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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-04

Unusual OUTLAWS like the cost of re-
building the Capitol and 100000 for
the Home for Feeble Minded are over
and done with and paid for.
Governor Fernald himself assures the
Journal that the next two years. with
these large and unusual demands on
the treasury out of the way. the State
will be in easier circumstances and less
money will in consequence be needed
Neither Democrats nor Republicans
need have any fear that Republicans
will run Maine into any wild excuses
of expenditure. They have not expend-
ed, or will they plan to expend dollars
which Maine cannot easily pay
Every town in every county of
Maine is better off today for Bert Fer
maid having been Governor two years
Look at your roads. your schools.
your hospitals; learn how the State
helps pay their cost and you will dis
cover the fallacy and mischief and
bluff in this cutlery of Democratic ora
tors and press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-04

Wilder F. Reed of Boothbay Harbor
is superintendent of the Santa Clara
Division of the United Fruit Co. at
Llmon. Costa Rica. He was there
during the May earthquake which de-
stroyed Carriage city founded in
1864. Carriage had $4,000 population,
most of whom were killed or manned
by the earthquake.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
The Fellow That's Doing His Best

There's song for the man who islucky
and bold,
For the man who has fate on his side;
There are cheers for the folk that are
jngling the gold
And are drifting along with the tide.
But the man who is striving to get to
the land
And facing the hungry waves crest
We quiet overlook, for we don't under
stand
The fellow that's doing his best.
But he has his rewards when the story
is done,
Though we smile as he plods on his
way.
For his own self-esteem is the prize he
has won,
AS obsecurely he's stood in the fray,
And he knows the affection of home and
of friends
And the pleasures Of honest-earned rest;
There are peace and good will, as the
twilight descends,
For the fellow that's doing his best.
Washington Star.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03

number of her friends Saturday even.
ing. Music and refreshments were en-.
joyed by all.
Among the many improvements of our
community are Jim Hurts, addition to
stock barn: II. II. Norton, building
stock barn; T. b. Henderson, building
large tobacco barn; John Lyddan,
painting residence; Thos. Lyddan,
painting residence.
The best ball games of the season
was played Saturday on the Webster
grounds. Webster against Norton's Val.
ley and the score was S to ! inWebster' S
favor. Webster's batteries, Henderson
ard Bandy; Norton Valley batteries,
Robbins and Ditto. This is our second
game with the Valley boys and now
stands one and one. The deciding
game will be played in the near future.
The Valley boys are all nice quiet
boys and it's pleasure to cross bats
with them.
The game was umpred by Mr.. Elain
Roberts. His decisions showed a know
ledge of the game and good judgment
was displayed throughout the game.
The old Bachelors club met We'd
nesday evening and passed the follow
ing rule: That during the summer
and fall season, any one of the thirteen
members caught retiring before ID
p. m. should be fined S.. for first offense
and SO. for second proceeds to 60 to
the old maids house. These rules do
not apply to honorary members past 90
years old.
If the best is not too good for you
Lewisport Best flour is the flour you
ought tou
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
WEBSTER
Fine Ball Game Between Webster
And NOrtOn's Valley Satur.
day.--BachelOrS Pass
Resolutions

Miss Mary Mercer who has been
visiting in Louisville returned home
Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Adkisson. of Lodiburg,
visited Mrs. H. G. Stewart Sunday.
Mrs DR.. Hendricks and Mrs. Il. c.
Haddock, visited relatives in Meade
County, Monday.
Miss Pearl Mayes, who is teaching
at Raymond spent Saturday and Sun
day at home.
Miss Turpin, Of Kosmosdale is visit
ing Miss Lizzie Hall
Herbert Drane is in Louisville, the
guest of his brother, Thurman.
Miss Myrtle Lyddan entertained quiet
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
BIG SPRINGS

Miss Edith Peasson of Louisville is
the guest of Miss Myrtle Moorman.
Miss Cathrne Jones Of Henderson is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Ada Mea-
dor.
Miss Lena Payne Of Stephensport
after spending a week with her aunt,
Mrs. Sallie Morris, has returned home.
Mrs. c. H. Strother, of Greensboro
is visiting relatives.
The ladies cleared S45. at their ice
cream supper, July %.
Y H. Meador was in Louisville last
week.
Miss Ada Meador and brother, Gale
entertained the following from Thurs
day till Tuesday with house party:
Misses Babe Ketchum, of Louisville;
Lottie Ketchum, of New York; Dora
and Minnie White, of Elizabethtown
Catherine Jones, of Henderson; Misses
f. A. Smith, Guy Meador and Winfield
Scott: of Louisville.
Mr.. Timdal of Garrett spent Friday
with his daughter Mrs. Jack Collins.
Miss Ada Meador entertained Mon
day evening with lawn fete for her
house party.
Miss Pattie Cox will entertain the
local club Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Hardaway Join
ed Mr.. Clint Crutcher's party Tuesday
for trip to Niagra and other points.
Miss Maggie Scott of Louisville is
with her aunt, Mrs. Sallie Morris.
Rob Richardson of Brandenburg and
Holten Ditto of Louisville were guests
of the Misses Cox, Sunday.
Ditto of Hardinsburg was here in
the interest of the Breckenridge County
Fair.
Messers Taylor and Penick called on
Misses King and Cox, Sunday.
Henry Reitz, Harry Derauf and Jack
Millnard of Louisville were the guests
of Mrs. J. D. Meador, last week.
Mrs. Julia Clarkson left Tuesday for
Lexington, to visit her brother, Gus
Richardson and then she goes to Olym-
pia springs.
Miss Madge Meador has returned
after a visit of several weeks with
relatives at Louisville and Elizabeth
town.
If the best is not too good for you
Lewsport Best flour is the flour you
ought to use.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
MINNESOTA SKIPS
YEAR OF TAXATION
Unprecedented Situation Pre-
scented In That State.

There won't be any state taxes in
Minnesota in 1911. The state govern
ment's expenses will all be met by the
huge surplus in the state treasury.
NO state taxes is an unheard-of
thing. The condition is supposed to
be without precedent in the United
States, as it is in Minnesota. On Oct.
l there will be surplus of $4,000. 600
in the state treasury. 1t is expected
that Oct. l, 1911. will show surplus
of $l,700,000 after all the government.
tai expenses for the year have been
paid.
The unusual amount of money in the
states cash box is due to the settling
OF a number of lawsuits, the lumber
cases, the gross earnings tax cases.
the Kennedy inheritance tax affair and
other extraordinary revenues coming
up from court decisions.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03

Joys Of The Press, IS cents the
copy.-News Office.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
DEFALCATION WIPES
OUT ENTIRE SURPLUS
Loss TO Big Louisville Concern
Is Growing.

1t is now declared that August
RopKe, assistant secretary and book
keeper of the Fidelity Trust company,
one of tae soundest financial institu-
tons in Louisville, Is believed to have
made away with $1,140,000, the entire
surplus of the concern, according to a
statement made by John W. Barr,
president of the trust company.
The defaulting official has been lock-
ed up for ten days. unable to furnish
bail in the sum of $4,000. Ropke was
a heavy speculator and lost large
sums, it is said, on Wall street and the
Chicago board Of trade.
The question was put to Mr.. Barr:
Does this amount represent Ropke's
net defalcation?"
Il can only say to you," replied Mr.
Barr, that the entire surplus of the
company has been wiped out" Mr..
Barr said that the stockholders had
been advised of the entire situation.
They were told that the capital stock
OF the concern was intact. but that the
entire surplus was gone as result of
the defalcation.
The loss through this defalcation
will be met by an issue of stock.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
LUST OF BLOOD
2 ACTUATED MOB
wholesale killing Of Usgrues
b. Down In Texas.
;..s....a.
MORE THAN TWENTY SLAIN


With No Nearer Ground Than a sus.
pieion OF Possible lneendiarisn,, Mob
Forms Near Palestine and Ruthless
Rode About the Country, Staying IN
resisting Negroes Wherever They
Were Met, on Road or In Field.
A posse of more than hundred
armed men has been securing the
country around the Slocum and Den
son settlements in the Palestine (Tex)
neighborhood, hunting for negroes and
white men who were involved in the
racial trouble that led to the slaughter
OF more than twenty negroes Saturday
and the night before. A COMPANY Of
militia from Marshall and detchment
Of rangers from Austin haye also ar.
rived and are In control of the situa.
ton. The slaughter Of the negroes
was not the result OF any race war,
though the feeling which the wholesale
killing engendered threatened for a
time ta cause an uprising on the part
OF the negroes of the two places. Mobs
OF white men started out early Friday
night and rode from cabin to cabin,
calling out the negroes who had been
marked for the slaughter and shot
them down in their tracks. This work
OF carnage continued all Friday night,
and with the dawning of a new day the
lust of the mob for blood semed to
increase. Negroes we're shot and
killed on the roads and in the fields
where they were working, despite the
prayers and pleadings which they
made that their lives be spared
A pile of twenty dead bodies of vic
Tins have been scattered on the roads
and over the country 1t may never be
known how many more negroes were
killed in out-of-the-way places where
their remains may never be found. So
far as learned the negroes who we're
killed offered no resistance to the mob.
The wholesale slaughter Of negroes was
brought about by the report that reach
ed the ears of white men of the Slocum
community that secret meetings OF the
blacks were held at which plans were
formed for burning the barns and resi-
dences of certain white citizens.
A number of white men who are al
legged to have belonged to the mob will
be arrested and placed in Jail.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03

profit by the discovery of America and
whose adventures were the first TO
bring home the fruits OF the new world
This disease has been brought prom
inentlv before people of this country in
the last few years because of the enor-
nous increase of it in the South Allan
tic States 1t was so suddenly brought
to our view, that it is spoken of as a
new disease while it really has been
studied and described accurately for
over one hundred years
That it comes from corn is certain,
but not from our kind of corn. There
is an Arabian corn that seems to have
deadly results. 1t is of stunted growth
|, and every grain is incased in shuck
Three colonies have settled in this
county and brought with them this
Arabian corn. One colony settled near
Mobile, Alabama. They were practical
ly wiped out by Pellagra. Another
colony settled in South Caroline. The
disease is prevalent there. Still others
built town in Northern Illinois near
the Wisconsin line. PellaGra appeared
there. But many experts believe that
American corn will produce it also.
d. c. Silver wrote an article entitled
Corn and Pellagra. he says, "Where
corn is not eaten Pellagra does not ex-
ist." That does not mean much for
where corn is not eaten, few people ex-
jst.
He says further, "The eating of good
corn or corn meal will not produce Pei
lagra." Scie ntists believe that for
there is practically no Pellagra in the
great corn producing states of Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Kentucky and
why' Because they produce good corn
and the people do not eat the musty,
mouldy stuff that those in the hot eli
mates consume.
On other grain notably rye, a spur
forms that causes as dread a disease as
Pellagra. 1t is ergot and the microbe
is in diseased grain just the same as
this microte is in diseased corn.
The corn of the Southern States is
not so good in quality as that of the
Western and Northern States. 1t is
softer, contains larger proportion of
water and rots more easily Millers
say that tee Kentucky corn is drier and
makes better meal than any other corn
and that it is because the climate of
this state allows more perfect masur-
ity of the grain.
DR.. Silver says that the bulk of the
spoiled corn of the United States is
shipped to the South Atlantic and Gulf
States and what does not go there goes
to Southern Europe and it is in these
localities that the disease fourishes.
The disease in corn fed cattle and
horses has been observed by citizens n
the Southern States. 1t is much like
Pellagra in man. 1t is characterized by
loss o. hair, rough and ulcerat skin,
emaciatien and a condition known to
farmers as blind staggers. 1t is sig
nihcant that this condition appears in
animals fed or bad corn. So it is the
concensus of opinion that bad corn will
produce 1t but that those who eat good
corn are safe. -Danville Messenger.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
MCGAVOCKS

The heavy rain which fell here We'd
nesday night did great deal of dam
age.
Misses Zelmer and Elena Bates and
brother Willie, of Patesvile spent Sat
urday and Sunday at the home of their
uncle. Mr.. John Beatty and family.
Joe Simmons is at home with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Sim
mons.
Miss Alta Beatty, who is teaching
music here spent Saturday and Sunday
at the home of her uncle, Mr.. George
Beatty of Victoria.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
WHAT is PELLAGRA?
Disease OF Which Woman in Perryve Died, Has
Puzzled Scientists for Over a Century Caused
by Eating Musty Meal
THIS CASE IS THE SECOND in KENTUCKY

Laura Bottoms, the negro woman OF
Perryville, who has been i'll of Pellagra
for several weeks, died Wednesday
night. There can be no doubt that she
was afflicted with this dread disease
Every symptom, the eruption, the hard
ness of the skin and even the mental
unsoundness that follows in the wake
of the disease, were found in this case.
There has been only one other case in
this state. That was at Nicholasville
last winter A woman of that town
died of it. The people OF Boyle County,
like those in all other parts of the
United States, know very little of this
disease. In fact they never heard of it
until recently but It was well known 10
Spain so years ago, Casper Casal, a
Spanish physician, wrote treatise on
it in 1862 and Scientists say that the
disease, known and treated by this old
spanish doctor century and half ago,
was exactly that of which Laura Bot
toms died on Wednesday.
1t is conceded by those who have
studied the disease that t is caused di-
rectly or indirectly by the eating of
corn. Every man, woman and child in
this county eats corn, so a few facts
about this dread sickness will not be
amiss here.
The scientists feel sure that corn
causes il but they do not know why.
They are puzzled but are working it
out.
AS told above in 1863 Spanish doc
tor accurately described the disease
which was at that time called Pellegra.
1t is interesting to NOTE that Indian corn
was first introduced into Spain about
1890. From this period to the present
time there has been a great and wide
spread prevalence of the disease in the
along both shores of the Med
iterranean Sea and its islands.
Its increase was so alarming that the
Italian government in 1880, took steps
to improve the condition of the peasan-
try especially in their hygienic habit.
AS result there has been a remarked
decrease in the disease there. The
peasantry alone needed that improve
ment for in that country as we'll as in
this, the disease affects only the lower
and poorer classes, just those portions
of society which would naturally be re-
duced physically, and whose habits of
diet and hygiene laid them liable to all
sorts of infections. 1t would seem that
the disease affect only the people of
warm countries but few cases have
been known in England and in our
northern states.
Experts differ on the source of Indian
corn. Some claim that it originated in
tropical Asia and from thence was in
troduced into China, Turkey and Eu-
rope admitting at the same time, that
it was re-introduced from America after
the first voyages of Cortez and Pizarro,
others maintain that corn was never
heard of in any part of Europe until its
introduction by American explorers in
the latter part Of the seventeenth CEN
fury.
However that may be, it is inignif-
cant that this disease was first described
by the Spaniards, who were the first to
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
LoOses Fine Cow

Fred May, the dairy man, lost fns
cow last week.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
Young Woman Admitted
To The Bar

Miss Mary Elizabeth Irwin, daughter
of Judge J. d. Irwin, of Elizabethtown
underwent an examination in law be-
fore Judge l. H. Thurman and two
other lawyers, in Greensburg on Tues
day Of last week. Passing very credit
ably she was admitted to the bar -
Bardstown STANDARD
Miss Irwin has gone to Chicago where
she will enter the law Office of her
sister
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
Free Tuition.

All eligable persons are entitled to
free tuition in the Western Kentucky
State Normal School. The Fall Session
begins September 6, 1910. Write Pres-
dent II II. Cherry, Bowling Green, KY,
for information.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
NOTICE

We hereby notify all concerned that
no traffic will be allowed through my
farm, known as the Rice farm. Any
person found taking water from this
place or trespassing upon it will be
prosecuted to the full extent OF the law.
NJ. Nielsen.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
Mrs. Burdette Better

Mrs. w. R, Burdette, who has been
i'll of malaria since March. was in town
Monday. Her friends are glad to learn
she is able to be out again.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-08-03
NOTICE

Please do not ask to publish card
Jno. ID. Babbage
Arizona republican., 1910-07-06
A SENSE OF HUMoR.

One of the requisites of a good home maker is sense of humor., and no matter how good a cook or how excellent manager a woman may be. unless she possess a sonse of humor she will fail of the highest ideal If anybody in the wide world needs this sense, it is the housekeeper, who has to be so many things all at one and the same time. Blessed is the woman who can see the humorous side of the situation. We can all look back and laugh at the annoyance of a year ago, over which We shed bitter tears. as now it appeals to us distinctly as hu- morous How much better it will be If we exercise that sense at the right time. woman invited her minister and his wife to dinner on Thursday evening, but her good husband deliv- cred the invitation wrong or the min ister's family misunderstood for they arrived on Wednesday, The surprised hostess was equal to the occasion, and being a forehanded woman and con ducting her household on system. the meat loaf and the custard were al- ready prepared. She served a dinner minus the nice little delicacies she had planned. She might have raved and fretted, but she saw the humor of the whole situation If there is a gleam fof humor in anything. find it and save yourself many~a wrinkle.
Arizona republican., 1910-07-06
HOSE TEAM RETURNS
 WITH BROKEN HEART
But the SaIve of Hospitality Has
 Greatly Balmed the Wound.

The Phoenix hose team returned home from Bisbee last night, tired and fairly happy. but a bit discOnsolate over the loss of the big hose race. They have dnly words of praise for the Bisbee people and the firemen es- pecially, who treated them royalty and gave them the best there was in camp. Phoenix money was not worth two cents on the dollar The fine spirit of hospitality took considerable of the sting out of the defeat in the hose race.
 Concerning that, the verified time of the winning team. Bisbee. was 25 1-5. Lowell was second, in 25 2-5. In the Phoenix test the team ran 100 yards in the plug in II seconds flat, and in F seconds more, or a total of g seconds, 15O feet of hose had been laid and plugged and coupling broken, ready for the nozzle when the water, liberated too quickly by the plug man. rushed through the hose under a pressure of TAO pounds and drowned the nozzle men.
 If the plugman had been more de- liberate in watching the water the victory could easily have been won in 24 seconds. This is not mere theory, but vas demonstrated in the preceding unofficial trials. In these trials the boys did not test their speed in run ming to the plug, as they did not care to give it away, knowing they could make that part of the run in II sec Onds any time. But they had three tryouts, timed from the plug to the moment of getting water. and the time ran from F to 13 seconds, so they know just what they could have done had everything worked right for them
 In the 100-yard foot race c. w. Bos- well, a Bisbee man, won; Ed. Luke of Phoenix, taking second money. The time was 10 25 for 102 yards, both men being penalized two yards for starting ahead of the signal
 The Bisbee and Lowell teams. as well as the Douglas team. which also failed to win anything. announced that they were coming to the tourna- ment in Phoenix next fair time. The Phoenix firemen hope then to be able 10 return a like measure of hospital ity.
Arizona republican., 1910-07-06
THE TouGHs OF OGDEN.


 ogden, Utah, July 5.-Jack Johnson was greeted by a crowd of 5000 peo- pie when the train to which his pri- vatecar was attached pulled into Og- den. Johnson appeared upon the plat form and in response to desultory cheering. said: Well, people, l turned the trick and I'm going back to Chi cago to my old mother"
 After shaking hands with a few col ored admirers, Johnson returned to the car and seated himself in an open window beside his wife. Three burly young toughs walked up to the open car window and, applying a vile epi- thet to Johnson in the presence of his wife, dared him to come to the platform. Johnson started to his feet, but one of his companions drew him down again. The young toughs rushed to the rear platform. where one of them was met with a kick from the foot of one of Johnson's trainers and mouthful of tobacco juice full in the eyes. Officers rushed up and forced the crowd back. The doors of the car were locked and the conductor waved the engineer to pull out. Sev- eral threats of shooting were made by the tough element of whites that had gathered in the vicinity of the car.
Arizona republican., 1910-07-06
TONS OF DIAMONDS.

It is not, perhaps. within the bounds of probability that diamonds will ever be as plentiful as their non- crystalline relatives, which, if not so ornamental, give us of their best in the form of caloric. Yet the crystalline variety must be with or around us in plenti- tude greater than most of us dream of, says Chambers Journal It has been affirmed (whether truthfully or not must remain an open question: that prior to the opening up of the Kimberley mines in South Africa, a bushef measure would have held the worlds supply of gems under refer ence which had been won.
 Since 1870 the deficiency has been remarkably we'll made up. for during the Is years between that date and 1889. some 46,OOO.OOO of carats, ap- proximately, for no estimate of illi- city disposed of stones can be offered were won in Kimberley and sur rounding districts. having the statis- tical value of s56,O00,O ,OOO A trifling