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The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05

The Eyes OF the Eagle.

That the eagle has a most wonderful
power Of vision is shown from the fact
that it flies in almost straight line for
any object which it desires to secure.
Baby eagles also possess this farsight-
edness. Long before human eyes can
discern them their gaze is fixed on dis
tance. and their cries of welcome to
their parents are shrill and continuous.
The structure Of their eyes makes them
peculiarly strong. The brightest glare
of sunlight does not affect them. Ea-
giles do not fly as high in the air as
some other birds, but their flight is
very long and steady. A pecuiarity
about eagles is that they are constant
to their mates, not changing every sea-
son, as most birds do Sometimes the
same pair Of eagles will return to the
same nest year after year. They seem
to become acquainted with the locality,
and IL they are not disturbed are regu-
lar tenants.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
wFINFspAY DECEMBER 5. 1906
TARFORK.

L. c. keenan, was in Cloverport
Thursday night.
T. II. Chancellor made a busi-
ness trip to Hardinsburg Friday.
James Chancellor. who WIS par
alyzed some time ago, is improv-
ing.
Miss Maggie keenan,, who has
had typhoid fever 50 long, is rap
idly recovering.
Uncle Jack Ewlitt, of Jolly
Station, and Mrs. Josephine Ran
kin, of Tarfork, were married
Sunday evening, November 26.
Rev. c. L. Goff ofiiciated.
Asher Newly who, as stated
last week, was moving to Magan,
bought property of Arch Taul
here and moved to it. Mr.. Tnul
will move to Kansas.
Rev. Geo. Jones. of Pellville,
returned to his home Saturday
after conducting another meet
ing at Cave Spring church, the re-
suit being thirty-four additions to
the church: seventeen being bap.
tized. Bro. Jones accepted the
call as pastor for the ensuing
year. Meeting Saturday before
the fourth Sunday and also Sun
day in each month.
Prayer meeting every Saturday
night at Cave Spring.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
DO YOU OWN A H0RSE7
Electric Light Plants Are Like Horses
In Some Respects.

VI OOHS nSSPSSNSs
The subject Of depreciation is well
worthy Of the careful consideration OF
those who are prone to ignore that
Item in estimating the cost of lights
supplied by municipal plants. But as
more people own horses than lighting
plants 1t may be helpful to consider
depreciation as applied to horses.
You pay $3.50 for five-year-old
horse. That's original cost. If you bOr-
row the money you must pay interest
ON It, If you don't borrow it you lose
the interest you would get if you didn't
buy the horse. Either way it's interest.
You feed the horse, and perhaps hire a
man to take care Of him. That's oper
ating expenses You get him shod oc-
casionally and call in the veterinarian
when he Is sick. That's renewals and
repairs. After a few years, in spite of
the best of care, the horse is no longer
capable of doing the required work
and is sold for $50, loss of 5000 as
compared with the original cost. That's
depreciation. If you haven't laid that
by year by year out of the horses
earnings, you've got to borrow 1t to
buy a new horse, and you may not
find 1t easy to do 50 If you haven't re-
paid the original loan. That's what
happens to municipal plants that don't
provide an adequate depreciation fund.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
DIED IN ALABAMA.
Mrs. Nellie Stith Hardin Passes
Away--WaS Most ESlimable
Young Woman.

Mrs. Nellie Stith Hardin died in
Waterloo, Ala, November 25, 1905.
1t was indeed a shock to her many
friends in this and other communities
when the sad news came, "Nellie is
dead
Sne was the idolized daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. c. {. Stith, of this place; was
born in Antelope county, Nebraska,
February g, 1896; professed religion and
joined Big Spring Baptist church at the
ape of Is. In May, 1906, she connected
herself by letter with Ekron church in
which church she lived a useful mem
Der until God called her home.
She wa happily married July 4, 1906,
to Mr.. W, N. Hardin, of Riverton,
Alabama, but formerly of this county.
Immediately after their marriage they
left for their home in Alabama.
When the sad affliction came, her
parents were called to her bedside three
weeks prior to her death. All that low
ing hands and medical aid could do was
done. But alas That kind aud loving
husband is left in that little Southern
home bereft of all happiness. Her
parental home is shadowed; happiness
fed and all earthly joys vanished since
Nellie is no more. But grieve not as
those who have no hope for in her
Christian life we can recall every evil
dence that Nellie is now in heaven.
Her remains were brought to Irving
ton, Ky, accompanied by her husband,
parents and nurse, Miss Jett Ham, of
Birmingham, Ala.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Jimmie Willett, and in the
presence of a large concourse of sorrow
ing friends. she was laid to rest We'd
nesday, the 2Sth.
The bereaved have the sympathy of
the community
A FRIEND.
Ekron, Ky.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
Hickory Trees.

1t is rather a pity that our hickorfes
should receive highest appreciation
from US when they are yielding mp
their substance in roaring flames in our
freplaces. For nowhere in the forest
world can we find a genus of trees
that is. as whole, more attractive
and valuable than the genus hicoria.
Most Of the hickOries are beautiful in
summer when their glossy foliage is at
its best. In autumn this foliage turns
the color Of uncoined gold, and whom
bare Of leaves there is revealed an
Oaklike twist TO the branches which
makes these trees most picturesque
and beautiful objects in the winter
landscape. We have never made as
much commercially of the nuts as we
might we'll have done. Our Indian
predecessors knew how to make q
most attractive beverage from them.
and the early settlers pressed from
them an oil that was a luxury. Tie
pecan is the only hickory species that
has been developed and cultivated to
any extent, and this has only recently
begun its career as cultivated tree
Country Life In America.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
Could Take His Choice.

At recent inquest in Pennsylvania
town one Of the jurors, after the usual
swearing In. arose and with much
dignity protested against service, al
leging that he was the general man
ager Of an important concern and was
wasting valuable time by sitting as a
juror at an inquest. The coroner, turn
ing to his clerk, said: "Mr. Morgan,
kindly hand me Jervis' (the authority
on juriesl." Then, after consulting the
book, the coroner observed to the un-
willing juror:
Upon reference to Jervls,' find, sir,
that no persons are exempt from serv-
ice as jurors except idiots, imbeciles
and lunatlcs. Now, under which head
ing do you claim exemption |-Success
Magazine.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
DOES ADVERTISING PAY?
b. F. Beard s. Co. Know IL Does.
They Have Been "ShOwn."

That advertising pays and gives
larger returns for the money than any
other investment was Conclusively
proven at the store of b. F. Beard &
Co., of Hardinsburg, on last Saturday.
This firm advertised last week in
The News that on Saturday they would
sell Hoosier cotton at a reduced price.
As a result on that day 1900 yards of
cotton was sold, and other sales were
extremely large. Members Of the firm
say that people were in their store who
had never before been there and that
it brought buyers there whose custom
it had been to trade in other towns.
The firm was highly gratifed with
the results obtained from the adver-
tisement in The News.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
GOVERNMENT WAGES LOW.
n. T. Neweomb Gives Facts Of Inter
est to Wage Farmers.

n. 7. Neweomb Gives Facts Of Inter
est to Wage Farmers.
From 1896 to 1904 the average retail
cost of the ordinary articles of food
used in the United States advanced no
less than II per cent QO.06. to be more
exact-that is, the purchaser Of food
for family had to pay $1.17 in 1904
for the same quantity and quality Of
food that 81 would purchase in 1896.
These are official statistics compiled
by the highly skilled experts employed
by the federal government, and every
housewife knows that they do not over
state the advance. Other necessities OF
life have advanced in cost with APP
proximately equal rapldity.
Unquestionably wages ought, gener-
ally speaking TO have advanced some
what in proportion to the increase in
the cost Of living. In private employ
ment this has apparently taken place,
the average wages per hour reported
by the federal bureau of labor being
1876 per cent higher in 1904 than in
1896 and the average weekly earnings
1916 per cent higher. The advances
thus represented are spread ali over the
country; they characterize every pri-
vate industrial enterprise and have
benefited all classes of workmen en-
ployed in private undertakings.
How is it with public employment?
A few undertakings conducted under
public ownership employ labor like
that similarly serving private employ
ers i'm the same communities, and in
these cases the public rate Of wages
has slowly been advanced somewhat
In proportion to the advance in the
wages privately paid. But where any
American government, municipal, state
or national, is the sole or by far the
largest employer Of a particular class
of labor the advances to meet increas-
ed cost of living have been so few that
the ordinary investigator will be un-
able to discover a single instance.
Throughout the postal service among
the 25,OOO clerical employees at Wash
ington, In the customs and internal
revenue services there have been no
uuN unCtS III pay W hVON NhN AASS ~
cost of food, clothing and shelter. The
pay of letter carriers. for example, re-
mains precisely where it was fixed
twenty years ago by an act approved
on Jan. 3, 1887.
The largest printing Office in the
world Is that maintained at Washing
ton by the government, and there the
federal government employs a large
force of intelligent and highly skilled
workingmen. A change in the basis
Of payment in 1899 from the piece
work to the per hour system prevents
comparisons with dates prior to the
change, but wages have remained sta
tionary since March 3, 1899, although
the official statisticans report that the
cost of food has advanced since the
rate of wages was fixed by statute full
ly 1926 per cent. During the same
years the wages Of printers In private
book publishing or job printing estab-
lishments advanced throughout the
United States as follows: Compositors,
male, 146T per cent; compositors, fe-
male, 2030 per cent; press feeders.
male, 22.41 per cent; press feeders, fe-
male, 21.27 per cent; pressmen, 11.75
per cent-H. T. Newcomb.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05

In some parts of France walnuts
form a regular article Of diet. The
peasants eat them with bread that has
oftentimes been rubbed with garlic
The hygienic effects are considered
good, replacing meat to a large extent.
These nuts are also used to make Oil
IT is much cheaper and similar in taste
TO that pressed from olives and is EN-.
ployed to alulterate the latter The
prisoners in certain prisons are en-
gagged in cracking walnuts and picking
out the kernels, which are pressed into
nn
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
Sex and RebIrth.

The theories concerning the posi-
bility of our having previously existed
seem to be endless. OF them all l think
the one best which suggests that sex Is
reversed at rebirth and that when we
turn up cons after we previously ex-
listed we do so either as men or women
according to whether we were women
or men afOretime. This largely ac-
counts for the suffragette and for the
long haired, thin voiced creatures who
potter around boudoirs, play the piano
like "sweetly pretty" things and call
themselves men. Presumably the best
material of which we were fashioned
then is now used in our composition
for the most manly women and effemi-
nate men generally have some good
points about them. But if one is to
keep on performing these Protean feats
through all ages it hardly seems worth
while worrying over sex problems. 1t
seems to me, in the long run, that we
shall each get about equal, according
to this arrangement.-Lond World.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
original OF "UncIe Toby"
Ekron, Ky.

Captain Roger Sterne, the father Of
the author of "Tristram Shandy,' was
the original Of Unc,e Toby. As captain
OF Chudleigh's regiment of foot a
marching regiment ever on the move,
Roger Sterne and his family tasted the
most varied military and domestic eX-
periences in Flanders, at Gibraltar and
finally at Jamaica, where the old cam
paigner died of country fever" \
simple minded, good natured, but shift
less and rather peppery Irishman, Rog-
er bore his disappointment bravely and
carried his load of debt with a light
heart. MY father" says Sterne, was
of a kindly, sweet disposition, void Of
all design and so innocent in his own
intentions that he suspected no one, so
that you might have cheated him ten
times q day If nine had not been suffi-
cient for your purpose" Such a char
acter and such a father supplied the
germ from which the genius Of the son
developed his conception Of one of the
most perfect nnd delightful portraits in
the gallery of English fiction.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
Innp Tennessee Eight.

For twenty years W. L. Rawls, of
Bells, Tenn, fought nasal cstarrh. He
writes: The swelling and soreness IN
side my nose was fearful, till. began
applying Bucklen's Arnics Salve to the
sore surface; this caused the soreness
and swelling to disappear, never to re.
turn" Best salve ia existence. 25c
at Sewers Drug Co.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
WEEDS

Consumption is a human
weed fiourishing best in weak
lungs. Like other weeds it's
easily destroyed while young;
when old, sometimes i'm
possible.
Strengthen the lungs as you
would weak land and the
weeds will disappear.
The best lung fertilizer is
SCOTS Emulsion. Salt pork
is good too, but it is very hard
to digest.
The time to treat consump-
tion is when you begin trying
to hide it from yourself.
Others see it, you won't.
Don't wait until you cant
deceive yourself any longer.
Begin with the first thought
to take SCOTS Emulsion. If
it isn't really consumption 50
much the better; you will soon
forget it and be better for the
treatment. If it is consump-
ton you can't expect to be
cured at once, but if you will
begin in time and will be
rigidly regular in your treat
ment you will win.
SCOTS Emulsion, fresh air,
rest all you can, eat all you
can, that's the treatment and
that's the best treatment.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
The WORLD. Debt to F1orer..

l have never known man or woman
who has not improved in character by
becoming devoted to the affairs Of
flowers, and venture to say that the
world at large is under the deepest
obligation to pansies, vlolets, roses and
lilies, to name but few Of the bios
SONS that silently help the good angel
Of mankind. Christian World.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
Of democratic government. - BouI h,
Cochran.
Senator sorqhum In Doubt.

"Do you think that municipal own
srship would eliminate graftT
II am not quite sure" answered Sen
Itor Sorghum, whether It would elimi-
hate 1t or simply originate . new kind"
Washington Star.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-12-05
STEPHENSPORT.

Rev. Lewis filled his appoint
ment here Sunday. He has ac-
cepted the call here for another
year.
Logan Murray, of Louisville,
was guest at the Conn house
on Thanksgiving.
Bruce Bell and family, of Mat
toon, ILL.,, are expected here soon
to visit his brother, Scott Bell.
Letch Brown, of Louisville, Is
visiting relatives here.
Ed Stiles has moved to Tell
City.
The box supper was very well
attended. The receipts were some
thing over S11. Miss Cecil Dix
received the prize.
Arthur Blaine left Friday to
join his wife in Tennessee.
The sick in our town are all i'm
proving.
Mrs. f. Blaine left Monday for
Louisville.
DR.. Mitchell was in town last
week doing dental work. He did
quite a good deal of work. He
will be here the last Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday in each
month. Any one wanting work
done will do we'll to see him.
Open the bowels and get the cold out
of your system. Kennedy's Laxative
tcontaining) Honey and Tar opens the
bowels and at the same time allays the
Inflammation of the mucous membranes.
Drives out the cold and stops the cough.
Absolutely free from any opiates. Con-
forms to the National Pure Food and
Drug Law. Pleasant to take. Sold by
all druggists
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-19
E<-71- %
=RAGTlME IS 4 DEAD 0NE
SoUSO, THE BANDMAsTER, SAYS
THE AMATEUR COMPOSER HAS
KILLED 1T.

Ragtime is moribund, fast being
rushed into the grave by the efforts
Of amateur composers who have little
or no knowledge of music to get rich
quick. Such is the substance of state
ments made by John Phillip Sousa,
famous composer of marches and con-
ductor of the band which is appearing
before a large audience at the Audito-
rum this afternoon and which closes
it's engagement there this evening.
"Ragtime is good music badly
named,o said Mr.. Sousa. "The first
compositions, which lucklessly drew
ably Of 5000 pieces with which I HAYS
become acquainted thru their presenca
in my library, $3.50 lack rythm, mel.
ody and all other qualities which should
recommend them. They are woeful fall
ures and their publication has sent rag.
time to an early grave. Once ragtims
compositions were included in all my
programs and gained great commenda.
tion, but for three years have scorned
it now, SO nauseating has the term and
what it stands for become
Mr.. Sousa proved most interesting
talker as he is a pleasing conductor,
composer of music and able writer. He
is g, close observer and saw hundreds
of highly interesting things in the re.
cent tour thru Europe with his band
that have escaped hundreds of tourists,
One addition he makes to the stories OF
travellers is the assertion that humans
ity is one great family SO far as musis
is concerned.
"The measures in my pieces that obs
tanned pronounced applause in Amers'
ica,'' he said, "were the same that
were most enthusiastically. received ia
all the important cities of the old
world. even in st. Petersburg, the caps
ital of Russia, in which nearly all else
is strikingly different from America,
1t was noticed on this side that Ger!
tain part of certain march ELECTED
applause. The audiences did not watl
for the end of the piece, but burst
forth enthusiastically as the portion
was played. So it was across the At
lantic.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-19
old PARTIES FEAR
ACTIVITY OF 'DRYs'
GENUINE ANXIETY FELT OVER
DoINGs OF PRoHIBITIoNIsTs.
Republicans and Democrats Now See
Factor in Temperance Party and
Predict Advent Of "Drys'' Into
" Legislature Prohibitionists Waging
Consistent Campaign Turnout State.

Several politicians Of repute thruout'
are treated with respect even by those
closest to the @"dope sheets,' profess
some anxiety over what they term
the "pernicious activity" of the pro-
1hihi tion party. -.
For years the prohibition vote has
not been considered a factoI except in
strictly local fights in smaller communi-
ties. Not since the memory Of the old
est wheelhorse Of either the republican
or democratic parties has there been
q prohibitionist in the legislature. Now
the wise ones venture the assertion
that the next session will see several
real "drys' and many others with dry
Endorsements secured thru promises to
stand with the prohibition movement
on questions involving the liquor CUES
ton. .
The prohibitionists themselves freely
asserted at their recent state conven-
ton that they, were out to secure seats
in the legislature and, If possible,
in that body. These hopes have been
expressed before. but are said to be
nearer realization now than ever, be-
fore. From the reports it appears that
the Hdry' party is about to adopt some
real political methods, an innovation in
pfOn1D1IlOn aHa1rS. heretofore the
straightforward and utopian campaigns
Of that party have fallen before the
practical methods Of the managers of
the older parties. - ~ :.r
Have Winning Plans.
The prohibition activity is said to
be specially noticeable in the western
part Of the state, especially in the
southwest. Mass meetings are held in
every town and good turnouts are Sc
cured. Suggestions have Been confined
to possibilities rather than impossible
ideals, and more than the usual en-.
thusiasm has resulted. 1t is realized
that a third element in the various leg.
lslative districts will practically hold
the balance Of power and can dictate.
Wherever possible, straight out-and-
out prohi bitionists are to be run for
the legislature. In other districts,
where the other parties are stronger,
the prohibitionists are said to be in.
dorsing either republicans or democrats
who meet with their approval, and will
pledge their support for any and all
prohibition LEGISLATION that is proposed.
1t is said that if the party managers
can deliver the vote with the party
Endorsement, their indorsees will be
elected, and on all questions involving
the liquor business will be as good as
regular prohibition members. It is also
said that the movement Is growing and
spreading.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-19
BOOSTERS ] Of WEST
SET 4 GOOD EXAMPLE

Alderman Frank t.. Schoonmaker is
back from two months visit to Cali
fornia and is glad to be, home again.
Southern California is all right for
tour" he says, but Minnesota is the
place FOR I" permanent residence. IF
we had the boostersS' here that they
had there, we would have million in
hahitants in Minneapolis and several
times that many in the state.
They brag and boast, get out the
most tempting advertising and litera-
ture and tie people come. and what is
there down there9 Nothing but eli
mate. I saw strip Of sand sold FOR
$50, 000-a strip only about fifty feet
wide: How they do it I don't know,
but it was done. =. >1'~a. s.
Los Angeles is full Of Minneapolis
people. :: I don t exaggerate BIT when
I say that T met more folks I knew on
Broadway than I would in a similar
length Of time on Nicollet avenue.
:" After living in Los Angeles two or
three, weekshI am convinced that the
gates on streetcars are pretty good
things. In that city the cars have no
gates and passengers can jump off from
almost any part Of the cars There was
not day that somebody was not killed
or seriously hurt, and some days there
were several serious streetcar acct
dents So h ~ :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-19
TEN YEARS FOR ARSON
EMMA ANDERSON GETS SAME
SENTENCE AS MRS. YATES
MAY ASK NEW TRIAL. 1T

Miss Emma Anderson today was SEN
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary
for the crime of arson in the first de-
gree = of which, she was jointly @con-
victed with Mrs. Emma Yates, who
was sentenced to the same term Of I'M
prisonment. The defendant renewed her
protestations of innocence and volubly
insisted that she was being unjustly
punished A stay Of sentence for thirty
days was granted. A motion for a new
trial probably will be made. 49,
Louis II. Engebratson was arraigne7
and pleaded not guilty to an indictment
charging him with stealing 5000 worth
Of cigars from the Milwaukee railway
His case was continued over the term
Warren Carver, one Of the five per.
sons 50 indicted for alleged perjury in the
and upon his attorneys motion The
judge ordere the defendant's bond re
instated and his case continued. Car
yer lives in Wisconsin, ana was not in
court Saturday when his bail bond was
ordered forfeited. %@..E