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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27
COOPER SCHOOL HOUSE.

Jan. Pc. w. Jackson has gone
to Louisville to be treated for APP
pendicitis.
j. w. Cox has been on the sick list
for the past week.
Joe Coleman, of this place, spent
Saturday night with his daughter,
Mrs. j. H. Stevens, near Beaver
Dam.
Misses Orpha Stevens and Matte
Wise contemplate going to Bowling
Green to attend school in the near
future.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Rhoads, of
Beaver Dam, visited relatives in this
neighborhood Sunday.
Mrs. c. w. Stevens is no better at
the present.
Mrs. j. l.. Allen is on the sick
lief
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27
ThNE The REPUBLICAN,.
The Best


10 you are 10" prices on easonahc goods That is goods
Tor immediate use and not for stuff that YOU must Law away
for four or five months before using so we have concluded
to make bid oI your business for the next 81 DAYS hc
month of January.
we must reduce our stock and do so we will rive our
customers the benefit OF 10 per cent discount ON each pur
chase maze o9t"een January AMI 81 inclusive Ofcourse
" means loss 10 U.s. but 1t your gain and we must stand
" just 90 NIUE gurng and YOU can at once see what
" mean" ror instance barrel Of Flour at S. - should
o0 To''' ''e "oar worth Of Bacon would be 9Uc Shoes
at S'9o would he 81 suit Of clothes at $40 so would be
800 and so on down the line so don put it off until
Is 10 aeout come and get first choice in Suits Shoes Rub
bcs Rubber Boots Hats Caps and Gloves The most COM
Pee line OF Overcoa and Trousers in this section at these
prices is sure winner. Bring us your Produce Furs
Hides Chickens Eggs Turkeys Geese and Ducks for which
we Will give you the best market price Nothing charged
at these Figures.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

The fellaUi.s permits ".I le.e
ta-. granted tF .lmg l'-r.. "a. '.
-..'-al .iac. Our bars. r..1.t.
... b. i,acl., N.., .s
Hattie Gently Barrett. Ferry; w..
r. Riley. EUe,d, 20 Ca.r.. "a. Zen.
Bulord; x. o.. S. -,-s. Beaver Dam,
70 Matinee p. Stevens. b--yer Darn;
Clarence Tichsref. Csl--r,oae. 40
ollie Asnby, U-ntertowp; Everett
Sudcrfur. Roxy. O. E.i-a.cta Srit'.
S.ieot; AieXan3ol Phelps. White Lua.
to Harriet Wilson, White Run: James
A. Graz Magyar. O. Sanky Dunn.
Reynolds: w. ID. Luce. Hartford. TO
Oma Williams, Beaver Dam; W. G..
Parks, Beda, to Laura Bennett, Hart
ford; William Skinner, Reynolds, TO
Ethel Phillips, Hnayi'ie; Iris Rem
der. Matanzas, to Nellie Ticheror.
Matanzas; y. d. Davis, Cromwell, TO
Emma ks niger, Baizetown; S. H..
Render, Ma,auzas, % Arnie Mont
gomery, Cetetrown;J. r. Laws, Hart
ford, TO Efie Harrison, Beaver Dam;
s. p. Rowan. Eehin. to Louana
Ford, Hartford.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

of her delightful manner and charm
ing ways.
These friends will extend to her.
self and husband their heartiest con-
CALCULATIONS for a future life of hap
piness."
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27
Render

On last Wednesday evening at the
home of the brides parents, Mr.. Iris
Render was united in marriage to
Miss Nellie Tichenor. The bride is
the oldest daughter of Hon. A. B.
Tichenor and is known in her home
community for her kind and sunny
disposition. The groom is the
son of ESQ. w. P. Render and is one
of the county's best young farmers.
THE REPUBLICAN extends congratu-
lations and best wishes.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

FEDERAL District Judge Charles
Swayne, of the Northern District Of
Florida, is being tried by the Senate
sitting as a court of impeachment.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

FRANKFORT, Jan. 26.-It is rumor-
ed that the Legislature will take a
recess tomorrow to await a carload
of substitutes for substitutes sub
mitted as substitutes for substitutes
for the location of the Capitol
site.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS has re-
tired from the Democratic House
leadership. Surely hewas not weary,
for there was indeed little for him
70 do
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

Nasal and other local forms Of catar7h
are quickly relieved by Catarrlets.
which alIay inflammation and deodorize
discharge.
Hoods Sarsaparilla, all druggists. 81.
Catarr,ets, mail order only, SO cts.
For testimonials of remarkable cg~cS
send for our Book on Catsrrh, no. 4.
c. l. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

To ARMS comrades! Stay the Gar!
is the keynote of the proclamation
that has been issued by the anti-war
party in Russia. They demand an
imme Lite cessation of the war with
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

NICHOLAS seems to be having 9TH
er domestic trouble in addition to
looking after the young Car.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

Is a constitutional disease
originating in impure blood
and requiring constitutional
treatment acting through
and purifying the blood Cor
its radical and permanent
cure. Be sure to take
Hoods
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27

WE GREET you in a new dress.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-27
0. K. StorsS are The HOUSEWIVES Friend

We have sold the O. X. line of Cooking Stoves for
quite number of years. and the satisfaction they have
gwen our customers prove concusyey that this brand
of stoves have no superior Easy to operate cooks with
less fuel and lasts longer than any stove the market
We carry this line from an $500 Step stove with all
the vessels to SO Steel Range. Buy an O. X Stove
or Range and it win be pleasure to cook meal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31

The rainless regions Of the globe owe
their aridity to the fact that they are
shut off from the influence of most
winds by high mountain chains. The
chief of these are upper Egypt, the
Sahara, the desert of Cobb and the
coast of Peru. The driest place in the
world is probably that part of Egypt
between the two lower falls of the
Nile. Rain has never been known to
fall there, and the inhabitants do not
believe travellers who tell them that
water can fall from the sky. The great
trade winds at the starting points of
their paths are the cause of drought
and barrenness, but where they cross
land at the termination of their course
they give out bounteous rain supplies.
The contrasts thus offered are very
striking. Thus some parts Of the Mo-
roccan Sahara near the head of the
northeastern Atlantic trade wind do
not experience a shower for perhaps
twenty years at time, while the same
wind when it reaches the coast Of
South America produces rainfall rep
resenting depth of twenty feet Of
water in year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31

attained to this stage in Ii , year 400
A, d. A. painting of | ed Of this
period shows an article of N lnufactuto
and furnishings much like the bed of
today. There are four legs, sides ~
wood and wooden Stats or occasional
ly leather interlacing to furnish rests
sur the mattress. There are two head
pieces, one at each end, suggesting
Shat even at this late date the sleeper
was accustomed to have a pillow for
his feet. OF the furnishings the mat
tress and pillows are covered with a
striped stuff not unlike many cloths of
the present, and blanket covering the
mattress is tucked between 1t and the
bedside much as the neat housewife
now tucks in her snowy sheet.
Here, however, the resemblance to
the present style of bed ceases The
legs at the head are carved to repre-
sent human figures and NEUROLOGICAL
creations. At the foot woman with
surrounding picture writing" holds
forth. The sides are massive panels
carved in a similar manner, and the
structure of the whole mar IS it as an
article made to be handed 1own from
one generation to the other.-Chicago
Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
SOUTH AMERICAN ANTS.
They Are Perhaps the Gre ltest Road
Builders In the World.

They Are Perhaps the Gre tteAt hOnu
Builders In the World.
The greatest road builders in the
world are species of red ants found
in South America. In building road
they carry minute particles Of clay,
with which they line all the roads as
well as the galleries and passages of
their nests till they look as smooth as
If cemented by a master mason. Some
idea of their number can be formed
when it is remembered that the whole
of this road to their tree, perhaps near
ly half mile long, is densely thronged
with a multitude going out empty and
coming back with their umbrella-like
burdens, while, thousands upon thou
sands swarm in the doomed tree.
That this vast army is under the best
discipline can be proved by watching
them for only few moments. The
drivers are constantly running up and
down giving their orders to the work
ers, which they do by touching heads
for moment. The individual so
touched will stop, turn back, hurry for
ward or showsin some such way that
he is following some command. But
a better proof of the discipline is found
in the fact that when the army meets
with an obstacle, such as a log or a
large stone, there is a jam of ants on
both sides. and they run about in dis
may and disorder. Instantly the driv-
ers hurry up, showing the greatest ex-
citement, and run over, around and I'M
der the impediment to find the best
way out of the difficulty. When they
have decided they lead off the line of
march in the proper direction. But
until they take this step the workers
make no attempt to pass the obstacle
When a selection of level piece of
ground has been made perpendicular
shaft some eight inches in diameter
and six or seven feet deep is formed
This is for drainage and ventilation,
never for ingress or egress. If the
ground slopes the shaft is horizontal,
the mouth, of course, being at the bot
tom of the hill. From the perpendicu-
lar shaft, commencing at the bottom
radiate galleries, like the spokes of a
wheel set at a slight angle. AT the end
of each series of galleries spokes a cir
cular gallery is made, forming, as it
were, set of wheels one above the
other. In, or, rather, above, these cir
cular galleries the nests or dwelling
places are constructed. These are oval
in shape and about foot long The
narrow end of the oval is downward
and opens into the roof Of the gallery,
and as the spolSes always slope slightly
toward the shaft no tropical rains, no
matter how heavy, can enter the homes
and breeding places of the ants.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
Rats MS an Article of Diet.

Rats have never found favor as del
Icacy for the table in Europe or in this
country, but in many lands they are
relished as an article of diet The ne
gro slaves of Jamaica used to regard
them as dainty, their masters not
providing them with any other meat.
Their method of cooking the toothsome
rodents was to impale each one on
long wooden skewer after cleaning the
animal and cutting off the tail, turning
1t briskly around over a fire until the
hair was all burned off. Then it was
scraped until free from fur, and finally
the end Of the skewer was stuck into
the ground, inclined toward the fire. un-
til it was toasted dry. and crisp, thus
being made ready for the meal. Rats
may commonly be seen for sale in the
markets of any Chinese town, split and
pressed under heavy weight, so as to
look somewhat like dried fish. In this
shape the pigtailed oriental buys them.
Boaks them in water and then boils.
roasts or fries them.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
How to Spoil Umbrellas.

"In most cases umbrellas are not
fairly worn out; they are ruined
through carelessness of their owners"
said an umbrella and cane man.
"When see a man walking with an
umbrella tightly grasped in his hot
hand smile TO myself, because know
that very soon that man will be want
Hg a new umbrella. There is no surer
way Of making an umbrella wear out
quickly than this habit Of carrying it
about by its middle. Again, after be-
ing out in the rain you should turn
your umbrella upside down and let
the water drain off as it stands with
the handle downward. By doing this
you prevent the water from getting in
at the framework and thereby protect
the ribs from rusting. Some men open
their umbrellas before they stand them
up to dry, but this is bad plan, be-
cause the umbrella may stretch when
it is wet Another thing, too-never
roll your umbrella up, as to do so cuts
the silk."-Detroit Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
MOVING ON FRIDAY.
There Seems to be n Lot of supersti
tfon About 1t.

There Seems to be n Lot of Superstf-
tfon About 1t.
Friday Is n kind of holiday In our
business" said the professional mover.
"There is Dig lot of superstition in
this matter, and, except in cases Of
actual necessity, 1t is hard to get any
body to move on Friday. II few
families that intend to change quar-
ters soon could only be induced to put
aside their foolish prejudice against
the sixth day of the week they could
be set up In their new home with half
the trouble and inconvenience they will
experience on any other day. | have
explained that to many prospective
customers, but the chances are that
most of them will vote to join the rush
rather than tempt bad luck by moving
on Friday.
Most of our movers dislike Friday
as much as the customers. Whatever
Jobs are assigned to them they attend
to- of course. but every last man in
our employ will be glad II not sim
gle order was booked for Friday. They
claim that every smashup they figure
in, every accident to the furniture
through loss or breakage, occurs on a
Friday, so for their own sake they up
hold the customers In their fight
against Friday New York Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
CARLYLE on Right and Wrong.

Carlyle maintained that strain Of
sentiment about criminals was very
prevalent in his day, which tended seri-
ously to obllterate or diminish the real
difference between right and wrong.
He hated with an intense hatred that
whole system of philosophy which de-
MED that there was deep, essential,
fundamental difference between right
and wrong and turned the whole mat
ter into a mere calculation. of inter-
ests. He was accustomed to say that
one of the chief merits of Christianity
was that 1t taught that right and wrong
were as far apart as heaven and hell
and that no greater calamity can be-
fall nation than weakening Of the
righteous hatred of evil
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31

The first mention of sugar seems to
have been made by Pliny more than
1900 years ago, who traces it to Ara
bia and gives the preference to Indian
sugar, which he speaks of as "honey
found in canes" Status in his de-
scription of the Saturnalia says that
among the food which the Emperor
Domitian made the people at those
noisy festivals scramble for was
sweet substance obtained from Ara
bian canes. Other classical writer's Of
about the same period describe it also
as kind Of honey found in canes and
not made by bees. Strabo adds that In
solid state it resembles salt. The
sugar cane was introduced into Sicily
In las and soon afterward into Spain.
Thence sixty years later 1t was taken
to the West Indies, and at the end Of
the eighteenth century Jamaica alone
produced quite $4,000 tons a year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
CANARY BIRDS.
The Finest of Them Are Raised In
the Harz Mountains.

The Finest of Them Are Raised In
the Harz Mountains.
The chief breeding ground for cana
ries was formerly the Harz noun
tains, but of late years only the finest
singers are reared in that district. The
trade was transferred to Eichsfelde,
In the province of Hanover, where poor
weavers breed the cheaper sort. The
most important market for these gold
ell birds is the United States, which
takes quite 100000 birds year. Great
Britain comes next, with some 10000,
and is followed by Brazil, Chile and
the Argentine Republic.
The principal dealers have large fac
tories which can turn out material for
1000 bird cages daily. The peasants
take this away TO their homes and
there make up the cages. Attendants,
who each have charge Of 1000 birds in
separate cages, take canaries across
the Atlantic and on their return voy-
age bring back Mexican and Cuban
parrots for the European markets.
About 250,000 canaries are bred ev-
cry year in Germany and their value,
some 100000, goes chiefly into the
pockets of the peasants.-London Tele-
graph
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
vENoMoUs EMOTIONS.
Sentiments which, II Is Said, Liter
ally Poison Our Blood.

Anger. fear, anxiety, are among the
emotions or sentiments which literally
poison our blood. 1t has often been
said that evil thoughts are poisonous,
the meaning being that they corrupt
other people, but the real fact Is that
they poison our own bodies.
BY losing control of ourselves and
lnGulgng in anger, by yielding to anx-
lety, fear and unwholesome thoughts,
we cause an irritation or disturbance
which, according to the latest sayings
Of scientists, has the effect OF produc-
Ing Il poison In the blood that may
have serious consequences.
Nnturalists declare that the venom
Of snakes is generated by anger and
fear; that 1t is rapidly collected in a
special receptacle and thence dis
charged at the object of It's anger or
fear, and it is further explained that
the same process takes place In the
human body. but that we have no spe-
cial organ to receive 1t, and it therefore
disperses in the blood, acting against
ourselves instead Of for our protection.
Be that as it may, 1t Is generally con-
ceded that we are literally poisoned by
the emotions mentioned and by any
sentiment or passion which upsets the
smooth working Of our minds.-Home
Notes
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
AMONG THE EsklMos.
Granddaughter Is Not Uncommon, and
Polygamy Is Raref

Manslaughter is by no means uncom-
mon among the Eskimo heather ma
tives, according to Professor Eriksen,
but invariably leads to kind of ven
detta between the relatives of the MUIR
derer and those of the murdered per-
son. Again, If young married man or
his wife dies the surviving party has
the right to kill the small children
should he or she not be In position
to guarantee their maintenance. Aged
persons, ON the other hand, are will
ingly supported by their relatives.
Children are never beaten or punished,
no matter how badly they behave. The
Eskimos explain this custom by say
ing that the children have no power of
understanding and therefore have no
idea of wrong and punishment.
Polygamy is unusual, as there is a
scarcity of Eskimo women. In spite
of this, however, the professor met
several men who had two wives. The
exchange of wives is very frequent.
Wives must obey their husbands; 9th
erwise they are beaten. Husbands
maintain that their wives must be
beaten several times annually to pre-
vent their desire for supremacy in the
household from becoming too persist
ent
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
OLIVE OIL.
The Method by which 1t IL Made on
Tuscan Farms.

The Method by Whfch III IN Mnue on
Tuscan Farms.
The olives, stones and all, are first
crushed in a stone mill run by OK pow
er. The mass of pulp Is then trans
ferred in fiat wicker baskets to the
"torchio," or oaken press, from which
the oil ooZes into vat below. The
presses at Dievole are very old, elabo-
rately carved with the arms and de-
vices of some early padrone. Tremen-
dous pressure Is applied through a
primitive capstan arrangement which
the men work by heavy wooden levers,
walking round and round on the stone
floor in Il tract; much worn by the
tread Of laborlng generations. There
are commonly two or three squeezings
of the pulp. the product of the first be-
ing of the finest quality. But the proc
ess, once begun, must be carried for
ward continuously lest the oil should
spoil in the making. 1t is finally drawn
off into huge Carthen jars OF immemo-
rial pattern, like those in which the
Forty Thieves of the Arabian tale con-
cealcd themselves for nefarious pur-
poses. And 1t stands thus for n week
in the adjoining clearing room, called
the "chiara .o.o" after which it is ready
for the market.-From Life On Tus-
can Farm" by Il. r. Sullivan, in Scrib-
npr's
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
why Metals Rust,

Gold does not tarnish like other metal
because it is not acted upon by oxygen
or water. 1t is the moisture in the at
mosphere which causes other metals to
taTnish, owing to their oxidation. Wa
ter contains a large proportion of oxy-
gen, and it is the oxygen, of course,
in the moist air combining with the
surface of the metals that covers them
with tarnish Platinum, like gold, re-
sists the influence Of oxygen and mois-
ture and when pure neither rusts nor
furnishes. Aluminium also does not
rust neither hot nor cold water having
any action upon it. The sulphureted
hydrogen of the atmosphere, which so
readily furnishes silver, has no effect
upon aluminium, which under ordinary
circumstances preserves its appearance
as perfectly as gold does. Silver tar
nishes on exposure to the air, the agent
producing this effect being the sulphur.
Iron is the metal which furnishes and
rusts most easily, its oxidization pro-
ceeding until the metal is completely
eaten or burnt away with the rust.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1905-05-31
tiOMEN MUST KNEEL TO MEN
ia the Law Among Many Tribes or
East Central Africn.

GSst NcEtEai AifAtu.
Men in Africa, and especially in east
cebtyal Africa, believe that their wom-
en- are their interiors, and many CEN
turies ago, says the Chicago Trlb-
self into II custom that women must
acknowledge this by always kneeling
when they meet Il man.
Duff Macdonald, who spent many
years rs a missionary in that country,
says that African women hold a most
degraded position and are looked upon
pretty generally as beasts of burden
capable Of doing all the hard work
When woman meets any man, be it
her husband or stranger, at home or
on the road she is expected to "taidi-
wala"-that is, to kneel and clap her
hands to the lord of creation as he
passes. Although n woman may have
slaves of her own, she observes this
custom whenever she meets them on
the highway.
Macdonald adds: "Wl.cneyer we saw
woman go out of her way with the
intention of lneeling before us, though
she carried hundredw weight on her
head, knowing that she would have to
get up with it, we shouted, You are
losing your way; this is the path and
she took it, glad that she might dis
pense with this custom"
Certain il is that if the African wo-
man kneels before stranger or slave
she prostrates herself most humbly be-
fore her husband, her lord and master
He is her father, and she Is his child !;
he commands, and she obeys; he may
inhict punishment and she accepts it.
The title of father" is given to all
old people. A man of thirty will say,
II am only Il child; ask the old man."
The woman must submit, of course.
She is her husbands chattel; he has
bought her for two skins of bucks,
and this is fair price for one wife.
He often gets them in payment for
debts.
If n girl ia not first wife she counts
for little, as these Africans usually
have one chief wife and three or four
minor wives. A man who is married a
few years is expected to have junior
wives. The chief wife has the super
intendence of the others and looks
after the household. The punishment
she inticts for lazness is to Danish the
junior wife from her meals until hun
ger brings her to her senses. If a
junior wife is obstreperous she is put
in slave stock.
The authority of a chief wife is not
matter to jest with. If junior wife
gets unruly the whipping post is made
use Of This does not annoy her lord
for African men have little sentiment
for their wives and feel none for their
junior wives. They are his chattels,
having the same value as his CATTLE
perhaps less. When a man is pressed
for money he usually sells bis wife and
not his cattle. He expects them to cul-
tivate the soil and cut down the trees,
and when he finds time or has the in
clination he helps them.