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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Profits In Cocaine.

1t is stated that cocaine is sold at
1896 an ounce and that it is sold at
retail to fiends at 20 cents for about
six grains. There being 480 grains to
an ounce, the vendors at this rate
would realize SIG on an ounce of the
drug, f clear profit of $13.35. In view
of the enormous profit in this trade ii
can be readily realized that the temp
tation to violate the city and state
ordinances is very great one and
that many of the INSCRIPTIONS dealers
will resort to almost any trick in or
der to evade the law. Charleston
News and Courier.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
The Navv,s Christmas,

Christmas in the regular navy IS OBJ
served as one of the big holidays Of the
year. Starting off with a grand dinner
in the middle of the day, discipline is
from then on relaxed, and the fun is
fast and furious till shutdown, and Of
ten the evening is enlivened by amateur
theatricals. The vessel is gayly deco
rated with bunting, and at each mast
head and at the bow and stern green
trees are dashed if procurable.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
The piplomat.

1--WE have imported few directoire
gowns" announced the conservative
merchant. "Only the more daring will
wear these advanced garments, but we
are ready to supply them"
! And about three of the gowns were
y.sold.
Eve have received large importa-
ton of directoire gowns" announced
his rival "Only the prettiest women
can wear tbsm to advantage"
The next day all the women in town
bought one of the rival. Chicago Post.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
AmiabIs G. q. Shaw.

Some time ago Mr.. Stead, in London,
wanted to gather about him some of
the brains Of Europe and then make a
tR around the world in the interests
OTD everlasting peace. He asked G.
Bernard Shaw to be one of the party,
which invitation most men would have
thought compliment, but Mr.. Shaw
said, my dear Stead, l have far more
work to do than kings and queens, but
If you viii bring a collection of rulers
TO my house in Adelphi terrace should
be very glad to talk to them any morn.
Ing"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
When MistIetoe Was Banned.

Because of its association with pa
gan rites the mistletoe was for centu-
ries forbidden place in English
church decorations at Chrlstmastide,
and it was not even mentioned in old
rhymes until the seventeenth century,
In Herrick's time, although the holly
and ivy had for two centuries previous
been the subjects of various poetical
illusions
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

Dashaway-Well, Uncle Jasper, how
are you getting on with your Christ
mas dinner?
Uncle Jasper-Fust rate, sab. Colo
mel Winterblossom done guy me a
present of fine fat turkey, sab.
DashaWay-Thats very strange.
just left the colonel, and he didn't say
anything about it.
Uncle Jasper-No, sab. He's got to
count dem turkeys fust.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Circumstances Alter case..

Crawford-I thought you were per
fectly delighted with the Christmas
present your wife gave you.
Crabshaw-At that time didn't
know she'd had It charged.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
In Christmas Land.

Mistletoe just overhead
. Touch one spray abovsl
Holly berries just as red
AS the lips of Love. M
Christmas skies OF blue una AZ ey,
Heaven IN bright view.
Ind the eweetest gift today
Just the lips OF you'll
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
How n Was Done

She = The idea And we weren't
even standing under the mistletoel
He-No. did that sub rosal-
Brooklyn Eagle
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
A STRONG MIND IN A STRONG BoDy

Breathes there boy with soul so dead who never to himself hath said When l get big enough and strong enough I'll lick the teacher?" Of course. owing to the softening inhu- ence of time and some other things the boys who say this don't usually carry it into action. They don't do as a girl in Chicago has, just done. She was deserted by her husband several months ago, and she there and then decided she would get even with him To do this she went into training and developed her muscles. When she thought herself strong enough she had the man arrested and then proceeded to thrash him in court. She knocked him out before the police officers could interfere, and then the judge sent her to jail for thirty days. She is satisfied
 It is lucky for teachers and many others that all young folks don't have the tenacity and pesistence that this Chicago girl has. If they did have them there would be more trouble for teachers, parents, husbands, etc. than there is. And goodness knows there is enough now without having added tO them revenges for real or fancied wrongs inflicted on the young
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
THE LATEST.

Those who don't know Miss Ida Tarbell well might suppose that when she wen. around searching for the cause of the recent panic she would find if in the tall, spare person of Brother John n Rockefeller But not SO. Here is where she finds if: "Wo- mans chief economic function s spending money, but the American woman has not learned to exercise this important function satisfactorily. Her usual plan is to take all the mon ey she can get and spend as she hap pens to. l think if we should analyze the cause of most financial panics here we should find that they were caused by the failure of American women to spend their money wisely and we'll"
 If Miss Tarbell means that many American women spend much of their money in buying bonds and stocks is- sued by shrewd men to get money to spend, her idea has something in it. But it is not generally supposed that American women spend enough in that way to make a situation that will re- suit in panic. They make lot of small panics in husbands who have to provide money for them to buy things with. but they don't go about pro noting" "kite-hying," and bank chaining" until there is an explosion lt isn't woman that scares Wall-street in the way some men do. She may not know how to spend money just as she ought to, and perhaps if she had enough to spend she could make pan ics just as men do, but so far she seems to be limited in that direction.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
LIVELY TIMES AHEAD.

Just now Spring seems to be com- ing slowly up this way, but it is com ing. and with it are coming several desirable things. Among them is the circus and this year. they say, the circus will give parade just as it used to For three years the parade has been omitted It was a troublesome thing for those who took part in if. It made lot of extra work and some extra cost. So the circus thought it would try the experiment of emitting the free show and rely on native cu- riosity and cute advertising for the money needed But it has discovered that the parade was good advertising or else it is philanthropically unwilling to longer deprive the people of the enjoyment and education of seeing the parade and hearing the calliope So this year there will be the parade which used to be usual and as much more that is unusual as can be thought of and profltably bought.
 With circus parades and political parades this year bids fair to be spec tacular. There will be fun alive, and the great moral circuses of all kinds will be well worth seeing.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

Overflow is if that Neurich no longer brags about his ancestors?
 Ryer-He has probably found out who they werc-Rrookly Life.
 Little girl-Mamma, what is a dead letter."
 Mamma-One that has been given to your father to post.--Tllustrated Bits.
 How we have changed since the old days,"
 What do you mean?"
 Why. to-day if isn't half so blessed to give as it is to he receiver '-I.ifo. Cook-"Dobbins has a new automo- bile"
 Hook-"W What does it run by?''
 Cook-'H doesn't run by anything It's the slowest chugger you ever saw Judge.
 Olive-what an improvement it will be if the time ever comes when every body can get a seat in the street cars Violet-Oh. I don't know A girl would never be sure then that she was pretty.-Puck.
 Won't yer spare a dyin' man a cop Dying Why. you smell strongly of
 aYus: that's what's a-killin' of me. iidy. Tatler
 "I hear that your husband is critic ally ill. Mrs Tiff said Nr tiun7nner,. .tyes he IS. He criticises the doctor, and he criticises the nurse and he criticises me. oh. hes critically ill. all right -Judge-
 You said that if ! bought this sub urban house I could live like 3 prince. with malaria and automobiles. I'm in far Tor my lifei Well. answered the agent s6cthnsly. think of the princes who live in fear of their lives -Wash- ington Star,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

all, even with the wind in the right direction, and misunderstanding oc- cur and complaints pour in whenever there is storm. We understand that MT. Beede, the superintendent of schools, is at present trying to devise another system by which the children may he notified or, failing of this, is planning to leave the matter of school attendance on stormy days entirely to the discretion of the parents.
 The dissatisfaction with the bells is not so much in connection with their duties in relation to the schools. They might well be retained for that use alone. But if any of the smaller cities of Connecticut have questioned the Iabolishment of the fire bells, certainly New Haven is triply justified in con- sdering 1t. For in addition to any arguments that Hartford or Bridge
 
 forth. New Haven has Its size and its peculiar development as a college town. The larger the city, the larger the crowd there will be to be sum moned to the scene of the fire by the bells Few go to a fire to help. It is merely a lark. a scene of spectacular pyrotechnics with the vast majority They merely get in the way of the men in their performance of their best work. Along with the crowd comes all the rough element, the rowdies, pick pockets and the second-story gentry who are only too ready to slip in past the fire lines and carry out valuable things under guise of doing work of salvage. When one adds to this crowd of a big city like New Haven the 5000 Yale students who have been notified of the place of the fire by the ringing of the bells and hurry to the scene, fairly brimming over with youthful enthusiasm and eagerness for good time at whatever cost, is it to he thought that the present system oi
 fire bells creates the best conditions and the best kind of atmosphere foi the fre-laddies to work amid l?
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
International Marriages.
Philadelphia Record)

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 In our international marriages how much thought Is given to character2 What does the woman or her family care about the notorious dissipation and the low associations of the bride groom? In case now to seek legal solution. probably in judicial cham bers. the English nobleman who was admittedly seeking fortune and mo- thing else had frittered away his time in amateur theatricals until he found them an opening to the stage His habits and associations were well known He tried to marry one young woman and, failing, transferred his ap- plication to relation of hers who could not but know under the circum- stances that no regard for her was lactuating him If it be true that ne delayed the wedding until an addi- tional sum of money was settled on him 1t does not seem as if any self-respect- ing woman could have gone on with the ceremony. No one can withhold profound sympathy from his wife, but. after all how is it possible for we'll bred and high spirited American girls to make the marriages that some of them do?
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
VIOLENT AND FIERCE SPORTS.

That the violent and nerce" sports of the present day are not necessary to the development of martial spirit is the opinion of President Eliot of Harvard University. In support of this opinion he points out that though fifty years ago strenuous athletics were comparatively unknown, football and rowing being in the most elementary forms, yet Harvard sent to dstin- guished service more than twelve hun dred graduates and students
 Of course this doesn't prove any thing Perhaps if there had been vio- lent and fierce sports at Harvard in those days she might have sent 1,25O, or even more, to distinguished service. If the peaceful and peaceable presi- dent had gone farther back than fifty years to some of the days of Greece and Rome" with which he is familiar he would have found reason to think that fierce and violent sports, if not exactly necessary to the development of a martial spirit, had much to do with such development We admit that it really doesn't look as if such violent and fierce" sports as are known at Harvard develop much of anything except defeat for those who lead in them. His boys are enough to discourage him. but if they were more efficiently fierce and violent he might think better of some things.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
PICKING UP.

Four months ago we were constant ly told that there were not freight cars enough to do the business of the railroads, and many of the roads were trying to borrow money with which to get more. Then the bubble, or what ever 1t was, burst, and we began to hear that there we're Cars enough Soon it appeared that there were more than enough, and finally it was fig ured that there were about 300,000 idle ones Now the talk is that the is said that during the last fortnight the cars in use on the New York Cen tral have been not many less than the normal number The same thing is said of the Erie railroad. /
 All of which is encouraging. If we have good crops and if the country doesn't have political panic by next fall ii may be again discovered that there are not freight cars enough to do the business that is offered. Such times now seem to have been some what dangerous, but they were al least pleasanter than the present days and win be welcomed when they come again
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

the health officer of the county or sur rey in England, His "concluslons are that typhoid may often be WronsN attributed to the drinking of polluted or infected water He believes tna' polluted and infected foods are much more frequent source or tN- phoid illness than is generally sup posed He refers to cases which IL ls impossible to connect with preceding cases, and suggests the possibility oi origin from other bacilli than those which are regarded as the invarlaple specific causes of typhoid. Recent in- vestigation in Germany show that pa tients may harbor typhoid paciiii months after recovery from illness and that persons in good health may be the hosts of the organism.
 And SD forth and so on. Perhaps the very latest conclusions are not wholly conclusive. Let us wait and see if there wont be g few more conclusions before the discussion is concluded.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
KEEP A-SMILING.

Compliments to the Cheer Up schoo
 of Thought) Banks are bum, but skies are sunny, Keep a-smiling. When you think of it it's funny. Keep asmiling. Wall Street bees are making honey Sucking other peoples money Keep a-smilng Price of everything's inflated, Keep a-hoping. Everything's adulterated, Keep a-hoping Statutes may be violated Why should you be agitated? Keep ahopins. Railroad companies are broke, t'&1 Never knock. tt Profits burned in private smoke Always boost Crowded trains and late provoke Kicks from the commuter folk Smile little. What If wealth is predatory? Always whistle. That's an ancient, fsh,llk story. Always whistle. That's tale that's whiskered. hoary: Beat a drum and holler "Gloryrt Halleluiah, Graft Is here, but dcnt dscry if; Laugh lt off. Graft is there, but don't deny 1t; It's joke. You might start moral riot; Business might be injured by it. Keep a-smiling
 Puck.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

the situation. The country is unques- tionabiy under great obligations to him for what he did even though he had more at stake than any one else, but we submit that it would have been better after all perhaps had the life line been thrown out by a more re- sponsble and formal authority. To he obliged to depend upon the patriotism of an individual in such an emergen- cy is dangerous possibly as compared with the duty of a national bank of issue, At any rate there is enough to the suggestion to justify more consid- eration than congress appears to have time to give 1t.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
 Industrial Teaching for Roys,
CThe New York Times)

(The New York Times)
 In Berlin 55 per cent. of all the boys between the ages of fourteen and six teen are in the industrial schools. which are a practical combination of training school and shop. When they emerge from these institutions they are craftsmen. In New York and other cities of this country there are similar schools attended by only about one tenth of per cent. of the young male population. Hence arises the saying "Germany trains its youth for a voca- ton. the United States trains it's youth for d job" The National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education has a mission to preach the gospel of industrial preparedness to a nation that has too long relied upon it's vast nat ural resources in competition with the manufacturing states of Europe
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
MORE CONCLUSIONS.

This is world of change, and there seems to be little in it more change able than the "conclusions of emI- nent scientists. eminent phy sicians and other eminents. Awhile ago it looked as if the notion that typhoid fever came mainly from impure water was pretty well established. Nov II is not so certain One of the latest studies Of typhoid is that made hy pr Seston
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

In France agreements or coalitions netWeen manufacturers or merchants of certain merchandise for the purpose of establishing obligatory prices or pro hlbition of sales of goods are forbidden by the penal code But it is permitted to sellers who do not deal in the same class or kind of merchandise to sign agreements between themselves to es- tablish rules concerning uniformity of prices and general sales conditions. If the legal agreements are violated. the other contracting parties have the right to ask for damages. the amount oi which is established by the courts ac. cording to circumstances.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

Are women as happy as their grand mothers? asks an anxious inquirer, In some cases, we suppose, the answer 10 this would largely depend on where the grandmothers are
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

Eight hundred thousand dollars in counterfeit money seized, is one of the headlines. and it seems to indicate that, hard as it is to seize counterfeit money it is some easier than it ia to seize real money.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

Jay Morton. the wealthy banker of Chicago. Is hatching out a scheme tc turn desert country of Wyoming into great garden. where 10000 people may live and become independent. He Is going to irrigate the section. and when ready for cultivation he will sell the land at such a nominal sum that almost anyone will be able to purchase II they so desire
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

People still want gold II is predict ed from Tacoma that spring will see twenty thousand prospeetors and min CTS off for Alaska. and the Yukon Ter rltory The rumbrs of new gold
 strikes in inose. far northern parts continue. and the prophecy is that the tnsn VIII be the greatest since that to the ktondike ten Hears ago.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

MT Onion is a candidate for the senate in Texas, and the Houston Post will probably be found announcing that he is no cabbage head.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

Tuberculosis is much less common among coal miners than among other classes of people. According to the United States census statistics miners and quarrymen occupy third place in the scale of tuberculosis mortality only bankers and farmers being more i'm mune. Coal dust antagonizes tubercu- losls when already present. and many physicians have treated the disease by inhalation of coal dust
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

The man who has been arrested in London for having married five hun dred wives wasn't as wise as solomon was.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

The Bombay government has success fully experimented with bore holes for iTrlgating lands in the Ahmednagar district Twenty-three per cent. of the borings produced abundant water,
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

Paris is experimenting with a steel pavement. Many cities have expert mented with that kind of pavement.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

The best gear wheels have been sho"n ny the tests of British firm 10 be those msds from 2 high grade Man
 lia paper They are formed in LOCO ton hydraulic pressrs are stronger and more elastic than 6ast iron. lighter than
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

rawhide. noiseless, almost frictionless, and work without vibration.
The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-31

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-03
Rich Loot Of Jewels
in Tenderloin
Inmates of Notorious Resort Ara
Searched for Gems Taken
From Woman

Two large diamonds valued at $4,000
were stolen last Thursday from Roma
Graham. the mistress OF a notorious
establishment in Turk street The mat
ter was reported to Chief of Police
Buggy yesterday and. taking personal
charge OF the case. he detailed Police
man Moran and Detectives Bailey and
Lambert to make an investigation.
Suspicion was directed against the in
mates of the resort and. locking the
exits. the detectives began systematic
search of all persons in the house. Fiji
teen women and dozen men were sub
jected to rigid inquiry.Nbut no trace
was found of the missing gems.
The Graham woman called at the
central police station last evening and
was in conference with Chief Buggy
for an hour. She stated that she had
placed the diamonds in a small bag
which she carried in her stocking. She
said that she recalled that the jewels
were in their hiding place on Thurs
day night but was unable to find them
on Friday morning.
The gems were OF unusual size and
orill.ancy. Notifications have been sent
to the police stations on the coast in
the hope that they may be recovered.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1908-05-03
Paralysis Strikes Down
DIR. A. II. Voorhies
Famous Surgeon Becomes III
While Playing With His Lit
tie Grandchildren


DR.. Alfred Hunter VOORHEES,, one of
the best known surgeons in San Fran
cisco and prominent in the Pacific
Union club and the social world, was
stricken with paralysis late Friday
afternoon, and now lies dangerously III
at his residence, 2f11 California street
His recovery is doubtful.
DR.. VOORHEES, was taken i'll at his.
home while talking with his little
grandchildren. Robina and VOORHEES,
Henry. When he felt the. attack com
ing upon him the physician asked the
two little children to help him to his
room on the second floor. With great
effort they succeeded, Just as he
reached his bed DR. Voorhies fell un-
conscious. Physicians were sent for
and everything done to relieve him.
Mrs. VOORHEES, was spending the aft
ernoon in Berkeley with friends. and
when she returned for dinner was
Frustrated with grief His daughter,
Mrs. Katherine Henry, who has gone to
Monterey with party OF friends to
enjoy the festivities attending the ar
rival of the feet at that port, was
summoned By telegraph and arrived at
her fathers bedside last night
Mrs. VOORHEES, said yesterday that
the doctor had had a previous stroke
at Monterey II months ago from which
he had apparently fully recovered.