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The national forum., 1910-07-16
An Early Wall Paper.

On repapering room in brad-
bourne Hall, Derbyshire, in 1882, I
found, partly covered by an old oak
cupboard, considerable remains Of
quite early eighteenth century wall
paper, of pale gpeen tint, with tlow-
ing pattern in darker color on it..
This paper was made in squares Of
about twenty inches, and I was able
to rescue two or more complete
pieces 1t had been printed on rather
thick paper from wood cut blocks,
and each square was nailed up with
coarse iron tacks about one and a
half inches apart, each tack being
run through squares or washers of
brown leather, so that both tack
heads and washers showed all around
each square of paper. 1t is possible
that this wall paper was of late sew
enteenth century date.
Bradbourne Hall, in the lower
Peak, is pictureque house, almost
unaltered, of the time of James L.,
having been then fashioned from the
canonical house of the Augustins Of
Dunstable. 1t was just the place
"far from the madding crowd
where curious details of domestic
decorations would survive. Notes
and Queries.
The national forum., 1910-07-16
Cocoa Biscuits.

TWO cups or one pint of sifted -four,
three level teaspoonfuls baking pow
der, one-half teaspoonful salt, two
level tablespoonfuls sugar, four level
tablespoons cocoa, two level table
spoonfuls butter or lard, two-thirds
cup milk or enough to make firm
but not stiff dough. Sift all the dry
ingredients together, rub in the but
ter with the tips of the fingers, stir in
the required amount Of milk, turn
out on slightly Toured board, roll or
pat out the desired thickness, place
close together in pan and bake in
very hot oven ten or fifteen minutes.
Boston Post.
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Dropped Cookies.

One egg, one cup sugar, one-half
cup shortening, one cup milk (if sour
use one teaspoon soda; if sweet is
used, use two tablespoons baking
powder) and -four to mix stiff, but
not as stiff as for doughnuts; one
half cup raisins, one-half cup cur
rants, one.half cup nut meats, one
half cup chopped citron; drop by the
tablespoon, not too near together.
into we'll buttered dripping pan and
bake a tender brown--use half the
mixture this way, then to the remain
der add one teaspoon cinnamon and
one teaspoon of nutmeg and one-half
teaspoon cloves. Saves lots of work
by not rolling out and looks SO nice.
If they run together cut into squares
before taking from pan.--Frances
Jelinah, in the Boston Post,
The national forum., 1910-07-16
The British Situation.

A few friends were discussing the
political situation, and one Of them,
a Tory, was emphatic on the point
that while his party were quite ready
to resume the fight it would be repre-
hensible on the part of the Radicals
to raise the veto issue while King
Georges reign was at its infancy.
Your attitude" said an Irishman
in the little party, reminds me Of
two fellow countrywomen who We're
quarreling. One of the two, declar-
ing herself quite anxious TO fight,
snatched up her child and said de-
fiantly: Strike me now with the child
in me arms!' London Daily News.
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. WHEN ADVERTES
BEGAN.
: 0 o $50 ouv o o o o o o O o o o o 10 o o Q

M. Tn these times when adver-
tising ones business or wares has
been reduced to a fine science, it
would be interesting for one who is
engaged in it to know who was the
first to introduce it to the world and
when. I have several times sought
information on the subject, but never
with any degree Of success. Can The
Times enlighten me? a
Advertising in some form or other
is really as old as the institution OF
buying and selling In, the days of
ancient Rome and Athens merchants
were wont to employ 'barkers," OF
criers, who went about the streets
shouting out the wares and alluring
prices of their employers, They
howled about bargains" in those
days and caused rushes of trade, we
may suppose, just as the ADVERTISE
ments of to-day draw the throngs OF
shoppers,
Presently came written notices
that were displayed on blank walls
for the edifcation OF the purchasing
public. In the early days of London
the shopkeepers had clerks who were
stationed in front of the stores to
shout their wares much after the
fashion that used to obtain in Baxter
street, when the Darker" came into
his own. These clerks were wont to
preface their vocal advertisement OF
wares by shouting:
"What do we lack? What do ye
lack?"
The first genuine newspaper adver-
tisement of which there appears to be
any authentic record was printed in
The Mercurius Politicus in London in
January, 1862. 1t was publishers
announcement and read thus:
"Irenodia Gratulatoria, an Heroick
Poem" being congratulatory pane
gyrick for my Lord Generals late
return, summing up his successes in
IN exquisite manner. To be sold by
John Holden, in the New Exchange,
London. Printed by Tho. Newcourt,
/ 1852.
The new method Of letting the pub
lie know where it could get what it
wanted was quickly snapped up, but
in its early stages it furnishes some
most remarkable examples of adyer.jj
tising, One of these quaint notices,
appearing in London publication
soon after the introduction of-news-
paper advertising, reads thus:
THE PUBLICK WILL PLEASE
TAKE NOTICE.-There ran away
from my place on Thursday of last
week an apprentice boy, called Dick
Noodler, with smutty complexion,
and black teeth, and he is as ugly as
sin. Ten shillings deward will be
paid to any person bringing him back
to me.
Soon afterward this remarkable no.
tice appeared in Dublin newspaper,
supposedly one of the first newspaper
advertisements in Ireland;
RAN AWAY FROM PATRICK
McDALLAGH.-- Where's my wife,
Mrs. Bridget McDallagh, has gone
away with herself and left me with
her four small children and her poor
blind mother, and nobody else to look
after the home and house, and l hear
has taken up with Tim Gugan, the
lame fiddler, che same that wasNput in
the stocks last Easter for stealing
Bardy Doody's gamecock, this is to
give notice that will not pay for
bite or sup on her account to man
or mortal and that she had better
never show the mark Of her ten toes
near my home again.
PATRICK McDALLAGH.
NJ B.--Tim had better keep out of
my sight.
From the New York Times
The national forum., 1910-07-16
Obeyipg Orders.

: "A woman coming down the garden
walk was Mortified at seeing her son
standing on his head against the gar
den wall
Johnnie, yc wretch" she cried,
what are you doing now?"
standing on my napper," replied
Johnnie Didn't yer tell me to play
at summat that wouldn't wear my
boots out?"-Tit-Bits
The national forum., 1910-07-16
| THE <0 "
| r., PTCTJ RES X,
| CORNER -
Finnish Eggs.

For Finnish eggs, cream together
a tablespoonful Of butter and table
spoonful of flour and stir into a cup
full of canned tomatoes and add a
tablespoonful of minced green pepper.
Cook the mixture over hot water for
a quarter of an hour. Meanwhile
poach three eggs and toast three
slices Of bread. Put an egg on each
slice and turn the sauce over them.
Sprinkle with tablespoon Of minced
chives and serve very hot.--New York
Sun.
The national forum., 1910-07-16
Andy,s Punishment.

II the American people ever start in
to square accounts with the big men
who have been having fun with the
cubic the way with Andy Carnegie
Will be easy--give him back all his
libraries. Tip, In the New York
ip,yssH.
The national forum., 1910-07-16
Good Roads VS.. a Naval scrap.Heap.

Good Roads VS.. a Naval Scrap.Heap.
Warships of Uncle Sam to the value
of $50,735,7S9 are soon to go to the
crap-heap, according toLeslie's Week
ly, because in twenty years time they
have grown worthless and obsolete.
Eleven protected cruisers, three un-
protected cruisers, ten monitors and
a group of smaller and cheaper ves-
sells authorized since 1883, now go to
the naval cemetery, which means that
more than $4,000, 900 is virtually in
TERED. Styles and patterns in war
vessels change I@rennially. Should
these once sea teFroRs now go against
an ordinary enemy, they would be
knocked into mincemeat. Other and
more expensive types must take their
place.
Suppose half of that $4,000, 200
had been spent upon good roads
throughout America!
We should have had the foundation
If national auxiliary transportation
.,ystem which would annually mean
hundreds of millions of dollars to the
farmers of this country, and to every
class of population in this country.
Unlike warships, good roads do not
deteriorate, at least not into worth
lessness.
Men-of-war are built upon the ba-
sis of hypothetical usefulness. Good
roads are built upon reality.
The Appian Way, centuries old,
still stretches out from ancient Rome.
The Simplon Pass is practically as
smooth and firm as the day 1t was
laid,
Men-of-war crumble, the stupen-
dous fortune they represent yanishes,
while the mythical foe delays his COM
ing.
Good roads appreciate in value with
each month, pay their own up-keep
and return dividends amenabe only
to the computation of the decades.
The more than fifty millions spent
upon thesd effete vessels is the pre-
MUM the nation pays upon a peace
policy. In moderation that is essen
tial.
But tithe of that enormous pre-
MUM spent upon constructive poll
icy of highway development would in
its returns pay several times over the
cost of these decaying vessels in add
ing untold actualand potential wealth
| to the wealth to the nation. Atlanta
Constitution.
The national forum., 1910-07-16

For mixing concrete spade has
been invented with long, oval holes
in the blade, the perforations allow
ing the finer cement TO flow through
and give the face a finer finish.
The national forum., 1910-07-16

The blue geese, which have been
considered as mythical birds WI
many, have been found in large aocks
in some remote regions of the South
The national forum., 1910-07-16

%~@ @SeShs SS 700 G~rS@VN@NSS0
Waterways and Good Roads.
The custodians of the pork barrel
in Congress, or, as they prefer to be
known, trainers of the annual rivers
and harbors bill, have brought in a
measure proposing to eXpend the COM
ing fiscal year the sum of $52, ,000,-
900 upon waterways throughout the
country.
Senator Burton, chairman of the
National Waterways Commission and
an undisputed authority, is vigorously
fighting the proposition. He is
against piecemeal work, in the first
place, and, what is of more impor-
tance. he is entirely opposed to many
of these iridescent and impractical
projects.
No level-headed man objects, per
Sc, to the symmetrical Improvement
of waterways in this country Navi-
gable rivers and harbors are indispen-
sable factors in the equation Of trans
portation. We must have them IL the
development of the nation is to pro-
ceed unimpeded.
But legitimate waterways are one
thing, and pork barrel projects an
other, and vastly different, thing. 1t
is safe bet that forty per cent. OF
this $52 100000 is political pork,
pure and simple, expressed in projects
to widen impossible creeks or dredge
hopeless harbors, neither OF which
ever can or ever will figure in either
local or interstate commerce.
If half of this years proposed ap-
preparation should be diverted from
theoretic streams and hypothetical
harbors and spent instead on national
good roads projects, we should eXper-
fence national impulse toward pros
perity near incalculable.
Even conceding for the sake Of ar
gument, that every penny of this fab
ulous $4,000, 0,000-about the same
amount, by the way, thrown away in
obsolete warships now going to the
scrap-heap--is founded on reason, it
would still be incumbent on Congress
to provide at least proportionately for
good roads.
In their most highly developed as
poets, waterways can only benefit a
fraction of Americas population, De-
cent highways throughout the nation
benefit every class of population,
stimulating rural and urban develop
ment, lessening the exorbitant cost OF
living, increasing the national wealth,
so that in the near future the immeas-
urable drain of such luxuries as bat
tleships and academic waterways will
bear less heavily.
1t is the peoples money that Con-
gress is frittering away to reinforce
personal political regulations. To-
day the people are demanding that a
portion of the sums taken from them
in taxes be spent upon good roads--a
project interesting every man, woman
and child living and yet to be born in
this country. Editorial in the Allan
ia Constitution.
The national forum., 1910-07-16

Tt is computed that the tempera-
ture of the sun would be expressed
by $4,000 degrees of Fahrenheit's
thermometer or about ninety times
the temperature of boiling water.
This is about five times the tempera-
ture that man is able to produce by
artificial means. The light given off
from the surface of the sun Is reck-
oned as being $500 times more in
tense than that of the molten metal in
Bessemer converter, though that
is of an almost binding brilliancy.
Or, if we compare it with the oxy-
hydrogen flame, the sun sheds a light
equal in brilliance to light l46
times the intensity of the limelight.
New York American.
The national forum., 1910-07-16

One of the longest wharves in the
world, almost mile in length, or to
be exact, 400 feet, is at Port Los
Angeles, Cal. 1t extends into the Pa
cific in a long serpentine curve The
reason for this construction, says the
Scientific American, is that it offers
better resistance to the strong cur
rents and the buffetings of the waves
than if it were perfectly straight.
Until the nearby harbor of San Pc
dro was developed by the Federal
Government the big wharf at Port
Los Angeles was very busy place,
but of late it is comparatively seldom
used except by the Japanese fisher
men, who have formed colony along
the adjacent beach.
The national forum., 1910-07-16
Eggs with two yolks occur not un-

LESs WIIH lWU YUIhH UVCUT HUI UH-
sGlsQsnmonly, but eggs with three yolkSs
\! 2lS|glSIaaasaSG6Anallp care &loh an daSsI
was recently laid by barred Ply
mouth Rock pullet at the Maine EX-
pertinent Station, and is described in
some detail in bulletin recently is
sued. The egg was somewhat above
the average size, but no other abnor-
NAL feature was noticed.
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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
Wood LOO Hard to Burn.

There are certain kinds of wood that
are too hard To- burn or refuse to ignite
for some other reason. such as iron
wood anl IA, good hr.cr root, but 1t is
a curiosity 90 come across a piece cf
common Gca,-thc SOFT. light wood Of
viii IA $50 many boScs are made-that
cannot be set Gre to. The piece Of
wood iH question was common white
deal from Sweden. Gut was remarka-
bic for its comparative weight. II had
formed par, # "a boat belonging TO a
whalcr and bad been dragged below
the surface of the wafer to the deWA
of more than mf "a mile by bar
pooncd whale. The length of line aul
the short distance froM the point Of
descent after being struck at which
the whale rose u the surface was a
proof Of the depth 10 which it had
dragged the boat. Only part Of the
boat came Up again mt the end Of the
line, ANA IL was taken ON board when
the whale had been killed. That piece
OF wood was so hard that it would not
burn in a gas jet The weight of wa
ter had compressed it.-London Stand
ard
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
WOMEN BUILD ROADS.

Start Campaign For Better Highways
In Virginia, and Interest Is Spreading.
Women of the country sections in
many parts of the state of Virginia
have taken up the work of road build
ing. In Fairfax county as well as in
other counties this has been reported.
Miss Edith Thompson of Fairfax
county, pretty young woman, accom-
panied by her young sister and her
mother, recently reported that they
had built three miles of good roads
single handed while their men worked
on the farm. Other women in the
state, becoming interested in the CAM
paign for better roads. are following
this example.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
Saved From,Aw full Peril.

II lever felt so near my grave writes
Lewis Chamblin, of Manchester Ohio.
r. X. No, 3 "as when frightful cough
and lung trouble pulled me down to rs
pounds in spite of many remedies and
the best doctors. And that l am alive
today is due solely to DIR. Kings New
Discovery, which completely cured me.
Now l weigh 100 pounds and can work
hard. 1t also cured my four children of
Group" Infallible for Coughs and
Colds, its the most certain remedy for
LaGnppe Asthma, desperate lung
trouble ands all bronchial affections,
SOC and $l.00. A trial bottle free.
Guaranteed by Sever Drug Co.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
They Were "Over."

He was regular patron of the res
taurant. Perhaps that is why he felt
justified in making clever remarks to
the Mattresses. remarks which they
were puzzled to know how to answer.
One day, however. the smallest and
timidest girl happened to be serving
this irritating customer. and it fell to
her to answer him in kind.
"Tn have some steak" he said, COM
ing in late for dinner land some
squash, and some Got some baked
potatoes, fine, brown baked potatoesF'
Baked potatoes are all over" said
the girl
He leaned back in his chair and
gazed at her quizzically.
Baked potatoes all over, are theyT'
he replied. "All over what?"
with" she replied simply.-Youth's
Companion.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
Toast as Medicine.

"Did you ever wonder why toast is
recommended fer invalids?" said doe
tor. "The reason is that toast is predi-
gested bread.
what makes fresh bread trying for
invalids is the starch in it.
starch is very hard to digest. 1t
needs a good stomach to take hold Of
the soggy starch in bread and change
it to strengthening. stimulating dex-
trim.
But when you cut bread thin and
toast it brown the fire itself changes
the starch TO dextrin. That, in fact,
is what the brown color in toast indi-
cates-that the starch is gone and dex-
trim has taken its place. The stuff is
predigested.
$50 we feed our invalids on toast. a
dish as thoroughly predigested as any
Of the most famous breakfast foods"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
Some Good Roads Pointers.

Good roads mean as much as good
crops to the farmers.
If macadam roads are to be main
tanned at their best, the sprinkling cart
is a daily necessity.
The longer the delay in building good
roads the greater the cost.
Until produce is hauled to market it
sn't really produced.
II the road is poor good horses and
.ood vehicles count for little.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
Sleepless Nights

Many a nights rest is spoiled by
frequent fits of coughing-sometimes
by mere tickling in the throat that
is so annoying as to prevent sleep.
Kemps Balsam will cure coughs Iif
any medicine will, and will relieve
the irritation in the throat, For all
throat and lung troubles take Kemp's
Balsam. Druggists sellsit at S5c. and
SOC. a bottle.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
BY JOHN n. STUART.

Frankfort, Ky.-(Special.) 1T looks
as if the county unit extension bill
has been finally put to sleep by the
senate and that it will not become a
law at this session Of the legislature.
The first county unit bill was re-
ferred to the committee on religion
and morals two weeks or more ago,
but Senator Watkins had introduced
another one identical with the first
one. The first one was referred dur
ing the absence of Lieutenant Cover
nor Cox, and after he returned the
attempt was made to have the second
bill referred to a different committee.
The opponents of the bill had not
been idle in the meanwhile, and when
the lineup came they had a majority.
Lieutenant Governor Cox referred the
bill to the committee on Kentucky
statutes when it came up and Senator
Bowling of Anderson appealed from
his decision. A vote was taken and
his appeal was sustained by a vote
of IA nays to 16 years. Later motion
to refer the Watkins bill to the same
committee to which the first bill had
been referred was adopted by II to
10. The religion and morals commit
tee is conceded to be almost unani-
mously against the county unit bill,
so the two measures will likely never
be reported and if reported, will be
reported unfavorably. Both the Re-
publican and Democratic members
are responsible for the defeat of the
bill. for some Democrats and some
Republicans voted to send it to the
religion and morals committee. Mean
while a county unit bill is making
some progress in the house, as it has
been referred to a committee, has
been reported favorably and is on the
calendar ready to be voted upon as
soon as the bills ahead of it are dis
posed Of. If it passes the house and
comes to the senate, the chances are
that it will be referred to the religion
and morals committee, just as the
two senate bills were referred, which
means that it will not pass the SEN
ate.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
Served Him Riuht.

you're looking very gloomy today,
Tomkins. What's the matter?"
Matter. DO you know Miss Parno,
the old maid that lives over the way?
Dawkins told me that she was en-
gagged to him. so just for the fun of
the thing went and proposed to her,
and she accepted me. Now I'm look
ing for awkinsr'-London Tit-Blts.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
II. Dell. nOORMAN,
tiARDlNSBUP0. KY.
Attorney al Law,

wal prArJce his profession n all OF the
Courts Of breckenridge and adjoining cOun
er. Special attention gwen 30 collections.
road cases. and criminal practice. License
% practice nUntted It tCes Dlsttlct Courts.
Once Jver Bank OF HardinsOIrk.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
PUT To SLEEP
BY THE SENATE
County Unit Extension Bill In
Hands Of Its Foes.
WILL NOT PASS THIS SESSION

Influx of New Bills Of More or Less
Importance Continues In Both
Branches of the Legislature-ln-
creased Appropriation Wanted to
Prevent Spread of Diseases-The
GoebeI Fund.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16

bladder remedy, be.
cause of its remark
able health restoring
properties. Swamp
Root fulhlls almost
every wish in over
coming rheumatism,
pain in the back, kid
neys, liver, bladder
and every part of the
urinary passage. 1t
,~.~~o.,fe ,,oI;1tt- 20
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
NOTICE

Please do not ask us to publish card
of thanks, resolutions or obituaries free
Jno d. Babbage
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16
Do You Get UP
With a Lame Back?

Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everyone knows of DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16

fndoutif you have kid
ney or bladder trouble.
When writingmention
reading this generous
offer in this paper and
send your address to
n K.1.,,nr & CO
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16

For any pain, from top to toe, from
any cause, apply DR.. Thomas Electric
oil. Pain can't stay where it is used.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16

Binghamton, N. Y. The regular fifty-cent
and one-dollar size bottles are sold by
all druggists. Don't make any mistake
but remember the name, Swamp-Root,
DR.. Kilmer's Swanp-Root, and the adj
dress, Binghamton, N. Y, on every bottle.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-02-16

ton and where no intoxicants are al
lowed to be Sold but at the little
country games, where baseball Is
made the excuse for a lot Of people
to congregate and get drunk When
the bill was first introduced it caused
a fright amongst the city members,
but after Mr.. Smith said he would
agree to so amend his bill as to ex-
empt cities of the first four classes,
the baseball fans" felt much easier.
Anyway, it is assured that no bill
will pass that will interfere with le-
gitimate games in big towns and
cities where they are properly con-
Quoted.