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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
NEW GUNS.
Proiectiles with High Trajectory
Easily Pierce ron Armor.

Proiectiles with a High Trajectory
Easily Pierce ron Armor.
The new German camp at NAL
medy, close to the Belgian from tier,
has attracted specia attention ow-
ing to the experimelts lately car
ried on there The OBJECT of the ex-
periments was to try the effect on
field Notifications of tie new guns
with which the German foot artil
le,y" has lately been equipped. The
guns in question ae six-inch
howitzer guns and eight and one
quarter-inch mortars. 1t is in
tended to utilize some of these guns
in the attack and defenSe of posi-
tions, in which respect tley would
play considerable role, SEEING that
the defense, nowadays, diseases of
better means of resistane than
formerly The obstacles in front of
the line of defense will be increaseA
natural points. of vantage will, to
greater extent, be utilized and inn
proved upon by means of portable
armor, screens built up with rail
way rails, ETC., shelters will be pro-
vided, against which ordinary field
artillery will be powerless, but they
will not resist the heavy projectiles
thrown with very high trajectory
from these guns. The object of the
trials in question was to determine
the best mode of use of these guns,
more especially the mortars, against
Notifications of an analogous ma
ture to the so-called forts d'arret
protecting a great part Of the
French frontier At the same time
were also made with a
view to determining the efficiency of
infantry fire by day and night =
Revue du Cercle Militaire.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
A Rogue Fooled.

II don't know that I look particu-
larly green" said Henry Guy Garlic
ton to Chicago Tribune reporter,
"but since / have been in Chicago
several of your inimitable confidence
men have tried to play me for fool.
/ went in a bank the other day to
get pretty big check cashed.
While | was counting my change a
stranger pointed to five dollar bill
on the floor. It's an old game. The
idea is chat when the victim stoops
to pick up the bill, which the CON
man placed there himself, the thief
will disappear with the other money
which is left on the counter. OF
course, / didn't bite.
4" Thank you, l said, and placed
my foot on the bill.
I" Is it yours?' he asked.
Certainly, sir, replied. He
stood for a few moments and waited
until had put my money in my
pocket and departed. was five
dollars in. The CON man was FIVE
dollars out"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11

Steel rails were first used for,
railways at Chalk Farm near Lon-
don, in 1862.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
A BELGIAN BRIGAND.
The Adventures and Capture of White
Relens.

tHt adventures anu SdptuTC VI "HItS
Relens.
A man named White Relens, chief
OF an audacious band of brigands
who have infested the outskirts of
Malines for some time past, has been
captured. This man and his band
have been a terror to the whole
countryside, committing their
crimes in broad daylight under
threats of murder or of burning
down the habitations of those they
attacked The list of crimes against
Relens includes several cases Of
murder and attempted murdNr, as
we'll as over 500 charges Of robbery.
1t is stated that in the communes
of Wavre- Sainte-C Catherine, Wavfe-
Notre- Dame and Putte-et.Bonheyden
there are not ten of the Inhabitants
who have not been victims of this
man and his band Early in this
year gendarme who attempted to
arrest Relens was shot dead by him.
He has had a number of hair breadth
escapes from arrest. Recently he
had publicly threatened to murder
the burgomaster of Wavre-Sainte-
Catherine and to burn down his
house, and in consequence this func-
tionary had to place himself under
police protection. Recently Relens
went to an inn at Wavre-Sainte-
Catherine, and, information being
given to the police, they surrounded
the house and eventually overcame
him. A brother of Relens was re-
Gently condemned to penal servitude
for life for similar crimes. st.
James Gazette.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
THE RUINS OF DoNGoLA
Remains Of Once Prosperous City
Of the Soudan

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Of the Soudan.
should like those in England
who woull leave the fertile prov
inces of the Soudan under the rule Of
the Baggara slave dealers to wander
through what was once the town Of
Dongola and ride across the wasted
country that surrounds it, Dongola
Is in ruins; not a house in it re-
mains whole; every building has
been Quilted; where once were busy
streets the palms now rise above
the wrecked habitations, and every
thoroughfare is choked with dense
underground of thorny bushes and
tall, rank grass. The great bazaar,
with its covered arcades, one Of the
chief marts of Africa, is now heap
of rubble.
OF the public buildings and the
handsome well-furnished mansions
OF the principal merchants the red
brick walls, with gracefully arched
doors and windows, alone remain
standing, while within them one can
still see traces of columned corri-
doris and delicate eastern ornamen-
tation. Where once extended river
side quays, swampy ground now
slopes to the Nile. The broad av-
enue where the market used to be
held has disappeared; the pleasant
gardens of fruit trees and flowers
have been destroyed. For II years
Dongola has been uninhabited; for
the Baggara declared it to be-as
the city OF the unbelieving Turks
an accursed place, in which no man
should be permitted to dwell. Those
who knew the Dongola of old find it
difficult now to find their way
through the wrecked streets, and
can scarcely recognize the houses
in which they formerly lived. 1t is
scene of wanton destruction; the
proverb says that where the foot
of the Turk has trod, the grass does
not grow. So it is with the Bag
CARA. He disdains to Do any work;
by profession he is a robOer, and de-
struction is his pastime; he en-
slaves where he does not kill, and in
the place of what he destroys he
creates nothing. Civilization is alb
horrent to him; after plundering and
destroying the city he left the bodies
of the massacred and mutilated in
habitants to rot in the streets, anc
went out into the desert content tc
live the life OF savage in one Of the
squalid novels Of which q Dervist
doynl, or permanent camp, is com
posed.
| Now, as the visitor walks through
the melancholy ruins of the once
prosperous city and enters the long,
abandoned habitations, he comes
across strange and sometimes loath,
some sights. 1t is such city as he
has wandered through in dreams, ir
whose foul, deserted streets and al
legs he expects at every step tc
come across some horrible thing
London Times Correspondence.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
EIB MOTORS FOR CARRIAGES
a Claim of Twenty-Five Miles ar
fnr One

| for One. ovra,;-
For seFe Dsep coslucted at the
American Wheelock Engine com
pany's works in South Worcester
upon an air motor adapted to use
upon hackney gcapriages, heavy
wagons and private.vehicles. These
experiments and Che work upon the
motors have been carried on entire
ly independently of that on the com
pressed-air street car motors now
building there for the Metropolitan
Traction company Of New York, 1t
is understood thesMetroeesitan Trac-
ton company is in no wy, inter-
ested ia the motor carriages, al
though some Of the individual stock
holders of the traction company
have been to a certain extent con-
cerned with the experimental work.
Like the motors for street cars,
secrecy has been maintained in the
experimental work in connection
with the motor carriage, and no one
outside of the works and only few
connected with the establishment
have been allowed to note the prog
ress made. The work has all been
in charge of an expert New York
%gineer, who has himself done most
OF Ne. designing and devising Incl
dentaNto the application of an air
motor p, an ordinary vehicle.
Inc carnage has had several trial
. srlps N rl .n :. yard, but not until last
week was it taken upon the street,
and the public given ain opportunity
to witness it. They were not in
vited even then. The carriage in
general appearance much resembles
the ordinary four wheel vehicle. ex-
cepting for some experimental ma
chinery visible underneath the body
of the carriage. It's first appearance
was made Friday afternoon, when it
was subjected to a trial trip upon
Park avenue, and from every indica-
ton it worked satisfactorily. Pres
ident Hoadley manipulated the
power and a party of men occupied
the seats, of which there are two.
Pneumatic tired wheels are used. In
the trip Friday afternoon speed OF
at least rs miles an hour was OBJ
tanned without any apparent diff
ficulty.
1t has been stated that those who
are back of the carriage air motor
intend in case of success, which
now seems assured, to form a stock
company for the purpose of running
a system of air motor cabs in some
of the large cities of the coun-
try. The motor carriage con-
structed in Worcester is the first IN
which compressed air is used as the
motive force. In all other motor
carriages propulsion is obtained
either by a storage battery or
Va miniature engine. Worcester
| Mass Spy.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
Our Hay Crop.

We forget the value of some ordi-
nary products, of which almost
every farm yields something. Thus,
at one time we crowned cotton as
king, but in fact many other prod
ucts of the farm were of much
greater value. Corn is king of all
American agricultural products,
while cotton and wheat are second
airy to hay when converted into
money. The hay crop of the United
States is reported as worth more
than six times as much as the silver
output 1t is very small hay crop
that is not worth double all the
silver product of the whole world
for same year. - United Pres
byterian.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
Hard on the Trade.

A short time ago well-known
resident of one OF our leading towns
was gathered to his fathers. He
was a great favorite with all who
knew him personally, and deeply re-
GREETED by the whole county. Prepa-
rations for the funeral were being
made, and the director went to the
chief livery stable-keeper and ordered
one carriage "One?" eyes, one. f"
"You don't mean it?" Certainly;
he's to be cremated." The man
drew in his breath in long whistle
"Goshl Electric cars and bicycles,
and now, cremation" - Boston
Herald.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
cIRcsIr oovHr DIknerory.

fllres sssks third M hun an n February-tek
Tssfss.' 1's' Monday IN septambeT- 1ssI% -
a n ~ hisTIAN Fourth Mon,s.,
four We w weeks; First Monday in reoruafy-
1tenfiAaILow1Y.- Second Moniay in April-term
S,,ree weeis First Mondsy in August-term
go weekss Second Monday in November
er..fst Monday in May-tern two
- weeA. ~ Monday in August-term two
Meeks# ~ Monday In September termtwo
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11
Cure for Cholera.

At the beginning OF the century a
most peculiar cholera remedy was in
use in Persia. 1t consisted Of
wadding up q leaf from the Koran
and forcing it down the patients
throat.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11

Spain has some Of the finest ore
fields in the world, but such is the
lack Of enterprise among the popu-
lation OF. that country that over 30
per cent, of the iron used is i'm
ported.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11

information, address
+. q. MoRpUE, A. G. p A
Louisville. Ky.
asboro, Ky.
Il not always sufficient
I2ploy all our reason.
Who disturbed the con-
Sunday by coughing il
" on @. X. WHY and
Foley's Honey and
ys gives relief.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-12-11

Use coii1ection made at Princeton with
lgh Solid yestibule trains carrying Pull
buffet sieepers and free reclining chair
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09
pUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

u tell you, the man l respect is the
man who can change his opinion"
And the man | respect is the man who
can change "a 81 900 bill. '-Indianapolis
journal.
-A-''Nly wife has given me a birth
day present of key ring" B.-''Well,
if / were you, on my next birthday I'd
see to it that she gave me the house
key!"-Fliegende Blaettcr.
Departing Boarder-"Tm sorry we
couldn't get along, but l hope you are
willing to let bygOnes be bygones."
Landlady-"Does that include your
board bill, Mr.. Jones ?''-Boston Cour-
Ter.
Mrs. Mimms-'George, are you sure
you locked up the house carefully?"
Mimms-"By Jove, 1 can't remember
about the front door" Mrs. Mimms-
Never mind the front door. How
about the coal bin ?"-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
How is it that you are always in
debt? You should be ashamed of your
self" Come, now; don't be too hard on
a fellow. You would perhaps be in
debt, too, if you were nj my place"
What place." able to get credit
Odds and Ends.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09
CIGAR AS A SOCIAL FORCE.
Bright Young Man Insists on Ieach-
ing Ills Father to smoke.

That adagc about the child being IA
Their to the man received an odd inter-
probation by young man who lives in
Oak Park. He thinks it means that
the child should run things and make
the old man stand around
This bright young man, says ChIca-
90 paper. lives with his father in bache-
IOr apartments 1t CHANGED that the
old man led an exemplary life in his
Younger days and had never learned 20
smoke The son. however, being thor
oughly up to the times, is very fond OF
his cigar, and many cOllOquy rnsued.
When the father came home to find the
rooms redolent of cigar smoke he
would argue with his son that it was no
nice way to do. and that he should re-
spect the feelings of those who OBJ
jected to smoke.
But father" objected the young
man. ''you must recognize the fact that
the cigar is q great social factor. Fa-
Their, YOU must learn TO smoke. 1t is an
accomplishment OF every gentleman,
and you should not overlook it.
The next day he brought home box
of cigars and a pipe for his father and
the old gentleman. VINO had spent so
wears in this vale of smoke without
knowing the comforts OF sOlace of to-
bacco, began industriously to learn to
smoke. After three trials he gave it
up and confessed his defeat. His son
smoked up all the cigars and the pipe
was given to an irreverent young man
who iaughtcd at the story.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09
QUICK PROFITS.
a Boys Improvement on the Usual Pro-
gramme in Fairy Stories.


Business" is the watchwOrd of the
dau and the small boy is developing Oh
that line with rapidity which aston
ishes the previous generation. But the
practical side of his nature has not OBJ
scured the poetry Of childhood. The
fairy tale, says the Washington Star. is
as potent as ever, ard there was q smile
CT pleasure on the face of the lad who
remarked at breakfast:
II had a beautiful dream last night.
What was it?" his father asked.
Il thought was out in the woods and
I saw a most gorgeously dressed lady
coming toward me-"
THAT is good deal like some of the
stories that you have been reading"
Yes. 1t doesn't get very different
until the end. knew by her looks that
she was the fairy queen. and | made VI
my mind that | wasn't going to los;
chances like some of the boys in story
books. who didn't know good chance
whc~ they saw it
"Djds offer you three wishes?"
yes. And I called to mind how she
sometimes took advantage Of a NOR
tails being excited and nervous when he
wished in order to make him waste his
opportunities and have a good laugh al
him. So when she said: Little boy. III
give you three Wishes didn't jump 1T
the chance. 7 said: VIII you give me
whatever l ask for?' She answered.:
Yes; you may have three Wishes"
What did you do"
II wished for fO1Ir''
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09

THE republican leaders cannot afford
to slight the prospective pledge in the
St. Louis platform. Revenue, with the
added imports, is not the pressing
question that it was few months back.
The gold reserve is far above the $780,
100000 mark, but the mills. barring a
few that have opened in the hope of
early tariff changes, remain with clos
ed doors. The country needs enlivened
manufactures and as there is a simple
way of getting them and at the same
time of making the treasury receipts
exceed the outgo what is the sense of
talking about the substitution of an
internal revenue tax? The party will
have none of it, and it will look with
no suspicious eye upon senators and
representatives who forget for a mo-
ment what the people voted for, by a
million IN p jority, at the late election
San Francisco Chronicle.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09

Mr.. BAYARD, the Ubited States
EN- bassador, has written TO the
London Daily Telegraph under date Of
Saturday, confirming the report cabled
to the Associated Press on Saturday
that he would decline the protfered
Christmas gift intended as a compli-
ment to him, and in honor Of his
efforts to bring about an era Of good
feeling between the United States and
Great Britain. He asked the proprie-
tors of the newspaper not to proceed
to carry out their 'kind and generous
proposition" along the lines planned.
English testimonial. He will get none
in America
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09

THE populist papers condemn the
fuss and feathers of the proposed splen-
did Inauguration of Mckinley. 1t is
true that it will cost much money, but
it will be the republican committee
that foots the bill and as the money
was given by people who could afford it,
and as the private and public expendi-
ture will go into the hands of those VIII
earn it by service or in exchange for
supplies used, the funds will not be
wasted. The man who has no money
to spend will not attend, while those
who have will have to turn loose coin.
Besides, if President Mckinley would
say, LET there be no ceremony, no
crowd, and l shall quietly walk up a
side street and be sworn in, ''every pop
ulist and popocrat would swear it was a
demagogIc trick.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09
CUBA ANDTHE UNITED STATES.

There is 20 reason whatever within
the contemplation OF international law
why the United States should recog-
nize the Cuban insurgents as belli-
gerents. and there is no reason to
suppose that Mr.. Cleveland will change
the attitude of this government to-
wards Spain and the insurgents in this
respect. He could not DO SO, indeed,
under existing conditions. without dis
regarding the rules of international
law and our own treaty obligations to
Spain, which he has thus far rigorous
ly observed.
No power or people can be properly
recognized as belligerents unless they
are maintaining government which
the recognizing power can hold respon-
sible for wrongs.and injuries inflicted
on it's citizens in the course OF the
struggle. Have the Cubans who are
serving under MaceO, Gomez and Gar
cia any such status? Have they gov
eminent that is making laws and levy
ing taxes? Have they any territory
where their laws can be enforced, and
" hOSC " Ill pay Vic SoASo
imposed upon them? Have they a
capital, a seat of government, with
which this government can commune
cate? If an American citizen were
plundered within the territory now
occupied by any one of the armies of
the Cuban insurrectioniats, is there
any responsible Cuban government
from which the United States can
demand redress? If the insurgents are
maintaining any government of the
character here outlined, it would be ne
cessary to recognize their belligerency;
but if they have no such government,
to do so would be to declare falsehOod
and it would be also an injustice to our
own citizens, especially to those who
are carrying on commerce in the West
Indian waters.-Harperis Weekly.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09
The Ideal Panacea.

James l.. Francis, alderman, Chicago,
says; II regard DR.. Kings New Dis
covery as an ideal panacea for coughs,
colds and lung complaints, having
used it in my family for the last five
years, to the exclusion of physicians
prescriptions or other presentations. s"
Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, Iowa,
writes: Il have been a minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church for so
years or more, and have never found
anything so beneficial, or that gave me
such speedy relief rs DR.. Kings New
Discovery" Try this ideal cough RENE
dy. Trial bottles free at W. a. Irwin
& Co, Wholesale and Retail druggists,
FL RaSO-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND calls the
Cuban rebellion an insurrection. Spain
knows it is more. When the American
colonies were seeking to free this
country beefy Englishmen called the
effort an insurrection. Two years of
vain effort to whip so. 900 soldiers with
200, 900, the recall of several generals
because of their failure, the necessity
of using warships, fortifiying the coast
and building a series of forts clear
across the island to protect the capital
has taught Spain what the Cuban up
rising is.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09

The Baltimore Sun calls attention to
the fact that the value of school prop
erty in the south increased between
1874 and 1894 from $4,000, 900 to $751;
600; the number OF students in
southern colleges during the same time
rose from II, 1O3 to 1904; the children
enrolled in 1874 were 81 SOC colored
and 1927, 739 whites, while in 1894
these figures had grown to 1,424, 800
colored and 1885, 1914 whites and in the
same twenty years the money for
schools paid out of public taxes
amounted TO over 1920, OOO, 900, of which
$50, 900, 900 went to the education of the
NEGRO.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09

''IN Analysing the result of the re
cent election" says the New York
Evening Post, "the fact should not be
lost sight of that the 172 electoral
votes to be cast for Bryan come from
states whose total vote aggregates ap-
proximately 4, $50, 700; or an average of
2I,15O for each electoral vote; while
the states whose electoral votes will
be cast for Mckinley polled a total of
300, 900 votes, an average of 30, 600
for each elector. Put in other words,
it required II, 500 more votes to choose
q Mckinley elector than to choose
a Bryan elector. If the electors were
apportioned according to the number
of votes cast, Mr.. Mckinley would
have 315 and Mr.. Bryan 1872, which
would more nearly represent the pop
ulsr will than the present division Of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1896-12-09

SENATOR MILLS will today in
troduce joint resolution directing the
president to take possession OF the
island of Cuba with military and naval
forces of the United States and hold
the same until the people of Cuba can
effect a government deriving its powers
from the consent of the governed aud
to arm and equip such military and
naval forces as may be necessary to
secure them against foreign invasion, ="
That Texas style. Now hear Spain
buster.