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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
A Runaway Bicycle

Terminated with an ugly cut on
the leg of ]. B. 06Ber, Franklin
Grove, Ill. 1t developed a stubborn
ulcer unyieldlng to. doctors and
remedies for four years. Then
S Arnica salge cured. 1t
just as good for burns, scalds, skin
and piles. 2Sc, at h. c..
drug store
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
Not A Sick Day. Since.

81 was taken severely sick with
kidney trouble. tried all sorts OF
medicines. none of which relieved me
One day saw an ad. of your Elec-
trio Bitters and determined to try
that. Alter taking. few doses l
felt relieved, and soon thereafter
was entirely cured and have not
seen a sick day since. Neighbors of
mine have been cured of rheuna-
tism, peuralgia, liver and kidney
troubles aud general debility. +"
This is what B. y. Bass, of FIRE.
mont, n. c., writes. Only SOC, at
r. c. Hardwick's, druggist.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
Doesn't Respect Old Age.

It's shameful when youth fails to
show proper respect for old age,
but Just the contrary in the case Of
Or. Kings New Life Pills. They
cut off maladles no matter how Sc
we're and irrespective of old age.
Dyspepsia, jaundice, fever, consti-
patton all yield to this perfect pill,
25c, at II. c. Hardwick's drugstore,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05

The ballots for the primary cleo
ton were printed by the Fulton
Leader Office and about one-third
OF them VIII contain the name Of
Col. Jno X. Hendrick in spite of his
withdrawal There are conflicting
reports III regard to the order in
which the names appear on the bal
lot, but in most races the states can.
didates are given the FIRST lpaces
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
500 Reward, 500.

The readers Of this paper will be
soleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
sscseuce has been able to cure in all
ITS stages and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being
4 constitution al disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature IN
doing it's work The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative
bowers, that they offer one Hun
dred Dollars for any case that il
faiis to cure. Send for list Of testi-
snonials.
Address. f. J CHENEY 4 Co.
Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
< Cents

Eight cents a pound is
what a young woman paid for
twelve pounds of flesh.
She was thin and weak and
paid one dollar for a bottle of
SCOTS Emulsion, and by TAX
ing regular doses had gained
twelve pounds in weight before
the bottle was finished.
Eight cents a pound is
cheap for such valuable ma
terial. Some pay more, some
less, some get nothing for
their money. You get your
moneys worth when you buy
SCOTS Emulsion.
We will send you a little
free.
SCOTT & BOVINE, CHEMISTS,
400 Pearl Street. New York.
soc. and S1.oo; all druggists.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
BALLOTS READY.
Sheriffs Can Get Them Any Time
This Week

The ballots for Christian county
have been received and can be Sc
cured by the sheriffs of election by
calling on Mr.. Hunter Wood, j.,
secretary of the county committee.
The candidates are said TO be on
the ballot in the following order:
For GOVERNOR. G. w Reckham.
For Lieut.. Governor-W p.
ThoFas, Abram Renick.
Auditors. W. HageE, John b.
Chenault.
Treasurer-H, M. Bosworth,
Josh Griffith.
Secretary of State-8 V. Nc
Chesney.
AttoFney.General-IFa Bulian, n
B. Hays, J. Willard Mitchell, Chas.
Carroll.
Superintendent of Bdecation-
Chas, E. Sugg, Ben watt, J. H.
FuQua, ST., J. J. Watkins, T. n
Arnold.
Commissioner of Agrioulture-T
T. Hedger, J. L. Frasee. Hubert
Nreeland.
Clerk Court of Appsals-J. Nor
gan, Chinn, Robert l.. Greene.
In the races for Governor, Audit.
or. Treasurer, Secretary of State
and Clerk of the Court of Appeals
it VIII be observed that the reputed
"slate" candidates "drew" 6rst
place.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
FERGUSON IS FIRST.
Dempsey's Name Will be Second
on the Official Ballot.

Frankfort, KY April 25.-Mote
Ayers, ckirman by the First rail-
road commission district, to-day
drew by lot the names of the candi-
dates for railraad commissioner as
they are to 90 on the ballots. Med.
Ferguson 5 name will be first,
Fletcher Dempsey's second and
Webb Bell third
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05

About sixty lives were destroyed
last week by the crumbling away of
a mountain peak overhanging the
mining town of Frank, N. w. T.
The remaining peak is liable to
fall, completely burying the town,
which has 1000 population.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
Cabin Burned.

A cabin on Mr. c. A. McGarroll' s.,
farm, few miles west of the, city >,
VAS destroyed by FIRE lasa Thurs
day night. The: building was oce-
cupled by a cobOred tenant, who
was srom home at the tinae. 1t is
thought to have been the work OF
an incendiary.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
Spring Medicine

There is no other season when good
medicine is so much needed as in the
Spring.
The blood is impure, weak and
impoverishcd--a condition indicated
by pimples and other eruptions on the
face and body, by deficient vitality,
loss of appetite, lack Of strength, and
want Of animation.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
Hoods JGrSGp0riLE0
and Pills

Make the blood pure, vigorous and
rich, create appetite, give vitality,
strength and animation, and cure
all eruptions. Have the whole family
begin to take them today.
Hoods sarsaparilla has been used in
our family for some time, and always with
good results. Last spring 1 was all run
down and got a bottle Of It, and as usual
received great benefit MISS BxULAH
BoYcE, Stowe, VT.
Hoods sarsaparIIIa promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
ILLNESS WAS BRIEF.
rlrs. Mcintyre Passed Away Be-
fore Husband Could Arrive.

The wife OF Mr.. O. T. MCINTYRE
died Friday night at ner home OF
North Clay street, after brief i'll
ness of brain trouble. She was 3
years old and a member of the
Methodist church The funeral
took place Saturday afternoon, con.
Quoted by the Rev, f. L. Southgate.
and the remains were inferred in
Hopewell cemetery.
Mr.. Mcintyre had been in st.
Louis on business and a message
informing him of his wile's illness
did not reach him until after the de.
parture of the train Thursday
night He left for home the Mex
morning. however. but did not ar.
rive in the city until few minutes
after the death Of his wife occurred
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05

Judge Cantrill has over-ruled the
motion for a fourth new trial in Jim
How ards case. Caleb, Powers
may not be tried at Georgetown
this month, but special term may
be held tor that purpose IN July.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05

The estimated per capita of money
in the United States is Row $29.5S,
a little less than $50 All the same,
a good many of us often feel like
thirty cents.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05

Maj. J Tandy Ellis, secretary of
Congressman Stanley, gave ex-Gov.
Bradley "cussng" in the Louis
willie Hotel last Saturday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-05
DAMAGES WANTED
For Valuable Timber Alleged TO,
Have Been RemoNed.

Have betu KeIHU@tu.
''Adaline and c. ]. Adams VS.
D. P: Alexander, is the style of a
suit for $500 damages filed here
yesterday. Plaintiffs, state 10.
their petition that they are owners
of land lying on CastleAerry, a tnib-
utary of Tradewater, and that. in
April last the defendant unlawfully
cut down ard removed from their.
land number of valuable trees, to
the damage of said plaintiffs,in al
least the sum above mentioned.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14
In Tennessee.

Prof. George Lincoln Burr Of Cornell,
who is touring New England on his BIZ
cycle in order to gather facts about
witchcraft, is an authority on the his
tory of superstition and persecution,
and he is also an indefatigable wheel
man, says the Boston Post. Prof.
Burr, with his bicycle, has penetrated
many primitive and secluded parts of
the United States.
From these journeys he returns with
little stories that are now quaint, now
strange, now humorous. A story of
the latter sort concerns a visit to Ten
neSsee.
Il arrived one night at a mountain
GERS cabin said the professor, land
asked for shelter for the night. The
good people were very hospitable. They
gave me a comfortable bed and an ex-
cellent meal.
"While 1 was eating my meal my
hest watched me narrowly, to see that
I had everything 1 wanted. He kept
ordering his wife to fill my glass, to
bring me more bread, and so forth.
Finally, when l began to eat piece
of apple pie, he exclaimed in an'indig-
nant tone:
Jane, why don't you bring the gen.
tleman knife? Do you see him here,
trying to eat pie with fork?"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14
ROOSEVELT AND THE BLACKS.

President Roosevelt forced DR.. Crum
on Charleston as collector of the port
with the idea that it would please
the colored voters and bring them
into line for his nomination to succeed
himself. At the same time he has en-
deavored to cater to the lilly white
sentiment by favoring Mr.. Capers, a
former Democrat, as Republican ma
tional committeeman from South Caro-
lima. In his attempt to straddle two
stools it seems likely that he will fall
between them.
There is strong feeling in the Pal
metto state between the factions of
the Republican party represented by
Mr.. Capers, the white man, and Ed
mund H. Deas, colored, who is chair
man of the State Republican Commit
tee Deas, a typical saddle-colored
Southern Republican politician, feels
that he has not been fairly treated
by the President; that Capers has been
given patronage and favors that he
should have had; that If there were
any perquisites to be given out they
should have been passed over to him,
instead of to the newcomer into the
party. Deas, formerly valet of car
pet-bagger sheriff of Darlington coun-
ty, learned his politics in the school
that taught that politics meant spoils,
and that the man in a position to hand
over the spolls to the regular organ
ization" was a traitor to the party if
he didn't do it. Claiming to repre-
sent the Organization" in South Caro-
lima, and having failed to receive "the
goods" Deas feels that he has been
badly used and that the President is
not a man to be trusted with another
term of office. Therefore Deas is
against him. Not that he cares two
eminent and whether another man
would make a better President than
Roosevelt, but he wants the spoils, and
Roosevelt has failed to come across"
He is for Senator Hanna, because he
believes Hanna is man who wouldn't
monkey with minority faction, but
would stick by the organization" if
it were as black as the ace of spades
and ignorant as ignorance itself. And
it seems likely that Deas will carry
the party in his state with him. The
State Committee, which is the state
machine, is composed of twenty-five
members. OF these seventeen are
black, and they invariably follow the
leadership of the chairman, Deas.
Neither the chairman nor the black
committeeman care anything about DR..
Crum. They would sacrifice him
quickly if by so doing they could re-
gain the various bits of patronage that
have been doled out to the Capers
wing of the party.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Chattanooga Times (Dem.) says:
"One of the funny fellows has been
telling us how Mr. Bryan will appear
when he returns from his European
trip. What seems to be the trend
the reporter will ask, of European
thought on the great political ques-,'
and before the words can be completed
Mr.. Bryan will reply: Now, really,
my dear boy, you mustn't awsk me.
1 cawn't say anything, don't you
know' But then Mr.. Bryan is going
to disappoint the funny fellow. He
will say no such thing"
The Cincinnati Enquirer Oem.)
says: MANY men of note have come
and gone since the idea of a canal at
deed, the time since the actual digging
commenced has been counted almost
in lifetimes. 1t sometimes seems re-
niarkable that the revolution plan
wasn't thought of long ago. 1t is pos
sible, though, that the Monroe Doc
trine was standing in the way. Our
policy of aggression and absorption,
though, has made of that instrument
a rather sorry-looking rag"
The New Orleans Picayune (Dem.)
says; "The negro already figures to a
serious extent in the political, indus
trial and social affairs of the Northern
States, and the crisis which is al
ready impending there will be hasten
ed most rapidly. The South will lose in
representation, which is, after all, not
the most serious matter, but the North
will gain the negroes, which will prove
to be most serious. The time has
passed when the Northern States and
people could strike blow at the South
without injuring themselves. The
Crumpacker business will prove, If
put into operation, a terrible BOOM
erang and will recoil with frightful
force upon the people who throw it,"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: Secretary Moody has struck up
on remarkable plan for arresting
the numerous assertions in the United
States navy. He recommends that all
deserters who may be caught within
three months from their flight or such
as may voluntarily return at any time
shall be treated as merely having been
absent without leave. Instead OF
checking serious evil this would be
very apt to have the opposite effect.
Seamen I'm the navy would be very
likely 10 avail themselves Of such an
invitation TO make a three months eX-
cursion with the assurance that Moth
ing further would await them on cap
ture than treatment as absentees With
out leave"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14
Personal.

John Melrose, the driver of the St.
Paul police ambulance, had chicken for
dinner the other day and in the crop
of the fowl sacrificed for the purpose
he found a diamond valued at $125.
The best paid official in the world
is said to be the grand vizier to the
Sultan of Morocco. Ben Hammed who
held the office for twelve years previous
to his death, which occurred recently,
left a store of gold coin, absolutely his
own, amounting in value to $40 00O,0 900.
Elk Congressman E. b. Taylor Of
Warren, O., who succeeded James A.
Garfield as representative of the old
Nineteeth District in Congress on the
advance of the latter to the presiden-
cy, has just completed the fifty-eighth
year of his practice of law. 1t is said
that no other lawyer in Ohio is able to
show so many years of activity
in the profession.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14
index 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Magnolia Encampment No.
1, 1. o. o. F.: German Friendly So
ciety; Landrum Lodge No. As, F. &
A. NJ
Special Notices--Do 1t Now. w. T.
Hopkins.
Business Notices-Recreation and
Refreshment, Casino Restaurant: It's
Absolutely Ridiculous. G. W. Thomas:
Mr.. Hunter Reconsideration Station
Restaurant.
BY Request-Sternberg & Co.
Looking After Details-E. & w.
Laundry.
Daily Hints For Christmas Shopping
B. H. Levy & Bro.
The Best Pocket Timekeepers Made
-Waltham Watches.
Blood Poison-Dr. J. 7. Gault.
ScheduIes-Savannah Electric Rail-
way.
For Little Boys and Girls-Latti-
mores.
Have You Cold or Cough-solomons
Co.
Don't Accept substitutes-Rowlinski,
Druggist.
Sure Thing Tonic-Henry Solomon &
Son.
Lecture-The Negro and the South,
by Hon. ALI Harrington.
Medical-Herpicide.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14
INcoMPErENTs IN OFFICE.

| During the course of his argument
for the defense in a postOffice fraud
| case in Baltimore, Lawyer w. S. Bryan,
Jr., of that city roundly scored the
! management Of the Postoffice Depart
ment. There were certain bureau Chiefs
| he asserted, who were overpaid for
merely signing letters they did not
read. The whole department, he
| charged, was "incompetently and
| shamelessly' run. He named one OF
the important functionaries of the de-
partment whom he characterized as "a
man who lives on canvassback ducks,
green peas and champagne, and who
| does not attend to his business"
1t cannot be successfully questioned
| that the government service is shock
| ingly abused, and especially in Wash
| ington. There is not a department or
bureau but is carrying its load of in
competent clerks and other employees
and, as events in the POstoftice De-
partment have shown, there from time
to time get into the service persons
who are worse than incompetent.
Where lies the responsibility for this
| condition of affairs? The question al
most answers itself-with Congress
and the politicians. Bureau chiefs,
clerks and others are put into offices
without the slightest regard to their
ability to discharge the functions of
them satisfactorily. When a candi-
date for a job has a pull there is
no investigation of his competency or
integrity. Whether the man gets the
job he is after is merely a matter of
political influence; and the most worth
less men are generally those who man
age to work up the most political back
ing. The story is told of Representa-
tive Cannon, now Speaker of the
House, having forced the Agricultural
Department to reinstate a clerk at $50
a month who had been discharged as
worthless, for the reason that the
worthless fellow was from his district
and he and his family and friends
would give Mr.. Cannon no rest. Mr..
Cannon argued that his own time was
worth to the public service more than
the salary the government would pay
the fellow. And there are no doubt
hundreds of cases along similar lines.
Congressman are afraid that if they
turn down" the importunate fnoompe-
tents from their districts they Will lose
votes and possibly their elections,
therefore they are willing to saddle
the government with the expense of
maintaining their worthless constitu-
ents.
There are reasons for thinking that,
in the last analysis, the responsibility
for the Postoffice Department frauds
and graftings should be laid on the
shoulders of congressman and politi-
clans connected with the government.
Nor is either political party free from
blame. Members of Congress of both
parties have packed the departments
with their favorites and the barnacles
that they could not otherwise detach
from themselves. The Bristow report
showed that both Republicans and
Democrats had been guilty of the prac-
tice and had received favors at the
hands of Beavers, late of the Bureau
of Salaries and Allowances. And that
probably accounts for the fact that
some time ago, when a congressional
investigation of Beavers was ordered,
he was given a clean and shiny coat
of whitewash. The congressman
wouldn't go back on their friend.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14

1t is difficult to understand how a
six-days bicycle race, like that just
ended in New York, can be called
sport" 1t is merely test of physical
endurance that proves nothing further
than that some men can be reduced
TO a state of pitiable fatigue in less
few minutes at the conclusion, there
is nothing to arouse considerable in
terest in the spectacle, But maybe
the sport" is to be found in the ac-
cidents that invariably accompany such
races. Jack Prince used to say that
crowds would attend motor-paced
race because there was always a chance
of somebody being killed.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14

From the Boston Globe.
Wall, the fever's got ter Bushby, it
hez found us here at last.
An looks ter me as eff our peace an
cumfert naow was past.
I've been readin' in the papers 'baout
the clubs tibet wimmin jined,
An naow, thinks I, our wimmin folks
won't want ter be behind:
An, sure enough, they're boomin' 'em
with all their might and main,
They talk abaout 'em night an day,
they've got 'em on the brain.
1 tell yer what, it amt no joke hev
ter git my grub
An sew on trouser buttons, tew, sence
Mandy jined the club.
They meet on Tuesday AFTERNOON, all
dressed up in their best,
From o'clock till 5 1 guess their
tongues don't git much rest.
They sometimes hev a speaker thar,
an then they larn lot
Thet Mandy tries ter tell me, but ]
dunno which from what.
She cum a-rushin' home one day, a.
lookin' dretful skeered,
thought she't got a tellygraft, an
some bad news had heerd;
Josiah" said she real solemn-like,
there's germs enough ter kill
"A nunQTeQ men a-StlcKln few a single
dollar bill"
They gave big reception an they
asst the men ter cum.
But I'd enough sight rather if they'd
let me stay ter hum;
They didn't hev no fiddlin' thar, nor
nothin' of the kind,
N I stepped on women's dresses tibet
wus made tew long behind.
there I'D oV,i
they all stood 'raound an ct;
BUT Yer couldn't take no comfort,
cause there want not tables set
Guess they thought 1 had dyspepsy,
cause a woman handed me
A sandwich tied with ribbon an a
thimbleful o. tea.
They study up the humly weeds a.
CROWN raound a stump,
An calkerlate how many feet a grass
hopper kin jump.
The bedroom is a "boodwar" naow, a
wrappers "neglijay,"
Oh, I'm sick o. this tomfoolery I'm
hearin' every day.
wouldn't wonder if they faound some
fancy name fer SCOT.
But Mandy she gifts hoppin' mad cause
l jes say Cats foot"
l spose next Monday mornin' I'll be
washin' at the tub.
Fer I amt surprised at nothin' naow
since Mandy fined the club.
Katherine L. Daimler.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-14

DR.. L. Orman Cooper, in a recent
pleasant account of his dealings as a
physician with the Irish peasantry,
tells some characteristic anecdotes of
their doings and sayings which have
the merit of being both new and true,
says an exchange. 1t is well known
that the water cure is one not likely to
meet with much appreciation in Erin:
but the manner in which one old wom-
an received the suggestion that bath
might be desirable was unexpected.
She repudiated the idea Indignantly.
Sure" said she. 1--WE heard of
washin' corpse, but niver live one!"
The Doctor had some trouble with
patients who were divided in mind as
to the respective powers of himself and
the wise woman" who would treat
them as sufferers from witchcraft; and
he was not always able to urge his
claims to a victorious issue. Many
sufferers, however, placed in him a
childlike and cheerful faith, and of
these a typical specimen was heard TO
remark:
1.-The doctor. God bless him, is after
giving me a prescription, and If it don't
cure me he'll describe me again.
He was able to describe" for them
on the whole successfully, although at
accounts of the invalids from distract
ed messengers or relatives, to judge
what kind of disease he would have to
deal with. But in good time he &C
quired the necessary knack of inter-
probation, and ceased to be puzzled
when he was called in to treat tonsili-
tbs under the appellation of tomatoes
in the froat:" bronchitis as drown
katum on the stomach" or even CON
lecture of the lungs with combina-
tiOns!"-presumably congestion of the
lungs with complications.
With all the bulls and blunders of
his patients, however, they were bright
enough in their way, and they could
describe an affection if they could not
always name it.