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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12


did not scruple to make the best pos
Fsflle running. In the vast, sandy, bar
ren .solitUSfes nothing was heard but
the painting, rafting machine which
was the pioneer of new era.
The vultures circled round the trav-
elers as they went, wondering what this
strange invasion could mean, perhaps
'dimly feeling that this swift monster
had come TO rob them of many dead
camel or Arab sheik in the future. AT
Aumale, a large French military sta
ton, rs miles southeast from Algiers,
the sound of the explorers horns pro-
duced a scare among the native popu-
Iation. The natives fiocked out of
their huts and escorted the autocarists
to the authorities, who welcomed them
with every courtesy.
The return Journey back to the coast
was more adventurous. At Bonira the
road was swept away by torrent, ris-
ing from the rain. and they were
nearly projected over preciPice.
Once they came to a river, but drove
boldly into the flood. The bottom was
very rough and the car bumped from
side TO side, but after a most perilous
passage, being nearly swept away more
than once, they reached the other side
In safety. Their proudest achievement,
however, was the crossing of a ridge
of the Atlas mountains, through vast
snowdrifts, at the height of $500 feet
above the sea level.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12
THE HAGUE.
Similarity of the Holland Capital and
the English Metropolis

1t has often been noticed by Eng
lish travellers that the chief CONT
mental countries have more or less a
likeness to one another, Paris being
model which all have copied, while
continental travellers crossing the
channel find that England is unlike
any other country. Holland, however,
isnot like a continental country, form
ing a marked contrast with its
Frenchifed sister, Belgium. Hol-
land, if the Hollanders will allow me
to say so, is more English than any
thing else-not a bit French or Ger
man. An Englishman, after an alb
sence of several years from his home,
feels on coming to Holland all the ex-
hilaration of native air. Houses and
streets have a familiar look. The
corner of Groenmarkt (green-market)
and Hoog STRAIT, which, of course,
means High street, is almost exactly
Piccadilly Circus on a small scale;
the Vijver, or fsh-pond, is like st.
James; the Plein is partly Leicester
square and partly Haymarket; the
Westeinde, or West End street, where
the British minister, Sir Henry How
ard, lives, suggests Sloane street;
while further out of town the stranger
comes across little Bayswaters and
Cromwell roads, exquisitely tidy and
well kept. The Hague, however,
does not suffer from coal smoke.
The people, too, particularly those
of the working classes, look more
English than anything else, more in
dependent than the Germans, and
with easier manners. The young
ladies have fair, rudy cheeks, and
do not walk with the mincing gait
of the Parisienne, but, like their Eng
lish sisters, step out in long strides
that betoken a will and a purpose.
Natives do not pry upon the stran-
ger, nor gendarmes frown upon him,
and officers do not expect him to get
out of their way. Nobody will look
upon him as a suspect" merely be-
cause he looks foreign; but, on the
contrary, they are disposed to regard
him with sympathy. ] might in the
same order of ideas say that letters
are not opened at the post office, MOI
kilograms intercepted, and a good
many other things that are accepted
as matters of course in other CONT
mental nations, and degrading pas
sions, such as anti-Semitism, are as
foreign to the Dutch as to the Eng
lish national character. In fact, the
two kindred nations, allowing for
their unequal opportunities, have de-
veloped on parallel lines. The Dutch
war of liberation, which put an end
to the Spanish yoke, and the English
revolution are outgrowths of the
spirit Of independence inherited
from common ancestors. London
News,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12
The Worlds Big Crops.

The worlds average wheat crop is
2,500,000,000 bushels. Of corn
s,60o,000,0OO bushels are annually
raised, and of rye and barley, each
2,000,0C0,00O bushels. 1t is all an
nually consumed, and it may almost
be said that there is also an annual
shortage.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12

ION.


y susc- Il; that trade in the DIES.
~ "a Africa is going to under.
sftling revolution. The long
EFT. of camels, with their tinkling
~ tF- and white-robed drivers, may
Gritty become nothing but poetic
1memory and live only in verse, says an
exchange.
1t is the autocar which is to effect
this revolution, and the way has al
ready been prepared by the adventurous
tour of two Belgian noblemen, Baron
Pierre and Baron Joseph de Crawhez.
The tour lasted three months and ex-
tended over vast tracts of northern AT.
rica.
Baron Pierre is the winner of the
great Brussels-Ardennes-Spa automo-
bile race and it was with the same We
hiGle, which he has called the "Devas-
tation," that he undertook the journey
into Africa. From Brussels the broth
ers drove to Paris and from there made
their way through Spain, where they
took ship for Algiers. .'
They traversed the valleys and
gorges of the Owed Dilemma and made
their way to Sakkamodi after diff
cult climb of nearly 20 miles. At this
point the real novelty of the attempt
began
The brothers, as they encamped upon
the heights of the Tablat oasis, were
about to do what no one had ever beforei
attempted-to enter the desert upon
q motor car.
1t was with very varied feelings that
they slowly descended the heights and
came out, well provided with water and
provisions, upon the actual desert.
There are no policemen or traffic reg
ulations in the desert, and the drivers
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12
Thsy Don,t want Much Tuitionl

Fair Enquirer suppose you'll
paint your wife when you marry, Mr.,
Scramble?
Scrumble (rising artist)- hope
she'll have sense enough to paint her
self, Miss Ingenue. My Sloper. \,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12

Malice and hatred are very frett-
ing, and apt to make our minds sore
and uneasy.-Tillottson.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12

Before woman goes away for
the summer she always plans what
she will do when she gets back.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12

Large from Kansas
Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin. have been
afflicted, more or less, for quarter of
a century with catarrh of the stomach
and constipation; residence in Wash
ington has increased these troubles.
A few bottles of your medicines have
given me almost complete relief, and 1
am sure that continuation of their
use will effect q permanent cure.
Pe.ru.na is surely wonderful rem
edy for catarrhal affections.
J. d. BOTKIN.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-12

Account Colored Fair the Illinois
Ceatral r. r. Will sell round trip
tickets to Paducah, on Sept 2Stb.,
and 10Th, at rate Of one fare. Re-
turn Limit Sept. Goth.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29
Travelled in a Cnre.

A gentleman with very singular cpl
sode in his life has just died in China.
This was NJ. Piry, the ''father" of the
Chinese customs service, which he en-
tered when it was first formed by the
consuls at Shanghai in 1854. M. Piry
was a Frenchman by birth, and in his
boyhood went to sea. Being ship
wrecked on the Corean coast, he was
taken by the natives and dispatched to
the king at Seoul as great curiosity.
The king, possibly desiring to send a
rare and strange present to his suzerain
in Peking, put poor Piry in cage and
sent him overland to the Chinese cap
ital to the emperor. The latter, after
OBTAINING him some time, sent him
down to Shanghai to the foreign con-
suls, who gave him post suited to his
age in the newly-established customs,
and there he remained until his death.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29
PUHoaaTs PARAGRAPHS

Boy-"Ill carry that carpet bag Tor
dime" Uncle Josh"..Wall, guess Ill
20 you one better and carry it myself
for nothin'."- Cleveland Leader.
Teacher-"If man is so years of age
and his wife is half as old, how old
will she be when he is 65?" Student
''Nineteen."-St. Louis Republic.
''That man always keeps his weather
eye open," said Mr.. Cumso to his wife.
who is hep" HE 10 . forecaster for
the signal service" = Detroit Free
Press. t' N 7s'7
Teddy (who has just begun to go to
schooD-"Papa, do you know what six
boys and five girls make?" Eyes" an
swered his father, 50 racket. "-Har-
per's Bazaar. 3ish esr '
Hicks "'Aiiss Sweetlips has given
Tom the mitten." Wicks-"Well, it's
the least she could do, seeing the many
pairs of gloves he has given her.
Boston Transcript.
This Rapid Age.-Perey Quick-"Sir,
I love your daughter and wantto marry
her." The Father-"H How long has this
been going on, young man? Percy
Quick-"Oh, as far back as early yes
terday morning!"- Philadelphia North
American.
.'It's awfully late, }" remarked to my
friend, after long whist bout at the
club. "What will you say to your wife,"
ooh, shan't say much, you know"
was the reply. "'Good morning, DEAR
or something of that sort. She'll say
the rest. "-Roxbury Gazette. a
"Why do they have those glass cases
with the AK, hammer, crow-bar, etc.,
in on these cars?" asked traveller on
the railroad going to New York. ''Oh,
those are put there to use in case any
one wants window open,' replied the
facetious man.-Yonkers Statesman.
Father-"What! Another dress
makers bill? My dear girl, you should
fix your mind on something higher than
dress" Daughter-''So I have, papa.
I've got my mind fixed on love of a
hat in q downtown milliner's window,
and just think, it's only s19.9s. You'll
get it for me, won't you, papa dear?'
Chicago Daily News. s..0.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29
THE EMANc1pATED MIND.
An Antaeoni.tic Feeling IL sure to
Invite Antagonism in
Another. 't

Twas travelling with friend from the
south, who is one of the best fellows I
know. He is kind, considerate, chival-
rous and all that characterizes south
ern gentleman, but he has a false idea
of dignity in some respects and precipi-
tates controversy sometimes without
cause, and when he himself is to blame
in the matter. We were discussing the
theory of emancipation, and he agreed
with me on almost all of the points at
issue, in fact, to such an extent thatI
felt that he absorbed the idea fully,
when he said:
Eyes, it is true, and believe in it,
and I think have practiced it some
what, but can't stand impertinence
from niggers; they rub up against me
all the time, and annoy me terribly,
especially these Pullman porters."
eyes, said I in reply, you have at
tanned pretty good self-control and
have reason to be proud of it; you are
pretty nearly perfect man; the only
thing you are not superior to is mig
ger" The rebuke impressed him as
Iru1Sm InaC uau never OCCURRED 10 u11u
in that light before.
The truth of the matter is, and I have
had both experiences to prove it to my
own satisfaction, antagonism invites
antagonism. A fostered dislike or an
anticipated friction sends out shaft in
advance which rebounds and rebounds
with quickening vibrations. If one is
looking for impertinence from any
source he will be pretty sure to find it,
but if he carries mind and heart free
from prejudice, which is the condition
of emancipation, the shaft will not be
Embossed, and the disturbing vibrations
will not occur. I do not believe that
Pullman porters were ever discourteous
to Phillips Brooks or Edward Everett
Hale or Prof. Swing or men of their
caliber of mind; or if they were, I do not
believe that the impertinence made any
Impression on them except to excite
pity.-Horace Fletcher, in Menticul-
ture.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29

be no danger that he wouldsgo there
ngain and discover the absenoe o6 the
key. Hs p s.
That afternoon Sandy Movie and his
son, stout lad of is. paid q visit to the
church. Archie, the son, came out.
looking very warm and tired.
'.Better have let them do it, and then
make them smart for it, than to take
all that trouble" he grumbled. "Or
just give their fathers hint of what
they are up to-" a-
"since they are so fond of jokes, I'm
willing they should have q bit of one,
said the sexton, rubbing his hands,
gleefully. They'll catch it fast enough
for breaking the church window"
Rosy Movie stole out of the house
that night after dark and delivered the
church key into True's hands, receive
ing in return an amount of candy and
torpedoes that had cost q large share
of the boys Fourth Of July savings.
But they were all satisfied that it was
money well spent, for they had learned
from sad experience that the results
of breaking windows were never anus
ing. -.&
It was about half-past four o'clock on
the morning of the Fourth when the
three boys unlocked the church door.
It was very quiet for Fourth of July
morning. Now and then came the
banging of gun, the feeble popping
of firecrackers and torpedoes, and the
dismal shrek of fish horn; but there
were very few people astir. #
s'This stupid old town will get wax
ing up in minute now. And people
ought to thank us. It's burning
shame to have it so still. You may be
sure they're making things lively over
at Brownsville by this time"
Brownsville was a town on the other
side of the river, where the boys meant
to assist in the celebration after they
had walked up Cherryfeld.
"They won't thank us, you know"
said Tenney Cole. "Boys never are ap-
preciated."
! 81, don't expect it will be just ex-
actly thanks that we shall get" said
True, drily, as he turned the key in the
lock behind them. ANYBODY that's
afraid had better back out now"
Nobody backed out. Six hands seized
the bell rope. There was. ga long pull,
a strong pull and pull all together"
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29

here to look" replied True. and my
mother said might stay all night with
my cousins over at BorTowsville. She
won't expect me home TIL tomorrow,
and your folks will think you've stayed
with me. Anyway, they would never
think we were up in the church
steeple."
''But when she knows we're losA
Rosy Movie will tell, If she hasn't AZ
ready" said Tenney.
rs tt'She won't. She's too much afraid Of
her father to tell that she gave US the
key averred True.
'sBut he'll find out that the key is
gone, end then he'll suspect that we are
here" said Tenney, who was deter
mined to lopk on the bright side.
Next Sunday, maybe! We shall be
starved to death before then!" said
Rob, who was not proving himself as
brave as his desire for fighting had led
his comrades to suppose.
Somebody must have got wind of
what we meant to do, or the tongue
wouldn't have been taken out Of the
bell,' said Tenney: s.and no one could
be mean enough to keep us here for
long on the Fourth of july
SANDY Movie is mean enough for
anything" declared Rob; "and perhaps
they have only. taken the tongue out to
repair it, or something of that kind"
Sandy Movie meanwhile arose at five
o'clock and took walk around the
church. There was no broken window.
$50 they gaveit up, the young rascals,
and have probably gone over to Bor-
rowsville to do their celebrating" said
the sexton to himself, and felt a disap-
pointment that he should be denied the
grim satisfaction of bringing the young
rascals to justice. 'Wcll, Cherryfield
will be the quieter for their being out
of it to-day" he added, to console him
self. W.
If not exactly out of Cherryfeld, they
were certainly too far above it to inter-
fere with its quiet. A faint echo of dis
tant Fourth of July noises came tanta-
lizingly to their ears now and then. The
minutes dragged along heavily. They
had no means of telling time, and an
hour seemed like day; but night final
~ came, the dimness deepened to utter
darkness, and, stretched upon the floor,
they all fell asleep. Being boys, they
could sleep, although the floor was
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29

But no sound followed. They looked
at each other in silent amazement and
tried it again. They could feel that the
bell swayed backward and forward;
but it did not ring. What could be the
reason?
Somebody must have mufaed i'll" ex-
claimed Rob.
We'll go up and see what's the mat
ter, anyway" said True.
A long, long flight of steep and mar
row stairs led to the first landing in
the church steeple. Beyond that was
ladder leading to the bell loft. There
was trap door which they pushed
open, and all scrambled up to the loft.
'If here isn't go! The tongue is
gone from the bell!" cried True. ''Now
who do you suppose did that?"
"Rosy must have told on us. just
wish we hadn't given her all that can
dy," lamented Tenney.
The great bell hung there empty,
powerless to arouse any Fourth of July
enthusiasm, and looking as sad as if it
realized it's dumbness..
II should just like to catch the fellow
that did that" said Rob, fourishing his
fist at an imaginary foe, as he did so, un-
fortunately striking the trap door with
his elbow, and causing it to fall with
crash. It was somewhat dark in the
loft, now that the trap door was closed,
the only light coming from a little
round window, like portfolio in yes
sci, far above their heads.
"Lift up the door, Rob. We may as
well go down. Whoever took that
tongue out wouldn't leave it where we
could find it, you may be sure" said
True.
But when Rob tried to lift the door,
10 and behold! it stuck fast. The iron
ring which had once served as handle
was broken off, and there was no way
by which they could get sufficiently
firm hold to pull with any considerable
amount of strength. They tried to pry
it open with their knives, but only sue
ceeded in breaking them. And time
was wearing away, and the Borrows-
vile celebration must be getting to-
ward its liveliest.
tits of no use to holler. Nobody
could hear u.s. said Tenney, despair
ingly.
tits a pretty place to spend the
Fourth I'M" said Rob. with groan.
SLOW long do you suppose it will be be-
| fore they miss us at home and come tn
look for us?"
why, they'd never think Of Coming
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29
independence Day

Fling out the flag, the starry flag.
The banner of the free!
The symbol of the land we love,
The land Of liberty!
Our fathers with their willing blood
Baptized that banner gay,
So let 1t stream, its stars agleam,
On Independence day!
From brave New England's rugged shore
Washed by Atlantic's waves,
To western lands whose pebbly strands
The fair Pacific laves-
From Minnesota's swamps and swales
To southern hummocks gay,
Fling out afar the stripes and stars
On independence day! 81
Fling out the flag, the dear old flag.
The flag our grandsires won!
The emblem of the land we love.
The land of Washington!
The blood of heroes thrills our hearts
And bids us haste away,
To consecrate with fitting state
Our Independence day!
Helen w. Clark. in N. 7. Ledger.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29

hard and keen cravings reminded them
that they had gone breakfastless, din
nerless and supperless.
When True awakened, little shaft
Of sunlight shone through the small
window, away up in the dimness of the
steeple. It danced upon the cobwebs
that covered the dusty beams until they
looked ais if made of gold thread. A
great, long-legged spider was dragging
a hapless fly into his web. The SPIDERS
web had been partially torn away, and
the dust had been brushed from the
beams in the corner near it. There was
a little scaffold in the corner covered
with shavings and chips, evidently left
there when the last repairing was done.
But somebody had been up in that cor
ner lately. How otherwise could the
dust have been brushed away and the
SPIDERS web broken? True wondered
idly what anybody could have been
there for, and then sudden thought
struck him that sent the blood rushing
to his head, and made him for moment
feel faint and dizzy. In another mo-
ment he was climbing up those beams
nimbly as only a squirrel or a boy could
climb. He put his hand under the heap
of shavings and chips, and it touched
something very hard and cold. He
dashed off the chips and shavings with
which it was covered, and disclosed
the bell tongue. III.
True wanted to shout for joy, but he
knew that he needed all his STRENGTH
just now, and restrained himself. He
could not have lifted the bell tongue,
even If he had not been obliged to cling
to beam with one hand, but he could
draw it along to the edge of the scat
folding, and then with one mighty eff
fort, he pushed it off. It came to the
1oor with crash that seemed as if it
might arouse all Cherryfield, and GER
tainly did effectually arouse the two
sleeping boys, who sprang to their feet,
Rob with vague impression that it
was the report of a cannon, and that his
time had now come to fight something.
1t was happy moment when they
realized that the bell tongue was found,
though Tenney did grumble that they
ought to have been smart enough to
lind it yesterday" True thought that
it he hadn't been awake when that sun
beam struck the corner, they never
would have found it, for who would
have thought that anybody would car
ry it away up there to hideit?
1t was no small undertaking to re-
place the tongue in the bell. but, after
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29
She'd Rather Walk.

An old Irish lady thought she would
like to know what the probable expense
of her funeral would be, as she de-
sired to arrange for it, and thus save
all trouble to her heirs. PSF
The old lady, who suffered, sent for
Mr.. Blank, the undertaken, and said
to him: ssAfr. Blank, what would you
charge for funeral? I don't WV
want plumes and all s-s-s-sort of grand
things, but nice, plain hearse, without
any n-n-n-n-nonsense.' Ten pounds, y
replied the funeral furnisher. "Ten
pounds!" said the old lady. "Th-thank
you, I'd rather walk. "--London Spare
Moments. .4s Fy
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29
ce.feesse. q 3 leallleoaare.

A millionaire confessed the secret Of bic
success in two words-hard work. He said
he put in the best part Of his life in gaining
dollars and losing health. and now he was
putting in the other half in spending dollars
to get back health. Nothing equals Hostel
to the overtired body and brain. It gets at
the starting point-the stomach-and over
comes nervousness, sleeplessness, dyspepsia
and Indigestion. - rlfff
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29

With bursting cracker and roaring gun.
He walked the neighbors, every one:
He scared the cat out of all her sense,
And blew the stats of the picket fence.
And came to breakfast with one black eye.
And said: "Hooray, for the Fourth OF
July!'
He ate with hurry and frantic haste,
For never minute had he to waste:
Then out again. to the fray he sprang
And turned things loose with mighty
''bang!'
He fixed and spluttered and doomed and
crashed,
While dishes ratified and windows smashed;
And when, all grimy and sore and lame.
Torn and tousled, to lunch he came,
On his swollen lips was the joyous cry:
"Ain't glad it's the Fourth of July!"
All that day, till the twilight's close.
The powder-smoke from the garden rose;
AL day long. in the heat and dust.
Little Adelbert banged" and bust"
Till, just as the shadows began to creep.
He blew himself in senseless heap.
Burnt and blistered and minus hair,
They brought him in for the Doctors care;
But. late that night, he was heard to sigh:
II wish every day was the Fourth of July!"
Joe Lincoln. in L. A. W. Bulletin.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29

s'Uneasy lies the head that wears
crown" Guess SO. Any fool ought to know
better than to lie down with crown on his
head.-Virginia Etchings.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-29

Some persons chew chewinggum and
some eschew chewing chewing-gum. One
may chew or eschew chewing just as one
chooses.-L. A. w. Bulletin.