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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-08-18
NATIONAL POLITICS.

There ia q perfect food of pc.
liticsl misinformation sweeping
oyer the country these days. Tue
newspapers are full of it, and the
alert newspaper correspondents
are theOrizing about it at Q rate
which makes one tremble = for the
future. 1t is generally conceded
that Mckinley and Hobart will be
the Republican nominees for Pres.
ident and Vice President respect.
lively. although there is dispo.
sitiOn in some quarters to sheive
Hobart because he comes from o
trust.breeding state, aud also be.
cause he is supposed to be on too
intimate terms with some Of the
larger combines Why Hobart
should be displaced on these
grounds and Mckinley, the father
OF the trust.breeding tariff, retain.
ed. 10 not very clear. The Repub.
licans, we are reasonably certain,
will stand or fall by the old ticket.
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Goebel Coming to Hickman

Through Mr.. Gus Coulter, the
announcement was made that
Senator Goebel and per h o y Q
Blackburn would make an ap.
pointment to speak in Hickman
sometime in September.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-08-18

Mrs. VI. Reneau and daughter. and
Miss Fannie Clay, have been visiting
in Union City this week. and are ex-
pected tn return to-day.
Mr.. Emerson is contracting 10 re-
place telephone poles with new cedar
poles, and otherwise improve his Hick
man exchange.
Our old friend, NJ. Amberg Will TAX G
charge of the Lady House, Paragould,
Ark, in September. The many friends
and public generally Will regret for him
To leave Hickman.
The Hickman Juvenile Cakewalk-
ers enjoyed a picnic at DIR. g. II. Hub
bard's country home, near the city,
Tuesday. That they had an immense
time, goes without saying.
Mr.. J G.. Hall, a prosperous farm
or, and an old Confederate soldier who
bears honorable wounds on his body, of
near Cayce, was, with his wife, visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Dick Irvine, this
week
Deputy Sheriff Geo. Carpenter,
aud DIR y j. Davis, attended the
speaking at Fulton. They report as
having been only confirmed and
strengthened in their preference for
Goebel.
A very large crowd, reported to us
rs one thousand, attended the Goe-
bel Blackburn speaking at Fulton, Tues
day They report enthusiasm high, and
that the "bolters, in numbers, are in
significant.
They commenced clearing the
ground and fixing the foundation for
the large warehouse and shipping depot
for the Tennessee river packet com
pany, "Wednesday. IL will be pushed
rapidly TO completion.
On next Sunday, the Lord willing,
! viii preach at II a. IN. and p. m,
ON the following subjects respectively ;
THE Deaconship" and Grow d e d
Out or 'No Room for Jesus. Every
body invited to both services especially
the night service. w, w HoRSER
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-08-18

Mr. Harry n. Pharr, chief engineer
of the St. Francis Levee District, now
employed AS engineer of the Hickman
&Tiptonyille Leyee, in company with
A. f. Eastwood, was in Hickman, yes
terday. Mr., Pharr is now engaged
making Il preliminary reconnaissance of
the several proposed routes for the Lev
ee About Sept. 10 the locating sur
vey will be made, and it is expected
that part of the levee work will be done
this year and completed next year The
Lake County Levee Commissioners will
be appointed by the Lake County Court
in September,
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Your Weight.

How much would yOor weight
amount to in Silver Dollars at 10 to the
pound? Would you like to have this
much? Well, then see our announce
ment of 1.-The Big Contest"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-08-18

A NEW party has been formed
out in Ohio on the platform of q
personal guarantee by it's leader
that the price of wheat shall not
be less than 81 for the next six
years. Criticisms that the guar.
antee may not be good are imper.
tinent.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1899-08-18

The Republicans open their
State campaign at London, In
Eastern Kentucky. Aug. 22d.
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F. IT, TYLER.
REAL ESTATE
ANDINSURANCE AGENT.

Spe, the selling of Real Estate of all kinds
and full line of the best and reliable Fire lnsur
State and that "Old Reliable"
MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE 90, that has already
paid 100000 Life Insurance and vicn
the aud best policy OF regular e
Company in this country lie socs
your pat onage Call aud see him.
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SANDERS & REEVES

Has the incest, up-to-date Il inch BUG
GIES. Come and get You one. They
are good goods, and SO cheap.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
MIND OVER MATTER.
uow "A Bcvy OF Girls Made Young Man
Uncomfortable.

"I hope that fashions' for women
have changed since last winter" said
a young man the other day to the edi-
,or of this page. "They have? That's
good, for was really made very miser
able last cold weather by some of
them.
"You see l boarded in q large house,
then, where there were numbers of
young women. / studied them very
,uriously, for / haven't any sisters,
and thought their ways rather pleas
mt. One thing noticed particularly
was that the first cool day in the fall
they rushed off and bought dark frocSs
and got out their furs and put feath-
ers on their hats and looked warm
and comfortable altogether, aud very
attractive, for you know 1 like the
winter girl. In the evenings they
seemed to wear good deal of red, or
some such bright color, and tell you
they were pretty.
''All went well, as the novelists say,
until we had some very cold weather.
| came in one snowy evening to din.
ner, when the thermometer was near
zero, and found the diniug-room-
we'll, not overheated. While l was
standing on the register trying to
thaw out sufficiently to enjoy my soup,
the door opened and in came the girl
who sat next to me at the table. She
was dressed all in white. Not party
white, but just what she wore in the
afternoons i'll summer, piquc, think
they call 1t.
"It's not good form to comment, so
| didn't say word. but that rustling
Of white stuff made me feel thousand
times colder, just to look at it. She
chatted unconcernedIy enough, but l
believe she was half frozen just the
same. AS each OF the other girls came
in the dining-room she looked at my
neighbor, started, looked again, us if
she had thought of something pleas
ant, and went on to dinner
Would you believe it, the next
evening every young woman in the
house had on white or pale blue or
something summery of that sort. I've
been trying to discover ever since why
they didn't freeze. Each one when
approached on the subject averred
she'd never felt warmer, but l no.
ticed they all kept near the register
and more than once heard chatter
ing teeth. I'll tell you this, l sut-
fered, if they didn't, and l hope 1
won't have even to look at such chilly
subjects this winter.
"Do you think will?" he queried,
sister woman eau hardly prognosti-
,ate, with any degree OF certainty,
what the members of her sex will do,
so the young man is still unassured.
Baltimore News.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Our foster nurse Of Nature is re-
pose. -Shakspere.
Peace rules the day where reason
rules the mind. Collins
Our hours in love have wings; in
absence, crutches. Cooley Cibber.
Wheresoever the search after truth
begins, there life begins. John Rus
kin.
Never regret what you can help or
what you can't help. Sir Charles
Trevelyan.
What do we live for, II it is not to
make life less difficult to each other
George Eliot.
BE your character what it will, it
will be known; aud nobody will take
it upon your word. Chesterfield.
Character is the stamp on our souls
of the free choice that we have made
through life of good and evil.--Gei-
kie.
Our chief want in life is somebody
who shall make us do what we can.
This is a service of a friend. EN-
erson.
Whosoever is satisfied with what he
does has reached his eliminating
point; he will progress no more.-F.
w. Robertson.
By flight alone we cannot overcome,
but by patience and true humility We
become stronger than our enemie s.
Thomas q Kempis.
There is in man higher than love
of happiness; he can do without hap
piness and instead thereof find bless
edness. Thomas Carlyle.
Our ideals are framed, not according
to the measure of our performances,
but according to the measure of our
thoughts. "A. j. Balfour.
When you find yourselves overpow-
cred, as it we're, by melancholy, the
BEST way is to go out and do some
thing kind to somebody John Ke-
BILE.
Though the star should be quenched
in moment forever, it is good that
the star should shine its brightest to
the last. This is the instinct of the
brave and healthy heart that is faith
full to its truest impulses. Phillips
Rrooks
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gems In California.

San Francisco Chronicle: 1t is a we'll
known fact that several hundred dia-
monds OF commercial size have from
time to time been found in connection
with gold placer workings In certain
portions OF this state. Within twelve
months twenty-seven stones have been
found in one placer mine on the Feath.
er river all but one being in the rough
and globular, while the twenty-seventh
showed a we'll defined crystalline struc-
ture. The largest of these weighed
but single carat. and the small octa-
hedral brilliant weighed but a quarter
of a carat, but all were stones of pure
water The recent discovery of zicron
sands close to the limits Of Oakland
has already been announced in the
Chronicle, but the discoverer is not yet
prepared to define the locality, prob
ably for commercial reasons. Near
Marvel. San Bernardino county, tur-
quoises have been found which in color
and quality surpass the Oriental gems
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nners Aro Nn1 Ariilleri.l..

All OF the Boer troops except the
comparatively few artillerymen, arc
what in this country would be termed
mounted infantrymen. They carry no
side arms. such as cavarymen have,
but depend wholly on their rifles. The
Boer artillery service is extremely
poor compared to that of other nations.
Recently German heavy ordnance ex-
perts were engaged TO train gunners
and organize an efficient service, but
they have not had time to accomplish
much. That, too, has been borne out
strongly in the war thus far, and its
future effect will probably be serious
for the burghers. The talk of sea-
port at this time is a serious drawback
to the Beers. They are unable to OBJ
tain anything outside of .heir own
country, and are obliged to depend on
their own resources. Chicago Rec.
ord.
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CURIOUS FACTS.
10th is announced.

Iron cloth is announced.
One hundred spoonfuls make one
quart.
The fashion of rouging the ears has
been adopted in Paris.
A Louisville (Ky.) man has little
house dog that chews chewing gum
with a relish.
Rain has never been known to fall
in that part of Egypt between the two
lower falls of the Nile.
The last Government census OF In.
dia showed 10, 900 girls, between five
and nine years, who are widows.
An entire family in Kentucky has
been wiped out within the last nine
years through death by accidents.
Eleven years after burial the body
of Niagara IN. W woman was dis
inferred and found to have been petri.
fed.
A ship of only $500 tons brought
from Para, Brazil, to New York City
cargo of rubber which was insured
for SO, 900, 900.
n ClOCh IN DCluB OOhSti uObON AOi
Liverpool Street Station, in London.
The interior Of it's case could allow
five persons to dine comfortably.
The worlds births amount to 36,
792, 900 every year, 100, 800 every day,
1900 every hour, seventy every min
ute and one and fraction every sec
ond.
A New York man claims to have
shot crane up in the Adirondack
that had forty-f five trout in its stom.
ach, none OF which weighed less than
II pound.
When native OF Abyssinia desires
to pay delicate attention to friend
or guest he produces a piece of rock
salt and graciously permits the latter
to lick it with his tongue.
A Calcutta paper contains an nc
count of the workhouse or asylum for
inGrm beasts aud birds that was es-
taolished some thirteen years ago by
society of influential Hindus.
A Chicago gas company has put its
collectors into uniform. The distinc-
tive feature about the dress is the
vest, which is of brilliant yellow, with
the company's name, in black letters,
across il.
In remote parts of Scotland the old
Coyenanters' love for long services on
the bare hillsides still fingers. At
Dingwall recent communion service
in the open air lasted from 10 a. M.
until 4 p. m.
A squirrel with four distinct tails,
each growing directly from the body,
was shot by hunter III Chautauqua
County, N. Y, recently. Ono tail,
six inches long, grew direct from the
spinal column; two were on tho left
and one on the right side OF this, each
being five inches long.
The X-rays, besides being used as a
detective for living smugglers, are
coming into play as mummy illumin-
ator and will prevent the Arabs from
palming off plebian clay as the genu-
inc, if not only, daughter of the
Pharaohs, even the amulets on the
breast being plainly visible.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28

Detection followed hard upon the
wondering workings of the Prophet.
Twice he essayed to walk upon the
water, in imitation of our Lord upon
tho Sea of Galilee, and each timo the
announcement brought crowd. The
paraphernalia in each case was the
same. A platform of planks was Sc
cretly constructed just under the sur
face of turbid water, but Providence
iutervened in each instance to con
found the plans Of the head Of the
church.
The first instance was in Western
Pennsylvania, and the spot selected
for the miracle was the still water
just below the breast OF dam. Some
mischievous boys surreptitiously re.
moved plank where the pool was
deepest, and Joseph, walking forth
on the water with the greatest assur.
ance, suddenly disappeared with o
loud splash as IL the devil in the
shape of some gigantic crustacean had
pulled him under. The second at.
tempt was in Canada, and a member
of the Baptist Church at Evanston,
Canada, who witnessed it as girl, is
my authority. In this instance the
rapidly running water had destroyed
the integrity of the invisible platform
and the Prophet had narrow escape
from drowning.
When Joseph Smith died the epoch
OF miracles reached its reducio ad
absurdum. Twenty-Five of the Saints
had direct revelations-each that he
was to succeed Smith. Aud in TWEEN
ty-four instances the Church turned
down" the Divine message.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
COLLECTING American oolns.

Strange as it may appear" said a
leading numismatic expert OF Wash
ington recently, 'the best Ameri-
can COINS for collections come from
abroad. This is because the best
preserved coins are those which have
been boarded Foreign ship captains
are very likely to receive them in the
course of business, aud having diff
Guilty in passing them in their native
land, are likely to put them aside.
partly as savings aud partly as curt
osities. Years later, when the captain
and his collateral heirs are dead, they
are fished out and get into the hands
of dealers Many years ago, besides,
it used to be the practice when child
was born to set aside a complete set
of the smaller coins of that date, and
frequently they were secured fresh
from the mint. III they were carefully
kept and have been handed down u
couple of generations, they are likely
to have premium value. New York
Post.
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searchIIght at Fires.

The New York Fire Department
will soon have as part of its equip
ment complete electric searchlight
plant on wheels, which will attend
fires with the other apparatus, and, it
is expected, will perform an important
part in saving life and property. The
searchlight will be used to illuminate
dark parts OF the street aud aid fire.
men in laying hose, erecting ladders
and also to light up the fronts OF
buildings where people may be in
danger, and to throw light into the
buildings themselves to aid the fire.
men in their work. The apparatus
will resemble fire engine in appear
auce, and will consist OF boiler, n
direct-coupled engine and dynamo
aud two searchlights, each wlth an
eighteen-inch projecting lens. The
lights can be used either from tue
machine itself or carried to any
convenient point, connection being
maintained by means OF hexiblo ca
bles. Electrical Review.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
Mid.hipmite of tho OLD soak walls"


Among other improvements in the
art of war, as attained by the world i'll
these later years, is the abolition of
the practice of sending children to
sea, as was the case when the mid
shipmen of the old "oak walls" of
England often were boys of less than
fourteen years.
The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava,
in telling about the siege of Bomar-
sund, in the Crimean war, which he
witnessed from the frigate Penelope,
tells this story of one OF these little
fellows: "What pleased me most
during the whole business" he says,
twas the gallant behavior of little
midshlpman, mere child, twelve or
fourteen years OF age. About the
time when the fire became pretty hot
happened to come across him, and,
rs he seemed to be as much out of q
job as myself, touched my cap, and
took the liberty of observing that it
was n fine day, to which he politely
replied that it was. Encouraged by
his urbanity, 1 ventured to ask him
how long he had been at sea, to which
he answered, Il have only left my
mamma six weeks, but / amt going
to cry on Her Majesty S q uarterdeck,
n remark which l think as worth re-
cording as many one made by more
illustrious heroes. Soon after this,
however, man was killed close to
him, and the little fellow tainted, and
was taken below"
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where LearnInr went WRONG.

Some Vienna savants were lately
confronted with language difficulty.
According to the Independence Beige,
young girl, unknown, was found
unconscious in a street at Presbourg.
and was conveyed to the hospital at
Vienna, where she recovered con-
sciousness, and began to speak in n
language which no one present could
understand Tho doctors came to the
conclusion that the young woman was
a native of an Eastern country. Con-
sequently some professors from the
Oriental School were called III, and
they were all agreed that the girl did
not speak a correct language, but a
dialect. The Professor of Persian
held that she spoke Persian dialect,
and that he understood it, Another
professor was Of the opinion that it
was an Abyssinian dialect, A third
was convinced that it was Turkish
patois. Since the savants were not
agreed, the police deemed it necessary
to make inquiries, with the result
that the stranger was proved to be a
Hungarian, who had escaped from q
prison, and who did not understand q
word of Persian, Abyssinian or Turk
ish London Globe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
Old Map of the United states.

State Librarian Galbreath has just
secured another valuable addition to
the collection OF relics at the library,
map of the United States, made in
the year 1896. The map was found
in an old book shop at Philadelphia,
and was formerly the property of u
gentleman who was for years in the
employ of the Federal Government.
1t is made from copper plates and is
mounted on heavy linen. On the
chart Ohio is territory with rather
vague outlines. Cleveland is not to
be found, and Cincinnati is designated
MS Fort Washington. Sandusky is
the only city of any great prominence.
The Eastern States are shown with
substantially the same boundaries as
they have to-day. Georgia extends
as far West as the Mississippi River,
and the Southern portion OF Florida
is apparently unknown. Lake Michi-
gan is much too narrow and Lake
Huron is far too broad. At the lower
corner is a curious picture of Niagara
Falls. Mr.. Galbreath has discovered
another chart of the United States,
drawn in l774, and it will soon be
sent to Columbus, Columbus Jour
nal,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28

American refrigerating machines,
American pumping machinery. an
American dynamite plant, 150 miles
of American railroad, laid with Ameri
can rails on California redwood sleep
,ers and American water lines, are
some of the Yankee products to be
seen at the South African mines.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28

A Morgan County Mo- young mar
has built up large business in tame
quail, which he claims are more easily
raised than chickens and far more
profitable, selling for 81 per dozen foi
meat, or at So per pair as pets. The
eggs hatch we'll, either under quail o,
common hens.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28

There are little Industrial comm
ties in small Massachusetts towns that
are practically without any work to
do as result of the policy of the
trusts in closing down the smaller or
the less pretentious mills. The public
mas heard but little OF these cases, as
generally the mills are not large
enough to secure much notice in any
single case.-Boston Advertiser.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
PRETENDED REVELATIONS.

A revelation came to Joseph Smith
that induced him and Rigdon to fly
On horseback at midnight from Zion's
stronghold. The Sheriff had secured
q warrant for their arrest the preced-
ing afternoon, and the next morning
he sent out after them with an armed
posse. He pursued them for 200 miles,
clear to the western border OF the
State. 1t was found that the caldrons
contained only single layer OF coins;
the rest was sand. And the two heads
of the church had made away with
$40, 900 that did not belong to them.
Another Ohio scene introduces the
same figures. The time is four years
previous, and a respected Christian
lady in Clinton, Ia., who was an eye-
witness as girl, is my authority.
The two men had been conducting q
successful revival. At an afternoon
air meeting, ON clear day, Rigdon
was urging that the era of miracles
was not yet passed. He pointed TO q
large tree and said substantially: "If
God should strike that with lightning
from an unclouded sky it would attest
the truth of our religion" The peo-
pie looked at the tree and he went
On. A little later he repeated the
statement, when, sure enough, there
was a mighty report and the tree went
into thousand piecesl Some persons
tainted, and multitude was ready to
oe converted, but few ng-headed
men made an investigation and found
that the tree had been blown up by
powder placed there the night before,
and that Joseph had operated the
fuse. This scene ends like the fore
going, with the two heads OF the
church in flight FROM the community.