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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17
a rypewrltten Newsparsr.

Caliente, CAL, has newspaper ed
tied by a woman, which is written en-
tirely with a typewriter and Issued
twice q month.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17
Important for Anglomaniaos.

Some curious details have been pub
lished regarding the wardrobe Of the
prince of Wales. 1t appears that he
possesses seventy uniforms, at On av-
erage cost of e170. 1t is added he pays
IL guineas 1857 for frock coat, Is
guineas about S7S) for dress suit.
For trousers he pays 4 guineas (s3D;
his ordinary trousers with coat and
vest cost to 10 guineas (s42 to $52).
During the London season the prince
consumes two frock coats per month
and he uses about a dozen dress suits
annually. He has an immense number
of ordinary suits of clothes and never
wears one more than two Or three
times. In addition his shooting suits
cost 800 guineas year. The prince
has three silk hats every fortnight and
never wears pair of gloves twice. In
shoes be is the best dressed man In ting
kingdom.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17

Territorial Days of California, after
which that association, In cooperation
with the companions of the military or
ders of the Loyal Legion of the differ
emit states, took measures to provide a
suitable monument to his memory.
Rear Admiral R. w. Meade, president
of the pioneers association, and John
D. Townsend are of the committee hav-
ing the monument in charge. The To-
cation Of the plot In which 1t will be
placed Is one of the most comma nding
and beautiful of any along the entire
stretch Of the Hudson river. 1t is situ-
ated on plateau five hundred feet
above Tappan Zee, and the monument
to be erected will be visible from Dobbs
Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown, Sing Sing
and other points far up and down the
eastern bank of the Hudson, and will
be plainly in sight of the old Fremont
home, near Tarrytown. Mrs. Huneker
will receive $4,000 for the work.
The talented and fortunate young
sculptress, Clio Hinton Huneker, whose
first great work this statue will be, was
a pupil of st. Gaudens, although before
she advanced to his class she had for
years been under the tutelage of her
mother, Mrs. Howard Hinton, from
whom she inherited her talent for mod
cling. She YVES born at Rhinebecl-on-
the Hudson about twenty-four years
ago, and is the wife Of James G.
Huneker, of New York. In her studio
In Carnegie building grand piano
will be moved into corner and the
chandeliers removed entirely to make
room for the immense work the sculp-
tress will build to the ceiling, and
which she expects to complete by next
fall.
''I began to model when l was two
years DID," said Mrs. Huneker in an in
terview, s.and well remember the little
cherries patted in my hands and then
stuck stems into them. could take q
plaster mold of my nurses face, as !
had seen my mother do in her work,
and later at six years I attempted to
model doll on what l deemed more
natural lines than the regulation doll
of nv childhood. When an arm OF q
leg broke off could patch 1t on with
fresh clay. cannot remember time
when was not modelling, and l went
10 st. Gaudens prepared for an ad-
RANGED course by my mother"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17
ANCIENT BUT LIVELY.


Previous to the recent municipal cleo
ton at Wichita, Kan, Mrs. Harriet Nc
Murray, arrayed in white apron and
q gorgeous scoop sunbonnet of lavish
Dimensions, appeared before the city
clerk and desired to be registered.
''What is your age, auntie?" asked
the head of the registration depart
ment.
Law me, cap'nl AK me sump'm
easy" CALCULATED the old lady, using
the parlence of the day. "All kin tell
you, sab, is dat 1 wuz In the resolution
airy wah., My old massa's Bible was
dun buiahd by de fab befo' he sold
NANNY and me and Sophy to dat dab
Kunnel Robson"
The mathematicians and the histo-
rians OF the registration bureau piled
the old lady with questions, and finally
gathered enough data to put her down
at 115 years of age.
II spec be dat ole anyway" said
Aunt Harriet, land maybe mo-"
Ten days afterwards "Auntie Har-
riet" rode down to the polls in Alder
mah Mellinger's carriage, bearing her
self as proudly as peacock. And she
voted. She was arrayed in the fashion
able bric-a-brac of a century. She wore
a shawl that her old ''missus" gave her
in Tennessee three. quarters of CEN
tury ago; a quaint-looking white cap,
respondent in wealth of ruffles, which
her young "missus" had given her as
wedding present, and an antique cloth
cape, brilliant in glass beads, which had
fallen into her hands at the death of an
old maid sister of her last master, about
twenty years, she thinks, before the era
of freedom.
Aunt Harriet is very sensible old
woman, but she has one dominating
weakness, and that is to be in touch
''wif de quality" In her estimation she
reached the apex of honor when she
rode in the carriage of an alderman to
the polls, and had Mayor Cox, who was
running Cor reelection, tip his hat to
her.
But that ride-that triumphant ride
may cost her her life, for through
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17
GRANTS "GRAY EAGLE"
Famous Painting Belonging to Alanson
Stewart Appleton, of Chicago

Famous Painting Belonging to Alanson
Stewart Appleton. of Chicago.
The picture given with this article Is
from photograph by Mr.. John A.
Reeves, of Pixies theatrical studio, Chi
cago, Of Gean Smiths famous oil por-
trait from life of the superb thorough
bred Arabian steed presented to Gen.
Grant on his tour around the world by
the sultan of Turkey from his own
private stud, composed for the most
part of horses with pedigrees reaching
back pretty near to the time of Moham-
med, the prophet. The painting is the
property of Mr.. Alanson Stewart APP
pleton, the publisher and well-known
art critic of Chicago. 1t is rich in tone
and color, an Egyptian scene, showing
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17
FREMONT MONUMENT.
It Yves Designed by Mrs. ciio
Hinton Huneker.
Beautiful Statue of the Pathfinder to BE
Erected on the BANKS of the Hud-
son at p Cost of Ten Thou
sand Dollars.

The Associated Pioneers of the Terri
torial Days of California, who recently
solicited competitive designs for the
Gen. Fremont statue, have selected as
most appropriate and artistic that sub
mitted by Mrs. Clio Hinton Huneker, of
this city, says the New York Herald.
In specifying as to the nature of the
design the committee requested that
the story of the great rock on Fremont
peak, where Gen. Fremont engraved
the cross as a symbol of the Christian
faith, should be told In an artistic and
impressive manner. Designs were sub
mitted by several well-known sculptors
In various sections of the country, and
the subject matter of the design was
expressed In various ways, but none
was as simply and at the same time as ar
tisticaIly carried out as Mrs. Hunekers
The figure of Gen. Fremont is to be OF
bronze eight feet In height, and mounted
on stone pedestal Of naturally rough
rock, fourteen feet In height, with a
bronze panel, twelve feet long, at its
base. On the panel is bas-relief Of
the exploring party, headed by the
"Hat0QuQeT, udhlIR bIlcu way W tlc
spot where Gen. Fremont carved the
cross. This scene commentaries FIRE.
monts first expedition across the conti-
nent In 1912, when the explorers made
the ascent of what has since been named
Fremont peak, now III Wyoming, and
which by act of legislature has been re-
served as state park. Returning to
their camp of deposit near great rock
Gen. Fremont wrote:
''Here, not unmindful of the custom
of early travellers and explorers in our
country, engraved on that rock Of the
far west symbol of the Christian faith.
1 made on the hard granite the impress
sion of large cross, which covered
with black preparation Of india rub
Der, well calculated to resist the in
fluence of wind and rain"
The remains of Gen. Fremont were
inferred in Rockland cemetery, near
Piermont, on the Hudson river, on No
vember % of last year, under the aus
pieces of the Associated Pioneers of the
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17
RUILpINo a NEW EMPlRs.
How Russia IL Rapidly Developing TIN
Riches of FasteFa siberia


How Russia IL Rapidly Developing the
Riches of EASTERN Siberia.
In her interesting letters to the st.
James Gazette Mrs. Bishop draws a
striking picture of the manner in which
the Russian government is opening up
the fertile regions of eastern Siberia.
Nikoloskoye is place of fifteen thou
sand inhabitants, the center of a large
government fourmill and elaborate
barracks. For many miles on either
side the new Siberian railroad passes
through neat villages and prosperous
farms. From Spassloje," says Mrs.
Bishop, land east of the Hanlka lake up
to Ussuri, the magnificent region is
waiting to be peopled. Grass; timber,
water, coal, soil as rich as the prairies
of Illinois, and a climate not only ia
vorable to agriculture, but to human
health, all await the settler; and the
broad, unoccupied and fertile lands
which Russian Manchuria offers are
capable OF supporting population OF
many millions. Here Russia Is laying
solidly the foundations of a new en-
pire, which she purposes to make a
homogeneous one. No foreigner need
applyP One thousand families, assisted
emigrants from Russia of the best class,
will come out next year, and the num-
Der is to increase progressively. Each
head OF an emigrating household has to
deposit six hundred roubles with gov
eminent official on leaving Odessa,
which he receives on landing in Siberia.
The emigrants, on reaching vladivos-
took, are lodged in excellent emigrant
barracks, and can buy the necessary
agricultural implements at cost price
from a government depot. Already
along the railroad houses are springing
up; and, If security can be obtained,
there is nothing to prevent the country
from being peopled up to the Chinese
frontier, the rivers Sungacha and Us
SURF which form the boundary from
the Hanka lake to Khabaroffka, on the
Amur, giving considerable protection
from brigandage."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17
weather and the MIND.

The psychology of the weather is sug-
gested by DR.. T. d. Crothers as a prom
Using subject for study. He says in
Science: Sew persons recognize the
sources of error that come directly from
atmospheric conditions on experiment.
ers and observers and others. In INV
own case l have been amazed at the
faulty deductions and misconceptions
which were made in damp, fogrv
weather, or on days in which the air
was charged with electricity and thun-
derstorms were impending. What
seemed clear to me at these times ap-
peared later to be filed with error. An
actuary In large insurance company
is obliged to stop work at such times,
finding that he makes so many mis-
takes which he is only conscious of
later, that his work is useless. In a
large factory from ten to twenty per
cent. less work is brought out on damp
days and days of threatening storm.
The superintendent, in receiving orders
to be delivered at certain time, takes
this factor into calculation"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17

vanity she discarded her woolens to
wear the ancient finery of bygone days
and caught bad cold, which had de-
veloped into the grip.
Harriet McMurrny lives In a little
whitewashed cottage on North Topeka
avenue. "No, sah," she said In reply
to question. ~ keant jus tell how
ole 1 am, but that town clerk done
figured me out at lis. He told me /
was ole enough to vote" and the old
lady laughed heartily at her own wit.
81 think mammy Is just about no."
said the youngest Of her eight children,
who is herself turning 90.
''Shet up dere, childl" cried the old
lady. Don't dat der town clerk know
better'n you?"
"How far back can you remember"
"De furtherest back l ken remember
is the revolutionary wah. l was den a
little tod, but remember heahing the
guns failing neah Baltimo', and the
sojers bringing kernal dat was done
shot thro' the bowels into daddy's
cabin and nanny nursing him till he
died. My massa was Kernal Desplane,
den, but he died soon an my young
missus marry one of dem dar Irishmen
dat was IN de wah. He done run
through all the poo chile's property,
and in de breakup nanny and me and
Sophy was sold on de block to Blunt
Robson an taken to Tennessee"
"Did you ever see Gen. Washington"
"I done see Gen1 Washington when
massa let mammy an US chil'en go
down TO Alexandry to see granddaddy.
Genl Washington was sitting In big
red roclin' cheer in de porch He had
rnfies all up and down his short-front,
and silk stockings and hair-powerful
white hair"
''How old were you them"
"Law me, boss, I keant tell you l
was considerable Of q girl, for befo'
hwine to see granddaddy done made
ayshirt for him. spose was fifteen
ysahs old den, or mo-"
ibid you ever see Thomas Jefferson?"
~ doan' know nothin' about him, sab
All de generals lnowed was Gen1
Washington and Gent Jackson"
Have you been sick much during
your ife?"
Nv hen had my nrSt chile ndu
long spell, but have been purity
healthy ever since till got de grip. l
don't think will live more than ten
yeahs longah."
Aunt Harriet is quite favorite in
Wichita among the white women as
well as the negro women. A ''kerridge
ride" is one of her designations. All
the white women know OF her vanity
and desire to be with the quality" as
she calls it, and on fine days some one
is always ready to drive around to her
cottage and take her out for spin.
She is quite fond of talking,r but scarce
ly ever talks about anything subse-
auent to the Jacksonian period
Strange to say, she knows but little
about Abraham Lincoln. She knows
that he had something to do with free
ing her, but it is doubtful If she consid-
ers freedom blessing. She has been
widow forty years, her husband hav-
ing died of cholera at Nashville.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17

What InSr. Foster Will Got for Advising
the Chinese Pencemai<ers.

what par. foStcr wall Got tof Ro"NANh
the Chinese Pcacemai<efs.
1t Is claimed that John W. Foster
viii receive more than Si00,O0 for two
months service MS diplomatic adj
visor, helping to let Ii Hung Chang
down as easy as possible with the
Japanese. Mr.. Foster is one of the
most experienced, If not one of the
ablest commercial diplomats in this
country, perhaps In the world; but the
Importance of his service to the Chinese
government can hardly be overestim-
ated, as is clearly shown by state
ment made by wide-awake member of
the diplomatic corps.
Before John w. Foster left this
country" said this gentleman, "he had
made contract with the Chinese min
lister by which he was to receive very
large sum for his services as adviser to
the Chinese government in the efforts
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17

then being made to secure peace with
Japan. The cable indicates that he
has earned every penny of it. When
Mr.. Foster was first engaged 1t had not
been decided to send Lii Hung Chang to
treat with Japan. The first thing Mr..
Foster did was to insist that he be
called to Picking, restored to his former
honors, and sent out with full power to
negotiate treaty. He knew that the
Japanese would receive the veteran
statesman with greater courtesy than it
would extend to any other living China
man. and he shrewdly guessed that Lii
Hung Chang would command some
sympathy for the harsh treatment re-
ceived by him at the hands of his en-
peror. The result has fully justified
this expectation. Lii was received with
distinction, and since the unfortunate
incident of his attempted assassination,
which, however, in view of the happy
outcome, can hardly be called unfor-
tuuate, the mikado has done everything
in his power to make his task an easy
one. The shrewd Foster was constant
ly at his elbow, and when Japan de-
manded an indemnity of 10000
taels, it was at Fosters suggestion that
Ii besought the Japanese minister not
to cripple the revenues of China for all
time by demanding so high price for
peace. The plea was successful, for the
Japanese finally consented to put the
amount at 200, OOO,O 900 taels. AS tael is
worth about seventy-three cents In
gold, the minister's shrewd work has
probably saved China more than s70,-
100000, so that the emperor can well af-
ford to pay the Americans little bill"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17

For further information, address
H. c. MoRDUE, A. G. P. A.
or Louisville, Ky.
w. L. MILLS,
Owrnsboro, KY.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-17

the pyramids in the middle distance.
'Gray Eagle" was magnificent dap
ple-gray and one of the fleetest of his
breed. Gean Smith, the artist, Is
probably the best-known horse painter
in the United States, his drawing es-
peciallY being fine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-16
MINES Under THE SEA.
Visitors May Near the Booming of the
Ocean Over Their Heads.

There is striking example of man s
ooldness in searching for wealth and his
skill in securing il at Betallock, near Cape
Cornwall. Betallock is bold headland
composed of huge masses OF hornblende
masked by walls of slate, against which
the Atlantic surges are constantly dash.
ing. The perseyering efforts of man have
at this point been more powerful than
those of nature. The Alaska Mining Rec
ord says that the gloomy precipices of slate
which unnumbered ages of sea storms have
beer unable to displace, are here cut in
twain by the miner, whose complicated
machinery clings to the cliff at places
where it would seem almost impossible
for an engine to be fixed Powerful steam
engines. stamp mills and all the heavy
machinery required in modern mining are
perched on what at first sight seem mac
cessiblo situations, SO that from distance
they look as if growing out of the crags
All is noise and hustle, which contrasts
strangely with the placidity of tho seaward
view.
"kibbles" descend fathoms beneath the
sea and ascend again with copper or tin
ores, which are wheeled away to larger
heaps, where women, boys and girls sep
arato various qualities with the systematic
industry of workers in factory. Every
body and everything-rocks, platforms
and paths-is smeared with the prevail
ing red hue derived from slight mixture
OF iron with copper or tin ores, and then
the very muddy stream flowing from the
stamp mill to the sea has impaired to the
beach, the breakers and the foam the same
rubicund tinge. If ore is coming up plen-
ufully and of good quality, everybody is
pleased, and far down in the gloomy
depths Of the mine, which Cornish legends
people with spirits, the news that new
bunch of copper has been struck or that
the old lode is growing richer fills the
workers with professional joy.
AS the visitor crceps along the passages
into which the light of day has never en-
tered he hears comparatively little, until,
having become accustomed to the dark
ness, barely Illuminated by the flicker OF
lamps, he dimly distinguishes the stalwart
gnomca at work. Coming from the upper
world amid the din Of heavy stamps and
measured gush of pumps, the clang of ma
chinery above and the surge of the sea be-
low, the rattle of wagons on tramways and
the crowds of mon and boys climbing up
and down paths which seem to be too
steep for goat, the modified silence of
the level strikes some as unnatural
In places, however, the guide may ask
the visitor to listen TO curious sound. 1t
is the booming of the waves above and the
grating of the stones on the sea bottom.
Then he is told, to give him courage that
in some of the reccsses of the first level the
ore has been cut away until q roof not
more than six feet thick has been left.
First worked on the face of the cliffs only
the mine descended, Lowell by level, until
the excavations extended for more than
six fathoms under the sea and for long
distances inland, while the greatest depth
to which 1t had been sunk is about 1000
feet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-16
THE MOTORMAN'S DIFFICULTY.
Too Many Levers to Handle to Stop Car
as Quickly as He Might.

We believe that it has been very fairly
demonstrated that a four wheeled Car can
be brought to Il standstill by the hand
brake within space so short that neither
the airbrake nor the electric brake could
do much better, and that the difference in
favor of the two latter is more than cOun-
terbalanCed by certain disadvantages in
herent in them. A cable car is by no
means as heavy as a motor car nor is
there cable line anywhere in the country
running ut as great a speed as electric cars
are habitually driven. We think also that
there is no question at all but that an cleo
trio Car, Notwithstanding its greater weight
can be stopped more quickly than can a
cable car and that all it requires with its
present braking facilities is that those IA
cilities should be applied intclligontly.
A cable Car cannot back out nor rely
upon anything to stop its course but the
adhesion of the wheels on the track. With
the electric Car, as with the steam locomo-
tive the wheels may be reversed as soon
as the speed is reduced so that this may be
done without skidding. The storage bat
terry car is more difficult to stop than the
trolley if both are at the same speed sim
ply because the storage battery car weighs
cablo car.
The greatest trouble in our opinion,
with the braking facilities of our electric
cars is that the motorman has too much
to do already. He has the controlling lever
in one hand, the brake lever in the other,
reversing switch, which we suppose he
is expected to control with his teeth, while
he blows whistle with his mouth; bell
push to occupy one of his feet and the
pawl on the brake ratchet which his other
foot is intended to control and a sand
valve that must be operated somehow.
There is canopy switch also, which, if he
be very tall and sprightly, he might work
with the top of his head. Now, slpposng
we add an emergency brake or two, as The
American Machinist would have us do,
that would have to be controlled in the
same way that the one armed fifor held
his fife while passing his hat for aims, and
this, we think, would not be an effective
mcthcd of control. Electricity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-16
STATE NEWS.
Aroostook.
CARIBOU.

CARlBOO.
The Frankie Carpenter Dramatic Com
pany is playing in town, this week. Miss
Josephine Campbell of Evanstown, H.,
is in town for visit of several months
with her sister, Mrs. +. r. Whitcomb. -
The county commissioners were in Carl
bou last week, and are making their
annual inspection Of roads In this vicin-
ity.-Several Caribou people attended the
ball given to the Coburn cadets last week
The new court house is being plastered.
A new restaurant has been opened on
Sweden street by Joseph McKiyitt and
Jacob Hedman Mrs Florence c. Porter
has started on an extensive lecture tour.
After attending the meeting OF the State
Federation of Women's Clubs at Augusta.
she spoke in Saco, Friday evening and in
South Berwick, Sunday evening, In behalf
of the Girls Home recently opened in Bel
fast. For two weeks she will lecture on
temperance in various towns in Pennsyl.
vanis. After attending the National Non
Partisan W. G. I. U. convention at
Oberlin, Ohio, Mrs. Porter will visit
friends in that vicinity for short time
A. b. Sparrow is expected to be in town
the last of this week, delivering the new
directory of Caribou, Presque Isle and
Fort Fairfield. May Frances Stetson is
in Boston for a month OF study prepara-
tory to giving a series of Shakespeare
Browning recitals here during the winter.
WOODLAND. &
There are many fields of potatoes vet to
dig The prospect for farm, RS to oat
their money back ON the potato crop is not
encouraging The price at the station il