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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12
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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12
FoRSAKISG FRIENDS FOR ross.

Senator Kyle, OF South Dakota.
is one of those who apOs,atisrd
frem the Republican party lew
We re- ago aud joined himself unto
P0pulism. Following the example
OF Senator Jones of Nevada, who
quit the Republican party for the
sake of silver he has returned TO
his first love. events having salts
ged him that free silver is not
What the country needs. These
are just two conspicuous eSideuc.
rs of n general truth which has
been so often demonstrated that
ID bOuld not be necessary to even
refer To a. Ii is N truth which ap.
plies equally TO individuals aud TO
parties aud IL IL, that one cannot
afford TO slap bis friends la the
lace or the sake OF making favor
with his enemies. The Democrat.
ic party an the campaign of 1896
purposely alienated many OF It's
friends, expecting 10 aiu from The
ranks of it's enemies more strength
than u lost These new allirs stay
ed with " through Que eampai.
without doing II any Rooc; there
10 Little assurance that they will
be with il Ia another. Meantime,
the old friends. upon whom u
turned it's back for the sake Of
what It Ihoughl were new ones
where are theft
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12
LOCAL NEWS.

Circuit Court Will convene next
Monday.
Say Take your Hides, Furs and Game
to SHAW q SHAW.
There is an end 20 all things -ex-
cept ones desire for new things.
The City Council will meet in al
journed session next Monday night.
The man who weds an heiress clips
coupons from the bonds of matrimony.
The woman who marries a man to
reform HIM seldom lives long enough to
finish the job.
The steamer Ferd Herold put off
4, 800 SACKS OF corn at the new railroad
elevator, tuesday night
We learn that a Mr. Thockmorton
Will arrive IN hickman, IN week or
SO, TO organize brass band.
Every cloud may have a silver lin
ing, but the average man Is satisfied II
his pocket Is lined with silver.
This warm weather is good for the
small -pox infested towns, As the disease
thrives better IN cold weather.
There is woman in St. Louis so
tender hearted that she invariably chic
reforms her children before Furnishing
them.
The w. Q. L. US will meet at Mrs
h M. Isler's this evening at ? O'Clock
AL members are earnestly invited TO be
present.
H. +. Oliver. of MOrganield, has
purchased AN interest IN the Fulton
electric hight plant, and will become its
manager.
Whenever a man gets the best of a
bargain ne calls it cunning, but when
the other fellow gets the best of it its a
Daretaced swindle.
The next regular meeting of the
Hickman Building q Loan Association
Will be held at the court house next
Thursday night, 18th inst.
MIR. w. w. Meadows, the oldest
and most successful merchant of Fulton.
has sold out his entire business 20 A.
I. Kirk, and will retire from business.
Capt. d. Hudgens, of Maytield,
and well known 90 many in this cOun-
gresham Wheeler, ard has gone on TO
Washington.
-"Do you understand the nature of
an oathg' asked the Judge Il should
think / ought 70, said the nervous lit
tie man, 1--we been putting up stove
pipes for my wife ali morning"
The next meeting of the West Ken
lucky Baptist Ministers Association
will be held at Hopewell church, three
miles east of Arlington, on Tuesday
night after the second Sunday in Jan.
uary.
MRS. AGUINALDO-Emilio dear.
Mr.. AGUINALDo-Yes love what is
IL?
Cant you take little George Wash
ington with you and let him see you
move the capital to day?
There is a famine IN the oyster mar
ket. The delicious bivalves within a
few weeks have risen from IS TO 90 per
cent. in price. Cold weather in the
east, disease in the oyster beds AID ex-
traordinary demand are all given as
reasons why there is a scarcity Of oys-
tiers.
Speak of stuffing-frst the turkey
was stuffed with stuffing, then the kid
was stuffed with the stuffed turk ey and
the stufiing, and then the doctors peck
ct book ives stuffed with bills on ac-
count cf the stufhng that stuffed the
Turkey that stuffed the boy with stuff
ing and other stuff.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12

TIE Southern Field, the immi.
grafton journal of the Sonther u
Railway, observes that there are
several settlements of German
people already established at va.
riOus points on this line, and that
recently some Germans from Wis
consin purchased a large tract OF
land at Scottsburg. Va. where il
Is intended TO establish a co oper.
alive colony. the residents engag.
ing 10 farming and manufacturing.
The more Germans that come to
the South for farming and manu-.
featuring the better. They are an
industrious and law abiding pee.
pie and make good citizens wher.
ever they settle.
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"HOnest JOnn" HendrIck.

John X. HeDdTick leaves to-day
for Frankfort where he will begiu
the work of contest as chiei aitor
ney for the minor Offices. He will
be busily engaged for some time,
and is confident that be will ousI
she Republicans aud seat the Dem.
ocrats. Mr.. Hendrick is good
lawyer aud will no doubt do good
work for his clients. -Paducsh
Leader.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12
Found the Log Cabin.

AT the recent election n county
Democrat thought he had his col
Ored tenant drilled TO the point
where there was no mistake about
going straight under the chicken
When Sam emerged from the poll
ing place the anxious Democrat
inquired II he had fixed IL all right
Boss. | couldn't flu dat chickip
bat | sticks it right under her
house m-Hancock Clar.Ou.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12
Having Great Kun Of Chamberlain
Cough Remedy.

Manager Martin. OF the Pierson drug
store, informs us that he is having a
great run ON Chamberlaln's Cough
Remedy. He sells five bottles Of that
medicine 90 one OF any otner kind, 6nG
it gives great satisfaction In these
days Of In grippe there Is nothing like
Chamberlain tough Remedy TO stop
the cough, neal up the sore throat ana
lungs and give relief in very short
time. The sales are growing and all
who try IL are pleased with ITS prompt
action -Sonlh Chicago Daily Calumet.
For sale by Cowgirl a. Cowgirl. HEX.
man, and A. u Shaw, State Line, drug
glsts
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12

The project to build an electric
line from 81, Louis 10 Chicago. n
year or 80 since considered ~ a
go, has been revived again. Some
men in position TO control the
money needed are this time talk
ing the scheme up aud il isa reM.
sOnable promise for the year. II
Is cOntended that Sl5. 900 a mile
will build the line aud put II IN
working order aud that an equal
SUN will equip the line with de,
pot, cars aud other facilities.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12
STILL THEY AMT CLEAN.

Ii is not generally known that
Uncle Sam furnishes bis leglsla
tors with bath tabs and other PC
cessorles of cleanliness, but is
nevertheless fact. In the Ase
ment of the Capital building are
located the Congressional bath
rooms, where statesmen cleanse
their cuticle at the expense OF the
people. On the Honse side here
are fifteen tubs, while on the Sen.
ate side the number is sOmeshat
smaller. They are pstrOnized by
the members at all hours Of the
day Attendants are provided at
the expense Of the Government.
The fact that the bathrooms are
almost constantly occupied, indi
rates the extent TO which the
privilege Of tks free bath 10 80
preciated. Sc ators sand members
Who live al h els where an extra
charge is madi for a bath, usually
wait until they reach the Capitol
to enjoy this luxury. Not only are
the statesmen furnished tree baths
but barber shops are provided for
their use. These are we'll patron.
lied, a. no charge IL made, aud
the BARRIERS turn many an honest
penny. They receive good sala
ries from the Government, aud ri
the same time get tips from their
/ patrons. -Washinglon correspon
dent Chicago Tribune.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-01-12

TwENTY.PoUR U. S. Senators
are worth from one million TO
twenty million dollars each. Tsen-
ty.three of these millionaire Sen.
ators are Republicans and one
Democrat.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
HOW BEvERIDGE GOT THE PLACE.
He Needed the Money and H
Engineered Scheme that Won.

Robert Shackleton, in his sketch OF
Senator Beveridge in the Saturday
Evening Post, writes:
''The legislature was to meet and
there was a contest for the position OF
reading clerk. Young Beveridge was
desperately in need of money to live
on. A certain editor was to become
chief clerk and he would have the ap-
pointing of this reading clerk. He did
not like Beveridge and said he would
not appoint him if elected. Two
others were after the position and each
expected to get it, Nobody thougnl for
a moment that Beveridge was in the
race.
''He drew up paper and went per-
sonally to every member of the legls-
lature whom he had helped to elect,
and secured the signature of a majority
This paper was simply notice to the
prospective chief clerk that if he
would not pledge himself to appoint
Albert J. Beveridge reading clerk they
would vote against his election. The
consequence was that the editor quick
ly reconsidered his decision and young
Beveridge was made reading clerk
And, to quote one who was in the
legislature at the time, Beverage read
to beat the band all through the
session.
"a member of that legislature was
Charles Major, the author of When
Knighthood was in Flower. Although
a leading democrat, while Beveridge
was republican worker, they became
very friendly
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
DIED RATHER THAN WAIT.

Harry Webster of Cynthiana, KY,
went down to the railroad station one
day last week to bid his sweetheart
good-by. Her family was moving to
Cincinnati, and, like a dutiful daugh-
ter, she was going with them.
Young Webster, who is % years old,
begged the girl to stay behind with
him and let her parents go on alone
to their new home. She refused, but
promised to wait for him in Ohio.
Then, just as the train for Cincinnati
pulled into the station, he put his
arms around her and kissed her good
by. She fingered for moment with
her lover, while her father called to
her to hurry. Finally Webster drew
his revolver from a coat pocket.
'It's no use," he said, II can't live
day without you," and fired a shot
into his own breast. Then the train
pulled out.
The bullet lodged near Webster's
heart and the doctors say he will not
recover.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

would be looked upon as the real con-
queror of the Chinese empire. All for
eign nations that have made conquests
in China have become part of the
Chinese people-that is, instead of the
Chinese adopting the manners and
customs of their conquerors, the latter
adopted the manners and customs OF
the Chinese. The last people to con
ouer Climatic Manchus, who now
rule her-are as much Chinese as the
native population
The one thing that European nations
most fear is that if Japan were allowed
to become the most influential power
in China it might result in that am
bilious nation setting to work to de-
velop the military power of China and
thus become the most powerful nation
on earth. If this should happen, then
would lead her to attempt to conquer
the other nations of the world and
make the yellow races supreme over
the white. Lord Wolseley, the COM
mander-in-chief of the British army,
says that the Chinese soldiers who
fought in the war with Japan were
worthless fellows tramps we might
say-picked up by rich mandarins, but
he further says that the Chinese as a
race are splendid material from which
to make good soldiers.
The fear that the Chinese at the
present time might be able in the event
Of their driving white people out OF
the Chinese empire, to overrun Europe
is entirely improbable if not impossi-
BILE, in the judgment Of The Little
Chronicle, Chicago's bright weekly.
From Pekin to the frontier of Russia
is 1000 miles, thousand miles farther
than from New York to San Francisco.
There is only one railroad and that is
controlled by Russia and could be de-
stroyed more rapidly than an army
could move. The way is across a
country Of wild mountains and frozen
plains that are almost unsettled and
that could not furnish food, shelter or
provisions for an army, while the diff
ficulties Of transport would make it
impossible to carry supplies.
Russia is protected by the Ural
mountains, the Caspian sea, Caucasus
mountains and the Black sea. A few
thousand men could defend the fords
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
A LOADED MISSIONARY.


Belligerency seems to run in the
blood of Kansas. Writing from China,
Rev. Robert Mclean. a Kansas mis-
sionary, says: II have two good revolt
vers which I carried. Some people
are Mortified, I suppose, to know that
missionaries are armed, but for my
part they are welcome to their horror.
People who degenerate into brutes
and descend like fiends of hell upon
my family will meet as much cold
lead as is in my power to give them,
and if in the struggle l go to the
judgment bar of God I never expect
that to be among the things brought
against me- There will be enough
against me, but that won't be one of
them kansas City Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

ruler when he was getting wife. They
would have the emperor marry Wo-
man of royal blood or one extremely
aristocratic, and two Austrian prin-
cesses-Marie Antoinette and Maria
Louise became queens Of France.
Their fate was not an enviable one,
Louis Philippe affected to consult the
French people on the subject OF a wife
for himself, but his inclination was to
Princess Helen of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin. The French people raised
no serious objections, but the emperor
of Russia and all the German princes
protested They labored with the prin-
cess mother to have her forbid the
match, but she was easily won over by
Louis Philippe and the marriage was
consummated. She was happy bride,
but not for long happy queen.
Emperor Louis Napoleon did not SO
much as affect to consult the French
people before taking to himself wife
out of Spain, but they were we'll
pleased with his choice. She soon be-
came Immensely popular and was al
lowed to have, great influence in many
affairs of state. Toward the last she
had too much influence and helped
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

of the Ural river from hosts. To reach
Europe through Constantinople would
require vessels, which the Chinese
would not have, and even if they had,
the fleets of the nations assembled at
the Bosphorus and artillery in the
forts at Constantinople could sink
them as fast as they were loaded with
troops The possibility of the Chinese
pouring down into India is to be dis
missed The entire boundary of India
is defended by the Himalaya noun
tains and again by the vast rich table
land of Thibet with another range of
mountains to the north of that. There
would be only a few mountain passes,
at most, to defend.
The only way in which the Chinese
could ever overrun Europe is by the
slow process of migration, and that
could come only by the decay of the
white races. In other words the Chi
nese must first overtake us in point OF
civilization and become mentally and
practically our superiors, before ever
they could crowd us out and rule in
our places.
Since her war with China, Japan has
made more progress as military and
naval power than almost any other
nation in the world. Of the So, 100000
war indemnity she received from China
she has spent $29,000,000 on her army
and more than $5O,000,000 on her navy.
At the beginning of that war Japan's
army on a peace footing consisted OF
SO 900 officers and men. This has since
been increased to $4,000 on a peace
footing and $4,000 on a war footing.
Since the war with China she has
added four first-class battleships, six
first-class cruisers, and a large flotilla
of torpedo boats. Besides these she has
nine second-class cruisers, five third
class cruisers, ten coast defense YES
sells, two first-class and fifteen second
class gunboats, four dispatch boats and
a torpedo depot ship. The Japanese
navy is now larger than the Russian
navy. The naval and military officers
are as carefully trained as those OF
European nations. Japanese naval
students are to be found at Annapolis
in this country and in all the best
naval schools of Europe. Her new
warships are among the best that float.
Two of the new battleships are exact
copies of the great English battleship
the Royal Sovereign, and our own
cruiser Charleston was modelled after
the Japanese cruiser NaniWa.
Although Japan is not ranked as
frst-class power, she has the popula-
ton to give her that rank-44 100000
people.
At the present writing Japan takes
the same position as the United States
against the division of China, but
some of the European nations only see
in this an expression of Japan's am
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
GRAVITY NOT ALWAYS THE SAME.

1t has been found that the force Of
gravity at sea-level is not constant at
all points on the earth's surface-that
is pound is not literally a pound
everywhere. In some recent observa-
tons with delicate instruments. G.
A. Almonetti has found that in eleven
towns in Italy the earths attractive
force varied by one part of 10000.
This means that standard pendulum
5000 inches in length), which beats
seconds, would lose twenty-six minutes
each year by reason of this apparent
ly slight difference in the force of gra-
witty in these towns of Italy. A ton
of gold if weighed ON spring balance,
would differ in value by the loss of
weight theoretically by $50 at locali-
ties where the gravity was mini
num- The explanation given of these
variations Of gravity is the uneven
massing of the material of the earths
crust-Little Chronicle.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.

This is the ship of pearl which, poets
feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,-
The venturous bark that filings
On the sweet summer wind it's purpled
wings
In CULTS enchanted, where the Siren
sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun
their streaming hair
It's webs of living gauze no more I'M
furl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where it's dim, dreaming life was wont
to dwell,
AS the frail tenant shaped his grow
ing shell,
Before thee lies revealed
It's irised ceiling rent, it's sunless crypt
unsealed!
Year after year beheld it's silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the last years dwelling for
the new.
Stole, with soft step, its shining arch
way through,
Built UP it's idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and
knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message
brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea
Cast from her lap forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is
born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed
horn!
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I
hear a voice that sings
Build thee more stately mansions, 0
my soul,
AS the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy loW-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the
last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome
more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's
unresting sea!
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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each other better than either loves the
European nations.
All of which may mean that al
though Japan and China were at war,
they love each other better than either
loves the European nations.
This is the reason given by many
diplomats and military men why some
of the European nations were opposed
to giving Japan the power to go ahead
and attack China at the beginning Of
leader in the movement that country
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
LONDON SITS ON FRONT sToOP.

Another American idea has taken
hold in London, partly perhaps as a
result of recent exceedingly hot wealth
er there. In fashionable square the
doorstep of a society leaders home
was converted into an outdoor sitting
room one evening not long ago. Cush-
ions were scattered about in album
dance while just inside the hall door
stood a table on which were cool
drinks, cigars and cigarettes. These
were literally consumed by the family
and guests and the whole scene formed
an inviting picture to people across
the way.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
HIS IDEA WAS LITERAL.

An English schoolmaster recently
gave his pupils lecture on patriot
ism. He pointed out the high motives
which moved the volunteers to leave
their homes and fight for their
country The schoolmaster noticed
that one boy did not pay attention to
the instruction, and as a test question
he asked him:
what motives took the volunteers
to the warp
The boy was puzzled for a moment,
then remembering the public ''seend
off, to the local reserves and volun-
teers at the railway station, he re-
piled; Locomotives, sir. Scottish
American.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
THE YELLOW MENACE
EUROPEAN NATIONS JEALOUS OF
LITTLE JAPAN.
EXPLAINS MUCH
Progressive Islanders and Chinese
Thought to Be in League to Con-
trol Affairs in the Charlottesville
tiles of Them Overrunning the
Country to the Westward.

When Lii Hung Chang of China and
the Marquis Ito of Japan met at Shin
onoseki in April, 1895, to make a
treaty Of peace for ending the Chinese
Japanese war the following dialogue
is said to have taken place: Ii Hung
Chang: -'"The policy that should
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

ond son, the duke of Monpensier; and
in the end this was accomplished. But
before that the queen married Don
Fernando De Assis, who proved
worthless. consort. Such in brief is the
story of the Spanish marriage, which
conyulsed England and all Europe in
the middle of this century.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

Though Leonard Wood holds vol
unteer commission as brigadier gen
eral, enjoys that title and holds the
high position of civil and military
governor of Cuba, in the regular army
he has only his old rank, an assistant
surgeon, ranking as a captain, and is
below eighty-nine other officers in the
medical corps, only the head of which,
General Sternberg, holds a rank as
high as General Woods volunteer
rank.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
THE SOURCE.

Teacher: John, what are your boots
made off,"
Boy: "Of leather"
Teacher: Where does the leather
come from?"
Boy: From the hide of the OK
Teacher: 'What animal, therefore,
supplies you with boots and gives
you meat toeat?''
Boy: My father -Tid-Bits
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

bition to become later the ruling power
in China, which they fear might result
IN uniting the yellow races against the
white in war for the control of the
world.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24

rule the Asia
tic continent
is that we
should estab-
lish an en-
during peace
in order to
prevent the
yellow race of
Asia from
S u C C umbing
to the white
race of Eu-
rope. !"
M a r q u i S
Ito en-
dorse your
E x C ellency's
views hearth
ly. If China
will but make
an effort help
will come
from onhigh. !"
Allof which
may mean
that although
Japan and
China were at
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-09-24
FROM VERY OLD FAMILIES

An Engagement With Which State
craft Has Nothing to Do-A Love
Match After the Good Old Way
All Europe Greatly Interested-No
Politics in the Union.