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WANTED Young man of good ADDRESS;
70 travel: capable OF delivering prin.ee
lecture. must be a good talker' one VIII ~
this office, stl-ol
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PERSONALS.

DIR. c. M. HAMMETT. JR., has removed
his office to 1928 New York ave. NV.
- seq at
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FOR SALE-Cheap, one OF the best cash
grocery, meat and provision stores in
South Washington. No. 126 G ST., bet.
LIST and I'd SITS. sw. au2S-6t
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wANTED-BOARD.

wANTED-A gentleman wishes board and
room with French family TO learn the
language. Address s. /. j., this office.
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No Impositionl- Nothing but facts given
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MANTED-Stone contractor TO 90 stone
work i'm exchange for real estate Adj
dress STONE WORK, this Office:
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DENTISTRY.

Will hereafter extract teeth with
nitrous oxide gas for soc per tooth.
Best teeth ST per set. Gold crowns, Ss.
Amalgam filings, 81. Have filled forty
thousand teeth in this CITY; extracted
twenty Thousand teeth, and made over six
thousand sete DC. s. T. MASON, I'll eth
st. NV, formerly cor. 18th and Pa. ave.
NV. aus 1mo-em
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDIN9.
Printing 500 cards, Toe; 5oU envelopes,
75c.; 500 note heads, Toe; sou state
meats, Toe: binding magazi les, 6Oc.i
miscellaneous books rebound q. T..
VILLA Ms. 615 9TH st. NV. fe6-tr
AT THE Business office OF The Times
you viii find Window Cards of all de
scriptions-"T Table Board, Furnished OIL
Unfurnisned Rooms. - Unfurnished Rooms"
FURNISHED Rooms, With or without
Board, Furnished Rooms, With Board,
Furnished Rooms Five cents 70 the
price of each card. - ap21-u
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WANTED . first-Class cutters; none but
those accustOme ed to fine trade and having
q reputation need apply. Til STANDARD
TAfLORS, 11th and + SITS. NV.
au3l- Stem
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WANTED Is experienced statesmen In the
Observation-Disclosures business, Til ESIAND-
ARD -TAILORS, 18th and L ST. NV
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.

-
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-O tent, AK
80; one 10x10, pair handsome grays,
covered wagons, etc. 4C3 G st. NV.
Se1-3t
FOR SALE-or exchange for horse, buggy
or wheel, electric cabinet: a new Macln-
tosh "a Cell SalafflOni battery, also one open
table or wall battery, L 8 cell. Address
PHYSICIAN, this office. au31-1tem
FOR SALE OR EXCHA N6E-A farm of Al
acres, with all Improvements in first
class condition.; and stock consisting OF 4
horses, 5 COWS. 20 head of hogs, 300 chick
ems and 200 ducks; and ali farming uten-
sis; would exchange for District property.
Address j. O. NJ, this office.
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FOR RENT-COTTAGE.

FOR RENTAL Hyattsville, near railroad
station, S-room cottage; newly papered
and painted; large lot; fenced, with chicken
house and stable; excellent water; only
$3.50 per month. Apply to RICHARD
p. EVANS, attorney, 4Uz 9Th st NV.
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WANTED-for cash, all kinds or old tinted
states postage and department stamps
collections also bought III. T.. DUNK
HORST, 1908 TIN Sc. Rwf auS-u
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WANTEp-l5 fine coatrnakers; work in
side THE STANDARD TAILO RS, 18th
and Il stS.nw aust Stem
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FOR RENT-HOrSES.

FOR RENT ix-room and bath. bay
window brick dwelling, KY. ave. Sc,
only S12.0Oper month. ApplytO RICHARD
T. EVANS, Attorney, 4Oz 9th 81. NV.
se2-3t EN-
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MANTED-Two white chambeuaids, and
C.lOrea cooks, general lsOA seWOrkers ana
cham Dermaias: good wages. All q st. NV.
Sp2-3J
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DR.. Ledthermdn,

EXPERT SRECIA LIST In the
cure OF all private diseases. Hydrocele
N9ricOCele. Structure, Impotency, aud
SyphilItic Diseases positively cured. Ad-
Vice ana Cons ulvatlOn rec. Both Sexes.
hours, to II, TO .. Tues, Thurs and
sat. evenings, Z to 8. No. coz + st. NV.
(Jlosed SundayD lel5-1
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LOST.

LOST VIII finder OF basket containing
female apparel either at cor. and 10Th
ST. NV. or bet eeu james feed store
and Rudd's restaurant last Saturday morn
ing, leave same at 700 oth St Ne. and
receive reward? IL
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HELP wANTEn-MALE.

WANTED six fresco painters Apply ~
q st. me-, after p. m. Item
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MANTEG-Clerk TO run my fIuh anu
nrodsce business one month while am
away. Call at 253-4-5 Center Market. n.
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W ANTED-A salesman for grocery trade
Address SALESMAN. this office.
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WA NTED-Experience Chocolate coaters.
aust Stem
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WANTED Reliable agents on first-class
contracts. Address :. Is. a., this Office.
D
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FOR RENT-Furnished house: Anacostia.
including piano. rooms; rent, S15.50.
CHART ". STEPHENS, 103 Navy pl..
ADacoStia. se2-3t
WANTED - Couple to take Groom fur. cot
tage in suburbs and board owner. Adj
dress SCBURBS, this office. el-3t
FOR RENT -6-room house, Crescent ST.,
Meridian Hill, between 9th and eth sts.,
one square bove Fla. ave, SO per month.
Inquire OF W. F. OGLE. sel-3t
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
CALLED IN A DREAM.
German Girl Called Over Seas by a
Vision.

Caroline Sackruiter, a young Ger
man woman, who has lived for three
years with the family of Ferdinand
Kroemer, of Beethoven, suddenly
started for her home in the old coun-
try a few days ago, under circum-
stances of an interesting character.
When she rose on the morning of the
day before she started, she claimed
to have a presentiment that all was
not well with her younger sister. She
said that in the early hours Of the
morning she had been awakened by
her sisters voice calling her, in a
plaintive manner, and that when she
sat up and gazed around her room
she seemed to see a picture of her
home in the outskirts Of the city of
Nuremberg, in Bavaria, and that on a
couch, under lattice window, which
in her childhood days had been the
fayorite playing spot of herself and
sister, she saw the sister lying with her
arms stretched out toward her.
She told her friends, after telling
them of the call she thought she
heard, and the vision she had seen,
that she was prepared to hear bad
news from home. Inside Of three
hours she received a letter from her
mother containing the information
that her sister was fast dying Of con-
sumption. Caroline lost no time in
preparing to start for home. She
came to Pittsburgh that afternoon
and purchased her passage, and left
for New York the next day to sail on
the steamship Iser, of the North Ger
man Lloyd line, for Bremen.-Pitts-
burgh Times.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
THE WATER BEETLES EYES.
Some Curious Things Told Of Insects
in a Recent Lecture.

In studying the eyes Of insects
said DR.. L. G.. Love, in recent public
lecture at the American Museum oil
Natural History, we find that those
OF the water beetle are among the most
striking. When magnified it appears
! Like part of the surface Of sphere,
composed Of many small hexagonal
parts. This is the compound eye, and
each of these hundreds Of parts is a
perfect eye in itself, the head Of an in
verified cone, the apex of which is con-
nected by a nerve with the retina. The
outer surface of this inverted crys-
talline cone is, as in all insects, the
cornea, and the cone itself is set in a
mass of black pigment, which absorbs
all the light that enters indirectly,
and, being refractcd, does not go at
once to the descending nerve. The
nerve from each cone leads straight
to the retina, on the other side of
which is connected the large, single
optic nerve, which transmits the sem
sation of light to the insects brain.
This is the structure of the compound
eye. The water beetle has numerous
simple eyes as well, which lie in the
vitreous humor directly above the
retina.
An interesting feature of the wings
of these little creatures is the "poW-
der" which they carry and which adj
heres to the fingers of their captors.
1t is made of great number of scales
from the wings themselves, but is by
no means as brilliantly colored as it
sometimes seems. Many insects with
colored wings have absolutely color
less scales. The appearance of color
in the latter is due solely to the light.
There are 10000 lines to the inch on
each of these scales, so that their pris-
matte effect is easily understood.
Nature provides a series of hooks
on the front edge of the hind wings
of insects, each hook fitting into
groove on the hind edge Of front
wing. The front and hind wings are
thus fastened together on each side,
while the insect is flying, and are I'M
fastened at other times. This explains
why you have occasionally noticed
one Of the species flying, apparently
with two wings, and have seen him
display four upon alighting This ar
rangement is extremely convenient
for such little creatures as the honey
bee, which has to enter small holes,
where large expanse of wing would |
be useless.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
SMOKE AND HEALTH.
Pestilence Doesn't Thrive in Air Black
from Many ChimneYs.

Fogs are said to have a very bene-
fetal effect on the health of districts
where they are prevalent, as they are
great purifiers of the atmosphere, and
even the sulphur which makes the
London fog so pungent and irritating
is credited with effecting quite an APP
preciable limitation of prevalent in
fictitious diseases. Prof. Maur is now
of the opinion that smoke may be
turned into hygienic ally, and, I'M
der some circumstances, be made
capable of preserving the public
health to- degree little imagined.
The dust collected from the smoke of
some Liege furnaces, burning coal
raised from the neighboring mines,
produces, when dissolved in n.y.
drochloric acid, a solution from which
considerable quantities of arsenic and
several other metallic salts may be
precipitated. tits now suspected that
this breathing of arsenic and other
minerals in a fnely-divided state may
account for the singular immunity
from epidemics enjoyed by certain
industrial districts, such as that of St.
Etienne, and medical authorities in
those regions and elsewhere are asked
to throw upon the subject what light
they can. It is suggested that the
ventillating effect of the numerous
chimneys in iron making and other
industrial centers has its due share
in constantly driving off the vitiated
air and replacing it by fresh guam
titles Of pure air. 1t was noted that
when pestilence was raging in the
English town Of Clifton, an elevated
and apparently salubrious residential
district, its inhabitants migrated
to a low-lying and murky parish in
the adjacent town Of Bristol, where
the air was black from the smoke of
numerous chimneys, while the NOR
tally was lower than that of the fash
ionable quarter overlooking it.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20

Stevenson's unfinished novel,
est. Ives" will be completed by Mr..
CUTLER Couch
Vienna university has made
King Oscar Of Sweden an honorary
doctor Of philosophy.
Prince de Sagan, the Ward Nc
Allister Of Paris, has had stroke Of
paralysis. He is "a years Of age.
-Tissot's pictures illustrating the
life Of Christ have been reproduced
in black and white sets on Japan
paper, selling for $1,000
Pope Leo XIII. has published a
long Latin poem composed recently,
in which he praises frugality and
points out the evils Of incompetence.
Sixty persons have been arrested
in Moscow and will be deported to
Siberia for trying to organize a gener-
al strike in the mills Of the Moscow
district.
Naples is in CONSERVATION be-
cause the blood of San Gennaro has
failed to lquefy this year. The fail
ure of the miracle is portent of mis-
fortune.
-London's lord mayor is entitled
to wear an earPs robe whenever q
crowned head visits the city. The
gown now preparing for the COM
memoration will cost $500.
No Dunmow fitch willbeaward-
ed this year to married couples that
abstain from quarreling, owing to-
the death of Sir Robert Marsh, who
revived the old custom.
Polish Catholic priests, melted
by the example of the Russian ortho-
dox priests living in their country,
are starting movement to obtain
permission for priests to marry.
Mrs. Felicia Hemans, who dis
covered the stern and rock-bound
coast of Plymouth, and who is the
only writer of imaginative literature
produced by Liverpool, is to have a
monument there if the money can be
raised
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
AMERICAN SHIPS.
Facts Given on the Authority Of an
Exchange.


Do youknow, asks anexchange, that
but one steel ship was ever built in
America and that she was the last
full rugged ship ever built here and
that her name was Dirigo?
That almost all the best steamers
in our merchant marine were built
on the Delaware?
That the Josephine is the only
iron schooner afloat that has the
right to hail from an American port?
That the Clarence S. Bement, the
May Flint and the Title Z. Starbuck
are the only iron ships ahoat flying
our flag?
That America has not 5000 YES
sells going to sea and that all steam
ers, ships, banks, barkentines, briggs,
schOoners and seagoing coal barges
are included and that this includes
the Atlantic, gulf and Pacific coasts?
That but II steamers flying the
American flag trade between America
and Europe and that they are the St,
Louis, the st. Paul, the New York,
the Paris, the Pennsylvania, the
Indiana, the Ohio, the Illinois, the
Conemaugh, the Miami and the Mat
teawan and that five of them were
built in England?
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20

Beware Of Getting Too Many Irons II
the Fire.

the TiFcs
Perseverance is the only certain
road to success
The man who takes up a business,
no matter what it is, and pursues il
and nothing else, almost invariably
comes out ahead, while the man who
is constantly changing from one thing
to another is equally certain to fail
This truism has received a fresh
illustration in a town within less
than a dozen miles Of Pittsburgh.
About ten years ago two men
started in the retail business on a
small scale. They soon received a
respectable trade.
For awhile both prospered.
But at length one of them was
seized with the get-rich mania, and
commenced dabbling in outside inter
ests.
Oil was his hobby. He neglected
his store and his business fell off.
Finally, he sold out.
Then he met with losses in oil.
A short time ago he secured stu
alton in a city house.
The other man stuck to his store,
leaving outside matters alone.
He prospered.
He will soon move into a new
building--one Of the largest in the
place-which he has erected at a cost
of about $4,000.
His future is secure.
A glance over the list of success
full grocers in Pittsburgh affords
further illustration Of the value of
perseverance.
They have not achieved prom
inence in year or two.
Success has not been thrust upon
them.
They have won it by hard, per-
sistent work and singleness Of pur-
pose.
They have let other things alone.
Instead of aspiring to sudden
wealth, they have been content with
the slow but certain gains Of their le-
climate calling.
"Too many irons in the fire" is the
cause of many failures.
The retail business is so comph-
Gated as to demand undivided atten-
ton.
Nothing less will assure success.
A country merchant not long ago
called on a wholesaler and, in the
course Of the conversation that en-
sued, remarked: 81 am thinking of
going into an outside speculation"
Don't do it," replied the whole
saler.
cit will involve you in difficulty,
weaken your credit and may lead to
disaster.
"You are making money in your
present business. Let well enough
alone"
This advice is worth needing.
1t is sensible, and those who ac-
cept it will find that it will lead to
success.-Mercantile Journal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
A Telegraphic Feat.

The Geographic operators at Sgd
ney claim to have established an Aus
tralian record on the night of the
federal convention elections. No
fewer than 1,O65,57O words were re-
ceived and transmitted in the Sgd
ney Office between 6:20 p. m. and $3.50
a. m, or at the rate of 1891 words
per hour. The staff of operators en-
ployed consisted Of 1870 men, engaged
at &c instruments.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
A pescendant Of vIrgL

Charles Maron, who lately died in
Paris, claimed descent from the Poet
Virgil. Regularly every New Years
day all persons in Mantua, the poets
native town, who bore the name Of
Marc, the poets patronymic, sent
greeting to MaEon, whom they re-
garded as first and greatest of them
oil
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
PEOPLE WHO WEAR SHOES.
Viii Do Well to Read and Heed the
Following Rules.

IOiOWt'6
Buyers should never go in the
morning to buy boots and shoes. If
it is remembered that activity and
standing enlarge the feet, and at the
latter part of the day they are at their
maximum size, there would not be
so many complaints of shoes being
tight, which at the time of fitting
seem perfectly comfortable. Shoes,
like gloves, wear longer and better if
kept forsome time beforeusing; audit
is wise to keep several pairs for few
weeks before wearing them, and sew
eral pairs to alternate with. Never
wear a shoe too small or that does not
fit when you first put it on /; for misery
more complete than a shoethatpinch-
es does not exist. A shoe should be
washed every now and then with a
wet rag and oiled over night. In
this case fresh application of black
ing restores the brilliancy of the
leather. A wet shoe must never be
placed too near the fire, for it will be-
come hard and stiff. The way to save
a shoe that is wet from an early grave
is to wipe it off and then apply an oil
or cream by means Of a piece of soft
flannel or cloth. Wear old shoes in
bad weather. Rubbers always spoil
a new shoe. Patent feathers should
never be handled until warmed, and
they can be made smooth and bright
by cream rubbed in by cloth, or by
the palm of the hand, which is better.
If shoes are washed once a month
with warm water and rubbed with oil,
they will be soft and impervious to
water. Those who suffer from ach-
ing feet should occasionally sponge
the inside of the shoes with mod
erately strong solution of ammonia.
The shoes must be perfectly dry be-
fore they are put on. The way to
clean kid boots which will not bear
backing is to roll strip of flannel
four inches wide and a good yard long
into wad and sew it tightly. Dip it
into saucer filed with few drops of
olive oil and good black ink. Dab
the shoes all over, and, taking fresh
flannel, rub the shoe until it is dry.
BY this means the painful approach
of purple and the dreaded white
cracks will be delayed. A fine polish,
and one that will make the leather
last longer than the ordinary black
ing does, will be obtained if the fol-
lowing mixture is used: Two ounces
of ivory black, three ounces of mo-
lasses and one pint of vinegar. Mix
them together, and, having also
stirred five drachms of sperm oil and
six drachms of oil Of vitriol, work all
the ingredients together Tan shoes
should be washed once a week with
saddle soap before applying polish,
which can be made by mixing one
ounce of muriatic acid, half ounce of
alum, half ounce of gum arabic and
half ounce of spirit of lavender into
one-half pint Of sour milk. Apply
with flannel and polish with a piece
Of fresh tlannel.-Louisyille Courier
81
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20

"A woman enjoys herself best
when she is making something out Of
old bread ust.-Washington Dem
ocrat.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20

Old Man Who Wanted Garden Seed
Swallowed Him for Days.

"NNNN~N tAftN ~ lays
Mr.. Hanna received shock the
other day from which it will take
him long time to recover He occu-
pies the headquarters Of the republic
an national committee in the Glover
building, and there receives the null
titudes Of Office seekers who come to
solicit his Endorsement. Many Of
them are not content with an inter-
view there, but they stand around the
corridors Of the Arlington hotel,
where he lives, besiege the door to
the dining-room and break into his
rooms whenever they can. MIR. Han
ma cannot pass through the office OF
the hotel at any time of day or night
without running amuck of throng
of people who seek his assistance.
While he is good natured with those
who call at his Office, he does not like
to have people come to his rooms, and
hates still worse to be held up in the
hall. He tells everybody that he will |
be at the Glover building at certain
hours, and will he glad to see them
there, but they won't go.
For several days Mr.. Hanna was
pursued at the senate chambers, at
the hotel, and in the street cars by
Misunderstanding old gentleman who
would wait hours at time for
chance to speak to him, but Mr.. Han
ma was suspicious and usually man
aged to elude him. When the old
gentleman did get the advantage he
stood him off, saying:
"My good man, cannot talk to
you here, You must come to my Of
flee at the Glover building, and then
I will be glad to hear what you have to
say"
But the old chap pleaded for Gust
one moments conversation" he had
''just one little request to make" Mr.
Hanna is familiar with 'flittle re-
quests" and with people who want
Gust a moments conversation" and
has learned to dodge them. But he
finally succeeded in persuading the
old gentleman to 60 to the Glover
and take his turn with the
rest. After waiting couple of hours
the patient applicant was admitted
to Mr.. Hanna's private room, and you
can appreciate his astonishment when
he discovered that all he wanted was
a few garden seeds to send to his
daughter, who lives out in Ohio The
paper which he had been so long try
ing to persuade Mr. Hanna to read
was simply memorandum contain
lng her address and list Of the seeds
that she would prefer
The senator grasped the old gen.
tleman by both hands and exclaimed:
'My dear sir, is that all you want?
Can't / do something more for you?
Don't you want to be district attorney
or United States marshal somewhere
in the south? You are not going to
run off and leave me this way? ] have
had people up here ever since March
4 asking for foreign missions, and cab
met portfolios, and consulates, and
judgeships, and every other Office you
can conceive of, but you are the first
man to ask for garden seeds, and
will give you an order on the secretary
of agriculture for all l have got"
Mr.. Hanna dictated a note to the
secretary, gave it to the old gentle
man, shook hands with him cordially,
and asked him to come again-to
come often Washington Post
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-20
Ruskln's Garden.

Mr.. Ruskin spends several hours
a day gardening in a little green cul-
tiyated place in the middle of a nut
wood, which in spring is full of
datfodils and cherry-blossoms. Here
the professor admits no other toll but
his own, and is as proud of his gar
den as Of the great books which bear
his name on their title-page