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The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14
Al hpimaI Story For
Little Folks
He Got His Money sWOrth

The circus was coming TO town, and
all the children were In anxious expec-
tatlon. "If you CO." said the teacher
the day before. "be sure to see the ee-
plant, the most knowing of all quad
rupcds md for sngncIty called the half
reasoning elephant"
you bet I'll see hlmv said Mickey.
II amt been dom chores all de spring
fer nuttln'."
Once within the canvas he made
straight for the elephants.
"Geev' said Mickey "Who punctu-
ated your tlreT'
whats that yer glvin' us. young
ster7" replied the elephant.
"Somc one must have stuck pins In
your cover. all right" grinned Mick.
"for you're all wrinkled up Say" he
continued, "can you tell me why you
are like stovef"
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14
NEW REAL ESTATE FIRM.
N. |. Toombs and ]. {. Faweett Form
Partnership In Real Estate Business.

Nick Toombs and jim Fawcett,
have been doing a little real
estate business separately, have
decided to go in partnership and
do business on larger scale.
They have fitted up nice little
office between Q. A. Barnetts
livery stable and Corbetts
photograph gallery and are now
ready for business. Mr.. Toombs
can be found at the real estate
office most any old time and Mr..
Fawcett will continue as bust
ness manager of the Darlington
BkE and can be found at this
office any time wanted, This
firm have options ON a large
amount of property in Earling-
ton, Madisonville and Hopkins
county and as both of these
gentlemen have the reputation
of being hustlers they will no
doubt get their share of the bus
mess ANY desiring to pur-
chase a nice home in Darlington
will do we'll to do consult this
firm as they have some good
BARGAINS.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14


The great beast shook his head. II
could tell you part OF II" he said.
PARTS no good" answered Mick.
"Cause neither of yez kin climb tree
backwards; Here's another; What's de
diff between you and a tree"
Because the trunk Is not on the
bough, but the bow is"-
"Why don't you go onf' asked Mick.
because I'm not expected to-"
"Why aren't you expected toT"
81 suppose because II you knew
them
us that all7" asked Mick In surprise.
That's all. You see. I'm called the
half reasoning elephant and don't In
tend TO do whole reasoning at half
price. You came In here on half tick
ct, and guess you have got your mon
ey's worth Run along, little boy.
Your mamma Is calling you.,
Gee whixr' exclaimed Mick. II
ought'er bought whole ticket" =
Worcester Post.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14
Natural Cos in Kentucky
A Hundred Years Ago.

nunufcu Aoets AHo.
The North American OF Philadel-
phia prints every day extracts from
the North American n hundred
before, In It's issue of May 20, 1906,
II publishes from It's issue of the
+ same date, 1909, the following de-
serlption of the discovery of natural
gas IN Kentucky;
Surprising Rxtrieation Of Inflammable
Air.
4 ''Near one OF the sources OF Lick.
ing river, In Kentucky, there Is n
separation OF phlogistous gas from
something In the interior strata of
The earth in greater quantity than
10 perhaps known IN any part of the
world, This light and inilammable
|iluid Is discharged through water
Unto the atmosphere. IL bnbbles ,n-
eessantly through the center of q
muddy pool OF about two rods III
s liRmeter. The gas readily takes
IlaAo on burning gunpowder In L.,
&c hy the approach of any blazing
body. The volume OF il is so great
HAT a man who approached near
hpongh 10 snap n pistol in IL which
Ihe held in his hand, was suddenly
lnScloped IA the flame, aud sorely
Hinged before he could escape. When
,et 0n fire, IL burns with remark
Able splendor and vehemence, not
.nly for hours, but days and weeks
n succession, mounting to the
3elght of ten or twelve feet or more,
The relator OF this (Mr, Senator
>seckinridgel was one OF a party
bat enoamped near this aerial
b0ntain. on an excursion through
he woods, They discovered that
Tier the infiammahle air had been
n IRE for ak or eight hours, the
ater Of the pond was heated Go an
ncomtortAble degree, and emitted
opioas calculations; aud the ebulli-
on ~ the spot through which the
Az descended was more vehement.
1rkt WAS Judged that IL the flame
I'D been sufficiently continued the
alter would have been made to boil.
aJ III have been evaporated. Then,
~ Surrounding space would have
zen heated aud dried. Aud lastly.
ese was reason 20 suppose that the
fnonic matter ia the bottom Of
IS pond would have been put into
>iAte OF com0ustion, 1t appeared
Il this had really happened on
me f0rmer occasion.
><ken once in blaze there seems
he ne end to les burning but the
IS which storm az wind aud
s may pat 10 it,"
<hi< Ia a matter 1T considerable
s0ticAl interest to our own PEG,
Is not the story ~ an ir-
>>nssbse observer, but the state
~ ~ "a man whose ability and
. Is >6Ae<er Is we'll recagnleed-S
Hf>1kinridee. one 81 the great
y ~ The early days in keat1cky.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14

NoRrN ROUNn.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14

had been all run
down. My blood
was so bad that
blood poisoning
had set in. / had
several doctors
attending me, so
finally / went to
the hospital, where
] was laid up for
two months. My
foot and ankle were
almos beyond
recognition. Dark
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14
TIRED OF LIFE
AWFUL SUFFERING
From Dreadful Pains From Wound
on Foot System All Run Down
After Six Months Agony-Not
Able to Work Completely Cured
in Two Weeks
MIRACULOUS CURE BY
CUTICURA REMEDIES

"words cannot speak highly enough
for the Cuticura Remedies. / am now
seyenty-two wears of age. Nv system
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14
SOUTH BOUND
L. & N. TIME CARD.

Time Of arrival Of trains passing
Darlington.
Effective Sunday, May 6. 1896.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-06-14
/. c. r. r. TIME CARD.

Time Of departure Of Illinois Gen.
trail trains from Nortonville, Ky.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
THE NEW YORK STRIKE.

Referring some days ago to the pro- posed strike of New York printers for an eight-hour day, and to the state ment that the union men had agreed to pay ten per cent. of their wages to support the strikers while idle, The Charlotte Observer, which has had some experience. says:
 This sounds well and doubtless in- fluences many men to give up satisfac- tory positions. but 1t is in reality a snare snare and dclusion. Members of the union who are unable to secure work as q result of strike are paid by the International Union at the rate of $7 per week for married men and $5 for single men for each full week of idle ness up to the eighth or tenth week, when they must shift for themselves or appeal to other local unions for finan- cial aid Strike funds have long been largely fakes and the printers who give up jobs paying from S25O to 4.50 and even s or S6 day in some cases will find that with them this is no excep- tion. The men themselves deserve no sympathy. but the women and children dependent upon them are to be pit jed.
 Yes, it sounds well and will have it's effect. but if the strikers take manly view of it they will hardly feel proud InG IdCl lLdl they are llNlTR on charity when they ought to be earning their own living; that they are. in fact, taking part of ths wages of oth- CTS who need it for their own families
 It could not be expected that the em- ployers would tameiy submit to the dc. mands of the strikers. Two of these are most important. one is that print. CTS shall in future receive nine hours pay for eight hours work. Such de mand is simple robbery. neither more nor less. Its design is to force all em- ployers to pay their employees each day for one hour when they do nothing How can honest men make such de. mands as that? or how can they ex' poct free and self-respecting employ CTS to submit to it?
 The other demand is for a 'closeG shop" and that is more unbearablt 1 tyranny that the other, for under that demand the owner of a printing office or outfit. could not work in his own shop. or put his own son 10 work unless he belongs to the union. He cannot control or dictate to his own foreman nor can he discharge an incompetent employc unless the union approves the act It is a tyranny of the most in- l tolerable nature as well ss an unwar. | rantable interference With the rights | of others in their legitimate business How one employer regards it may he under tood by reading the following extracts just issued hy the President of the Hill Publishing Company whc talks to them this way.
 T shall be sorry to see a man Sc
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
Sidewalk Pencilinss
CenpIimen,a The Advertiser.

~. Sompifmente The Adver1ser.
 The following letter rom one. of the foremost citizens of Eorth Alabama was received in due time but it was misplaced in this office:
 Huntsville, Ala, Dec. 20. 1905.
 T cannot refrain from congratulat- ing you upon the glory. with which you crowned yourselves by producing Christnas Edition It certainly has eclipsed anything heretofore undertak- en n Alabama journalism..
 n,a,tn 1ns high character of the readihe req ,he mechauical part was most artistic Tn its execution. while the advertising pages show your city to be wide awake After reading the production or a Tow and making u cursory glance at them all, laid it carefully away to time. Surely pr. owen will place. a copy in the States archieves for fu- ture reference. as it is such a complete compendium of useful information. Zach contribution is certainly to pc commended for such exhibition of clev- erness in the treatment of his or her subjects for surely all were most teli- citous.
 Among the articles already pernsed were those of Drs. W. s. wyman and T. C. McCorvey, my old college proies,- sors and friends. I gazed too witn Dr. wyman. the genial. wholesouled. grand old man that he is, who was for more than fifty years professor in the University of Alabama and who is to- day looked upon as one of our bene- factors and ripest scholars. Long live The Advertiser and all or
 it's crews.. May time deal gently with good Major
 Screws,
 And as joy and comfort from each to
 each pass, May these be much to bless Col. Frank
 F. Glass.
 Yours very truly.
 R. l. Pcttus."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
Ont of inc Ordinary

Wealthy New Yorkers manifest an in-
 creasing tendency to live out of the
 say ther are indications that ere long
 the families who have longest been
 identified with New York will choose
 to make their homes in suburb and
 visit to town. What is more. most of
 these persons, even the richest. will
 prefer to put up at hotel or to live
 In an apartment hotel when they do
 come to town instead of maintaining
 an establishment of their own.
 Mime. Loubet. the wife of the Fresi- dent of the French Republic, is typi- cal French woman. and has become. since her arrival at the Elysee, exceed ingly popular AInle. Loubet has the strong maternal instinct which always distinGuishes a southern Frenchw oman; i; she is fond and vigilant mother, and | is often met walking about in the
 neighborhood Of the palssSSe with her hher taken special interest in all those chart- | table institutions designed to benefit the children of the poor and the orphans
 The pathetic end of an operatic dy- nasty was recalled the other day by an exhibit in a New York auction room. l Offered for. sale by a warehouse which 1 had kept them in storage for nearly a decade were several opera cloaks, now
 shabby and faded. and some furs made earlier day. The tickets on them i'm, parted the knowledge that they had 1 been the property of Mrs. Henry E. Ab- | bey She is now in London. but has | been lost to the light of her American l friends since Henry E. Abbey. the | greatest amusement plunger of his
 day, died practically penniless.
 | At a recent lecture in Munich. Prof. l Korn stated that the problem of tele- graphing photographs had been solved i in principle. The apparatus will be
 ready for general use when a few tech nicai improvements have been intro duced The experiments which the | Professor has already carried out prove l that it is possible to transmit photo | graph or sketch, six or seven inches
 Square. in a period varying from ten to | twenty minutes. These experiments | were carried out on the telegraph line | from Munich to Nuremberg, a distance | of about one hundred miles, but Prof. | Korn declares that precisely the same results would be obtained if the photo- l graphs were transmitted by telegraph | fine or submarine cable 5000 miles in aanrth
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
RoAp BUILDING As A BUSINESS.

No one denies that to build a good house requires the services of a good architect. The same is true of road building. To build good road re- auires the services of a man skilled in the work and skill is never acquired by merely reading a theory. It must be obtained by actual experience. A college training in road building may not be necessary to make a good road builder but such an education equips him with a knowledge which sooner or later will more than pay for the extra time spent in its requirement. Highway engineering is distinctly a branch by itself. and it is rapidly be- coming recognized as such. To-day there is a greater demand for highway engineers than the supply. and this demand is bound to increase as the work of building roads progresses. There is no better opening for a young man than the profession of highway engineer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
Pleasures Various.
Harper's Weekly.

Harpers s Weekly.
 How different do the people of the earth take their pleasuresl In sta tistical book just issued in Madrid 1t Is estimated that for luxuries the Span iards spend annually more than $100,- 100000. Of this sum $25.00O,000 Is for cigars and cigarettes. $20.000,000 for lottery tickets, $13.0OG.0o0 for bull fights. $12.500.Oo0 for holiday-making, and $S1 100000 to settle the wineshop reckonings Published statistics con- corning the riotous living in Boston show that the natives Of that place are more than ever debauehing themselves with baked RNans. A Boston dispatch says: Last year they spent on their favorite diet more than the cost of two battleships, or $6.59$,272. Aeoordins s to the wholesale dealers ss,732 barrels were consumed in that period, and the demand is increasing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
Hotels Doing B,r Business.

While the newspapers have been printing articles about the great pros perity which the merchants of Mont, gomery enjoyed this fall and winter. remarked citizen yesterday. T do not see anything about the vast volumes or business the hotels of Montgomery nave been doing.
 By nearly every proprietor of q hos. telry in our city, l am informed that they are doing a land office business. One of them told me today that he has had all he can handle. He has had every room taken for days on stretch and has frequently had to turn away guests. 1t is to be wondered whether these hotels will continue In such pros perity after the New Exchange gets in to operation. I am inclined to believe that the Exchange will have all It can handle but that will not materially ef- feet the other hotels.
 T can say that the effect of the open ing of the Exchange is anXlously awaited by, the other hotel proprie- tors |"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

Dr. Nordensjoeld declares that there is not thing in the world that is worth while attaining that is not worth while risking ones life for" From this assertion The Manchester Union thus dissents:
 One need not possess a specially weak or cowardly nature to dissent from so sweeping a generalization. An education is certainly worth while, but it may seriously be questioned wheth- CT it is worth risking ones life for. Success in business is desirable. but what does it profit a man to attain it at the cost of health. even, to say noth- ing of the loss of life itself? The mem- bers of a football team have natural and proper desire to win. and it is un- questionabIy worth while to do so. but there is growing doubt whether the beneficial results of all the football played in the entire country were worth the fourteen lives lost in that sport during the past season.
 Any one who will think the matter over will find a number of objects that are worth attaining but which are not worth riskinG life for. The eminent scientist is too sweeping in his idea of human duties.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

Mir. Conner holds out the Georgia Rail Road rates as the very personifi- cation of what is right and proper, yet over in that State there is a candidate Tor Governor whose stock in trade Is aenuneiation of Georgia Railroad rates, and demand for a change. The Geor- gia man has held up tho rates here in Alabama. as being better than those enjoyed in Georgia. When MT. Conner spoke at Union Springs he was asked by a farmer and Confederate soldier MT. Conner. if the freight rates in Ala bama are so exorbitant, and so much greater than in Georgia, how is it that the Montgomery merchants can sell goods delivered at our doors cheaper than Atlanta merchants? This ques- ton Mir. Conner didn't answer. although he talked all around it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
COUNTRY AND TOWN.
Rural Free Delivery and Good Roads
 Make Them Nearly Alike.


 Rural populations are no longer isolated as they once were.
 The railroads did much to bring them into contact with the great world ly- the trolley, the light wagon. the bi- cycle, the automobile and the good roads have done much more. And last but not least among the innovations monotony of rural life Is the free ru" ral mail delivery. Eulogizing this latest means of regular communities tion between the country and city. member of the late Congress said: The chief moral value of rural delivery is its power to make rural population eontented with rural eondi6i0ns 1t lation between city and country"
 It has this moral value. and 1t has an intellectual and emotional value as well In connection with the other fa- cilities of communication mentioned. it carries contentmeRt to the farm house and the village cot where for mcry lurked discontent and nameless longing Tho multiplied convenien- ces of modern times tend to place city and country upon an equal footing as regards the enjoyment of social life, and with their further extension we may not only expect to see the coun- 1 try population willing to remain where | circumstances have placed it, but we shall witness. more and more, a desire on the part of city people to secure
 In the tight little island of England, 1 where good country roads are the rule. ! and where penny postal delivery long | since took away the dread loneliness 1 of country life, the ambition of every | city dweller is to some day secure a l country home. He looks upon the city | merely as a workshop and the thea | ter of social gaities at certain seasons. l His real, comfortable life he desires to | pass in the country. And thus it will l inevitably be in all parts of this newer ! country, as it is now in certain parts of New England and New York. where summer homes of city people are con stantly infringing upon the farms and | forests
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
1Cotton FactS.1

The above named publication is a perfect mine Of valuable infOrma tion who fish indisputable facts about the cotton trade. Is is a handbook. con taining all the essential statistics of the American, East Indian and Egyp- tian yield. movement. manufactures. prices, etc, for a series of years. with other matters of interest, It is com piled and published annually since 1878 by Alfred B. ShepperSon. l5 William street. New York City. Bound in flex ? ble cloth covers. price sl.00. For ready reference respecting cotton and cotton manufactures in this and other coun- tries. it will be found useful and its coTrectness may be relied upon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1908.
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC COMMIT
 TEE

The Democratic State Committee, which meets here to-day has some very important matters to consider. Some questions may cause considerable dis cussion, but we hope that everything will be So arranged as to give general satisfaction. There Is not sufficient Republican strength in Alabama to cause apprehension. but it should be re- naembersd that harmony is all esen- tial in the ranks of any party. no mat ter how strong and popular 1t may be. We have that confidence in the com mittee winch leads us to believe that their action will be based on wisdom and justice, and that what they do will be heartily approved
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

| We would like for the newspapers in Alabama to tell which of them re- ceived the vast sums MT. Conner says were poured out in the campaign for P9esidont of the Rail Road Commis- sion. The Advertiser. at least. pleads not guilty, although if it had given up sufficient amount of advertising space to earn 1t. there would have been great delight in receiving 1t. Mir. Co., rnsf should specifically state the names of the papers which received such foreunss for publishing matter against hIra. This is another effort of his to m&kaify himEelt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09
Bankrupt Sale.

Notice is hereby given that as receivers of the bankrupt estate of l.. Wilk 2 Company, we will sell at public outcry for cash to the hix ~st bidder during the lega; hours of sale in front of the storehouse recently oc- cupied by l.. Wilk & Company. in Dothans Alabama, on Thursday the 18th day of jan- uarv 1906. the following property:
 One entire stock Of goods. wares and mef~ cbandfsc, store fixtures and furniture cons tained in a storehouee recently occupied by l.. Wilk Ss Company. in the town of Dothan Alabanla said property being the stock of goods of l.. wilk & Company. and amounting to about $s.soo.Oo and consisting of hns goods will be sold under and by virtue of an order isat.d to out of the Dt&rtct Court of the United States for the Middls we are commanded to sell said property. Dated this the 5th day of January. 1906.
 A. F. PACE
 B. r. REID
 tot Receivers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

Evidently President Roosevelt and Emperor William. of Germany. are two of a kind. We all know that the President considers himself 'ft' on this side of the Atlantic. and on the other side he has a close second in the Ger man Emperor. In connection with nu- merous press attacks upon the ap- pointment of Gen. Count Won Moltke as chief of the general stan. The Staats Zietung, military Journal. says von Moltke was unwilling to ac- cept the appointment and told the Kali ser, so. His majesty replied:
 Tn time of war l myself will be chief of the general staff You will find the work in time of peace easy enough"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09


 It is an accepted fact that the years 1903 and 1904 were phenomenal years, made so by the conditions winch ruled as to the South's staple crop:
 A study of the years lyO2 ana l9o'' as they relate to crops other than cot ton, can not be otherwise than prohta- blc
 A comparison of results aGhiGyed i,i tM 1,.d in duction of corn, oats, wheat ana nay will write the degree of progress we have made toward q resumption 9I the t policy of diversification which made the Southern planter a prince among men previous 10 the war between the states.
 The cotton producers are to pc con graduated upon the high estate to which they have attained through or ganization. But for the organized con dition to which they were brought oy the persistent efforts of Hon. Haryie Jordan, they would today be in the valley of despond. As # IS, under ms strenuous appeals. they have aSknowl- edged ana have lived up to the wise policy Of slowly marketing the cotton crop They have come into recognl- ton of the real value of the staple They can olineh all the sdxs1itS6gss va rs6ssS ot !, the acreage for 19o6-o7 and by pro-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-09

The latest novelty in vegetables is a black potato, which has been sent to a well known seed merchant of Lon don This eccentric tuber came from the Congo and is said to have an eN- cellent flavor. It is especially recom- mended for ornamental cookery in-sal- ads.