly the children Of
these few families are the fairest to
look upon of Mexicos youngsters. Mex
lean children of the needy class used
to be trained to two remunerative in
dustries to which they are trained no
more-at least, the boys were. These
two industries were diving for coins
and running. When they grew to man
hood and professional perfection. they
Joined corps which formed the only
trusted, the only reliable messengers
Of Mexico. They often ran $50 miles in
four and a half days. They made round
trips of 700 miles in nine days, and were
handsomely remunerated by twenty
five or thirty Mexican dollars. But this
is an item of Mexico's past. In the
cities of Mexico the vast majority Of
the children are dressed very similarly
to the children of European cities. In
the wilds, the country, the hidden
places of Mexico, the children wear
CARDS that are Indian, garbs that are
Spanish and garbs that are quaint and
ingenious combinations of the charac-
teristic habilinents of the two races.
Every Mexican child is an artist. Ex-
cept only in Korea, art is perhaps no
where more a matter of course than in
Mexico. Music is the birthright of
every Mexican child. And they are al
most without exception born with
facile, If not great talent for phase
Of plastic art.
The Mexicans are marvellous model
ers. The wee brown fingers of Next
IAN babies mold the rudy Mexican mud
into babies browner than themselves,
and Mexican children of incredibly ten
der years pinch and pet and pat and
poke and coaA moist clay wax and
other malleable materials into stat
uettes and tiny figures, which they
sell in the Mexican market places.
The poorer children of the cities of
Mexico spend a considerable part of
their days in the market places-in the
bazaars. They peddle the little clay
figures and the diminutive wax crea-
lures that their deft fingers have
shaped, and the sunshine in which they |
owe to sit has balIed-they hawk flow
ers and barter magnificent fruits for |
copper coins; they rush |
after you and catch you by the skirt |
and hurl you back to their parents, |
booths. AS a rule they know one Eng |
ish sentence. Let me record 1t: "Give |
ne penny" Many Mexican mother
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
THE DEcAYED Moslc TEAcHER,

TIE DECAYED music TEACHER
She Has the Bread Taken ont Of Hel
/ mouth
The ordinary parent or guardian OF
girl with turn for music" Will very
! probably MAKE his choice Of teacher
from those to whom he listens With the
greatest pleasure. forgetting. that execu-
tive skill and the gift of importing
knowledge are more often found sepa-
rate than together, says the National
Review. The partially successful artist,
them is wont to fall back upon such
teaching as he can set II he wants to
make livelihood out Of his profession,
and so enormous is the number of those
who wish to take music lessons, If not
to ego In for music thoroughly. that
the moderately efficient teachers have
hitherto had small reason to despair Of
getting profitable pupils. These worthy
people, however, will before long be
singing very different song; in fact.
something like repetition Of the dirge
performed by the respectable gentle
women of the last generation, who
after taking to teaching music for
living on the strength OF a dozen les
sons taken when they were young and
comfortably off, found their circle Of p,,-
pills diminishing as the taste for music
widened and deepened. For such as
these the increase IN the number and
the rise in the efficiency Of the regular
schools Of music has been their doom,
for not merely in London. where the de-
cayed lady teacher never fourished,
but in every country town the standard
of taste has left them far behind, and
nearly all such centers Of their employ
ment are now worked" either by actu-
al representatives of the great educa-
tional institutions of London or their
places are filled by younger artists ed
ucated at such places as the Royal
Academy of Music or the Royal Col
lege of Music, the principle of whose
joint organization in the matter of To-
cal examinations and the like, has been
doing a most important work all over
England during the short time of its
existence. That inefficient teachers of
art should have the bread taken out of
their mouths is not a legitimate subject
for regret, though hard cases could no
doubt be cited, just as they can against
such work as that done by the organ
ization of charity
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
EVOLUTION EVEN HERE.
The Dogs Bark Has Become More Elk.
pressivs as His Culture Advances.

| pressive as His Culture Advances.
The most curious imitation which we
find in dogs Is as to the measure OF
expression O which they have attained
Among the savage forefathers Of the
modern dog the characteristic OF all
their utterance was, to a great extent
involuntary, and once begun the out
cry was continued in mechanical man.
ner. The effect of advancing culture on
the dog, however, has been gradually
to decrease this ancient undifferentiated
mode of expression by bowling and yelp-
ing, and to replace 1t by the much more
speech-like bark, says a writer in Scrib-
ner's Magazine, There is some doubt
whether dogs possessed by savages
have the power of uttering the sharp,
specialized note which is so character
istic of the civilized form of their spe-
Giles. 1t is clear, however that If they
have the power of thus expressing
themselves they use 1t but rarely. On
the other hand, our high-bred dogs have
TO a great extent lost the power to ex-
press themselves ins'the ancient way
Many of our breeds appear to have be-
come incapable of ululating. There is
no doubt but the change in.the mode of
expression greatly increases the capa-
bility of our dogs to set forth their
states of mind. II we catch high-bred
dog--one with wide range Of sensibili-
ties. which we may find In breeds which
have long been closely associated with
man-we may readily note five or six
varieties of sound in the bark. each of
which is clearly related to a certain
state of mind. That of welcome, of fear,
of rage, of doubt and of pure fun are
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05

Mexican house (and she breaks In very
early), the head of the house calamity
welcomes II by leapins out OF bed. II
he Is very old or very feeble he at
least marriages to lift himself from his
pillow, and he begins to sing a song--a
hymn OF morning praise. II a priest
Is staying In the house, then that priest
starts the vocal symphony. The Next
can babies learn to tell their beads
long before they know the names Of
the many brilliant flowers that tangle
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05

ent Many of the Mexican children are
strangely handsome. with sad. ma
ture-looking beauty. Almost all of
them are of mixed Indian and Spanish
blood. All of theln are artists. The
Spaniards who conquered Mexico and
the Indians who were there at the time
have mixed themselves up in racial
tangle that we are absolutely unable
to unravel. But for all that. the half
breed children of Mexico are to-day
in many matters and in most manners
more like the children Of old Spain
than are the children of modern Spain.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
Prince nismaroIs,s nappI.e. =. !

A Berlin paper reports conversation
Prince Bismarck had recently with a
guest from Leipsic. They were talking
Of happiness, and Prince Bismarck said
that If he counted the minutes of real
happiness in his life they would, per-
haps, amount to. twenty-four hours.
These times Of happiness were always
connected with his domestic life and not
with politics, which, he declares. was an
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
The Minister Suspended.

Rev Franklin ]. Holzwarth, formerly
pastor of the WoodIawn Evangelical
church in Syracuse, N. X, and -instruc-
tor In German In Syracuse university,
after an exciting church trial was last
week found guilty OF circulating re-
ports derogatory to member of his
congregation and suspended from the
r. Faus. Piehop Bowrex ~ en<of1o
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05
CHILDREN OF MEXICO
ART AND MUSIC IS THEIR IN
EERlTANcE.
The Strangely Beautiful OFFSPRING OF
Two Races Happy in Their sun
Kissed Though Poverty Stricken Land
simplicity of Rural Life.
(MexIcan correspondence1

HEY LIVE IN A
land brilliant with
flowers. and lush
with fruits a n d
cereals. But. for all
that, their lot Is not
free from pathos.
as they are the
children of a race
with a great past.
a questionable flu
ture and a not alto
gether happy pres
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-04-05

goes to the market place. She tramps
there with her baby on her back. Baby
is firmly held in place by long. strong
scarf. The mother carries on one hip
basket woven of Mexican grass--a
basket full almost to bursting with
fruit. or artichokes, or the roots of rare
orchids. The children OF Mexico have
not over-many pets But they all have
familiar acquaintance with the stypi-
cal Mexican domestic animal Almost
the poorest Mexican family has it's
mule. Save among the rich. the largest
family rarely has but one ssnch steed.
The eItsss boy leads the mule. The
father pushes the mule discreetly. The
mother all the little ahiidren and no
mean proportion o. the family go0ds
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-22

IsDO a. NJ. DAlLH.
Atlanta Special" Pullman VestibUle 10.
Henderson, We don, Petersburg, Ricn
mond, Washington, Baltimore, Philadel
phia, New York, and all points north. Bat.
fet draw1ng-room sleepers and Pullman
coaches Atlanta to Washington, parI1g
cars Washington To New York, Pulunsl
sleeping car Monroe to Portsmouth. Az.
rives at Washington 1o:45 a m, Bait
more IL noon, Philadelphia 800 D m, New
York 4:53 m. Also for Portsmouth, NOS.
folk, Old Point and local stations SsaboaYS
e. Roanoke railroad.
11:31 A. M, DAILY,
For Henderson, Weldon, Suffolk, PoFSs.
mouth, Norfolk and intermediate stations,
connects at Portsmouth with Bay Line fc1
Old Point and Baltimore; with Norfolk &
Washington Steamboat company for Wash.
ington; with n Z P & " railroad for Phil.
delphia and points north; also at Weldon
with Atlantic Coast Line for Richmond
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia aut
New York, and with Scotland Neck Braack
for Greenville, Washington and Plymouth
Pullman sleeping car Atlanta to Ports
mouth.
5a35 A NJ DAILY,
ATLANTA Special'' Pullman Vestibule for
Southern Pines, Hamlet, Wilmington, Mon.
roe, Charlotte, Chester, Clinton, Greenwood.
Abbeville, Athens, Atlanta, Macon, Mont
egomry, Mobile, New Orleans. Chattanooga,
Nashville, Memphis and all points soubl
and southwest; through Pullman BnfTsf
sleepers and day coaches washington sc
Atlanta, connecting directly at Union ds
pot, Atlanta, with diverging lines sis
Pullman sleeping car Portsmouth TO Mon
roe.
$40 p NJ, DAILY,
For Wilmington, Charlotte, Caes5l
Greenwood, Athens, Atlanta and ali inter
mediate stations. Connects at Union sGs
ton Atlanta, with diverging lines Pail
man sleeping Car Portsmouth to Atlantt.
TRAINS REACH RALEIGH:
$50 A M DAILY,
Atlanta Special' Pullman VesslDol
from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
Washington, Richmond, Portsmouth, Hoy
folk and all points north.
3:35 z NJ DAILY
From Portsmouth and points norCa vi
Bay Line, and N p and n Railroad; Es
tersburg, Richmond and Washington. ant
points north via Atlantic Coast Line; AIS
from Greenville, Plymouth, Washington
and eastern Carolina points via Weldon.
I:21 NJ, DAILY,
ATLANTA Special" Pullman VegttbTls
from Atlanta, Athens, Abbeville, Green
wood, Chester am points south.
11:26 A M DAILY,
From Charlotte, Athens, Atlanta aad
Intermediate stations.
The ATLANTA Special' leaving Raleigh
at 5:35 a IN, makes close connection AT EaEn
let for Bennettsville, Darlington, Charles
ton; arriving at Charleston at 500 . n;
also at Monroe for Charlotte, Shelby and
Lincolnton. Also for Wilmington and
local stations G. G. II. r.
Nos 400 and 403, ATLANTA Specsar' axs
solid Pullman Vestibule trains, composed
of magnificent day coaches and Patao,
drawing room Buffet sleepers between
Washington and Atlanta without change
vuhf ThapQ iC mn VT ia ~
For information relative TO scedules, eta
apply TO ticket agent, or II. S. L,eard, 8 X 4
Raleigh, N. @.
JOHN II. WINDER,
General Manager
T. j. ANDERSON,
General Passenger Agent,
JOHN. Vice President
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-22

Cash quotations were rs follows
Flour Steady; winter patents $3.50.
winter strsights S2.S5@3.25; spring patents
u. 15@3. so; spring straights, s2:65@3.oO;
soy 060I; No. 8, spring $3.50 No. 2
red, 59sl@63. Corn-No. 2. white 30N;
No. 3 yellow 29A. Oaus-No. 2, TX;
No 2 white 20M2l; No white 18A@18M
Rye-No. Q, 384. Barley NO 2, nomi al;
No. 3. 25440; No. 4, 2iG2s. FLAX ed
No. l, $500; prime Timothy seed s. So Polk
mess, pr Dbl, IS l2H Lard-per 100 lbs.
IS; orysalted shoulders (boxed) 5&tN51a;
short clear sides lboxed) 5A@5L Whisky,
distillers' finished goods, per gallon, 81 ~.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2l--Fioar firm; city
mill patents 81 20@4 IS; city mill clears
4.0OI4 10; winter patents S3 50@3. 10; win
ter straights 50 30@3. as; winter extras ~. 10
az 95: winter low grades $300@2 60; Min
nesota patents <3.50a3.70; Minnesota
bakers s2.75@3 10; shi ping low grades
$1.90@2 90.
RVe -four steady; superane ~ sega. rs;
fancy 81 S012.90.
Buckwheat -four steady at el.6Oggi. 10;
b sckwneat qu ct at 43145; Jap 4nese
Corn meal dull; yellow western coarse
75Q77 brandyw &c SEQ.
Eye-Quie0; No. 2 western q; State and
Jersey 45@4S
to choice -.
Barley malt-Nominal; western 53gS3
WheaGr-Spot quiet; No. red in store
and elevator 68N; a1oat 69E; b 69H
No. hard, 68H delivered; options March
closed 20, May 6915070]s closed 7016; &c
toger closed 651; December 66A@65M,
closed 66X.
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NEW YORK STOCK MARKEr.

New YORK, Oct 21.-The speculation
to day was of only moderate proportions
and was unrelieved by any increase IN
the volume of outside interest. This was
considered surprising, owing TO the alb
sence of any special unfavorable news
affecting the general list, while some
important favorable developments were
noted The stock market opened quiet
ard generally lower. Weakness was
soon discernible, especially in some of the
specialties. A 2 rally ensued about 1
O'Clock, but the downward movement
was soon resumed, prices descending to
the lowest OF the day. In the last honr
covering operations induced recoyeries
from the bottom figures. The closing
was quiet and generally firm.
The market for railway and miscella-
neous mortgages ruled dull and lower
most of the day. In the late trading,
however, there were some recoyeries in
the speculative issues. The total sales
were 81, ass, 600.
NEW Yogx. Oct 2l.--Money on cal
easy at 2N2% per cent, last loan at
per cent, closed offered st 2 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 1905 per cent
Sterling exchange is steady, with
actual business In bankers bills at 4.S1Aa
a. So for demand, and s6E@4.s7 fol-
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GRAIN AND PRoDul e 4ARK a.

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-Wheat to day sank
and rose again several times within the
narrow limits of 80 1-2a59 81 for De-
csmber. Ia the last half hour of the
session it was wanted so urgently and
principally by those who, earlier in the
day, had least use for it, that it broke
boaEds aad rose to go 4, at which price
it closed. A good shipping demand;
small receipts aud large out goings since
Saturday were the features of corn trade
which were in Oct Der, December and
May, over 1-2 their Saturdays value.
Provisions were very weak and did not
change in that respect all day. May oats
closed unchanged.
THfCAGG.
October 81
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%'tAL <eSt@
NEv IogA, Oct 81 t45s fl m
strained. common 20 -t1t i AN ~ %
Turrenhne Steady, 1T 281l@2ssl.
JIARLHsTO%, Dc6. ri R0sin firm
at s1..0QI 20
rurDs .t4A Firm, al $50
Wr11a. 5e~aE, Oct. ri II 5sin firm;
strained 81 90, good strained i.25 Spirits,
steady machine 25&; irregul 4r &51 Tar
firm 81 40. Turprnrige sJeady; hard 10;
soft $3.50; virgin 81 20
SAvAEsAa, Oct 2i~.5plrlts Curpentine
firm, a. Z5M25Z; sal,s -.
hosin firm; WAFER .shiGs 1875; window
glas 800; n, $3.50 81, $40, X, $I.75; /,
10; II, sL40, g, sL4214 r, Sl371l, Il, q. 35;
=. 81 .: :. &1.15.
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LIVERPOOL.

LIVERPOOL, October 21.-4:l5 ?. M
Cotton-Spot depressed, prices lower;
American middling fair 7-32d; good mid
ding 2j-32d American middIing 45sd;
low midd ing 17-32d good ordinary
- 32d. ordinary z I'd.
Sales Of the day wereS 0g0 bales, Of which
500 were for speculation and exp -rt. and
tncluded $500 bales American; receipts
{, 600 bales; Ame1ica 300
Futures opened quiet at the decline IN
closed unsettled
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so days Posted rates s!1s@4 $50 and
ssIIn4 s915. Commercial bills 1854. Sill
YER certificates 67z. Bar silver - =. Mex
icap dollars - Government bonds
steady. State bonds inactive. Railroad
bonds weak.
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Valuable City LOT for Sale.

On Saturday, the I'd day of November,
1895, at II M, ut the court house door in Raj
eigh, we Will sell, at public auction, the lot
and brown-stone house at the corner of
Halifax and johnson streets, I'm the city OF
Raleigh, formerly occupied, as residence,by
has eight rooms, besides kitchen and
other outhouses; and the premises, with
yard and garden, contains about three
fourths of an acre. Terms: one fourth cash
and residue in six and twelve months, with
interest. Possession delivered the 1st of
January next, and purchaser will get the
r.. III. BATTLE,
ii. II. BRYAN,
Executors.
Raleigh,
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COURT SALE
OF VALUABLE
IRON MINING PROPERTY
AND
CITY LOTS.

BY virtue of the decree and pursuan
to the orders of the Superior Court of
CASTOR county at the September term,
1895, of said court, the undersigned re-
ceivers and commissioners appointed by
said court will, on the