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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warn
ing That No Hopkinsville
Citizen Can Afford
to Ignore.

Danger Signal No. l comes from
the kidney secretions. They will
warn you when the kidneys are sick.
Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber
fluid. Sick kidneys send out thin,
pale and foamy, or a thick, red. i'll
smelling urine, full of sediment and
irregular of passage.
Danger Signal No. 2 comes from
the back. Back pains, dull and heavy
or short and acute, tell you of sick
kidneys and warn you of the coming
of dropsy, diabetes and Bright's dis
ease. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick
kidneys and cure them permanently.
w. E. Watson, living on Washing
ton street. Elkton, KY, says: kid
ney trouble bothered me a great
deal for five or six years. | was
troubled with a constant aching in
my back at night and was prevented
from sleeping. When | arose in the
morning | would be lame and stiff,
and feeling little like attending to
my duties. Sharp twinges through
my loins when STOPPING or lifting
caused me additional misery, head
aches and dizzy spells were Of fire.
quent occurrence, and / was subject
to nervous spells. The kidney secre-
tions were too frequent in action,
especially at night when | would be
forced to arise several times. At
last it was my good fortune to hear
of Doan's Kidney Pills. and ] pro-
cured them. They relieved me at
once, and the contents of one box
cured me permanently. | am very
thankful to Doan's Kidney Pills.
Z Plenty more proof like this from
Hopkinsville people. Call at L. A.
Johnson & Co. IS drug store and ask
what their customers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the name Doans and
take no other.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03

made her anxious. Moreover, she was
in way committed, for she could not
now emerge without being seen. AS
she waited g nan came from the path
and Joined the others. The sky had
been overcast and gloomy, but the
moon drew out just then, and she saw
that the newcomer, evidently patrol,
carried a rifle in the hollow of his arm.
She also saw that one of the first three
was the automobiles owner.
For some minutes they conversed in
undertones, whose very secrecy in
famed her imagination. 1t seemed to
her that they made some reference co
the fume. Had there been another rob-
berry Of the sluice boxes and could
they still suspect Hugh?
Dread ard indignation made her
bold. When they turned into the path
she followed, treading noiselessly, till
she was close behind them. They had
stopped again and were looking intent
ly at shadowy gray something that
moved in the bottom below.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
He Seldom.

The head mistress of certain pro-
vincial school was one day examining
a few of her select pupils in grammar.
"Stand up, Juan, and make me a SEN
tence containing the word seldom F"
she said, pointing to small urchin.
Juan paused as if in thought, then,
with a flush of triumph on his face, re-
piled, "Last week father had five
horses, but yesterday he seldomW-
Philippines Gossip.
Out of Range.
A number of representatives were
facetiously discussing the resources of
the state of Missouri one afternoon
when Mccall Of Massachusetts, observ-
ed to Mr. Lloyd of the first named
state:
Lloyd, l am told that Missouri
stands at the head in raising mules"
ut seems to me-" retorted Lloyd,
''that is the only safe place to stand in
the69ircumstances ."-Lipplncott's.
Hght fitting. unventilated hats and
working with the head close to gas.
light are said to be two of the main
causes of badness.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
INHERITANCE UPHELD
BY Unanimous Opinion of
the Court.

Frankfort. KY, Oct. 29-Ken-
tucky's new inheritance tax law, i'm
posing a penalty of per cent. on all
devises in excess of $500, was upheld
by the court of appeals in an opin-
ion written by Judge Settle. The
opinion was handed down in the
case of Armilda Booths administra-
tor against the commonwealth on
relation. Two other cases, involving
the same point, were also passed up
on in the same opinion. The case
has been hard fought and is regard
ed as important, as it will be an adj
ditional source of revenue when the
estates, which are bequeathed in
Kentucky, are required to pay tax
es. Just how much revenue will be
derived from this source is not
known, as there is no way of telling
just how much property is passed by
will or inheritance during the course
Of year. 1t must be considerable,
however, and it is probable that the
state will get some thousands of dol
lars every year in this way.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03

a moment that 1t was the automobile,
halted at the side of the road Her
footsteps made no sound, and she was
close upon 1t when she saw the three
men 1t had carried standing near by.
She made to pass them and had cross
ed half the intervening space, when
some instinct sent her to the shade of
the trees. they had stopped opposite
the hydraulic concession, where a side
path left the main road. 1t was the
same path by which she and August
Prendergast had taken their uncon-
scious burden on a night long ago,
leading along the hillside, overlooking
the snakelike fume and forming a
sleeper short cut to the cabin above.
They were conversing in low tones, and
as they talked they pointed, she
thought, toward 1t.
Jesslca had never in her life been an
eavesdropper, but her excited senses
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03

mai process of the recovered mind had
been stealthily undermining Harry
! Sanderson' at last knew his past and
all Of puzzlement and distress that it
had held
Shaking In every limb and feeling all
along the courthouse wall like drunk
en- man, he made his way to the fur
Their deserted street A passerby would
have shrunk at sight Of his face and
his burning eyes.
For these months he, the Rev. Henry
Sanderson, disgraced, had suffered
eclipse, had been sunk out of sight and
touch and hearing like a stone in a
pool. For these months-through an
accidental facial resemblance and a
fortuitous concurrence of clrcum-
stances-he had owned the name and
ignominy of Hugh Stires. And Jes-
sica? Deceived no less than he dat
ing her piteous error from that mis-
taken moment when she had torn the
bandage from her eyes on her wedding
day, she had never seen the real Hugh
in Smoky Mountain. She must learn
the truth. Yet how to tell her? How
could he tell her all?
At any hour yesterday, hard as the
telling must have been, he could have
told her. Last night the hour passed
How could he tell her now? Yet she
was the req Hugh's wife by law and
right. He himself could not marry her
If God would but turn back the uni
verse and give him yesterday!
His feet dragging as though from
cold, he climbed the mountain road.
AS he walked he took from his pocket
the little gold cross, and his fingers,
numb with misery, tied it to his thong
watch guard. 1t had been only a bau-
bic, a pocket piece acquired he knew
not when or how. Now he knew it for
the badge of his calling. He remem-
bered now that, pressed certain way,
1t would open, and engraved inside
were his name and the date of his or
dination.
He might shut the cabin door, but
he could not forbid the torturer that
came with him across the threshold.
He might throw himself upon his
knees and bury his face in the rough
skin of the couch, but he could not
shut out words that blent in golden
fettered flashes across his throbbing
eyeballs. "Thou shalt not coset thy
neighbours wife,"
SO he crouched, man under whose
feet life had crashed, leaving him pin
ned beneath the wreck to watch the
fire that must creep nearer and nearer.
Curiosity held Jessica until the evan.
gelist closed his melodeon preparatory
to a descent upon the dance hall. Then,
thinking of the growing dark with
some trepidation, she started toward
the mountain.
Ahead of her a muffled puff-puff
sounded, and the daSk bulk of an auto
mobile was moving slowly in the same
direction, and she Quickened her pace,
glad of this quasi company.
A little way up the ascent a cum
brous shadow startled her. She saw In
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03

"Y0u Jcere something of q holOling SlCeU
as u pdrsOn."
upon it, eve always heard that the
devil took care Of his own The run
away rector stumbles on my manor,
and, with his usual luck-2atan's luck
we called it at college-steps in just in
time to strike it rich
He stretched his hand suddenly and
caught a tiny object that glittered
against Harry's coat-the little gold
cross which the other had tied to his
watch guard. The thong snapped, and
Hugh sent the pendant rafting across
the doorway.
"YOu were something of a bowling
swell as a parson," he said insolently,
''but you don't need the Jewelry nowg'
Harry Sanderson's eyes had not left
Hugh's face. He was thinking swift
ly. The bolt from the blue had been
so recent that this sudden apparition
seemed a natural concomitant Of the
situation. Only the problem was no
longer imminent. 1t was upon him.
Jessica was not for him-he had ac-
cepted that Though the clock might
not turn backward, this man must
stand between them. Yet his presence
now in the predicament was intolera-
BILE.
WELL" said Hugh, with a sneer,
what have you got to say"
How much will you take for the
property"
That's your game, is it? But I'm
not such q numskull Whatever you
could offer, it's worth more to me.
know you, Satan SaRderson" he
sneered. you were always the same
precious hypocrite in the old days, pre-
tending to be so almighty virtuOus,
while you looked out for No. 1.
saw through you then, too, when you
were posing as my friend and try
ing your best all along to queer me
with the old man! I knew 1t well
enough. 1 knew what the reason was
too! You wanted Jessica! YOU
fro BE Continued
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
who's Who" In the Story.

HSATAN" SANDERSON, the
hero, daredevil. quixotic friend and
minister of the Gospel.
HUGH STIRES, prodigal and
criminal
JESSICA HOLME, the beautiful
heroine. helpless In the rush of
events and the principal sufferer in
case of mixed identity.
MRS. HALLORAN, the camp
oracle.
I DAVID STIRES, stern, yet for
giving, and at the last made happy
by another's unhappiness.
THE BISHOP, the victim of
Misunderstanding
HALLELUJAH JONES, the re-
ligious fanatic on whose shoulders
rests the whole weight of the story.
EMMETT PRENDERGAST, the
false friend. perjurer and thief.
THE SHERIFF, who is very
much divided between duty and in
clination.
"BIG" DEVLIN, who turns
champion instead Of prosecutor aft.
er the hero's race with death.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03


him in feature, had slowly climbed the
billy slope from the north by the san
itarium road. He walked with q jaun-
ty swagger bred of too frequent appli.
cations to flask in his pocket.
AS he walked unsteadily along Hugh
drank more than once from the flask
to deaden the superstitious dread of
the place which was stealing over him.
On the crest OF the ridge he sSirted the
sanitarlum grounds and at length
gained the road that twisted down to-
ward the lights of the town. In the
row trail to the Knob for the lower
path to the cabin. AS he turned into
1t the report of a rife came family
from the gulch below.
He quickened his steps and stumbled
all at once into the little clearing that
held the new made grave and Jessica's
statue. The sight terrified his intoxi-
Gated Imagination. His hair rose. The
name on the headstone was Stires, and
there was himself-no. a ghost of him
self-sitting near! He turned and
broke into a run down the steep slope.
In his fear-for he imagined the white
figure was pursuing him-he tripped
and fell, regained his feet. rushed
across the level space, threw his
weight against the cabin door and
burst into the room.
A dog sprang up with a growl, and
IN, &bo IinbA % aro chat n1 ~,
the hearth a man sitting at the rough
hewn table lifted haggard face from
his arms, and each recognized the
other.
The ghost was gone now before fire.
light and human presence, and Hugh,
with loud laugh of tipsy incredulity,
stood staring at the man before him.
"Harry Sandersonw he cried. His
Bhifty eyes surveyed the others figure
the corduroys, the high laced boots,
the soft blue flannel shirt. mot exact
ly In purple and fine linen" he said.
The impudent swagger Of intoxication
had slipped over him again, and his
boisterous laugh broke with a hic-
cough. ~ thought the gospel game
was about played out that night IN
the chapel. And now you are willing
to take a hint from the prodigal. How
did you find my nest? And perhaps
you can tell me who has been making
himself so at home here lately?"
al have" said Harry evenly.
Hugh's glance, that had been waver-
ing about the neat interior, returned to
Harry, and knowledge and anger leap
ed into it. $50 1t was you, was it?
You are the one who has been trying
his hand as claim jumper!" He
lurched toward the table and leaned
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03

she heard the man VINO carried rnt
rifle say, with a smothered laugh:
tits only Barney McGinn's old white
horse taking drink out Of the sluice
box. He often does that"
Then the sheriff's voice said: "Mc
Ginn's horse is in town tonight, with
Barney on her back Horse or nc
horse, I'm going to- The rest was LOST
In the swift action with which he
snatched the frearm from the first
speaker, sighted and fred.
In the still night the concussicr
seemed to rock the ground and reused
a hundred echoes. 1t startled and
shocked the listening girl, but not Sc
much as the sound that followed it
a cry that had nothing animal-like and
that sent the men running down the
slope toward an object that lay hud
died by the sluice box.
In Mortified curiosity Jessica follow.
ed, slipping from shadow to shadow
She saw the sheriff kneel down and
draw a collapsed and empty horse.
skin from a figure whose thieving Gun.
ming 1t would never cloak again.
$50 1t was you, after all, Prender-
gast!" the sheriff said contemptuously
The white face stared up at them
venomous aud writhing, turning about
the circle as though searching for some
one who was not there.
"How did--you guess?"
The sheriff, who had been making a
swift examination. answered the pant
ed question. you have no time to
think of that now" he said.
A Sinister look darted into the film
ing yellow eyes, and hatred and GER
tainty rekindled them. Prendergast
struggled to a sitting posture, then
fell back, convulsed "Hugh Stiresl
He was the only-one who knew-how
It was done. He's clever, but he can't
get the best Of Prendergastp' A spasm
distorted his features. "Wait-waitr'
He fumbled in his breast, and his
fingers brought forth a crumpled piece
Of paper He thrust it into the sher-
IFS hands,
LOOK! Look!' he gasped. "The
man they found murdered on the claim
there"-he pointed wildly up the hill
side-"Dr Moreau. l found him-dy-
iaggii SSttiiresii-
Strength was fast failing him. He
tried again to speak, but only inarticu-
late sounds came from his throat.
A blind terror had clutched the heart
Of the girl leaning from the shadow.
"Dr. Moreau"-"murdered." Why, he
had been one of Hugh's friends! Why
did this man couple Hugh's name with
that worst of crimes? What dreadful
thing was he trying to tell? She hard
ly repressed desire to scream aloud.
"Be careful what you say, Prender-
CAST" said the sheriff sternly.
The wretched man gathered force
for a last effort. His voice came in a
croaking whisper:
ut was Stires killed him. Moreau
wrote it down-and kept the paper.
Tell Hugh-we break-even"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
Chapter Is

HILE the man whom
the town knew as Hugh
Stires listened to the
tale of { he street
preacher, another, I'M
like yet curiously like
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03

son, not gh
CAs---.I 49,.
SUITES. mol an
outcasti Not
criminal, thief
and forger! The
curtain was rent.
The dead wall in
his brain was
down, and the
real past swept
over him in an
u n verna bic
flood. Hallelujah
Jones had fur
nished the clew
to the maze. His
story was the
last great wave.
which had crum-
bled all at once
the cliff of obliv-
ion that the nor
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
A Long Life.

Sir Walter Scott, while travelling In
ireland, was one day accosted by a
beggar. He felt in his pocket for a
sixpence, but, finding that he had moth
ing smaller than a shilling about him,
gave it to the woman, with the words,
"You must give me the change the
next time we meet"
81 will, SORT" replied the grateful
beggar, land may yer honor live till
ye get it."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
(coNrINuED.l

'rtAnother moment and he was leaning
forward, his eyes fixed, his breath
straining at his breast For each word
of the speaker now was knocking a
sledge hammer blow upon the blank
wall in his brain. Hallelujah Jones
had launched into the recital of a story
which, though the stern charge of a
bishop had kept him silent as to name
aoM locality, yet. possessing the vivid
neas of an actual experience, had lost
little in the telling. 1t was the tale of
an evening when he had peered through
the tilted window of a chapel and seen
its dissolute rector gambling on the ia
BILE OF the Lord.
The words shrieked themselves
through Harry's brain. Harry Sander
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03

Rings Little Liver Pills for bilious
ness. sick headache. muddy complex
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grippe. They keep you well. 25c.
Sold by Anderson-Fowler Drug Co. 4,
Incorporated.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-03
APPEAL TAKEN
In the Adams Case By the
City.

Motion for new trial in the case of
Miss Dorothy Adams VS.. the City
of HopkinsviIle was over-ruled and
appeal taken. The plaintiff got
judgment Fol $3.50 $3.50.
w. B. Berry VS.. w. L. Gore, judg-
ment for defendant.
Jane Bacon VS.. City of Hopkins
vile, agreed judgment.
"a - IN @ Ia ia.
Bear. tho >1Ihs Kind You Have AnaE Bought
''',.'''' MSHAzzzsf
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-04-30
The Timetable Question.

The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill compelling railroads to publish
their timetables in the newspapers Of
that state along their lines, Since the
law went into effect throughout the
country prohibiting the railroads from
exchanging mileage for advertising
space IN the newspapers 10 prevent a
loophole in the operation Of the law to
put stop tothe dead head" business
the public in many places in Vermont
has suffered because the timetables
have not appeared in the papers. The
newspapers haze not felt that they
could give the space for nothing and
many OF the railroads have drawn out
the time tables rather than pay for the
space ia cash.
In discussing the time table question
with difference 10 the newspapers the
Burlington News makes the following
comment;
IAN railroads recognize their obi
cation TO the public and advantage to
themselves Of printing timetables and
placing them In some more or less pub.
lie places II this act is a duty impos-
ed upon the railroad by reason Of the
nature o. it, business, or IL ii is mere
convenience which they grant the u
In either case they ought TO 20 further,
The average timetable il very hard
thing 10 find when you most want il
and when you do find il yon are not
sure that !, Is fresh and accurate or old
aud inaccurate
II the railro al time tables were once
made and never changed those Of Us
shp lived long enough might rcmem.
Der the exact time al which some trains
start, bat the railroads maintain the
right 10 alter schedules as they please,
aud ihns make il necessary for travel
err 10 consult timetables. We al know
that railroad schedule eau BE- con.
suited more easily in a newspaper than
anywhere else, The newspaper i al.
says At band. wiih H. time-tsble cor
recied 10 date. But surely accurate
iime table il never 10 be found ID the
bone aud very rarely IL Al Office, The
newspaper, therefore, should contain
TIE train directory II TIE place and the
fsilrosd sh0ald pay for u, A. many do
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-04-30
r.. n. BURNHAM. RUTLAND. Vt.

now, and as the Vermont railroads for
merly did. II is a duty the railroads
owe to the public. The newspapers dc
many kinds Of service free but that IL
one kind that should not be free. The
Springfield Republican discusses the
question in another column OF this
paper
Repeated inquiries have been made
by the public as 10 the reason for the
discontinuance of the custom of print
ing the time tables in the newspaper
aud the newspapers position in the
matter is well summed up in the fol-
lowing from the Springfield Republic
can.
"This may be thought rather deli
cate matter for the newspapers to dis
cuss. 1t may be suggested that as the
newspapers readers are quite com
monty interested in the times of arri-
val and departure of trains, 1t should
provide this information as n matter OF
news rather than advertisement. To
this reply can be made that a news
parer's readers are quite commonly IN
terested in the wares which local mer-
chants have to sell, their prices and
the specialties they have to offer at any
particular time. Can the newspaper,
then, fairly be asked to publish the
same as mere matter of news, to its
exclusion as matter Of advertlsingf
Is it the province of newspaper to
help those engaged in business for pro-
fit who are too narrow-m minded or
stingy or unenterprising to help them
selvesP May it fairly be asked to incur
considerable expense just to make good
To graspisg railroad a deficiency in
its management respecting the public
convenience and the cultivation Of that
public good will which is so important
an asset Of the public service corpora
ton P''-[ Montpelier Journal.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-04-30
Latent Strength Of the Hughes Sup
port.

Just what sort Of latent power I'M
derlies the Hughes movement for thu
presidential nomination was manifested
at the Republican state convention o.
New Hampshire, held in Concord yes
terday. Aside from the utter rout Of
the Taft men who attempted to force
preferential resolutions for their can
didate through the convention, the in
cident which brought out the burst OF
Hughes sentiment was the most nota.
bic feature OF quite remarkable con
yention. Curiously enough, too, the
hidden spring was touched by Taft
man, Judge David Cross of Manehes-
ter, who had been put forward as the
spokesman of that wing Of the conyen.
ton. Judge Cross made reference 10
the courageous man at Albany fight
ing the race.traek gamblers" and
there Immediately broke out "A spon-
taneous outburst Of enthusiasm, first
the beating of hands. then cheer upon
cheer, and finally the swinging cry in
unison, "Hughesl Hughes! Hughes."
until the very rafters of the building
shook. This cry continued for two
according TO the report Of the
Concord Monitor, making "the great
est demonstration Of the convention,
outweighing the reception of Roose-
yelt's name, even" This, too, in an
assembly where Taft men had been
making most of the noise. The unex-
pected demonstration was cropping
out Of the current Of thought that is
running through mems minds, the be-
lief that Charles +, Hughes of New
York is the most available man for the
nomination, in spite of the
early strides made by Taft, Fairbanks
and Knox. There lacks but slight
acceleration 10 set in motion sweep
ing, Overwhelming Endorsement that
may land the New Yorker winner at
the convention in Chicago. And the
New Hampshire convention furnishes
one Of the proofs. Il Barre Times.