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Tinksie felt perfectly confident that she
could sing double rings around lima: that
as a locker she had Ina pushed onto the
discard for delinquents. and that when 1t
came to the dancing stuff. why. she could
make Ina look like grasshopper with a
wooden prop trying to get away with
that Genee thing.
All that Tinksie longed for, therefore,
was her chance to go on in the leading
part and show lima and the rest Of 'em
two or three little things
And now, as stated in the very first line
of this piece for the paper. Tinksie's
great and gorgeous opportunity had ar
rived!
The automobile In which Ina Felina
had been riding at O'Clock on the pre-
vious morning had made an Intellectual
effort to climb q tall sycamore tree-all
sycamore trees are tall-and lima had
been tossed out into the slush on her
starboard ankle, slightly spraining the
same. lima found. upon picking herself up.
that she couldn't put the foot to which
the ankle belonged on the ground. and So
WHILE lima had been obliged to send word
To the management that she'd be Obliged
to miss at least one performance. until
the swelling in her ankle subsidized a little
Tinksie's eyes were wide with joy when
the manager of the piece carried the news
to her.
Go on. kid. and see what you can make
of it," the manager had said to her. and
Tinksie's being dubbed with ecstacy.
She had four hours to tra-la-la over the
songs and rehearse the steps of the lead
ing woman. and she worked like long
shoreman engaged in loading q Christmas
boat
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ers Of frothy Munich and amber Patzen-
Next to America. It is the kaiserin who
is in the plot, and next to the kaiserin
# is her fifth son. Oscar. The kaiserin
does not accept the dictum OF Emanuel ,e
Kant that leach sex should discipline It's
own" and she Is Mortified. SO people say.
at the vicious. Misunderstanding ways OF
the lads of Heidelberg and Bonn. And
Oscar also disapproves. Oscar is son
who would warm any mothers heart.
Himself at Bonn and q member OF the
tipsy Borussians, he resolutely set his
face against excessive drink. He at
tended, they say, "Kommers' OF com
rade corpsmen and drank only half q
liter of beer.
a certain Won Keim resented this I'M
comradelike abstinence by getting UNI
usually drunk and standing on his head,
whereupon decent Oscar left the enter
tainment In order to set better ex-
ample, he formed group OF students OF
quite depraved responsibility and treated
them to temperance beverages. From
this arose an ignoble organization d.
rected against all the traditional disrepu-
liabilities of student life-against beer, in
discriminate lovemaking. dirty faces and
the kindly, indispensable pawnshop.
Bonn was wroth. Already it suspected
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The Modest Model.

THE late Julia Ward Howe. thougA 4
! woman Of very good appearance,
was extremely modest.
''She once posed for me-" said q Hop-
ton painter the other day. "But she hest.
tated a long time before consenting. TO
urge her on / said:
Don't be afraid. I'll do you Justice,
madam"
"'Ah.' she answered, 1t isn't tustacs Z
ask for at your hands; it's msrcX.s&
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German student regards responsibility
as a fraudulent Yankee import-a sort
of ethical wooden nutmeg. Kaiser Will
helm took his cue from America. Until
late in life he never quarreled with the
innately abandoned character of the
college "Bursch." He regarded the beer.
the duels, the unsoaped faces and the UNI
squeamish lovemaking as necessary parts
of every gentleman's training.
Then suddenly dawned the fatal day OF
German interest in American colleges.
The Roosevelt exchange professors be-
gan to tell unseemly. incredible yarns
about the responsibility of American stu
dents The interested kaiser asked num-
berless questions. The professors replied
with legends about the sanity lives OF
young Americans with high aspirations
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him reached a launch whose occupant
heaved a line and completed the rescue.
And upon reaching shore with the child
the life saver discovered for the first
time that three of his teeth had been
knocked out by the driftwood encOun-
tered when he dived from the dock.
~
And a new national hero who has Just
come In for the. same reward from the
aforementioned grateful government Is q
young man now plying brave ''dughey"
Dohertys old-time trade Of captain in a
volunteer life-saving crew This is George
Freeth, Hercules of Redondo Beach,
Cal, and his medal of honor In gold has
been voted him, by the committee which
sits on such cases. for 'heroically rescu-
ing seven fishermen from a December
hurricane which lately ragged Off his sta
ton.
1t appears from the testimony weighed
by the committee that the sudden nor
wester caught fleet Of small fishing
boats unawares and sent them scurrying
to shore, too late, however, for safe
landing. Summoned by the Ominous
screech of siren on shore, CAPT. Freeth
hurried his crew to the scene. and, un.
daunted by the waves, which were wash
ing twenty feet over the pier, ran forth
alone, made a spectacular dive from the
wharf and glided like q dolphin to
boat that was about to be dashed to
pieces upon the rocks Of the breakwater.
Then, climbing over the gunwale, he took
the helm and safely piloted the boat and
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could snag a chance. would ease a few
sotto-voce sneers into Tinksie's aural
cavities.
Il s'pose," Ina would say to Tinksie
when she saw a chance to herd the under
study up against a chunk of scenery In q
dark corner. L s'pose you're goin' around
with that dream-book idea in the back of
your puffs that I'm goin' to do flop SOON
er or later and give you chance to Jig
in and show 'em how much better you
are than am. hey?"
Whereupon Tinksie would murmur some
pleading little protest, such as shut up,
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Prohibition Everywhere.

- EN-. FREDERICK DENT GRANT.
~ discussing the army canteen ques-
ton with Washington correspondent.
said:
AT any rate. canteen or no canteen,
we should all remember that there's one
public house at least that we can all
close. Yes. even in New York or Paris
we can have prohibition"
And Gen. Grant quoted with . smile the
couplet:
There Is a little public house which every 60
may close
1t Is the little public house Just underneath -
nose
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At last the fateful hour arrived. and
Tinksie got her first cue to go on. and.
all In a lutter of happiness she teetered
onto the stage and felt for the first time
the effulgent rays of the spotlight. and
But wait!
It's sad sort of q duty that we have
to perform every once In q while, this
thing of telling of how things actually do
work out, instead OF the way they're just
said to work out. Tinksie TWinkletoes,
according to all Of the dope, ought to've
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%NMENT
1EROISM

ground to rags he was practically uU
scratched.
The woman fell outside the rails. but
her foot was crushed. and although heg
than Karsten's she sustained Internal ins
jurtes from which she died the same
night. In addition to the medal sent him
by President Taft Karsten was given by
ing. a gold watch and ten days special
leave with pay.
The grade crossing-wfich some mon.
progressive commonwealths stin permit
railroad companies to maintain in centera
Of populatiori-was the scene Of the other
act of heroism lately earning 'hs Preei-
dent order OF merit.
Again a woman was crossing Q gridlron
OF tracks-nne tbreast-this time a
street in McKeesport. Pa
Hurrying home to cook her husbands
dinner she was making way under two
handicaps. In the first plare. her face
was bundled in a shawl which obscured
both the view and the sound Of train
crush her II she took step Forward:
and. secondly. she was a foreigner. un-
able to understand the warning cries
shouted at her by shrill voicsa risins
Argus-eyed and alert At his post seood
Crossing Policeman Robert A. Brsndle.
with record as long as HuEhey Doner.
tvs for rescues OF bygone days And
bTcn0Ie $1,000 nOl upOu BOiN8 W kOtSu
the woman from danger. He went And
he grabbed her with q Samsonian grab
that took ..er OF her feet. Yet before he
could lift her from the track he felt the
hot breath Of the engine.
-
The engineer and fireman rushed to tho
side of the cab to view the carnagd
which they could not prevent. but wsrd
astonished to see rescued and rescuef
safe and sound on the cindery ground
below them. The pilot beam Of the loco
motive struck Brendle's coat tail. Thss
was the full extent of the collision, SO
deftIy did he handle his charge.
OF the heroic citizens decorated with the
marine medal In silver there are twenty,
five, six of them private citizens, one OF
them q soldier, three of them belonging
to the revenue cutter service. four or
them policemen and eleven brave boys OF
the navy varying in rank from ordinary
seaman to that of lieutenant; comma nder.
or the latter rank is Herman o. Stick,
ney who when a sailor In the Philip
pines recently fell overheard from the
bridge deck Of the South Dakota, knock
ing himself unconscious by striking
lighter before splashing finally into thi
water, went down q heaving line into
the sea and effected the poor fellows
rescue.
But, as intimated. the award OF this
silver medal instead OF the gold by no
means bears the insinuation that its hold.
ers are less courag eous than those granted
the golden order 1t signifies merely
that the circumstances of the accident
have necessitated less risk upon the part
of the rescuer.
One case however. has arisen In which
a person awarded the silver medal felt
insulted and returned II. This sensitive
soul was a girl. Later she took wiser
counsel and accepted IL.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKIN2
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AISER WILHELM
has bent his back
to the herculean
task Of making the
FatherlanHs stu
dents respectable.
They are not to
swear. or fight
butcherlike dueis,
or make vulgar,
transitory love to
inkeepers' scullery
maids. Worse still
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had the folks in front standing on their
seats. waving their bonnets and UNI
brellas. long before she'd been on the
stage two minutes, and the antique dope
also would have had it that the manager
waited for her to come of, after her nrst
scene, and told her that the part was
hers, and that Inu was already canned.
and that Tinksie could name her own
salary and write her own ticket. and all
like that.
But no, 1t didn't break that way. Tink-
sic forgot most of her lines, and her songs
fell dead. Isn't she the bum?" growled
the manager, standing back of the final
row. And the audience thought the same.
And lima was back on the job on the fol-
lowing night. and Tinksie went back to
the back row and was glad to hold on to
her job even there.
IT'S a workaday world, neighbors!
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INSPIRED BY What the
! Students Regard as the
Pernicious Example of the
American Colleges, Will
) helm Has Started Out to
Make Them Sober, Clean
and Less Quarelsome Than
of Old, While He Has Set
His Face Against Breaking
Windows and Beating Police
men.
Copyright IN the United States and Great Britai
BY Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reserved)
pecial Correspondence OF The Star.
BERLIN December n 1910
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you pie-faced cat!" and long for her time
to come.
Because If you're waitin' for that hour
to come, believe me, You demf-tasse,
you're leanin' on q stick o. very crumbly
chalk. It's goin' to be you for the rear
line right through till this show goes to
the storehouse. dye get that? You get
1t. do you? Well. let 1t detain you, you
joke-let 1t detain your
Thus it will be seen that the feeling be-
tween lima and Tinksie. her understudy.
was characterized by almost anything
but excessive affection.
AS for Tfnksie she knew that when 1t
came to appearance. the pipes, dancing
and the win-'em stun she had lima backed
into the back parlor Of the nearest taxi
dermist.
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TIE government 3
hero roll for the
year just closed
bears the names of
thirty four men
black and white,
titled and obscure
who, as a reward
for risking their
lives to save their
fellows from hor-
rible deaths In the
water and upon the
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Oscar because he was q royal prince and
owned a razor. and now 1t showed its de-
rision by singing an irreverent song with
the refrain, oscar mein, Sohnlein. klein
mehr Bier" Ostracised thus by all In
decent society, Oscar went from bad to
worse, when representing his FELLOWSHIP
dents at an academic function he coun-
seled them ito fear God and lead soberer
lives" The Borussians followed the ad-
vice by holding an uproarious 'Kom-
mers," Sitting open one another's checks
and breaking half the windows In the
town.
And the states attorney when he prose-
cuted them took the cue from the kaiser
and said: "Only IN Germany do we wit
ness such scandals. In America students
are quite as lively and animated as ours.
but they show their corps pride in sport
and not I'm breaking the windows OF
maiden ladies' This remark only con-
firmed the universities in their conviction
that America is responsible for the base
attempt to make them sober. And this Is
a bad thing for America. For, perhaps
when the reformed Borussian grows up
and becomes imperial chancellor, he will
remember that il was the priggish' YAM
KEGS who robbed him of his berry birth
right. and he will seek a terrible ven
geance at the cost of America
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they are not to drink. Naturally. cynics
predict the kaisers failure. But what
Wilhelm III sets his hand to do he does;
and Germany remembers his dictum, II
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THE REWARD OF sOBRIETY.
Portrait OF the kaiser ~ q student
which he presented TO the i've good
boys from Berlin University who
pr0mised to stop excessive beer
gushing.
am father Of the Fatherland's youth. and
my parental will is law"
The gallant enterprise was embarked on
only during the past year. At Koen'gs-
berg University Inatriculation ceremony.
Rector Mantgt turned with the following
words to the dumfounded Students:
I'm connection with Berlin University
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THE Star Actors for Var
! led and Exciting Melo-
dramas of Real Life-List
Just Made Public-Heroes
Who Have Saved Men From
Death at Sea and on Rail-
roads-Gold and Silver
Medals Are Distributed
Among Whites and Blacks.
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rail, have received that most coveted OF
official decorations granted by our coun-
try-the live-saving medal of honor.
This order of merit is awarded in three
grades, the gold, silver and bronze, the
first two being presented by the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury for deeds OF great
daring and self-sacrifice upon federal wa
tiers, and the third being presented by
the President himself for the heroic saw
ing of life upon our railways engaged in
interstate commerce. But whereas the rel
alive intrinsic value of the gold or silver
medal is an index to the opportunities for
courage which the holder embraced to the
best of his heroic abilities. the less
precious substance in the bronze railway
medal bears no indication Of a lesser de-
gree of heroism on the part of its wearer
as compared with the holder of the ma
rine order of the higher category. The
railway medal has no grades. In the
eyes of officiadom those upon whose
breasts it is pinned are all equal. One
is as great hero as another. And with
1t goes a little button bearing the word
'.Hero"-a badge for everyday wear
which does not accomI any even the gold
medal of your water hero.
In awarding one of these national
medals Of honor. up at the United States
Capitol, some years back. our Cncie
Joe" Cannon remarked that the parti-
ton between heroism and arrant cow
ardice is often of tissue paper thinness
In fact, our psychologist friends have
pointed out that the NEST timid, respond
ing suddenly to some paradoxical i'm
pulse are sometimes wont to outdo In
courage all of your professional heroes
lowering round the theater OF action.
But that heroism may also be consti-
tutional phenomenon Of the nervous sys-
TEN, and perhaps an hereditary one
one that is in the blood. at least-we
often have convincing evidences. and q
case in point Is that of one of our he
roes enrolled upon this last honor list
issued by a grateful government.
To not few of our great metropolis
denizens the name 'Hughey" Doherty
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"BORUSSIANS" THEMSELVES.
of
n In

hat the kaiser opened the anti-beer cam
paign, and at the same time set about
trying to make his student subjects re-
specta able all round. So far he has had
small success. One reason is that the
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lcopyright. 1ell. By John Elfreth watkin.l
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-26
A WREATH OF BABIES"

Imagination is the making of g
writer, so one has been led to believe.
Perhaps; but some writer's go too
far. Just listen to this description
of a bit Of simple summer millinery
from a foreign publication:
at goes with a yellow print frock,
like the poets
"Buttercup-color was her print gown,
So sweetly rare, so quantity fair!"
and here we had gray chip, very
coarse, but dull of surface, and but
tercup-yellow taffetas Winterhalter
bows, with raveled ends, sitting all
around the low crown, with their
fat, short legs sticking out well apart
in front of them, for all the world
like a wreath of chubby babies.
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Mrs. Rigby-Is she happy since
she secured her divorce?'
Mrs. Digby-Very. AS a wife her
allowance was only $40 a week, but
now he has to pay her $50 week
alimony.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-26
THE TRAVELLERS COMFORT.

A slipper without heel, which is
so soft that it can be folded and put
into a very small space, is a new in
vention designed for the traveller.
We have had cretonne hats and
coats, cretonne covers for the furni-
ture, and now cretonne slippers are
among the latest things. A woman
was making pair the other day
without a pattern. She bought a
pair of soles, such as are used for
the crocheted slippers, put her foot
on the floor, fitted the cretonne over
the instep and the rest was easy.
She bound the top of the slipper and
sewed the lower edge to the sole. It
will prove a great convenience for
wear in the sleeper during the night
journey.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-26
DIAMOND BITS ARE COSTLY
I r Value for the Eight Needed In
Drilling In Rock 10 About
$500.

A diamond bit for rock drilling is
quite an expensive article. Its value.
however, will undergo fluctuations,
dependent upon the price Of the dis-
monds. Perhaps $500 is fair value
for a bit. The diamond used is ex-
oeedingly hard-harder than those
usually used as jewelry. Their carat
price is considerable, averaging, say,
at $50 a carat. The diamonds used
will weigh from one TO two carats, 50
that eight have a value ranging from
$3.50 to $500, on the average. The
loss of a bit means so many dia-
monds gone and may lead to diff
Guilty with the hole. The diamond is
not tough, but brittle. 1t will with
stand heavy pressure if applied even
ly and without shock. 1t can read
lily be seen that drilling through
seamy rock may become quite unfa-
vorable. II there is much quartz
present the abrasion may become ex-
cessive. Under ordinary conditions,
however, the wear on the diamonds,
while considerable, is by no means
prohibitive.-Cassier's Magazine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-26
NOT BUILDING THE TEMPLE
Methodlst's Rebuke Of Presbyterian
Brother Who Was One Of the
Quiet Kind.

A Presbyterian minister who had
very conservative ideas dropped in
one night on a Methodist revival
where an extraordinary amount Of
exhorting and shouting were going
on. He sat down in seat far toward
the back, and though he felt in SYM
pathy with the work going on he
could not bring himself TO engage in
the same kind of vocal activity. Pres
emily a Methodist brother named
Smith went back and urged him to
come up and join the rank of work.
ers, but the conservative held back,
exclaiming: 81 am one of the quiet
kind, you know, and don't believe in
so much noise and hubbub; you must
remember, Brother Smith, that in
the building of the temple there was
heard neither the sound of saw nor
of hammer.
"Humph !" snorted Brother Smith,
eve are not building temples here,
we are Just blasting rock. The Lords
going to look after the temple"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-26
POET AT POETS BIRTHPLACE.

Shepherd NJ. Digger, the bard
of Grandfather mountain, recently
described for the Observer a dance at
Blowing Rock. Could any words, in
truth, embody more sense sublime
than these? Gust as the saffron
fan from the sunset gathered in its
folds, meu and women darted ints
the dance like meteors, and as the
sweet zephyrs from the Grandfather
whispered poems through the win
dows they glided metrically on the
thrilling pulse of music to the rhyth-
mic metre of souls" Or than these ?
"The gaudily dressed couples were
so thick on the floor that they looked
like a wilderness of blooming hodo-
dendrons stirred by a breeze. p
Charlotte Observer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-26
DESIRE TO MAKE NOISE.

Dr.. Theodore leasing, president
Of the anti-noise association at Han
over, Germany, in a lecture on the
psychology of noise, recently deliv-
cred in that city, said that the de-
sire to make a noise could never be
conquered. ct manifests itself not
only in the yelling of teamsters and
the whistling of hackmen, but in
needlessly energetic welding of
noise-making implements of trade, "
he continued.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-26
THE REASON.

Senator Rayner, the wit Of the
senate, told at a dinner in Balti-
more a story of the South.
"a northerner," he said, "was
surprised, during a southern tour, by
the number Of Taliaferros he found
everywhere. Doctors, lawyers, under
takers, clothiers-all seemed to be
Taliaferros. The northerner put up
In nearly every town at a Hotel
Taliaferro, and, if he wanted cigar,
a Taliaferro sold it to him.
He couldn't understand it at all
till one day, motoring through a
splendid country, he saw a tremen-
dous mill that bore in vast letters the
inscription, 'Taliaferro Manufacture
ing company
"'Ohop he said, they turn them
out by steam p"
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Time Card No. Ia


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TRAINS GOING NORTH.
No. sc. & st. L. Linn, 5:25 a. m
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No. 54-St. L. Fast Mail, 1920 0. ~
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and 91's stops except "a will not stop
at Warrington and No. 95 will
not stop at Warrington or Empire.
No. 81 and 81 connect at st. Louis and oths
points west.
No. 81 connects at Guthrie for Memphis lin
points AZ far south as Erin and ior LouiGd
Cincinnati and the East.
No. 50 and IS make direct conn at Gut
rie for Louisville, Cincinnati and ali point
uorth and east Thereof. No. 50 and IS also cor
meet for Memphis and way points.
o. "a runs through 70 Chicago and will 90,
ny passengers 70 point South Of Evansvill.
lao carries through Slsepsrs 70 St Louis.
No. 90 through sleepers 20 Atlanta, Macon
yackson VILE, ST. Augustine an Tampa, Fla