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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
Roofs, HIDES, Wool AND TALLoW

Prices paid by wholesale dealers t.
butchers and farmers:
Roots--Southern ginseng, IS. IS ID
Golden Seal" yellow root, $I.35
Mayapple, 30; pink root, 12c and 10,
Tallow-No. |. 41, No. 2, &c.
Woodbury., IOc to TIC: Clear
Grease, 2lc. medium, tub washed,
23c to 3Oc; coarse, dingy, tubwashed,
18c.
Feathers-Prime white goose. SOC,
dark and mixed old goose, I5c to 3Oc;
gray mixed, I5c to 3Oc: white duck
PC to 35c, new.
Hides and Skins-These quotations
are for Kentucky hides. Southern
green hides &c. We quote assorted
lots dry flint. I2c to lac. 9-1O bet
ter demand
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
His Deduction.

Eugene Conner, son of F. D. Con-
ner Of the Guardian Bank, who lives In
Roxbury road, East Cleveland, is a
stullous lad, says the Leader. More
over, he is given to deduce his own
facts without much scientific inves-
tigation. He attends the Prospect
school in the Stamberger village, long
ing for the time when he may at
tend Shaw High.
Eugene's teacher asked him one
day this week what the principal prod
uct Of the cod was
"Codliver OIL" was the instant re-
ply. He knew that. And he never did
like It.
"And what is II we get from the
seal?" continued the teacher.
Sealing wax" responded the
youngster.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
Came Back for His Money.

Sixteen years ago a worker az
Messrs. Singers machine works at
Kilbowie, Dumbartonshre, left the
firms employment emitting to take
with him las. ID, wages due lie
spent four years IN England, and after.
wards Joined the army. serving IL
years, mostly abroad A few days ago
the man, whose name Is Calhgan, call
ed again. at Kilbowie and claimed his
money, established his right 10 II. ard
got 1.-THE Scotsman.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
A Cash Offer.

The Kentuckian has made a special
cling rate with The Memphis
WeFkly Commercial Appeal by
which we will furnish both papers
for one year for the very low sub.
scription price Of S2.25. The Com
mercial Appeal is one Of the largest
and best papersin the South, and
we hope to receive mary new sub
scriptions on this offer: 81 25 cash
for both papers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
RETAIL GROCERY PRICES.

Country lard. good color and clean
lac per pound.
Country bacon, lie per pound.
Black-eyed reas, 81 90 per busheI.
Country shoulders. lac per pound
Country hams. 19c per pound.
Irish potatoes. S1.50 DER bushel.
Northern eating Rural potatoes
81 so per bushel
Texas eating onions, $1.25 per
bushel
Req eating ouio rs, 81 so per bushel
Dried Navy beans, $500 pei
bushel
Cabbage. 8 cents pound.
Dried Lima beans, lOc per pounu.
Country dried apples, lOc per
pound
Country dried peaches, lOc per
pound
Daisy cream cheese, Csc per
pound
Full cream brick cheese, 25c PEI
pound
Full cream Limberger cheese. 25t
per pound
Popcorn, dried on ear. &c per pound,
Fresh Eggs 25c per doz
Choice lots fresh, well-worked
country butter, in pound prints. 30c.
FRUITS.
Lemons. 25c per dozen
Navel Oranges, zoe. 40c, per doc
Bananas, l5c and zoe doz
New York State apples 400 &c
"a so per barrel
Cash Price Paid For Produce.
POULTRY.
Dressed hens, l2tc per pound
Dressed cocks, 7c per pound
i've hens, 10c per pound; live cocks
&c pound; live turkeys. 161c pei
pound
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
Har Anxiety.

"Could you wait on me before the
others? asked the woman In the
drug store. Il am In a great hurry"
The drug clerk complied and filled
her prescription Immediately. Thank
you so much" she said. Il am afraid
that F1do win awake before | return
and miss me-"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28

Dressed geese, lie per pound for
choice lots, live 81
Fresh country eggs, 1S cents per
dozen
Fresh country butter 25c Id.
A good demand exists for spring
chickens, and choice lots of fresh
country butter
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
HAY AND GRAIN.

Choice timothy hay, SIS 90
No. | timothy hay, SIT 90
Choice clover hay, SIG 90
No. | clover hay, SIG 90
Clean, bright straw hay. $500
Alfalfa hay, SIS 90
White seed oats, SOC
Black seed oats, SOC
Mixed seed oats, 48c
No. 2 white corn, 70c
No. 2 mixed corn, zoe
Winter wheat bran, $4,000
Chops, $3.50.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-10-28

Corrected Sept. Fl, 1911.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
Capturing Flag of 5sth Virginia.

Bloody Angle. They jumped the
breastworks on that day and took
more prisoners than there were men
in their own regiment. The old fell
lows laughed over it last night
They told of the three terrible days
at Gettysburg, too, but they did not
laugh about them. They lost just half
their number in those three days Of
fghting-162 of the 324 men who
then formed the regiment 1t was
there that the battleflags of the Sec
ond Zouaves received the hardest
storm of shot and shell and began fad
ing away into the sorry bits of ribbon
they were last night The regimental
flag, a mere handful of bits. was still
proudly preserved. however, and after
the war the wife of the Colonel. NJ. w.
Burns, sewed the bits on the 1imsy
square of white yelling that they
might be saved in after years
But if their own flag was all but
snot away, they recalled proudly, they
captured few very fine ones from
the enemy. They took one Florida
flag, one from Virginia, one from
North Carolina. and one from Georgia
before the war was over, and though
these were all sent later to Washing
ton. the Second Zouaves still claim
sole ownership of them. Each of
them was hard wor
The meeting was presided over by
John McCloskey, president of the as
ISOLATION. The other survivors pres
ent we're Lieut. r. Evans. Lieut.. ].
Fischer, Capt C.. w. Wilson. Sergt.
j. ovens. Sergt NJ Mccullough. ].
Flaherty, T. White, j. H. Campbell.
H. A. Kraus. H. McKeen, A. Sheppard,
w. ]. Barry, E. T. Mcgowan, G. DEAN
sr and J. Dougherty
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
MOST POPULAR HATS
PICTURE VARIETY CONCEDED TO
EXCEL IN GRACE.
Smaller Sizes Have Their Admirers,
but the Larger Shapes More Than
Hold Their Own With Follow
ers of Fashion.

However much we may admire the
quaint, small bonnet-like shapes, some
demure and some jaunty, which are
now fashionable, and however interest
ing the unending variety and eccentric
novelty of medium sized and small
hats may prove, still the most beauti-
full of all is the large picture hat. 1t
belongs to youth and serves as back
ground against which the beauty OF
youthful coloring and contour is en-
phasized. 1t subtracts years from the
woman who has preserved her good
looks into middle life and carries a
suggestion of girlhood always. 1t is
the hat of great occasions. and it is
never out of style.
The contour of the picture shapes
varies somewhat from season to sea-
son, the poise changes a little, but it
is in the matter of trimming that the
hat is brought into the. mode of the
moment. Just at present malines are
greatly liked, mounted over crowns
either in masses of drapery, in shir-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
famous Politicians Story of the Fin.
est Exhibition of Physical and
Moral Courage That He
Ever Had Witnessed.

Il once asked Thurlow Weed. who
was my lifelong friend. what was the
finest exhibition of physical and moral
courage he had ever Witnessed" said
the late Charles G.. Clarke, who was
long vice president of the New York
Central railway system. and the right
hand man of Commodore Vanderbilt
in the building of the system, and the
appraiser upon the estate of Thurlow
Weed following the death in 1882 of
that famous Wing and Republican po-
litician and president maker.
Mr.. Weed told me that when he was
a young man there was an exhibition
of moral and physical courage which
came under his observation more i'm
pressive than any other that he had
witnessed in his long career. He add
ed that If he wrote an autobiography
as he thought of doing, he should re-
refer to the incident Mr.. Weed did
write a brief account of the incident
but that account did not compare with
the verbal one he gave me. which
can repeat in almost his precise
words.
Soon after | went to the city of
Albany, ~ Y, to live in my early
manhood he said I was told that
there was to be public hanging of
soldier and I was invited to witness
the execution. A morbid curiosity
led me to accept the invitation.
The execution was to take place
In a field perhaps a mile from the Al
bany barracks. where this soldier had
been stationed. 7 walked out to the
-fieid with a friend and after a while
4 saw a wagon coming. in which was
seated a young man who was bare
headed. He was chatting in a pleas
ant manner with two men who were
seated beside him was informed
that he was the man who was to be
hanged; l had already been told that
c1he young soldier had been convicted
or the murder of the captain of his
company He had shot the captain
in a sudden heat of passion because
the captain had reprimanded him.
"'At last the wagon stood behind
the gallows which had been extern
poriZed The young man calmly
watched the; constables as they adj
iHsted the rape. Then. perfectly self
possessed, he mounted a ladder 1t
did not seem to me to be bravado on
his part; his attitude was that of a
soldier who was facing death with
intrepidity The boy-for he was
scarcely more than a iad-had said
that he deserved death, that it was a
crime to attack an officer. no matter
what the provocation, a crime for
which no excuse could be given.
GAS the ladder was twitched away
and the body fell, the rope broke.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
TEACH CHILDREN TO THINK
Good Idea That May Be Classed as
in the Nature OF Practical
Education.

One of the new ideas upon educa-
ton is that children should be encour-
aged to think more and to leave dry
facts alone. It is said, too, that we
cram lot of facts down the minds or
our children and do not give them an
opportunity to use their brains. This
new idea in education says that we
must take children oftener out into
the woods to let them discover things
for themselves; we should let them
watch the habits of insects and ami
mails, and the ever-varying phases OF
nature We should let both boys and
girls study mechanical organism or
things that are in daily use in our big
cities. For instance, boy or even
girl, who happens to be In the yicin-
ity of an automobile when 1t breaks
down, might by intelligent obserya-
ton learn a great deal about the
makeup of one of those modern con
veyances If let alone to watch the
machinist go about adjusting the diff
culties.
very much disgruntled little girl
was overheard saying to her father
and mother who had dragged her
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
Mrs. Leland Stanford, Her Husbands
Chief Counselor, Received Social
Distinctions Simply and With
Unaffected Demeanor.

The late Leland Stanford. governor
of California in 1851, the original
planner of the Central Pacific rail
road, the builder of over 500 miles OF
that railroad at the rate of two miles
a day, the promoter who drove the
final spike of the Central Pacific at
PromontOry Point, Utah, in 1863.
United States senator from 1885 I'M
til his death in 1898, and the creator
of the Leland Stanford university
with an endowment of $20.000090,
sometimes in speaking of his career
and it's great triumphs would say to
his friends:
81 owe it all, first, to the training
in early boyhood which received
from my mother, and second, to my
wife, with whom | formed an ac-
quaintance that ripened into betrothal
when / was a young man on farm
near Albany, N. Y, and she school
girl at Albany
In all of Leland Stanford's career
in California whittier he went after
his brief experiment as a lawyer in
Wisconsin, largely because he was en-
couraged to do so by the young WON
an who became his wife, his chief
counselor, the one person in whom he
placed implicit confidence, was that
wife. 1t was she who encouraged him
to persevere while others pronounced
the Pacific railroad project chimera
saying that it was impossible to carry
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
Murderer Weed Admired

What did that young man do? He
helped the constables to remove the
rope. Then he sat upon a box and
advised them to go as speedily as pos
sible into Albany and get strong
Manila rope. He told them that they
should have tested the rope before
using it upon him. And while two or
three constables went for another
rope he sat there upon the box, chat,
ting with the guards, and l observed
that at one moment he spoke conf
dentially to a gentleman who seemed
to be sort OF spiritual adviser to
him.
At last the constables returned
with a stout rope The condemned
man took 1t from their hands and test
ed it. He told them that he thought
it was strong enough; then they ad-
justed the rope, fixed the moose around
his anew, and he again mounted the
ladder and then fell, and in due time
his body was taken down.
That said Mr.. Weed, was ply
steal courage. Now let me tell you
about the moral courage; l learned
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08

rings, o. standing puffs. Occasionally
maline is folded in several thicknesses
and doubled into long pointed triangles,
mounted in rows about dome crowns.
They resemble most dainty gauze
wings, like those of butterfly. The
effects from posing one color over
two others, all beautiful, giving
changing opal like tints. The favor
ite method of using maine is the ar
rangement of many standing puffs
springing from the top of the crown.
The ostrich plume and the picture
hat have so long been associated in
our minds that it almost goes without
saying that this combination is ia
vorite. Large shapes and plumes be-
long to one another. The hats in all
black and in black with white feath-
ers, are the handsomest of this char
acter
Wreathes and coronets Of small os-
trtch tips, and ostrich combined with
marabout or paradise provide other
varieties of trimming. Rich laces and
braids of fur, and wonderful wreathes
of ribbon flowers are all brought into
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
z0UAvES SPIN WAP STORIES
Remnant Of Famous Civil War Reg
ment Celebrates Fiftieth Ami
versary-Sixteen Left.

Half a dozen strips of flag, ripped
by the storm and shell of fifty battles
and sewed together for safe keeping
after the war by the Colonel's wife on
a white, wraithlike flag of gauze,
formed the gossamer ghost of the
splendid regimental flag that the New
York and Brooklyn and Williamsburg
fire departments presented to the
Second Regiment of New York Fire
Zouaves when it set out, on August
%, 1861, for the seat of the Civil war.
The other night, reunited beneath the
ghost of it's flag, the ghost of the
regiment-16 men of the 1850 who
set off so CALAMITY on that day-as-
sembled at the Union Square hotel for
the fiftieth anniversary celebration Of
that event
Side by side next to the remnant Of
the regimental flag. hung a few color
less ribbons that had been the regi-
ment's national and state flags; and
little further on dropped bunch Of
shot-toln streamers that had been its
right and left guidons. For the Sec
ond New York ZouaVes was a fighting
regiment, serving from early in the
war to it's finish; and its numbers
were thinned out terribly long be-
fore the war became a memory and
the years got in their work. They
told about it as they sat around the
two small tables last night.
The regiment was organized on
May 8, 1861, at the Gotham hotel on
the Bowery. and consisted almost ex-
clusively of members of the New
York, Brooklyn and Williamsburg fire
departments. On August % they
marched, 1850 strong, for the front.
On reaching Washington they were
assigned to the Excelsior (Sickles)
Brigade, Second Division (Hookers).
Third Corps of the Army of the Po-
tomac. They went away jauntily in
their odd uniform of sky-blue Zouaze
breeches, dark blue Zouave jacket,
red shirt, white leggings, and blue
cap. They came back weary and fad
ed and war-worn-539 of them They
lost I'll men in the war.
They served through no less than
Twenty-Five major battles. and it was
hard fighting all the time They told
last night, with an odd after-glow of
the old wartime ardor, of the tremen-
dous day they had put in together at
Spottsylvania, whore Capt Christie
pher w. Wilson, who was on hand
last night, won a medal of honor for
capturing the flag Of the 56th Vir-
ginia in the shell-raked narrows of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
Mystery of Great Mans Name

United States But there was no Ed
wards Pierrepont in the class of 1887
at Yale. There was, however, a Mum
son E Pierpont in my class; he was
a farmers boy and came from little
village a few miles from New Haven.
We used to call him Mummy" that
was our nickname for him. But there
was no Edwards Pierrepont, which is
a very aristocratic name
Puzzled greatly by Mr.. Evarts'
statement, | hunted up a Yale cata-
logue. 1t contained the name of Mum
son E. ;'ierpont, but there was no Ed
wards Pierrepont in the list. Some
months later, however, the whole mat
ter was made plain to me. and then |
realized fully how greatly Secretary
Evarts must have enjoyed the joke
he had played upon me at the expense
of his good friend Edwards Pierre
pont Mr.. Evarts. great wit and lover
of fun that he was. was especially
fond of the sly joke.
Edwards Pierrepont and Munson
E. Pierpont-it turned out on investi-
gation-were one and the same per-
son. But there was no Edwards
Pierrepont until Munson E. Pierpont,
following his graduation from Yale,
had gone to Columbus, Ohio, to prac-
tice law and there fallen in love "ith
and married rich widow of aristo-
cratic tendencies, who induced Mum
son Pierpont to drop his first name.
substitute for it his middle name of
Edward. with an s. added thereto
and change the spelling of his last
name from the simple and common
form of sPierpont' to the complex
and aristocratic form of 'Pierrepont
subsequently Mr. Evarts' old class
mate moved to New York city and
opened a law office. The name that
be placed on the door was the one
that his wife had induced him to
take. And, do you know, it was quite
a while before Mr. Evarts and other
New Workers who had known Munson
z. Pierpont in his college days well
enough to, call him Mummy and slap
him affectionately on the back, dis
covered their old college chum in the
person of Edwards Pierrepont9'
downright. 1911. by E. j. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
New News of Yesterday

of that afterward This young man
had enlisted as soldier, for that was
the only career possible for him; he
was the son of a very distinguished
merchant of New York City, but he
was born out of wedlock and he knew
who his father was. While he was
waiting for the second rope, the gen
tleman | observed talking with the
boy asked him if he desired to have
his parents know of his fate. He had
enlisted under an assumed name.
'"No," said the boy, do not do
that My father has already suffered
enough for the mistake of my being.
Let him never know that his son was
hanged"
'Afterward,' concluded Mr.. Weed,
I learned who that father was, but
have never revealed the secret to any
living person, and have never ceased
to admire that boy-murderer though
he was-for the physical and moral
courage he displayed in the clutches
of death.
Copyright. 1911, by E. j. Edwards All
Rights Reserved.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-11-08
Wealth Did Not Spoil Her

a railroad over the Rocky mountains.
When wealth came and Governor
Stanford had become distinguished
for public services. Mrs. Stanford re-
manned the same unassuming, unos-
tentatious woman, that she was in the
days when her husband and herself
were beginning their careers. She
was fully competent to maintain all OF
the social dignities and proprieties
which were incumbent upon her hus-
band as governor and afterward as
United States senator, but she cared
very little for what is called social
life, and her chief delight was in her
domestic circle. surrounded by few
friends who cared for her rather than
for her fortune and the position of
her husband
Shortly after Leland Stanford went
to Washington as United States sen
ator, Mrs. Stanford received almost in
Vulnerable social tributes. The great
wealth of her husband, his distin-
guished career in public life and his
prominence as the originator of the
Central Pacific railroad all served to
make her more conspicuous than the
wives of any but two or three of the
senator's But how simply and with
what unaffected demeanor she receiv.
ed these social distinctions one anec.
dote will illustrate.
Shortly after her arrival in Wash
ington with her husband a committee,
whose members were among the
proudest and most distinguished OF
women in Washington associated with
official life, called upon Mrs. Stan
ford. They laid before her the pros
pectus for a great charity ball. They
told her that it was the hope to raise
by means of the ball larger amount
of money for the particular philan-
thropy they had in view than had ever
before been earned by an entertain
ment for charity; and they added
that they sought permission to add
Mrs. Stanford's name to the list OF
patronesses, all of whom. they as
sured her, were to be ladies Of high
official distinction.
Mrs. Stanford looked over the list
SuG UlSCON0IGu III IL tuS AdhuCo VI al
most every woman of social prom1'
nence in Washington. To be patron
ess of that entertainment was to wear
the badge of the national capitals so
cial aristocracy. But Mrs. Stanford
turning to the ladies, said:
Il thank you for your kindness in
asking me to become patroness OF
this charity ball. But | ought to say
to you that / am very plain woman
I have never cared very much about
balls or that kind of thing. I should
not care about that kind of pleasure
now 1t would not interest me. But
am greatly interested in your
philanthropy and / will ask you. In
stead of accepting my name as a
patroness. to accept something else
which will now give you"
She went to her desk in an adjoin
ing room, wrote something upon q
slip of paper and gave the slip to the
ladies. When they looked at the writ
ing. they saw that it was check for
five hundred dollars.
Copyright, 1911. by z. j. Edwards. Al
Rights Reserved)