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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24
The January ..Amerlcan Boy.


The January number OF the
American Boy is before us and 10
variety of matter and beauty of IL
lustration, excels any number pre-
viously issued of this best of ali
boys magazines. There are some
thing like one hundred illustrations
and it has a beautiful illustration
on front page of cover entitled
Skating by Moonlight. =
A full page is devoted to comic
pictures entitled "Just for Fun.
AS clean, spring, entertain
ing publication, this certainly ex-
cells anything published for boys.
Subscription price $l.00 a year.
Published by the Sprague Publish
ing Company Of Detroit, Mich.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

Arch Duchess Elizabeth, of Aus
tria, has renounced her claim to
the throne in order to wed Prince
Otto Won Winder-schgraetz. She
took, name and all, last Wednes-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

The House Committee has report
ed favorably on bill for the cleo
ton of United States Senators by
'tne people.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24
sawmill Wanted.

Wanted to buy a second hand
saw mill, in good running order.
Would take 10y wagon with it
R. F. RIvEs, k. F. D. No. !,
Hopkinsyille, Ky.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

The Illinois Central railroad, al
ways in the lead, will supersede
telegraph wires with a telephone
system for the operation Of its bust
ness. Other roads will watch the
experiment with interest.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

The last formalities IN the cleo.
ton Of Senator McCreary were
complied with Wednesday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

The Jim Howard case will 60 to
the jury to-day. Another convic-
tion is confidently expected
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24
OPERA HOUSE
Jan. %,
GOrtOn'S r.".-.
Al White MinStrelS.

JOSEPH GORDON, Founder s. Prop'r.
C. c. PEARL, Manager.
&c. w. VREELAND, Advance Rep.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

The erection of a new capital
building at Frankfort does not look
like near probability.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24
500 Reward 500.

The readers Of this paper will be
pleased TO learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able TO cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh beng con-
stitutiOnai disease, requires a con-
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tarrh Cure is taken internally. act
ing directly upon the blood and mu
co1s surfaces Of the system, there
BY destroying the foundation Of the
disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the consti-
tuition and assisting nature IN do.
ING its work. The proprietors have
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that they offer One Hundred Dol.
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

Miss Gertrude Meadors, of cadiz,
Is visiting the family Of Mr.. w. h.
Anderson on Jesup avenue.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24
JANUARY "a, 1902
ANNOUNCEMENT
We are authorized to announce

OF Christian County, as a candidate for railroad
Commissioner in the First Railroad District Of
Kentucky, subject TO the action Of the Demo-
cratic party. Election Nov. 1908.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-24

Mr.. Allen D. Wallis returned
Tuesday from a business trip to St
Louis.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
THE MANITOBA WAY

Any ten Manitoba farmers by acting to-
gether may compel the railways to build
a fiat house for the storage Of grain,
wherever they may designate, provided
there is no regularly equipped storage
elevator within twenty miles. This is
under the new grain act
The Canadian government does not in
tend that the farmers shall suffer again
as they did last year, through the inabil-
ity of the railroads to carry the wheat,
and the lack of storage facilities at pri-
mary points. Yet even this concession
to the farmers is but temporary expedi-
ent at best. A country that turns out
such wheat crop as the Canadian north
west produced last year, must have ade-
quate facilities for handling it. The
work of building new elevators is now in
progress at many points, and some of the
work is backed by American capital.
The advent of the American grain man
in-the Canadian northwest and. the bring
ing Of the American grain centers into
close touch with this great empire will
hasten the day when the handling Of the
Canadian wheat crop will be reduced to
the same state Of quiet expeditiousness
that now prevails in Minnesota and the
sDakotas. @4 81
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
NEW BOOKS

LATTE of Louisiana. BY Mary Devereaux,
author of From Kingdom to Colony" etc.
Illustrated by H. c.. Edwards. Boston: Lit
tie, Brown & Go.
Jean Lafttes character has suffered some
what from both legend and alleged history,
and Miss Devereaux has prudently reviewed
and sifted the record, and in this volume
embodies what of the mass Of history and tra-
dition she deems nearest the truth, mingled
with scenes which have fitted before her
Imagination.
We have at first very interesting intro
duction Of Jean as a boy playing with an
other. in the garden OF the Tuileries. where,
being set upon by a bully, he is rescued by
Napoleon, then subleutenant, and the
friendship Of the two begins. A few years
later the French Revolution began, Jean S
family having left Paris to live at their coun-
try home In Languedoc, where Jean feveled
in the tales of adventure he found In the
library Like other noble families, the La
fttes were attacked and driven from their
homes, but Napoleon, then general, be-
friends Jean, who later goes to Louisiana and
the West Indies where his eventful career
begins on sea and land, and he falls in love
with Rose de Cazeneau, daughter Of the count
de Eazeneau. This lady is the heroine of the
story, and the course of true love does not
run smoothly with Jean for some time. Mean
time Napoleon 8 fortunes fail him and Jean
goes to see his old friend at Elba, and after
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
Books and Authors
a e As'faUEsTIoN Z !. OF SLANG

| ), Joaquin Miller, in a recent talk about the
late Bret Harte, published in the New York
Times said that he had found in Harte 8
mountain and mining camp stories deal OF
slang which is never found except In Dickens,
| who found 1t in London. Harte's gamblers,
Miller said, he had never seen in real life.
Joaquin ought to know, for he has tbeen
there; but what if Harte invented a lot of
mining region slang, used slang caught up
in otter regions, or worked In some Of Dick
ems dlsjolnted English, and didn't stenograph
the literal syllabilation? 1t doesn't really
make thimbleful Of difference from the sci
entifc, genealogical standpoint, or from the
standpoint of a reader, who wants to be
amused and finds what he wants in Harte's
stories. 1T would be a very uncomfortable
thing if we have to verify the correctness Of
the, local lingo of Nevada and California
miners and cowboys, wouldn't it? Why, even
Dickens Is seriously charged with manufac-
turing most of the Language he uses in his
stories, commonly called cockney' dialect.
He has built an extensive scope of cockney-
upon a veritable but rather slender dialectic
peculiarly. Take the stories with spurts of
negro dialect written by many Americans.
Most of them would be pronounced grossly
defective by an expert in this dialect who
knows every verbal clipping and phonetic
usage in it as 1t is actually articulated among
the mass of the southern negroes in the gulf
states. "A comparatively small number Of
authors outside the south itself manage to
write negro dialect "as she is spoke" Yet,
so long as many readers. don't know the diff
ference there is no use making a fuss about
1t, is there?
The primitive mining camp community
was about what the same community is to-
day. It is composed OF men and some women
of warious nationalities, and naturally there
is a variety Of slang used in ordinary conver-
sation, curious word combinations, etc.
Harte's mining stories do not suffer par
ticle by reason Of any non-confor,mity to pre-
else and answering verbal and syllable liter
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
The WISCONSIN BATTLE

Now that the uncertainty surrounding
the first caucuses in the gubernatorial
battle in Wisconsin have been Cleared
away it appears that Governor La Fol-
lette has won the first 5skirmish, instead
of losing it, as appeared at first. He car
ried all three assembly districts in his
own county, Dane, got one district s. in
Whitehead's county, Rock, got the lions
share of the delegates in Fond du Lac
county, and has elsewhere held his own
or better. So that so far as these first
caucuses are omens the signs may be said
to favor the governor.
Now former Governor Edward S.
Scofield has come forward and offered
himself as candidate on whom the
f1ercely warning factions can unite. He
seems to think that the cool heads of the
party in both the LaSFollete and stalwart
factions can unite on him. But that. can
hardly be. His candidacy is already ac-
cepted as anti-La Toilette. There is lit
tie hope of any compromise at this stage
of the fight. La Toilette must win or be
defeated. Any compromise that gives the
nomination to another than La Toilette
would be defeat for the governor. He
has everything to lose and nothing to
gain by a compromise. y E.
Wisconsin will continue to be a dark
and bloody political battle ground until
July 16-and, perhaps, afterwards.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
SETTLED AT LAST

The news of the passage of the Morris
bill will be glad tidings to many Mime
sofa people. Because 1t closely affects the
contents Of their pocketbooks, the people
of the towns to. which the Leech Lake
reservations are tributary, and especially
of the village of Cass Lake, will be par
ticularly elated. The national park for
est reserve and forestry people will be
pleased, because they have got much
where they once stood a good chance to
get nothing. The lumbermen will not be
so we'll pleased as they would have been
with the bill amended as to the method
of selling the pine. but after all they will
get the pine; and pine Is pine in Mime
sofa.
AS consistent advocate of a forest res
Aervation in these Indian reservations T h Q
which it has advocated ever since it took
on its present compromise form. While
rconceding that the lumbermen were en-
titled to respectful hearing as to methods
of disposing of the pine. it has appeared
to us important that the bill should pass
less Of the provisions as to sale. It in
volyed too much of risk to put the bill
over longer.
On the other hand the villagers and
prospective settlers were entitled to early
and definite disposition of the question Of
opening the reservations, which have been
ceded ever since 1889. The Morris law
for, the senate will accept minor amend
ments and the president will sign the bill
will put an end to the ancient dead and
down controversy and scandal, will save
10000 acres Of pine land intact for for
estry purposes and will: give to forestry
225, 900 acres more, of which all but per
cent will be cut over.
Judge Morris deserves great credit for
his skill in formulating and pushing this
bill. He has exhibited a conciliatory
spirit and was broad enough, though rep
resenting the commercial interests at
stake, to agree to compromise which,
while conserving present business inter-
ests, saves something for the business Of
the future, preserves some grand forests
for public use, and begins practical sys-
tenn of public forestry in Minnesota, a
state where tree crops will always be i'm
portant, though now regarded wholly from
the standpoint Of harvesting to the exclu-
sion Of planting.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
adherence to the Nicaragua route Still.

adherence to the Nicaragua route. Still,
ii the Panama canal is found free from
legal obstacles, these opponents may yield
to question OF urgency and public sem
timent pressure may change their views
The minority of Senator Morgan's COM
mittee on interoceanic canals reported
last March that they had found no obsta-
cles in the way-of satisfactory transfer
OF the property and franchises OF the
Panama Canal company, and that, while
the consent Of Colombia is necessary to
validate transfer, such consent could no
doubt be obtained. So far, Colombia has
shown an ugly temper, after notifying
Secretary. Hay that she was ready to ac-
commodate US. She claims rights and
RELATIONSHIP the Panama canal which our
government cannot recognize. This OBJ
stacle may be removed by further negotia-
tions. Our. government is perfectly will
ing to pay the Panama Canal company
$40,0O0,000 for its plant and franchises,
but it will insist upon reasonable terms
likewise from the Colombian government.
The nation would like to see this long
pending canal question settled at last and
settled in the right way.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
GETTING TOWARD THE CANAL

In the senate yesterday the Hepburn
Nicaragua canal bill was laid on the ta-
BILE and the spooner substitute was adopt
ed by the vote Of AZ to 81 with an amend
ment providing for an issue of $13O, 900 900
2 per cent gold bonds to pay for the con-
struction work.
This action, of course, does not insure
the construction of the canal, for while
the Spooner substitute for the house bill
provides for a canal via ,the Panama
route the condition Is added that Sit satis-
factory title cannot be secured from the
Panama Canal company, and, if reason
able and satisfactory terms cannot be Sc
cured from the United States of Colombia
for right Of way Nicaragua shall be the
alternative route. The measure, after
amendments, was passed by the decisive
vote of 81 to 6.
Whether this bill, which makes the
Nicaragua route the alternative in case
the Panama route is found handicapped
by defective titlesor Colombia makes OBJ
jectionable terms of right Of way acqui-
sition, wilEmeet with acquiescence on the
part Of the house remains to be seen. The
vote in the senate shows that the fact
that the Panama route was recommends ed
by the Walker commission of experts af-
ter practical and exhaustive engineering
investigation, has brought conviction to
the thoughtful, while there is little doubt
that the insular eruptions in the West
Indies and the earthquakes in Guatemala
and the symptoms of renewed activity in
two Of the Nicaragua volcanoes have had
considerable influence in diverting sup
port to the Panama route, where no very
disastrous earthquake has been expert
enced since the middle Of the seventeenth
century, The house supporters Of the
Hepburn bill have declared that nothing
could induce them to- reeede from their
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
OTHER PEoPLE's NOTIONS
Reversed Flags.

To the Editor of The Journal. 55.lS& !
have been expecting some criticism in
your paper in regard to the decoration Of the
Swedish Tabernacle at the graduation ex-
ercises of Central and South high schools.
1t is strange that no one Sin authority no.
ticed that the twenty or more beautiful
American flags used were every one used
wrong side up. We are supposed to teach
our children patriotism in our public schools,
and yet If such an insult had been offered
our flag in foreign country it would almost
have been considered cause for war. It is
almost past belief that In all that large COM
pany Of teachers and pupils no heart was
stirred at the, insult to our flag, and 1t was
allowed to remain two evenings before two
large audiences who were, at least. some
of them, SO indignant that the pleasure Of
the evening was spoiled.
~ - IA Lover. of the Flag.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
A SHANGHAI EXPOSITION

Whether or not it Is a proper object
for a government appropriation there can
be no doubt that a permanent United
Senator McCumber of North Dakota pro-
poses In "a bill now pending in congress,
would be a great benefactor Of American
trade in China. The Chinaman does not
buy by catalogue illustrations and de-
scriptions. He must have sample of the
goods before he buys. This is a lesson
that our consuls are forever trying to
teach us. And 1t is not only the Chi
nese, but all peoples not familiar with
American goods that need permanent ex-
positions to educate them to the good
points of these goods. -.
It would seem, though, as if there were
enough American firms interested in
pushing their Chinese trade to be able to
erect and maintain such an exposition
with private funds. It would be nothing
more than a collection of selling agen-
cies under one roof literally equipped
represented. 1t is the manufacturers and
not the United States government that
will benefit from the extension Of trade in
the east. If the manufacturers wish to
extend their trade they ought to be will
ing to make the efforts to extend it
that the peculiar conditions in China re-
quire. -
OF course it can not be maintained that
the government has no. right to assist
trade in such a manner, for the assist
ance of trade is the chief purpose OF the
consular system. A government owned
and managed building would have the ad-
vantage that small manufacturers would
be assured Of space whereas building
erected by a combination would likely
soon be barred to all but a few. =
The Shanghai idea is not new one.
It was lbroached five or six years ago by
Colonel M. r. Jefferdes, who expected to
realize his plans very soon, but did. not
succeed. If the government does not take
up the plan, J. J. Hill may be expected
to use his private means to further a
scheme which will mean so much for his
new trans-Pacihc steamers.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
He and
"n~~s,>k&>

men of every creed and calling" He and
Joliet discovered the Mississippi. Marquette
made the record when the expedition IN ca
noes swept out of the Wisconsin river into
the broad current Of the Mississippi and he
gazed with RAPTURE upon the scene-''.a joy
that cannot exDress-'' The Details Of his
further journeyings and mission work are
very interesting. There are fac-similes of
his maps and a page of his journal, end.
among the illustrations, are the scenes at his
death and burial at St. Ignace and a photo
Of Trentanoyes statue of Marquette, now in
the capitol at Washington. There is a nonu.
1nent of rude character above Marquette'A
grave on the old mission site.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
THE LION, THE JACKAss AND THE
Y FOX

The Lion, his Beasts OF Prey, and Other
Public Servants, had the Entire jungle Con-
trolled for Revenue Only: and the Jackass
was one Of them. All other Citizens Of the
Jungle being Monkeys, the Work was Easy.
But the Work of the Jackass must Needs be
Coarse, and Caught in tie Act, he was Ar
rested and Arraigned, and the Fox Defended
him. Hard Hit on the Trial and Conscience
Smitten, the Jackass Brayed for Mercy.
'I done the Trick quoth he: "But I am
Innocent The Lion got it All. Il,
Deeply Affected by this Glowing Tribute the
Lion addressed the Fox. Behold. the Deep
Despair Of the Jackass at his Unmerited Dis
grace! It .Grieveth me sore, His Tone of
Voice How Sad if he should Make Way with
himself! !'Ss5 81 s,s.
.'Most Sad indeed responded the Fox.
And the Jackass Jumped his Bail and Dis
appeared the Very, Next Day.
ALAS! He hath Killed Himself" quoth the
Fox. They Always do That when They are
innocent
''Nevertheless Let him be Discharged from
the Publica Service" Quoth the Lion In just
Indignation.
Moral--And the Lion and the Fox went into
Solitude and Wept Bitterly.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20

When the figures are presented the
$500, 600, 900 bill for the suppression Of the
insurrection in the Philippines, Of which
we have heard so much, dwindles to $780,
900 900, and good part Of that represents
the cost of the support Of a part OF the
army that would have been maintained
at home if not in the Philippines. Con-
'sidering that war has been conducted for
three years and that part of the time
there have been 10000 men in the field,
the bill is small one. At the same rate
the war in South Africa ought not to
have cost the English much over half a
billion, instead of billion.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed.

Casually observed. t@5Fsst
Our Uncle Loren is said dncautiously to
have placed his thumb under the parliament
airy trdphammer.
Every time King Edward acknowledges a
slight ache. anywhere, the cable company de-
clares an extra dividend 5H$
/, Noroeck having gone, the disappearance OF
the Hooper diamond will be laid at his door,
Perhaps 1T was Norbeck who caused the Sc
we're confusion on the person OF Mr. Patter-
son. = = s-'.r. 49,
All the curhstone and cigar store detectives
now have pockets full OF assorted clues to
give away for the asking.
Bishop Nicholson Of Milwaukee has issued
a pronunciame against tobacco Tobacco
is bad, but rope is worse.
A Minneapolis medium having located Nor.
beck at White Bear. a good reliable White
Bear medium should be called on to locate
him in Minneapolis.
The beet sugar senator's of Nebraska are in
the position of a man who has received q
paving stone by express, charges not prepaid
Anarchists at Paterson, shot a reporter
working for the Morning Call because he was
taking a picture Df their little murderfest
Some one ought to take the anarchists aside
and show them by argument where they are
wrong. ...
1t took eleven innings of baseball Wednes.
day for the Kansas City hoGpers to beat the
peerless young giants of the northwest.
Every one was glad he was not there,
The The mayor 81 paterson, N! j., instructed
the police to shoot anarchists and rioters who
smashed property and threatened "the torch. ;!
After this the anarchists stayed under cover
and drank their beer with corrugated trows.
If, as claimed, Mr.. Hooper's diamond, sto-
len first by the gang and afterwards by some
member of the detective force is now adorn-
ing the person of the admipistration Venus,
Mrs. Carrie Emerson, why not take the dia-
mond from the lady and return it to Mr..
Hooper, from whose person it was teloniously
abstracted? .5 80 -.
Those were moments Of sorrow at the ball
park yesterday. Curtains of gloom hung over
the bleachery as the chill north wind and the
Kansas City ball team swept through the en-
closure. The pitcher from the pig and corn
metropolis of the southwest breathed, on the
ball once or twice. and thereafter 1T slipped
over or under the bats pf the 1nillers in q
way we despise. And then the Armour cham
pfons did not do anything but hit<the ball on
the apex of the jaw every time 1t attempted
to pass the home plate They had the leather
very groggy in the third inning, and after
that 1t Nortecked over the fence with most
disgusting regularity. Baseball may ibe all
right for some minds. but for genuine ex.
citenent give us ping-pong with Artie War
mock, the chamoeen OF the fourth ward, al
the end OF the racquet. -,s1a<
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-20


upon the staring little Simmonses and the
pallid wife, over whose face a gleam Of hope
seemed to flicker, he departed, tearing down
the road at a breakneck speed, if bound
for a dying patient. - ~.
Hanged if know what ails the old chap"
he unused as he galloped along. "How is a
doctor going to prescribe for an idiot who
can't give clearer account of his feelings
than "a dull, heavy misery in his bones?' -
But Ben Simmons mended from the hour
that DR.. Bledsoe took charge of his case
Strength and courage and health seemed
rolled up in those wonderful pills, the fame
OF which spread through the backwoods Mis-
souri, town. -. =.
The Doctors visits soon ceased at the Sim
mons cabin, for Bob Simmons, after long
months of diseased liver, indiscrtminate pat
ent medicine taking and confinement within
the four walls of the bedroom into which
the breezes of heaven were never permitted
to enter, had come forth a well man. Tc the
doctor, he confessed, Bob's convalescence was