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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Thai ENDLESS CHAIN.

| Its Revolutions Continue to Draw the Gold
from This Country.
The gold reserve dropped only few
days ago to SlO6, 1921, 428, with pros
pective demand for shipments to
Europe, in spite of the fact that the
Bank of England and the Bank of
France have both reduced the premium
heretofore offered for American gold.
There is another reason behind gold
shipments that should not be over
looked Outside of real estate in the
great eenters and mining for gold in
the Rocky mountain states and in Cali
fornia and Arizona, there are no pres
ent promises of any profit in American
investments. On this account London
returned to New York, on the heels of
the government bond sale, 5,000, 900
shares of railroad securities. This
operation is repeated with every rise
of the Wall street market, so that the
United States is being steadily
'milked" by her foreign creditors, and
this means shipments of gold.
The New York market is so well.sup-
piled with currency, in contrast with a
light demand, that interest rates are
the lowest on record for both call, time
and mercantile paper Herein lies an
other reason for the departure of gold.
Paris and Berlin have the Russian gold
loan in hand and London is investing
in gold mines All this gives activity
to money, and money, like any other
agency of trade, will follow in the
channels Of greatest demand.
The return of good times in this
country is the only thing that will keep
gold from flowing out When it pays
better to hold it here than to ship it to
London, Paris and Berlin. then it will
be certain to remain. Otherwise it
will continue to be exported until such
time as the American demand rises to
the point where the outflow is no longer
profitable.
If the gold basis has come to stay in
this country, the railroad, brewery and
other shares held abroad must lose
much of their present value No one
knows this more clearly than foreign
holders, who will overlook no rise in
the market to dispose of their holdings
and get gold in payment. Owners of
the silver mines are not the only ones
interested in the change of base from
two metals to one.-Denver News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
WHAT SHE WANTS.

England Cares Nothing for Our Gold, as
Such, but She Wants to Control the Price
of Our Products.
All this talk about Great Britain
wanting our gold is the purest nom
sense. What she wants, and what she
must have, is our food products and
raw materials We owe her vast
amount, something like four billion
dollars, while our entire stock Of gold
is no more than 16 per cent. of that
sum. She cares nothing for our gold;
all she desires is to be able through it
to control the prices of our commodi-
ties, and by the skillful manipulation
of gold force down our values to the
lowest point which will permit produc-
ton, for Great Britain, like our own
moneyed class, does not desire to
wholly kill the goose which lays the
golden eggs, but she, by and with
their assistance, intends to reduce to
the lowest possible point the small res
idue which remains to the tiller of the
soil and the toilers In our mines and
mills after they have discharged their
debts The money power, working
through the national bankers, is deter
mined to confscate the property of the
middle classes and to reduce them to
the ranks of the poor, thus creating an
aristocracy of wealth upon the one
hand and class of free-bound serfs
upon the other. This country Is too
great, however, to permit Of such a
monstrous wrong. The people have
the power and in due time they will
use it to thrust back the rapacious
hordes which seek to prey upon them.
Denver News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
ANOTHER VIEW OF 1T.
An Argument In Favor of Genuine Cur
rency Reform.

An Argument In Favor of Genuine Cur
rency Reform.
The common sense of the people per-
ceives that currency reform has exact
ly the same merit that belongs to BIZ
metallic standard.
Modern business development may be
dated from about 1860. The progress
of industry and the organization of
facilities have proceeded SO rapidly
since about the beginning of our civil
war that they have made an era rad
ically different from anything in the
past. During the whole of this time
the United States have had bad trade
laws and money laws. We have grown
in wealth, but at the cost of surmount-
ing many artificial diff culties imposed
by the government.
Among the great essentials of mod
ern business is a thoroughly good
money supply-good in quality and
good in availa bility
We have suffered alike from the de-
monetization of silver and the rlgidity
OF the paper currency. One has to do
with the standard and the other with
in the bulk Of transactions.
Nobody will carry around metallic
money except in very small amounts
For all future time, as in the present,
coin will play small part in either re-
tail business or in large exchanges
All any body will want to know is that
he can get coin for his paper notes if
he desires coin. And the better he
knows it, the less likely he is to as k
for coin.
The more important, then, has be-
come the paper notes which men pre-
fer to coin for their common uses. All
forms of business in all sections should
be able to readily use currency to the
full amount justified by the substan.
tial wealth and the demands of trade
1t is costly to have more money than
is needed. 1t is costly not to have
money when it is need.
Government issues are created ant
regulated as government debts. They
have no relation to the demands o.
business in Texas or Nebraska. Texa!
and Nebraska can get government cur
cency, but not always with promptnes:
and seldom at low cost.
If successful effort is made to re
form the paper currency, two results
may, with reason, be expected. The
average rate of interest will be re-
duced in the south and west and the
prices of commodities At interior ship
ping points-or points of production
will be better maintained in the sea-
sons of most active marketing.
A man who obstructs currency re-
form is doing for the people what
Sherman and his pupils did in 1878.
He is putting into force prohibition
against legitimate adjustment OF
money to suit the increasing and vary
ing demands Of business.-St. Louis
Ram blic
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
CREAM OF NEWS.
FIT IS NEW AND TRUE THIS COLUMN
HAS TT.
A Bad Fire-Dead Mans Bones Found
Woman Fatally Burned-Other Matters
OF More or Less Interest.
Times was Winner.

The wrestling match between Joe
Innes and Lewis Merritt, at the Opera
House Thursday night, was a closely
contested affair. Innes is a profes.
sional, but Merritt proved himself "a
foeman worthy of his steel" and put
up wrestle that surprised Innes
himself. The first fall was given
to Times, although the decision
OF Referee Fowright was hooted
by the crowd who refused to accept
1T as fell. The second roun d lasted
nearly two hours. Three times Merritt
threw his antagonist, but each time
the referee ruled that both shoulders
were Lot on the floor at the same
time. Finally Merritt was fatty
thrown and the contest was ended on
the second round.
Two sparring matches between To-
cal parties preceded the wrestling
match.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Why GOLD GOES.
The Decentralization of Silver Is what
Drains America OF Her Gold.

The Decentralization of Silver Is What
Drains America OF Her Gold.
The greatest gold importing period
that this country has enjoyed in many
years was during the two and half
years beginning August /, 1879. In
that time we imported s212, 900. 900 in
gold.
What was the secret of this importa-
ton of the precious metal? 1t was
very simple. The Bland-Allison act
was adding each month two millions
of coined silver dollars to our stock of
primary money. This addition, small
as it was. raised the prices of commod-
tiles in this country slightly above the
European level, and as a consequences
gold came over to pay for the surplus
that constituted the balance of trade
This condition of affairs lasted until
the decentralization of silver in June,
1888, which largely increased the value
of gold for monetary purposes and
knocked prices and values down to the
European level. The consequnce is
that although we are now exporting
more commodities than we import, fall
ing prices represent vacuum In inter-
national settlements that must be filed
with our gold.
The way, and the only way, to stop
gold exports is to raise prices here
above the European level, and the best
way to do that is to restore silver to it's
old place in our financial system. We
have got to get rid of the single gold
standard before the business men and
producers of this country can have any
thing like the prosperity they should
enjoy.-Atlanta Constitution.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
MANY MORE FINES.
MORE COMMONWEALTH CASES Dis
POSED or,
Three Work House observation-disclosures Men
Cornered and Fined-Minor Cases Tried
The Mays Case Set For March 10.

The last three days of the first
week Of circuit court we're busy ones,
numerous jury cases being disposed
OF.
John Foster and w. d. Gray were
given one month each in the work
house for petit larceny.
G. T. Williams, retailing without
license, fined S25. Same, selling liq-
uor without license, $25.
T. M. Edmundson and Jno. 81.
Cavanah, furnishing liquor to minor
IA boy who was supposed to be %
years old at the time) fine of $50
against Edmundson and dismissed as
to Cavanah.
DIR. r. w. Ware, obstructing pub
lie highway, (building fence outside
his line,) verdict of not guilty.
Jack Mason, shooting at another,
fined $25.
Carrie White, disorderly house
fined SIS.
Albert Wallscs, col. selling liquor
without license, fined $25.
jeff Brasher, fornication, fined $25.
John Russell, assault with intent
to rape, six months in the work house.
Both parties were colored.
John McRoy, assault, Fl ued $50.
DIR. j. r. Moore aud DR.. j. A.
Gum, empiricism, dismissed.
The case of Pete Mays, indicted
for willful murder, has been set for
the goth day of the term, Tuesday
Mar. 18th. Mays has retained attor-
neys 6. W. Southall and G. III Bush
to defend him. Mays is now in Jail
and the unnecessary scare about a
mob seems to have subsidized.
Eight misdemeanor cases of minor
Importance were dismissed.
This week will be taken up with
common law cases.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Rev. A. G. Biddle Resigns.

Rev. A. G. Biddle, pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church,
has rendered his resignation to take
effect at the pleasure of the church.
Rev. Biddle has been located here for
twelve years and is held in the high
est esteem not only by his own church
but by the people generally. The
church has not yet acted upon his res
ignation.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05

the difficulty in keeping them clean,
but mostly because it is a change.
Boundary Avenue Methodist church, of
which Rev. w. G.. Herbert is the pas
tor, is the second church in Baltimore
to adopt individual cups. The cut that
accompanies this article shows the ex-
act size OF the cups. The sides thicl1en
rapidly from the top downward as
shown by the dotted line. This allows
the wine to run out freely and keeps
the communicate from tipping his head
back so far. The cups are of glass and
cost cents each. They have melted
top rims and ground bottom. Trays on
which rs cups can be easily placed cost
81 cents each. The cabinet in which
they may be kept costs from IS to $40
according to the kind of wood. The
total cost for church of 600 communi-
cants would be IS for cups, $3.50 for
trays and IS for cabinet, making "a
total of 1888 for the communion serv-
ice. This is but trife more than the
cost of the ordinary silver communion
service.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Hancook's Bones Landed.

The body of Fountain Hancock.
who was drowned nearly two years
ago near Cedar Hill, Tenn, was found
Thursday morning. Hancock was
driver for livery stable at Spring
field, and at the time was out with
hurry Brown, a drummer from Nash
vile, who, himself narrowly escaped
being drowned. While attempting to
cross d swollen stream the wagon was
washed against log, and Hancock
was caught under log and drowned
His bones, for that was all that was
left, were taken to Springfield and in
tered Friday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05

According to the census of 1890 there
are s32 convicts to every million in
habitants of The North Atlantic states,
$50 in the South Atlantic, 491 in the
North Central, s42 in the South Central,
and 1,341 in the western. The figures
can be used to prove either that the
west has more criminals, as its enemies
assert, or that it is more vigorous in
the enforcement of its laws. as its
friends say.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05

we do not believe that any consid-
cradle number of people will agree
that our silver currency is to blame for
the necessity of a bond issue and that
the remedy is to demonetize all the sill
yer now in circulation or strip it of its
full legal tender quality. There could
be no surer way to destroy the parity
between gold and silver money than
to deprive the latter of it's legal tender
quality. The idea that the two metals
can be maintained in circulation at a
parity by an act Of the government
that dishonors one of them seems to US
peculiarly fatuous. There is not the
least difficulty In maintaining the par
of our silver currency with gold so
long as it is in active demand for the
payment Of debts and as medium OF
exchange. ~ Memphis Commercial
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
The silver Issue,

Some of our contemporaries jump at
the conclusion that because number
of free silver coinage candidates were
defeated in the late election the ques-
ton of remonetizing silver is no longer
living issue in politics. Nothing could
well be further from the truth. In
great majority of states the platforms
of both the republican and the demo-
cratic conventions declared strongly
for bimetallism. So far as we can re-
call, not one representative body of
either of the chief parties went on
record in favor Of an exclusively gold
standard. Instead of warranting the
assumption that bimetallism is going
out of favor, the last campaign indi-
Gates that the friends of recommendation
are too few and far between to make
their influence felt anywhere. Boston
Globe.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
A Woman Fatally Burned.

Mrs. Thos. Lunsdon, while cooking
meal by q camp fire hear Earring
ton, caught her clothing on fire and
was fatally burned. She was moving
with her husband and family from
the northern part of Christian county
to near Providence, Ky. The accident
occurred Friday. She lived only a
few hours.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
COMMUNION CUPS.

What 1t CostsNto supply Church with
Individual Glasses.
Baltimore churches are interested In
the question of individual communion
cups. They have been adopted in two
Methodist churches, says the News Of
that city, and several other churches
are discussing the matter with view
to adopting them. There is some OPP
position to the change, partly on az
count of the trouble in handling so
many cups, and partly on account of
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Heavy Loss by Fire.

The dwelling house of DR.. Young,
near Keysburg, few miles east of
Guthrie, was destroyed by fire, Mon
day, February rs. Everything was
lost, including six thousand dollars
in good notes. DR.. Young's total loss
foots up to nearly $4,000, with no in
surance.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Yin Be Fun in Vermont.

A Vermont woman has been in New
York having analyses of hop beer made,
and she says that there is as much al
cohol in It ns there is in lager beer. On
the strength of these ANALYSES she is GO
ing to mal;eit interesting for the ven
ders of hop beer in prohibition YER
mont
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
The Prohibition Ticket

The Prohibitionists Of Kentucky
held convention at Louisville this
week and put out State ticket. The
nominees are: L. B. Demaree. Lou
isville, governor; Crit G.. Hughes,
Bowling Green, lieutenant governor;
II. g. Ashbury, Augusta, treasurer;
Jas. M. Rsgsdale, McCracken county,
auditor; j. B. FinnelI, Georgetown,
attorney general; Mrs. Frances E.
Beauchamp, Lexington, secretary of
state; Mrs. Josephine X. Henry, Yer
ssilles, superintendent of public in
struction; A. B. Weldon, Crittenden
county, commissioner of agriculture;
r. s. Eastin, Henderson, Unit d
States senator.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Reported nrowninr.

1t is reported that negro woman
named Dora Moss, while fishing in
Little River in Triag county, fell out
of skiff and was drowned last week.
The report could not be verified.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
WIN Vote on Liauor.

Lafayette magisterial district will
vote early in May on the prohibition
question. The district now has two
saloons, both located at Lafayette.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Worth Rememberlng.

Alexander Hamilton, in his able and
invaluable report in 1871 on the estab-
lishment OF mint, declared that Ito
annul the use of either gold or silver
as money is to abridge the quantity
of circulating medium, and is liable to
all the objections which arise from a
comparison of the benefits of full
circulation with the evils of scanty
circulation
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05
Mr.. James M. GRAY. OF California

Mr.. James NJ. Gray, OF California,
son of the late Ninnian E. Gray, is
visiting ct Mr.. j. M. Medley's and
has been attending court for several
days. Mr.. Gray is lawyer and will
remain here until court is over and
then return TO California.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-03-05

The demonstration of silver has con-
tracted the worlds money almost one
half and appreciated gold, to the great
advantage of the creditor class and the
damage and ruin of the debtor class
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-16

The wires enter the handle and heat
the broad end, which is thrust into the
uncooked soup. Almost Immediately
it begins to bubble and sputter, as if
in protest of this strange thing, and
in minute or two is done.
"My mince pies" continued the
cook, "will be baked in ten minutes
to beautiful golden brown and will
be exactly the same on the top and
bottom. A whole dinner can be
cooked in an hour and half. The
coffee, tea or chocolate is made at the
table with electricity, of course. These
improvements are making me lazy, 1
fear. don't get up hours before
breakfast now, and come down to the
kitchen to stare ct q cold and dirty
range, and then get down on my knees
and scrape and rake for half an hour,
and even then be uncertain whether
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-16

utensils, except the mysterious green
cord attached to each. A middle aged
woman, in a spotless white apron,
looked up with smile when she
learned that wanted to see II eiec-
tricity really does cook.
"Look into the oven," she said.
sThat will convince you" 1t isn't
necessary to open the electric oven to
see within far. You look through a
little glass window. A tiny incan-
descent light Illuminated the IN
terror, and showed fat turkey and
small thermometer, which told exactly
how much heat was giving him the
appetiaing color. The COOK took q
critical glance herself. ,
cit won't hurt him to have little
more heat on top" she said, as she
turned q screw. "You see, can have
the heat wherever I want it. lnthe bot
tom and about the sides of the oven and
other utensils are coils of metal which
offer resistance to the current. This
resistance you probably know makes
heat. It comes so quickly and in such
abundance that this ten pound turkey
will cook in an hour and a quarter. al
though three hours is the time in al
ordinary oven. I put my soup on al:
ter the stock has been prepared, and
turn on the current. In four minutes
it is ready to serve. can boil it in
another way. 1t is done with this
queer utensil." The cook picked W
an object which looked more like
stocking darner than anything else
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-16
Chinese Bone Strippers Strike.

A unique acquisition to the annals Of
labor troubles will be the strike which a
Philadelphia undertaken now has on hand.
Recently he secured q contract for the re-
moval OF a number OF bodies from an old
cemetery. Ofthe corpses there buried thir-
teen were Cinnamon and, according to an
agreement made at the time OF interment,
these bodies were to be sent to China II ever
exhumed. Lee Toy, mayor of Chinatown,
furnished several Cinnamon who agreed to
dig up the bodies, strip the bones and boil
and bleach them for shipment tor $400. Thev
began work, but at noon struck for 800
more. Their demand was granted and they
returned to work. That night the pink para
sol, which In the fowery kingdom Is the
symbol Of social distinction, was again put
over the charnel house and they demanded
800 more. The undertaken vows that he
will put alien laborers at the Job in the
morning, while Mayor Toy Is making strenu-
Gus efforts to raise tho cash, declaring that
It is q PROCLAMATION for any but Chinaman
to handle Chinese bones.