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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-04-11

.Wante d. Men 10 learn barber trade. only
txo months required. exceptional oppor-
<u ity for thirty days. i'm prove your chance.
1oard. tools. diplomas and positions given.
[Mn earn expenses II desired. Write today,
bier Barber College, ~. Louis. Mo. 0s
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14
nose Apy shape YOu lie.

The latest development in surgery
is the mOlding of noses in parafin,
which is now being practiced in vi
emma. In the deformity known as
saddle nose the most remarkable re-
suits are said to be obtained. The
process consists in the simultaneous
injection of parafin, which before it
completely sets is nodded into the de-
sired shape. A warmed syringe is
charged with the melted compound
and the needle is inserted between
the eyebrows, just above the root Of
the nose. Then the compound is in
jected into the simultaneous tissue as
the needle is slowly withdrawn.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14
NOTICE!

I have opened a
horse-shoeing S h o p
next to Layne's stable,
in Geo. Steele's old
stand. Thirty years.
experience enables me
to guarantee satisfac-
tory work, I do my
own work and do it
right. Price 20 cents
a shoe.
John W. COvingtOn.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14
THIS AND THAT.

Germany has 500 more physicians
than it had in 1900 The present
number is about 2S,175.
The game commissioners Of Maine
state that S5,O00,00Ois brought into
that state every year BY sportsmen.
The most valuable cargo ever
taken out Of Baltimore was that ofthe
Johnston steamer Rowanmore, esti-
mated at $945,575
The manufacture Of silkfn France
has notincreased since 1895. In 1900
it was 1858 per cent Of the worlds
commerce in silks.
Equivocation, a word now applied
to any evasion, was once understood
to mean the calling Of diverse things
by the same name
London is still obliged to import
polyglot clerks for her mercantile
houses, as the English too seldom take
the trouble tolearn foreign languages.
Gee Whiz" is the name Of an ice
yacht at Cleveland, which carries a
crew of four, and is one Of the largest
on the lakes il is 30 feet long, and
carries 3g5 square feet of canvas.
There are villages near the Uniyer-
sity Of Oxford where no notion Of
medical science has penetrated, and
where charms are the only recognized
cure for disease A woman who has
lately been lecturing in the neighbor-
hood on sanitation found that whoop-
ing cough was always treated by
spider The spider was sewn into
piece Of muslin, and hung on thecur-
tain rod, and the death of the spider
meant the end Of the cough.
Great changes have been made
among the negroes Of German East
Africa They now use plates, cups
saucers, looking-gIasses, spoons,
knives, umbrellas and occasionally
clocks; they call for soap and for kerr
osene. In their market places they
are seen drinking tea with sugar at
table. The women have adopted Eu-
ropean clothes and make use Of sew
ing machines, even in the interior dis
tricts So at least the German Colo
NAL newspapers report.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14

him. Women are contrary. An hour
ago he would have denied it. With
all his soul he hoped that this was
merely a passing mood, not a fixed
opposition. Good heavens, suppose
it were the latter. Suppose she was
determined to throw him over after
all. The mere thought chilled his
blood. There was a troubled light in
his eyes when he turned to her
again.
"Were you busy when I came this
EVENING""
81? no; that is, not particularly
so"
you were some time coming in;
thought perhaps" he broke off
lamely.
II did not know it was you" she
explained, serenely Morris felt his
troubles thickening.
"Yes, it was me-" he replied alb
sently.
at still is, / think" she commented.
finding the temptation irresistible.
"I'n be hanged if know whether it
is or not" he returned, gloomily. 81
have dazed feeling as though were
a puppet in another mans show"
''Not very pleasant sensation"
''Not exactly. Makes me feel like
sympathizing with that poor devil,
Cyrano. after he had been wooing his
sweetheart in Christians name"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14
SOLO FOR THE SNAKES.
Exciting Experience of a Fiddler with
Two Rattlers

Exciting Experience of Fiddler with
Two Rattlers.
Bill Needham, a Susquehanna, Pa,
fiddler, gave a solo a short time ago
understandable circumstances. says
correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean. He was on his way to play for
dancSin Great Bend township. and
was walking along a cut in the noun
tain side, when his attention was at
tracted by the warning noise Of rat
tlesnake. Looking up he saw for
midable snake directly in his path.
He promptly took to his heels, but had
gone only step or two when from the
weeds by the side of the road another
big RATHER rose up. There was not
room enough to pass the snake with
out running the risk of being bitten,
and the frightened fiddler backed up
against the ledge that hungabove him
and eyed the reptiles. Escape was
impossible and he was bordering over
the dire fact, when it suddenly oc-
CURED to him that he had read of peo-
pie charming snakes with music.
Drawing his fiddle fromits box, Bill
began to play, and almost instantly
the big snakes uncoiled, and, stretch
ing themselves out in the path, glided
slowly toward the fiddler. This move
was not particularly pleasing to Bill,
but he kept saving away. Closer and
closer came the snakes, and faster and
faster flew the bow over the strings.
At last the snakes reached a point
within two feet of the terrified musi-
elan, and, winding themselves up,
lifted their heads closely together.
At this juncture Bill's nerves gave
way, and, with yell, he grabbed his
fiddle by the neck and broughtit down
with crushing force on the heads Of
the snakes. The blow stunned them,
and before they could recover Bill
killed them with a rock.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14

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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14
GREETING RN
ATMOSPHERE
BY F. H. LANCASTER.


THE pines were tossing their heads
i'm tempest of eNultaut
strength; a wild wind had come out
Of the northwest for romp. The
woman watching them with hungry
eyes, unfodcd her arms and turned
away reluctantly 10 was close and
smelly inside, and there were people
there who expected her to be pleas
ant, when she could not. With all the
yearning of a genius she longed to be
alone; to live but a little longer in
this atmosphere of serene strength.
eff l were an older hand at the
business I could keep my atmos-
phere-as the pines keep theirs"
She fingered to let her pulses thrill
once more to the resistless strength
of those strong, straight stems, and
then, folding her arms upon a stern
serenity of mood, opened the door
and stumbled into the darkened par
Tor.
1t was close after the windy out
side, as she had expected. "Never
mind lights and odors, if you can
only keep your atmosphere" she told
herself, as she realized with n thrill
of uneasiness that there was but one
other person i'm the room.
"Binding, after the play of light
outside" he remarked, cheerfully
sympathetic, as he came forward to
shake her hands.
Hannah set aside the pleasurable
sensation and greeted him sereneIy.
"There is quite a wind among the
pines" she explained.
Eyes; l noticed as I walked up.
Grand sight. Did you ever notice how
it soothes one, the constant roar and
ceaseless dashing?"
Like a storm at sea. There are
ceertain moods when nothing soothes
like display of reckless unrest
she paused abruptly.
Morris moved restlesSE. He was
not getting on very well, and he
was painfully conscious of the fact.
She was usually frank and free with
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14

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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14
Cigaretts az IN Ieeland.

1t seems that girls, as well as boys,
Of Reykjavik, Iceland, have contract
ed the habit ofsmOking cigarettes, and
the law allows any sdultmsn rwom-
an who finds boy or girl smoking to
give the young offender sound
spanking and to seize and destroy any
cigarette found in his or her posses
sion.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14

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The Wednesday issue is devoted
to news matters, the Saturday issue
to the home. Sample copies sent
free on applicaticr. AI6.-5-
COURIER Journal Co,
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14

Edith--That Charles Nuthead is abb
solutely imbecilel
Fthei-"Imbecile2" Why, he doesn't
even know when "No" means yes"
and Don't" means 'Do."-Brooklyn
Eagle.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14
Contributors
no the Year of Humor.
"reminiscences
and Portraits I'D

sPetrolum V. Nasty" gosh Billings" "Mark
Twain" John C.. SAKE, 'Mrs. Darlington"
'Nlies O'Reiily,n "Hans Breitman," "Artemus
Ward" "Orpheus c. Keer." "Bin Nye," Franz
r.. Stockton, Donald q. Mitchell, II. c. Bunner,
'Sam Slick" Eugene Field, Richard Grant
White, Capt. George H. Derby John PhoeniX"l +,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mortimer Thompson
30. X. 2hiiander Doesticks, p. BIZ, Bret
Harte.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14

A H. HANSON, 9. Pa, Chicago, Ill
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

all things eatable by reason Of it's own
comparative cheapness? Some eco
nonic philosophers declare that it will
beyond the shadow of doubt. In time
they say there will also be general
uplifting of the scale Of wages, but
not until it is settled whether the
present plentitude Of the yellow metal
is permanent or not. Naturally, in the
meantime, the man who works will
have increased problems to meet.
On the other hand, plentitude of
gold will mean lively circulation, and
that will mean a continuance of the
present good times for considera-
BILE period to come. And, if the proph-
cts speak wisely, the present unexam-
pied quantity Of coined gold in this
country is only forerunner Of the flu
ture. Unless all signs fail, say they,
the day is not far distant when we
shall have two thousand millions in
stead of a thousand and a quarter mil
lions of gold coin in our land.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

One thousand two hundred and fifty
millions of dollars would buy an enor-
nous amount of merchandise, and
would pay the expenses Of no end Of
wars or merry making. A few weeks
ago, before it could be foreseen that
the coronation of King Edward VII.
would be postponed by royal illness,
it was estimated that the total cost of
the ceremonies to the government and
English people would be not far from
100000. At that price for such jubi-
lations Uncle Sans stock Of coined
gold would foot the bill for ITO corona
tons and leave some millions over.
A billion and a quarter dollars would
build 80 Brooklyn bridges. 1t would
build, equip and put in commission
more than 400 great batteships. 1t
would probably suffice to buy the whole
British navy, providing that aggrega-
ton of marine fighting machines could
be purchased at anything like a fair
valuation. At 1000, 900 a day, the ap-
proximate cost of the Civil war, the
coined gold now in the country would
wage a war for more .+'1an three years
and four monts.
Comparison Of the quantity Of COIN
ed gold in the country with the value
of some of the countrys staple prod
ucts is somewhat startling. For in
stance, in round numbers the output
Of coal, both soft and hard, in 1901,
was 322,000,000; Of pig iron more than
250,000,000; of silver more than SO, 000,-
600; Of crude petroleum more than 49,
100000; of corn, wheat and oats nearly
299, 100000; of butter and cheese more
than 384,000,000. Yet the billion and
quarter of coined gold now in the Unit
ed States would buy all these products
and leave a trif1ing matter of $27,S75,-
S57 as nest egg around which to ac-
cumulate another twelve hundred mil
lions or so. 1t would build $500 miles
Of railroad at $4,000 a mile, nearly
one-third of all the railroad mileage
now in the United States.
Thousands of Acres of Pie.
But it is when the purchasing power
of a thousand and a quarter millions Of
gold dollars, as applied to pie, is con-
sidered that the ordinary mind may
come nearest to graphing with the
real meaning of such vast sum. Good,
fair pies can be bought for 10 cents
apiece, and thus the coined gold now in
the country would buy 1900, DOT, 900
Of pies. The square surface covered
by pies varies, but so square inches for
each would not be far out Of the way,
allowing for the waste room that would
have to be allowed for. supposing the
pies are round. On this basis the gold
coin In circulation in Uncle Sans do
minion would buy pies enough to cover
at least 1000 acres Of land. How many
pie bakers 1t would take to bake this
enormous aggregation Of toothsome-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

ures Of s26.34, but now Australasia is
the highest. Canada's per capita is a
few cents in excess of So.
But these per capita figures of COIN
ed gold should not be taken as indica-
tive either of a country's actual wealth
or the per capita of money in circula-
ton. The total amount of money of
all sorts in the United States is rising
or $4,000 100000, or more than $28
for every citizen of Uncle Sam, about
double the per capita of gold. In Aus
tralasia, where the gold per capita is
highest, there it little money circula-
ton at all except that made from the
precious yellow metal; in India the
great preponderance is in silver, and
this is true in even greater degree in
China.
Staggering Figures.
1t Is doubtful whether any one can
comprehend the meaning of figures as
stupendous as those which are needed
to express the persent wealth Of this
country in coined gold. 1t would take
laborer earning a dollar day 416, 1855
years to earn $1,000, $50, 900, but at that
he would have to have the longevity of
more than 1000 Methuselahs. If the
money had to be earned by days work
it would be better to put 416,666 labor
ers at it for a single year.
Reduced to avoirdupois, the 1885,
100000 gold dollars now in this
country would represent 5000, 900
pounds. or $500 short tons of 1000
pounds each. Packed away as Uncle
Sam packs away his gold in the treas
ury at Washington and in the various
subtreasuries, it would fill $500 strong
boxes, each 81 by Is by "a inches in
size, inside measurement, and contain
ing six cubic feet. Piled up, the gold
coin thus accumulated would make a.
heap containing $1,000 cubic feet; a
bar of gold containing $3.50, 600, 900
worth of precious metal would be s feet
square and 800 feet long; erected into
an auriferous monument, it would be
highly imposing sight, and would
| make no mean showing beside the
Washington monument itself, albeit of
| about 200 feet less altitude than that
patriotic structure.
AT two tons to the million, 1t would
take $500 double teams, or 5000 horses.
to haul this unthinkable mass Of coined
treasure over the average roads of the
country. Fixing so pounds as the prop
er load for the average man to carry
| any distance, it would require an army
of 100000 to pack the stuff. In ranks
of IL moving in fairly open order this
army of gold bearers would stretch
over II or IL miles, or about the
length of Broadway on the island of
| Manhattan.
There is little danger that the yellow
specie of the great republic will be
looted and carried away Shy hand"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

smells like Paregoric and converts the
whole landscape into a light Green
with Yellow Spots on it.
He lived in the dear Latin Quarter
until his Wardrobe was caked on him.
Finally his Letter of Credit petered and
he had to return to Illinois, where the
crude Yokels shave every Saturday
Night and put Butter on their Bread.
He showed up on the Prairie with a
Mardi-Gras Costume, considerable
Dandruff and four bum Sketches.
Father looked him over and went for
the AK, but Mother talked him out of 1t.
One Year in the Home of Art had
weaned Alec away from the Simple
Joys of the Middle West He was all
the time hollering because he could
not get Garlic in his Food. He wore a
Velveteen Coat and smoked Fumigo
Cigarettes and read French Novels.
Alec didn't know who was President of
the Country or Governor of the State
and he did not wish to bother about it.
America simply amused him.
In the meantime Father had to put
up, for Alec was dead set against the
Commercial Spirit. His principal Oc-
cupation was wishing himself back in
Paree and nearly everybody hoped he
would get his Wish.
Once the Directory Man asked Alec's
Father for some information.
What is your SOM" asked the Dr.
rectory Man.
you can search me-" replied the
unfortunate Patriarch. HE does every
thing that a Painter does, except Paint.
He don't want to be called an Ameri-
can and yet can't label him French,
having no Grudge against France. He's
a mixture of Partisan, Sucker, Expa-
triate, Four-Flush and Free Luncher,
which makes him, as near as can fig
ure it, a Yellow Mongrel."
MORAL To a benighted People the
Latin Quarter looks like Thirty Cents.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

those long yearning Looks and tell her
that no one else had ever been quite
so Good to him.
Number One was trying to demon
strate that he was a Deuce Of a Fellow
and Number Two was trying to con-
vince her that she was an Ace Of a
Girl.
When both Of them had come to
Tow, she did not hesitate for any great
length of Time.
THAT poor Boy needs bright and
Clever Woman to take care Of him."
said she. He has learned to depend
upon me and it would be Cruel to turn
him Adrift."
Number Two won by City Block.
MORAL: Star Her and she will dis
cover your Good Points
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

were so busy letting their Hair grow
and working the Bohemian gag that
they had no time to change Collars,
etc.
He shifted from Rain-Water to Red
Ink and let the Trouserials bag at the
Knees. His daily Task was to sit I'M
der striped Awning looking fuzzy
and disreputable. the while he went
against tall Beaker of the Stuff that
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

By Paul Dandy.
::=$::; l.: :: :: !: ::
- out a rather startling piece
Of news the other day, in the statement
that this country, at this moment, pos
sessed about-a quarter of all the gold
that has been made up into money in
the entire world.
To quote the official figures correct
ly, there is now in the United States
Gncluding, treasury coin and bullion)
: 81, 200,O00,000 of gold money, whereas
the worlds entire stock of gold money
is worth less than IS, 600, 900, 900 ga, $685.
100000, according to the latest figures).
New York f1nanciers believe Uncle
Sans figures as to his own gold money
are shy, and that IN truth the amount
of gold money in the country is close
- $1,250, 100000 billion and a quar-
ter-while all the rest of the world
possesses less than $3.50, OO0,0 900. This
is a larger sum of coined gold than has
ever been possessed by a single nation
in the history Of the world.
Next to the United States, according
to the latest reports, comes France.
with $S10,600, 900, followed by the Brit
ish empire, with $769, ZOO, 900; Russia.
with 1924, $780, 900, and Germany, with
S721,300,000. So far. as coined gold is
concerned, 1t will be observed, the
United States is in a class by itself.
80 Great Britain Far in the Rear.
The British Empire is second in the
second class, but Great Britain proper
isHast, its store of coined gold amount
ing only to s511. 100000. All other peo-
pies are so far behind in the race as
not to be eligible even for the second
class. Austria Hungary leads the third
class. with about $3.50, OOO, 900, but even
at that the great empire is very poor
in gold money, relatively as well as
actually, for her gold supply amounts
to less than $500 per capita for her
population of 100000 souls. Uncle
Sans children have nearly SIC in gold
apiece, which is less than the citizens
of. the French republic, for each of
whom there is little more than $21 or
gold coin a head. Germany comes third
In the per capita computation, the
figures being s12.s1, Great Britain's
being S12.34, and that of Russia, with
her enormous population of 12S,30o, 900,
only 1854. The per capita figure for
thu entire British empire is shade
under $2.2O. that for India's enormous
horde of 297 100000 being only Is cents.
Here, as in most other things, the Brit
ish empire exhibits the most astonish-
ing extremes, for there are parts there
of where the per capita of coined gold
is in great excess; in Australia, for in
stance, there is $24.26 in coined as
mo7ey for every man, woman and
rsdld. At one time the South African
republics led this, with per capita fig
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

ed with fur traders and Indians, this
town, then an eager and apparently the
most promising candidate for the seat
of capital today has fallen upon that
last and most hopeless of all resources,
historic interest, and has become a
Mecca for artists. They visit Mendoza
to paint the old Sibley house, the river
and the old towers of Fort Smelling.
Once before this picturesque ne
elected little village, whose every
breath is redolent of by-gone and long
dead prosperity, once before was Men
-dota eagerly sought by that fraternity
to whose eyes beauty appeals more
fervently than hustle and business, and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-20

Long Island and introduced him all
around as the new Department Man
ager.
II shall expect you to tell Archibald
all about the business" said the Main
Gazooks to the Patient Toiler. "You
see he has just graduated from Har-
ward and he doesn't know a dunn Thing
about Managing anything anything ex-
cept Cat-Boat, but his Father is one
of our principal Stock Holders and he
is engaged to a Young Woman whose
Uncle is at the head of the Trust"
Il had been hoping to get this Job
for Myself" said the Faithful Worker,
family.
"You are so valuable as a Subordi-