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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28
once slent rith Lincoln.

Lieut.. Gov. Timothy l.. Woodruff says
that he is the only man alive who ever
slept with Abraham Lincoln. This
is the story: During the war Mr.. Wood
rufus father was a congressman from
Massachusetts, and lived with his wife
and baby, the baby being little Tim. at
Wizards hotel, in Washington. The
elder Woodruff and Mr.. Lincoln were
on very friendly terms. For time
President Lincoln's family was out
of the city, and he lived at Wizards,
where he formed a very warm friend
ship for the congressman's three-year-
old baby. Night after night the Wood
rufus, whose room adioined those OF
Mr.. Lincoln, would hear him pace back
ward and forward in his room with the
long, ungainly stride tor which he was
noted. On a number Of such occasions
there would come knock at. the CON
CHEESEMAN'S door. When il was opened
the president, with queer look on his
rugged countenance. would say: Con
gresham, want to borrow the little
fellow tonight. I'm thinking too
much" Then he would carry the young
ster to his own room and pet him and
care for him as If he were his own, while
for the time being his own immense
responsibilities and troubles were for
gotten.-N. Y. World.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28

young woman about to be presented at
court receives The fullest instructions as to
her behavior She IS told how to dress how
TO manage her train; how to courtesy cor
rectly. Every incident is Carefully rehearsed
so that she may commit no bunder in the
presence Of royalty. If all this trouble is
worth while for the satisfaction of one brief
moment, how infinitely more important It is
that a young girl about to enter into the
sacred precincts of womanhood, should be
properly instructed in all that concerns a
lifetime of possible happiness, or possible
misery.
Every mother ought to see to 1t that her
daughters are healthy and strong in wo-
manly way She ought to make them aware
that any neglect or irregularity of the spe-
cial functions of womanhood may result in
lifelong weakness and disease.
Any mother or daughter may write con-
corning these delicate ailments with the
utmost confidence to DR. r. " Pierce, chief
consulting physician to the invalds' Hotel
aud Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y.
Her letter will be answered free of charge
with suggestions for selftreatment at home,
by which these complaints may be overcome
without need of notifying examinations.
DR. Pierce has had over. thirty years ex
perience in the treatment Of womens dis
eases, and is an eminent specialist in this
particular field of practice. His Favorite
Prescription cures completely and perfna-
nently the most obstinate cases of feminine
weakness and disease. 1t heals all inhamed
conditions, strengthens and tones the nerve
centres and the entire womanly organism.
For prospective mothers and nursing
mothers, the Favorite Prescription is
perfect strength sustainer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28

harbor; they were afraid they'd be too
/ late, aud so on.
"'Oh you want 70 go on said |, and
stepped to the signal box without AM
other word and began bending on three
signal flags They watched me Curl
ously.
Sure you want to 60 on2' said /.
after they had time to get perfectly
quiet. The captain is getting his health
papers. (He was in my room watch
ing The ship with a glass and we were
waiting for nothing under heaven but
more freight)
Eyes. they were sure.
"'All right. said /. I'VE can start
when you like. without the papers but
in that case you'll be stopped at Abou
Saad sure
"They fell on their knees to me, those
big, fierce Mograbbins and Moors and
Soudanese, and begged me for Gods
sake not to go without the papers.
Some of them had been on Abou Saad
and the rest had heard of it. They
would have licked the dust off my boots
if had cared for that kind Of polish.
"Finally I explained to them that
they had plenty of time, found out
that they were worrying mainly be-
cause their food was running low and
the whole affair ended in the company
giving them five bags of rice"
DANIEL CLEVERTON.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28
A card on lho outside door saw

A card on ho outside door says:
"Gone to lunch Be back in ten
minutes" And, the mau will be there
on time. That is, for some days,
weeks or even mouths, he will Then
he will be at home occasionally for a
day. He'll tell you he had the head
acho--a turn of cholera morbus. or
maybe he'll say he had a lump in his
stomach and felt too miserable 10
move. The lump was probably two
or three len minute lunches con
densed.
Thsma who "bolts" his lunches
will find DR., Pierces Pleasant Pellets
the best friend he eyer met
The is no case of biliousness, con
stipatiou, Indigestion, heart burn,
or any Of the rest Of the nightmare
breeding brood, that these little
"Pelets" will not cure They cure
permanently. Send Fl cents in one
cent stamps to Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, Buffalo, N. "
and receive DR.. Pierce's zoos page
"Common Sense Medical Adviser,
prolusely illustrated
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28

government unpopular. Native ones
think everyone rich enough to pass who
can beg or borrow a shilling fee.
In spite of oil this, most of the pill
grims have money, and it takes the
Turkish doctors at the Dieddah quar-.
antine to find it out. Talk of quaran-
tines! That at Djeddah is the finest in
the world, considered as a means of eX-
tracing money. The doctors charge
what the traffic will bear; no more.
They never make the mistake of hold
ing up shipload of folks for more
money than there is on the ship. Some
times when business is dull and fees
are running light, the medical men will
send a load of people to the quarantine
island, Abou Saad to make them APP
preciate better the advantages of a
clean bill of health and to enable them
to enjoy for awhile the fine scenery and
water at one dollar a pint. AS the
sacred day approaches, it becomes a
game of bluff. The doctors don't dare
keep the pilgrims too late, for if they
are not likely to be in time, they will get
sullen and refuse to pay cent. On the
other hand, the pilgrims will not hold
out too long, fearing TO lose the entire
trip. Each side knowing both the
strength and weakness of the position
of the other, an arrangement of some
sort is patched up by which those who
have money pay, and those who haven't
don't.
Oh, yes, there's quarantine.
A gentleman of high official rank in
Egypt, who was, in his younger days, in
the Red sea steamboat business, gives
me much of this information, which he
thinks ought to be made public, but
which he could not himself print in
any Mohammedan country.
"Such is the fear which the pilgrims
feel of Abou Saad," said he, that
once quelled mutiny in Alexandria
harbor by merely mentioning its dread
ed name The sailors were hiding. Adj
miral Blomfeld and the British ma
rines were guarding the ship to see
that no rioters came ashore, and 500
furious pilgrims were storming all over
her. l was fully 20, and weighed a
little over hundred pounds, but knew
Arabic, and the captain asked me to go
out and arrange matters. / was un-
armed, of course, and most of the pill
grims carried long desert guns loaded to
the muzzle with slugs.
"'What's all this row about2 said /
when ] got on deck and they made q
rush for me. They said they wanted
10 60 on; they were tired Of lying in
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28
Robbery of old Masters.

Picture robbers are once more at
work on the other side OF the Allan tic,
and within the last fortnight three old
masters have been cut from theif
frames in European picture galleries,
and are believed to be now on their way
to America. The collections victim, zed
are the National Picture gallery Of
Pesth, which has lost Murillo repre-
senting est Joseph and the Boy Christ"
and Van der Neer, portraying burn
ing city situated on the banks of a
river crowded with shipping. The other
collection robbed is the great Madrid
Picture museum, and the painting miss
ing is the preliminary sketch by Mu-
rillo of his well-known picture entitled
"St. Anne Giving a Lesson to the Vir-
GIN" which hangs in the same gallery
The stolen picture is AZ centimeters by
25. The police as well as the most ia
nous picture dealers of Europe in
sist that there is in New York iirm
which makes a speciality Of stolen pic
lures of this kind, and allege that the
missing Duchess of Devonshire" is like,
wise in the possessioE of this firm
which for long have been under sur
seillance, lately, however, relaxed.--N
Y. Tribune.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28
MENACE THE NATIONS.
The Incredible Abuses Which PRS.
vail at the Goal of tho Pilgrims.
seeking Heaven, Finding Death--Asi-
attic Ideas of Qunrantine-Euro-
penn officials Helpless Against
Moslem Fanaticism.
copyright. 1871

Every year. at the time of the great
annual pilgrimage to Mecca. which is
now in progress, there is to be seen
the most extraordinary collection Of
poor zealots who have come on foot
from distant homes, begging their food
by the way, and who may be year or
two on the journey. The poor tramp
may "drill" from Morocco all the way
across Northern Africa, or he may come
from Persia or British India by parched
and barren desert routes, eating daily
a handful of dates or rice. If grade
or two less abiectly poor, the pilgrim
will have a camel, which doesn't better
matters in Mecca. from a sanitary point
of view.
Rich and poor. well and ill-fed, hale
or decrepit, the pilgrims reach at last,
by various routes, but the vast ma
jority from Djeddah by sea, the hagios
or holy stone, which is a space
Of is hours march from Mecca.
Here they not only strip naked,
but even put off their turbans, and have
their heads shaved. BY way of clothing
they tear new cotton cloth into squares
of one yard each. Each man gets two
squares, one of which he uses as an
apron, while the other is thrown over
the left shoulder. In this attire the
last procession marches to kiss the black
stone.
This stone is supposed to date from
Patriarch Abraham's time. The Arabic
word for stone, "hagard," or in some
word Hagar, which occurs in the Bible
as that of the mother of Ishmael Hagg
is a pilgrimage. Haggi are pilgrims.
Hagios is the Greek word for holy"
But that is another story. The holy
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28

stone is an ordinary enough AFFAIR built
into the wall of the Kaaba or sacred
Enclosure. 1t is said to have been turned
black because the sins of the pilgrims
pass into it, leaving them clean.
Cleanl In the great Mohammedan
feast that follows the procession more
animals are slaughtered than the total
number of the pilgrims. Sometimes
the number reaches half a million OF
sheep and goats, less often calves and
young camels. A perfect young camel
is regarded as the finest sacrifice, so
that many articles are devised to pass
off camels that have died of sickness
for fine specimens; or camels with
broken legs. The Arabs about Died
dab have a sportive way of creeping
up behind a young camel and breaking
it's leg with a sudden twist of forked
stick, all in the interest Of trade. Here
are the refuse of half a million beasts;
the entrails and offal sinking in the
sun, the utter lack of sanitary conven-
fences, the feebleness of so many of
the pilgrims and the long continued
vegetarian habits of nine-tenths %
them. Then they are suddenly gorged
with meat. For the rich regard it a
sacred duty 10 buy meat for the poor
at Big Beiram feast and none need go
without.
What some say is that cholera al
WAYS breaks out within "a hours after
the feast. AS rule, it's no great matter.
Cholera isn't bad disease. Under IA
vorable conditions it merely kills a few
thousands of the dirtiest people on
earth, adds a dozen clean ones by acct
dent, travels its hundreds or thousands
of miles and is snuffed out in the north
by frost. In the south it is always pres
ent. This year the plague may find in
the meeting and parting of so many men
from such widely separated chimes just
the opportunity it wants TO travel ana
see the world.
What an opportunity There are Shii
from Persia and SUM from Asia Minor
There are dancing dervishes' bowling
dervishes, glass-eating dervlshes and
deryishes who jab themselves with un-
pleasant pointed steel things There
are Touoregs from Sahara, Bedouins
from the Libyan desert, wild Mograo-
bins from the Lord knows where proud
white Moors in gelabas and burnouses'
yellow Hindoos in bushel-basket tur-
bans, brown Egyptians in tarousnes'
coal-black negroes from Ethiopia III
brown skull caps and blue gowns. There
are Persians and Turks and CHINESE
And there is the cholera.
Not the real cholera always some
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28

people say who know the condition
well. Perhaps it may be only cnteri
fever from change Of food and polluted
water, and sunstroke from the fierce
rays Of the sun beating down on 81
many bald shaven pates. They trea
sunstroke by putting bandage arounc
the head, thrusting a stick through il
and twisting It tourniquet fashion
Even this sometimes strangely tails tc
cure
OF course there are guarantees and
regulations. But of course, also, this is
the east.
The british government in India has
forbidden pilgrims to set out from dis
tricts where the plague exists case
of locking the stable after the horse is
stolen. 1t also requires that each pill
grim have 80 rupees as a safeguard
against starvation on the way. The
candidates are sorted on long wharf
divided by picket fence. A man who
has been passed hands his rupees to
another, through the fence and ne to
another.
There's another way. Everyone has
heard of the basket trick" performed
by Indian fakirs. One of these eXtraor-
binary creatures viii curl up in space
somewhat larger than bandbox and
be carried on board as baggage by an
other. Hence the steamboat men have
acquired the habit of sticking things
into baggage to see if it squeals, and
baggage has, in accord with the we'll
known law of modification by environ
ment, acquired tie habit of refraining
from squealing when stuck.
Then there are the French, who have
this year forbidden the pilgrimage from
Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. But the
desert is unfenced, and man who sets
out to visit his son-in-law may change
his mind and conclude to go to Mecca
when he gets into Morocco or Egypt.
And the Egyptian government is hard
ly likely, for political reasons, to for
bid the pilgrimage. For the same rea-
sons it permits the law requiring each
pilgrim to have three months subsist-
ence money to remain dead letter.
European inspectors would enforce the
rule. refuse bakshish and make the
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28
ALAsKA's LIVING MAsToDoNs.
The District I'm which Some of Them
Are Supposed 20 Exist.


The remarkable assertion is made by
a member of the Alaska Historical So
ciety that perhaps the mastodons. re-
mains of which have been found in q
well preserved condition in various
parts of Alaska and Siberia. are not yet
entirely extinct, as has hitherto been
believed, but that almost conclusive evil
dence to the contrary has been recently
brought to light. Traders and intelli-
gent Indians profess to have seen these
animals, as well as their huge foot
prints, and naturalist, who is the ed
itor of the Juneau News. has collected
considerable other testimony as to their
existence.
The location of the mastodon coun-
try, according to the sketch map of a
member of the Dominion survey, is
about midway between Mount ST. Elias
and the Yukon river and 100 miles due
north from st. Elias and less than that
from old Fort Selkirls and the mouth
of Stewart river and Forty-mile creek,
where the gold mines are located. 1t
has been well-known fac5 that the
Eskimos have traded in the tusks and
bones of these animals for centuries,
and great deposits of them have been
found, while arctic explorers have even
fed their dogs on their carcasses pre-
served in the ice, supposedly from pre-
historic times.
The district reported to be thus in
habited is very high and well supplied
with moss, grass and fodder in unlimit-
ed qualities, as we'll as plenty of wa
ter, and consequently it is argued that
whatever natural force may have de-
stroyed and buried the immense num-
bers whose remains are found in great
masses this particular section was
probably free from it's effects, which
accounts for the existence of rem
nant of the race.-Forest and Stream.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28

Amelia Jane Simpson, COL, of Lou
isville, weighs 43S pounds, She re-
quires two chairs when sitting down.
Ten years agS, she weighed only SO
pounds and was threatened with con
sumption.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28
Mnniaea in Grrn, nrilnin.

Prof. j. Holt Schooling declares that
one person in every 300 Of the popula-
ton of Britain is nIaniec, and that the
ratio promises TO indiease.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-28

According to ogr last census 1884
persons over 100 yetlrs we're found, and
of these 2,5s3 were lwomch. IN Franco
in 1905 there we're )ply 90 men AID az
women over Ne lo1 soa'h.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26
Odd Fellows At Elmo.

ELKo, New, June THE Grand
Encampmsnt of the Odd Fellows 81
Nevada convened this morning and
the following grand officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing year:
w. Fl. Trathan, Grand Patriarch
Jacob Egers, High Priest; = Baird,
Senior Warden; L. Guggsnheim,
Scribe; ]. ]. Becker, Treasurer; J.
X Batchsldsr, Junior Warden; w.
W. Boslier, Representative; VIM.
Pennison, s. Jacobs, Goth Hast,
Grand Trustees. The remainder Of
the session was devoted to the son-
siderstion Of the reports.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26

The Eureka Sentinel of the 10th. ,
says: OF all the phasmodical, my
s'icated, heterogeneous conglomer-
atoms las the Colonel would say, that
ever struck = suffering community,
the storm of this week takes the
waffle wagon. Sunday it commenced
blowing, and on Monday blew great
guns, also dust, and by that time lear
ly every stovepipe in town was snugly
snoring in its neighbours alley
Everything movable moved, and SO
did everything selid, A man trying
to cross the street looked a. if he
was playing checkers and having a
scientific time getting into the king
row. To cap the climax, also the
hilltops, down came the snow, all
day long Tuesday. The most ancient
settlers of this good old town say that
the like of such weather has net u
place in their msmories.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26
Coed Ore fa the Ontario.

A now strike was made in the On
tario mine, Robinson district, last
week. The ledge il about 8 feet
wide and the goes about 55 percent
lead and carries good percentage Of
gold and silver. This il one of the
Oldest locations in the camp. having
been worked for lead and silver many
years ago. At that time, however,
tho value of tho gold found in the
ere was comparatively small, and
formed no part of its shipping value.
But later developments 60 to show
that the amount of gold in the ore il
increasing and more than offsets the
depreciation in the price of lead.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26

The Foley estate case 10 dragging
in the court at Reno. Mrs. Smith
has concluded the evidence on her
part of the triangular contest and the
Hartley interest is now taking up the
time. An objection was raised yes
tsrday Is to whether or net Mrs.
Hartley was competent witness Al
to who was the father of her child
and arguments were still in progress
on the subject when the court ad-
journed for the day.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26

F. M. Clark. and W. G. Gallagher,
returned from Elko to-day, whore
they were attending the Annual beet
ing of the Grand Ledge Of 1. o. o.
F., held at Elko, on the 21st.
Frank Gougon of this place, and
Gabriel Zanoli, of Eureka, have open
ed saloon in Lane City, and will
no doubt do paying business.
The Eureka Sentinel says Post
Office has been established at Hot
Creek, with Mrs. Sophia Williams
~ Postmistress.
The weather this week was warm,
with less wind than last week, though
quite stiff breeze prevailed at in
tsrvals. the Thermometer reaching
80 and better in the shade, several
days.
An outing party left Stsptos VAL
ley, Thursday, bent on invading the
solitude Of Goshute Cave, exploring
its vaulted rscesses and viewing the
grand and impressive scenery found
in that great cavern. The party ID
made up of Mrs. w. D. Campbell and
daughters, Miss Emma Kitzmeyer,
and Miss Rowe Gallagher, which num-
Der will be increased while enroute
to the cave.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26
Nevada PsstOfiiess.

The annual rsclassif cation of the
Postofficss and readjustment Of Pest
masters salaries has been made, and
goes into effect July LIST. Changes
are made on the amount Of receipts
of Presidential Postoffices during the
year closing March 81. Nevada has
not suffered any decreases, but on
the contrary, the following Offices
have been raised,
Carson City, $1,000 to 30, 900; De-
Lamar, 81, 100 to 81, 200; Elko, 81
200 to 81, 800; Virginia City, from
81, 700 to 81, 800. Carson has been
advanced from the third to the second
class,
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26

A Now York man has proposed to
the Secretary of the Treasury that the
government uss different color for
each denomination of the paper
money issued by it. This plan, he
thinks, would present obstacles to
counterfeitsrs and facilitate tho count
ing Of bills. Another objects to the
scheme, because, he says, the differ
emit colo.s would prove an advertise
ment to sneak thieves. While it ID
BY no means probable that the plan
will soon be adopted, it has, it Is said,
received the unofficial sanction of
Secretary Gage and a number of bust
ness thsn ind bankers.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26

The Chairman Company are max
ing preparations to work the tailinga
at the old mill, consisting of several
thousand tons, by the cyanide pro-
cess.
The old company has experimental
on these tailings and succeeded in
demonstrating that the cyanide would
take out a high percentage of the gold
if it were not for the fact that they
would slum on the bottom of the
tanks and prevent the liquid from
passing through.
This difficulty can be rsmsdied, OF
at least those in charge SO believe, by
forcing in air and creating a partial
vacuum in tho bottom of the tank,
and by SO doing assist the liquid to
work its way through the tailings,
and prevent the Summing.
This process of creating . vacuum
in the bottom of cyanide tanks to do
away with the formation of the sedi-
msnt which obstrusts the liquid in its
passage through the tailings, is by no
means new, and has proven to be q
success and the present management
figure that if slums are all that stands
in the way of making the process win
they are confident that they will have
no difficulty in working the tailings.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-06-26


George n. Wilson, the Lander and
Nye county sheep man, is now at
Kirke and Ill, preparing to ship his
ysarling sheep, born in the above two
sounties, to the London and Liver
pool market, in which Mr.. Wilson's
mutton is bringing from II to 20 cts.
per pound by the CARCASS. He has
engaged shipping and no doubt the
mutton is on the high seas for Eng
land. Mr.. Wilson made = gain OF
55 pounds on his lambs, whilsst ag-
ricultural colleges have only been abla
to make gain of from 30 to 40 Tbs
each. From 81 to $12 per head for
Nevada yearling sheep are fattering
prices. Austin Reveills.