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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
ELECTRIC FARMS.
Germany in the Van in Introduction
of Modern Methods.

Germany in the Van in Introduction
of Modern Methods.
In the application of electricity
to everyday work, says Lon
ldon Answers, Germany has per
lhaps gone farther than any other
nation. Electrically heated and
operated cooking and laundry APP
paratus is in common use there,
but the most striking single de-
velopment is the electrical farm.
Take, for example, the Quend-
nau farm, which covers $50 acres,
and its dairy handles 1000 gal
Ions of milk daily. Every part of
this farm is lighted by electricity,
and is in telephone cOmmunica.
ton with every other part. The
dairy has an electrical churn; the
barn contains electrically operat-
ed feed and carrot cutting ma.
chimes, and even the grindstOne is
turned by a small belt from the
shaft connected with the barn mo.
tor.
The water-pumping apparatus
is run by electricity; all the build
ings are lighted by incandescent
lamps, and there is an electrical
indicator at the doors Of all the
houses. This farm has also it's
own threshing and grist mill, the
machinery of which is turned by a
current from the miniature cen.
trail station; and finally there is a
small sawmill which gets its'pow.
er from the same station. On the
farm there are all kinds of cleo.
trical agricultural machines.
The power for all these various
operations - lighting, heating,
telephones, ohurning, cutting,
grinding, pumping, threshing and
sawing-oOmes from a 5O.horse-
power stationary engine working
.wO dynamOs. From this station
power is distributed to all parts !
If the farm, and the switchboard !
S so plainly marked that the or
linary farm hand can regulate the
supply to fit the need.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
OUIcK WORE.
r. c. MorefieId, fiopkinsvlIle,
Tells Of a Case.
Quick work counts.

Quick work counts.
Results tell the tale
No delay about Doan S Kidney Pills.
They do their work quickly and well,
Here's local proof of 1t.
r. c. More6eld, Sr., real estate
dealer and associated with the
Christian County Title Co., resid.
ing at 222 w. 18th ST., says: "For
several years the condition of my
back and Of the kidney secretions
furnished ample evidence that 1
was suffering from kidney disor-
ders. The aching in my back
would come on by spells Otter so
severe that it was painful for me to
stoop, to straighten up or to at
tempt any sudden movement. Isaw
Deans Kidney Pills advertised lc-
cally and thinking that they might
help me, got a box at Thomas 81
Irahern drug store. l had used
them only few days when I no.
ticed marked improvement in my
condition and | continued the treat
ment 1t did me more good than
any medicine had ever used, and
that is putting in mildly. You may
publish my statement at any time
and l will do all can to let the val.
ue of Doan's Kidney Pills be
Known"
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buf-
falo, n. Y, sole agents for the
United States.
Remember the name-Doan' s
and take no other.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
DRESS AND DISCOMFORT.
Men SweTter and Swear, But Make
Little or No Change.

Men SweTter and Swear, But Make
Little or No Change.
Not the least of the drawbacks
of civilization is the character Of
clothing that civilized convention
requires the man person to wear
during the summer months, Wo-
mankind usually dresses some
what sensibly, but even she finds
stays and like denominations a
great burden in midsummer. One
never heard of savages suffering
from heat prostration, horde we
get reports from country boys be
ing similarly affected.
Man, particularly if he be over
80, is disposed to be ultra-cOnser.
vative in the matter of clothing.
He likes tOwear one suit Of cloth.
ing four or five months, and then
put on another and wear il asimi.
Lar length ,0f tine, and so on.
When the hot months come he
may make the concession of leav.
inv off his waistcOat, but that is
usually as faras he goes for street
wear. lie viii wear a somewhat
lighter suit of underwear in the
summer than ia the winter, but
this and the Invested waistcOat
are practically the only different.
iation made in the character of
clothing that is expected to serve
for the chill months of spring and
the roasting days of midsummer.
Stiff linen collars, heavy linen
cuffs, a coat and not infrequently
a stiff hat, are chung to like grim
death for the most ordinary street |
wear, while if the occasion be any
sort of function men are as likely |
as not to wear heavy frOck coats,
waistcoats and whole raft of I'm.
necessary clothing.
When the "shOrt waist" fad |
came In a few years ago it looked
for a time as if men might give up
the fOolishness of coats in mid.
summer, but the few who were
bold enough to leave them off
were laughed at, and whether it
was the fear of ridicule or the
lack of pockets that determined
the question, the uncomfortable
fact remains that custom very
returned to the decree
that no man must appear in public
without coat. And then he goes
on sweltering and swearing at the
weather
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
OLD WATCH COCKS.
Present Day Use Is Almost Entirely
for Ornament.

"They'll be after the heels Of
my old boots next plaintively
said a dealer in old watches, after
he had parted with as many as 30
excellent samples of cocks at the
minimum price of six cents apiece,
according to the Washington
Star. The woman who bought
them was Of fashionable reputa.
ton, and afterward described the
incident as "the raid of her life"
In the craze which now exists
for old watch cocks and The max.
ing of them into such ornaments
as girdles, chains, bangles and
scarf pins, the proyerbial clever
ness of Dame Fashion is verified.
There is much originality in the
fad. From bits of discarded
mechanisms hitherto regarded as
useless, quaint and semi-barbaric
pieces of decorative jewelry have
been made.
The sO-called cock of watch is
the round, fiat and usually filigree
piece of metal which was used to
shield the handspring of ancient
watches-those which went out
with the advent of the more con
venient winder. It usually
held the largest jewel which the
works boasted, and its claim tn
beauty rested solely on the pecu
liarity of its design.
From watches long since laid
away with other relics of departed
ancestors these cocks are now be
ing taken. AS, however, even the
most lucky inheritors would hard
~ possess a sufficiently large mum
Der of them to form a girdle, q
long chain or even a bangle, the
search is often continued through
some watchmaker's drawer Of dis
carded things.
The fad is not confined to wo
men. But only the larger jewele(
cocks are desired by men who ap
Ipreciate their uniqueness ant
know they may easily be made
into artistic scarfpins.
In fastening the cocks togethe
for chains or bangles small meta
rings are used, 1t is cnstomar.
to have the whole ornamen
regilded or dipped in silver, &C
cording to the taste OF the wear
er. Only those with money to bur
make point of having then
washed with gold.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
A POET TURNED BEGGAR.
Strange Story Of German Eouvsau--
Now Thinks Poetry Sinful.

Strange DUTY VI 0SEmdlu NOuNEou-
Now Thinks Poetry Sinful.
Standing at the door Of the
mansion belonging to the Society
of Men of Letters the other morn.
ing, says a Paris letter to the Lon
don Daily Telegraph, was bro
kendOwn beggar clad in rags and
apparently half starved. The
footman told him to 60 away, but
he pleaded so piteously to see
the president Of the society that
he was at last admitted to the
hall. The president came down,
and the beggar said in a whisper:
81 am German NOuveau." The
name is that of a poet who many
years ago gave promise of great
talent, even Of genius, but sud
denly disappeared, and had since
remained undiscoverabIe. The
beggar was really German Nou-
veau. His history is an extraOrdi-
nary one. Formerly a clerk in the
government Office of public in
struction, he published a few pO-
ems which were Of considerable
worth, and which attracted the
attention of all literary people.
Well known writer's took him up
and encouraged him in his work.
Many critics considered that he
bade fair to become the foremost
poet of his time. One day he sud
denly came to the conclusion that
poetry was sinful, and that the
only holy life was total renuncia-
ton. He threw all his manu-.
scripts, containing, it is said
much remarkable work, into the
fire, resigned his clerkship and
| disappeared. He was not heard
/ of afterward until the other day
1t seems that he lived up to his
convictions and became a stree
beggar. Clad in rags, he sat fOr
years all day by the porch Of Al,
cathedral, and asked for aims
Isubsisting only on the few pennic
which people going to church be
lstOwed on him. Lately he took t,
apostrOphizing persons whose de
meanor he did not consider suffi
GENTLY devout, and one day he vic
lently upbraided a lady becaus
he thought her dress was no
lplain enough to be worn in church
After that he was no longer a
- lowed to beg by the cathdral doc
a so he then started TO walk (
Paris. With the aid of a sma
grant made him by the Society {
= Men of Letters he has now take
e up his abode in the Quarter Mou
S fetard, the mendicants' neighbO
], hood, and lives among the be
gars, happy to be in their mid'
and to be one Of them.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
Kidnaper In Jail.

John McGaughey, who kidnapped
his child from its grandmother,
refuses to tell where the child is
hid. He is in jail, being unable to
give a $500 bond.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
You Know What You Are Taking

When you take Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle
showing that it is simply Iron and
Quinine in a tasteless form, No
Cure, No Paw, SOC,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
q - IT q FRI a.
Bears the n The Kind You Have Always Bought
''1 Of &tzHAzzzM<
Alton at a Festival.

An escaped lion took possession
of a plaza at Munich, Bavaria,
during a festival celebration, but
made no attempt to injure the mer.
ry makers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
TALKING WITH FLAGS.
How the Signal Corps Plays Part in
Modern Warfare.

Modern Warfare.
The signal corps plays very
important part in modern war
fare-sO important that army and
navy officers say they could not
possibly do without it, in spite of
the fact that great campaigns
were carried on and great battles
were fought before it was ever
dreamed of.
There are several systems of
signaling in use by the army and
navy, the simplest of which is
that commonly called "wigwag-
ging," a term that was invented
for it. Nearly everyone knows,
perhaps, that the signaling is
done by means Of small flags, but
a brief description Of how the
flags are handled to convey
message, says the New York Her
aid, may not be without interest
The system is an adaptation Of
the Morse dot and dash telegraph,
alphabet the different move.
ments of a flag taking the place
of the dots and dashes. BY the
| Morse alphabet the letter is rep
resented by a dot and dash, the
b by dash and three dots, and
the letter C by two dots, a space
and a dot. The other letters are
represented in a similar way.
In the army system waving the
| flag to the right means a dot; to
the left a dash, and dropping it
directly in front Of the operator
means space. If, therefore, the
operator waves the flag once to
the right aud once TO the left he
makes the letter a; if he waves it
. once to the left and three times to
b the right he makes the letter b,
b and if he waves it twice to the
t right. once down in front and then
once again to the right he makes
the lettcrc.
This reads like slow work, but
it is anything but slow, for the Op
orators are so skiIlful and quick
in the use Of the flag that they can
give and receive the letters al.
most as fast as a telegraph opera
tor can give and receive the clicks
of his instrument. :
The use OF a strong field glass
enables the receiving operator to
read the signals at a great dis
lance. When il is necessary 10,
signal at night a torch is substi-
tuted for the flag.
| Wigwagging in the navy is
done on the same general princi-
lple, but the numerals /, ?, 3 are
used instead Of dots and dashes.
The letter a by this system is
made by the numerals >, ,; the
letter b by 2, 2, I, >; the letter
by l, ?, 1; the letter d by ,, 2, 2,
and so on.
Waving the flag to the right
means 1, to the left means .. and
down the front means 3. Two
waves to the left, therefore. make
the letter a; two waves to the left,
one to the right and one again to
the left make the letter b; one
wave to the right, one to the left
and one again to the right make
c; three waves to the left make d.
and so on.
The navy also uses a fiashlight
and the steam whistle in combi-
nation with the numerals. A
short fash or a short blast of the
whistle means 1; two short
flashes or two short blasts mean
2, and long fash or a long blast
means 3.
Provision Is thus made for sig.
mailing by day, whether the air be
clear or fOggy. -stsr
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
Three Injured.

Three strikers were injured by
young Italian who fred into a
crowd of wcrkmen at Patterson,
n. ].
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
Appropriated $500.

The Madison county fiscal court
has appropriated $500 to supple.
ment the private subscriptions
from the county to the Kentucky
Exhibit Association S Worlds Fair
fund.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13

Only one remedy in the world
that will at once stop itchiness of
the skin in any part of the body.
Doan's Ointment. At any drug
store, SO cents.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
President Too Busy.

President Roosevelt has notified
the Alabama State Fair Associa-
ton that he is too busy to take a
Southern trip this fall.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
Two Men Shot.

Two white men were shot, one of
them fatally at Henderson, Texas,
by|a negro whom they intended to
fog.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
Ate Chicken and Died.

Granville S. Crowder, of Frank
lin, KY, while suffering from ty-
phoid fever, ate piece of chicken
against his physicians advice and
died.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13

The Alaskan Boundary Tribunal
is expected to have finished all its
labor except the procurement of
its decision by Thursday evening.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13

A boon to travellers. DR.. Fowl
er's Extract of Wild Strawberry
Cures dysentery, diarrhoea, sea-
sickness, nausea. Pleasant to
take. Acts promptly.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13

'fIt was almost a miracle. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters cured me OF a
terrible breaking out all over the
body. l am very grateful" Miss
-UUiia Elbridge, West Cornwell,
Conn.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
Result Of a Collision.

Fourteen persons were injured as
the result of a collision between a
trolly car and a wagon at Kansas
City, Kan,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13

For a pleasant physic take
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets. Easy to take. Pleasant
in effect. For sale by G. X.
WHY, druggist.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
White LIGHT Most Powerful.

On very dark nights a white
light can be seen farther than a
colOred one.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
The First Needles.

The first needles we're made in
1916; ten needles then represent
ed hard days work.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-13
A Pol ld Of Tea.

A pound of tea requires u tea
plants Of average size.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-07
,.ChuIlna. ~

Compared with the chum Of the set
tied bachelor woman, the college chum
Is temporary accessory. There are
bachelor women chums in New York
who have been going about together
steadily and successfully for seven.
eight, or ten years, and lend to each
other all the attentions possible be-
tween times of business. Under ordl-
nary circumstances, perhaps, women
would not be close friends for SO long
They would fall out about sweethearts
or over rivalry In dress, looks or am.
billions. But the confirmed bachelor
woman has no such disturbments In
her life; so the chums are pretty well
content to spend their extra earnings
in each others company and fill each
for each the social needs OF life. They
write letters to each other In inter.
walls of office work, see each other nj
ways on Sundays and at least ON one
evening In the week And at Christ
mas or on birthdays they exchange
presents. The bachelor woman PAYS
her ehnms little compliments, heartens
her mp when blue or sick. and altogeth.
err stands in a very welcome relation
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-07
JEFFERSON DAVIS OLD HOME.
Beauvoir Mansion 10 Recome Retreat
for Confederate Soldiers.

Beauvoir Mansion to Recome a Retreat
for Confederate Soldiers.
In all the fair southland there Is not
place dearer to the hearts of the
Southern people than Beauyolr, the
lac home of Jefferson Davis, President
Of the Confederate States. This home
was recently purchased by the sons Of
Confederate veterans and VIII soon be-
come home for impoverished Confed-
crate veteran soldiers.
Beauyoir is the most beautiful and
imposing place on the Gulf coast. 1t
was settled and improved by James
Brown, a wealthy planter, who was Law
ish In the expenditure OF his abundant
means In building and identifying his
home. Oaks, cedars and magnollas vie
with each other In adding charm. and
the long. gray moss fills in any little
details that are lacking. The mansion.
as 1t was termed, is as good as II was
the day 1t was built, over GO years ago.
A gallery so feet long and 14h feet
wide borders the building In front and
on the sides, and ends in wings that
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-07
THE "AoNEYMooN TRAIN.
1t Holds the Record for Carrying
Newly Welded Couples.

1t Hold. the Record for Carrying
Newly Welded Couples.
She was a demure little thing, and
blushed rose-red as she stepped from
the $50 o'clock train at the Wells
street depot last Wednesday night
When she to9k hold the awkward
groom's arm and started walking to-
ward the waiting-room she blushed
still more.
There was something more than her
mere appearance that branded her as
a bride At every step there showered
from her hat, from her hair, and from
the folds of her coat innumerable
grains of rice which her enthusiastic
and well wishing bridal party had
rained upon her as she boarded the
train at Milwaukee. As the bride and
groom walked past one Of the brake
men the latter laughed and turned 10
a man standing close by.
That's the only pair on a 'se1ti-
mental journey tonight" he said, as
he swung his lantern to his left arm.
We've generally got bunch of EN-.
This is the greatest train In the West
for honeymoon trips. There isn't Il
night that the floors Of the coaches
are not literally covered with rice.
One night last week | threw five pairs
of old shoes off the train after we left
Milwaukee.
Il don't know why 1t is, but more
honeymoon trips are begun on this
train than on any other in the West.
That's fact. Most of the bridal cou-
pies come from Milwaukee. That's
great matrimonial center. We pick
up a newly welded pair farther north
occasionally. but the Wisconsin me
tropolis. Racine. and Kenosha furnish
most of them. When the bride and
groom board the train their enthusiast
tic friends follow them into the coach
and hurl rice at them. We haul enough
of the stuff TO Chicago every night TO
feed Chinatown for n week.
Its dangerous business to be
brakeman on this train. | don't think
want to stay on here very much
longer. This matrimonial fever is con
tagious. and nearly every brakeman
who ever had this run has tread over
the old rice and picked up old shoes
so much that he's gone away and got
married himself.
Yes. this is a dull sort of a night;
only one couple added the brake
man. as he swung his lantern and
hoped upon the platform when the
train started to back out of the depot.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-07

WHEELER LEADS HAPPY LIFE.
Famous General Passing His Remain
ing Days In the South.

Famous General Passing His Remain
ing Days In the South.
Brigadier General Joseph Wheeler,
days at his home at Wheeler. Ala, in
the manner of typical Southern gen
tleman. Visitors would never suspect
from the quiet peace reigning in the
home that he was once n warrior by
choice. His home life is Ideal, his
daughter being almost constantly at
the side of the gray-haired veteran.
Although she is a young woman now,
she seems to take as much delight in
sitting across the arm of chair with
neck and listening to him talk of the
victories of peace as she used to take
when girl in sitting astride one Of
his knees while he recounted blood
thirsty tales that appealed to her mag
nation. The attachment between the
general and his daughter provokes
daily comment. the fathers slightest
wish being sufficient to secure for him
anything the daughter can obtain to
add to his happiness.
General Wheeler fought through the
civil war as a member of the Confed-
crate army, commanding the cavalry
corps of the west and becoming ia
nous for dash and daring. After the
war be practieed law and conducted a
plantation When the Spanish-Ameri-
can war began he joined the United
States army and commanded the cav
airy division of the army of Santiago.
He commanded the American troops
at the battle of La Guasimas and was
senior In the field of battle of San
Juan. He was also senior on the com
mission that arranged the surrender of
Santiago. He served in the Philip
pines from August. 1899, until January
"A, 1900. He commanded the Depart
ment of the Lakes. with headquarters
at Chicago from June 10, 1900, to Sep
TENDER 10 1900, when he was retired.
He was born on September 10, 1896.
His son. Joseph Wheeler. Jr., Is now
a member Of the army. In addition
General Wheeler served many years in
Congress since the war.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1903-05-07

are entered through tall Venetian doors.
The hall Is 10 feet wide and opens at
the rear on a wide gallery, on which
the wings also open. The room 10 the
right as the hall Is entered from the
front was Miss Winnle's room. What
Mecca this room VIII be for the yeter-
ans, and how they will cherish every
thing that belonged to the Daughter
of the Confederacy."
Equally distant from the mansion.
east and west, are quaint little cot
tages. Originally there was only one
room In each, surrounded on the four
sides by wide galleries. Later one and
two sides have been inclosed, giving
two additional rooms. Ii is about the
east cottage that the principal interest
eenters, for II was IN this that Mr.. Da-
Wis studied and wrote, and where Miss
Winnie did much OF her early literary
work. The main room Of this cottage
was Mr.. Davis private library The
walls are lined with book shelves, and
little gallery runs along the upper
shelves. This was reached by small
ladder Near the fireplace Is where Mr..
Davis desk stood, and the door beside
II Is spattered with Ink. thrown from
his pen when he was writing his book.
The Rise and Fall OF the Confederate
Government The east room has been
enclosed, and In this room the chieftain
was wont TO recline and rest on sofa.
Back of this was a tiny room where
Miss Winnie wrote. 1t Is a real girls
den, and is yet quite characteristic of
the former fair occupant.
Tho west cottage was occupied by
Mrs. Hayes, the older daughter, and
her children when visiting her parents.
The Beauyoir home was bequeathed
by will TO Jefferson Davis by Mrs.
Sarah Anna Dorsey, of Louisiana.