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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
Shiidrop Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
Q a 3 TO RIA
The Greatest Year for Giving.

A summary of large public bene-
factions In the United States during
1909 gives a total of s141, 250,0
which is $40,000,OO0 beyond amy
former year and double the aggregate
OF 1908. A third of the amount was
bestowed on public education, which
has always figured at the head of the
list. Some of the gifts are from per-
sons who he'd exceedingly simple and
quiet lives and whose wealth proved
to be much greater than was sup
posed Their plans to dispose of 1t
were also unknown until their wills
were read. During the last decade
large benefactions in this country
have exceeded $SO0,OO0,0O0 a fact
that will be viewed as surprising in
any other nation. The movement on
this scale is distinctly American.
Something must be credited to the
fact that this is the wealthiest coun-
try in the world, but other races are
rich and not disposed TO give TO any
thing like this extent. Gifts in the
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11

boots and looked the ground over care
fully before taking step. They found
snakes in abundance and the numbers
OF the rattlers got on their nerves.
After killing five unusually large
snakes the party chose large flat
rock near the waters edge and well
out of the snakes habitat for a
resting place.
One of the hunters is a professor in
a New York college. He dosent
teach natural history and his knowl-
edge of outdoor life Is not very lex
tenslve. AS he sat munching a sand
witch cicada set up It's shrill cry. t.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
Will SUPPORT
JUDGE O'REAR
Ex-Mayor Woods Will Line
Up Against Machine.
Writes Letter to Louisville Herald
Outlining his Position in
Coming Struggle.

Former Mayor Clarence E. Woods,
of Richmond, KY, know the State
over as one of the cleanest men in
politics, writes the Louisville Herald
the following letter i'm praise of its
Third House" series:
Richmond, Ky, Feb. 2S, 1910.
Dear Sir-The Herald is doing right
now the best service ever pre-
formed for the State by a Louisville
daily to prevent the present Legis-
lature from going down into history
as a political halUlot-the debauch-
ed victim of profession lobbyists. You
correspondents at Frankfort, r. +.
Dundon and S. ]. Duncan-Clark, are
holding up the mirror TO the men
who are on the verge of political sui
eide and moral dGmnar.on by their
subserviency to he Third House in
fluences.
Your men have done fine work in
painting them scars and all" and
the State is becoming aroused to
the charges that some OF our lleacons
and elders in the Legislature are
the charges that some of our deacons
and elders in the Legislature arc
suffering their political conduct or
private characters to be soiled by the
odious attributes of double dealing,
falsehood or hypocrisy. And an
outraged State looks on with horror
and anger.
My party declared for the coun-
ty unit bill in it's campaign hand book
and on the stump, and in our party
papers, but such seems not to be
binding on such statemen as Lillard
Carter, and those who had no higher
commission to discharge in this Leg
islature than to serve the liquor in
terests. If party pledges are thus
by our own men, what
hope is there for relief for the over
whelming majority of Kentuckians who
favor the county unit except to go
a step further and put the distilleries
and breweries clear out of operation?
The line OF battle is forming for
Statewide prohibition. The liquor
will pull down the temple up |
on himself with stolid indifference |
of his ilk.
Lay on, McNutt, and damned be
he who first cries, hold, enough" | |
have never voted anything but the
ticket, yellow dogs and !
all. If the Democratic party lets
Whallen, Linn and Combs, Klair and
The distilleries and breweries dictate |
our nominee for Governor, | will
spoil CD my political record by takin !
the s'ump from The Big Sandy to che |
Purchase and beg temperance Demo-
Gratis 10 clean up house by electing |
Judge O'Rear, the ideal temperance
man in public life in Kentucky.
The time is ripe, yes, rotten ripe
for change!
Then let it come. For men in earn
est have no time TO waste
fig leaves for the naked
truth"
Respectfully,
CLARENCE E. WOODS,
EvMavOr
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11

Still holding firmly to the sand
witch the professor gave a wild leap
that landed him in the lake The
cold water and the laughter of his
friends restored his reasoning facul-
ties but he is still of the opinion
that all the snake skins in creation
would not tempt him to visit Rattle-
snake again.
The beauty OF the island has caais-
ed many people to covet it ans the
site for a summer home, ana the
suggestion has been made 10 import
herd of hogs TO externnimate the
snakes.-New York Sun.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
The Lash Of a Fiend

would have been about as welcome
to A. Cooper of Oswego, N. Y, as a
merciless lungrackdng cough that de-
fled all remedies for years. at was
most troublesome at night" he writes,
nothing helped me till used DR..
Kings New Discovery which curted
me completely. l never cough at
might now. Millions know its match
less menit for stubborn colds, obsti-
nate coughs, sore lungs, lagripe,asIth-
ms, hemorrhage. Group, whooping cough
or hayfever. lit relieves quickly and
never fails to satisfy. A trial con-
vinces, SOC sL0O Trial bottle free.
Its positively guaranteed by all drug
gists. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
Reward for Dog.

/ will give SIS reward for apprehen-
sion and conviction of theft who stole
my dog, fox hound, white and black
spotted with red ears, black spot on
center CT back, white legs with red
with white. Answers name
of Spot. LON STEVENS.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
Poor Luck in Matching.

Chilled eggs are responsible for
ndne-tenths OF the poor luck in
Matching. The best plan is not to set
hens or incubator until eggs can
be had that are not chilled. Quite
often it means waiting only a week
longer.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
A Man of Iron Nerve.

lndnmitable will and tremendous en-
ergy are never found where Stomach,
Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of
order. If you want these qualities
and the success they bring, use Dr.
Kings New Life Pills, the matchless
regulators for keen brain and strong
body. 25c at all druggists. m
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
SECOND CLASS
MAIL MATTER
Opinion of The Press on De-
partments Position.
Sr
Magazines Filled With Advertise
ments Declared Responsible for
Deficit in Postal Service.

Philadelphia Suar-"The Govern
ment carries magazines and other
periodicals. through the mails at the
absurdly low rate of one cent per
pound. Some of these publications
put forth more than a pound in each
issue, and as it cost the Postoffice
Department more than nine cents a
pound to defray the railway fares it
is apparent on the face of it that the
Government sustains an enormous an
nual loss as result of dts generosity
in this direction
WHY SUCH A DIFFERENCE?
Chicago Trribune-"Why does it
cost 50 much more TO carry maya
zines from New York toe hicago in
a car marked u. S. Mall than in the
following car in the same Urain
marked 'Express?'
DUE no HEAVY MAGAZINES.
San Francisco Chronicle-"The
newspapers, whether good, bad or in
different, do carry intelligence to the
people. From day 10 day they give
the history of the day before, col
lected at great cost. The magazines
do nothing of that kind To the eX-
tent that they are good magazines
they give useful comment. but the
great mass of the cheap magazines
give actual or avowed fiction, which
as not deserving of any public sub
sidy' whatever. For most of the year
the greater part of their bulk is adj
vertisements and the real motive of
their publication is the circulation of
advertising matter at one cent a
pound
COST OF MAGAZINE CARRIAGE.
Baltimore American-"The deficit
arises, it is declared, from the low
rates no a particular rate OF second
class mail matter and upon the rural
delivery service. IL is pointed out
that magazines and other periodicals,
exclusive of the daily newspapers,
comprise about sixty per cent. OF the
second class mail. The average car
riage distance of magazines is about
a thousand miles and the average |
cost to the Government for hauling |
alone is more than five cents a pound |
1t is tentatively suggested that the
length of haul should be regarded in |
fixing the rate for second classma t.
ter."
CREAM TO EXPRESS
Chicago Tribune-"It appears that
the Postoffice Department, not being
run on business principles, has al
lowed the express companies to take
the cream while it has reserved for |
itself the skim milk. 1t has acqui- |
esced in an old construction of the |
law which has let the companies carry
second class mail matter. They, be-
ing wise in their generation have ac-
cepted 1t for short hauls mad rejected |
it for short hauld. There WAS money |
for them in the one ev,n when they
went below the Government nate Of /
one cent pound. In the other there
would have been a loss of money at
the Governmnet rate"
WHAT ECONOMY NIGHT DO.
Jackson (Miss.) Sun-We are
now paying eighteen times ats much
a pound on second class matetr as
Canada pays, and vet Canada has a
surplus in her Postoffice Dopau,ment.
Think of how much would be saved
in one year, nay,in one monthylf our
postal service was managed with any
sort of economy"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
Too Much Irrelevant,

No matter from what angle we view
the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, 1t
Is to be regretted that the congress
sional inquiry could not have been
carried on without the injection of
personalities and acrimony that had
no rightful claim to hearing. The
attorneys on both sides are censur-
able insofar as they made the investi-
cation an occasion for venting per-
sonal spleen. The country at large
can have no interest In what the OPP
posing counsel think or choose to say
of each other, and it has a right to
resent their presumption in taking up
time that should have been devoted
to probing for facts in calling each
other and each others clients names
1t is extremely doubtful If In any
event the findings of the investigating
committee, even should 1t agree upon
one report, could be generally salts.
factory under the circumstances. THAI
result would have been difficult
enough to reach with the hearing con
Quoted strictly as a court proceeding
but since the lawyers have made of 4
a hand-to-hand encounter over per
sonalities we may not hope for the
best outcome. OF course these law
yers have been aided and abetted IL
their course by sensation-seeking pub
locations that, on one side or the other
have been unwilling to let the senat,
committee try the issues, asserting
their superior right to perform tina
function.
1t is not too late yet, however, t
exclude everything in the final review
but the material and relevant facts
The people as a whole would like t
know whether this controversy 4
really a difference in policy between
two administrations or whether It 4
due to conflicting tenacity for Office
1t is highly probable that both side
would have Jared better in public esti
nation, the government been NOR
faithfully served and the people NOR
thoroughly satisfied had lawyers beef
kept out of the case altogether an,
the investigation conducted by mem
bers of the senatorial committee.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
DR.. Eliot on Union Labor.

Ex-President Eliot Will find more to
quarrel with him over his union labor
speech than he found over his selec-
tions for a five-foot book shelf of lib
eral education, particularly his declar-
alton that labor unions degrade hu-
man character" These are cases
where the people as a whole are un-
willing to take the WORD OF a man even
of DR.. Eliots erudition in preference
to their own observation and expert
ence.
Labor unions are not on trial In the
United States today from the stand
point of beneficent principle and only
when the principle is misapplied by
individuals can they be degrading to
human character. But, of course,
union labor no more than consolidated
capital can be expected to work with
infallible results. DR.. Eliot doubtless
could find instances where the meth
DDS employed by organized wealth
were degrading, but would hardly on
that account be called upon to con-
denim the system that centralizes large
fortunes for the administration of inn
mense commerce and industry.
The history of union labor mirrors
a most marked advance in the prog
ress of the working classes, moving
steadily toward higher plane of So
cial and industrial life. 1t is true in
this and in every country where labor
unions exist and not only are the
wage Garner and his family better off
than before, but the employer and all
classes have shared in the benefits
that have come from this great
economical revolution. Union labor
has made the individual better work
man, a more intelligent citizen and a
more useful member of society.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
Past and Present on the Farm.

The past possesses charm which
no man can easily resist. Reminis-
cence is one of our pet indulgences and
most people are prone to assume that
the days of their childhood form the
golden age, a postulate with virtue
we can i'll afford to sacrifice, even
though fallacious.
The world moves forward, not back
ward, and things grow better, not
worse. What is the Periclean age
compared with the present? When we
come down to bedrock, what do we
mean by "the good old times?" The
good old times are those in which we
live today. The man on the farm
whose life is cast in a mould of sim
pie custom that naturally resists,
more than we realize, the subtle en-
croachment of modern fashion is
above us all prone to indulge the fan
tasy of "the good old times"
But let us make a comparison or
two upon material basis between the
present and the good old times. "
Let us go. back to the time when the
farmer was held up as the object of
commiseration and sympathy; when
his place was mortgaged and his crops
were cheap and his income was about
equal to the interest on his Indebted
ness, with possibly scAnt margin for
family necessities, and his land values,
live stock and implements were so
low he could not sell. Then the
farmer stood on the bottom rung of
the economic ladder; today he stands
on the top rung.' Then he came to
town in a rickety old wagon over a
muddy or corduroy road at best; to-
day he is coming, many times, in his
automobile over hard-surface
thoroughfare Then he lived in his
sod or shoddily-built house, while to.
day his home is modern. In fact, he
is new man, with new vision OF
life, new hopes and aspirations.
And what has brought about the
change? The telephone has played q
part, the rural mail service, the free
public school, the daily newspaper
keeping him in touch with the outside
world, each has had a vast influence
Profitable farming, up-to-date and
businesslike, is what is putting the
farmer where he can command the
comforts and luxuries of life, where
his lot compares favorably with tina
Of the fairly well-to-do in town and
city. The good old times on the farm
are not in it with the good new timei
on the farm.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
PERSONAL NOTES.

Send your filthy lucre to the government
laundry.
After a fast Of eight days a New York
physician finds his mind clearer his eyes
stronger and his hair growing darker"
Now we know what natures sweet hair
restorer lie.
For the first time in the history Of
Sweden two women have been elected to
the municipal council OF Stockholm. ono
was elected by the conservatives and ono
by the socialists
one enthusiast is walking from New York
to the big fight In San Francisco Prob
ably other enthusiasts unless thoughtfully
provided in advance with return tickets,
will do their walking after the event.
AS an evidence of municipal good WI
Cleveland cheerily offers to loan a model
of it's beautiful and sumptuous union depot
to Cincinnati TO help along the artistic
tendency of the Queen City railroads.
The linotype operators and the proof
readers win be uckled to learn that the
Honorable Ihtisham- ul-Mulk. Raisud- Dow
la, Amir-ul- Omrah, Nawah Asef Kudr Syud
VAST Ali Meerza, Khan Bahadur MANU-
but Jung Is to be knighted by King George.
As a farewell sendoff to James A. Tat
Ten, tne WHEAT hlIS, the OeaTS III tho
Chicago wheat pit turned upon him last
week and trimmed him for 100000 Patten,
It is said didn't turn hair" Why should
he? His treasury is lined with tanned
bear hides.
Erskine NJ Phelps, who died at ChicAgS
in his seventy-first year was for years
well known In national politics as a demo-
crat In 1881 he founded the famous Iro-
qucis club whose first banquet was at
tended by Senator Bayard and Thomas A.
Hendricks.
In the race for an exposition appropria-
ton and the official endorsement that goes
with the coin, New Orleans is several laps
ahead of San Francisco. The Crescent
City is using. copious quantities of printers
ink next to pure reading matter" while
San Francisco leans on hot air which is
drug on the Washington market
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
A REVISED VERSION.

Jefferson Toombs In Harper's Weekly.
Der Kaiser OF dis Vaterlandt
Unit Gott on high all dings commando
Eggsept, OF course, you understand
Dare's Teddy.
1t used to be dot me unit Gott
Could run der vorldt as veil as not,
But now of help We get lot
From Teddy.
Who told us two unit two makes four
Unit neffer either less or more
INT all about our ancient lore?
Wy, Teddy.
Who salt to me, II like you, Bill?'
Who helped me not to keep right still
Unit talk OF animals to kill?
Dot Teddy.
mo vat mein army needs
INT how words doesn't count NIT deeds?
Who walks unit talks der vile he reads?
Dot Teddy.
Who told me dings / neffer knew?
Who told me vat ought to do
INT how to say "Dee-lighded!" too?
Dot Teddy.
Dare ISIS no bleak unit lonesome spot
Nlch We don't cheer-I tell you dot!-
Der vorldt ISIS bossed by me unit Colt
Unit Teddy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
Tnauired ProuheoV,

The editor of The Bee has received
through the mails the following sig
nificant communication carefully writ
ten out in longhand and addressed to
him in person:
PORTLAND, Ore, May "a, 1910.
There shall be no more prosperity until
am king. WILLIAM H. CLoWRY.
The overshadowing Importance OF
this message Is such that we cannot
believe it was intended for any one
person alone, and for that reason we
feel 1t our duty to give 1t full publicity,
The only inexplicable thing about 1t
is how the prophet should happen to
have arisen away off in Oregon when
we are accustomed to have these dire
predictions made so much nearer home.
Anyone who can recall 1896 will re-
member the loud proclamation that
there would be no more prosperity
until the gold standard should be ami
hilated and the crime. of i73 avenged
Anyone who can recall 1900 will re-
member the emphatic declaration that
II the gentle Mckinley were reelected
we would be living under an emperor
and no longer in republic.
Any one who can recall 1904 will re-
member the confidential assurance
that If Theodore Roosevelt were given
new commission on. his own account
we would have a reign of militarism
that would keep us embroiled in bloody
warfare.
But now we have the real thing, the
true prophet, who will overwhelm al
the false prophets who have gone be
fore.
Everyone wants prosperity. We nov
know how to get 1t.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
Our Birthday Book
May 80, 1910.

General Frederick ID. Grant. United
States army was born May so. 1850, in St.
Louis. He is a son of President Ulysses s..
Grant, and served as minister to Austria
under President Harrison.
John r. Lacey, former congressman from
Iowa, IL 60 years old today. He was born
at Martlnsville, w. Va. and is a veteran
of the civil war, and has made political
speeches In Omaha more than once.
George w. Shields, attorney at-law, was
born May 30, 1854. in Scotland. coming to
this country when 8 years old. He served
as county Judge for two terms, resumlng
private practice In 1905
Rev. julius s, Schwarz, pastor of the
First German Presbyterian church OF
Omaha was born May 80, 1862 at Pacific,
Mo. He studied in the German Presby-
terrain seminary in Dubuque, and came to
Omaha from Connorsville. Ind. where he
was pastor Tor six years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
sMoTHER1NG THE SMALL UNITS
Modern Democracy as Interpreted by
Colonel Bryan.
New York Tribune.

Modern Democracy as Interpreted by
Colonel Bryan.
New York Tribune.
A great many people will be interested
in the Hon. William ]. Bryans views OF
the liquor traffic and its regulation, for
Mr. Bryan is still the most potent personal
force in the party which is supposed to
stand for the least possible restriction of
the liberties of the individual. Mr.. Bryan
has been three times a democratic presi-
Dental candidate, and 1t Is not improbable
that he will receive further nominations
What he thinks, therefore of the need and
possibilities of liquor traffic regulation Is
OF more than personal Importance.
Mr.. Bryan has never shown much con-
sistency as a political theorist. He says
that he is an orthodox Jeffersonian and
that he believes In limiting the powers OF
government to the minimum, leaving free
field to Individual judgment and activity.
Yet no statesman in our day has proposed
more plans than he has for magnifying
the powers of government and committing
the federal administration to a larger reg
ulation of the affairs of individuals and
associations OF individuals. In his advocacy
of government ownership and operation OF
all the instrumentalities OF interstate COM
merce he out Hamltons Hamilton, although
processing unchanged allegiance to the
antipodal philosophy Of jefferson.
| Most Jeffersonians will doubtless find a
similar inconsistency between Mr.. Bryan's
regard as a Jeffersonian for home rule and
local sovereignty and his belief that the
state can impose prohibition on its sub
divisions and that the nation can impose
prohibition on the states. To judge from
his speech in Chicago on Wednesday to
the Catholic Total Abstinence union Mr..
Bryan is, so far as the prohibition OF the
sale of liquor is concerned, not only a
state wider but a ''nation-wider." He
told the members OF the unin:
II hold that every unit ought to have
authority to act on this subject, except az
it is restrained by a larger unit That is
that the block. the ward, the city, the
precinct, the county, the state and the
nation should have the undisputed right
to exclude the sale OF liquor within its
limits, or to fix such restrictions upon
the sale OF liquor as the people OF the
unit may deem necessary for their pro-
lection and welfare. / believe also, that
the larger unit has a right to control
the smaller one on this, as on other sub
jects."
He said, further;
IF the people of ward object to hav.
ing a saloon in the ward. 1 think they
ought to have a right to exclude IT, II
the people OF a town object TO having 9
saloon In the town think they ought tc
have the right to exclude it, II the peopl,
OF q county object TO having a saloon II
the county. think they oufht to hav,
the right TO exclude IT, and 30 with tn,
state and with the nation"
These views may be logical and com
mendable from the point OF view Of al
enemy OF the liquor traffic. But are the,
Jeffersonian OF democratie7 II will be In
teresting 10 receive the testimony OF Tn
Louisville Courier-Journal. The Houstol
Post and The Nashville American Of
, that point.