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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

WHEN it is possible for a situation
like that related in the letter from
State Superintendent Fuqua, to
County Superintendent DeWeese, to
exist it is time for an investigation.
1t should set the voters of the State
to thinking and, if for no other reas-
on. furnished them sufficient cause
to rise up in their might against the
present order Of things at Frank
fort Did the State Treasurer mere
" neglect his duty, or did he have
the money belonging to the school
fund loaned out to the banks IN va
rious parts Of the State, and fail to
make connection with it in time? In
either case, il was the hard worked
teachers who was made to suffer.
In this county, except for the
prompt action Of our County Sup
erintendent in arranging for a short
loan. the teachers would have been
put to extra trouble, cost, and no
doubt in many cases, keen disap-
pointment. We repeat, there must
be something wrong at Frankfort,
and a look at the books would do no
harm.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

Jacques Kruger of THE Vanderbilt
Cup fought as boy in the civil war
Harry ID. Carey. the author of Mon
tana," is lawyer of standing in New
York.
Elsie Janis carries two maids, a sec
rotary, two autos and a big Teddy
bear" on the road.
A ship and troup have much In
common. Both require skillful naviga-
ton else they Ego on the rocks"
Richard Golden has rejoined 1.-THE
Tourists" His Timothy Todd is the
very best thing that Golden has ever
done.
Madge Crichton, lately with "My La
dy's Maid" has assumed the leading
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

Food don't digest. Because the
stomach lacks some of the essential
digestants or the digestive juices are
not droperly balanced. Then, too.
it is this undigested food that causes
sourness and painful Indigestion.
Kodol for Indigestion should be used
for relief. Kodol is a solution of veg
etable acids. 1t digests what you
eat, and corrects the deficiencies of
the digestion. Kodol conforms to
the National Pure Food and Drug
Law. Sold by all druggists. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25
FOR SALE,

have decided to sell out
my entire stock, within 90
days and leave Hartford, in
order to occupy my new quar-
tiers which are being erected
In Chicago. III. So | will sell
out to any party at a very
reasonable price. This is a
good chance for any induStri-
GUS man to make money.
Call on me for further par
ticularS. SAM BACH.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25
Mardi GraS.

New Orleans, La, February 7-12,
1907. Rate one fare plus % cents
for round trip. Dates of sale Feb
ruary Gil inclusive. Return limit,
leaving New Orleans on or before
February l6, 1907. By depositing
ticket with special agent at New
Orleans aad payment of soc, extern
sion until March 2, may be obtained.
2ot3 j. E. WILLIAMS, Agt.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25
THE SINGER
OR
Wheeler & Wilson

II in need of a Singer or Wheeler
and Wilson Sewing Machine | will
oring one to your house and show
you the work and make prices to
SUIT the times on easy payments.
Also have repairs for all makes of
machines. Office at my residence
on center street. Your patronage
solicited. JC. RENNFrr
Hartford, KY.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

We are authorized to announce ;. A. ANphh-
SON. OF West Hartford Precinct canoiuate
for Representative in the General Assembly RON
this. the Goth district. subject to the action OF
the Republican party.
We are authorized TO announce Wv. FARM
OF the Beda Precinct. a candidate for Represen
tetive in the General Assembly from this the 18TH
district subject to the action OF the Republican
party.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

feminine role, that of Dora Blossom, in
1.-THE Tourists"
Edythe Chapman, whose fine per-
Torrance of Princess Artemia in "Thc
Light Eternal at the Majestic theater,
New York, has won praise. made her
debut as Rachel McCreery in Held
by the Enemy"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

Mr.. BAILEY desired the Texas leg
islature to pull off the election be-
fore the investigation. In fact
Bailey would prefer that the inves-
tigation be dispensed with. entire
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

THE United States is rich enough
to pay fair salaries to its public SER
wants. and failure to do so is dis
creditahle
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

Examine the label on your paper II
II is not correct notify us.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

THE Senate seems to exist with
out Bailey. Texas should have made
his absence permanent.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

THE boy who received a new sled
for a Christmas present, has very
moor opinion of the weather man.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-01-25

TuLMAN at last got pricked by his
own fork.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
Speedy Coastina.

The finest coasting hill in the world
Is at st. Moritz, in Switzerland. The
hill is mile long, and to coast down
1t takes. on an average, sixty-seven
seconds. The Cresta course, as 1t IN
called, Is iced and runs between snow
banks. Its turns are dangerous, and
only skilled coasters venture on It,
They use the American fat toboggan
lying on the stomach, and steering not
with the feet, but with lifts and jerks
Of the body. A few seconds from the
start on this course the coaster is GO
Ing at speed Of twenty miles an hour
This speed soon Increases to forty
miles. Faster and faster he flies,
swooping down the PERCEPTIONS Church
leap at the speed OF an express train,
and then on to the long. straight Shut
tlecock run. To fifty. to sixty. to sew
enty, to eighty miles an hour the pace
grows till 1t Is like the fight of the
swiftest bird through binding blur
of snow. Yet the speed still increases.
and at the end of the Shuttlecock
eighty-seven miles an hour Is register
ed. These Cresta course speeds are
not problematical; they are the accu-
rate Things OF an electric clock.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
Dreams WROUGHT In Masonry.

Il remember reading a poem once In
which certain types of architecture
were referred to as dreams wrought
In masonry" says Waldo Pondray
Warren In Thoughts on Business =
This seemed mere poetry at first, but
as | think of it now it seems to be
the truth. Take that tall office build
ing yonder, with lights cleaning from
every window, tier on tier. All that
was once the dream of one man. Be
fore the first stone was laid, before
the architects plans were drawn, there
was time when one man said to an
other, Let us put up great building
there And before that first audible
expression the building existed only as
an idea, a thought or, / might say. a
dream In the mind of that man. He
walked its corridors when 1t was still
dream. But now 1t is dream
wrought In masonry Every building,
bridge railroad, steamship, machine.
book, organization or government In
the world-every one-was once an I'M
expressed thought like that. Great
credit Is due those who first conceive
the ideas that underlie the worlds
work. The man who thinks of new
things for the development of your
business should be literally compen-
stated"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
Husband Would Settle,

From India comes a story of the dis
comfiture of very distinguished sol
der. 1t happened at a big dinner,
where he had taken in pretty Amer
lean globe trotter, who asked him to
pass a dish of almonds and raisins.
with pleasure" replied the gallant
son Of Mars, "but do you know that
what you have asked for is called in
the vernacular kissmiss and that the
penalty of kiss attaches to the re-
quest"
us that sol" answered the woman
calmly. II must consult my husband"
and she called across the table to him
and told him of the request
Quite So" he replied. according to
the custom Of the country it is a just
debt and must be paid, but is the gen
eral aware of the arrangement made
when we married that | must settle
all my wife's liabilities?"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
A Nice Local Distinction.

A lawyer In the Indian Territory
named McGann was the attorney for a
farmer who had killed neighbor.
Mccain got the man out on bail on the
plea of justifiable homicide or some
thing of the kind, and the farmer inn
mediately took his gun and killed the
chief witness against him.
Naturally this nettled the sheriff and
the judges, and they offered $500 re-
ward for the murderous farmer. Say
said Mccain to the sheriff, will you
give me that reward If / get him:"
Yes" the sheriff replied. and McGdna
rode out to the hiding place Of his
client.
The farmer came up, and McGann
shot him, took the body back to town
ind demanded the reward. How
about this. McGann?" asked another
lawyer do you think it is in accord
ance with the ethics of the legal p:O-
fession to take advantage of your eli
ent in that mannerT Ethics be blow
edw snorted Mccain II killed him in
another case."-Exchange
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
Sacacity of Blind Horses.

The way In which blind horses can
go about without getting into more
difficulties than they ordinarily do is
very remarkable. They rarely, if ever,
hit their heads against fence or stone
wall. They will slide off when they
come near one. 1t appears from care
full observation that it is neither shade
nor shelter which warns them of the
danger On an absolutely sunless and
MINDLESS day their behavior is the
same. Their olfactory nerves doubt
less become very sensitive, for, when
driving them. they will poke their
heads downward in search of water
fifty yards before they come to a
stream crossing the roadway. 1t can
not be an abnormally developed sense
of hearing which leads them to do this,
for they will act alike though the wa
ter be stagnant pool Men who have
been blind for any great length of time
develop somewhat similar instincts to
blind horses.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
DEACON BRoDlE.
He Was the Original Of Stevenson's
Or. JekylI and Mr.. Hyde.

| Or. JekylI and Mr.. Hydo
! Deacon Brodie. whose singular story
Is said to have inspired Stevenson with
the immortal tale Of DR.. Jekyll and
! Mr.. Hyde. was q substantial wright
and cabinet maker I'm the Lawnmarket
Of Edinburgh. He was a burgess and
guild brother OF his native town. ara
30 high did he stand in the estimation
Of his fellow craftsmen that for four
years they ei~cted him a member OF
the town council as deacon of the In
corporation Of wrights. Success in
public life helped the deacon In his
business as a wright. and few men APP
peared TO have less ground to quarrel
with the conventional conception Of
neum and tuum. Nevertheless the
deacon was always in want of money
He was an inveterate gamester. a gay
and much involved bachelor, and he
had passion for the fashionable sport
of cockhghting. All this brought the
respected burgess into bad company.
particularly at certain disreputable
tavern In the Fleshmarket close, fire.
quented by sharpers. In 1888 Brodie
was even accused OF himself using
loaded dice. The charge was very like
ly true, but It never came up for trial.
for the deacon meanwhile had been
convicted OF n hanging matter.
Brodie. in fact, had for years been
living a double life. In the daytime
he was an honest craftsman. but at
night he exchanged his chisel for a
Jimmy and dark lantern. The dea-
con was humorist, and the situation
doubtless appealed TO him. The friend
he had robbed overnight he would con-
dole with in the morning, and after
some particularly ingenious burglary
he would be the first In the council
chamber to suggest offering a reward
for discovering the perpetrator. For
twenty years this prince of cracksmen
remained unsupported. and he was
only brought to book at last by the
treachery OF confederate. The dea-
con was sentenced to be hanged-on
the new drop gallows he had suggest
ed himself to the city fathers-and
hanged he was, though not without a
characteristic attempt to cheat the gal
lows. A French quack, DR.. Peter Del
gravers, so the story goes. came to him
In prison and undertook to restore him
to life after he had hanged the usual
time. To the last his fellow citizens
loved to cherish a belief that he had
been resuscitated and had escaped
London News.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
Morse inside Than Out.

"If you should visit a Japanese
house." said an oriental, you would be
obliged to remove your shoes at the
doorway. Japanese floors are very
beautifully kept. l know Of some
houses where thirty or forty servants
have no other duty than the polishing
Of the floors. A young Japanese stu
dent, studying III London, had the mis-
fortune to live in an apartment house
where the janitor did not keep the hall
In very good condition. 1t was a
great change to him, and he felt it
keenly. On the approach of winter the
janitor put up In the entrance the no.
tice, Please wipe your feet The
young japanese, the first night he OBJ
served this notice, took out a pencil
and added to 1t, On going OUT
Minneapolis Journal.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
French Smiles For Drunk"

The French have some interesting
SMILES of their own corresponding TO
the English drunk as lord or
drunk as wheelbarrow," says a
London writer. The most generally
ecognized one in the case Of ''ivre,"
the less extreme and less vulgar word
for drunk" is ''ivre CONNIE une soupe"
-'soupe" meaning the piece of bread
eaten with soup as well as the soup IT.
self, and a bouillon soaked piece of
bread offering natural smile for sat
uration. When the less delicate soul
is used instead Of ''ivre," the French
man may speak of being as drunk as
an ass, a COW, Swiss or thrush.
The allusion in the last case is to the
fondness of thrushes for grapes, which
are said at vintage time to make them
unsteady in their flight
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
Submerged Aristocrats.

Some curious letters are quoted by
Mr.. Percival Bickerstaffe the pedigree
searcher, In an interview with a repre-
sentative Of the London Tribune. One
runs:
Il am a plumber and gasfiter out of
work. My stummick is empty, but In
my art is the blud of noble burth. -
/ claim the family title and tenements
which will not be denyed the same"
A city clerk wrote:
II have long suspected that i am of
high birth. People tell me that have
manners above my station Of life. My
photograph herewith shows that have
an aristocratic cast Of face and will
perhaps be a clew to my ancestry. |
do not ask for fortune, but aspire to
the pride of race"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
A Government 70 Kick About.

I'VE kick about our own govern
ment," said a reformer, land 1t is
doubtless pretty bad, but what would
we think IL ii took the taxpayers mon
ey to pay every year a pension of 500
900 to the Goulds, another of S75.000 TO
the Astors and another still of $4,000
to the Nanderbllts? That is what goes
On In England. The English doctor.
the English druggist, the English car
penter, all sorts of Woodworking Eng
lishmen. are taxed 5000 or $500 a ye;.r.
and the money goes TO pay the huge
pension of some ducal loafer who is
already too rich. Charles H.. for in
stance, granted an eternal pension Of
$4,000 year TO the Duke of Rich
mOnd and Gordon. In all the years
Since Charles lis time that pension
has been paid out Of the taxpayers
pockets. To this day it is paid The
present Duke of Richmond and Gordon
settles for his dinners at the Ritz In
London or at Ciro's in Monte Carlo
with money earned by English butch
ers. bricklayers and blacksmiths Eek
change
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
TO GUST OIL TRUST
Commissioner Named by Missouri
Supreme Court Reports.
Finds COMBINATION EXISTS
Standard, Wsters-Pierce and Republic
Companies in an Agreement to
Prevent Competition.
FINDS COMBINATION EXISTS

jefferson City, Mo, May 24.-Com
missioner Anthony, appointed by the
| Missouri supreme court to take testi
mony in the custer suit of the state
against the Standard oil company, in
his report made TO the court holds
that the evidence introduced before
him * sufficient to GUST the Standard
OH company and tributary companies
from Missouri His findings hold that
the Standard, Waters-Pierce and Re,
public Oil companies entered into an
agreement to control the prices OF Oil
He recommends that their charters
be revoked and that they be ousted
from the state. In his report he holds
that the supreme court has the au-
thority TO make the ruling of custer.
Attorney General Hadley filed the
suit in the supreme court two years
ago. charging that the Standard Oil
company, the Waters-Pierce Oil com
pany and the Republic Oil company
were in trust and were parties to a
conspiracy to control the price of oil
and petroleum products in Missouri
and to limit and prevent competition
In the oil business More than a year
has been occupied In the taking Of the
testimony, witnesses having been ex-
amined in New York, St. Louis and
other cities.
Testimony Reviewed In Detail.
Anthony reviews in detail the testi-
mony showing the organization and
conduct of the companies He re-
ports to the court that the evidence
shows that In 1901 the Standard, Wa
ters-Pierce and Republic Oil COM
panies entered into an agreement,
which continued to exist up to the
time Of the filing of the suit, for the
purpose Of fixing and controlling the
prices to be paid by retail dealers
and others In Missouri for the prod
ucts OF petroleum and to limit and
prevent competition In the business
of buying and selling oil.
The report of Commissioner An
thony will now be reviewed by the
supreme court. The court may affirm
the findings Of the commissioner or
II may remand the case to him with
directions for further proceedings.
If the report should be affirmed and
the findings of the commissioner
adopted by the court the court will
then have power to take from the
Waters-Pierce Oil company, which is
a Missouri corporation, its franchise
rights as a corporation. With regard
to the Standard and Republic COM
panies, both OF which are foreign cor
poratlons, the court would have power
to cancel their right to do business in
Missouri.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30

Among the tales of red tape the fol-
lowing should hold a high place: NJ.
Roger Cavailhon, young French gen.
tleman rider, who had won his hun
dredth steeplechase, was drawn for
the CONSUMPTION and had to serve for
4 year. He asked to be placed in the
cavalry, explaining with due modesty
that he was not unknown as a horse
man. The military council Of revision
refused the request on the ground that
as his period of service was only one
year he would not have time to learn
to ride.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
Lloyd Jones, M. d.
OCCULIST AND NEUROLOGIST,
Webster, S. ID.

DR.. Jones has given % years to
the study and practice of his pro
fession and has to his credit record
Of cures that is remarkable. He il
a graduate of the University OF Lon.
don and the Royal College of Oph.
Technology. For is years he was
professor of refractions in the Uni
versity of the City of New York and
served as an oculist in the U. S
army during the war with Spain.
During practice of Fl years in
London and New York ne has
treated over 100000 cases without
making one complete failure. His
thorough training and long practice
makes it easy for him to succeed
where others fail. He now confines
his practice to the correction oil
errors of vision. - =.
The examination will be FREE
until June LIST. After that the price
viii be $500 or $1,000, according to
the case. People who have been
hum5ugged by spectacle peddlers
from the Twin Cities and other
places calling themselves by high
sounding but meaningless names OF
"eye specialists" opticians" etc.,
are invited to call and have their
eyes examined by one who has skill
enough to examine them intelli-
gently and integrity enough to tell
the truth.
Many of the states have laws
regulating the practice of optometry.
Minnesota has. That is why so
many fakirs from that state are
operating in South Dakota. The
eye is one of the most delicate of
the organs of the human body and
is too precious to be turned over to
the mercy of spectacle peddlers.
People having trouble with their
eyes are invited to call.
Aberdeen, S. D., March 10, '07.
Dear DIR. Jones:
| wish to express my gratitude to
you for the great service you have
rendered me. am a well woman
now and am enjoying life again. /
was great sufferer for seven years
before you took my case. My eyes
were very sore and inflamed. l suf-
fered with extreme headache, ner-
vousnes, and in fact my whole
system seemed deranged. All
kinds of treatment had failed to give
me any relief before l came to you,
and firmly believe that if / had
not received relief soon / would
have lost my mind.
Very truly yours,
Esther Wadsworth.
Office at st. Mary's Hospital until
further notice.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
oon,t Know Rioht From L.ft.

The thing that surprised me most
when began to teach" said the in
structor of class of adults In manual
training. twas the number Of people
who can tell instinctively the right
hand from the left Fully q third Of
my pupils hesitated a moment before
obeying instructions to do this thing or
that thing with the right hand or the
left. The thing that dxes the proper
hand In their minds finally 10 some in
cident In which that hand has figured.
By recalling that story they know
which hand to use. One Of the bright
est women I know In this town de-
clares that the only way she can tell
one hand from the other ID to remem-
Der the tims when, az q child, she tried
10 milk q COW and was sent flying
heels over head. She approached the
animal from the wrong aide. and the
picture Of the position Of her right
hand then II % vivid that Il enables
her to distinguish that member to this
day."-New York Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
The Lions Mouth,

The use OF the lions mouth as the
vent Of a fountain is so common q at
1t cannot be regarded as accidental.
AS matter Of fact, the custom Qike so
many custOms-not forgetting the foun-
tain PEN came from Egypt, which
adopted 1t because the annual inuuda
ton Of the Nile takes place when the
sun is In the constellation Leo-the
lion. The allusion is too obvious t.
need pointing out The Oldest fixed
date (4241 B. c. can be traced to
Egypt where the calendar was intro
duced in the middle of the forty-third
century And the history of modern
shlpbuilding began in Egypt, where it
can be traced to about 5000 B. c. The
most recent discoveries give to the
land of Egypt a clean run of about
11.OO0 years without any admixture of
foreign races. Egypt land Of hidden
mysteries, great mother of science and
art, what thinking mind has not dream
ed Of thee"'-New York Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-05-30
SIGNED BY THE EMPEROR
German Modus vivendl Regulating
Tariff Rates.

Washington, May 25.-The secre-
tary OF the German embassy has noti-
fed Secretary Root that the German
emperor has signed the bill passed by
the reichstag recently giving effect to
the modus vivendi regulating the tar
liz rates between Germany and the
United States. Accordingly in few
days the president will issue a proc
lamation announcing this fact. The
new duties provided for In the ar
rangement will go into effect July /,
but the amended treasury regulations
In Difference to German desires will
take effect Immediately upon the issu-
ing of the proclamation.