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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-02-10
WHAT WE EAT.

An eminent statistican estimates
during the course of an ordinary life
ths average man will eat seven four
10, Sc loads Of food more than is
good for him. Not SO with an editor;
W. Just figured II out that since We
have been in the business We have
eaten two 4-horse wagon loads less
Than we should have eaten. Verify,
tho life of the country editor is hard.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-02-10
, IN a GENERAL WAY 4

Perkins was here from Mar
saturday
Give c II. Moore a share OF your
|yocery business
n,s Harris was In Union CITY last
tsr.da, on business.
T seale, Notary Public, at W.
oOdas' Lumber office.
% Ellison went to St Louis. on
.,e... first OF the week.
Al, n N smith was here from
,oa on business Monday.
w.. River Of No. = Island. visited
/. E.telc Roneau saturday.
rARPlNE for coughs and colds
Der bottle.-Helm a Ellison.
v- M A. Johnston and children
| .asd u brownsville. Tenn, this
D.
WANTED. small bottom farm. at
a,onabIe price. Address Hickman
Courier
Miss Bette DeBow spent Saturday
L. sunday with Mrs, neliow near
Dion cay.
Miss Wuifrcn Dclyecchlo. OF by
Lrmre visited Miss Annie Cowgirl
s seek.
vs. Matte DcBow spent Saturday
I'D sunday with Mrs. 81 Brevard. at
|lrurds Crossing.
No better candy made than Jacobs.
L eel it-al size packages.-Harris,
i, hickman Drug Co.
NJ A Dodds and family attended
D. funeral Of Mr. Reynolds In Union
|Cfy Sunday afternoon.
Ross Cheshire, OF Nashville. spent
|uyeul days here last week the
nea of Miss Mabel Wilson.
We want all the local news. II
yOu cannot see a reporter. call No.
|a-Cumberland or Home phone.
Nu clifford Adams left Saturday
righi TO visit few weeks In her
former home In birmingham. Ala.
Miss Ruth Lyon. OF Union City.
spent several days last week here
via Der grandfather. }. J. c. Bon
cgnut
Miss Crabtrcc. OF Nashville. the
nurse who attended J. J. c. Bondu-
nni Cor the last two weeks, returned
Sunday afternoon TO Nashville.
Fire broke out Sunday morning in
hf second story OF the building oc-
upIed by the Hickman Furniture Co.
What promised to be a big blaze was
quickly eXtinguished by loca fire
lighters The damage will only a
mount TO a few dollars. A defective
chimney was the cause of the fire.
No. 63.-For the man who wants a
snail piece OF ground just outside
ne city, We have just what he wants.
IRenly-sN 900 acres. on the Dyers-
burg road, ne miles from Hickman,
WIN good house. barn and outbuild-
lngs. For a limited time only We
nave ihg price OF $1,000. See us at
once-Courier Realty Co.
Thursday afternoon. from 2 TO
O'Clock. Mrs. G. h. Bond entertained
a number 90 friends at the LaClede
motel parlors Bridge was played by
ne guests. \ salad course and nuts
We're served. Those present were
Nesdamcs A. r. Kennedy, c. 2. Shu'
male =. b. Prather. II. N. Cowgirl. z
n Ellis on, C.. G.. Schlenker. A. X
, l.. A. Stone, G. l.. Walker. J
4 stephens and Misses Virginia Pra
urI Annie Ellison. Louise Atwood
annie Cowgirl and Marie Breyard.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-02-10
CONCRETE BARRELS.

4 young farmer recently invented
an ingenious device for making con
crete water barrels. He took two
wooden barrels of different sizes,
knocked the heads out of both, put
the smaller inside the larger and fill
ed the space between them with con-
crete. and a concrete barrel was the
r. salt.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-02-10
MULES I MULES I

We have about 60 head OF good
work mules. ranging from three to
eight years old. for sale. Also few
horses and good mares. VIII sell
either for cash or credit with good
note.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-02-10

1910 viii be a year of very high
prices. Flour. Meal, Bacon, Lard
and a few other things will be too
high TO use. However, II you should
use any OF these you will find ours
OF the very best quality and at prices
per cent lower than elsewhere.
Hickman Grocery Co.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-02-10

The Hickman Courier Realty Co..
will offer In a short time some of tn
prettiest building lots in Hickma =.
Watch for the announcement.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16
THE PRIMARY.

Denison Review: We dislike tho
primary. We have been in number Of
campaigns. We have helped to fight
the battle Of the grand old party, but
this is the first time we have been
constrained to antagonize our friends
and fellow workers. It has been pos
tive pain to see the GOODNESS grow
between those who have worked to-
gether for SO many years-to see whis-
pered conferences in which one was
not invited to share; to have CONVEX
sations suddenly cease when ono came
along; and in the same way to be
obliged to keep ones own plans from
those with whom he had been wont to
hold condolences. Three Of the best
friends we have were lined up on the
other side Of the controversy yester-
day, and for the past month we. who
have been almost as brothers, have
met wellnigh strangers. We shall make
1t our business to try to get back to
the old footing as soon as possible,
but such scars take long time to heal
and the game is not worth the es-
arrangements it caused. This Is only an
instance; throughout the entire state
this has been going on. 1t Is bad
enough to fight Democrats, but it is
beastly to fight among ourselves.
The primary is a farce. Each faction
goes back to the caucus idea. Two Sc
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hurt. Only the guitar, sounding mel.
low and deep toned, seemed In sym
pathy with the throbbing tyrant.
bound fast within his breast. my
heart, my soul, lore you"
For a long time, he sat there. his
eyes closed, oblivious to his sur.
roundings. So completely had he been
swept onward by the ever-increasing
current of his deep imAginings, that
when he opened his eyes. again, It
seemed that strangely familiar fig.
ure stood framed within the door.
way. The rising moon from without
enhaloed her soft brown hair, =
heavy cloak embodied her; her hands
reached outward, and even In the
shadows he saw the questioning won.
der Of her eyes.
She stepped forward, trembling and
half afraid. "Dick you haven't for.
gotten? I came with Ellen Du Val,
Lewis Pemberton's fiancee. Lewis
knew from the beginning. He told
me to find you here"
| The boys chair legs were still
tilted carelessly against the wall, his
mud-caked boots twisted rakishly
about them, his hands thrust deer
into his pockets. Though he had been
lounging thus for the last hour In
meditative abandon OF despair, he did
not feel the cramped unnaturalness
OF his position, nor the growing ache
across the muscles OF his back, 50
forgetful had he been Of his physical
self in the pain Of dependency.
Even now, confronted by the en-.
trancing little figure, he did not
\ mn wv q Y a w a
that it was but the embodiment Of
his dreams before him. Surely, II he
quivered a fraction Of an inch, tha
silvery shimmering Of the moon
crowned head would vanish utterly
into the fathomless nowhere whencs
mt had so suddenly arisen. Dreams
are good. He would go on dream
ing /!
"Dick. you don't understand. You
see father-father" The voice fal
tered, then continued brokenly,
Father died and there is no one td
care now. / thought that you might
still want me. Dick, and 80 ! came
He managed to stammer, as one
addressing a pleasantly shimmerins
but utterly impractical delusion. "Tha
Englishman!"
She laughed, 'Dick. foolish Dick
it was only rumor! Surely yos
never believed"
He stood then, his arms stretched
outward in great longing for pos
session, and she found her way to
them.
without, voice was raised, sweet
4 toned, melodious:
my soul, my lips. love you"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16
a knock down and drag out fight be
tween friends.
rrho NS&v Y0,,rpo1 oovo.

q hAOCh OOWA oAA0 AA06 SuS A9AS w
tween friends.
The Kansas City Journal says:
One Of the results OF the reform"
propaganda which has been pretty
generally discredited wherever it has
been tried is the district primary.
From several states come reports OF
dissatisfaction with the direct primary
as being an expensive and faulty form
of nominating candidates without pos
sessing any compensating virtues. The
chief trouble with the primary law, is
that poor man cannot have anything
like an equal chance with q rich one.
The man with plenty of money who
plays the game of politics for amuse-
ment can make an effective primary
campaign where the ordinary citizen
would fail. The time will come
sooner or later when the primary law
will be repealed in the states that
have adopted 1t, for the voters them
selves will realize what q hindrance 1t
is to good government.
Before the primary was adopted the
Courier repeatedly called attention TO
its belief that the primary law IN prac.
tice would not work out the benefits
claimed for it in theory. The candi.
date in the city has an immense ad-
vantage over one in the country, be
cause Of wider acquaintance and
through the advantages he has OF
reaching the voters of the congested
districts. The primary makes long
drawn out and expensive campaigns,
two campaigns in fact. and works up
feeling among the candidates that was
unknown under the old system. AS
has been pointed out previously it
gives the man who can spend money
for advertising and for personal work
ers great advantage over the man
who has not the means to make an
extensive campaign and has to leave
his candidacy to work itself out. The
means it provides for the arbitrary
selection of delegates Is another
weakness that counts against the prl-
mary,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16
MR. PINcHoT's souEAL.

Clifford Pinchot pronounced
Pinch-o) is certainly putting up hard
suueal because he go. fired. re IS
doing all he can to get up sympa'
Ghetto strike, but he does not seem
to be able to get much OF a stampede
started in his direction. He resembles
the comet In that he attracted quite
lot OF attention while, for day after
day, his public appearance was oelns
announced, but when once seen, seem,
ed a very small and dull affair and not
worth the space at the regular aover-
Using rate. But there was one very
commendable thing about the comet
It did not talk. They differ IN this re-
snect. Then they say that the comet
will be back in seventy-hve years.
That's another difference.
last Saturday night at st. Paul. the
ex-forester made a frantic appeal TO
make his listeners feel that he has
corner on about the only honesty now
known. During the previous admin
istration all the honesty was used up
and exhausted but one small COB, ana
when Taft was inaugurated. Gift grab
he'd that. and now has 1t costly tucked
away in a nice little cumfy box. with
4 little piece Of coal that escaped the
eve Of Guggenheim in Alaska. That
certainly was thoughtful of him, and
from what he says about the. matter,
he got there just barely IN time to
keep this virtue from becon1ng ex-
tinct. at least as far as + concerns
the human race, or that puEt q = mat
Is either in congress or-business- Oh.
YOU Gift: you certainlyssre tae candy
kid.
So. at st. Paul last Saturday night,
Giff took 1t upon himself % spsek tor
the whole nation, and 10 TOOK - tho
whole business in one .senfsnaA whan
he said:
"The people OF the UA1esd states be-
lieve that, as whole, - san1ee and
The house no longer represent the vot-
brs by whom they were sleched
Well, Gin surely Is eDan8 some
when he starts of by falling the peo-
Die of the whole Unl0od States what
thew believe, withouty 8ts4nE the afore-
said people any voiqe In the matter.
He is taking in SONS territory.
But then. Saturday night Il tho time
when lots OF men f1guDo that thay can
cover considerable territory, especial
y Il it is a little laks ia The evening.
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THE EVENING STORY 4
H1<s ~s5kS7~ - N<S1's''sSaSeS9E1441N@S1
HER SUFFERING SUITOR
BY Lawrence Alfred Clay.


Copyright 1910 by Associated Literary
Press.
Up to the age Of fifteen Roy Ches
ter could talk as fast and as well as
any youth in the land. Then the
shadow fell. He found himself in love
with a schoolgirl and began to slut
ter. The medical journals say that
such cases are rare, but are to be met
with occasionally.
Young Chester not only suffered
to the girl, but to his teacher, his
parents and brothers and sisters and
others. 1t was looked upon as q nov.
city at first; then it became serious
He could not say dog without
hanging on to the 3D." A doctor was
called in He examined throat
tongue, larynx and palate, and said
it was case where the nerves OF
hashfulness had overcome the nerves
Of cheek, or something to that effect
and he doubted II 1t ever could be
cured. The only thing that would work
a cure would be some great peril com
ing en- the victim suddenly so sud
denly as to stun him for moment
This would give sort Of bacis-action
twist to certain nerves, and muscles
and the stutter would take its de-
parture.
The youth suffered as the years
went on and he grew to manhood
That stutter kept him out Of society
It kept him from making new &C.
quaintances. It made recluse OF
him. Many Of his friends predicted
that he would commit suicide before
he reached mans estate, but this did
not occur. The victim lived In hope
In fact, he went about looking for the
great peril and sudden shock that was
to effect a cure. Whether 1t would
come In the shape Of q policeman bear
ing down on him with his club. reck.
less auto or . street car collision no
one could say.
Roy Chester was TWENTY-FIVE years
old when he was induced to become 9
pupil in suffering school in New
England town. In that same town
there was young ladies' school. and
in that school was Miss Minnie School
craft, only daughter Of the retired Col
Schoolcraft, Of Beech. Haven. Fate
sent her to the postofice one day when
Mr.. Chester was there. Fate caused
her to ask him II the noon mail had
gone out. OF came his hat. the blood
rushed to his cheeks and he suffered
out that he d-d-d-d-n't k-k-know.
+ It was the first time Miss Minnie
81 81
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16

The crop killer has been given Be-.
we're setback this year. Late in the
spring when heavy frosts, freezing
weather and snow gave the fruit Sc
we're setback, the crop killer declared
there would be nothing left this year
except gooseberries. However, we have
been getting home grown fruit on the
market right along and the supply
seems to be about as good as ever. It
takes more than freezing temperature,
frosts and snow to kill the crops when
the Iowa soil and Iowa climate get in
their summers work
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16

There Is a Aneku1'pgohss4 over the
primary elect0 IN. The primary
held last week wa the second since
the Iowa law went into o9ece and the
defects that 3ppsaRsa b the drse pri-
mary were multiplied rather than dt-
minished In the seeooA Following is
some of the comment of the press on
this question:
The Des Mqbnes C16tA1 says:
Something VII hnSs % % done in
regard to the primary election law.
It has done no practical good. Il has
not accomplished The purpose in
whose name 1t vas enacbed.
We are not in;AE.or OF its abolition
unless something better can be pro-
posed. But, ifzit = continued, it must
be made moro daAnfhe. It must be
guarded Ustter Ut III critical points.
Think orr. Two or three men named
all the. dslsgates from all the pre-
cincts u Ppak county. The delegates
thus named Win nominate in county
conventfha eour district judges. Three
Of these district judges now holding
ONCE had no voice in the naming OF
these delegates. Their fate was en-
IlT0ly III tuS uduuS VI OuC man VIZ
was himself q candidate for district
Judge.
The Denison Review, which is quot
ed more fully on this page says:
The primary Is farce Each fac
ton goes back to the caucus idea. Two
secret conferences take the place OF
one public, legalized caucus. The pri-
mary operates against the poor man.
He must make two fights-one in his
own party, causing wounds which are
hard to heal; the second against the
opposing candidate at the regular
election. The primary operates
against the farmer. The cities, where
the vote Is easier got to the polls and
where there Is a larger community OF
interest, will always win in a primary
contest. The primary offers no oppor-
tunity for compromise. 1t must be
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Last Friday evening Miss Roe Bayne
very pleasantly entertained several OF
her young trends at her home nsar
Eidon. Those present we're: Misses
Ruth Springer Edith. Baayen. Mabel
Steele, Marie Hilleary, Edna Beall.
Ruth Rea!l. Attic Fisher, Gertie Hem,
Ethel Warner, Ruah Enyart, lJa
Campbell, Vera Cunningham. Jessie
Gilbert. Messrs. VIII Warren, VIII
Hillery, Wilbur Humphrey. Arthur
Humphrey, Bert Warren, Bruce War
rem. Scott Siles, David Warren, Harold
Warren, Ralph Curtis, Lee Israel, Fred
Israel, Charlie Israel, Harry Long,
Floyd Cunningham, John Woods, Kern
Miller Lee Black. Clifford Cser1cr,
Harry Gilbert, Jesse Hern, Fred
Shank, Arthur Moore, Wayne Steele,
George Baayen, Foster Springer, Zen
Springer.
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HIS DREAMS.
BY EDITH GRAY.

Copyright, 1910, by Associated Liter.
airy Press.
Outside the shack Mexican half.
breed strummed his guitar and sang
in a voice inclined, to nasality, but
not utterly unmusical, the refrain Of
a popular song then much in vogue
at Vera Cruz.
Richard Marston, the young Ameri
can seated within, translated to him
self, my soul, my life, ! love you,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16

A southern editor who was COM
PEELED by few irate reauers literally
to eat an editorial clipping from his
papers that offended, has brought suit
for damages on the grounds that his
health has been damaged as result
of chewing and swallowing the
literary morsel.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16
THINKING FOR THE WORKERS

Over in Chicago certain well mean
ing persons have taken up the study
Of the working girl and are discus
sing various means of helping her to
enjoy herself At a meeting held for
this purpose Mrs. Raymond Robins, a
sociological worker, explained that
"the employer generally sees to the
directing Of work, but there Is no
agency that looks after the intelligent
directing Of healthful and proper re-
creation of the workers. especially Of
the girls" So Mrs. Robins and some
of her associates thought to supply
this deficiency Others who are
qouted in the Chicago papers as aid
ing Mrs. Robins in this matter were
DR.. Caroline Hedger, DR.. Josephine
Young, and DR.. Stephens Walker, who
do not seem, from the preflxes to their
names, to be working girls. Dr..
Hedger seemed to have more to Of
fer than the others, for she is quoted
as saying:
Dancing is a fine exercise, and 1
would urge it as a means of pre-
serving physical health. want to
warn young working girls, however,
against the Saturday night saloon
dance. We must have amusement
and recreation. We were not intend.
ed to stand with our nose to the
grindstone all the time We have
to have some fun in life, otherwise
life doesn't amount to much. Prize
fighting is not desirable"
The working girls will agree with
DR.. Hedger that saloon dancing and
prize fighting are not ladylike past
times. Then the doctor adds:
You could go out of an evening,
have great time and then come
home and feel very badly the next
morning. That isn't recreation, yet
that Is precisely what people do, be-
cause they don't know how to have a
good time. Swimming is fine Arm
of exercise and the pools in the small
parks afford excellent opportunity.
81 would urge extension Of choral
singing among girls. In recreation we
should do something different than
we do in our work. Do you know
that at union picnics of stockyards
workers sheep killing contests are
sheep every day and they should do
uOSI dHyCHluS else III plculC. Leu
them have a taffy pulling contest or
anything that makes them forget that
they kill sheep for a living
Another Of the women doctors warn
ed working girls against using head
ache tablets. Another advised them
to get plenty Of fresh air and sun
shine They did not have time evil
IDENTIFY to take up other matters in
which they thought they should adj
wise the workers, as there was nothing
said as to whether the working girl
should eat pumpkin pie or ham sand
witches for lunch, whether she should
or should not wear rats" in her hair.
These estimable people no doubt
mean we'll, but they are handling a
problem that is a trife too deep for
them. They do not seem to know
that the working girl, like the work
ing boy, is recruited from all walks of
life. They are attempting to treat
the workers as a class, and more or
less of an inferior class, that needs
some one to tell them how to play
as we'll as how to work.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16

Over in England, the papers are
spelling Packey McFarland's name
Mac. The Scotch are irving to steal
Packey from the Irish. If they sue
coed his standing in the society OF the
stockyards district may be jeopardized
when he gets back to Chicago.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16
HOW DAVENPORT DIp,T.

Years ago Davenport found that its
wards had grown so large that the
vote could not be counted in q reason
able time and it was hard to get men
to serve on election boards. The
wards were then divided into two pre-
cincts and relief was secured. Later
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16

David Rankin Jr. finds 1t necessary
to give away s3,000.0OO in order that
he may die poor. That is one feature
Of the worry problem that some of us
will escape.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-16

the growth Of the city necessitated
another subdivision of the wards. Dav-
export Is well satisfied with the
changes 1t has made and is. therefore.
In position to give some valuable
advice to Ottumwa The following
editorial reference to the situation In
Ottumwa by the Davenport Times
should be OF interest:
The absurdity of sticking to tho
ward as voting unit was illustrated
this week at Ottumwa. Election
Judges who went to work at Z O'clock
Tuesday morning did not complete the
work of counting the ballots in the
Fourth ward until Z o'clock Wednes-
day night, just sc hours after they
went to work. Some time ago tho
wards in Davenport contained only
two precincts and when the biennial
election law went into effect an equal
longtime record was made in one OF
the precincts of the city. 1t did not
require much discussion to show that
1t was necessary again to subdivide
the wards. Davenport now has three
precincts in each ward and the count
was completed in the slowest one at
1870 o'clock Wednesday morning,
Ottumwa should at once divide its
wards so as to provide for an early
count and also so that it will not be a
difficult matter to get capable men 70
accept positions OF clerks and judges
of election
It was II O'clock Wednesday night
and not Z o'clock when the Fourth
ward count was completed. This
made it forty hours. However, that
was not a circumstance to what hap
pened at the last general election
when they were still counting votes
Thursday afternoon, the third day
after they went to work. The election
this November may find Ottumwa in
the same fix unless action is taken be-
fore that time.
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SIS. s tEa 6 5gEAsE

Smooth, healthy
noyd with paples boi rshes or uptions while others suffer
All skin from huors and aods the
bunos the sensitive eabranous flesh which lies Just beneath the
and which breaks through the delsts uc
all acids and and Tor this nothing
completely every particle q the blood and n
allows soothe and soften the skin instead Of
medical THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA GA