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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
PASSED CENTURY MARX.
Probably Oldest COlOred rlan in
County Dead.

Sam Cornelius, COL, probably the
oldest man in the county, died
Tuesday at his home on the Butter
milk road, FIVE miles north of the
city. He was los years old and
had spent rs years of his life in
Christian county. For several
years he lived in Trigg county, near
Wallonia. He was born in the Old
Dominion, but come to Kentucky
when a boy.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
MERCHANT ASSIGNS.
Liabilities Less Than $SoO-As-
sets About 5000.

w. H. Miller, trading and doing
a general merchandise business at
Gracey under firm name and style of
D. d. Dickinson, filed a deed of as
signment yesterday morning. Judge
w. p. Winfree is named as trus e.
The liabilities are $3.50; assets
about 5000.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
TWO DOZEN LICENSES
Issued in Two Days at Clerks
Office This Week.

There were "a marriage licenses
issued in the Christian county
Clerks Office Monday and Tuesday
of this week. OF the number eigh-
teen were issued to colored people
and six to whites.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
BOB TAYLOR COMING.
Will Deliver His New Lecture
Here Jan. 10.

Ex-Gov. Bob Taylor, in his new
lecture, "The Old Plantation, will
be at the Opera House Jan. 10. He
will have with him male quartette
of plantation singers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
JaiIer-EIect Qualities,

Mr.. John Boyd, jailer-elect Of the
county, qualified yesterday, with
Messrs. J c. Johnson, II, Fl. GolaY'
and w. II. Long asvsuretiess (,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
Old FiddIers For Henderson.

Messrs. John Morriss Dir. n. r,
Bourne, Judge M. d. Brown and
Percy Hord, will go to Henderson
this morning to attend,an Old Fld-
dlers Contest tonight. There win
also be matinee to morrow after.
noon.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
RESUMED WORK.
cadiz Railroad Being Pushed ana.
New Coach Arrives. fs

After lay-off OF len days, work ,
has been resumed on the Cadet all Z
road, which locks five mle.of com.
pletion. A new passenger Coach,
purchased for the road, arrived
Sunday at Gracey.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27

Washington, d, G. Dec. 26.-
For kentucky, Kahn tonight
Rain 10 Easttrn portion Friday,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-27
Accused Persons Retained.

Mr.. Beckham is calmly ignoring
the demand of his own party papers
for thorough investigation of the
Hopkinsville hospital scandal. The
persons accused by DR.. Mccormick
still hold their positions, and there
seems TO be disposition to let the
affair drop in the hope that the
people will soon forget Louisville
Post.
Clean the Augean Stables.
There ought to be thorough in
The age-herald., 1901-11-22

where it stood there will soon be a political white belt in which white men alone will do the voting. If the Banner will permit truce of fe1 short months, The Age-Herald will agree to demonstrate this proposition. Else why, pray, did the Black Belt insist that representation under the new constitution should be on the basis of population? The reason why is plain enough in Alabama, and we may be pardoned for trying to make it plain to the somnolent Tennessee mind. The fond hopes of the valued Banner touchin and appertainin' to Lowndes in particular and the Black Belt in general will not materialize. That section is tired of dishonest cleo tions-tired of negro voters-tired of the old constitution that the Banner of Nashville, Tennessee, and the Con servative Democratic party of Ala bama are hugging so desperately. They should read Governor Jelks proclamation, and cease warning with the inevitable.
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
Snow and Cotton Blooms.

All across north Georgia and throughout the up-country sections of South Carolina snow fell on Tuesday, and in many a cotton field it was difi- cult to distinguish the open cotton from the product of the sky. In Co., lumbia it began sleeting at daylight, and the precipitation soon took on the form of snow, which fell steadily throughout the day. This was the case in other parts of middle and up- per Carolina.
 A snoWstorm so early in the sea son was novelty in both Georgia and South Carolina, and it came when very few cotton fields had been fully picked. No particular harm was done to the open cotton, but the mixture of snow and open cotton is unusual and will be long remembered.
 A correspondent mentions the fact that many fields presented when the snow came green plants bearing blooms. Cotton blooms and snow are an added novelty, for blooms in the last days of November are no more expected than snow falls are.
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
PUBLIC ROAD COMMISSION.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 Apropos to the visit of the expert road builders to Birmingham. Mayor Drennen has offered a suggestion that bears di- rectly upon road improvement and will meet with general favor His suggestion is that the next legislature create the office of public road commissioner, whose duty it shall be to supervise public road building in Alabama, and to assist county boards in the matter of floating road bonds to the best advantage.
 Better country roads is the need of the hour and sooner or later the general pub lie will make road improvement as popu- lar as the improvement of the public school system. Any movement. there fore looking to better public thorough fares will m eet the cordial approval and the earnest assistance of the people ire spective of the money spent in such work
 But good roads are not necessarily ex pensive. It would be an easy matter to work short term convicts on. the county roads and secure greater benefits to the people than can be had in any other way from that class. 1t would not be neces- sary to take each convict at once to the road; they might make bond until their services were needed and in that way it would build them for less money than the older roads cost.
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
Hon. Thomas L. BuIuer.

Everybody in our district is satisfied with the result of the election for the ratification of the new constitution, and everybody is happy over the general out look, political and material" said Hon. Thomas l.. Bulger of DadevIlle.
 Colonel Bulger spent yesterday in Birm- insham on legal business, and he must have succeeded in his ease" for he seemed especially happy just before boarding the late afternoon Central of Georgia train for home. He was the ideal of good health and good spirits. and he declared that neither during the pro- longed session of the late constitutional convention, fin the heat of the hot weather" nor since when. during an ac- tive canvass for the new constitution, in the framing of which he was so con spicuously and honorably prominent, had he known "a days sickness"
 Colonel Bulger looked well and in the best of spirits as he said. "Our people are all right"
The age-herald., 1901-11-22

in the world-buggy-wa rubber-tired. spick-and-span. whatever that may mean.
 The noble beast bore himself nobiy, ehamping his bits and going a good seven miles an hour, seeming to disdain every other object in that crowded street.
 The whistler whistled braYely and beautifully. wholly unmindful of the ad- miring horse and the admiring passers- by. He was the embodiment of selfish glee. his white teeth showing now and then as the beautifnlest of pearls as he broke the flow of his entrancing melody to say "Gwon," his noble right foot resting outside on the right step of the buggy, after the manful custom of the noble who do dwell in this valley and who occasionally take My Curl out buggy-ridin' "--in plain English, their young women driving. He was the soul of motion. the poetry of eiiergunce. as became whistler from whistlersville- whatever that may mean or wherever that may be! The glorious though soft ened sunlight fell upon the quietly yet exuberantly graceful and fascinating lineaments of his superb face and lit up the proud soul of song bursting into melody. It was might near sublime.
 "Gwon!' the proud whistler-chariotee cried in his proud glory, and onward swept the noble steed out the northward way. And the whlstling of that entranc- ing national anthem, q Dunno Wy Love Yer. But Do. Do," rolled out in misunderstanding sweetness. filling the circumanbient air with it's songful soulful threnody in grand harmony. It was might near sublime.
 That whistler from Whistlersyille might have won the envy of every gall lant gent who whistles in private houses or public, who charms the approaches to my ladys chamber and thrills through hotel lobbies into adjacent barrooms. He was the typical whistler. this whistler from Whistlersville. for he was a coal black nigger boy.
 He was might near sublimel
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
sPRlNkLINe sTREETs WITH OIL

Pensacola. Fla, November I.-Tuesday morning several progressive citizens of the most thiclsly-populated portion of the city began the daily work of sprinkling the streets in that immediate neighborhood with crude oil, imported from Texas. The greatest satisfaction has been given by this experim ent, and 1t will be con tinued for the purpose of keeping down great clouds of dust which are raised by passing vehicles, and besides being very owners in the vicinity referred to have for some weeks been conducting a quiet correspondence with localities which have already tested oil as n means of settling dust, and so many favorable replies were received that 1t was mutually agreed to purchase a quantity of oil and make test. Tn accordance with this agreement a sum was made up and the first con- signment of twelve barrels was ordered. This quantity arrived yesterday, and 1t was placed on the dusty streets as soon as possible, and last night the projectors of the scheme were quite jubilant over their success, and what was intended as an experiment has become a sure thing, and will be followed as circumstances demand. Among the replies received which recommended the use of oil as a sprinkler was a very nice letter from the chief executive of Waco, Tex
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
Public Lands and Public Schools.

There are still 100000 acres of gov ernment land in this State, despite the attacks of special interests upon them. Not long ago there were 300,000 acres, but special interests have grabbed 100000 acres, leaving but one-third of the acreage of five years ago.
 Before other special interests arise to gather in this remnant will not some Congressman start bill to give the land remaining unsold to the public schools of the State? Black children as well as white children would thus be benefited, and the Republican vote would thus be conciliated.
 The trouble in the way is, there would be no one to lobby the bill through. But why should not two Sen ators and nine Representatives put it through, thus saving remnant of the public lands to the children of the State? These lands are not paying the yearly expenses of their care and sale, and the government will not op- pose such a bill. It can be readily passed if the Alabama delegation will take an interest in it. But what is everybody's business is nobody's par ticular business, and so there is dan ger that the rest of the public domain in this State will be grabbed by this or that interest, and the 21,000 chill dren of the State will get no benefit from it.
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
Gold Exports and the Banks.


 The government is buying it's own bonds at exorbitant priees-about l40 ---and is placing its surplus in favored banks, receiving on it no interest what ever, and this policy makes money easy-makes the rate of interest so low in Wall street that stock gambling goes on unchecked. This is not all, however. For the rate of interest is so low here money is transferred to Europe, where higher rates prevail. The government is thus the agent that induces gold exports.
 The surplus in the treasury is nearly 175 millions, of which amount 112h millions is held by the favored banks. This vast sum taken from the pockets of the people in indirect but no less drastic taxation yields no income to the government, however much it may yield to Secretary Gage's chain of pet banks.
 There is too much taxation and too much buying of bonds not due. There is too much coddling of the national bank system, which not adapted to the wants of the country outside of it's large cities. The refunding of bonds Into two per cents was done to per petuate the national bank system, and at every turn that system dictates the Financial policy of the government We ,inflate the prices of our own bonds until they are sent back from Europe to be sold Europe cannot afford te hold them. We inflate the currency a home in every possible manner, partl, for political and partly for speculative purposes. Bonds come back and none, lis drug at home. Gold goes out be cause the bonds must be paid for and the rate of interest is higher across the sea. The surplus is too large, and the national banks too much in the saddle.
 What we need is revenue tariff on honest lines only, and banking sys- tenn that is not dictator to the gov ernment. The government should go out of the banking business, and the ten per cent tax on circulation should be repealed. The entire monetary sys- tenn needs to be reformd on popular lines. and the monopoly of the national banks abolished.
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
INVESTMENTS IN THE SOUTH.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
 We gave an account yesterday of big investments that have just been made by Pennsylvania capitalists in Avoyelles parish. There have been many similar investments of recent years. but none exceeding in importance this latest one. It includes the immense area of 109 900 acres the development of which promises to add millions of dollars to the wealth and production of the state. The land purchased Is rich bottoms covered with a heavy growth of hard wood timber. The first thing to be done will. of course. be to clear the land, and this will give plenty of work for the sawmills and turn out millions of feet of timber. Then, when the place Is cleared. it will be de- yeloped to cotton growing and will be laid off in one of the largest plantations of the world; and one of the most pro- ductive, for there are no more fertile lands. none better adapted to the cul- tiyatlon of cotton than the rich bot toms of the Mississippi and Red. It is further contemplated to erect cotton-seed oil mills in order to utilize and crush the seed output or this big plantation; if not to erect a cotton mill that will .con- vert the lint directly into cloth. To do all this will call for very large capital of several million dollars. all of which will come from the North to aid in the development of Louisiana.
 Encouraging as this investment is. we may expect many others of like character as soon as the possibilities of the South are fully realized anu 1t is shown what good returns capital is assured of here. There Is an abundance of money in the North seeking investment. and we believe it can and win be demonstrated that mo- where will 1t return larger interest than fin the states of the Southwest.
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
Reasons 5oy Thinking That He
 NeUer LiOed on Y5000 Q Year

pecially now that it is laden with the rich fruits of boundless prosperity which flows from a nation whose outstretched arms reach out over half the surface of the globe.
 Whatever has been President Roosc- velt's income, the nature of his neces- slties has made it very small, and in truth he has been obliged to live as thriftily and modestly as if 1t were true that he enjoyed but the income of a well-1aid clerk What a man has in this world is not what it costs him 10 live decently. What he has Is what is his over and above his absolute neees- sities A private mans means are like a business mans prohts-they arc "what is left over" That is the true view of the case. and in that light tho President has ever been poor man.
 In addition to his small income from his estate he has enjoyed occasional short seasons under salaries for public service small salaries always. But this source of his revenue has been less than what he has earned with his pen. Fortunately for all of us who read books and for tunately for his fame and for his capa- city to enjoy the making of books, he has been obliged to turn into literature al- most everything he has known and done He has written his ranching experience as hunter. he has cashed his knowl- edge of his native city in the form of his tory he has turned his hours of pleas ant study into new literature in such forms as his life of Cromwell, he has even made a book of his short and spirit ed experience as soldier. His necessi- ties and his literary gift joined hands in forcing him to do this And it is we'll for us that this was the case.
 Thus has Theodore Roosevelt rounded out this much of an active, useful, ex- emplary life. He has given us the benefit of his good birth and strict training whenever he has held olace. He has set our young men of means a needed ex- ample in choosing a public career He has emphasized this in exchanging tho civil for the military service when war was afoot. He has done everything that was good ana true ant worthy, but he has never done the impossible. He has not lived on $5000 year.
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
Defends the Stane.

Howard Kyle, who is playing the lead ing role in Nathan Hale" and who orig mated the principal part in Way Down East made speech after the perform ance of Nathan Hale.' in Savannah Monday night, in which he replied to an attack on the stage made by Rev. Robert Van Deyenter. The sermon was preached before the presentation of Way Down East in Savannah. The minister de- clared the stage to be an evil institution unworthy of Christian patronage.
 MT. Kyle said in reply:
 "When a man condemns whole insti- tuition. roundly, it is rot difficult to rcfuta his assertions. Perhaps this clergyman did not know that the theatre was born of the church. and that even to this day the church relies for some of it's best eff fects upon the drama. What could have been more dramatic than the spectacle of John the Baptist, emerging from the wilderness. clad like Ingomar in camel skins and attacking the conventions of the day?
 .'of course, there are good and bad in everything. Nobody can deplore more the ephemeral success of some salacious plays designed to make money for some manager than do the respectable mem bers of the dramatic profession Scarcely anything is made up of unmixed evil or of unmixed good.
 Virtue itself turns vice. being misap-
 piled.
 And vice sometimes by action dignifed; Within the infant rind of this small
 flower
 Poison hath residence and medsin power.
 "The truth is." continued MT. Kyle, 'ft is not the vicious plays that ever endure. They may have a little temporary suc- cess. but the success soon fades, while plays like Rip Van Winkle.' The Old Homestead and Way Down East live in the affections of the people.
 "who can say that vitalized story, presented in dramatic form on the stage, is not more effective than the same story told in a didactic way from the pulpit?
 Tt is not we'll to condemn the stage be- cause there are some salacious plays any mere than it would be well to condemn mankind because of the presence of po- litical corruption. or the golden age of English literature because some of its writers wrote immoral poems or lived immoral lives. For my own part. have met with more real kindness and charity from the vagrants of the stage than from some of those who imagined them selves their betters and set up to be their critics.
 "'In men whom men condemn as i'll find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine,
 find so much of sin and blot; I hesitate to draw the line
 Where God hath not "
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
WHAT I LIVE FOR.

I live for those who love me,
 Whose hearts are kind and true; For the heaven that smiles above me,
 And awaits my spirit. too, For all human ties that bind me, For the task my God assigned me. For the bright hopes left behind me.
 And tho good that can do. I live to learn their story
 Who suffered for my sakes To emulate their glory
 And follow in their wake. Bards, patriots. martyrs, sagen. The noble of all ages, Whose deeds crown history's pages. And times great volume make. I live to hold communion
 With all that is divine; To feel there Is a union
 'Twixt natures heart and mines To profit by affliction, Reap truth from fields of fiction, Grow wiser Nfrom conviction
 And fulfill each grand design I live to hail that season
 By gifted minds foretold, When man shall live by reason.
 And not alone by gold: When man to man united. S And every wrong thing lighted. The whole world shall be lighted
 As Eden was of old. I live for those who lcvc me,
 For those who know me true; For the heaven that smiles above nc. And awaits my spirit, too: For the cause that lacks assistnnca, For the wrongs that need resistance For the future in the distance,
 And the good that I can dA
The age-herald., 1901-11-22
R0oseVeH'S Mcome

Julian Ralph in New York Mall and
 Express.
 It is not difficult to make me believe anything good, of President Roosevelt and I want to believe what I read of him in a friendly newspaper the other day. That is the statement that up to his becoming President his income was only 5000 a year. His wifes' similar income was also mentioned, which seemed to me both irrelevant and in bad taste. Truly, dear fellow scribes, we ought to draw the line somewhere. and the inner edge Of the line out to be at a mans hearth stone
 want to believe that the President lived on s100 a week all his life because It is creditable to him, and it would con Rey 10 us that our new President is one of the simplest and most modest of the great men of. our generation. Rut I have a private and most excellent reason to, believing that his income was larger And have another reason besides. which is that he could not possibly have man. aged on the sum stated.
 The President inherited a quarter of a million of money which at per cent. would return him $l0000 year income. That would not be nearly sufficient for him to maintain the tastes, the comforts and the position in society to which he was born For our President was moi born to rude or primitive conditions, but came Into the world member of proud stock in a great capital possessing-in those days especially-an exclusive and elevated society. From his majority un- til now he has maintained his place in that circle with a town house much of the time and a country house, with the minor elegances. the books, the come companions and the amusements called for by his training.
 Far from there being a tinge of snob- bishness about him or his circle, the facts are such that there can be no right minded man in the country who is not thankful that so well-bred and highly polished gentleman occupies the chair at the head of our national table, es-