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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-10
REGAINS LEAD.
Miss Wares Friends Rally
With 500 Votes.
Again in Front With Miss Baker
Only 70 Votes Behind
Total 70, 226.

The votes are now coming in with
a rush in our Popular Lady Con-
test and interest is increasing with
every day. The contest has but p
days more to run and there is no
time to lose for those who expect to
participate.
Friends of the contending young
ladies are outstanding their re-
sources and org anizing for the final
rush. The last official count will
be made this week and the box
cleared for the wind-up. Two bal
lot boxes have been filled since the
last count. Many coupons are be-
ing gathered and held back. The
final week will probably witness an
exciting finish, with thousands of
ballots cast.
If you owe for the paper, or want
to pay one year or five years in ad-
vance, you can get twenty votes for
every dollar paid on subscription.
The standing ad on another page
gives full details. The honor of
winning the prize is one that the
winner will be proud of as long as
she lives and the premium itself is
worth 500 or more.
Watch your label and if your date
is behind, get in the game and do it
without delay.
Here is the way they stand this
week:
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-10
TOBACCO


Our purchase last August Of 3OO,-
900 yards of Canvas was the
biggest purchase ever made by a
retail house in Kentucky. The
prices we offer show a clear saving
Of 1-2 cent yard to the farmer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-10
Mrs. RichardsOn III.

Mrs. Bette Richardson is very
IL Of typhoid fever at her home
near Gracey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
Esteemed Clergyman.

''The departure of the Rev. Dr. A. B. Curry, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will be a serious loss to Bir- mingham, and if the Rev. John G. Mur- ray decides to accept the call which he has received from the Church of St. Michael's and All Angels, Baltimore, an- other great loss will be sustained by this community.
 "Dr. Curry goes to Memphis this week to enter upon pastoral duties there and his place here will be difficult to fill. He Is not only an able preacher and faith full pastor, but a citizen who has long been alive to the best interests of Birmingham. In the Presbyterian church of Alabama his hopeful spirit and his wise counsel have been greatly valued by his brethren of the ministry and here in Jefferson county his leadership has been fully recog nized The good people of Birmingham, regardless of creed, will bid him tender farewell and will wish all manner of suc- cess in his new field of labor.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
Rubonic Plague Close at Hand.

Dr. Faean, secretary of the British Colombia board of health, reports to his government after a thorough in vestigation of San Francisco, that the plague exists there in epidemic form. It has spread to Oakland, Davisville, MarysviHe, and even to Sacramento, the capital of the state. In San Fran cisco the disease has continuously ex- isted two years, and it is known that the rats in the city, when found dead, show plague bacilli upon examination.
 Nor $ this all The disease has gained fcCthold in Mexico, especially at Hazatlan, a city on the Pacific coast, in the state of Sinaloa. Other cases have been reported in Mexico, and it is not at all improbable that all of Mexico may become infected, there being nmef poor poverty there and very little sanitation. The MeXicans dc not take kindly to treatment or to regulations, and the plague situation in that country is not bit promising.
 Altogether congress should arm the health service with ample power and funds, for Q stiff fight against the plague is ininent all along the Mex ican border and in California. The battle should te begun at once in Cali fornia, and defensive measures along the Mexican line are needed. The en- tire southwest is threatened with a visitation of the deadly plague.
 Unless the government acts quickly and vigorous ls, the states will act and quarantine will be established and bus mess will be seriously interrupted It is very difficult to,aeradicate bubonic plague after il has fairly gained a foothold, and no state will harbor it if by quarantine measures it can be kept out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
ADVICE TO A POLITICIAN.

From the New York Times.
 Gen. Ferdinand Clayborne Latrobe, the seven-term mayor of Baltimore city, and now president of the Consolidated Gas company of that city, credits much of his success to the newspapers.
 q learned their value early il. life" the general said the other day 'It was when I first went to the legislature. l was down on Governor Swann's farm He was then member of congress, as was Judge Niblack of Indiana, who was visiting him. The judge patted, me on the shoulder and said
 Young man, your father-in-law tells me you have got into political life. Now. am ain old hand at politics, and I want to give you some solid advice. It is this: There are three sorts of people you must not quarrel with if you want to make a successful politician First is the preach CT, because he has the fioor and you must sit and take what he says. Next is a woman. She can say more in an hour than you can say in a whole day, and every body will believe her, for against hers your word will be of no avail. The third and most important is the newspaper man. The newspaper can say lots of nice things about you that will help you more than all the speeches you can make, or it can say all sorts Of things against you, and it will cost you so much line to answer them.'
 q have always stuck close to the judges advice.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
Education in the South.

Robert C. Ogden gave a dinner in New York last week in honor of the southern education board and general education toarG Many educators as well as millionaires were present, and not a few clergy men and editors who might be educators, but who certainly were not nilionaires.
 Tho speaking related to the needs of the south in the direction of popu- lar education. The progress made was hotet and rhe steps to be taken in the future were defined. Governor Monta- gue of Virginia was present, and he stated that lis state had fully de- tormned to take hold of public edu- cation in earnest. President Alder man of Tulane University discussed the field in the south and the possibili- ties it offers for valuable work, and William II. Baldwin, Jr, dwelt upon the need of industrial education in the south.
 Few appreciate the importance of tue work these new boards have un- dertaken. Briefly speaking, they have teen orgf nized to reduce illiteracy in the south to the national average at least. Ii is stupendous. task, and Felix Adler at the recent dinner de- scribed the impression of the immens- ity of the task made on his mind when he first visited the south, and yet he now has confidence that all the agen- cies working together can accomplish it.
 These boards do not propose to mi tiate or to stand for any new methods whatever. Hey propose to work through existing agencies, giving aid where it is most needed and vitalizing all machinery. They believe that the IIODlGI 10 o'l lSlly udllOlldl--ludt lHc whole social end political fabric de- bends upon the lifting up intellectually "of the ignorant negro and the ignor- ant wlite man" All racial theories are put aside in these boards, and a general effort is to be made against ignorance wherever it exists in the south. There are no fads, no hobbies, no pet theories, to be exploited; it is simply an CffCrt to stimulate officials into new activities and to aid every agency that makes towards popular education. It means nothing more, and it will attempt nothing more. It de- serves the full confidence of the south ern people, and the leaders in popular education in this section are giving it every possible encouragement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
The Spirit of Consolidation.

'"rhe stock market is watched almost IS closely by men who do not trade in Wall street as by those who do," said banker yesterday.
 ''The speculative market reflects now more than ever financial conditions. The Financial Age remarks: The market will probably continue In fits and starts to move upward during the next few months, but nothing approaching a bull market need be expected for some time.
 The progress made by the spirit of con- solidaton was again demonstrated during the week in the annual meetings of stock holders of national banks held throub hout sodatons (other than those already an- nounced) were completed sufficient evi- dence was to be had of the desire of financial interests to combine forces There was considerable interchanging of directors between local institutions and also with out-of-town banks. Several large New ork insurance companies, banks and trust companies increased the scope of their power by receiving repre- sentation on the boards of many inland institutions, and representatives of west ern interests were in return given recog- hilton in several select metropolitan finap- cal families "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
Parcels Post Elsewhere.

This conceited country is the only country in the civilized world that does not conduct for the common good a parcels post. In other countries par. cels are carried without reference to contents-that is to say, they may consist of writings, and they are never opened by postal clerks. Inquisitorial openings are unknown, and no one cares what they contain.
 In the English parcels post packages are carried up to eleven pounds in weight the charges varying from six to twenty-four cents. A parcel must not be more than three feet six inches fl length and length and girth must not exceed six feet. Such a parcel weighing eleven pounds would be car ried for 24 cents. And the service yields a profit, last years postal sur plus in Great Britain being nearly twenty millions of dollars.
 This country, too, is the one country in the civilized world that has no for eign parcels post. A package weighing eleven pounds is carried in that way and delivered in another country for about 75 cents. A package weighing eleven pounds is delivered by England in the heart of India for $125, and it will go just as fast and just as surely as letter would.
 The express companies do not serve the localities that are not situated on a railroad. They are not a match in cheapness, celerity or convenience for the parcels post anywhere, and this country should lower it's postal pre- tensions as long as it has no parcels post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
Heavens artillery thunder in the skies.
 Tanning of the Shrew.
School Affairs in Alabama.

The report of Superintendent of Edu- cation Gunnels is a document of many pages, replete with interesting facts and figures. While no doubt it pre- sents evidence of educational progress, yet every page of it almost shows that only start has been made in elim- mating illiteracy in the state
 For example, the report of County Superintendent McAdory shows that out of 49, ,289 children of school age in Jefferson county, only 9,293 were even enrolled in the last school year, leay- ing 10000 children in this county who knew not a school house at all during the school year Nearly one-half of the children of this county, wide-awake in other respects, were left last year unschooled. Where 10000 children are left without education, there will soon be 10000 citizens who can neither read nor write. In other words, Jefferson county is engaged in contributing 2O,- GOO to the aggregate of illiteracy in the state.
 There is but one comprehensive rem edy in sight for all ills of an educa- tional nature, namely, local taxation not compulsory, but voluntary local taxation in each and every district It is monstrous that a state forbids a dis trict or township desiWng better schools by means of taxation, to pro vide them. It is simply putting a pre- mium upon ignorance.
 A careful reading of the report pre- sented by Superintendent Gunnels will open the eyes perhaps of all to the magnitude of the task that confronts the people of Alabama. Nearly one half of the people of the state cannot read and write, and the reason why this is so will be explained by care ful reading of the report that the superintendent of education has just made to the governor of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
LOVE SONG.

By Thomas Campbell. 5 How delicious is the winning
 or kiss at loves beginning. . When two mutual hearts are signing ei For the knot there's no untying
 Yet remember, midst your wooing, Love has bliss, but love has rueing; Other smiles may make you fickle, Tears for other chams may trickle. t.f Y Love he comes, and love he tarries ' Just as fate or, fancy, carries;
 Longest stays, when corest chidden; , Laughs and flies, when pressed and bid
 den. < Bind the sea to slumber stilly,
 Bind it's odor to the lily, > Bind the aspen neer to culver,
 Then bind love to last forever. E Loves fire that needs renewal
 Of fresh beauty for its fuel; /. Loves wing moults when caged and cap-
 tured. Only free he sores enraptured. a Can you keep the bee from ranging, Or the ring doves neck from changing? No. nor filtered love from dying In the knot there's no untying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
NED, BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE MAYORALTY- --@-
 CONTEST AND DTILLMAN=GONZALES SHOOTING

the judgment nor the brains of Ben Young Tnlman. not knowing how to re- ply in words, took the cowboy method of shooting it out.
 have known both Gonzales and Till man well in the past. All those associ- ated with Gonzales in newspaper work respected him and liked him. He was al- ways the elegant gentleman to his asso- ciates. But in his political newspaper work he was one of those who was vigor- ous almost to viciousness at times, and one always prepared to defend himself He was possessed of great personal cour- age. and in his younger days was con- sidered one who went about with a chip on his shoulder Several times in his newspaper career he has had personal en- counters as a result of his writings. and those who attacked him were usually worsted.
 Tillman, on the other hand, is not well educated nor is he bright. He is a great, overgrown, burly boy, of somewhat wild habits, formerly given a bit to drinking and carousing, and who was inclined to the idea of shooting out difficulties Yet nt HdS dlWdNS DeeH cOilSlueTeuf a DIE hearted fellow who would never give or- fense to any one. I cannot but believe that he thought Gonzales was armed and that he was under the impression that 1t had tacitly been agreed that they should shoot the matter out the first time they met.
 Jim Tilman is a son of former Con- gressman George D. Tillman of Edgeheld, S. C., who died a year or more ago. George Tillman in his young days killed man. It was either over game of cards or political controversy. At any rate, Tillman thought his opponent was armed and, in the heat of passion, drew pis- tol and killed his man. For the offense he was sent to jail for year or more. While serving his sentence he devoted his time to reading and studying, thus acquiring his first education above the rudiments.
 Many years afterwards he was elected to congress, wherein he served several terms. He was quiet dignirled and was considered an able member. He was pos sessed of none of the wordy extravagances of his brother, the present senator from South Carolina,
 see it announced in some of the north
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The City Bank and Trust company, with a capital stock of $S5,000, has been organized at Mobile by local capitalists.
 Calom Pitchett, aged 6 years, was shot and wounded by daughter of Mrs. Wal ker about years of age at Edwards vile.
 The annual convention of Alabama Sun day School associations will convene in Huntsville April 21, and will continue for three days.
 Oil has been discovered within seven miles of Piedmont, in Calhoun county, eighteen. miles from Anniston, by the Piedmont oil company.
 Articles of incorporation of Van Val l1enburg & Matthews Hardware Go. were filed Wednesday in the probate court of Huntsville. The. capital stock is s25,OoO.
 A fire at Warrior last week burned the stores of J. E. Albutton & Co.,, J. l.. Brake & Co and H. F. Bradford, and the Ma sonic hall, the total loss being about $25. GOO.
 The Mobile Light and Railroad company is rapidly extending its line, and it will be only a matter of a short time before the connecting link between Mobile and Whister Is put in.
 Fire started last week in a room over the Cudahy Packing companX.s building in Gadsden, burning the wholesale gro- cery store and bottling works owned by pr. D. S. Turrentine.
 Gaunt Crebs a well known citizen and capitalist of Kansas City, has purchased from the state all the tax lands of Walker county The price paid for the lands has not been made public.
 The silver service for the Alabama has arrived in Mobile from New York It consists of a punch bowl. tray, twenty four silver claret cups, two candelabra and a large center piece.
 On Thursday in Greensboro a China man shot Joe Sanders, negro the bullet taking effect in his hip. The Chinaman gave his name as Henry Sanders. and it is stated that he is wanted in Selma for cutting a white man some weeks ago.
 The quarantine board of Mobile bay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
Electoral Vote of 1904.

The south, including Maryland, Della ware and West Virginia, will cast 16S electoral votes in 1904, and New York will cast 39 more, making POT all told, ard 239 votes are necessary to a choice. After the democrats have car lied the solid south and New York, they must still hunt down 32 votes more. New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana cast 34 votes. Nevada is se- ourely democratic, cast votes. Here then is surplus of five votes, if all these states can be carried by the dem- ocrats. This "if" is a good-sized one, but bigger ifs have turned to fact in American politics.
 Some will of course say that the democrats cannot carry West Virginia, a state that three or four millionaires
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
About Persons.

Judge D. c. Blackwell, leading attor- ney of Anniston. spent yesterday in Bir- mingham.
 Milton A. Smith, editor and proprietor of the Anniston Hot Blast, was in Bir- mingham yesterday. MT. Smith has owned and edited the Hot Blast for a number of years, having purchased the paper in the early days of Anniston. His paper occupies the morning field In that city, which 1t fills well in the matter of local news. It was established soon after the first blast furnace was built in the Model City. MT. Smith has been identified with many progressive movements.
 T. II. Mitchell, city ticket agent of the Queen and Crescent at Chattanooga, was in. Birmingham yesterday. It was his first visit to this city, and he expressed hlm- self as more than pleased with what he saw. MT. Mitchell is on a two-weeks va- cation.
 Among the arrivals at the TIillman yes- terday were the following: H. O. John son of Mississippi, s. R. Downey of St. Louis, George Calhoun, Jr., of Nashville, F. Spring of Chicago c. B. Levan of Youngstown, Ohio; A. Kohn of New York, C. G. Battle of New York, and N. Weinberg of Baltimore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18

lave been carrying around in their vest pockets. exhibiting it at their Bel shazzar entertainments, but West Vir- ginia is full of sturdy mountaineers, and the adverse majority in 1900 was cut from 21,O22 to T., ,673 in 1902. An ofer good cut will take West Vir- ginla from the vest pockets and place it where it belongs by tradition and environment.
 Connecticut and New Jersey are in clined to vote with New York in Pres idential years, and the tide in each state is democratic. In New Jersey an adverse vote of 56,S99 in 1900 was cut down last November to 71,133. In Connecticut the republican majority in 1900 was 2S,570; in November last it was but 16,O08 In Indiana, however, republicanism is still rampant, but at heart Indiana is democratic, and a walm fight in that state over the rob berries of the tariff and it's trusts may again place it in the democratic line. a battle against special interests may loosen the grip of tarlffism and trust ism in other western states, and after all it may not be such an uphill battle in 1904 as some now consider it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
SHOOT AND ROBERTS CASES.

The election of Reed Shoot as United States senator from Utah will present very different problem from the one in- volved in the Roberts case. Roberts was a polygamist, and was prevented from taking his seat in the house on the ground that he was a lawbreaker. Shoot, it Is said, is not a polygamist. The record will show merely that he is a Norman and an apostle of the Mormon church. If this Is the limit of the proof against him it is clear that the task of prevent ing him from taking his seat or of un- seating him would encounter obstacles much more serious than any that Rob- erts could devise. For the question raised would be whether a Norman is barred by his religion instead of by social prac- tices that are contrary to the laws and customs of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18

 met Wednesday in reference to the send ing of delegates to conference to be held in Galveston on January 26, at which an effort. will be made to adopt uniform quarantine rules for all the gulf states.
 The Commercial Steamship company has been organized in Mobile with a capitalization of $20O0 This company has already purciased7 the Norwegian steamer Builaten and all the steamers will fly the Norwegian flag. &e-
 Clarence ". Hogan, representing Mc- Reynolds & Co, ilessees of the terminal elevator. has perfected arrangements in Mobile for the handling of export grain. The capacity of the elevator will be 3O0, COG bushels. McReynolds & Co.,, through their Mobile terminals, are to cover the grain trade of Cuba, South America, Mex ico, Central America, the continents and Florida. 4F 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
BY A. E. cAFFEE.

field. He first wrote to that famous breeder and writer, Col. William R. John son, to send him the best four-mile horse in Virginia, without regard to price, ex- pressing preference for the famous Bel Air mare-Old Favorite. Colonel Johnson sent him, at a high price, the celebrated race horse, Pacolet by i'm ported Citizen, greatly distinguished as four-mile race horse in Virginia. In the fall of 1913, at Nashville Maria won sweepstakes, 5000 entrance $500 forfeit, four mile heats, beating Pacolet with great ease; two others paying forfeit The general was not satisfied and matched Pacolet against Maria for $1000 a side, four-mlle heats. but Pacolet was lame on the day set for the great event, and paid forfeit. These repeated failures only made the general more inllexible and de- termined in purpose and in conjunction with James Jackson who then resided near Nashville, he sent to South Carolina and bought the fast and game stallion, Tam OShanter, distinguished racer of that state. In the fall of 1874 Maria won over the same course, club purse of s275, two-mile haets, beating Tam OShan- ter and the others. few days later, over the same track she won a proprietors purse of S350, only one starting against her.
 About this time, General Jackson sent to Georgia and bought the world renown- ed Stump-the-Dealer, but he went wrong and was not matched against Maria The general then sent to Kentucky and in- duced MT. Dewett to come to the Her mitage, and bring the reputed fastest and gamest' thoroughbred In the United States with a view of matching her against Maria. MT. Dewett trained his famous mare at the Clover Bottom track, near the Hermitage Maria beat the De- welt mare for 5000 a side, dash of one mile. In the fall of 1915, General Jackson ran the Dewett mare against Maria a. dash of half mile for $l500 a side, $500 on first quarter, $500 on six hundred yards and $500 on half mile; Maria winning them all. This race was run at Nashville. The