davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-20

prohibition localities OF the
the saloonists, breweryites
ooghs we're rejoicing over the
AT a drink called Beerine or
7 beer" was being sold. Recent
u state authorities Of Georgia
labama put a stop to the sale
drink by making all dealers
DID II pay a license of from
, $500, because the prohibit
" will not permi, the sale OF
That contains more than two
nt. alcohol. "Near beer" is
intoxicating, but a stronger
than soda waters. ginger ale,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-20

B. F. Powell and wife and little
Nellie Burrs, of Water Valley, KY,
we're in Hickman this week, attend
ing to business. They also visited
her niece, Mrs, ]. H. Nelson and
family.
J. L. Collins, candidate for Cir
cult Clerk. was in town Saturday,
telling the voters how to vote.
Lee Campbell is here spending
few days With Hickman friends.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-20
Se&l&c 4 Heard
A~MOn the Streets

Dorena.
Robt. Ellis has returned from a
visit in Mabel.
Mrs. c. L. King is the guest of
her brother at Clayton.
Miss Ruth Kimbro is visiting Miss
Lottie Under near State Line.
Everything in graniteware at right
prices.--Farmers Hardware Co.
Miss Annie Ellison, of West Hick-
man, is the guest of f. R. Ellison.
Misses Laura and Marine Brown
are visiting their sister at State Line.
Henry Travis and wife are visit
ing friends and relatives in St.
Louis.
Mrs. Joe Trice and son are the
guests Of Louis Lunsford and family
this week.
The l-year-old daughter Of T,
Henderson, living in the bottoms,
died Monday.
Mrs. John Wright and daughter
have returned from a visit to rela-
tives in Trimble, Tenn.
Hear Prof. Lane, the Georgia
humorist, at the courthouse, Tues
day night. 2sth, at 8 o'clock.
Misses Maude and LYDIA Moore
went to Cairo Thursday to be the
guests Of relatives for several days.
Misses Bess and Charlotte Alexan-
der, of Jonesboro, Ark, are visitors
of Misses Matte Mae and Ruby
Seay.
L. d. Smith and wife returned
last night from St. Louis, where
they have b.en spending their honey
moon.
Arch DeBow went 10 Hales Point
Tuesday on the Wash Honshell on
business fox the Mengel Box Com
pany.
Miss Fife Bruer, the popular
Deputy Circuit Clerk, is spending the
week with her uncle, ]. B. Bruer. at
Reelfoot Lake.
Choice-any 4 sheets of
sheet music at the New Book
Store, 8Oc.
J. R. Mayhem and wife left yes
terday for Huntsville, Ala, after
spending several days with George
Helm and family.
We make a specially Of special
orders for china and glassware of all
kinds-delivered in four days.
Farmers Hardware Co.
Hickman public schools will open
Monday Aug. 81, one week from
next Monday. Get the youngsters
ready to start the first day.
Terrell and George Fuller, who
have been the guests of A. L. Bal.
lew and wife, returned to their
home in Mayheld, Tuesday.
Prof. Lane, the humorist, who
will lecture at the Court House,
Tuesday night, is one Of the best
yet. Don't fai. to hear him.
Misses Pauline and Livia Fields
have returned 10 their home in Full
ton after a several days visit TO
Misses Ruby and Matte Mae Seay.
Beacham Fleming spent the first
of the week in Fulton, attending the
Sunday school convention. He was
a delegate from the Baptist Sunday
school here.
Miss Mary Bell, of Bell Station,
Tenn, and Miss Ruth Mccall, of
Lexington, Tenn, the recent guests
of the Misses Hubbard, returned to
their respective homes this morning.
Saturday night. Alice, the two
and half year old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Moore fell from the up
per story OF the Amberg house,
where they live. The baby was
leaning against the screen when the
screen suddenly gave way and
both baby and screen fell out.
Beneath the window was a brick tier,
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-20

Miss Phyllis Carter has returned
to Cincinnati after visit to Misses
Annie and Ruth Ellison.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-20
New Barber Shop.

Elgin Davis, of East Prairie. Mo-,
will open barber shop today in the
building formerly occupied by DR..
Prather. on Clinton Street. Mr..
Davis will put in uptodate fixtures
and solicits a share of your patron
age. None but white BARRIERS will
work in this shop. Give him trial.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-20

'le Cheek, of Fulton, was il
>an on business yesterday.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1908-08-20
Through Smoked Glasses

N
ALL through Smoked Glasses
A SNANS LIFE Is fail of crosses and temptations. He
into this ncrd 1hou his and goes against
uO and the trip betweea the exceedingly rocky The
ue of of features of the trip. When he
little the big girls hiss him, 1ohen he groon the little girls Kiss
him. Fbe poor he's bad manager flies rich, he's dis
honest. he needs credit he can't get it, If he's prosperous
everyone eUants do him favor. flies politics. It's for
the pe fhe's out of politics. he dom for his country.
he don't sbe charity hes saay he Does its Sho
If he is actively religious he is a hypocrte; If he
takes no interest he's hardened sinner. If he
gives affection he's a soft specimen if he cares
for no one, he is cold-blooded. If he dies young,
there great future before him; if he lives to
The road rocky but oDes to hapef and after ali there
is good deal of satisfaction has Ills clothes made by
bradley and parban and goes zuen dressed The samples
are here and prices right. This one good thing in life
A-Mate1
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01

things, II common sense does not
show the absurdty of 1t, then the prop
er authorities should pass laws restrict
Ing the height of buildings, Too long
have such laws been delayed, Besides
the danger Of collapse, there Is the
ever-present danger OF fire confagra-
ton. -proohng will not entirely
prevent 1t. The New York fire de-,
partment said at the time the Singer
building was being erected that It
would be entirely helpless should Its
tower burn. II might set fire to all
the buildings around It.
With building still taller, the dan
ger is even greater. There Is not one
redeeming feature In the excessively
tall building. 1t is not even beautiful
as compared with the buildings of such
cities as Paris, where height is regu-
lated by law New York has a problem
to meet Its quarters are getting more
and more cramped But that problem
Is not to be solved by building up, but
by spreading out, not by building Won
ders, but by transit-wonders.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01

We suppose that New Workers will
tempt fate with more and more lofty
buildings until the limit of structural
endurance is reached and some terrible
accident happens as result Plans
have now been made public for a tall
er-than-any building to be erected for
the Equitable Life Insurance company
1t will be far higher than the Singer
building and taller even than the struc-
turo now building for the rival Metro
politan Insurance company. It's flag
staff will rise higher than the Elffel
Tower the tip of It being 1859 feet
above the curb There will be sixty
two stories.
When the Quebec bridge fell recent
ly in an unheralded manner, carrying
number of workmen to their deaths
the best engineers IN America, called
into consultation, could not agree with
entire certainty as TO the cause or the
collapse. Even to this day they are
disagreed as to the cause, though many
of them give II as their opinion that
the structural steel had been put to
such a test that It was torn literally
atom from atom by the severe stress
es. 1t Is not at all unreasonable to
suppose that some such result may we'll
come when building operations are car
Iried to such limits as with the pro-
posed new Equitable building, Of which
our forefathere never dreamed In their
widest Nightmares 1t is not impossi-
BILE to believe that the very bedrock
upon which the island Of Manhattan
rests may give way some time and that
time may be with this new building.
The strenuous, money-wild business
man of New York dares to rush into
death-traps where wiser men would
fear to tread. The habit Is growing
for big corporations to look upon a
tall building as an advertising asset.
But the limit has been reached in such
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
THE ABscoNDEn RETURNS.

So lengthy and apparently hopeless
have been the negotiations for the ex-
tradlcting of william f. Walker, the
Ascending treasurer of the New Brit
ain Savings bank, that the opinion has
prevailed in not a few quarters that
the authorities have really not been
overzealous for his return. It has been
openly intimated that there were two
reasons for this. First, there was the
great expense to the state the trial of
Walker would involve; and, second and
more important, It was said that his
trial would probably implicate so many
other men of position and station that
influence had been brought to bear in
the proper quarters not to have the
case pushed too energetcally. The
failure, heretofore, Of Thomas f. Egan,
superintendent Of the state police to
bring Walker back, has been taken by
several newspapers as additional evil
dence of the reasonableness Of their
stand.
The report now comes officially from
Mexico that Walker Is going to start
back to Connecticut the latter part OF
this week. The news is twice welcome
in that 1t clears the prosecuting au-
thorities and the state police head OF
undeserved stigmas. Chief Egan has
been In Mexico since February. II was
six months ago that Walker was
caught in the mountains Of southern
California 1t might seem to those who
reach conclusions too speedily that he
could have been eXtradicted sooner
But It must be remembered that Walk
er Is clever man Had he not been,
he could never have carried on the
wholesale embezzlng business he did.
He has fought his extradition in every
court in Mexico up to the supreme
court Of the country. He has hired clev-
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
AN OPPOSITION PARTY.

Those who knew Grover Cleveland
we'll enough to share In his confidence
realized the keenness Of his regret at
the continued defeat OF the political
organization which he led twice to
Victory, once after he had been de-
feated. He was not moved. as his
political enemies charged, by a sinis-
ter regret because he had not again
been drafted to lead In the fight. bur
rather by his profound belief In the
necessity for a strongly organized and
led party OF opposition to the party In
power whichever II happened to be-
In 1892, when the democratic party
had nominated him for the third time
he wrote as follows to the late United
States Senator VOORHEES, OF Indiana,
bespeaking his powerful aid: Il find
myself now, by the operation OF
current which | have not even at
tempted TO guide. again the candidate
of my party, at time when l believe
defeat means n long wander in the
wilderness of encouragement for our
party and the most disastrous results
for our country | feel this RESPONSE
billty most aoutely and II It had been
my own seeking should oftener feel
very unhappy in my fears for the re-
suits on all grounds"
Mr.. Cleveland was not seeking a
personal success. In this same letter
10 Senator Voorhees, he said: you
and | ought not TO indulge in any in
sincerity or nonsense with each other.
! remember conversations with you
during my residence In Washington,
indicating how felt about contin-
ued incumbency In the presidency. /
doubt II YOU recall IT, but said once
10 you that ! was entirely willing TO
do the ploughing' and make way for
another 10 harvest" Mr.. Cleveland
understood the need there is at Wash
ington all of the time for an effective
~ led party OF opposition, which Is
the best possible guarantee OF sound
government, and II was with that need
that he was dealing when In 1892 he
sought the vigorous aid OF Mr.. voor-
hees. He knew that defeat then
meant what defeat has meant since
1895. "a long wander in the wilder
ness of encouragement"
II Is this same feeling which has
encouraged the more conservative
leaders OF the democratic party to
persist in a new order Of things this
year AT Denver until all hope has
gone. They. too, realize the great
need the country has for an effective
party of opposition, one that will
make the party In power scrupulous
through fear OF punishment at the
polls Defeat this fall will send the
democratic party upon still longer
wander In the wilderness Of discour-
agements Mr. Cleveland will, how
ever be spared the justification Of his
fears.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01

have been the first to feel the depres-
sion.
1t would mean much to New Haven,
could It show a postofflce business COM
mensurate with It's population. If New
Haven has a population $4,000 or more
larger than Hartford, New Haven
wants and deserves postofiice facilities
that are correspondlngly better The
Washington authorities rank postofilces
by the amount OF business they do, not
by population, and those postoffices OF
the higher rank get the better accom-
modatlons. As somebody has tritely
said, What the New Haven postofllce
needs Is to be able to make noise at
Washington like the largest city In the
state should"
There Is one fair means at hand to
ering that about. II has already been
suggested and urged In this paper. 1t
Is the amalgamatlon Of all the rural
postofilces within five miles of the city
limits as sub-stations In the New Ha-
ven postofice district. That the post
Office regulations allow. 1t Is "up to"
New Haveners to demand It because of
the increased business that would be
credited. as result to the New Haven
Office ledgers and It would be to the
advantage OF the suburbantes to ask
for II, too, since 1t will mean for them
an up-to-date delivery and collection
system, the same as the city now has.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
PARTY PLATFORMS.

An unnecessary amount of fuss was
made over the platform adopted by
the republicans at Chicago and an un-
necessary amount OF fuss is being
made over the platform which the
democrats will adopt at Denver. OF
all the presidential years the voters
OF the country have had TO con.em-
plate this year requires less consider
alton OF platform utterances.
1t is now as certain as anything can
be that Mr.. Bryan will be he nominee
of the Denver convention. The re-
publicans have already nominated Mr..
Taft, Outside of newspaper ,tfl,es,
whore platforms are kept for business
purposes and not because any one
there holds them in affectionate es-
TEEN; attention is riveted on the per-
sonalities OF the men who will sh ,.tly
begin to make their appeals toc The
support OF the electorate. A month
after the campaign has been opened II
Will be forgotten that busy men labor
ed in hot cities to produce a platform
OF principles. Grover Cleveland
showed what he thought of a plat
form which the convention sought 10
stand him on by repudiating II 1t tho
first convenient moment. II he vas
going to run for president he nro-
posed to. have the people know lust
what to expect of him should he be
elected. Theodore Roosevelt III owed
what he thought of party platforms by
ignoring altogether that upon which
he made the running and substituting
one a party convention had never
heard of, much less approved.
What the voters will decide in No
vember will be whether the Taft tyne
Of administrator or the Bryan type Is
better adapted TO the special needs
of the government at this time. As
the campaign progresses and the
country comes to get a better line
on the intellectual resources OF the
two men and their sense OF political
responsibility public opinion will be-
gin to formulate itself and 1t will grow
stronger until the last day OF the con-
test. While more or less in sympathy
in certain details Of governmental re-
sponsibility. no such general agree
ment exists as between Taft and Bryan
that the voter will find 1t necessary TO
hunt up the platforms to see which is
the more deserving of support. In a
word we are to have a race between
men, not between ingeniously worded
platforms. 'Tis well.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
PosTOFFICE FIGURES.

The postofIce department at Wash
ington has just issued It's figures for
the month Of May and they should
prove interesting reading to New Ha-
yeners. They show again that Hart
ford, with population less than, that
Of New Haven, continues to do q larger
lpostofrice business. The figures for
the month show that the Hartford
postoffioe did o business amounting to
s35. 709. while the local office did busi-
ness of $4,000. That Hartford's post
office does more business is due in the
main to the fact that so many insur-
ance companies, doing an enormous
amount of mail business, are within
the Hartford poetofflce district. IA
proof OF this very thing Is shown In
the fact that the business depression,
which has affected all the larger post
offices in the country brought about a
decrease of business at the local office
of only asa per cent, as compared with
the corresponding month of May last
year. while the per cent of decrease
Mt Hartford was all of 1888. That has
been because the insurance companies
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
New York Evening post.)

(NeW YORK Evening Post)
Those who have already died thou
sand times before the Fourth, will not
feel much relief In the order for tho
arrest of all who anticipate Independ-
ence day with fireworks The youth
full patriot will find way to discharge
his eombustibles from ambush on
housetop or In basement He will re-
member his ancestors at Lexington and
Dublin and st. Petersburg and Naples.
1t Is merely an expression of Ill humor
to lock the doors after the colts are
out. II arrest were possible, who wants
TO send small boys to jail for making a
noise for their country? The only way
to prevent the premature explosion OF
cannon crackers and smaller arms is
absolutely to prohibit their sale TIL
twelve hours or so before the Fourth
Such course would dam the noise
without damning the patriotism. Al
the fatal hour, with an ambulance on
every corner and cotton In every un-
loyal ear. let the sale and the 1ubilation
begin together.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
The Republican chairman.hlp.
providence Journal.1

W iNN iiNHht JpuiHH
Apparently the Republican leaders
are in a quandary over the chairman
ship Of the national committee, Mr.,
Hitchcock It is understood would not
serve as vice chairman under ex Govern
or Herrick OF Ohio, nor would Mr.. vorys
relish being q subordinate with Mr..
Hitchcock In first place. The result may
be- compromise, with all the dlsad-
vantages attaching to the solution OF
the problem. The republican party
needs the best expert obtainable, and
the contest ought to be decided with
this In mind rather than the personal
feelings OF any aspirant for the posi-
ton. Secretary Taft Is a man OF great
tact, and II seems as II he should be
able TO straighten out the tangle with
out unnecessarily offending anyb ody; yet
the first desideratum Is aggressive and
efficient management OF the campaign.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01

err lawyers TO defend him and every
straw has been clutched at in his effort
to save himself.
According to special to the Hart
ford Courant, his story now Is that,
when he left New Britain and went to
New York, he was doped and robbed
there and then sent on a train west.
In letter written some time ago to
President Corbln OF the bank, Walker
said that he went to New York to meet
certain bankers representatives, When
he showed them his bonds they told
him, he wrote, that they were bogus
land thereupon gave him knockout
drops and shipped him off, These
stories are taken to be fabrications
pure and simple by the New Britain
bank authorities and the Pinkertons 1t
Is thought that he is trying to weave
story that may save him In some
manner when he comes to trial.
All Of these matters only tend to
show the mettle of the man the Con-
necticut courts will have to deal with.
He is not going to lie down meek as
lamb; he is going to fight to the last
ditch. His promises to be one OF the
most important cases In the history Of
the state courts for some years past. 1t
may be hoped that, II other heads must
be jeopardized in the investigation that
| Is forthcoming, neither position or In
fluence will interfere with the fair
mindedness for which Connecticut
courts are famed.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
Wednesday, July 1, 1908.
THOU SHALT NOT KILL.

The preamble OF the Connecticut
state constitution reads as follows:
Tho people OF Connecticut, acknow-
Lodging with gratitude the good provi-
dence of God in having permitted
them to enjoy a free government, do.
In order more effectually to define,
secure and perpetuate the liberties,
rights and privileges which they have
derived from their ancestors, hereby,
after careful consideration AID re-
vision, ordain and establish the fol-
lowing constitution and form OF civil
government"
Thus before proceeding 20 adopt the
articles of the constitution by section,
the constitution makers of old Con-
necticut acknowledged their depend
ence upon the mercy and goodness OF
God. In no moro emphatic manner
could they, and later the people of the
state, who approved the instrument at
the polls, testify to their faith in The
sublime wisdom of the Almighty. In
no moro striking manner could they
accept for their guidance the ten
commandments. And yet in spite Of
the divine injunction not to kill, the
state Of Connecticut has stubbornly
adhered to its traditional practice of
taking human life in a spirit Of re-
venge for life already taken by its
victim. Periodically a solemn process
sion is formed at the 1sath cell Of
the states prison and proceeds 70 The
death, chamber where the fiction is
enacted OF the murderer hanging him
self 1t was done at an early hour
this morning, when Connecticut added
one more act of revenge to the acts OF
revenge which have preceded 1t.
It is impossible to reconcile the en-
forcement of the principle of capital
punishment with the Christian phil
osophy wnich lies az the bottom OF
the fundamental law Of the state.
Legally Connecticut claims the right
to kill; morally no such right exists.
1t is time Connecticut studied its
moral conduct more carefully and It's
legal power, in this connection, less
seriously. II is not a mere matter of
sentiment, this agitation to Id jlish
capital punishment. 1t has its roots
in the wellbeing OF the state itself.
The very deliberation which precedes
the act makes 1t, upon sober reflec-
ton; the more difficult 20 reconcile
with the principles of Christian peo-
pie. From no point of Wow is society
benefited by the legal assassination;
from every point of view is society
demoralized by doing hat u1der
forms of law which the victim of its
hate does without warrant of law.
Connecticut in fact admitted the bru-
tally of its practice when 1t eagerly
substituted for the old gallows an in
genious instrument, which is supposed
to provide the guilty with the means
Of taking his own life.
We hope the day is not far distant
when executions will be forbidden in
the state of Connecticut, and when the
state undertakes to get from its life
prisoners all the useful labor possible.
It should obey the divine Injunction;
"Thou shalt not kill"
The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-01
Advance Information.

The shades OF night were falling fast,
As down a side street hurried past
a kid, whose arms were full enough
OF this Internal kind of stuff:
Cast-iron cannon,
Firecrackers,
Gunpowder,
Torpedoes,
Toy pistol.
Dynamite.
His brow was happy as he bore
From out the deadly fireworks store
A grand assortment Of the dope
That fills the doctor full Of hope:
Roman candles,
Skyrockets,
Cartridges,
Paper caps,
Plnwheels.
Bombs
And in the twilight cold and gray,
or that eventful July day,
His mother from the drug store will
Rush home with these things, and the
bill:
witch hazel
Pain killer,
Randnges,
Ointment,
Liniment,
Clutches,
Lotions,
Spllnte,
Cotton,
Gauze,
Sllve,
Lint.
Los Angeles Express.