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Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03

church held social in the S. S..
room. The friends of the members
were present and the evening was a
most enjoyable one.
There were quite a number of per-
sons from surrounding towns and
the country members defed bad
roads and came in.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03
For Rent.

Splendid stable, centrally located.
Apply to this office.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03
-Four of the Bolting Demo
Gratis Cast Their Ballots
For Him.
BECKHAM WITHDRAWN.
A ReCapitulation Demanded
BY Democrats Resulted in
Bradley Winning.

Frankfort, KY, Feb. 28.-Ex. Gov.
VIM. O. Bradley was elected United
States Senator on joint ballot to-
day.
Charlton, Lilard, McNutt and
Mueller voted for Bradley and thus
gave him enough votes to elect.
The Democrats called for arecapi-
tulation before the vote was an
nounced. and at once there was
great confusion, which lasted for a
considerable time
Combs withdrew the name of
Beckham and it was announced that
he was entirely out of the race.
The Democrats left the room to
break quorum, but Came back and
the recapitulation began. Shanks
and Conn Linn changed to Ollie
James and Newman to Mayo as did
Watson. With confusion rampant
Cureton declared that if vote was
announced Bradley would be declar-
ed elected. Newman pleaded for a
caucus to nominate new candidate.
Charlton gave notice he would not
go into any caucus with the Demo-
Gratis. Chinn made speech regret
ting he ever had to vote for any 9TH
er than the Democratic nominee.
He roasted the boilers and war Of
words with Charlton followed
Chinn voted for James, as die
Graves.
The reeapitulation resulted in the
e
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03

ManZan Pile Remedy, Price SOC
is guaranteed. Put up ready to use.
One application prompt relief to any
form of Piles. Soothes and heals.
Sold by Anderson-Fowler Drug Co.,
Incorporated.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03

Here comes the Spring Winds to
chap. tan and freckle, Use Pine
salve Carbolized, (Acts like a poul-
tice) for cuts, sores. burns, chappei
lips, hands and face. 1t soothes and
heals. Sold by nderson-Fowler
Drug Co., Incorporated.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03
Turner Died Game.

Ed Turner, of Breathitt county,
was hanged in the county Jail at
Chattanooga Thursday afternoon.
He went to the scaffold without a
tremor. Turner killed his wife,
Lillian Turner, on the side of Look
out Mountain on the afternoon of
April 2, 1907.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03
With the Planters.

Mr., A. S. White. who had been on
the road for Nashville harness
house for several months, has ac-
cepted position in the implement
and buggy department of the Plant
ers' Hardware Co.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-03-03
House For Rent

Five room house on Walnut street
Immediate possession.
J. F. ELLIS.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-11
A QUEER AUSTRALIAN GAME.
Native Pheasants and Quails-Stalkine
the BASTARD.

1t is ON the billabongs and creeks of
the back country that the best sport is
to be obtained. In wet seasons ducks
and teal are to be shot, and in the
ranges between the Murray and the
Murrumbridgee rivers the native pleas
ant" or malice hen, is to be found. This
is a fine table bird, quite equal, in my
opinion, to any English pheasant. 1t is
very shy and not easy to obtain. |
knew a man who kept a few blood
hounds for hunting dingoes. He used
to go into the scrub where there were
malice hens, put the dogs on their track
and canter after them. The birds would
sometimes rise in an open space in the
scrub. and l have known him to bring
down a brace of them when shooting
from the saddle.
Good duck shooting might be had at
the large water holes if it were possible
to get near without being seen, and in
the summer evenings excellent sport is
obtainable by waiting for the bronze
winged pigeons, which at sunset fly to
water. There is also a small quail, like
the Egyptian, to be shot in New South
Wales after harvest. There they strip
the wheat, j. e., take merely the heads
off with a stripping machine, leaving the
straw. l have known half dozen guns
make capital bag without dogs.
The Australian game bird, however
Is Iue udLlNe " Win Turkey,
as it is there called, although it is now
very scarce excepting in the extreme
back country. At one time it was com.
mon enough in Victoria, though now
rare in that state, but on the back
blocks of New South Wales it was plen
tiful a few years ago.
They were, nevertheless, difficult tc
stalk on foot. but, curiously enough
will allow one to drive quite within
range. and l have seen many shot from
buggy toward the Darling river. They
are capital table birds, often larger than
the biggest turkey one could buy at an
English Christmas market. The flesh OF
the breast is brown and tastes like wild
duck. Properly cooked the Australian
bustard has hardly its equal. 1t prefers
arid plains, and l have shot them on the
gold fields of western Australia, where
there is little or no water. They must
be able to fly great distances, for one
never sees them about the desert coun
try of west Australia in the hot weather
IT ondon Field
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Americas Natural Resources.

While the question of the exhaustion
of the natural resources of the United
States is occupying the center of the
stage of public interest, it is worth while
to consider the significance of statistics
regarding the petroleum industry which
are new and startling Here they are:
Until 1S9S-just ten years ago-94 per
cent of the mineral oil output of this
country came from the states of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten
nessee and West Virginia. Now, so far
as quantity is concerned, this region
holds second place. Last year its out
put was 6O,OOO,OOO barrels, while the out
put of Texas, California, Colorado, Wy
oming, Kansas and Oklahoma aggre-
gated 1OO,OOO,000 barrels. Fifteen years
ago there was hardly suspicion that
mineral oil was one of the resources OF
the West.
illumination as for fuel, but there are
now resources for illumination which
were undreamed of when the Pennsyl-
yania oil fields began to be exploited for
kerosene. Then the electric light was
only a scientific experiment. Now it is
a competitor with the kerosene lamp,
and in cities the lamp occupies second
place. Every water power is now rec
ognized as available to run electric
dynamos for Illuminating purposes and
for operating machinery.
1t is we'll that the waste of, natural
resoul ces should be avoided, but there
is no reason for Americans 10 60 into
a decline through fear that Their pos
rerity will find themselves unable to
support existence. This is a wonderful
continent, whose riches, in spite of all
that they have yielded, have only begun
to be exploited, and are really only be-
ginning to be nderstood.-Evenlng WIS
consin. Milwaukee.
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or EGO at which Nance appraised it.
won't the stone look lovely in a
brooch?" Nance said enthusiastically
Then, as Joe put the ring back in his
pocket, "You got the money all right p
NO, not until tomorrow Joe said
casually. "The advice note has not ar
rived. We shall have to stay here all
night"
1--WE can't Nance said quickly. 1--WE
| got no money"
why, [ gave you 92 yesterday"
eyes, I know, but I lent it to Mrs.
Bradshaw this morning. She wanted it
to make up bill, and [ was so sure
| Joe looked at her in blank astonish-
ment. Then, seeing how nervous and
uneasy she was, laughed heartily. eff
you amt the easiest old shoe in the
world" he said, admiringy. II believe
could get it off and anyone asked for it. !"
The tears were trimming in Nance's
eyes. Her distress moved me to sym
pathy. Gould not you go home and
return in the morning?'' I asked.
No, that's the worst of it," Nance
replied. 1--WE were going on to my sis
tickets. | don't know whatever we
shall do, unless"-she stopped and
looked at me appealingly-"unless you
could lend me a sovereign and take the
ring as security. [ am sure we could
trust you with it, and if YOU will give
us your address we will bring you the
money as soon as Joe draws it in the
morning"
eff had sovereign I would gladly
lend it to you," I said truthfully, "but
'Ten shillings would see us over the
night" Joe said tentatively.
Then I had to confess that [ had pur
posely come out without money so that
the shops might not tempt me to spend
it. Suddenly a bright idea struck me.
'Why not pawn the ring?" I suggested.
Nance caught at the suggestion eager
ly. eyes, get couple of pounds on it,
Joe, and We'll have a good dinner some
where and 60 to the theater. Come on"
At the entrance to the Arcade we
parted, they going one way, | the other.
Suddenly, and without motive, 1 turneo
and followed them. They passed a
pawnshop and entered the nearest pub
ic-house. Curiosity mingled with sus-
picion led me to await their exit.
When they came out Nance crossed
the road and Joe, on the opposite foot
way, sauntered slowly, keeping his eye
on her. At a jewelers. window Nance
made an unsuccessful attempt to get
Into conversation with a lady. Then the
whole business was clear to me.
Nance was a clever trickster, Joe was
a fraud, the Don was Pigment of her
imagination, the ring was a sham, and
Ii was an unsophisticated country
girl, whose perjury had saved her from
falling ready victim to the confidence
trick-Katherine Hall in the Manches-
ter Chronicle.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-11
HUSKY VEGETARIANS.
Can Crook Their Fingers Many More
Times Than Meat Eaters.

Two Belgian physicians who have been
experimenting with the results of vege-
tarianism report in favor Of that prac-
tice. They have published a pamphlet
tracing the personal history of forty
three vegetarians Of Brussels.
For the most part say the au-
thors, ''the vegetarianS appear younger
than their age; notably the ladies are
distinguished by their clear and fresh
complexion"
According to Science very little differ
ence was discovered between vegetarians
and meat eaters so far as strength
was concerned. In endurance, on the
other hand, a very remarkable difference
was found the yegetarians surprising
the meat eaters from 80 to 200 per
cent, according to the method of meas
urement.
The method of measuring endurance
used by the Belgian investigators was
by means of the Mosso ergograph. One
of the fingers is used to raise a weight
as far as possible. AS the experiment
proceeds and fatigue sets in the height
to which the weight can be raised is
gradually reduced until no further con-
fractions are possible.
If curve be constructed represent
ing the height of the successive contrac-
tions it is called a curve of fatigue, and
it is found that this curve is different
for different individuals but is constant
for the same individual from one day
to another, and even after an interval
Of several years. if the conditions of the
experiment remain the same.
The authors compared the endurance
of seventeen vegetarians, six men and
eleven women, with that of twenty-five
meat eaters, students of the University
of Brussels. Comparing the two sets
of subjects on the basis of mechanical
work, it is found that the vegetarians
surpassed the meat eaters on the aver
age by SO per cent.
Comparing the two groups on the
basis of the number of contractions-
or, what amounts to the same thing, the
length of time during which the ergo
graph could be continuously operated
it was found that the vegetarians could
work on the erg0graph two or three
times as long as the meat eaters be-
fore reaching the exhaustion point.
The Brussels Investigators found also
that the vegetarians recuperated from
fatigue far more quickly than the meat
eaters, result also found in the Yale
experiment.
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THE LA PORTE MURDER FARM.
Grewsome Revelations There Read
Like a Story of the N1id-Centuries.

Grewsome Revelations There Read
Like a Story of the N1id-Centuries.
Like a chapter from the bloody rec
ords of the mid-centuries is the ter
rible story unfolded by the authorities
of La Porte, Ind, where wholesale muir
der was done for years without anyone
knowing or suspecting it. Criminal rec
ords contain no parallel Of the grew
some story revealed in the finding Of
the clearing house for murders kept by
Mrs. Belle Guinness near the Indiana
town. Just how many persons met
their fate in connection with the bloody
business carried on there will perhaps
never be known. The skeletons dis
covered on her premises and the fact
that expressmen had many times de-
livered to her boxes and trunks now
believed to contain human bodies form
the chief materials for the construction
of the strange story of her career. She
is supposed to have lured rich men to
her den by matrimonial advertisements
and then made away with them for
lliclI ulOucy, dLlI dlSO " hofO I'LL -
murder ''fence" for the benefit of her
partners in the awful trade of human
slaughter, the latter operating in Chi
cago and sending the bodies of their
victims to her for burial. 1t is the
theory of the prosecution that Mrs
Guinness deliberately lured men to
her farm by means of an advertisement
in a Chicago newspaper, in which she
represented herself as an attractive and
amiable widow looking for mate. She
alleged that she was the owner Of a
valuable farm and sought a well-to-do
farmer as a husband. After a visit
from such a candidate she generally in
duced him, it appears, to sell his farm
and come to her with the proceeds Of
the sale, at which time she would de-
liberately murder him and bury, his
body en- the premises.
For years this strange woman is
said to have conducted her murder mill,
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uncertainty. A fire which destroyed
the Guinness home also disclosed the
fact that her three children had either
been murdered before the fire or that
they had persisted in the flames.
in some respects the methods Of Mrs
Belle Guinness seem similar to those
of the Infamous Bender family in Kan.
sas. Yet it is doubtful if the blood
thirsty Kate Bender in her palmiest
days was ever equal to the awful
crimes that are laid at the door of the
Guinness woman. The story of the La
Porte murder farm recalls the noto
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-11
DR.. TALKS OF FOOD
Pres. of Board of Health.

Pres. of Board of Health.
"What shall l eat?" is the daily in
quiry the physician is met with. | do
not hesitate to say that in my judg-
ment a large percentage of disease is
caused by poorly selected and improp-
erly prepared food My personal ex-
perience with the -fully-cooked food'
known as Grape-Nuts, enables me 10
speak freely Of it's merits.
From overwork, l suffered seVeraI
years with malnutrition, palpltatlon ol
the heart, and loss of sleep. Last SUM
mer was led to experiment personally
with the new food, which used in con-
junction with good rich cows milk. In
a short time after l commenced its use,
the disagreeable symptoms disappeared,
nv hearts action became steady anu
normal. the functions of the stonlach
were properly carried out ana 'sat"
slept as soundly and as wen DIS III inJ
youth.
az look upon Grape-Nuts as a perfect
food and no one can gainsay but tnat
if has a most prominent place in ra-
tional, scientific system of feeding. ANY
one who uses this food will soon be con-
yinced of the soundness of the principle
upon which it is manufactured and may
thereby know the facts as to its true
worth" Read 'gThe Road to MELVILLE"
in pkgs. There's Reason" :.
Ever read the above letter? A.
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full or
human interest.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-11
COFFEE AS WEDDING GIFT.
Peculiar Custom Which Is General
in Concentrating Countries.

Peculiar Custom Which Is General
in Concentrating Countries.
1--WE have custom in the coffee
raising countries" said Senior Joaquin
Nabucco, the Brazilian ambassador to
the United States, (which is unknown
in other parts of the world. When
a child is born in the coffee country,
sack of the best grain is set aside
as part of the inheritance, to be re-
ceived on attaining its majority. Usu-
ally the sack is the gift from some
close friend or relative, and it is
guarded as sacredly as II it were a
gift of gold or bonds. No stress would
induce a Brazilian parent to use cof-
fee which was made the birth gift of
child. AS a rule it is sealed with
the private seal of the owner and bears
card giving all particulars about the
variety of grain, it's age on being sack
ed and the birth Of the child to whom
| it is given, and other details which
are very interesting when the gift is
due.
Generally the coffee Is opened for
the first time when the child marrieS.
The coffee for the reception or mar
riage feast is made from the legacy,
and, according to precedent, this must
be the first time the sack is opened.
After the coffee is made for the we'd
ding feast the sack is carefully closed
and sent to the new home of the young
couple, and should keep them in this
staple for a year at least. When both
bride and bridegroom have the birth
gift of coffee they have started life
under very hopeful conditions, so far
as one necessary is concerned. Few
people know that the older the I'M
parched grain of coffee is the better
the flavor. Like wine it grows with
age, and that which is over twenty
years mellowing under proper condi-
lions will bring from $1.50 to So a
pound from connoisseurs. The giving
Of pounds Of green coffee is a COM
mon practice in the coffee belt. Friends
exchange these gifts and compare re-
suits. When one cannot afford to give
a sack of coffee it frequently is the
case that ten pounds of the best green
is packed in a fancy case and bestow-
ed on a newly born child, with direc-
tons that it must not be opened until
the wedding day."-New York Press.
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THE COW CLUB.

The Cow Club gathers every night
In Stokes grocery store,
To sit around the stove and talk
important matters DER
For there are many, many things
Which must be settled there;
And this the Cow Club does each night
With thOroughness and care.
The railroad has to take it's turn,
And then the trolley, which
Has not arrived. although it will
II there's no legal hitch
The doingS down in Washington.
Ali questions great or small;
Bob Evans fleet, the great canal,
The Cow Club raps them all.
MarcUnis wireless is thing
That's just got up to sell,
And air machines will never fly,
They know that pretty well.
And when they've been all round the globe
And got each matter straight,
They come back into Gungawamp
To finish their debate.
The samA old question holds the floor,
The same old nightly boast
who gets the biggest lot of milk,
Whose cow is worth the most?'
There's where they 'Lem and hitch ant
haw,"
And finally collide;
That seems to be the only thing
The Cow Club can't decide.
Joe Cone in New York Sun.
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Practice Makes Perfect.

At the appointed time Edwin Jones
had called at his best girls home, but
somehow Miss Wrinkle was not there
to greet him.
He seated himself in the drawing
room and anxiously awaited her ar
rival.
Presently the door opened; but, alas !!
it was only her eight-year-old brother
Hello" exclaimed Edwin. us your
sister busy?"
"She seems So" replied the young
ster, "but 1 don't know just what she
thinks she's doing. She's standing in
front of the mirror, blushing just awful
and whispering to it, ooh, Mr.. Jones.
this is so sudden!'
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HEALTH VERY POOR
RESTORED BY PE-RU-NA.
Catarrh twenty-five Years
Had a Bad Cough.

Miss Sophia Kittlesen, Evanston,
Illinois, U. S. A., writes:
Il have been troubled with catarrh
for nearly twenty-five years and have
tried many cures for it, but obtained
very little help.
''Then my brother advised me to try
Peruna, and I did.
'My health was very poor at the time
I began taking Peruna. My throat was
very sore and had bad cough.
"Peruna has cured me. The
chronic cafarrh is gone and my
health is very much improved.
Il recommend Peruna to all my
friends who are troubled as l was"
PERUNA TABLETS:-Some people
prefer tablets, rather than medicine in q
fluid form. Such people can obtain Peru
ma tablets, which represent the medici-
nal ingredients of Peruna. Each tablet
equals one average dose of Peruna.
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative.
Manufactured by Peruna Drug Manufacture
ing Company, Columbus, Ohio.
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1.-THE railroads may VIM said the
senator. '"They may. But if they win,
they lose" he added.
'iHow so? What do you propose to
do if regulation fails 90
own be said.
He realized what it meant to say
that but he didn't modify, he went on
and completed the thought:
"When it comes to choice" he said.
.'between government ownership by the
trusts or-of them. then l shall be for
ownership of the trusts"
A moment. and | put another ques-
ton:
'.And what if that doesn't solve all
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sible for the murder of quite long list
Of persons. He was hanged in Phila-
de,phia. The Benders, husband and
wife and son and daughter, were sup
posed to have murdered nine or ten
persons and buried the bodies In the
vicinity of their home, robbery being
their motive. The Benders mysteri-
ously disappeared and their fate is I'M
known, although rumors were abroad
at the time that indignant citizens put
an end to their infamous careers.
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La Toilette aud tie Railroads.

''We are regulating the railroads out
in Wisconsin,; really; justly; to the COM
| believe. to the advantage of the stock
holders of the railroads." said Senator
La Toilette. LET those who control
them fight. believe in democracy. /
see the people watching the struggle
They want to be fair; we all want to
be fair and-patient, too. And we may
win. We may continue to govern even
the railroads, for that is what regula-
tion means. 1t means subjecting trans
nnl.tation to the laws and the common
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''Oh. WELL" he laughed, that's as far
as we shall get in my time. But" he
sobered and his eyes glinted, with a
government that has made and survived
that test. we shall have the power and
the intelligence and the character to
solve any problems that arise; and we
will solve them all. Give us what we
are getting, the sense of the common
good, and no special interest of any
group or class can prevent the realiza-
ton of the ideals of the American peo-
ple."-Lincoln Steffens in the June
Eyerybody'S
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-11

The Ann Arbor students who had to
ego down into their pockets to pay
$1,000 to square the damage done during
a recent riot in cheap theater have
had a lesson that should warn students
generally that they are not exempt from
observance of the laws of the city and
state. 1t was high time for an example
in this regard, and the parents who are
footing the bills ought to be grateful to
the Ann Arbor authorities for letting the
boys off so cheaply.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-11

The fatal panic on the fire escapes OF
a burning tenement shows that the or
binary platform and ladder escapes are
not sufficient for crowded tenements I'M
less they are made large enough to ac-
commodate crowds. The incident con-
firms the view that the platform escape
would be a trap on school buildings.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-06-11

The owner of the largest balloon ever
constructed in the United States has
challenged for the possession OF the
Lahm cup, and the big sphere will be
among the contestants in the next race
for the trophy. The rate at which new
balloonists are appearing as result of
the craze for aeronautics presages lively
times in the upper atmosphere for sew
eral years-until the fever dies down,
after the manner Of the subsistence of all
fadS