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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-09-03

Granite ware Hickman Hdw. Co.
Tom Fuller is reported better to-
day.
The candidates for district Offices
will speak in Hickman Monday.
Worth Powell, formerly of this
place is visiting Arnet Hendrix.
Miss Rubye Fleming will return
Sunday to State College. at Lexing
ton.
Mrs. Jerry Malone. of Union
City, is visiting her sister, Miss Kate
Whiting.
Miss Lucille Bondusant is visiting
Mrs. Julia Pelham. in Fulton, for a
few day.
H. c. Amberg and wife left Wed
nesday night on a visit to friends in
Louisville.
FOR SALE; One 2-horse cane
mill. at big bargain. --Hick man
Hardware Co.
Mrs. Trice and little son, of Para
gould, Ark, are the guests of Mrs.
Joe L. Amberg.
We carry the best line OF granite
ware on the market. II you don't
believe it, come and see Hickman
Hdw Co.
Miss Ivey Tankersley. of Dorena,
left last week for Springfield, Mo-,
where she will attend the Springfield
business college.
72-piece Dinner Sets elegant dec
orative designs-jnst the thing
you've been wanting. Others sell
them for $40. our price Slick
man Hadware Co.
Last Saturday afternoon, Miss
Annie Cowgirl entertained a number
of friends in honor OF her visitor,
Miss Zada Lewis. OF Cairo. As
the guests arrived, punch was served
in the dining room oy Miss Nell
Rogers and Mrs. Henry Helm.
much interest was manifested in the
games. Dainty powder pufs were
presented each guest as souvenirs.
Music and singing by Miss Lewis,
Misses Hubbard, Burrow and Buck
was much enjoyed. Refreshments of
nesslerode and cake were served.
The out. guests were Miss
Dunlap, of Humboldt, Miss Burrow,
of Milan. and Miss Buck, Of Friars
Point.
MISS Marie Brevard entertained
the Bachelor Girls Monday evening
in a unique way in honor of Miss
Elizabeth Wilson. The decorations
were green and white and artistical. |
ly carried out, the design being four
leaf clover. Progressive clover was
played with much interest. Each
guest presented Miss Wilson some
gift for her trousseau. These we're
placed in big four leaf clover, and
presented at the table. The place
cards we're four leaf clovers, and
each contained some funny verse,
these being read out. Cream frozen
in the shape Of four leaf clovers,
and cake, were served. An number
OF the former members, now marri-
ed +, were present.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
AN UNREASONABLE WIFE
CWashinetnn StarA

DR. c. +. Aked in the course of a
sermon on "Chivalry,'' said: I'm Amer
lea we find less than in any other
country in the world the man making
a slave of the woman-thinking that the
whole of life centers about himself. The
American husband is the ideal husband
of the world, and the husbands of the
old world may well sit at his feet"
Later, at dinner, DR.. Aked continued
his praise of the American husband.
THE old world husband" he said. lis
too apt to resemble John Henry Vigors
of Liverpool. Vigors complained one
night at supper that the tea was weak.
the meat tough, the potatoes soggy, and
so forth.
His wife at last burst into tears.
John, Vigors,' she cried I have
cooked faithfully for you for seventeen
years. My one thought has been to
please you. There is not a man in
Liverpool has better cooked food than
you. And this is all the thanks / get
-growlings and complaints, growlings
and complaints, day after day. WHY
can't you praise me once in a whiIe?'
You are the most unreasonable wo-
man 1 ever saw, he said, coIdly. Many
and many time I've sat down to a
meal and never said word about it
from start to finish. Wasn't that
enough of a compliment for you? Don't
you know perfectly well that if there
had been the least little bit of a thing
to find fault with I'd have found
IL - :"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW.

Sarah Noble-Ives in ST. Nicholas.)
There's a picture in the window
OF little shop / know,
With boys and girls dressed as they were
A hundred years ago.
And since l saw il I have thought
And keep on thinking how
The children, maybe, will be dressed
A hundred years from now
Will girls wear caps or farthingales,
Or hoops in grand array?
Will they wear bows like butterflies
Just as they do today?
VIII boys wear jackets short, or tie
Their hair in queues? Just how
They'll really look, I'd like to know
A hundred years from now.
What do you think the girls and boys
Will eat in those far days?
VIII they be fed on breakfast foods
In many sorts of ways?
VIII all the good and tasty things
Be worse for them than rice?
Will ice cream soda make them sick,
And everything that's nice?
Will childrens books have pictures then,
Or Just all reading be?
Perhaps they'll be hand-painted and
Most beautiful to see.
But when / think of those have,
truly don't see how
They can be any prettier
A hundred years from now.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
WISE CALIFORNIA CROW.
Gets His Breakfast Every Morning on
Fast Passenger Train.
(San Francisco CaH.D

Tales Of the big gulls which accom-
pany the army transports all the way
in the long journey from san Francisco
are not infrequent, but il has remained
FOR & California crow to wear the lau-
rel. If you pass HOrnbroOk any fine
morning ut 7:3G O'Clock sharp and crane
your neck out Of the Pullman window
M toward the sky you Will observe
fine black devil of a crow sitting
cOmplacently in the toDmOst branches
of an old pine, preening his feathers
and apparently half asleep.
But he is far from being asleep. on
the contrary. he is very much awake,
for he is keeping a bright lookout for
train No. IA. whose smoke is visible
every morning at this hour as it comes
tearing along the road. As the ears
approach the tree there is a subdued,
stately flutter of two black wings. Mas
ter Crow rises slowly into the air and
picks up No. II with the abandon and
ease Of crow hobo as it passes.
He drops to the roof of the car as
if 1T We're his rightful home, and though
the engineer has tried every way TO
play q joke on him by footing the whis-
tie, ringing the bell madly and making
a general racket. the crow solemnIy
refuses TO be dislodged. He is an Old
friend now and the passengers on the
$50 have learned to look for him as
regularly as they do for their morning
papers.
Appetizers are thrown at him all the
way to Siskiyou. which is reached at
S:45 o'clock, where his ebony majesty
enjoys 4 royal meal. to which his acu-
men and perseverance have fairly en-
titled him
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
SNAKES EGGS MATCHING.
Tip on Young Reptiles Snout With
Which 1t Breaks Its Way Out.
fScientific AmericanO

Because of the popular aversion 10
the serpent family there is a surprising
amount of ignorance about even the
simplest of snake habits IL is doubt
full if many correct answers could be
given to the question whether snakes
lay eggs or bear their young alive. AS
a matter of fact, some species are vivi-
parous and Others oviparous Most CT
the poisonous snakes, as well as many
of our harmless varieties, belong 20 the
former class.
The European ring snake is closely
allied TO our common water snake and
goes by the scientific name Tropidono-
tUs natrix. Curiously enough, all orher
members of the genus Tropidonotus ale
viviparous, and this species alone lays
eggs. Furthermore, according to Ga
dow's "Amphibia and Reptiles" the
new laid eggs usually show not the
slightest visible sign of an embyro, I'M
less ovipositicn is delayed, when the
einbryos are more or less developed.
The eSSs are laid in July or August
in soft bed of loan or decaying veg
citation. or in a heap of manure. The
older snakes sometimes lay as many
as a dozen eggs or more and they Usual
~ stick together so that the entire citis-
ter can be picked w at once. Some
times. however. if the process OF laying
is slow, they will be separated The
eggs are about an inch long and Of
a whitish yellow color. The shell Is
thin and flexible ike parchment.
The young hatch in late summer and
autumn. Before Matching they develop
Il sharp calcareous growth on the tip
Of the snout known as the egg tooth,
with which the shell is slit open. Tn
like Matching chicks, which are sudden
ly dispossessed by the breaking of their
brittle shells, the young snakes may
make many incisions in the parchment
envelopes and take many peeps AT the
outside world before VenturinS Joifh
into the now environment shortly az
ter Matching the egg tooth is lost.
At first the. young. live on insects
and worms, but within a few weeks
they are strong enough to attack and
devour young frogs Strangely enough,
although the adults are strong swim
mers, and spend much time in ponds
and streams hunting the fish and frogs
on which they subsist, the young are
unable to swim, and they VIII soon
drown Il they fall into the water. The
European ring snake. as well as the
8 american water snake, makes an ex-
cellent pet it is perfectly harmless. be-
comes very tame. and learns to know
! the difference between friends and
strangers. Gadow tells of a pet ring
snake that would eat from his hand,
crawl up MS coat sleeve and coil itself
Contonte5Iy on his arm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
TGLiSMAMS IN MALTA.
ODD Shaped Stones to Ward Off Ef-
fects of Snake Poison.
London Standard.)

There are still to be found in Malta
a number of small stones shipped and
colored like the eyes. tongues and other
parts of serpents.
The superstitious among the Maltese
connect these with the tradition that
st. Paul when shipwrecked was cast
on their island. and that ii was there
that while lighting a bundle of sticks
for fire a viper fastened on the apos-
ties hand. St. Paul calmly shook the
reptile off into the flames and no harm
followed. The natives wear these stones
as talismans. in which character they
suppose them serviceable in warding
off dangers from snake bites and pois-
OnS.
They are found in St. Paurs cave,
imbedded in clay, and are set in rings
and bracelets, and when found to be
in the shape of a tongue or liver or
heart are hung around the neck. They
are also taken internally, dissolved in
wine, which method is attended, ac-
cording to some people, by more i'm
mediate results
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
Am BITlON.
Baltimore SUM


Let me be the author of little kindly
deed
OF sacrifice and service for fellow heart
in need;
Let me live a poem of the self-denying
will
To lend a hand of helping to a comrade
up the hill;
Let me be an artist of the sunlight on
the flowers,
To fill some brothers darkness with the
dream of golden hours:
Let me be a master of the music that
the birds
Have set TO artless measures with the
most unstudied words.
Let me be captain of the little hosts
of joy
That lead us back in memory TO the
days of barefoot boy;
Let me be a ruler in the land of lost de-
light,
With power TO keep comrade from the
darkness and the night:
And If l serve but lamely, and if my
song be poor.
All. may it bear a blossom of green
beauty to thy door.
From lane and hill and hollow, until the
city street
Grows like a dream of Eden with the
bright blooms round it's feet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
HELP THE CHORUS.

Every assistance that can be rem
dered should be given to the Salt Lake
Choral society which has been or
during the coming fall. For many
years the Tabernacle choir has repre-
sented Salt Lake, both at home and
abroad, in choral competitions, and
with unvarying success. Mr.. Evan
stephens, the director of the choir, de-
had won sufficient honors to establish
its standing and that the long labor of
preparation for competition, with the
rivalries and heart burnings neces-
sarily resulting from selecting a cho-
rus of lbs voices from a choir of four
times that number, would not be COM
pensated for by any glory that might
follow a successful competition. Hence
the choir will not compete this year.
J. J. Mcclellan, the tabernacle organ
list, will conduct the chorus of the Salt
Lake Choral society. Lon j. Haddock
Will serve as business manager. and
John d. Giles as secretary and treas
urer. With the preIiminaries COM
pleted, the task of organizing the cho-
rus and selecting the singers will be
taken up at once. Both the CONNER
cial organizations of the city, the Com
merciai club and the Manufacturers &
Merchants association, have promised
their assistance, and many of the best
musicians of Salt Lake have pledged
their talents and time, if necessary
though the real duty and responsibility
will, of course, devolve mainly upon
Mr. Mcclellan.
1t is not believed there will be any
lack of spontaneity in the popular sup
port given the Salt Lake Choral socie-
ty. There shouldn't be. 1t will repre-
sent Salt Lake at the Eisteddfod,
which is national in its scope. Salt
Lake is the home of too many talented
singers for the thought of failure to
be accepted for a second. The Chorus
must be a credit to the city and must
win, If possible. At least, it must sing
so we'll that any organization defeat
ing it must be of the very first quail
| ity. That is all Salt Lake can ask.
and 1t cannot fairly ask this much if
the cordial cooperation of the city is
not given.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
FACTS OF HISTORY.
"Mr. DooIey" Says Fame Plays April
Fool Tricks With Great Men.
(American Maeazine for a

(American Magazine for Augusta
II put down tn list iv these great men
with tn principal facts about them.
Alexander the Great-Dhrunk an dis
orderly.
Joolyas Cayzar-Gambling; women; he
put perfumery on his hair.
Saint ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BILE youth.
Napolyon Compatible had epileptic
William Pitt-Dhrunkard; highway
robber.
Lord Byrum Gf have the name righp
-Dhrunkenness; women: gambling; prize
fightin: dog fightin: had a game leg
Tommy Moore-Author iv Let Erin
Reminder; toady.
George Wash n ton-'How did he catch
tn cold that kilt himg says Hogan. Tell
me that
Benjamin Franklin-W Whisper. So-an'-
so-an'-so.
Andrew Jacksonville cuddent spell. an
his wife smoked corncob pipe.
Abraham Lincoln
Stop there says l. we've gone far
enough, says l. 4 have not personal
acquaintance with amy iv tn gintiemen
we've mintioned. but I'll bet ye're wrong.
Ye can't tell me that anybody VINO was
full iV rum liver cOnkered tn WOrruid, or
that a man tina; had so many other In
threstin pursoots as Lord ByrGm wGd
liver have time to write pothry. Amy
more insinuations agin George Wash n
ton or Andrew Jackson, III take as
personal. Ye can gossip about IN nNlh
as much as we want says l. Say what
we PLACE about Hinnissy or Donahue an
I'll agree with We an take We down 10
their houses to repeat it, an IN stand
by TO give We tn first aid to tn in
jured Ye cal gossip here; ye can swear
an tell tough stories. But I've got to
dhraw the line somewhere. This is a
respectable saloon. an I'll not have his
thry or biography repeated in this place,
says l."
'..'Tis tn penalty Of fame said Mr.
HennesSy.
'sThrue FIR ye" said M. Dooley. Fame
is always playin' April fool thricks VIII
tn great II pins q goold medal on tn
chest iv tn hero, an as he sthrUts down
III sthreet he little knows that it has
hung a sign on his coat calls saying
.Plaze kick me-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
A MARKED DIFFERENCE.

The New York Times. upon being
duly sworn. takes the witness stand
and stoutly AYERS that William
Hooper Taft and William Jennings
Bryan are different men,"
You may bet your sweet life that
Taft isn't Bryan or anything like
Bryan. Taft has held number of Of
fees in his lifetime, but always by
Kind friends have
pushed him into prominent places, but
the people have never had a chance
since his young manhood to register
father before him was federal office
holder, and the natural superstition is
that he inherited his laundering.
The Nebraska man who is again be-
fore the public as a candidate for pres
ident of the United States has been in
the political area for twenty years.
Depending entirely upon his own re-
sources, he has climbed the ladder to
success unaided. Without money or
powerful friends, Mr.. Bryan has sue
ceeded in becoming the leader of a
great party by sheer force of intellect.
No need of the interference of the
president in his behalf. The delegates
to the Democratic convention assem-
bled under the mandate of the people
and placed Mr. Bryan in nomination.
Mr.. Taft pulled through at Chicago
owing to the prostitution of federal Of
fees all over the country and the vio-
lation of all the civil service rules
The difference between the two men
is marked. indeed. So was the method
of their nomination. The Times is
right for once at least in the cam
paign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
A RICH COUNTRY.

If the farmer is prosperous, we can
all live. He is at the base of the
structure. Even though he is protect
ed by no tariff, he has been doing quite
well for several years past, as witness
the following from the Eli Dorado
CKan.) Republican:
Think of it. The total Indebtedness
of all the towns and cities, the 165
school districts and twenty-nine town.
ships in Butler county is $305,05 The
county has never issued a bond to
anybody since Its organization. Just
think of II. A county with S37, 900, 900
taxable valuation and total indebted
But few farms in the county are mort
gagged. And just think of it some
more. The state is practically out Of
debt. We have no mortgages on our
our farms; our school houses are all
built and paid for, the townships are
free from indebtedness. while the
county has no outstanding obligations.
The $4,000 people of this county have
SO, 900 900 on deposit in their home
banks. Is there a county anyhere that
can make as good a financial exhibit ~
Just one more think of it. No pro-
duct of Butler county received a pen
ny's benefit from the tariff. Instead,
the farmers paid excessive prices for
every manufactured thing they had to
buy from any trust. And still they
have 81, O00, 900 left, What might they
have had with square shake all
around? Just think of this,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
END OF THE ROUTE.
(San Francisco ArgonautD

One cold. wintry morning man of tall
and angular build was walking down a
steep hill at brisk pace. A piece of ice
under the snow caused him TO slip and
lose control of his feet. He began to
slide. and was unable to stop.
At a crossing half way down he en-
countered large. heavy woman. The
meeting was sudden. and before either
realized ii collision ensued. and both
were sliding down hill. the thin man TN
derneath. the fat woman on top.
When the bottom of the hill was
reached, and the woman was trying to
recover her breath and her feet these
faint words were borne to her ear:
Pardon me- madame. but YOU Will have
to get off here. This is as far as ! GO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27

masses who have furnished the chief
strength OF the newspaper mans con-
stituency will refuse to follow him
over TO the enemy. II seems obvious
that he win find himself without in
fiuence worth considering and that he
is apt to ALLEVIATE quite as many voters
as he can take with him into the Taft
camp.
But the publicity natural to such a
position as he is assuming will prob
ably afford all the compensation the
New Yorker will need for such criti-
cisn as may follow his regeneration.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
FEAST OF THE GARLANDS.
Queer Swiss Marriage Market-Pe-
culiar Ways of Seeking Mates.
(PearsOn's WeekIyD

The marriage market Cor fair) which
was held recently at Ecaussines in Bel
GUM has many counterparts else
where.
In several of the more remote Swiss
cantons. for example, there is held
what is known as the feast of the gar
lands The manageable maidens as
semble at sunset, sing, dance and
make merry. Each wears chaplet
of flowers on her forehead and carries
a -nose-gay tied with bright-colored
ribbon In her hands
If a lad is attracted by a maid he
pIucks a flower from her bunch. She
pretends not to notice. but when the
merrymaking breaks up at dawn she
will, if she reciprocates his feelings,
tie the entire bouquet by the ribbon
to the handle of the door of the cabin
wherein he resides or alternatively
fling it through the open easement Of
his bed chamber.
The famous TuniS marriage mart, OF
which so much has been written. is
held twice a year, in the spring and
the autumn. The Tunisian girls attend
in their hundreds, each with her dowry
in coin and jewelry disposed about her
person. The golden girdle of maiden
hood encircles her waist. and in it
is an unsheathed dagger. When this
is gently removed by a passing gal
liant and presently returned it means
that a proposal has been made.
A prettier custom prevails among the
OoraOn maidens. who at stated inter-
walls assemble in the market place. In
front of each is a lighted lamp. emblem
of conjugal fidelity. A young man feels
attracted. He gently blows upon the
flame, extinguishing it. The girl re-
lights il: il is rejection. If she leaves
il alone the offer is acceptable.
Even in England these curious mar
kets are not unknown, although they
are not openly acknowledged as such.
One has been held on st. Martha's hill,
Surrey, on each recurring Good Friday
during some centuries. And the statute
and mop fairs that are still celebrated
in various rural localities are mar
riage marts in all but name.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-27
AR. HEARST'S PARTY.

In Chicago today Mr.. Hearst will
hold a convention of the Independence
party for the purpose of naming a
ticket and otherwise doing as much as
possible TO help the Republican presi-
Dental campaign. Incidentally the
convention will give the newspaper
man some extended publicity and ex-
plot his more or less interesting views
OF public affairs.
AS a political phenomenon Mr..
Hearst has passed the zenith of his
fame, but as a man of resource, of
nerve and originality he is still worth
consideration. In former years he held
Mr.. Bryan IN such high esteem that
he made extraordinary efforts to pro-
mote his success; today he regards the
Eebraskan with a hostility hardly ex-
plainable on political grounds alone,
and is doing his utmost to defeat him.
In that far his movements have more
importance that the strength of his
Independence party or the influence Of
the Hearst papers would otherwise ap-
pear.
Protesting to be independent. one
cannot help being impressed by the
tone OF the publications Mr.. Hearst
controls, a tone distinctly friendly to
Taft and promising substantial. If not
open, support of the Republican ticket
throughout the campaign Will
Hearst's influence be potent is the
question that naturally follows the
movement of today. How will he
reconcile the avowed friendliness for
labor organizations with enmity TO
Democracy and utilization with the Re
publican party7 How explain the
change from avowed opposition to the
trusts over to the side of the trusts
best friends?
It has been taken for granted that
such newspapers as the New York
Times and the World would be found
fighting Bryan. although they are sup
posed TO be Democratic newspapers.
That is only natural because they are
either controlled by or are In sympathy
with the interests that fear Bryan's
demand for a return of the govern
ment to the people, Tor the aDoItion OF
special fa.vors TO special interests, for
n tariff that shall provide revenue
without creating extortionate monopo-
lieq But that Hearst should align
himself with these organs of the spe-
cial interests. that he should abandon
his original position as friend of the
common people, is one of the most Gu
rious developments of recent political
history.
Possibly the Republicans may find
Mr.. Hearsts support. either as an in
dependent or as an out-and-out volun-
teer. aid in the campaign, but we
doubt it The strongest forces in the
Republican ranks, the great corpora
tiens end protected interests. distrust
Mr.. Hearst where they do not actually
hate hin He will find no welcome
from them. On the other hand, the