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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
TOWN OF HARTFORD
Interesting Description of the
Present Day City by a For
mer Citizen.

! Under the headlines or RemlnlS-
cences Of the old town of Hartford
the Central City Republican publish
es quite interesting article written
by Mr.. z. o. King a former citizen
of Hartford from which we reprint
the following:
Hartford is one of the oldest towns
in the State a fact not generally
known to the younger generation,
and was town of some Importance
when Owensbore was boat landing
called THE Yellow Banks" and
Henderson, was another landing
called THE Yeller Banks" While
Hartford has not kept pace with
the towns mentioned in growth and
worldly prosperity, it has ranked
high up in moral eclat and sent a
greater number of men and women,
perhaps into the world for better
ment of mankind than any other
town of its size in this or any other
State.
For neatness and comfort Hart
ford will compare advantageously
with any town in the State. Good
streets, comfortable public buildings
one of the best schools in the State.
coment and brick pavements all over
the town, electric lights and plenty
of them in the main part of the town
that you can see to walk by.
The Dwellings are neatness eXem-
plifed not palatial residences. as the
town does not boast any millionares
but all modern structures, neatly
painted and surrounded by well kept
yards. The business houses are sub
stantial and are so are the men in
SIDE of them. Soon they will have a
system of water works but the town
has always been well watered by fine
wells all about the place. Soon they
expect to have a railroad, a long
hoped for addition to conveniences.
They will not be disappointed this
time. There are men back of their
enterprise who do things, not depend
on some one else. They don't wait
for things up but go and turn thir gs
up. There are three banks in town
all doing well, two news papers, the
Herald and Republican, both up to /
date and well,supported. The best /
index of county papers is the fire.
luency of its being quoted, by the
city press. This may be a new idea
to many. but | have long ago found
t to be true. No papers in the
State are more frequently quoted,
perhaps, than both the Hartford
papers by the Louisville dallies. But
have drawn this out long enough.
would to make mention of some of
The grand men and women who have
passed over to the other side, but
Who left their impress deeply implan
ID in those who yet remain. They
leep in peace in the silent city of
he dead, and a fitting epitaph for
most of them would be THE world
S better because they lived in it.
z. o. KING.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
Starving to Death.

Because her stomach was so weak.
ened by useless drugging that she
could not eat, Mrs. H. Walters, OF
S.. Clair St., Columbus, O., was lit.
terly starving to death. She writes;
Ny stomach was so weak from use-
less drugs that could not eat, and
my nerves so wrecked that ! could
not sleep; and not before was given
up 10 die was induced to try Elec-
tr.c A.ttars; with the wonderful re-
salt ta4. Improvement began at once
and a complete cira followed. Best
hea'rn Tonic % earth. soc. Guar
ar.eal brZ. Wayne Griffin * BROS
.....r.-.. 81
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
Fine Trains
FLORIDA
VIA
Southern Railway
AND
Queen ( C'1,!Ia! Route.

FLORIDA Limited" leaving Louis
vile s a. m. daily connects at Dan
vile, KY, with solid trains of Pull
man Sleepers and vestibuled coaches
via Chattanooga and Atlanta. arriv-
ing at Jacksonville at $50 a. m. and
st. Augustine l0a m. next day,
without change. Dining Car service
all meals enroute.
Florida Special" leaving Louis
vile 7;45 p. m. carries observation
sleeper daily except Sunday, Louis
vile to st. Augustine. without
change via Chattanooga and Allan
ia, arriving at Jacksonville $50 p.
m. and st. Augustine at 10 p. m.
next day. From Danville this is
solid train of Drawing Room Sleep
ers, Composite car, Observation car,
also. Dining Car serves all meals en-
route.
Via the Land of the Sky"-Pull-
man Sleeper leaves Louisville 7:45
p. m. daily, running through To
Knottsville. where connection is
made at 9:35 a. m. with through
sleeper to Jacksonville, via Ashville.
Columbia and Savannah, arriving
at Jacksonville 9 a. m.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
ERUPTION OF VOLCANO.
Miles Of Lava Flown From V0lca-
no in German
Same.

luCulla, Samoa, Marcn l.-lfe
volcano on the Island of Savaii, ir
German Samio. is still active. The
inhabitants of the district of Matau.
tn have abandoned their homes and
traders who resided there have re-
moved all their stores. The flow of
lava is slow. and people approach
quite close to it. Some persons will
not leave until their houses are ac-
tually set on fire by the burning
lava.
As the lava flows into the sea great
VOLCANOES of steam arise, and the once
placid lagoon inside the coral reef is
now a mass of hardened lava. The
district now destroyed was one of
the richest in the German possessions.
The lava flow comes from under
meath the old lava, and raises it up
until it is a field some twenty feet
high.
The people of Saleanfa, with their
personal effects, were. taken on
board the steamer Maori and landed
at Safotulafai, and the house and
other native effects are being taken
away by degrees by boats.
At the town Maleola the lava has
stopped running, but over half of
the town has been DESTROYED. On
February 6 there was a strong erup-
ton of the volcano, lasting about
ten minutes. Several explosions
have occurred, evidently caused BY
accumulations of steam in cavities.
They are accompanied by a pene-
trating odor of sulphur.
They also have been at inter-
walls gushes Of steam from innumer-
able rents in the lava, preceded by a
strong kissing noise.
One Of the peculiarities of the lava
stream is that tpresents the appear
ance Of hat-topped wall, and this
in spite of the numerous assures it
shows. AT night it is most impos-
ing, for then the whole front is one
glowing red mass with innumerable
points Of white fire dotted about it.
A party from the Maori landed to
look at the lava at Maleola, which
place was found to be partially de-
stroyed. There seems to be very lit
tie doubt that the next fresh flow Of /
lay. in that district will reach the /
coast at Srtupatua. During the .
pas, ,hrca weeks a number Of pieces
Of heavy bridge timber have been .
washed "a. on the Southern coast /
of rutuiiA. Some Of the logs are
carrei ard show evidence G. ire. .
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
"TN Cure Q EoIOn"

says 3aa Kendall, of Phillipsburg
Kan, Just cover it over with Buck
lens Arnica Salye and the Salve will
do the rest Quickest cure for
burns, boils, sores, scalds, wounds,
piles, eczema, salt rheum, chapped
hands, sore feet and sore eyes. On
lv 2,c. a'/ Wayne Griffin & Bros,
drug s. ,gtmt- cd.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09

vile, Ark. 1T would be sorter en-
barrassin'. pears to me, for the
travelin' public to bath here in the
Office or out on the front porch, al
though | know but what it might be
popular with the bypassers."
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou-
bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst
forn OF kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
commended for everything but If you have kid
ney, liver or bladder trouble 1t will be found
just the remedy you need. lthas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers Of this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail. also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how TO
find out II you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
s sifsI J o this s5 gsgsr and I'd
Or. kilmer & Co., Bing i /! f.; Nj
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-Roo.
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists.
Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp-Root. DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, and the address. Binghamton
NY. on every bottle.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
FARMERS TO STRIKE.
Ordered BY A. S. of E.---0rgan-
izatiOn Said to Embrace
100000 Members.

A strike of the 100000 farmers
composing the American Society of
Equity, an organization with head
quarters in Indianapolis, has been
called for March /. Every enc who
responds to this call will agree to
withhold from marketing any agri-
cultural products excepting at prices
that are up to the level that has been
decreed as equitable by the officials
of this organization.
The word is being passed through
all the wheat-growing States. and
the response that is being made is
said to be causing considerable con-
Germ on the part of market men and
spectators. A representative of a
recognized authority in the wheat
trade was in indianapolis recently
trying to ascertain what response
the call was receiving.
This organization claims that the
producer ought to get at least Sl.00
bushel for wheat, no matter what
may be the size of the crop. 1t is
claimed that the price of any agri-
cultural commodity can be controlled
by controlling the marketing. The
call for the strike sets forth mini
mum selling price on all farm pro-
ducts. prices which the agricultural
strikers claim they are entitled to
and can get if they stand together.
Kansas and Minnesota are being
flooded with copies of this call. II
is figured that if his state holds out
for the higher prices the trick will
be turned, as Minnesota raises big
percentage of the spring wheat crop
and Kansas produces a controlling
percentage of the winter wheat crop.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09

cures made BY DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medi-
cal triumph Of the nine
teenih century; dis
covered after years Of
scientific research by
Or. Kilmer, the emf
nent kidney and blad-
der specialist. and is
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09

offer in this paper and
send your address to
DR.. Kilmer g. Co. Bing-
hamton, N. Y. The
regular fifty cent and
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
THE COUNTY UNIT
How il Would Effect Various Cit
les. Counties in Which Ii
qu0rS Cannot be Sold.
[Danvills Advocate

The substitute of the County Unit
bill which has been adopted by the
Senate does not appear to be ac'
ceptable to the anti-Saloon League
A vigorous effort will be made to
defeat it in the House or to amend
the bill so that not more than -four
classes of cities will be separate
units. Under the provisions of the
Senate bill. cities of the first five
classes and the counties out side of
these cities can vote separately local.
option. The effect of the adoption
of the County Unit Bill, and the ex-
tent of local option in Kentucky is
pretty well defined in the following
interesting information obtained
from the Louisville Herald;
Sixty-fve counties of the State
have voted licensed saloons entirely
out of their borders, twenty-nine
have licensed saloons in but one
place, and only five counties allow
whisky to be sold generally within
their limits. They are Campbell,
Kenton, jefferson, Meade and Todd,
and each one of those counties has
more or less dry" territory.
The counties IN which liquor can
not be legally sold at any point are:
Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman, Fulton,
Graves, Galloway. Marshall. Mclean,
Butler, Simpson, Edmonson, Gray
son, Breckenridge, Hart, Barren,
Allen, Monroe. Metcalf, Larue, Bull
lit, Spencer, Taylor, Adair, Cum
berlain, Clinton, Wayne, Russell,
Casey, Boyle, Garrard, Oldham,
Grant, Nicholas, Bath, Fleming,
Rowan, Elliott, Carter, Lawrence,
Martin, Johnson, Menifee, Powell,
Lee. Wolf, Morgan, Magoffin, Floyd,
Pike, Knott, Letcher, Leslie, Harlin
Perry Owsley, Clay, Knox, Whitley,
Laurel, Rockcastle, Jackson and
Robertson.
The fourth third class cities are Ow-
ensboro, Henderson, Frankfort and
Bowling Green. If the county were
the unit all except Owensboro would
probably vote dry" as the other
three cities are the only places in
their counties where liquor is sold.
There are twenty-seven fourth
class cities, three of which, Danville.
Mayiield and Penville, are local OPP
ton. Dayton, Bellevue, Latona,
Ludlow and Central Covlngton are
in hopelessly wet" counties the fol-
lowing are the only places in their
respective counties in which liquor
is sold. Shelbyville. Mt. Sterling, |
Middlesboro, Harrodsburg, Somerset >
Lebanon, Nicholasville, jacksonville
and Princeton. 1t is almost certain !
that if the county were the unit
whisky would be voted out OF these
towns. The following fourth-class
cities are located in counties in which
is sold in more than one
place. Hopkinsville, Maysville,
Richmond, Paris, Ashland, Cattles-
burg, Georgetown, Versailles and
Cynthiana.
Of the forty-seven fifth-class
cities, twenty-five are located in STRIFE
thy local option counties. Seven
the only cities in their counties in
which liquor is largely sold. They
are Elizabethtown. Russellville,
Falmouth, Central City, VaNceburg
Hawesville, Marion and Providence.
II is probable that if the county were
he unit iiqour would be voted out
these places. The other fifth.class
towns are in counties in which liquor
S sold in various places.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-03-09
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK I?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know Of the wonderful
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20

Springfield. Mass, Republican: The
question what to do with our retired
lieutenant generals is becoming ser
iOus owing to their great abundance.
General Chaffee is considering an offer
to become the head of the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals General Bates who re
tired Saturday. will return to his old
home in st. Louis for the present. Gen
erals Miles and Young are trying to
keep happy without work and soon
Generals Corbin and Macarthur will
be added 10 the list. We shall then
have six lieutenant generals in this
country. all retired and all feeling as
young and vigorous as ever they We're
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20
DAILY STOR Y
A MERCILESS CRITIC.
tOriginal.1

[OriginaLl
When kove and marriage were spoken
of between me and Herbert Whittlesey
I told him that 1 was in love with my
art and should never marry unless
some man inspired me with a grand
passion.
"Or fool you into loving him."
what do you mean by that?"
81 have no faith in these grand pas
siOns. Give me jog trOt love that starts
slowly, but goes right along at a
steady gait
thank YOU
''Oh, you don't need any kind of love,
since you are so devoted to plastering
paint on canvas. Perhaps you may be
disappointed in having to be n jog trot
artist
You mean that I have no talent
replied, flushing. you are brutally
frank to say So"
Would you want me to injure you
by misleading your
mo one can predict what one will do
in any profession. I think critics
should conf1ne themselves to calling
our attention to defects in our works."
well, then. your coloring in that
wood
"What wOOdT
There" pointing.
THAT isn't wood. It's sky"
You don't mean it,"
ANY other defects?'
1.-THE haystack on the right
You mean the cascade"
Wrong again."
1 did not dare TO speak. Tears were
struggling into my eyes. and needed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20

no doubt that many foreign countries
would be pleased if free trade were es-
tablished in America, for ii would give
them an outlet for their goods. Still the
German government could not hope TO
produce such result through the
American press, and could only by stir
ring this country induce us to favor
reciprocity between the countries.
The main point to this story is thai
it is simply an attempt TO fight the
high tariff and further to stop the
growing sentiment in this country in
favor of free trade The great states
in the middle northwest contain pop
ulation that leans to free trade and in
some of these states the feeling has
grown so strong as to promise free
trade majority at the next election.
ANY port in storm is always true in
politics, and this seems good port to
steer into. 1t has long been plain to
the average person that the tariff pol
icy of the United States would in time
antagonize foreign countries in mat
ters of trade and we might at any time
look for an attack on our system in
a manner that might prove unpleasant.
If there is anything in the letter writ
ten from Washington, it is but the be-
ginning of the end that has been pre-
dictpd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20

all my attention to keep them back
Besides. knew my voice would trem-
BILE.
He had the consideration to take his
departure. AS soon as he was gone |
cried for awhile then anger came, and
1 vowed l would succeed in spite OF
him. had been putting on the finish
ing touches To the picture he was
criticising, and ii was practically fin
ished. l laid it away in a corner and
went to work on another
few days later n dealer came into
my studio and asked if | had any pic
lures to sell cheap / showed him sew
eral practice pieces. but he did not
want them. Seeing the picture that
had been 50 numerically criticised. he
offered me what | would. even before
the criticism. have regarded fair
price for Ii. and | sold ii to him. When
he paid for ii the next day he offered
me check that he had himself secur-
ed for it. asking me to give him his
commission In cash. since he had acted
as broker. | counted out the COM
mission, took the check and was about
TO stuff it in my pocketbosk when the
name Of its drawer caught my eye. 1t
was Herbert WhittleSey.
My first impulse was to call back the
broker and cancel the sale, but it oc-
CURED to me ut once that / would have
no right-indeed. no ability-to do SO.
was indignant that Herbert Wbittlesey
should have soothed my wounded feel
ngs with his charity-for that's what /
considered it-and had he come in to
my studio at the time / should have
given him piece of my mind" But
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20

icised, then bought.
Take that thing down." l said to
him. with hot cheeks.
Thing? It's q gem
What do you mean!'
Il mean that ! wanted a woman for
Hy wife. She was I'm love with her art.
If she had not been born TO that art
her infatuatiOn would not have trou-
bled me. As ii was. ! saw that either
/ must kill her love for her art or 1t
would kill her love for me-
| stood stock still in astonishment
And you have fooled me into loving
you
IF you choose to call il So"
Herbert. You are deceiving me- That
picture is n daub."
He went to Il secretary and took out
batch of letters and handed them TO
me. They We're offers for the picture
from dealers. some OF them being four
times as much as he had paid me
for it.
| threw my arms around his neck
He had Won the last bit of my heart
There was no more TO win. And yet
he had fooled me.
MARIE G. TREVOR.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20
The Western Invasion of the East.

The latest manifestation of the west
ern invasion of the east is TO be found
in the appearance of seed corn Spe-
cial on the Boston & Maine railroad,
which is to be sent on a missionary
tour of education for the farmers in
Massa chusetts. Vermont, New Hamp-
shire. and Maine.
The seed corn special is distinctly a
traceable more particularly 10 the rail-
roads operating in Nebraska and Iowa.
The basic idea is that of a travelling
school OF elemental agricultural sci
ence bringing to the farmer instruc-
ton along lines calculated to make his
work more effective and his fields more
productive without compelling him to
leave his farm to attend distant ag-
ricultural school.
That the western farmer should take
kindly to this benevolent interest even
though coupled with the obvious fact
that it is designed TO increase like
wise the traffic of the railroads is TAX
en- as matter of course. but that the
farmers of staid old New England, sup
posed to know it all by Inheritance
from their ancestors. should be regard
ed as good subjects for seed corn spe-
cialiZation is a small sized surprise.
Presumably, however, something has
to be done to make them more content
with their possessions and check the
exodus to the fertile fields of the west.
which at one time made deserted farms
in the far east to be had almost for
the asking.
With one road waking up to the fact
that the seed corn special has call
in the east as well as in the west, the
next thing will be a general mania for
imitation and within another year tho
seed corn special may be looked for
on every American railroad that trav-
erses an agricultural country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20

Pierpont Morgan has immense re-
spect for all kinds of pluck. He says
one of the finest examples that ever
came under his observation was given
by an English clergyman. He had a
rich parishioner. Lady Blank. who die
tated to and hectored him outrageous
ly At length he declined TO put up
with this kind of treatment and told
her ladyship so. Thereafter she re-
fused TO put anything in the offertory,
merely making a stately inclination
over the plate. This moved an elder
to remark in her hearing: I'VE could
do with less of her manners and more
of her cash. The clergyman. dining
at a lords table. told this story with
great success one evening. The host
said with a frOwn: Are You aware
SIR. that Lady Blank is a relative OF
mine?" The clergyman smiled slight
". NO he said. Il wasn't. but in
future when | tell the story I'll always
be careful to mention the relationship.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-04-20
Merely An Acknowledgment.

The Argus is not unmindful of the
many compliments that have come
from appreciative friends and the pub
lie generally of its prompt and thor
ough manner of handling the news of
the San Francisco disaster in extra
editions and otherwise. together with
its having prompted the local relief
movement. While The Argus was far
in advance of all papers of the three
cities in giving out the first informa-
ton of the dreadful calamity, the spe
cial edition is not. as the people of
Rock Island realize, a new feature
American war, and three years later
in the assassination of President Nc
Kinley, and on numerous occasions
since. The Argus led the tri-city
newspaper field in affording through
special editions the first news.
However, it has never been the pol
icy of The Argus to dwell upon its
own accomplishments, and this refer
ence is intended as merely an acknowl-
edgment of kind and encouraging
words.
The Argus prefers to have its worth
established by deeds rather than words.