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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23

Mrs. S. W. Perkins and daughter
Dorothy left Monday morning on the
steamer Islander for a weeks stay at
Ocean Point.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23

the furnishings Of the room, resulting
IN loss of about 800 The house is
insured in the Macomber, Farr 4
Whltten agency and the furniture in
the Charles l.. Downing agency
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23
LOCAL BRIEFS.

+ Darrell Whitehouse left Gown Mon
day morning for a business trip to
Wilton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23

J, NJ. Howell, popular druggist OF
GSfeenssRurg. KY, says, aJWe use Cham
peflain's Cough Remedy in our own
household ana.lnow it is excellent. For
sale everywhere. da f9fiiA 81 n
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23

Mrs. james A. Field and two chill
dfen are passing a few weeks in Wa
terviilc, where Mrs. Field is having her
little daughter. Elfzabeth's, eyes treat
ed.
Mrs. b. l.. Taylor is at f. ID. Robin
sons In Waterville for the week dress
making.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23
,-lNELAM77 ;,
NATION
AND PAIN
Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Creston, Iowa was troubled for
a long time with inflammation. pains
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23

SICK headache results from a dlsordered
condition OF the stomach, and can be
cured ~ the use o. Chamberiain's Stom-
ach and Liver Tablets. Try it. For sale
everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-23
WATCH YouR klnNExs

heir action controls your health. lead
what Foley Kidney Pills have done for
your q. neighbor., II. S. moody AZ Gage
81 81 Augusta, Me-, says: For the last
w or twelve years had kidney trouble
WITH severe pain across my back and
ilar. and painful kidney action A
Friend advised Foley Kidney Pills aud !
began taking them. In few days the
pau left my back and the trouble with
my kidneys is completely cured / gladly
recommend Foley Kidney Pills to all who
are afflicted with kidney trouble. Bow
ditch, Webster &. Co.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
MOTORISTS WARNED.

IAN eye for an eye, tooth for a
tooth and life for a life" accom-
panied by a picture of skull and
crossbones, is the inscription on
huge signboards placed along the
mountain road between San Jose
and Santa Cruz, Cal, to warn mo-
florists that the mountaineers and
farmers will no longer permit speed
ing on the highways.
Complaints have been daily COM
ing to the district attorney of that
region asking him to prevent drivers
racing Though the mountains. The
principal objection is that the resi-
dents in the mountains between San
Jose and Santa Cruz are afraid to
send their children to school because
Of the danger.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
HORRORS or THIRST.

In the oasis of Mogara, says l..
Dow Covington, in the Wide World
Magazine, we had first experience
of the desert travellers great enemy
thirst. We were seated in front Of
a Bedouin chiefs tent, our two baby
camels enjoying their first drink Of
water since they had left Cairo,
when from across sand dune a
Bedouin came staggering and totter-
ing toward us. His eyes were blood
shot, his lips twice their natural size,
while his tongue, blue and dry,
hung out of his mouth. Evidently
he had lost himself, had wandered
around for days in search of water,
and had stumbled upon the oasis in
the very nick of time. To allow him
to drink would have been his death.
In spite of his frantic struggles, he
was held by four men, whilst fifth
allowed a few drops of water to
trickle down his throat. 1t was as
though he were a red hot boiler
which would have to be allowed to
cool off before being filed if an ac-
cident was to be avoided.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
FOR ODD MOMENTS.

One of the greatest difficulties Of
life is the utilization of odd moments
of time. In a woman's varied occu-
pations, especially household mat
tiers, writing, needlework and out
door pursuits, there are quite a num-
Der Of tasks upon which it is quite
useless to embark, except with an
uninterrupted period of two or three
hours before one others which might
be taken up and laid down again
without difficulty are perhaps too
large and untidy to bring out for a
few minutes, and the little dainty
bits Of work that might conveniently
be done at such times are not suf-
ficiently prepared. 1t requires a
great deal of forethought and faculty
of organization to have something
provided for all occasions.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
THE INDIANS VISION.

More or less wonderful accounts
have from time to time been given
of the powers of vision possessed by
savage races. During a British an
thropological expedition to Torres
straits the visual faculty of the ma
tives was carefully tested, and from
these tests the conclusion was
reached that the excellence of vision
shown by the savages has a psyche
logical origin; that is to say, it
arises from knowing what to look
for. When the civilized man ac-
quires familiarity with the environ
ment he can see as far as they can.
Thus the power of an Indian to tell
the sex Of deer at such distance
that Distinguishing features like
antlers we're invisible was found to
rest upon his knowledge of the pc
culiar gait Of the male deer
Scientific American.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
KEY TO KENSINGToN GARDENS
Duke Of Cambridge, Delighted With
"LittIe White Bird" Sent II
to J. NJ. Barrie.

In connection with the Peter Pan
statue, which Sir George Frampton
has now completed for Kensington
gardens to the order of J. NJ. Bar
RE, the story is revived Of the key
which was given to Mr.. Barrie adj
hitting him to the gardens at all
times Of the day and night. The
story is, however, much prettier than
would appear from the bald nara
tive in the papers. 1t was the late
duke of Cambridge, 1 am told, who
paid this notable compliment to the
famous novelist. The duke, when
he was park ranger, had been read
ing "The Little White Bird" and the
book delighted him SO much that he
was prompted to send a fattering
note to the author, at the same time
inclosing a key to the gardens oppo-
site Mr.. Barrie's house in Lancaster
gate. at is only fitting" he wrote
chat the author of such a charming
work should possess the key" The
creator of Peter Pan showed his APP
probation of the gift by using it
freely in the summer evenings, when
the great royal domain, haunted by
memories of Matthew Arnold, was
accessible to him alone among all the
teeming millions of Londoners.-
NJ. A. p.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
DETAILS NEEDN'T Be PETTY
High Purpose consserstss and Trans
naurss All That Seems Trivial
In Our Livsa

There is freedom to be achieved
from the pettiness Of our lives. They
never, perhaps, look so pitiful as
when they seem made up Of little
necessary details. Our planting and
reaping, building and buying, all the
half mechanical operations that alb
sorb our thought and tine, seem
sometimes little better than the
hustle Of colony Of ants. When we
look down upon it all from the
height Of some quiet, meditative
hour, are we not at times oppressed
with a sense Of its trivislity and
worthlessness2 Trivial and worth
less it is, except as amidst it all we
are working out something higher.
But to a man whose heart is set on
nobler ends, one whose great aim ID
not to get his bread and butter, but
to be q man-one who wants, not
just to make q profit out Of his
neighbors, but to serve them and
help them-these details are no more
trivial or degrading than the rough
dress and homely tools Of the sculp-
tor are unworthy of the marble
beauty that is growing under his
hands. The high purpose conse-
crates and transfgures all #; the want
of purpose degrades all.-George s.
Merriam.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
BAckLEss GOWNS.

The London Morning Leader
prints alarming rumors of backless
gown that is being seen in London
drawing rooms. This gown is cut
very low in front and in the back
has merely strip of stuff to suggest
an arm covering, while the decolle-
tege ends at the waist line. Then
there are gowns that have no sleeves
either, not vestige Of sleeve, but de-
pend on bones sewn in the lining to
hold them up. Another item Of
dress that the same paper mentions
with a shudder is the skirt made sew
eral inches from the floor (eight
inches or more) with long chiffon
oyerdress. The feet and ankles are
plainly visible through this trans
pArency. This skirt fashion, coupled
yAh a bodice of modish decolletege
assures. a minimum of clothing to
say the least Of it.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
pRopIcAL CAREER is EMBED
Old John AppIessts, Whose Life Wac
Spectacular, 10 In Jail for
vsarancy.

After having squandered several
fortunes, John Applegate, originator
and builder Of what is now known
as Young's million-dolIar pier, in
Atlantic City, is serving a sentence
for vagrancy in the Los Angeles
county Jail, California. The old
man is now eighty-seven years old,
and unless some Of his relatives or
the friends he knew in his palmy
days come to his assistance he will
probably end a somewhat spectacular
career behind the prison bars. 4
The brief news dispatch announc-
ing that old Apologize has been SEN
fenced to Jail, destitute, has recalled
the man to memory of many Phila-
delphians. In the carly nineties his
probabilities, both here and in New
York city, caused sensation. He
was the first Of the "tintype" pho
tcgraphers, and while he was in
business, he was said to have made
as much as $500 a year. his daily
sittings at times passing the 500
mark and netting him nearly ST, 900.
He was also one of the largest Of the
early advertisers, his signs and other
odd devices being erected all over
the city and along the greater por-
ton of the river front.-Philadel-
phia Record.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
USEFUL FADS.

The growing generation finds it
hard to have whatever they take an
interest in clad" or "phase" by
theiIAelders, and, as a matter of fact,
the ISers would be wise to take these
things more seriously, for they can
be made powerful educational in
fuence. One young mother, whose
little daughter took to stamp collect
ing, made use of the fad to awaken
an interest in the various countries
from which the stamp came, and
now the child has a knowledge Of
geography that is quite amazing to
those who studied this subject in the
orthodox way. Later on, when the
same little girl started to bring home
pebbles. books on geology written in
simple language were put within her
reach, while the mother delved into
more learned tones to find answers
to her eager questions. Under such
conditions children learn with avid
ity and retain their knowledge much
longer than when it is presented to
them in the form of lesson.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
SMALL IN NATURES SCHEME
Professors Figures Show That Man.
kind Really 10 Not Much, All
Things Sonsidersd.

How little mankind signifies in
the scheme of nature is shown by a
rather morose calculation Of the Ital-
ian Professor Zuccarini, who has fig
ured out, among other things, that
estimating the worlds population as
1,600, 000,0 the whole human race
at present living could stand COM
fortably shoulder to, shoulder in an
area ofs500 square miles.
Taking the number of generations
in the past 5000 years as 900, the
room taken up by them all on th'
above plan would only be half THE
size of Germany, or for the sake Of
comparison less than the area of the
state of Colorado. To bury all the
people on earth would need a grave
yard little larger than that area.
II the dust left by each body be
estimated at one-tenth cubic yard,
which is liberal estimate, it would
cover only 40 square miles to depth
of about three feet. This certainly
seems insignificant compared with
the great coral reefs and other i'm
mense deposits built up by the shells
of tiny infusoria.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
NATIONAL coal BIN IS SIC
Growth OF Production In United States
-Four Times a. Much sltunri-
nous a. Anthracite.

In 1914 20 tons Of coal were
mined in the United States. BY
1920 the amount had increased to
over 1900 tons; in 1880 to 2S6, 900
tons. BY 1910 the production had
reached nearly 100000 IONS, and
in 1850 was over 5000, 900. From
this time the increase has been rapid
and continuous. In 1888 production
passed the 1O0,OO0,0O0 mark, in
1899 1t was over 200, 000, 900, in
1908 over 3OO,OOO,OOO, and in 1907
exceeded 40O,O00,0O0 tons.
In 1870 Great Britain produced
over half Of the worlds supply Of
coal, while the United States and
Germany each furnished trife over
Is per cent, leaving II per cent for
the production Of the rest OF thu
world. In 1902 Germany furnished
about the same percentage Of the
worlds supply as in 1870; Great
Britain's proportion had decreased
TO less than 80 per cent, whils ths
United States furnished more than
one-third Of the worlds production.
In 1870 England had produced more
than the United States and Germany
combined, while our country was
third in rank. In 1902 the United
States was easily in the lead, with
Great Britain and Germany follow
ing.
Though the average Individual,
with his mind on kitchen range and
household furnace, thinks of anthra-
cite when coal is mentioned, our
yearly production of bituminous
quadruples that of anthracite.-In-
dependent.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
BOOKS AND 6EEcHEs.

At the Hoe sale in New York q
bibliophile said:
Book is a word that comes from
the German buche, or beech. But
what connection has a book got with
beech' I'll show you"
The bibliophile led the way to a
superb Caxton that had just been
sold for $500.
"This volume, you See," he said,
"is bound in boards-not paste
boards-real boards, beech boards.
That is how all books were bound
when printing began. Yes, when
printing began in Germany, each in
cunabulum, or early book, was bound
in buche-in beech boards half an
inch thick, covered, perhaps, with
leather, tipped and clasped with
brass, and studded with precious or
semiprecious stones"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
CHRISTIANITY.

Never has the moral content Of
Christianity been accepted as widely
as now. The Greeks and Romans
greater in some ways than we,
deemed slavery necessary to the exs
istence of an intellectual class. La
Dor with the hands for hire
they held contemplate. Hatred
between nations they thought in,
evitable. Respect for labor has
come, and progress in industry
means that the carpenter Of to-
day has a broader education than
the feudal baron and better UNDER
standing. War, once the rule, Ia
looked upon more every year az an
out-of-date absurdity. If the heart
Of the Gospel is the substitution Of
friendliness for hostility, then the
day of realization Approximation
lier's.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
MANY NAMES BUT AL RABBIT
Secret Of the Fur Trade Revealed In
Paris Has Distressed the
Women.


The Aris courts have brought
out a fact that we furriers, Of course,
all know-the fact that electric seal,
Siberian seal, Hudson seal, Iceland
and a dozen other furs are nothing
more nor less than rabbit, plain rab-
bit"
The speaker, J. G. Halton, a Chi
cago importer, stood on the Cunard
pier New York.
The public didn't know, it seems,
as much as we furriers did," he re-
sumed, "and this announcement
from Paris stirred up no little I'M
rest among those dear ladies who
have bought superb full-dength seal
skin coats for $40 or $50.
81 met lady last month draped
from chin TO heel in the richest fur.
"'Hello,' 1 said, whence this fes-
tive garbr
"'Garb?' she cried. 'Garb? II
isn't gsrb. It's sealskin, Hudson
sealskin.'"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
REAL TIP-ToPPERS, THESE
tocrats, Ladies' Smoking and
the Men Swearing.

Senator Brown, apropos of the
martial misadventures of a young
multimillionaire, said at a dinner
in Washington:
"The trouble is that too many Of
our idle rich young men think that
among their many rights is included
the right to do wrong.
''They are, in truth, as foolish in
this respect as the maid servant who
said:
"I've got place among the tip
toppers for sure this time. They're
bang-up aristocrats l live with now
What do you mean by bang-up
aristocratsp a friend asked. -
Oh she replied, 4 mean places
where they have three kinds of wine,
and the ladies smoke and the men
swear"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
DEBT OF GRATITUDE.

Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, edi-
tor in chief of the Woman's Jour-
nal, the official organ of the Nation
al American Woman Suffrage asso-
citation, recently said that one dark
day in the sos, when the Journal
was struggling to get a foothold,
Miss Louisa M. Alcott walked into
the little Office and handed the editor
$500. Miss Alcott said she had
earned the money before breakfast
and she wanted to give it to help the
Journal get on its feet. Afterward
Miss Alcott contributed considerable
work to the press bureau of the
Journal. Because of this generosity
Miss Blackwell asks suffragists
throughout the country to contribute
to the restoration and preservation
of Orchard house, Miss Alcott's old
home.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30

Cook Fried = Lot Of Oysters IN Which
Wsrs Found rwsnty-siaht

II the cook in certain cafe in
Eugene, Ore, had been possessed
with an eye like an X-ray he might
have had quite a little fortune in
pearls While a customer was eat
ing fried oysters in the place the
other day he bit into something hard
in one Of the bivalves. Investiga-
ton disclosed the fact that.it was a
pearl Of fair size. Further examine
tion resulted in the discovery Of 81
other pearls, ranging in size from
the head Of a pin to a pea. The heat
that they had suffered in cooking
had destroyed the luster and rem
dered them worthless and the discov-
erer has registered solemn vow new
er to eat oysters again any way but
raw. When shown the little heap
of ruined gems, the cook nearly
swooned.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
TINE AT SEA BY WIRELESS
Paris EITeI Tower and Observatory
10 Give Men Anost the Aeeu-
rate Hour.

Autobiography renders il pos
sible to transmit to all ships within
a radius of 5000 kilometers or mors
given time, say the hour Of noon,
automatically exact within one
tenth of a second, the speed Of the
Hertzian waves being almost equal
to that Of light, 100000 kilometers
a second. This puts the sailor in
possession Of the chronometric time,
which assures the determination Of
the exact spot where the vessel is al
that moment, that is to say, it en-
sbles him TO calculate the Longitude
and latitude Of the place with absO-
Lutte exactitude. 49,. d.
The astronomer on duty in the
Paris observatory, with one eye AZ
the telescope, watches the hands d
the clock and sends the first cleo
trio signals to the wireless telegra-
ply station Of che Champs de Mara
From there, immediately transmit.
ted by autobiography, they travS
immense distances, warning naviga-
tors and other wireless stations,
Then exactly at the hour and twics
again at intervals Of two minutes.
the clockwork automatically estab-
fishes a contact by means of which
an electric manipulation in the Eiffa
tower sets up discharge of Hertz
ian waves. And these waves, spread
ing through space, reach the limits
of the immense circle of which the
tower is the center, influencing all
the receivers in this area and con-
veying to all, as it were, the beat Of
a heart which is felt in the pulsation
Of the remotest arteries. A wonder
full result, which .impresses even the
least reflective when they realiDs
Communication between human be-
ings scattered all over the surfaces
Of the globe.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
OPENING RIGHT AT HAND.

An air of assurance distinguished
the jaunty young man who had APP
peared in answer to an advertise
ment for clerk, says Youths Com
panion, but his manner did not com
mend him to the leather merchant.
rs there a good opening here for a
young man who keeps his wits about
hun and doesn't care to begin at the
bottom of the ladder?" asked the
applicant, before the merchant had
an opportunity TO speak. "Yes," he
replied, after a comprehensive sur
yey Of his jaunty visitor, "there is.
A thoughtful carpenter, foreseeing
the appearance Of just such young
men, provided a good opening in the
middle Of that lsft-hAnd wall. Kind
y make use ID IL"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
WOMEN PLAYING BILLIARDS.

Women are becoming more and
more adept at billiards. A decade
ago a woman billiard player was
practically unheard Of. Nowadays
we frequently hear Of them playing
in the privacy Of their own homes.
And it will not be long before they
will be playing public matches
1t was only recently that the first
step in this direction was taken
when Mrs. Bertha May King and
Miss Martha Clearwater played In
New York for the first women's pool
championship Of the world The
match gave a decided impetus to thu
game, and those who know predict
that the concert halls Of ,theatsrs
will soon be the scenes of many sim
liar pool and billiard matches.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
GIFTS OF RICH WOMEN.

Mrs Andrew Carnegie gave $2o,.
900 to build the infrmary of the
Chaplin Home for the Aged and In
firm on Long Island, and Mrs. W. L.
Cooper gave $4,000 to build a chap
ell, which shall be known in memory
of her husband as the Cooper Memo
rial chapel. A year ago she and her
husband celebrated their golden wed.
ding by gift of $4,000 to the home
and he died shortly afterward.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
THREE GREAT MEN OF EUROPE.

Lord Byron said that Europe saw
three great men in the early part of
the nineteenth century, but no one
now, in the early part of the twen-
tieth century, could guess at the
names of more than one Of the three.
II may be that Lord Byron was
joking, but it is quite possible that
he was serious when he named the
curious trio.
Third in his little list he placed
himself, the second person was Ma
poleon Bonaparte, and the first and
foremost was George Bryan Brum-
nell, Beau Brummell, "King of the
Beaux" and 'Ie Roi de Calais. -
Jerrod's "Beaux and Dandies."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
NO HARM DONE TO MEN.

Miss Grace Strachan, who has
worked so long and SO hard to OBJ
tain equal pay for equal work of
men or women. says that she does
not feel that in gaining their end
they have done any injustice TO the
men. 1--WE need not trouble our
heads about the poor males" she
said, referring to the fact that SYM
pathy has been extended TO them by
many women. "They viii all stand
together. The standard Of women
viii be raised" she said. sand II is
up 10 the men to keep inferior men
out Of Tho rsnD~'
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
THE LADY AND rAE MOUSE.

p Henrietta" said Mr.. Meekton, a
know that you have the courage ia
face most kinds of peril and torti.
tiIde for all ordinary emergencies,
But there are exceptions, and you
ought to hold one fact in grateful re.
membranes"
sand what is thar
at was one Of Us mere men whs
invented the mousstFsp." 3.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-30
EnaLIsHwomAN's LOVE LETTER

Bertie-I've been having a love-
iy game with this post Office set you
gave me, auntie. I've taken q real
letter to every house in the road.
Auntie--How NIGEL And where
did you get all the lettersS
Bertis-0h, / found big bundle
tied up with pink ribbon in your
desk l--London Punch