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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-24

simpler than our present methods. In
order to establish a claim for liability
under the existing statutes the prac-
tice is cumbersome and expensive
Long drawn out contests crowd the
dockets of the courts, entail large ex-
pense on the employer and finally
yield only a small pittance to the In
jured employee or his dependents
when damages are actually awarded.
'9The law granting compensation to
government employees, passed at the
first session of the present congress,
should be extended in scope so as to
embrace classes Of employees not now
included and should be made more
liberal in it's terms. The compensation
at present paid-one years earnings
is pitifully inadequate where total dis
ability results from an injury or where
death leaves a dependent family"
A government investigation Of sani-
tary problems is advocated by Mr..
Straus
"The national government should be
as anxious and alert to protect the
wage tdTHerS dSulHSl inc IdYdBeS VI
disease resulting from their work"
he says, "as 1t is to protect agricul-
tural products against pests and farm
stock against disease"
Discussing the problem of the unem-
ployed, Secretary Straus recommends
a more scientific distribution of labor
This can be accomplished by the gov
eminent, he says, in supplying ''infor-
nation to all of our workers, whether
native, foreign born OF alien, so that
they may be constantly advised in re-
spect to every part of the country as
to what kind of labor may be in de-
mand, the conditions surrounding 1t,
the rate of wages and the cost of liv-
ing In the respective localities"
This would greatly aid in keeping
large numbers of undesirable foreign
ers at home, says Secretary Straus, as
many aliens now come to America
with little money and lack of quail
fications to do the work they expect to
do.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-24
The J hrice-a Week World
The Greatest Newspaper of
It's Type.
1t Always Tells the News as
it is, Promptly and Fully.
Read in All English Speak
ing Countries.

1t has invariable been the great
effort Of the Thrice Week edition
of the New York World to publish
the news impartially ia order that it
may be an accurate reporter of what
has happened 1t tells the truth,
irrespective Of party, and for the
reason it has achieved position with
the public unique among papers of
its class.
If you want the news as it really
is, subscribe to the Thrice-a. Week
edition of the New York World,
which comes to you every other day
except Sunday, and is thus practical
ly daily at the price of weekly.
The Thrice-a-Week Worlds regu-
lar subscription price is only $1.O0
per year, and this pays for 156 pa
pers. We offer this unequaled news
paper and the Hopkinsville Ken
tuckian together for one year for
S2.65. The regular subscription
price of the two papers is $500.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-24
Novel Motor Car.

Consul General William III. Michael
of Calcutta reports that experiments
are being made in that city with an
air propeller petrol driven car. The
secret of the mechanism lies in the
pattern of the propeller. A speed Of
fifteen miles an hour has been at
tained on Calcutta roads with five
horsepower engine. The absence Of
wear on the tires is most marked, and
the motion is perfectly smooth. AT
present the invention is just passing
out of the experimental stage, but it
is anticipated that it win shortly be
possible to place cars on the market
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-24
over the Christmas cider.

See the steaming sleighbells
Smoking on the plate!
See the luscious icicles
Blazing In the gratel
Oh. the joys OF Christmas.
Driving off dun care
Hear the mince pies ringing
On the frosty airl
Hear the turkeys Ginning
On the distant leal 1,
Christmas is the season
Best Of all for me.
Success Magazine For Decent
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-24
Why?

For some reason a girl always
thinks every fellow who proposes to
her is hero.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Hopeless Case.

Evangelist Torrey, who prides him
self upon the number of his converts,
met one hardened sinner in Chicago
whom he failed to convert. The min
lister had been preaching to a tent full
of people. He had described the vices
of the rich, and had pointed Biblical
analogies at their Injuries. One man
in the back of the tent had seemed
to be much interested. He leaned
forward to catch every word. Tor
rey, taking the interest to mean
approaching conversion, redoubled his
efforts. The road to hell is lined
with vintage, wine, beautiful women
and fine automobiles!" he exclaimed
With a sigh as of relief, the man in
the back Of the tent arose. "Oh,
death, where i3 thy sting?" he said
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Son. '(;iii @,EE;x5ftSI1Ig'!!5l. I!j5j ion
sS-wrAs5Tr vJj%SS~
MICROSCOPE AS DETECTIVE.
A Most Effective Agent to Reveal
Rdulterations in Food.

The miscroscope is becoming more
and more a commercial tool. It's value
in the recognition of adulterated
vegetable substances, especially foods,
in the shape of fine powder, is very
great. This appears clearly from an
article contributed to the Revue Scien-
tifique by Eugene Colin. This writer
points out that the growing custom of
buying certain products in the state of
powder, which compels merchants to
procure substances in this state. has
given rise to the new industry of pull
veriZation, whose exploiters, in order
to make use of their personnel and
plant are now furnishing in pulverized
form host of natural products that
were formerly sold only whole. Moth
ing, he remarks, could better serve
the interests of the adulterators than
the development of this business.
The detection of fraud in cases of
this kind must evidently be made
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Who Suggests High Explosive Power
for Propulsion of Airships.

be a method of obtaining continuity
of power values within safe limits
from insignificant amounts up to the
highest admissible, by using some ap-
propriate method of very cold storage.
it is we'll known that at sufficiently low
temperatures phosphorus and oxygen
cease to react on each other, that
fiuorin is Indifferent to hydrogen, etc.
Is it not, therefore, probable that an
explosive tendency will be toned down
as temperature decreases; or that a
molecular grouping which is all but
unstable at ordinary temperatures will
become stable at temperature suffi-
ciently low and proportionately stable
at intermediate temperatures? This
is then the experiment which l would
like to see tried, the endeavor to get
a graduation of power values ending in
prohibitively large maximum, by the
cold storage of explosives. If it sue
ceeds, it seems to me that a motor
yielding per pound weight not only all
the power needed in the flying ma
chine under any emergency will be
forthcoming, but that large amounts OF
the inevitably dangerous source of
such power may be taken aboard for
use en- route. The lower temperature
of the upper air would here itself be
an assistance"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
BANIS
Coffee Finally Had to Go.

The way some persons cling to cof
fee even after they know it is doing
them harm, is a puzzler. But it is an
easy matter to give it up for good,
when Postum Food Coffee is properly
made and used instead.
A girl writes Mother had been
suffering with nervous headaches for
seven weary years, but kept drinking
coffee.
"One day asked her why she did
not give up coffee as a cousin Of mine
had done who had taken to Postum.
But Mother was such slave to coffee
she thought it would be terrible to
give it up.
Finally, one day, she made the
change to Postum, and quickly her
headaches disappeared. One morning
while she was drinking Postum so
freely and with such relish l asked for
a taste.
THAT started me on Postum and
now drink it more freely than l did
coffee, which never comes into our
house now.
"a girl friend of mine, one day, saw
me drinking Postum and asked if it
was coffee. l told her it was Postum
and gave her some to take home, but
forgot to tell her how TO make it.
THE next day she said she did not
see how l could drink Postum. found
she had made it like ordinary coffee.
So | told her how to make it right
and gave her a cupful l made, after
boiling it fifteen minutes. She said
she never drank any coffee that tasted
as good and now coffee is banished
from both our homes" Name given
by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michigan.
Read the little book The Road to
Wellville" in pkgs. There's Reason" 4"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Novel Trio.

"Do you like ensemble music?" the
city girl asked young Nathan Hobbs
of Willowby, who was trying to enter
tain her at the church social" Ma
than looked bewildered.
Il mean do you enjoy hearing sew
eral instruments played together?"
asked his new acquaintance, taking
condescending pity on his ignorance.
Il guess l do" said Nathan, bright
ening at once, and speaking with en-.
thusiasm. "Sy, you just wait till you
hear Eta Willis on the organ with Ed
Holmes playing the harmonica and
Sadie James the triangle. It's great
youths Companion.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
FOR SkY-SAILlNG.
High Explosives Suggested by Scientist
to Run Motors.

The employment in aeroplane motors
of some form of very high explosive
controlled by extremely low tempera-
ture is suggested by Prof. Carl Barus.
OF Brown university, in Science. Prof.
Barus thinks that although motors
have been built that are strong enough
to drive and sustain an aeroplane. the
required excess of power has never
yet been reached. He writes:
"The fact that a machine of the
aeroplane type built entirely of metal
and canvas may be made to fly by the
power of an ordinary steam engine
judiciously constructed was practical
ly demonstrated some time ago by S.
P. Langley. More would, therefore, be
expected from the gas engine, if con-
structed with equal forethought.
have always had some misgivings,
however, as to whether these expert
ments, into which so much devoted
labor was put, actually met the real
issue involved. 1t seemed to me that
they proved that the power available
in case of the ordinary engine is just
sufficient to maintain flight and no
more; whereas really practical ma
chine should be provided with a motor
whose output of work per second and
per kilogram of weight could be made
enormously to exceed the demands up
on it, under conditions of smooth
soaring.
IF one is in search OF n maximum
OF power combined with 4 minimum of
weight, one involuntarily looks to
some form of modern explosive and
in particular to those which can be
worked up into wicks or ribbons.
These could be adapted for use in con-
nection with the rocket principle
which has so frequently stimulated the
imagination of inventors, in way to
require the least amount of subsidiary
mechanism. In fact, such expansion
is virtually its own propeller. The only
question Is, how can this quite pro-
hibitively excessive power be con-
trolled? In other words, how may
the enormous per second expenditure
Of energy be reduced in any desirable
amount at will, and compatible with
safety and the need of the operator?
Now it occurred to me that in case
of the nitrogen explosives there may
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
BEYOND LIMIT OF PATIENCE.
Explanation Satisfied Policeman That
Punishment Was Due

Policeman Kneirem, of the Tender
,oin precinct, saw an old man beating
a small boy on Seventh avenue re-
Gently in a fashion that reminded the
officer of the happy days when he used
to beat it from the parental beating.
So with a cheerful smile, having chill
dren of his own, the policeman ap-
preached the old man.
Listen" replied the man; half an
hour ago | sent Isaac to the delicates-
sen. | gave him two quarters, one
with which to buy bread, the other
tc buy fish. And now he comes back
and says he wants to know which
quarter is for the fish and which for
the bread. Is it enough?"
"It is" replied Kneirem.-New York
World
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
w h e a [

w eat Gram: Of the organ as
Cross-Section. soon in trans
verse section. These, which are gen
orally the only ones mentioned in the
courts, the magazines, and the various
treatises, may be useful in recognizing
vegetable debris that may be cut with
a knife, but they are quite insufficient
for the examination of powder,
whether coarse or fine, in which the
elements rarely show a cross-sec-
ton, but usually appear in tangential
or longitudinal section. To know these
1T is absolutely necessary to have seen
them and compared them with prepa-
rations similarly made from the veget-
able organ supposed to be the source
of the powder under examination.
For one familiar with this kind of OBJ
servation it is extremely easy to say
whether a vegetable powder comes
from root, a bark, seed, or a leaf; 4;
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
NO BLESSING FOR HER.
Disappointed Youngster Disseminated
in His Prayer.

For several weeks, little Ralph had
enjoyed the use of a Shetland pony,
the property of horse dealer who
was a friend of the family. But much
to Ralph's sorrow, there came day
recently when the pony was sold, and
the delightful horseback rides came
to sudden end. The purchaser, as
Ralph found out by inquiry, was a
little girl of about his own mature
age of five. Ever since his acquaint-
ance with the pony began, Ralph had
included him in his bedtime prayer,
and ''God bless the pony" was an
earnest nightly petition. The first
evening after the. sale of the pony,
Ralph hesitated when he reached his
pets place in the prayer. Then, after
moments thought, he continued:
please, God, bless the pony just
the same; but, God, don't you bless
the little girl what's got the pony"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Rather EquivocaI.

Uncle Morton, an aged negro, who
had been a slave in the days before
the civil war, was retainer in the
household of an Atlanta family He
was something of a philosopher, and
q good deal of diplomat. One day
the mattresses, two young mulattos,
were chatting him.
Uncle Notion" one of them said,
"who do you like best, Belle or me?"
The gray-headed negro looked first
at one then at the other, and said with
tone of indecision:
ut am too tedious to say"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
ITCHING HUMOR ON BOY
His Hands Were a Solid Mass, and
Disease Spread All Over Body
Cured in Days BY Cuticura.

Zone day we noticed that our little
boy was all broken out with itching
sores. We first noticed it on his little
hands. His hands were not as bad
then, and we didn't think anything
serious would result But the next day
we heard of the Cuticura Remedies
being so good for itching sores. BY
this time the disease had spread all
over his body, and his hands were
nothing but solid mass of this itch
lng disease. purchased 4 box Of Cuti-
cura Soap and one box of Cuticura
Ointment, and that night I took the
Cuticura Soap and lukewarm water
and washed him well. Then 1 dried
him and took the Cuticura Ointment
and anointed him with it. I did this
every evening and in four nights he
was entirely cured Mrs. Frank Don
ahue, 20S Fremont ST., Kokomo, Ind,
Sept. 16, 1907"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
REMINDED HIM OF HOME.
New Yorker Saw Beauty in Sign,
Where Maiden Lady Could Not.

A party of tourists was being shown
around Ciudad JuareZ, the little MeXi-
can town just across the Rio Grande
from FL Paso, Texas. Every one was
delighted with its picturesqueness,
and in particular a maiden lady, who
went into raptures about each new
sight.
1T is all so quaint" she said "These
adobe houses, the old church, the mar.
row streets, the little plaza, those
dreadful-looking men wearing SOM
breros; everything breathes the spir-
it of an old-world civilization. 1t is
so different from our United States"
That's So" assented a New York
man who had been listening. For
instance, where in all the world could
you find anything so antique, so full
of inherent beauty, so charged, as it
were, with the essence of pure joy, as
that sign over there" He pointed
toward a whitewashed mud house on
whose exterior was painted:
BIGGEST BEER IN. TOWN, Sc"
The woman eagerly turned to look.
Then she froZe the horrid man with
a glance and did not speak to him
again during the whole trip.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Aeronaut's Narrow Escape.

Eugene Godet, French aeronaut.
had a narrow escape from being
drowned in a recent ascent at James
town, Va. His propelling machinery
failed to act, and the wind swung the
airship against water tower, both the
propellers being knocked off. Relieved
of the weight the airship rapidly
ascended. and when over Hampton
Roads suddenly dived toward the wa
ter, but again arose and drifted away.
Godet clung to his machine, and fl
nally landed in a badly bruised condi-
ton, and with a wrecked airship, IA
miles north of Newport News.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Rice Flour.

by chemical methods Chemistry, the
writer goes on to say, enables us to
prove the presence of certain we'll
defined organic compounds such as
gluten in flour, quinn in cinchona,
caffein in tea, etc, but generally it is
able to give no precise indication of
the nature of the various mixtures
that we may wish to test. Microscopy
is thus the more delicate method, and
1T has been greatly facilitated by the
observations and experiments of
scientific men during the past so
years on the anatomical structure of
various vegetable products. The
writer continues:
'The microscopic determination of a
vegetable powder demands of an an
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Anatomical Elements of Wheat Flour

the difficulty is greater when the exact
botanical origin is required. 4" =
when seeds are pulverized while
still covered with all their envelopes,
the determinative elements are made
up especially of the debris of their
various teguments. Thus pepper, the
most important and valuable of our
spices, and also that which has most
excited the cupidity of the authorities
is sufficiently characterized by
the debris of its kefAel and the ma
ture of the constituent starch-grains,
but the precise evidence furnished by
the fragments of the various envelops
enable us to tell whether the powdered
pepper has been prepared from the
kernel alone like the fine Cerebos pep
per, or with the partly decorticated
seed, as in white pepper, or with the
whole grain, as in the black pepper"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
TrzEfb ard
Quality

appeal to the Well Informed IN every,
walk of life and are essential to perEnane1ss
success and creditable standing. Acror-
iRgly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy Of
known value, but one of many reasoos
why it is the best of personal and family
laXatives is the fact that it clcansess.
swcetens and relieves the internal orgaaa
on which it acts without any debilitatinE
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally ana
truly as a laxative, and it's coznponers
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all oDlcc2ioz,-
able substances. To get its bengfsaiHs
effects always purchase the genuins-
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
The Caspian Sink

1t results from the careful measure
ments of level recently made by Lieut..
Col. Pariisky along the line of the
Transcaspian railway that the level of
the Caspian sea is SO feet below the
level of the oceans. If the Caspian
sink were filled with water up to
ocean-level, the town of Krasnovodsk.
which stands on its shore, would be
submerged, for the mean elevation of
that town is between 63 and 81 feet
below ocean-leyeL --- -
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Stanley's Widow Married.

Dorothy, Lady Stanley, the widow
of the famous African explorer, was
married few days ago to Henry Cur
tis, of whom the world knows little
save that he is a fellow of the Royal
College Of Surgeons. Since Sir Henry
M. Stanley's death, three years ago,
she has lived the life of a recluse at
Furze Hill, the country place in Sur
rey that Stanley bought, and where he
is buried.-Bellman.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Autos for the Antarctic.

Among the special apparatus pre-
pared for use during the second Belgian
expedition in the antarctic region are
to be automobiles, constructed with
particular reference to their employ
ment on the ice-fields. With their aid
1t is hoped to penetrate a considerable
distance inland, in the neighborhood
of Edward VII. Land, where the ship
carrying the expedition will make it,
winter quarters.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Writers and EMPLOYERS.

Bernard Shaw remarked recently:
Milton took G5 ($20) for Paradise
Lost because he could not get any
more. l should ask $4,000 for the
same quantity of pen-and-ink work be-
canse 1 need not take any less. The
employer to-day is emphatically a
man who, like Milton and myself, has
to take what he can get"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30

This continued for fifteen years and
until l began using Doan's Kidney
Pills. Then | improved steadily until
cured, and naturally, | recommend
them strongly"
Sold by all dealers, so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
The Pe-ru-na Almanac in 100000
Homes

The Peruna Lucky Day Almanac has
become fixture in over eight million
homes. 1t can be obtained from all
druggists free. Be sure to inquire early.
The 1908 Almanac is already published,
and the supply will soon be exhausted
Do not put it off. Speak for one to-day
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30

a. = ~ q Ia OAf u ~ Nt
knowledge of all
{ h e anatomical
elements compos-
ing the vegetable
organ that fur
nished this pow
der. 1t is not
enough to know
the characteristics
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they capns,t Y4asos
the seat Of the disease. Catarrh is blood or Yeopsl
tutona disease and in order It you must TAXA
internal remedies. Halle Catarrh Cure fs aRfEn
ternally, and acts directly the blood and uepaa
surfaces. Hairs Catarrb Cure ia not qnaCk xnefi.
cine 1t was prescribed by OF the best physfcans
In this country for years and regular seyprsc
~ is composed OF the best tonics known. combinr;
mucous surfaces. The perfect conb,natIpn of iAs
Two Is what produces such wonderful ~,
suits In curing catarrh. Send for testrnoniala rr
F. j. CHENEY 4 Co. Props' T1iea1 n
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halrs Family Pills for constipation
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
centenarian Likes Tobacco.

Mrs. Mary Ellen Barraby of Brock
ton, Mass, has just celebrated her
one hundred and fifth birthday. She
began smoking pipe when she was
80, and regrets she didn't begin when
she was 40
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-01-30
Dancer for the Witches

Said the sour old witch:
"rhings have reached such q pitch
That | dare not go broomstick riding;
For these airmobies
With gas bags and wheels
With my broomstick are ever colliding.'