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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20
LA SOUFRlERE'S STREAM.
rIOst of the Estates OF ST. Vincent
Destroyed and Fatalities are
Placed at 2 900.

Fort de FRANCE, Island of Marti-
nique, May 13.-Business here is
suspended. The people of the city
have assembled in the churches,
and the Cathedral, where special
services are being held for the St.
Pierre dead, has been thronged
since daylight.
The United States Government
tug Potomac leaves here tonight tor
the island of st. Vincent, where
conditions are said to be worse. La
Soufriere, on st. Vincent, was in
full eruption May 10, A stream of
stone and mud half a mile wide was
then issuing from the volcano.
Stones two inches in diameter fell
tao miles away.
AT Kingston, the capital of the
sland, the ashes were two inches
deep. On Sunday, May II, zoo
dedd were reported
1t is estimated thatthe total num-
Der of dead on st. Vincent reaches
1000. Most Of the seven estates on
The island have been burned to
lshes, and Il is authentically re-
ported that two earthquakes oc.
;urred there, 1t is believed that
the submarine cables in st. Vincent
nave been broken by the disturb
lnces. The present volcanic erup.
ion on st. Vincent is the first since
1872.
Gov. Hunt, of Porto Rico, has
asked Louis H. Ayme, the United
States Consul at GaudeIoupe, who
now here, what assistance he
iould render, Gov. Hunts offer
has been communicated to the Gov
-rnment, which VIII gladly accept
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20
A TEXAS WONL Err.
HALLS GREAT DISCOVERY,


Que small bottle of Halls Great
Discovery cures all kidney and blad
Ter troubles, removes gravel, cures
diabetes, seminal emissions, weak and
anne backs, rheumatism and all ir-
egularities of Il e kidneys and blad
Ter in both men aud women, regu.
ates BLADDER troubles in children. II
lot sold by your druggists, will be
sent by mail on receipt Of 81, One
small bottle is two months treat
nent and will cure any rase above
mentioned. DR.. E. w. Hall, sole
manufacturer, 2. o. Box 629, St
Louis, Mo. Send for testimonials
Sold by all druggists and 7. u. Arm
,tead,
READ THIS.
Hopkinsville, Ky, June 7, 1901.
This is to certify that l was
troubled with kidney and bladder
diseases for three years and found
to relieve me until l tried
Hhe Texas Wonder. Halls Great
Discovery, which has given me
positive relief, and l think perma-
1ent cure.
JAS. NJ. HIPKINS.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20
Access Becoming Easier.

London, May ia dispatch to
he Reuter- Telegram Company
rom Fort de France, island OF
Martinique, says that access to the
-own of St. Pierre is becoming easi-
er, but that today the activity OF
the volcano seems to be Increasing
The scenes within the dead citv
IRE strange and gruesome, says the
dispatch. In the section of the city
tnown as the Moullege, no sign OF
hre is visible, but teverythIng seems
70 have been rent and scattered as
though by a tornado. The iron
0edsteads in the hospital are twist
ed, but there are no marks of heat.
The bedclothes and all textiles in
the hospitals simply vanished.
About 200 corpses have been
found in the streets of St. Pierre,
most of them lying face downward.
The central quarter of the town
and the fort are buried several
yards under cinders. In the neigh
Oorhood of the creek several houses
we're found intact, but their inhab-
ltants were all dead and appeared
to have been killed by lightning.
Here the bodies are lying, sitting
and reclining in curiously hfe-like
attitudes.
All possible sanitary precautions
have been taken at St. Pierre, con-
cludes the dispatch, but the stencil
there is awful.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20
UpIroIstering.

Furniture repaired, upholstered,
vanished, cleaned or polished.
Carpets sewed, umbrellde repaired
and recovered. Prices reasonable,
30 years experience. All work
guaranteed. At Pyle's furniture
store. w. A WOODS.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

New Haven, Coun., May r.
Prof Henry S. William, Silliman
professor of geology at Yale, this
afternoon in discussing the Mar
Unique horror said:
"There are many extinct volca-
noes in the western part of the
United States and they are liable
10 break forth again at any time.
There is evidence that they were
active at least a few hundred years
ago, for there are in existence the
,tumps OF trees that were destroyed
At the time Of this activity. The
yolcanic explosions were due to the
water getting into the cavities on
he earth and coming in contact
With the heated rocks. These eX-
plosions were frequently in the
vicinity of the sea or rivers. Mar
Unique is surrounded by the
ocean.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

Potter College, Bowling Green,
closes May Is. The address to the
graduates will be by Senator Far
banks.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

The Park City Daily News has
put in a Merganthaler typesetting
machine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

Tickets will be sold at one fare for
the round trip to Nashville on May
5th, 9th, and 7th, final limit June
2nd. account Conference NJ E.
church.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

FoR SALE-A scholarship in Ell
ther of three OF the best business
COLLEGES in the South. If interested
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

Q "a - n CS R Ia.
ara tba lh8 Kind You Haze AgaYS B0aQk
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20
THE GENTRY
MAGAZINE
will make Of 1902 a year Of
HUMOR
Contributors
To the Year of Humor

Mark Twain" F. p. Dunno ('Mr. Dooley').
loel Chandler Harris ('Uncle Remus'') Edward
". Townsend ('Chimmic Fadden''l }, George Ade
'aul Lawrence Dunbar, Gelett Burgess, Frank
z. Stock ION, Tudor jerks, Ellis Parker Butler,
yarolyn Wells, Harry S. Edwards, Chester
iailey Fernard, Charles Batteu LOomis, Oliver
ieriord, Elliot Flower, Albert Bigelow Paine,
beatrice Herford
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

The Twice-a Week Courier-Jour.
nal is the best paper published in
the United States for Democrats, and
for all readers. 1t is the equal Of
many dailies, and the superior of all
other semi-weeklies or weeklies
Henry Watterson, editor. .
The Wednesday issue is devoted
to news matters, the Saturday issue
to the home. Sample copies sent
Tree on application. Address
COURIER Journal Co.,
Louisville, KY.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

belongings together ready for a
hasty exodus should the action be-
come more violent.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1902-05-20

A B. HANOsN g. p, Chicago,ILl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
The Charm of Dickens.

SATURDAY nSNloW.
The century would have been immeas-
urably poorer without Dickens. Let lis
rejoice. with Mr.. Swinbourne, In having
him for an everlasting possession: but
let us enjoy him for what he was and
is and not for what he was not and no
one can never persuade us he is. He Is
first of all. one of the most spontaneous,
opulent, overlooking, generous humorists
the world has ever known; a humorist
to be set with Aristophanes las humor-
ist), Cervantes and Shakespeare His hu-
NOR never depends upon formula. Read
a page of "Pickwick" or one of Mr.. Mi
cawber's speeches; then turn up anything
you like OF Mark Twain or any of the
innumerable professional humorists Of to-
day. The one Is fresh, can be read and
laughed at a dozen times; the other
wearies you, even while you laugh, and
you can only get through the book by
earnest effort. What other wit sever in
vented such a saying as that of Mr.. Wei
Ter. the elder, More widders Is married
than single Vimen." II Is noteworthy
that this is also a stroke of true char
acterization. Who does not remember the
wooden measure with which Mr.. Wegs
retailed nuts at the street corner a
measure with no perceptible inside,
supposed to represent the penn orth as
fixed by Magma sCharta? 1t is all carl
cature, but what rich, buoyant, u1forced
caricafure! And. after ALL caricature has
its place in the system of mundane things.
Aristophanes was a caricaturist. Ceryan-
ties was and so was Shakespeare. They
were something more than that. So was
Dickens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
RECoRD-BREAKINa CATCHES.
A Peculiar Stream in Louisiana that
- Is Crowded with Fish.

Is CrOWQeQ Win Eleu' o.,
New York Sun. :
In Northern Louisiana is a peculiar
stream called Old River 1t used to be the
bed of Red River, but Red River made
one of its cut-offs, alluval soil damaged
the mouth of Old River, and 1t has lain
forty years landlocked at both ends with
no inlet ana no outlet.
For fresh water 1t depends entirely up
on rains. All sorts OF water vegetation
have grown up in 1t. In places 1t Is
choked with esweeds; In others old drift
wood forms bridges across It; in others
there Is only a few inches of water and
healthy thing, and at certain seasons
throws OF enough miasma to kill a ma
zion, N-. ~ ~
yet this water dark and stagnant. ex-
tending for miles with an average width
of hundred yards, is populous with bass
finest fishing bits In the State. The bass
have bred in Old River in countless num-
bers and the white perch. big shining
Fellows, fourteen inches long and weigh
ing three pounds, game upon the hook
and delicious to the tooth, have even
surpassed them. -.-..-
The angling In Old River is entirely still
dshing. The standard bait is minnows.
Frogs are not used on bass not because
fhe bass would not take them, but be-
cause the sun Is hot <and 1t is too much
trouble to go out and hunt frogs The
q hite perch, on the other hand, viii not
take the frog, So fishing with minnows
a man may take bass one minute and
white perch the next, equally attractive
and valuable.
There have been some records made in
old River, records imprinted but of local
note In that part of 1t which runs
through the great Vance plantation, A. j.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
WILL OPERATE SOON
TRACTION COMPANY TO RUN
CARS IN SHORT TIME.
Its City Terminus viii Be at Court
Square Which Will Be Reach
ed by Way Of Dexter
Avenue.

Within three weeks the Montgomery
Traction Company will begin operating
cars on its Pickett Springs line.
w. H. Ragland, President of the new
street railway system, said yesterday
that since the. Montgomery City Council
had decided on the route Of the company's
tracks the special work which was lack
ing to complete the tracks would be
pushed and the operation Of cars would
begin as soon as 1t was completed.
Already the tracks Of the company are
laid to Monroe and McDonough Streets
and there only remains the tracks on
Monroe to Lawrence, from Lawrence to
Dexter Avenue. and down Dexter Avenue
to Court Square to be laid
President Ragland said he had ordered
the curves and switches for the unlaid
track and they would be here at the
earliest possible time. The curves for the
track TO Pickett Springs will reach Mont
gomery Saturday and few days only
will be required to lay these curves
Mr. Ragland went on to say that the
Council had done about the most salts
factory thing for the traction company In
Its power In changing the route from
Monroe and McDonough Streets to Court
SQUARE. While he preferred the route
provided in the original franchise. he said
there was ascension and he thought the
Council did the best in its power.
The change in the route is only over a
few blocks. From the corner Of Monroe
and McDonough Streets the tracks will
run down Monroe to Lawrence, thence by
Lawrence to Dexter Avenue and down
Dexter Avenue to the Square. 1t was or
iginaily intended to run the cars down
Monroe Street to the corner of Perry
Street and through Perry Street to Dex-
ter Avenue. The Council decided that
this was impracticable as the tracks of
the Montgomery Street Railway occupy
the center OF the street on Perry Street
and the tracks of the Montgomery Trac-
ton Company would have to be thrown
to one side.
The cars of the traction company are
already In Montgomery and are ready for
service.
President Ragland said that r. station
was being prepared near the middle OF
the trestle across the cemetery slough.
At this station there will be stairway to
the ground beneath. This arrangement
will enable passengers wishing to alight
at the addition to lakewood Cemetery
ready access to the burial ground with
out having to>climb a steep hillside.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05

said the saieswoEnan. still too much /
answered. She actually got down to 70
cents. and ] could stand IL no longer, be-
cause one thing / can't do Is to beat down
the price Of things. 90 told her II was
not my intention to browbcat her concern
ing the price OF the hat, but that 1T just
happened did not have that much money
with me. Not having any intention OF
buying a hat when left home, had
not prepared for the purchase. had let
my purse to besmended that morning, so
carried the little money had In my
hand
Il am sure she spied the half dollar
and smaller change and reckoned there
was q larger amount than there was. 90
imagine my surprise when she said:
You may have the hat for the money
you have In your hand I said. 4 All
right, TIL go you; and displayed the 65
cents. "A little slowly she wrapped the
hat, and I'll confess to you I lost no
time In getting out OF that shop.
''I brought my treasure home. got down
my box Of trash resurrected some tucke
chicon that was the top of hat two
years ago and which now serves as q
fasing to this one. OF course I had to
stretch Il. but Il looks well. and effect is
what am afte.. The band Of velvet and
the rosette in the back have been steam
ed and the satin side rubbed over a hot
iron, the Jet ornaments shoe polished,
and here have swell hat for the small
sum Of 65 cents"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
Fourth District Representa-
tive Analyses Vote.
He Declares Alabama Democrats
VIII PoIi 10000 Votes in
November Election and
State IL Not Doubtful.

In an interview yesterday Hon. sgd j.
the Fourth Alabama District declared
that It was his opinion the Democratic
vote In the November election would APP
proximate 100000 and that Alabama
Democrats have nothing to fear from
Republican opposition. ~.
+, Mr.. Bowie has been In Montgomery
attending the meeting. Of the State Demo-
cratic COMMITTEES. He Is one OF the
best informed public men In Alabama and
his analysis and Of the vote polied In the
recent Democratic primary and estimates
on future results are worthy Of the
! "The number OF participants In the
recent Democratic primary was moist
gratifying" said Mr.. Bowie "A great
misconception has, however. grown in
certain quarters that thA vote was very
light. This idea was based upon early
estimates fixing the vote poiled as low as
10000. although the vote .actaully reached
$1,000
"A Great Misconception.
IAN analysis of the figures shows that
the Democratic party In Alabama has
nothing to fear from Republican opposi-
ton in November. The total white
registered vote in the State is approx
mately 10000. Less than 5000 negroes
are registered and only few OF these
will vote. OF those who do vote, the
recent act of the Lily Whites Republic
can In reference to afiliation win cause
4 number to vote the Democratic ticket.
Certainly the negro vote can safely be
eliminated from the situation.
'sof the 10000 registered whites. con-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
PRIZES FOR PROBLEMS
COUNTERS OF DOTS AND LINES
ARE BUSY.
The Three Contests Presented to
Readers Of The Advertiser are ~
Growing in Earnest With
Each Day.

The Dots and the Lines continue to be
the leading attraction of the week.
Yesterday found many new guesses up
on these Advertiser problems. A great
many of the first weeks counters on
Problem No. are making new counts to
be sure they are right.
Many inquiries continue to reach the
Problem Editor concerning the prizes and
how they are to be awarded. There are
over 100 prizes In each of the four lists.
Prizes are numbered from one down to
the end of the list and will be awarded
to Advertiser subscribers in the order in
which they file correct estimates on the
different problems.
The person fling the first correct count
on Problem No. / will be entitled to prize
No. /, and the second person the second
prize and so on until all have been given
out.
No attention will be paid to those maxi
ing estimates nearly correct or within
one or two of the correct number until
all the correct counters have been award
ed prizes In the event there are not
enough correct estimates to take all the
prizes the list will be gone through again
and beginning at the first one filed. those
will be selected who came In one of the
correct solution. II this does not take In
all of the prizes the estimates will be
canvassed again, and so on until all prizes
are given out.
1t is possible for one person to get more
than one prize By putting in Tho first
correct estimate on all the problems one
person may get four prizes. or by being
second or third or even anywhere up to
over 100 in placing an estimate.
The fourth list of prizes will be award
ed to those only who make correct esti-
mates first on the three problems.
Plenty of time remains to get a careful
count on all the problems.
Many have an idea that the prizes have
all been won, but this Is erroned,ts, as
most of the best prizes may yet be had
by correct estimates being filed, even on
Problem No 1.
This Ii one of the contests that has Pc
culiarities.
Its never too late to do good.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
NEED NOT FEAR REPUBLICANS,
SAYSCONGRESSMA BOWIE

sentative estimate would be that at least
10000 voluntarily disfranchised themselves
for this election at least by non- payment
Of poll tax. This would reduce the total
possible number to 10000 in round num-
bers.
"But the entire vote was never cast In
any election ever held In this country. In
the closely contested States OF the North
about so per cent. Of the registered vote
Is conceded to, be a good showing. ana
only Presidential elections bring out that
large a vote. In Alabama. since 1892.
not exceeding two-thirds and frequently
not one-half of the white vote has been
actually polled in the general election. 4.
II Is admitted that rs per cent Of the total
possible white vote should be cast, this
would give us 10000 votes in November.
. Less Than so, 600 Republicans.
Now, as more than 10000 of these
whites have participated in the Demo-
cratic primary, there is less than $4,000
for the Republicans, II they should poll
every one Of their followers as well as
all Of the Populists. But they will not
poll all Of the Populists. There will be O
large proportion sof that party following
the lead Of Judge Samuel Adams Of Gill
ton, and others, who might be named. who
viii refuse to be drawn into the Republi-
can party, and who will be found voting
with the Democrats in November. But,
conceding everyone of these votes to the
Republicans. we would have $4,000 to their
possible $1,000.
"Well-meaning alarmists seem to have
overlooked the fact that we polled more
white votes In our recent primary than
was polled in the general election Of 1900
for Governor Sanford. -
81 believe that the Democratic vote in
November will be approximately 100000,
and not over 10000 or $4,000. at the out
side. will vote the Republican ticket. In
no case Is the State ticket in any possible
danger. believe the same can be safely
said Of every one Of our Congressional
Districts.
alabama Is only not going Republican
or in the doubtful column this year, but 1t
is not even headed in that direction. Our
party IL stronger than II has ever been
in its history. In this State 1t will gain
more recruits from the opposition than
the opposition can possibly hope to gain
from It,"
Mr.. Bowie left yesterday evening for
his home in Admission.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
FOUR RUBBERs ON TWO FEET.
Concerning a Man Who Eats and
Drinks as Well.

New York Times.
TT ere Is an man in our town who In
sists on eating. 1t is strange habit, but
IL has grown upon him so that he has
stopped trying to shake it on. and In
duges it sometimes three times a day.
When he eats he drinks. II he has the
price, and when he drinks he prefers
chablis or chianti to tea, TO the horror
of the Prohibition Association Of his
church but to his own pacihcation. Not
long ago he dined with certain congenial
souls and bodies, and the food was ap-
parently dry, for 1t took deal Of wash
ing down. and the company fingered over
the tankards till an hour almost unseem-
". When the man who Is accustomed to
eat arose to take his departure friend
tainted him with not being able to put
on his rubbers, which were in the dress
ing room He "sassed back and said he
could put on rubbers as well as anybody.
and had a dollar in his clothes that
would prove 1t. The bet was accepted
and the man who eats won the money
In time. But presently his attention was
called to the fact that he was wearing
two pairs OF rubbers. Thereupon he sad
ly gave back his dollar. His acquaint-
ances think he should have demanded
another ona
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-05
cIvILIzING THE aYPsIEs.
Hungary Trying to Make Them
Work and Sleep Under Roofs.

Hungary Trying to Make Them
Work and Sleep Under Roofs.
London Evening Standard.
A bold experiment Is to be tried by the
Hungarian Government, According to
our Vienna correspondent. II proposes to
civilize the gypsies by force. From the
time of the great immigration In the
fifteenth century. IL not before, the
Egyptians have always been exceed
ingly numerous in southeastern Europe.
1t is not easy to take a census of a
nomadic people, but If any dependence
may be placed upon official estimates,
Hungary may almost claim to be what
our correspondent calls 1.-THE "Promis-
ed Land of the race. II, as is believed,
its gypsy population reaches 10000. Al
possesses more than quarter of the
total of all Europe. Roumania. how
ever, contains an even larger number,
the old Wallachian province having been
one of their greatest strongholds. Gov
ernments, especially of the paternal con-
tinental pattern. have generally looked
upon these Bohemian wanderers as a
nuisance and have sometimes taken very
strong measures for their suppression,
though In most cases with slight sue
cess. ''s
For the matter of that. the proposals
now being considered at Budapest are
sufficiently drastic. A commission of ex-
perts has recommended that every town
and village in Hungary shall have a
number of gypsies allotted to 1t. whether
they like 1t or not. They are to be train
ed to handicrafts or to agricultural labor,
and such of them as refuse to bend their
necks to the yoke are to be gathered into
two great reformatories holding 1000 re-
calcitrants each. There is a touch of
the grotesque In the nation that a people
who have been ceaselessly on the move
for many centuries will at once reconcile
themselves to regular hours and to sleep
ing undo ra roof for all the world like the
stationary Gentiles for whom they often
feel so much contempt But perhaps
the contemplated measures are intended
less for actual enforcement than to
brighten away the Romany. who might
prefer to cross the Transylvapia frontier
into Roumania.
This is by no means the first time that
attempts have been made in the Austro-
Hungarian monarchy to constrain the
gypsies to lead a settled life. No less
A ruler than Maria Theresa tried her
hand at it, and had them. or, as many
as could be caught, instructed in agfi-
culture, exactly as is now proposed On