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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
Speaking geographically
by AN OLD TIMER. ~

If you want to get in high Soc
iety, drink high balls. Law aside
a couple hundred and fifty dollars
and the doctor will locate your
vermiform appendix. M
To appreciate poetry of motion
watch the fellow with about a
quart of ''mule" under bis belt.
-
Plant black beans in red dirt.
The vine will be green and the
bean color of well ripe bananas.
The an alesmated association of
male factors of great wealth were
given only eight months TO be good
Very "unpurty" of the highest
expounders of law.
| don't believe in recallisam.
Think how absurd of Pa to recall
you when you are running away
with his Gal.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07

heavy sea. Is automatically prevented
by the governor control. All steam
and exhaust connections are made to
the lower half of the turbine. and the
general construction Is such that the
steam may be turned directly into the
apparatus when cold and full speed
attained in less than minute. where
as the form and dimensions of the tur
bines which have heretofore been used
for naval service have been such thai
the turbines required preheating. such
action taking from three To ten hours
according 10 the size of the machinery
The speed developed is also consider
able. The man on the bridge can re
verse either or both turbines from full
speed ahead to full speed astern in
less than fifteen seconds. The speed
and direction of both turbines. being
under instant control. permit of the
turning of the ship in the shortest pos
sibe distance Ii gives the officer in
command absolute control. minimizes
the dangers of collision and makes fol-
prompt maneuvering in battle or in
practice.
AS to the minimum of space that the
new engine will require. il is claimed
for the new turbines that they mean
the saving of more than one-half OF
the weight in engines and decrease
in the capacity of boilers required be
cause of the lack of consumption OF
steam. This, it is said. is of the great
est importance. as il permits of the
use of thicker armor and heavier guns
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07

1t requires three things to make o
great countryside right kind of peo-
pie. productive lands and means of
communication and transportation, says
Curtis Hill, state highway engineer of
Missouri. Fix your attention upon the
road question from the standpoint of
communication and transportation,
with the highway as an important part
of the transportation system.
Draw a mind sketch In which i'm.
agine yourself making a large map of
your state. On this map draw lines
representing the railroads and mark
the tonnage of freight carried by them.
Then draw second set of different
colored lines representing the water.
ways and mark the tonnage Of freight
carried by them. In still another color
make third set of lines to represent
the public wagon roads and mark
thereon the tonnage of freight moved
over them. Note the comparison in
tonnage transported and you will see
that the proportion moved over the
highways originating in the state ex.
ceeds either of the others.
This map will also show that. while
the railways and waterways touch
upon some farms and communities. the
highways reach them all. Then is not
the highway an important factor in
the system of transportation. as i'm
portant as the railway or waterway?
1t requires them all-highway, water
way and railway-to make up the com
plete system of transportation, and the
very basis of this transportation sys-
tenn is the highway.
If we assume that road building is
to make use of natural materials in
such a manner as TO produce the i'm
proved road and that the roads should
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
Automatic Control.

Automatic control. IL Is claimed, Is
fully provided for. The design Of the
turbines had an ahead portion and a
reverse portion and cruising element
all within one casing The overspeed-
Ing Of the turbine engines from any
cause whatever. and esnsciallv In q
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
Doing Well In Kansasy

Lewis Mattingly, Of Osawa,omie,
Kansas, called at the News Office Friday
lie left Cloverrort twenty-five years ego
and is now living in Osawatomie Kans.
where he is er gineer at The State Hos
pital. Mr.. and Mrs. Mattir ely have a
nice home and are giving their child
rem every advantage, all of the older
ones beirg in school. Mr. Mat,ingly
says there are 70 people ss good as
Ktntuckians.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
Why a Horse Rolls.

Horses are fond of rolling on the
ground. and no animal more thorough
ly shakes itself than they do. After
a roll they give themselves shake
or two to remove anything adhering
to the coat The habit is Of much
service to horses living In open plains.
On being turned loose at the end Of a
journey an Arab horse rolls in the
sand. which acts as blottlng paper,
absorbing exudations from the body
A shake removes the sand. and the
coat soon dries. Cavalrymen In hot
climates sometimes put sand on their
horses as the simplest and quickest
way OF drying them.-Selborne Maya
zine.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
A. 1o1 He Fas.s Sixty Eve DAYS.

Marion Crabtree OF Savanna. H.. l0l
years OF age. has gone without food
for sixty.hve days. and 1t is said that
his chances for at least another year
of life after his remarkable fast are
better than ever Physicians who
have attended the aged man say be
has a good chance to pull through.
His fast was self inflicted.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
HEARS" BALL GAMES.

Blind Professor Able to Follow Plays
Accurately by Sound.
In order that he may hear" the bali
games at the local park season pass
mas been presented to Professor Earl
q. Houk of Springfield. o.. who Is
blind.
Professor Houk is vocal instructor az
Wittenberg college He enjoys hear
ing" ball games. By means OF the um
pire's calls on strikes and balls. the
crack of the bat against the ball. the
shouts OF JOY or groans OF the crowd
and with some one to explain the inrrl
cate plays he follows the game with
surprising accuracy.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07

Mr.. Oelze is a nephew of H. A..
Oelze, Of Cloverport.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
new TYPE OF
MARINE TURBINE
Result Of Five Years Study by
George Westinghouse.
GOVERNMENT ORDERS TWO
Engines May Be Started "CoId" In
stantly-New Turbines Mean Saving
of More Than One-ha of the Weight
In Engines-Other Features.

A revolution in the method Of ap-
plying power to vessels, and especially
to naval vessels. is fairly certain to
be accomplished by the general in.
stallation of new type of marine tur-
bine engine and its reduction gears.
which can start cold.
This turbine and gear equipment
represent the result of five years Of
study and experimentation by George
Westinghouse in the works Of the
Westinghouse Machine company at
Pittsburg.
To the United States goes the first
opportunity to try out the invention:
hence it is that with the building Of
the collier Neptune. larger than most
battleships. the government will in
stall two of these engines
Britishers Astonished.
When the finest and largest war
ships of the British navy were here at
tending the Hudson Fulton celebration
the officers could not believe that any
turbine could be started cold" be
cause the turbines in their ships. the
pride of the English navy, required
ten hours to warm up" before the
engines could be started without tear
ing out the blading inside and render
ing the engine useless. So much did
the English engineers doubt Mr.. West
inghouse's accomplishment that they
made a special trip to Pittsburg to see
the engines operated. And their sur
prise at the starting of the engines
'cold" instantly was only equaled by
their astonishment that the engine
could be opened. examined. closed up
again and actually started in less than
one hour. when in their own up to
date" engines they required days.
In addition to the tremendous ad-
vantage that immediate action gives.
other departures from previous prac-
tice which are radical have been
made to lessen the cost of construc-
ton. facilitate the operation of the ma
chinery and its inspection and TO re-
duce the weight and space occupied as
well as 10 provide control mechanism
whereby the officer In charge of the
ship may have as complete a control
of the engines as he now has Of the
steering apparatus.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
|AV|ATOR'S THREE
| AWFUL MINUTES
Ashley Had Three Terrific Bouts
with Death.
IN STRANGE RAGING MACHINE
AZ One Time He Flew Through the Air
at a Height Of Three Hundred Feet,
oraspine Rod With On. Hand-Hsir
Raising Performances.

One Of the most hair raising per-
formances ever put up on an aeroplane
was given AT the Brooklands aero
drome. near London. by the British
aviator. II de -. Ashley. who Is a
cousin of the Marquis Vt Hastings.
Ashley was flying fifty horsepower
Bleriot racing monuplIne for the first
time
His first tap ~ the aerodrome was
q series at up AMI down dives. which
looked rs II NJ were sitting bucking
broncho only ga, u uu t,Iuk him forty
feet up and down again Then ne got
| the weight oi the uIi' hiip INTO his
hands and steidlcd nri down for a
second lap Feeling he nid gut full
control. be took her NJ ta II height of
BOO feet. where hp was tying quite
nicely when gust of wind caught
him and turned him up on Ia his left
ywing tip. and he began to drop side
ways.
Sat In the Air.
Knowing his only chance of righting
himself was to drive head first out of
the gust, he pulled the tail of the ma
chine up in the air. switched off his
engine and dived for it. Just as he
got the monoplane diving quite
straight he accidentally touched the
switch. and the engine started again
full blast. The sudden pull of the big
engine. added to the weight of the
machine, jerked the whole apparatus
from under Ashley. who was left for
a fraction of a second sitting in the
air.
He grabbed the first thing that
came along. and when he came to
himself sufficiently to think he found
himself sitting astride the frame Of
the machine. hanging on to the top
rails of the frame with both hands
and looking straight down into the
seat he had quilted. Meantime the
machine. absolutely without control.
now only about $50 feet below him.
Fortunately for him his weight. be-
ing so far back, made itself felt, and
at about 100 feet from the earth the
tail dropped and the machine started
climbing skyward again.
Given Up For Dead.
The other aviators on the ground had
given him up for dead as he made his
dive, and now they gave him up again.
for the machine climbed perfectly ver-
tically. and no one had ever seen a
machine going aloft hanging on to its
propeller and nothing else. They SIM
ply stood and waited for the machine
to start dropping backward. There was
nothing else to do.
Then Ashley pulled himself together
and clawed himself up the frame so
that by holding on with his right hand
he could catch hold of the control
wheel with his left. but he could not
get into his seat so as to get his feet
on the rudder levers By this time the
aeroplane had climbed to height of
about 400 feet and was still rising.
AS soon as he had got partial control
Ashley said to himself This is where
/ start for home again" and damned
his control wheel hard forward. The
tail came up. and the machine got on a
level keel and steadied herself. Then
he raised the tail a bit more. and. look
ing over the front nf the machine.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
Mrs. Mullen III.T.'

Mrs. George Mullen is critically i'll
at her home on the West Side. Her
friends are very much distressed over
her condition and hope ,she will soon
improve.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
GOOD ROADS EPIDEMIC CON
TAcIoUs.

Making good roads 70 bseom.
ing contagious, and the bsnsf-
lesnt epidemic 10 spreading all
over the country. The south
has caught the fever. and in
many localities elaborate sys-
TENS Of improved highways are
contemplated, under way or
have been completed. A good
road 10 an effective object lee
con.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-06-07
MAINTAINING
A GOOD ROAD.
Organized and Systematized
Work Necessary.
SUPERVISION MAIN THINS

Without That the Road Is Liable to Be
Built Wrong or Unserupulous Con-
tractors, Taking Advantage Of This
Inefficieney. Cheat the county-Ruts
Must Be Filled Up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
CHAMBER
PASSES ON
WHAT?

Hist!
Don't say a word, 1t might get
out.
The council met this morning
as usual.
Anything today, Mr.. Woods?"
asked the mayor. Woods had moth
ing.
Anything, Weeks, Petit, Free
land" Nobody had anything.
Meeting adjourned. Time 1
minute, IT seconds.
This session was for the pub
lie.
Then the real business began.
1t was behind closed doors in
the mayot's office, another star
chamber session."
There was loud talk, then hi
larious laughter by the mayor,
then subdued coversatioa by ev-
|erybody. ..-.
There was talk about the Sand
berg joint. What was It?
Nobody knows. Weeks came
out and admitted the matter was
up but no inkling was given as
to what would be done except
that Petit was pushing the mat
ter.
Fowler, contractor on Green
river, went in. They had him on
the carpet.
Possibly the people might be
interested in knowing what the
councilmen-the agents. are do
ing on this $2,000,00O job. The
star chamber devotees don't think
so.
Maxham, contractor on the res
ervoir, went in and came out.
Here is a $285,0O0 job being paid
for by the people. But it has to
be handled behind closed doors.
The people might get onto the
deal
Finally Judge Stiles was called
in. So was Engineer n. l.. Tay-
lor. Is
This indicated that the scheme
of Bird-C Coler-to palm eff $74,-
900 water plant on the town for
$3.50, 900 was up. - -
But surely the citizens cannot
expect to be let In on that by the
secret session colaborators.
A lot of important business was
lup this morning but the mayor
had 1t all done in his private Of
flee for fear the people would find
out about 1t.
NUNS the word.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30

A Times committee OH truth
had a session this morning with
Prof. Schulenbilder.
"What," asked the professor,
sOlemnly, ''is a fresh egg?"
The committee on truth smiled
and individually.
"What you mean," gently ex-
planned one reporter on The Times
committee, ''is why does hen
cross the road?"
The professor shook his head.
What l want" complained he,
"is to have the mystery of the egg
solved. There is the fresh egg,
the strictly fresh egg, the cooking
egg, the storage egg and the egg.
WHEN is THE EGG FRESH?"
The committee on truth solemn
ly passed out in search Of facts.
"Our strictly fresh eggs" ex-
planned one salesman at the Public
Market, "are probably five days
old when they reach us from the
farmer. They sell now at IS cents
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
Was Bachelor" Just
Stringing Cynthia?

"She has a three-year-old son
who l secretly think looks like
Snookums in repose, but when In
an unguarded moment l voiced my
thought she-well to put it mild
ly-she expectorated in my eye.
Her mother, whom Il suspect
Of having trace of Mexican blood
in her veins is what my chum apt
ly terms Hell Cat"-whatever
that Is.
"He also advises me to dyna-
mite the old lady and forget the
widow. / could do the former at
times with the best of grace, but
am not so sure of myself as to the
latter. Then again he is paying
alimony in two different places
and might be biased.
II swear when I am peeved and
drink whisky when 1 have the no.
Ition, but don't have the notion as
often as he or the widow. If
did, l would be kippered at least
one-half of the time.
"As to the old lady, she don't
drink booze at all. Naturally she
flights it.
What do you advise?
~, G, M"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30

"I think he's stringing you,
was the sporting editors comment,
when Cynthia asked his advice.
.Ten him to beat it. That's the
correct answer whether he means
1t or not. Just write at the end:
'Ans.-Beat it.
Here's the letter that Cynthia
got. What do you think?
"Dear Miss Grey:
az am a peace-loving bachelor.
about forty-five years of age and
sorely in need of some sound, sis
terly advice or sympathy, or per-
haps both. Hence this letter.
For the past year or more /
have been very attentive to a
widow lady about % years of age
who recently gave me to under
stand that I should either marry
her or step aside and give some
body else chance.
cat times we have George Nc
Manus' 'Newlyweds' skinned a
mile on that LoveyDovey stuff.
At other times / fear we give a
somewhat more or less correct
imitation of a strange dog inter-
viewing the kitchen cat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30

Later reports indicate that not
more than five persons were
killed and 20 injured, several OF
whom may die. Most of the fatal
tiles occurred In the dining car
and several bodies buried under
fits wreckage. are believed to have
been burned.
The exact number of the dead
may not be known until the
wreckase Is removed.
DR.. Heimarm, the only physi-
clan on the train, though himself
seriously injured. gave relief to
the manned passengers. Among
the dead are said to be the dining
car conductor and brakeman.
From meagre reports here 1t
seems that the entire train except
the engine and mail car plunged
over the embankment. Then fire
started and within half an hour
four cars were consumed
A courier brought relief from
Sharon and the injured were car
ried away In sleighs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
These Marriages Did
Not Turn Out Well

ment, Anna c.. Parker got a d.
vorce from Edgar j. Parker. She
will resume her mainden name,
Anna johnson.
Annie Bailey was granted a d.
vorce from Harry Bailey for non
support. She alleged that since
their marriage In March Bailey
has done nothing toward her sup
port.
Judge Easterday granted q d.
vorce to Elsie Helen Robinson
from VIM. H. Robinson on the
ground of abandonment. The
couple were married in 1908.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30

The city attorneys were ordered
this morning by Commissioner
Petit to get up a resolution re-
voking the license of the Pete
Sandbery saloon in the basement
of the Kentucky hotel. The coun-
cilmen will have to face the issue
then and either kill off this
"joint" or give 1t endorsement.
The Times sounded the commits
sioners this morning on it. Pet
tit aud Freeland are for killing it
instanter. The rest of them
lodged. 1t Is not believed they
will dare to refuse to vote for the
resolution, however. when pre-
sented next week backed by the
facts in Commissioner Pettit's
possession.
The three began to hear from
the people last night soon after
the Times reached the street. The
revelations made of the systema-
tic work of procuring young girls
by the white slave syndicate was
an eyeOpener for the people and
they demanded that their Off
ciaIs get busy.
In the last few years hundreds
of young girls have been taken
from Tacoma homes by this syndi-
cate and mysteriously spirited
away into lives of shame. All
facts concerning the awful traf-
fic in girls was suppressed until
Commissioner Petit came into Of
flee and began to get busy with
the offenders.
The providential appearance of
Detective Jurisch on the scene in
the Kentucky hotel Thursday
morning was all that saved an
other victim.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
Of
CHINA IN
FIGHT

(By United Press Leased Wire.
TOXIC, Dec. 30.--Pekin dis
patches today say that the most
of the royal family are fleeing In
disguise from the Forbidden City.
Prince Chun. the deposed re-
gent, has fled, with the emperort
In the disguise of coolies, en- routa
to Toxic, Japan.
The dowager empress, II Is said,
has determined not to leave her
palace until the rebels enter
Pekin. Most of her kinsmen
among the Manchu princes have
deserted her.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen. the American
Chinese elected president of the
Chinese republic, will. within a
few days, be inaugurated at
Nanlking, the scene of the blood
lest battles in the Chinese rebel-
lion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
Bob Hands
Hot Roast
To Aldriich

HAMILTON, O.. Dec. 3d.
Roasting to a turn former U. S.
Sen. Nelson W. Aldrien OF Rhode
Island and generally outlining
progressive policies, Senator La
Toilette spoke to 500 persons in
the Coliseum here at noon today.
"Aldrich in all his public life,"
LaFollette said, never served
anything but the interests and
his own interests. He sold out his
grocery and fish business for $780,
500, and quit the United States
|senate worth $50, 100000.
I'm all that time his business
was just being United States
senator.
THAT was ALL"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
Y|E, CHINESE
ARE GLAD
Of It

''Hello, John, where's your
flag?
John Chinaman grinned and
blinked as he lounged In his Can
ton noodle joint, 1852 South c.
John is rebel, but doesn't look
It. He admitted it, however.
"You are all rebels over here.
aren't your"
"Yie."
Great victories your side has
been winning"
Again "Yie."
Going to celebrate?"
"Yie," once more.
Such Oriental eloquence was
rather unnerving the interviewer
who knew that John had helped
to raise $500 to help the fighters
and to celebrate here.
John seemed to be going to
sleep. He laid his head on the
table and blinked first one eye
then the other.
You'd rather be over here sell
ing noodles than back there fight
ing" suggested the interviewer.
Here was a chance for bit OF
philosophy so John closed both
eyes and droned droning "Yie.
How long you been tere?''
year"
This broke that monotonous
"yie" at least.
China bimeby be allie same
Melica," volunteered John, then
he lapsed after. such II display OF
verbosity into his former trance
Nothing could. shake that eter-
nal "yie." +
The reporter gave. it up and
left. He bumped into another
pig-tailless Chink at the door.
"You fellows don't seem very
|talkative," he suggested to the
newcomer.
mo likee Molican man; Nell
can man make fun Chinaman ;
say Chinaman eatee lats."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30

Ida Swanson was yesterday
granted a divorce from Louis
Swanson. They, were married in
April, 1919. and in July he de-
serted her.
Mabel s. Beriou got q divorce
from Eugene on the ground of
non-support and abandonment.
Alleging that his wife is so
jealous and suspicious that life
with her is unbearable, Sheridan
L. Busby yesterday filed suit for
divorce from Orma, his wife.
On the grounds OF abandon
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
TV|ETM0E, JOHANs0N AND
SEVEN OTHERS INDICTED

oners, the Chicago attorney as
serted this afternoon that he "had
not fully made up his mind"
81 am still tired" he said, "as
a result of the strain of the Nc
Namara case"
Eric B. Morton of San Francis
co, publisher OF a labor organ,
said this afternoon:
THE labor people of this state
will stand solidly behind the In
dieted men. I believe labor will
take the position that these men
are innocent until they are proved
guilty. In my mind, there is not
evidence to Justify the
indictments"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-12-30
Heirs Sell Part
OF Estate

Executors of the estate of the
late Robert l.. Mccormack today
asked permission to sell 500
shares of Weyerhaucser stock,
valued at 127,000, to cover the
state Inheritance tax, some debts
and other taxes.
Mccormack held 1,616,293
shares of the stock, which is val
ued at 1915 share. This part
of the estate was worth close to
two million dollars.