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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20

less and very proud. Mr.. Vincent is
not my own father. 1 am his step
daughter. My mother is dead. He
was once a wealthy man. But he
has lost nearly everything. The only
shelter left TO him is with his son, and
the son has a wife-such a wife.
l have little property, but from
me he will accept nothing, though
he has been to me all that my own
father would have been. There
came the chance to sell to the state
an unproductive piece of land, the
only property he had left. The sum
paid for it would make him indie
pendent for life. OF course l helped
him. What sort Of daughter should
l have been if l had not tried to
take from him the burden Of power
ty, dependence and humiliation? 1
do not share the money. His son
will inherit it,"
''You didn't tell me-you Ssaid
that the old people of Greenville-"
81 did plead, with all my heart,
for an old man. But | could not tell
you"
81 wonder if a young man plead
ing for himself, with all his heart"
"Your tears, sweetheart, I've
kissed away, and that means, doesn't
it, the very best thing in the world
for me-for us?"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
Lets a Number Of Additional
Contracts for Working
Dirt Roads.
A NEW BRIDGE PURCHASED
From Champion Bridge Co. To
Span Pond River Near
Muhlenberg Line.

Fiscal Court held a busy session
Wednesday and numerous matters
were disposed Of. Contracts were
let for working additional dirt roads
of the county. as follows,
A. M. Henry: road from Newstead
church to Red House; at $3.50 per
mile.
P. H. Allensworth; Ciardy High
way from Gill Clardy's to GAINESVILLE
pike. thence to Thompsonville; at
$22 per mile. State line road from
Noah's spring to Allensworth farm,
at $25 per mile. Road from State
line to Clardy highway. at $18 per
mile.
Will Dockery; road from Herndon
road to Ed Jones, a miles, at $3.50
per mile.
Emmett Roper; road from Pee Dee
and Newstead road to McClain's
chapel, and from Roper's to Mason's
Mill, at $25 per mile.
Frank Kelly; road from end Of
pike on Bradshaw road to Salem
church road, and thence with Salem
church road to Miller's Mill road; at
$40 per mile.
S. E. Miller; Payne's lane from
Brick church on the Princeton road
to Larkin postoffice, Al miles; at
$22 SO per mile.
The contract for a 91-foot bridge
ITO span Pond River where it forms
the boundary line between Christisn
and Muhlenberg counties. was award
ed to the Champion Bridge Co. at
1895.
Each county will bear the expense
of the bridge in proportion TO the
number of legal voters in each coun-
An order was made for the pur.
chase of another road grader.
1t was ordered that road roller
be bought, and it was further order
ed that the j l. Case roller which
was recently used making a demon
stration in this county be purchased.
A number Of claims were allowed.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
Stopped Those Pains.

Copper Hill. vs.-Mrs. Ida Con-
ner, of this place. says. For years 1
had a pain in my right size. and l
was very sick with womsrls troub-
les, / tried different doctors but
could get no relief. | hpd given up
all hope of ever getting we'll. | took
Cardui, and it relieved the pain in
my side, and now fee ike a new
person. It is a wonderful medicine.
Many women are completely worm.
out and discouraged on account OF
some womanly trouble. Are yout
Take Cardui, the woman's tonic. Its
record shows 1t will help you. Why
wait? Try it today. Ask your drug
gist about it.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
MRS. UNDERWOOD DEAD
Mother of Editor Thomas {.
Underwood, of New Era.

Mrs. Matte j. Underwood died at
her home at SOC South Campbell
street yesterday morning, after a
lingering illness. She was in the 73rd
year of her age and is survived by
one son. Mr.. Thos. C. Underwood,
editor of the New Era.
Mrs. Underwood was a daughter
of the late Capt. C. w. Roach, of
Trigg county. A daughter by for
mer marriage. Miss Fannie Randolph,
married John H. Milliken, of Louis
vile. and besides the son named,
above a grand child. Miss Matte May
Milliken survives her. Her second
husband, Capt. B. T. Underwood,
died several years ago.
Mrs. Underwood was a most
estimable christian lady, consistent
and devoted member of the Method.
ist church. The funeral services will
be held this morning and the inter
ment will take place in Riverside
Cemetery.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
NOT HIS FAULT.

Little Augustus johnson had
learned some things about the face
of a clock, but not quite all there is
to know.
"What time is it, 'Gustus ?" asked
his employer one night, to test him.
"Ttsjes' eight o'clock" said the
boy, after a careful survey of the
clock.
"No, you're wrong" said his EN-
ployer. at won't be eight o'clock for
quite a while yet, not for 20 min
utes."
"Bofe hands is printing to eight,
jes' as straight as dey can PIN" "
said the boy, stubbornly. "1f dey
amt telling dc truf, l cyant help
its-Youth's Companion.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
HENDERSON---J0RDAN
Secret Wedding Leaks Out AZ
ter Two Weeks.

Mr.. Alex w. Henderson. the pop
ulsr Main street grocer, and Misc
Charlotte Mae Jordan were married
May 8. and the wedding was kept
secret until Thursday. Mr.. Hender-.
son was supposed to be confirmed
bachelor and the news came as a
surprise to his friends. The mar
riage took place at the home of Mr..
j. W. Hubbard, on Brown street.
the ceremony being performed by
Rev. ]. o. Clevenger. All of the
very few friends who knew of it
were sworn to secrecy, but the news
finally leaked out. The bride had
been for some time the book-keeper
in Mr.. Henderson's grocery store on
Main street. For the present they
have taken rooms at Mr.. Hubbard's.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20

Copyright. 1911. by Associated Literary
PressJ
al can never marry you and live
here" Margaret told her lover.
why not?" Allan demanded.
81 hate this country" Margaret
said. "T thought when l came to
Michigan to teach that ! should find
it a fertile land, but here on the
shores of the lake it is all sand and
sky and water"
81 like it," Allan said. 81 was
brought up here, and somehow the
shifting of the sand and the wind
across the lake are music to me-"
Margaret shrugged her shoulders.
''You don't know of anything bet
ter"
Allan grew a little white. "Per-
haps not" he said. al realized as
soon as you came that / had my lin
itations. You have seen so much Of
the world"
ooh, if you could see the city on
the other side of the lake." Margaret
said; with the lights and the life
and the gayety. Sometimes / long
for it until it seems as if my heart
would burst. Some day 1 am going
back to it."
"And I'll be left alone" Allan
said.
"Why shouldn't you Gomez" she
asked. "There are many openings
for men in the city. You would sue
coed"
He shook his head. 81 think not.
l am not used to men; mean to the
strife and striving of men. My IA
ther opened the first store in this
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
A Pew hours later Donald Evers.

A few hours later Donald Evers-
man was in Greenville.
Miss Vincent" he announced alb
ruptly, "the home will be built in
Greenville. / came to tell you"
"You came here to tell me-just
to tell me-all the way from the cap
ital-"
81 came to tell you that you lob
bied successfully for the old people
Of Greenville. Sentimental talk and
a beautiful face made a fool Of the
chairman of the committee and he
dictated the selection of the SITE"
She stepped back from him. Her
face was very white.
"T have learned, however" he
went on in savage, jeering tone,
chat the touchingly sentimental
story of the homesick old people
concealed the real reason of your de-
sire to have the home in Greenville.
You've won. Your father will be-
come, by the sale of his land to the
state, a rich man."
at was for him." acceded the girl,
shat 1 pleaded with you"
"You arranged to meet me? You
knew the day talked with you in
the house gallery that l was chair
man of the committee? You knew
that / disliked women lobbyists and
you pretended to know nothing Of
legislative juggling? You acknowl-
edge this?"
eyes"
He walked up to her, laid one
hand on her shoulder and with the
other turned her face until her eyes
met his. AS he looked at her the
anger left his face.
"Tell me-" he urged, gently, cal
about it. No girl with your true
eyes and tender lips ever deliberately
deceived a man in her own interests
There was reason"
ga reason-yes. For an old man
"a poor old man, broken and help
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
u 81 Asr's,

community. He made a solid repu-
tation for himself and l have fol-
lowed in his footsteps. All the coun-
try people come here; they are my
people and this is my country"
"But you would love it," she
urged. "The excitement would be
like wine in your veins. When 1 was
at college we used to go downtown,
a crowd of us at night, and it seemed
as If all the world was young and
gay, and here there is nothing but
silence, and all day l teach. 1t is
a monotonous grind. When the
spring comes / am going away; 1
am going back to the city, and some
day you will follow me-" She looked
up at him with a challenge in her
eyes.
81 think not" he told her. "Yet
who can tell9 / feel that you are
mine, that / cannot live without
you; 1 must work it out"
She came very close to him. of
Won will come to the city" she
urged, 81 will marry you-and we
will live happy ever after"
He caught her in his arms. EYou
will marry me?" he demanded.
''Then some day I'll come, but it
may be that we shall not live hap
PLY. I may be like a Gagged wild
bird. You may be ashamed of me-"
But she shook her head. 81 shall
never be ashamed Of YOU" she said.
'sBut don't love you well enough
TO live among the sand hills"
When the spring came she went
back to town. She had wrung a half
promise from him that he would fol-
low her, yet as the summer waned
he wrote that he could not yet make
a change in his business. II was
not the time to sell out. Wouldn't
she come back?
mo, no, no." was her answer.
His answer came back. off you
love me you will live among the
sand hills"
Secure in her power, however, she
flung her defiance at him.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
BREAKS WRIST
While Cranking His AutOmO-
bile Thursday.

DR.. A. H. Edwards sustained a
broken wrist Thursday morning
while cranking his automobile to
come down town. There was a
kick-back and the doctor received
the force of the recoil on his wrist!
DR.. Stone reduced the fracture but
DR.. Edwards will be unable to use
his hand for some time.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
COLORED SCHOOLS
Closed Last Night With Exer-
CiSeS at Tabernacle.

The annual closing exercises of
the city were held last night at the
Virginia Street Baptist church.
There are no graduates this year.
The regular closing of the grammar
grades will be held next month at
the Tabernacle.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
Frightened 70 Death.

A man died at Hanley. England. IN
der curious circumstances lately
While a boiler was being stocked a,
the Deep Pit. two loud explosions
took place. They were caused BY the
automatic opening OF q valve. but
Samuel Raybould. one OF tho stokers'
exclaimed: That's frightened me TO
DEATH and. falling. he instantly 81
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20

Miss Mary Hall. daughter of Mr..
w. H. Hall. of near the city. has re-
turned from Bowling Greens where
she took course in the State Nor
nal School.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
Atwood Stewart.

w. G. Atwood, of Cobb, and Miss
Daisy Stewart, OF this city, were
united in marriage Thursday night.
Rev. ]. P. Cleavinger officiated.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
PetitiOning Former Mayor.

A petition is being circulated cali
ing upon former mayor F. w. Dab
ney to become a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for council
man in the Fourth ward.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
File Claims.

All parties holding claims against
the estate of C. L. Daniel. deceased.
will file them with me. properly
AIroven. on or before July l. 1911.
and all parties indebted to the estate
will please call and settle same.
MRS. C. L. DANIEL, Admx.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
THOSE KIND PREDICTIONS.

The Wedding was over.
Guests announced the usher,
"will kindly register their pre-
dictions in this book"
"What prediotionsI"
"As to how long you'll give 'em to
slay>msrried." 49,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
TAFT RANCH RAIDED.
Demand $1,000 for The AMI
mails Return.

= Washington. May 19.-President
Taft has received word that Mexican
insurrectos raidei the ranch in lower
California belonging to his brother.
Charles Taft, and DR.. Edwards.
The rebels took 60 horses, demand
ing $1,000 for their return. When
payment was not made promptly
they made off with the animals.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20

WN BROTHERS ICE
CREAM does not cost you any more
than other creams. Note the differ
ence in quality. MARTIN & BOYD.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20

II you are interested in an Allen
Indoor Window tent for this sum
mer, see Mrs. Frank Torian or phone
604.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20
Lost their Infant Son.

No Md Mrs. Edgar Cayce have
the sympathy of host Of friends in
the loss Of their little son. Milton
Porter. aged about two months,
who died Wednesday Of colitis. at
their home on South Main. The in
terment took place in Riverside
Cemetery Thursday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-05-20

(copyright. 1911. by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
Could They Forget

A correspondent wants to know why. In my opinion, California voted to give her women the ballot.
 There are doubtless various reasons, but this is one:
 California owes women much. and she was not ungallant enough, when ro- minded of her obligation, to forget it.
 The story of the plainsman and the plainswoman is a story of glory and tragedy in which the man got most of the glory and the woman most of the tragedy.
 When the news of gold came to the "forty-nner" he hltched up his prairie schooner and started on the Santa Fe trail. Often, under the canvas cover. on the seat by his side, was a woman sometimes with babe in her arms.
 And she?
 Leaving every friend on earth behind and sharing alike with her man--if she lived-she heard in the after years the story of his herosm. It was the man who made the desert blossom as the rose always the man.
 If she lived
 Go by the way Of the trail of the gold seekers and know that trail is strewn with the graves of women. There are no monuments. And there are countless tiny graves, long unmarked, where they buried their babes t-se .-aa.
 And then @. ss
 Those who survived the ordeal toled side by side with theirt argonauts.s in sulch and field and cabin. 1t is a tpyi- cal fact that the wives of the bonanza mine owners in the days of hardship washed the clothes of the miners in order to grlbstalSe their husbands.
 And there were more babies
 The pioneer women suffered and toiled and died. Nine out of every ten of the early California miners, so it is stated, married two to three wives some four or five. It was hard on women in those days.
 Could California forget? z
 And SO when a newer generation of these women went before the new gen. eration of men and told how tlteir mothers had come to Fl Dorado In the movers wagons and asked that women be recognized at the polls it was not in the heart of man to refuse.
 Such an appeal could not go unan- swered. .Sl.,
 california honored herself in her fine appreciation of the women ir, whose laps her civilization was carried across the plains. ' '.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31

every one. I remember that they tool umbrage at the well meant efforts 10 l some of the members of the compSn1 who started to assist me. The mnsi' was stopped, the flowers were gathered and the play went on.
 Those posies are withered and gon' ere now, but their crumbled petals anc the remembrance of their delightful fra france, together with the kindness ant light heartedness which prompted the in cident has made, forever in my heart : | soft place for the American college boy
 "Gay New York" at the Bijou
 Beginning with the matinee New Years day, Manager Semon offers the musical comedy Gay New York"
 There can be no question about the potency of musical comedy as an enter tainment of pleasing virtue, and 1t is therefore not in the least surprising tc note the strong, or rather strenuous ri valry between amusement purveyors to launch upon the hazardous sea of ex- pectancy something in the nature of startling.
 ..Gay New York; the latest and one of the real successes of this seasons con tributions, has taken a firm hold upon the affections of amusement seekers, fos the reason of it's many sided claims o' superiority of constructon.i With well developed plot to guide the action of its merriment, 1t is reputed to possess such novelty of scenes and incidents as would naturally enhance the value of it's char acter as an entertainments out of the -or- dinary A
 Evidently those who have the financial interests of Gay New York" at heart have not overlooked the necessity for providing such pretty girl'' contingent Of players and singers as may be relied upon for all manner Of entertainment ideas and especially that class of girls who add to their personal charms by be- ing able to gown themselves with dis tinction.
 Gay New York; with a small army of fun makers, vocalists and artists in all the various branches of progressive stage amusement, magnifcently equipped with stage devices, and offering a plen- titude of genuine surprises, will more than likely command substantial recoy- hilton at the Bijou. At any rate, the in- dications point in that direction. The principal members of the company in elude such well known players as Thos. J. Grady. Harlan Briggs, Julia Calhoun, Samuel West. Ella Wilson, Lee c. Hollen, Alice Creighton. Charles Kirchner. Jessie Keeley, Paul Michell. Edyth linen, Laura Hastings. Aledah Fay, Wood Sisters, Tro- codero trio and the brilliant commedienne, Wanda Stuart.
 Seats are now selling for all performs ances, including the special matinee Mon- day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
A Scottish Farmers Retort

A Scottish farmer, wlo had gone to the laird to pay his rent. was complain jug. about. the bad season, the poor crops and the small prices he was getting for his grain, and hinting that a reduction in the rent would he acceptable,
 "But, John, said the laird, you were saving that all your crops had been poor this season I have been told, however. that you had a very good crop of beans.''
 "A guid crop.' calculated the farmer. 'Mon, laird, if ilka beanstalk had been a piper he wadrra hae heard his next nse- uof playin.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
HOW JEALOUSY OVER GIRL
 BROKE UP THE JAMES GANG

them. that when he went to St. Joseph he had no intentiongof killing Jesse James. and when he did kill him it was with no thought of the reward. He knew that Jesse was likely to find out at any time that he had killed Wood EIilte, and the morning Ford. killed, Jesse the latter had just read in the paper the news that Lid dle had surrendered,i and when Jesse mounted a chair to dust off a picture. standing with his face to the wall Ford saw his opportunity, and under the. inflll- ence of the moment.- and acting in self defense he shot the noted outlaw from behind.
 It was all the result of a quarrel over a woman.
 Bob Ford was arrested for killing Jesse James. but was discharged without trial.
 James Garper. now a lawyer in Kansas City, was then prosecuting attorney of Ray county, where Ford had killed Wood Elite, and he prosecuted him for that crime. Ford took a change of venue to the adjoining county of Clinton. of which J. M. Lowe, now a lawyer here, and ror- mer election commissioner, was prosecute ] ing attorney. and he and Garner to- gether prosecuted Bob Ford for the mur- der of Hite. and would have convicted Ina .5a. cne juase instructed the Jury mat unless it was proved beyond, unreasonable doubt that it was Ford's bullet that killed Hite it must acquit him. Even in the face of that instruction the Jurywas our 4 hours before it acquitted Ford.
 "In all my experience I never met more villaiuous rascal than Bob Ford said MT. Lowe the other day. He was genuine tough, and looked it. Ills mouth was full of oaths and obscenity ana he looked like murderer. His brother, Char lie, on the other hand, was quite gentle manly appearing fellow, and he talked like one.
 During my prosecution of Ford he told me that as soon as he got out of trouble lshe would kill me. Charlie overheard that threat and he reprimanded Bob Tor it and told him I was only doing my duty. Bob was chuckle headed ruffian. and | it was a good 'riddance when he was shot and killed in Colorado some years later"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
Playhouse Gossip

Henry Woodruff, the handsome star who backs up his good looks by real acting ability and is now appearing in Mort IT. Singers musical fantasy, "The Prince of Tonight soon to be seen here, is a golf shark, according to his fellow mem bers of the Lambs club. MT. Woodruff, as befits successful star. has a beau tiful summer home, located al Siascon- sett. Nantucket Isle, Massachusetts. Dur ing the summer, while entertaining sev- eral of the Lambs at his home. each of his guests modestly acknowledged that he was the champion golfer of the club. Wocuruff suggested that there was a pri- y-te celf links adjoining his grounds, 70 which he had access, also that he could get the various implements necessary to play the game. All enthusiastically set out for the grounds, and were there thor oughly and everlastingly beaten by Wood ruff, whom they had never consdereG in their championship argument Their astonishment. as expressed to Augustus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31

 Slave" is scheduled to appear at the Bijou next week. Back in 1882, Bartley Campbell wrote his famous drama. of, the south "The White Slave anu Walter Buiridge, tf>l a promising. young scene, painter from the middlest west, which was staged at the old Fourteenth street theatre, New York City, in the spring of that year Burrdge has painted all the important Henry w. Savage productions for the past ten years. one of his recent eGorts being "Everywoman." He abandoned a great deal Of new work in order to devote him self to the new production of the dear old White Slave" finding 1t labor of loye He recently repmrSed that it gave hin an opportunity of living over again tho span of 30 years which has separated tho original from the current production. This. new production of The White Slave will be presented in Birmingham next week with an 'exceptfohafly strong cast of prominent players.