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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03

His Experiences With Noisy and Per.
sistcnt Cuckoo Clock.


His Experience With Noisy and Per.
sistent Cuckoo Clock.
Wertz recently was presented with
an old fashioned clock That evening
he hung It on his bedroom wall, wound
1t up and after admiring 1t awhile
went to sleep. He was drifting into
very pleasant dreams when he was
startled
"Coo-coO, coo-cooV
Wertz sat up with start, but in an
instant recovered his wits and listened
to eight more coo-coos with foolish
grin. Then he lay back and went to
sleep again.
He had got into fine doze by the
time the thing went off again. This
time he didn't grin.
Wertz is a light sleeper, and, though
he tried to get used to the thing, he
gave up after the cuckoo had announc-
ed 2 o'clock and got up and stopped
the clock.
Next evening Wertz junior, who had
not seen the clock, went to look at It.
"Why, It's stopped" he said, what
Is wrongf"
Wertz senior stroked his chin.
Maybe l didn't wind It this morn
ing" he replied. "Ferd," he continued
generously, "if you will promise to
wind that clock every morning I'll let
you have it for your room"
Wertz Junior was delighted, and the
transfer was made.
At the breakfast table next morn
ing the heir Of the house of Wertz
looked tired and somewhat sheepish,
but offered no explanation. After con-
siderable general conversation his ia
ther said:
"You look tired. How did you sleep
last night?"
Wertz junior yawned.
"By the hour" he answered. Kan
sas City Times.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03
HepkinsyiIle Market.
Corrected Tuesday Dec. 2. 1908.
GROCERIES.

l'rHEsE ARE RETAIL PRICES.
Apples, per peck, 25c and so.
deans, white, per gal. SOC
Coffee, Arbuckle's, per To-, zoe
Coffee, roasted, 15c to 35c.
Cofee. green, 12Hc to 25c.
Tea, green, per ID, 90 to 81.
Tea, black, per ID. 40c to 81.
Cheese, cream, 25c ID, straight
Edam, SIPS
Roqueford, SOC ID.
sugar, granulated, Is lbs, $1.Oc,
Sugar light brown, 18 lbs, 81 .00l
Sugar, dark brown, 20 lbs. 81 90
Sugar, Cuba,14 lbs. foF$1.00.
Sugar, xxx, 14lbs. for SLIGO
Flour, patent, per bbl., $3.50
Flour, family, per bbl., $500
Graham, lib, sack 40c
Meal, per busnel, $1.10.
Hominy, per. lb. sc.
Grits, zoe gallon.
Oat Flakes. package, 10 to l5c.
Oat Flakes, bulk, Sc Id.
VEGETABLES.
Irish potatoes, per peck, 25c.
Cabbage, new, 25c
Onions, per peck 30c
Turnips, peck, Zoe.
Celery, Sc and 10c bunch.
CANNED GOODS.
Corn, per doz. cans, 81. 90 to 81 So
tomatoes, II cans, $1.00 to S1.SC
Peas, from 10C to 30c per can
Hominy, 10c per can.
Beets per can, 10c.
Kidney Beans, 10c can.
Lima Beans, per can. 10c
Korona, per can, 20c.
Squash, per can, 10c.
Peaches. 10c to 40c per car
Apricots, per can, 25c to 79c
Pineapples, per can, 10c to Csc.
Raisins, 10c and 15c package.
Raisins, layer, 15c ID.
Evaporated Peaches, 10c to zoe lb.
Evaporated Apples, 10c lb
Evaporated Apricots, 121 to zoe ID.
Prunes, 10c to 15c per ID.
COUNTRY PRODUCE
Hams, country, per h., 15c.
Packers hams, per h., 15c.
Shoulders, per lb., 10c.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03
Apt Punil.

Captain Jones giving a short lee
ture to the recruits of his company on
their demeanOr in public)-If civilian
should make offensive remarks in
public house and try to induce a quar-
rel the well conducted soldier should
drink up his beer and go quietly
away"
After his address Captain Jones
questioned his audience to ascertain
if they had comprehended his re-
marks.
"Now, Private Jenkins, what should
you do If you were at an inn and a
civilian wanted to quarrel with you?"
81 should drink up his beer, sir, and
'ook it."-London Pick-Me-Up.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03
Wholesale Prices.
POULTRY.

POULTRY.
Eggs, 24c doz. Hens, &c ID.
boosters per Id. &c.
Young Chickens, &c per lbs.
Turkeys, fat, per To-, lO1c
Dueks, per 10, &c.
Full feather geese, per doz. $4.OO
GRAIN
No. 2 Northern mixed oats per
bushel. IS; No. Timothy hay, per
ton, $13.0 90; No. 2 Timothy hay, per
ton, $1,000; No ! Clover Hay, per
ton, $1,000; Mixed Glover Hay.
POULTRY, EGGS AND BUTTER,
Prices paid by wholesale dealers
the producers and dairymen:
Live Poultry-Hens, per lb., &c.
Butter Packing stock per ID. 14c
ROOTS, HIDES, WOOL AND TAI.
LOW.
Prices paid by wholesale dealer
to butchers and farmers:
Roots-Southern ginseng, $500 h.;
Golden Seal" yellow root, 81. 90 h.;
Mayapple, &c; pink root. 12c and 13c.
Tallow-No. l, &c; No. 2, &c.
Woodbury. to tic; Clear
Grease, tic Medium, tub
washed, zoe to 27c: coarse, dingy.
tub-washed, 18c to 23c.
Feathers Prime white goose,
45c; dark and mixed old goose, 15c
to 30c; gray mixed, 15c to 30c. white
duck, 20 to 30c.
Hides and Sklns-These quota.
tions are for Kentucky hides.
Southern green hides 8Ac.
We quote assorted lots; dry flint.
I2c to 14c.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03
With the MinstreIs.

Bones-What am de difference tween
er pastry cook an er bill sticker? Tam
bo--Ah dunno. What am de difference,
Mlstah Bones? Bones-One puffs up
de paste an de othah pastes up de
uffs.-Chicago News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03
The Unmakinq.

He (boastingly)-It takes six genera
tions to make gentleman, you know.
she (calmly)-Yes, and what pity
that It only takes one generation 70 un-
make himl-Exchange.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03
Humor and Health.

There is nothing like a sense OF
humor to keep one in good health,
says medical contemporary, but it
would be we'll had we been told at the
same time how this excellent gift is to
be acquired. Could anything be more
tantalizing than to know how to cure
oneself and yet be unable to grasp at
the means?-Lady's Pictorial.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03

Sid es, per To-, l21c.
Card, Der 10, 1876
Eggs, per dozen, 25c.
Honey per lb l2Hc.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-12-03

Truth is as impossible to be soiled b.
any outward touch as is the sunbeam
Milton.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
RARE CoLoRs IN MoLEs.
Particular Varieties Confined to Ger.
tain Fields--Piebaid and White.

Molecatching first became a regu-
lar occupation about a century ago
when English molecatchers were in.
troduced on the lands of the then
Duke of Buccleuch.
The handsomest varieties belong
to the 'silver gray" class. II these
could be obtained in any quantity
their skins would bring high price
in the fur market
Mr.. Service, of Dumfries, lately
lecturing before the Edinburgh Field
Naturalists' Association, stated that
he had never seen a really white
mole, and he believed it to be a great
rarity Nor had he ever seen "a pie
bald variety. He had little doubt
that variation of color in moles ran
in certain families.
The regularity with which a par.
ticular variety occurred repeatedly in
the same field or on the same farm
was we'll known to every molecatcher,
while no abnormal coloration would
perhaps occur in any other part OF
the parish. the London Globe.
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Use of Sugar in Bread Manufacture.

Several of the sugar journals have
lately published articles dealing with
the use of small amount of sugar
in bread manufacture. The Sugar
Beet for January has a short note on
the subject. Apart from the adYan.
tage claimed in this note, bread so
prepared would, of course, have IN
additional food value.
The Sugar Beet says:
In France every possible idea ls
being brought to the front with the
view of increasing the home sugar
consumption. At recent meeting
of the Sugar Chemists Association
at Bordeaux. a French chemist, Mons.
f. Dupont, read paper discussing
the possibilities OF adding seven per
cent. OF sugar to bread and this with
out materially altering the taste OF
the latter product. An addition of
five per cent. of sugar has no infu.
ence on the favor. The chief adyan
tage OF this sugar addition is that
the bread has greater keeping quail.
ties. Bread which will ordinarily be
sour in gorty-eight hours, will under.
go very little alteration, even after
several days, when slight proper
ton OF sugar has been mixed with
the dough.-Agricultural News.
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Casserole.

The term casserole applies to two
very different modes of cooking. II
all depends on whether one refers tc
the method of preparation and cook.
ing the food or the dish used in the
process. Casserole is the old French
name for saucepan of heavy brown
and white earthenware, well glazed
inside and out and having a tight
fitting cover. The Japanese also have
a dish of heavy china which they use
for the same purpose. 1t differs
somewhat in form from the French
dish, but the same principles applies
to its use. In this dish the native
cooks prepare the most delectable
baked stews of sweetbreads, chicken,
game, etc.
At a recent dainty little French
luncheon "ris de veaux petits poisr
was served in little individual silver
casseroles, the lids fastened on with a
bow of ribbon corresponding with the
color scheme.
The general utility of these dishes
appeals to the American housewife
more than the fact that they are of
French or Japanese origin. and they
are gaining rapidly in popularity.
A very different proposition, how
ever, is the casserole mold-a baked
shape of boiled rice or potato,
mashed, reasoned, and when shaped
followed out and filled with ragout
or mince, the outside decorated.
brushed over with egg and Drowned.
Cassolettes are the same thing, only
smaller cup-shaped cases are used for
holding meat preparation or a sweet
filling. These are usually dipped and
fried, but can be prepared by bak-
ing. These forms are familiar to
most housewives under the guise of
chicken in rice or potato mold.-Bos.
ton Cooking School Magazine.
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The Fussy woodsman.

Did you ever find yourself in the
woods with "fusser;" that is. man
who only sees the disagreeable side
OF everything, and published his
views carly and often2 For such a
man the trail is frightful; the woods
that occasionally slap him playfully
across the cheek are anathema, the
water is too wet. his rod or cast or
something or other gets broken or
lost, his shoe pinches one foot. About
an hour before dark, just at the time
when II is worth kings ransom to
be beside the favored waters, he
wants to get back to the boat, and as
you unwillingly Wind up your line to
prepare to depart your disgust is too
deep and sacred for common words.
Forest and Stream.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Modernized Wonderland.

A pretty idea for bazaar is q mod
ornized Wonderland. All the figures
wander about just as Alice found
them, with Alice herself looking on,
while motor car keeps rushing In
and out among the figures and
through mysterious castle. One
has only to give this motor or the
mock turtle or the fish footman or
other well known characters ten
cents, and Immediately, with extreme
amiability, ne goes rushing OF to the
castle, and brings back beautiful
large pink and white parcel which,
when it is opened, reveals precisely
the thing that one has been looking
for. There may be also In the garden
an enormous Humpty Dumpty, who
obligingly smashes himself every
time one gives him ten cents. and dis
closes in his interior box OF choco-
lates.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11

Mother he said. IL don't believe
it's much use waiting breakfast till
the sun gets over the pear tree, for 1t
never will get any higher, because
I've pinned 1t fast to the sky with my
magic arrow, and 1t can't get away I"
James Montmorency Stebbins, "
said his mother, whatever did you do
that for?"
And when James told her, she
said "That was very naughty of
you. Go and take It down at once .
"But can't" cried James. Il
don't know how. 1t will have to stay
that way for always"
ain that case," said his mother,
"we may as we'll sit down to break
fast now, and after breakfast you can
go right OF to school,"
So James had to go TO school in
spite of all his trouble. And the sun
stayed just where II was all that day,
and all that night James could scarce
ly sleep because his room was SO
light. And 1t kept on that way for a
whole week. Because he was so much
in the sun James freckles increased
so that he was mostly freckles, and
he thought: "If this keeps on shall
soon be brown all over, and that
won't be a bit nice"
But the trees and plants had a
much harder time than James. as the
sunlight continued day after day, and
they began to droop, for they grew
all the time, and had no time to rest.
At the end of the week James said :
"The gray witch was right. l don't
like this bit. I have to go to school
just the same, and it's hot and horrid
all the time. I'm going back up the
mountain to ask the gray witch to
help me again, for I've thought and
thought, and can't think how to get
that arrow out again."
So he climbed ~ the mountain and
when he got to the top there was the
gray witch standing at the door OF
her little gray house, waiting for him.
II thought you wouldn't like it,"
she chuckled, as he came painting up.
Whenever do anything for peo-
pie they come back the next week
and want 1t all undone again de-
clare / don't see much use in being a
witch. think l will go out OF busi-
ness. But first will help you fix the
SUM-"
So she went into her house and
came out with long coil of fine
magic rope. She made one end of it
into lasso and gave it to James.
"See If you can lasso the arrow
with that" she said.
So James twirled the rope about
his head and flung 1t up, up and up
through the air till it reached the
sun. And then 1t went right past it
and never caught the arrow at ALL
"Try again." cried the witch; so
James tried and the second time the
loop fell right over the shaft of the
arrow. Then James drew the lasso
tight and pulled and the arrow came
out of the sun with a jerk and the
sun jumped forward to its proper
place In the sky. And that was the
last time James Montmorency Steb-
bins meddled with the un.-Wash-
ington Star.
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Carlisle Especially. - George w
Bear, a well-known young farmer re-
siding on the Walnut Bottom Road
near Carlisle, returned after the
seeming desertion of his family for
two weeks.
Bear left his. wife to drive to his
fathers home in Perry County,
twelve days ago. Thursday his horse
drew his buggy up to his home and
his wife recognized her husband
seated In the vehicle. Bear was dag
ed, as 1t afterwards was shown. from
the enects of typhoid fever, with
which he was quite i'll. When he
was revived he could hardly realize
that he had been wandering through
the mountains for eleven days. All
that he could remember was that he
had been lost in the mountains with
his team wedged between two trees.
How he lived can only be surmised
although attending physicians stated
that on account of his Illness with
typhoid fever he would eat little or
nothing. Some passerby must have
found Bear and started him on his
road, as his buggy contained a paper
sack holding oats and bearing the
name of Franklin County grain
dealer.
People throughout Cumberland
County are at a loss to understand
how Bear could have been lost in
this thickly settled section, but the
testimony of the physicians is posi-
tive evidence that his mind has been
unbalanced for several weeks, and
the fact that both horse and man
have evidently done without food is
additional corroboration.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Sd. Petersburc GROWS cav.

So strong is the spirit of gsyety
this season in st. Petersburg that
there is much talk OF revlving that
dream OF sumptuous glory, the
boyard fete of 1903, declared to be
the most magnificent court spectacle
of modern times, The boyards were
the old Russian mobiles OF the time OF
Ivan the Terrible, and 70: the fete of
1903 costumes and jewels were worl
that were worth millions. A dozsn
women spent a fortnight in sewing
jewels on the costume of the Czarina,
who represented the first Wife OF
Gear Alexis Michaeloyitch. The dress
weighed over sixty pounds, and mas
never been worn since.--The Ar
Tonaut
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
ITEMS IN BRIEF.

Hiram Betcher and his son-in-law,
Wilson Blew, miners at the Reliance
Colliery, Mt Carmel, were caught by
a premature blast and seriously in
jured. The former had his right eye
blown out.
Harry w, Rhodes has been elected
president of the Media Title & Trust
Company, to succeed the late George
Drayton, who died at the age of 81
years. For years Mr.. Rhodes was the
secretary and treasurer of the COM
pany. He is the youngest bank presl-
dent In the county.
John Queeney, a confessed perjur-
er, was sentenced at Wilkesbarre TO
three and half years imprisonment.
His testimony. which he recently con-
fessed, was manufactured resulted
in verdict of $4,000 against the
Wilkes-Barre & Wyoming Valley
Traction Company,
The jury In the damage suit of
Julia Anspach against the Reading,
at lPottsville. gave her a verdict OF
$1,000. She claimed $4,000 for
negligence, which resulted in the
death of her husband, j. j. Anspach,
at the New Ringgold crossing OF the
road.
Antonia Linguae and t. d. Cassela
were convicted at Clarion OF selling
liquor without license and were
sentenced to pay fine OF $500 and
the costs OF the prosecution
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
Evolution of Hatplns.

Hatpins grow longer and more fas-
cinating every minute. One OF
French make Is rose-tinted cameo
oval in shape, set in dull gold and
oxidized silver in an Empire design
The mushroom shaped Japanese hat
pins are pretty, looking something
like a small hat with a turquoise
crown and a silver brim. One OF the
newest hatpins is decidedly startling.
There is a large, colored, cut stone,
and beneath this reflector attached
to spiral springs. With every move
ment of the wearer's head the re-
fiector vibrates, sending forth flashes
of light, and the effect Is quite
dazzling,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
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Chicken With Oysters. - Boil
chicken until tender, crumb up your
bread, pour over It the broth from
the chicken, and season to taste. Add
one quart OF oysters to the bread
crumbs. stir well and fill the chicken
with it, and put the rest around it in
the pan. Place it in the oven to bake
until crisp and brown.
A Delicious onfection.-Popcorn
mixed with nuts makes a delicious
CONNECTION. Take a cup Of chopped
pecans to about two quarts of freshly
popped corn. Put two cups of sugar
into a kettle or frying pan. place over
the fire, and when melted add two
tablespoonfuls of molasses, a large
lump of butter, and pour over the
corn, stirring constantly The syrup
should be cooked until it begins to
string. or CONCEAL, when dropped into
cold water.
Potatoes Baked In AIilk.-Pare and
cut in thin slices crosswise one dozen
potatoes, slice two large onions, and
add about one-half cupful of finely
chopped fresh parsley Put the whole
into a granite pudding dish and cover
with milk, putting pieces OF butter on
top. Bake in a hot oven for one-half
hour. Salt and pepper should be
added when served, as the milk 10
apt to curdle II II is added before
cooking. This recipe is also good II
canned tomatoes are used instead OF
milk.
Aimond-Drop Cookies. Beat two
eggs lightly; gradually beat In one
cupful of sugar then two ounces OF
chocolate melted over hot water, one
and one-half cupfuls of blanched all
monds chopped fine. and teaspoon
full Of vanilla extract. sift together
three times one cupful OF -four, one
level teaspoonful OF baking powder
and half teaspoonfhl each OF salt
and cinnamon, and stir into the nut
mixture. Drop by the teaspoonful
onto a buttered baking sheet 10 make
little ROUNDS Of dough. Bake Ia a
moderate oven. This recipes fuakes
about three dozen little cakox
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
IooKrNa nAcKwARp.

Can't you imagine in the DAYS
When Shakespeare wooed and wed.
The danes Of Stratford when they met,
Their market baskets down would set,
And ere they went their separate ways.
Such things as follow said;
slave YOU heards" "whats" Sam,
Hathaway
Is very soon 10 marryi"
why, no, forsooth Who is he, pray!'
shes going to throw herself away
On young Will Shakespeare. SO they say.
Unless all plays miscarry."
"What, that poor, foolish rhymester ladl
lie never can support her."
Yes, doesn't it seem almost sad?
Because we know she might have had
One OF true worth. IL seems too bad
When betters came to court her"
"They say some years the elder she.y
And he's not worth his salt,
As anyone with eyes can see"
well, If young folks will foolish be
at least they can't blame YOU and me-
It's surely not our fault.
Yes, don't you s'pose such things were said
When Young VIII Shakespeare wooed and
wed?
Kansas City Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
NAMES RAILROAD CLERKS.

Harrisburg Especially The State
Railroad Commission announced five
appointments, although none of the
appointees were assigned to positions.
The five are: Il. C. Haderman, at
torney. Bedford, and James c. Wat
son, attorney, Williamsport, who will
probably be assigned as assistant
attorneys; Verda s. Johnson, assist
ant station agent at Erie; Arthur r..
Anwyll stenographer. Harrisburg;
John G. Hopwood, Uniontown, who
will probably be made a clerk.
These are the first appointments
to be announced for some time, and
the new men will assume their work
in a short time.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-06-11
A Red lip Season.

Lips will be of deep rich red this
season. Hips. as a topic, have had
their day, and despite all the die
tates of Paquin, women seem to be
as hipless or "hipful" as they were
before. The prophets could make
only conjectures in regard to hips.
1t remained to be seen what the New
York woman would do. But the
writer has seen the lips, and unlike
all the talk about hips, can say that
the deep rich red is the latest fad.
The majority of the women whose
lips looked as though done with pure
crimson madder from the tube were
beyond the ENTHUSIASTICALLY
Life.
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about her work. every word of which
was written with her own hand, her
secretary not even seeing the manu-
script. Her Majesty uses penholder
studded with diamonds with which
the Peace of Paris was signed. The
memoirs. which are not to be pub
lished for twenty years after the
death of the Empress, should prove
interesting reading for the next gen
eration.-London Bystander.
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BIG CARP Tows RowBoAT.

Selinsgrove Especially After hav-
ing been towed in a rowboat for half
an hour by a big fish. two 12-year-
old youths, Philip Fashold and Will
liam Wolf, of Shamokin Dam, sue
ceeded in landing a twenty-four-
pound carp.
The boys were fishing with hook
and line in the Susquehanna River,
near their home, four miles above
here. Young Wolf had just cast his
hook when a fierce tug on the line
almost pulled him overheard. Both
he and Fashold pulled with all their
strength, but could not land the fish.
Instead, their boat was carried up
stream by the monster carp.
Finally Fashold got a sight of the
fish as It rose to the surface and kill
ed It with bullet from his rife.
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done it, but, on the contrary, many
men worked royalty in our behalf.
We must give man his due. He
helped us to higher education for one
thing, and when the time comes he
win help us to secure the vote. Most
men are not antagonistic. but neutral,
In their attitude to woman's progress.
Let them succeed IL they can, is their
creed, and we can hardly expect
more. Many are working with splen.
did disinterestedness for us. Are not
men our fathers and brothers and
husbands? And is it natural for a
man to grudge success to his own
daughter?"