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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-11
FIRST MEETING
OF Christian County Teachers AS
ISOLATION September 10.

The first meeting Of the Christian
County Teachers Association will
be at the West school house on Sat
urday, September 19, beginning al
IL O'Clock a. IN. All teachers should
feel it privilege and a duty to at.
tend these meetings. Read the
program which follows and come
prepared to take part in the dis
cussion of the various subjects.
Also read carefully the first two
chapters in the two "ReadIng
Circle" books.for this year. Invite
your trustees and patrons to at
tend with you Everybody is most
cordially invtedto be present and
we hope to see large attendance.
PROGRAMME.
Devotional Exercises.
.... Rev. p. A. Thomas.
Welcome Address. .......
Arthur b. Lacy.
Responsibilities of the Teach
Greece. ..W. E. Gray:
What Interest Should the Pa
irons of the District Take
in the SCHOOL,. -. Miss Myrtle |
West and Luther Mourlaud.
Duty of Patrons to Teacher $50.
..... Miss Myrtle Brasher. |
Duty of Teacher to Patrons.
....S. T. Fruit, Jr., and
Miss Jimmie Jenkins.
How to Create an Interest in
Study. .....J. E. Brown
and Miss Annie May Brasher.
How to Teach Primary Arith-
metic. Misses Maggie
Clark and Pearl Jenkins.
How and to What Extent
Would You Teach Current
Events?...J. L. Manner
and F. w. Henderson.
History ,.......... John Keith.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
What Benefits Do We Derive
from a Study of Physiolo.
gy?.... G. Watson Lacy
and Miss Mabel Dillman.
What is a Well Governed
SCHOOL,? 80. Miss Lucy B.
Hamburger and ]. G. Wright.
How to Teach Language. Mrs.
W. e. Gray and Miss Ora King.
Geography 49,. .......
.... Mrs. Hattie Robinson.
Va Can We Do to Interest
tbs People in District Lii
braries and of What Ben
eft are They?.. ........
............ Miss Carrie King
Is Corporal Punishment Ever
Necessary &C.. ID. Clay Thomas.
Reading Circle for Teachers, Gen
eral Discussions, Mlscellau-
eous Business.
Adjournment.
KATIE MCDANIEL,
County Superintendent of Schools.
]. +. BROWN,
IN
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-11
SEPTEMBER II, 1903

Senior Caudarno, Peru's new
President, was inaugurated Tues
day.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-11
MORE INDICTMENTS
Returned in Connection With the
POstOffice Scandals.

Washington, Sept. S.-The Fed
eral grand jury has returned seven
indictments in postal cases. The
names of those indicted have not
been divulged.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-11
HOOKS IQrSapariLLa

Acts with the most direct. beneficial effect
on the kidneys. 1t contains the best and
safest substances for correcting and toning
these organs.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-11
No. 1913, daily

No. BAL, daily except Sui
No. 335, Sunday only,
No. 333, daily,
No. 33l daily,
f. w. HARLOW, D. p. A.,
Louisville.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-11
DrnggedsDOwn
Feeling
IN be lolns.

Nervousness, undressing sleep. despon-
dency.
II is time you were doing something.
The kidneys were anciently called the
reins-in your case they are holding the
reins and driving you into serious trouble.
III
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

About 5000 workmen are en-
ployed in the meerschaum mines of
Turkey.
Playing dominoes in a refreshment
house has been adjudged an offense
under the English gaming act at
Burnley.
Persons known to the librarian are
to be allowed to sign their names
in Irish on the vouchers issued at the
Limerick free library.
In German Togoland the native
men do the planting and reaping
while the women carry the products
to the markets. The wages for la
borers are, near the sea, ten to TWEEN
ty cents a day; inland, sever cents.
Contrary to etiquette, a court ear
rage in which Archduke Otto was
driving was overtaken and passed by
a motor-car driver at Vienna. The
latter has since been put under ar
rest for "a hours for furious driving.
Since Japan has gone to school in
Europe and America her influence
throughout the east has been steadi-
ly growing. In the interior of China,
where no European merchant has
ever thought of going, the Japanese
are locating themselves, and in Man.
churia, where Russia is supposed to
have supreme control, the Japanese
tradesmen outnumber the Russians
so, to S.
An invalid on his way from Basic,
Switzerland, to a sanitarium at
Davos, was arrested at Zurich the
other day on the charge of having
stolen two trunks, and taken back
to Basic, where he was locked up and
not allowed to summon a physician.
The next day he was found inno-
cent and discharged. Two days later
he died, leaving a widow and several
children.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
"FoR ALL THINGS"

For life and love, for work and play,
For a child's glad laugh and a sunny day,
We praise Thee, o God.
For the joys we know and the tears we
weep,
For the pain that will not let us sleep,
We praise Thee. o God.
For sweet June days and friendships fair,
For bleak DEFENDERS chilling air,
We praise Thee, o God.
For youth me the rich, rare days of
youth,
For ruth and the lasting trust of truth,
We praise Thee, o God.
For joy and sorrow, gain and loss,
For the crown beyond and the daily cross,
We praise Thee, o God.
For the babes first kiss and the passing
breath,
For death in life-for the life in death,
We praise Thee, o God.
For all things work for our perfect good
Yea, all that we nave not understood;
And the dregs of life are as life's red
wine,
If they but show US the Life Divine.
So we dare not choose and we will not
care,
Bot .ow or then, or here or there,
Wellttrust Thee always and everywhere,
And praise Thee, o God.
-Genevieve Hale Whitlock, in Silver
Cross.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
UNWELCOME ARBITRATION.
Mutual Friend Tries to Act as Peace
Advocate. But with UnsRtisfac-
tory Result.
The lovers had quarreled.

The lovers had quarreled.
"Ill never speak to you again!" she
cried.
Perhaps you'll give me back my
ring" he retorted, scornfully. relates
the Buffalo News.
Il wouldn't wear your old ring for a
thousand dollars" she asserted.
"This is the end" he said.
"Wait a minute, interrupted the mu-
tual friend. Don't forget that these
are the days of arbitration, so let's ar
bitrate this affair"
Hes entirely in the wrong she in
sisted.
"It's all her fault" he replied.
SWELL, let's have a statement of the
cas- from each SIDE" said the mutual
friend.
The girl thought it over and her face
grew red.
"If l tried to put it in words" she
said to herself, I'D be posing as a lit
tie fool"
Somehow her grievance wasn't tam
glble.
The youth thought it owe and he be-
gan to feel uncomfortable.
std be a jackass to try to explain
this thing to a cold-blooded mortal"
he said to himself.
well, let's hear what it u.s." said the
mutual friend.
Nothing" said the youth.
Not a thing" said the girl, "and I'd
like to know what business it is of
yours, anyway"
eff you annoy my fancee any more"
said the youth, "Ill break your head.
"Here's your ring, Oracle"
"You're so good to me, Ralph" said
the girl.
go away, can't they both said
to the mutual friend.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
He Knew a Sure Thing.

In the aftermath of convention
stories comes one of a well-known
politician whose love for making res
olutions and breaking them is well
known. After each lapse into the
drinking habit, his remorse is deep
and earnest. He fell from grace on
the last day of the convention, but
managed to retain his faculties to
the extent of finding his way to the
depot in Saratoga, boarding the New
York train, and crawling into his
sleeping-car berth, but without the
formality of taking off his clothes.
just before reaching New York he
slowly awoke and surveyed tie situa-
ton through a cloud of
Slowly the depth of his latest lapse
burst upon him, and as he did so his
horror found vent in expression.
"Great Scott" he whispered
hoarsely. "Iyn bet a dollar I was
drunk last night"
"Say, old fellow" came the answer
from the upper berth, says the New
York Mail and Express, put ten on
that for me, will you? It's a cinch."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15

more than half a pound. In Chautau-
qua lake it is no uncommon thing for
descendants of the original stock to
weigh four pounds.
There are large bullheads in other
inland waters of the state, notably in
York lake, Sullivan county, where they
attain to a weight of three pounds,
but the flesh of the big ones is rank
and unfit for the table. The meat of a
four-pound Chautauqua lake bull
head, however, is as sweet and in every
way as finely favored as that of one
weighing half a pound. The meat in
some of these bullheads is of a snowy
w~hiteness, while that of others caught
in the same water is OF a deep red.
Preparations for Il winter bullhead
fishing in Chautauqua lake is begun
during the summer and continues
through the fall. This is the securing
of the bait.
This bait is the giant earthworm
known locally as the n~ight-crawler
and night-walker. 1t is of the familiar
angle worm family, but no spade or
pillow ever turns it up. 1t lives deep
below ground and comes to the ur-
face only at night, travelling along
garden paths and walks, over lawns
and in and about bitches.
Men and boys hunt it with the aid
of lanterns. This work has TO be done
with great caution, as the slightest
noise alarms the worm and sends il
like, a flash to it's hole.
Some collectors of this odd crea
ture place their lanterns on the
ground and sit motionless near it.
The lantern attracts the worms and
the hunter seizes them as they come
within the arc of light.
These night-crawlers grow some
times to the length of ten inches or
more, and are the only bait the Chau-
tauqua lake bullheads seem to care for
in winter. AS the worms can be OBJ
tanned only in warm weather, ard as
the number of them that the bull
head fishing demands is simply enor-
nous, the collecting of the supply
keeps men and boys busy from the ear
lest appearance of the worms in
spring until cold weather drives them
TO their winter quarters deep in the
ground.
The worms are placed in recepticles
with earth or damp sod, which keeps
them alive and in condition until they
are brought into use whoa the lake
freezes over. As there are, On average,
1000 hooks constantly in the water
baited with night-crawlers, day and
night, while the ice fishing lasts on
Chautauqua lake, the quantity of this
bait that must be collected and kept
on hand to meet the demand for il may
be imagined.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
The Weeping Willow.

The weeping-willow tree came to
America through the medium of
Alexander Pope, the poet, who plant.
ed a willow twig on the banks OF
the Thames, at his Twickenham vii,
la. The twig came to him in a box
of figs sent from Smyrna by a friend
who had lost all in the South Sea
bubble, and had gone to that distant
land to recoup his fortunes. Har.
per's Encyclopedia tells the story
of the willows arrival in America.
A young British officer, who came to
Boston with the army to crush the
rebellion of the American colonies,
brought with him a twig from Pope's
now beautiful willow tree, intending
to plant it in America when he
should comfortably settle down on
lands confiscated from the conquered
Americans. The young officer, dis.
appointed in these expectations, gave
his willow twig, wrapped in oil-silk
to John Parke Custis, Mrs. Wash,
ington's son, who planted it on his
Abingdon estate in Virginia. 1t
thrived, and became the progenitol
of all American willow trees.-In
dianapolis News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
CHAUTAUQUA'S BULLHEADS.
Tons of Them Are Caught Through
h Ice Every Winter-OnIy
One Bait Used.

A winter sport peculiar to Chautau-
qua lake so far as the waters of this
state are concerned is fishing through
the ice for bullheads.
The %bullheads there do not hiber-
nate, as is the habit of their kind else
where, but are as lively and active in
winter as in summer. C%hautauqua is
the only county in the state in whose
waters there are no pickerel, so the
Notwithstanding bullheads of Chau-
tauqua lake come as if to compensate
for the absence there of pickerel fish
ing through the ice. which all the rest
OF the state enjoys, says the New York
Sun.
These bullheads present a notable
illustration of the influence of en-
vironment on fish species. They orig
inally came to the lake from the Erie
canal.
In the canal, into which the fish
entered from Lake Erie, none of the
bullheads ever grows to be of a weight
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
A CLEVER "TIP" COMBINE.
Waitress and S~tenOgrapher Unite In
a Little Scheme for Catch
ing the Coin.

"One clever waitress in a restaurant
downtown can beat anybody / ever
saw getting tips" said a salesman, ac-
cording to the New York Herald. "It
was only by accident that I found out
her little game, but | was curious and
went there often, so now l know how
she manages it..
"The tables she served were patron
lied mostly by men. AS it was more of
a quick lunch place, the patrons were
not very liberal with tips. This girl
was a nice, genteel sort of a person,
with curly hair and baby eyes. She
and another girl, a s~tenographer,
formed a little partnership and start
ed out with a capital of 25 cents.
"The stenographer was pretty ard
possessed a superior style and manner.
Every day she would enter the res
laurent during rush hours, select a
chair at one of her partners tables,
and always endeavor to find a place
near the most prosperous looking man
in sight. Of course, each day there
would be strange faces and another
audience to play to.
"After she had finished her luncheon
she would calmly hand the waitress
a quarter and the waitress would look
exceedingly grateful and happy. No
body would eve surmise by the inno-
cent faces of those girls that they
were putting up a bunco game.
"Of course, it was the most natural
thingin the world for the men around
to notice, and noticing, conclude not
to be outdone by a woman. Conse-
quently, the gentleman sitting next
would leave a quarter at his place, and
the others would all sit around feel
ing like 80 cents. Some of them would
part with a dime, just to keep up APP
~pearances, and some of them wouldn't
give a cent; but as a rule the little
game worked.
"All the money received from this
source would GO into a convenient
pocket and the proceeds were divided
equally at the end Of the week. Of
course, the 'decoy' quarters came out
of the capital and went back into the
business. 1t is an actual fact that
those girls are putting money in the
bank"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
HAMPERED BY DEAD LAWS.
Courts in General Are Embarrassed
by Statutes That Are of
No Eject.

How about the administration OF
Justice? Did you ever think how JUS
tiee SIS dispensed WITH" as Mrs.
Darlington says. in our courts?
What is a court for and what does
it actually do? What governs the
court that governs us? Dead men
Hundreds of laws that dead men
made and thousands of ~precedents
that dead men established, with a
cumbersome and complicated ma
chinery of dead men, have caused our
courts to be the despair of all *
cept the unjust and the rich and the
powerful, says Willshire's Magazine.
Mr.. Lawyer, how car you have the
face to sheer at an orthodox minis
ter? You are a thousand times more
bigoted than he is; he has had some
modern thoughts, but your business
has allowed you to have none. Tell
me, if you can, what real, vital, Wig
improvements there have been
in the administration of our courts
of justice while the world has fair
ly ledped along in other respects, even
in religious improvement of the most
superstitious denominations that ex.
ist in america? l believe that the
administration of courts is vast.
ly worse than the administration OF
our churches. Lawyers are supposed
to be officers of justice, but how they
bewilder us, how they become advo.
Gates of injustice! One lawyer is
always an advocate of injustice in
every case that is tried. There are
not many people who could afford to
go to law. | am not impugning our
judges and our %iuries, but they, with
Jul courts and our lawyers, are all
parts of a system that grinds the
souls out of men.
Judges and juries are just as good
in their way as preachers or manu-.
%facturers or workmen are in their
way, but look at an ordinary trial
in our courts all through it's weary
length of one. two, three, four, some
times five, ten and even 80 years,
and see how wicked and ridiculous it
is to call that justice. We even i'm
prison our witnesses-innocent men
who are unfortunate enough to wit
ness a crime, who, because they are
poor and cannot be bailed, are put
behind the bars, while we know how
many criminals are at liberty. 1t is
possible in Massachusetts to keep an
innocent man in jail for ten years if
he happens to witness a crime and
does not have money enough so that
he may be set free on bail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15

Take half a pint of walnut meats
and three tart oranges. Peel the
oranges and remove all the white pith
and divide them into small pieces. Cut
each piece into half and mix with the
nuts. Line a glass salad bowl with the
inside leaves of head lettuce. Mix one
tablespoonful of lemon juice, three of
salad oil, half a teaspoonful of salt and
a quarter Of a ~teaspoonful of paprica.
When well mixed pour this dressing
over the oranges and nuts; toss it
about lightly and turn it into the
bowl.-Washington Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
He KnOws "JacIS Frnst.v

It was the first bitter cold day OF
the winter, and the kindergarten was
animatedly discussing the advent Of
sack Frost" Finally the teacher
said, with an air Of mystery:
Il wonder if anyone can tell us
what Jack Frost really is?"
Silence for a moment; then Louis
black eyes began to twinkle, and he
gave a little wriggle of jov
"Sure!" he said. "Sure, / know
what's Jack Frost He's the icemani'
M Y. Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
Delicate

For Cracker-Use three crackers
rolled fine, one pint of boiling milk
poured OF them; stir well together;
add two tablespoons Of sugar, a little
salt, and the well-beaten yolks Of two
eggs; bake half an hour. Beat the
whites to stiff froth, add sugar, salt
and flavor to taste. This is used for
frosting. Nice either cold or warm
Boston Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
The Hest He Could Do.

A kind-hearted clergyman was
lately compelled to dismiss a garden
er who used to purloin his fruit and
vegetables. For the sake of his wife
and family he gave him a letter of
recommendation, and this is how he
worded it: Il hereby certify that
g. b has been my gardener
for over two years, and that during
that time he got more out of my
garden than any man / ever en
ployed."-Chicago Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
Proof Against Such Argument.

She-He didn't succeed in convinc.
ing her, after all his argument.
He-No; he merely made her mad.
But his explanation was clear"
Eyes, and that's where he made his
mistake. He told her it was as plain
as the nose on her ace.'"-Stray Sto-
ries.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15

to take even an ordinary drink of water without ascertaining first
whether it has been cooked.
Critics at home may sometimes search for epithets to apply to
our general officers, but these officers are no less ~kindhcarted than
their critics, and were anxiously mindful OF the sufferings which nee
essarily fall upon the innocent in warfare as well as the guilty, and
were devisng means by which the poor might be cared for and fed.
There is reason for qualification that our felow-countrymen have con-
hdence in their army and many know what war is; and the reaction
has not been sluggish.
That the army performed its duties well and bore its hardships
uncomplainingly is well known to all who have kept in touch with it
since the opening Of the Philippine Instruction. In fact, it has only
done these things which we expect of it and which we will continue
to expect OF American soldiers,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15

No more thrilling and heroic incident connected with the history OF
America can be found than that of the capture of the English frigate
Scraps, commanded by Capt. Pearson, by the Bonhomme Richard, COM
mande by Capt. John Paul Jones. 1t occurred on the evening of Sep
TENDER p, 179, off Marlborough head o the English coast. Every cir
cumstance ws against Jones; his strongest battery vas disabled at
the first fire; he had N board a large number of English prisoners; his
crew and number of guns were less than those of his antagonist, but
in the face of these he fought with a rapidly sinking ship under him I'M
til the British captain forced to surrender. After this battle Capt.
John Paul Jones practically disappears from American history. He
was literally rewarded by congress, but in 17S he was given a commits,
sion as rear admiral in the Russian navy in the WI with the Turks, and
died in Paris in 1892.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-01-15
THE TRIALS OF THE SOLDIER,
BY GEN. j. c. BRECKENRIDGE,
Inspector General United States Army.

URlNG my tour in the Philippines, it was evident on all
sides that the army, as a whole, was laboring patiently and
faithfully to solve the many vexing problems continually
presented to it. The difficulties encountered and the hard
ships endured never can be fully appreciated by anyone
who has not been on the ground and observed the daily
life Of officers and men 1000 miles from home influences
and associations, living in communities either openly or
secretly hostile, depending almost entirely for their sub
sistence 11nnn the cnrnmiSsaru-Mhere one is almauc AFRAID
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-12-31

fOR sALE.-Wny does d railroad
man pay rent when he can get a
good four room house. two nice lots,
water in house. good walled cellar.
large barn and out buildings. NIL in
good repair and near round house,
for $3.50. Look this up quick.
FOR SALE-Restaurant and Lunch
Counter seating 70 persons. Splent
did stand near depot. Nicely furn'
ished. A great bargain. Owner go
ing away and must sell.
FOR SALE-Hcre Is . bargain sure
enough: 5.room frame house. bath
hot and cold water, fine lawn anl
trees In best location on Tilder
Ave, Only $500. on easy terms,
mOORt, G.. as Dsssi. ." xs.s%s.
1894
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-12-31

of Tennessee. Superintendent r, J.
Tighe. * Asheviile. N. q. and many
others whose reputation is national.
The auditorium Of the First Baptist
church, where the formal opening ex.
ercises we're held. was tastefully dec
GRATED with flags. flowers and the In
evitable pictures Of the Little Red
Schoolhouse. The program OF exer'
cises was as follows: Prayer, welcome
on behalf Of the city, Mayor Evan =
Howell; on behalf Of the press. Hon
John Temple Graves; responses 81
behalf OF the association. Edward M
Poteat, president Of Furman Universe
III. and superintendent Junius Jor
dan Of Pine Bluff. Ark: address OF th'
president Of the association, Francil
p. venable. president Of the Universe
ty OF North Carolina.