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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-08-17
HAlTlhNS ELECT lAC0NTE
Leeonte Elected Successor TO Simon,
Who Abdleated Authority
Last Week.

Port au Prince. Aug 15.-At the
election held here today General Lee
ooats had an easy victory. No other
candidate made a showing.
General Firmin withdrew his presi-
Dental aspirations. but there was an
undercurrent OF feeling that his fol.
lowers would continue To advocate his
cause.
The fact that there was little Sc
rious opposition to General Leconts
made a quiet and peaceful election.
This Of course Is because the Haitiens
realised they had either TO vote for
the man in power or not vote at all.
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See our bargains in mems, boys and
young mems clothing Sullivan Bros
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Sullivan Bros-the house of bar
gains.
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Our suits speak well of us -Sulli
van Bros.
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Tha steam roller certainly had
some weight.
The little fracas which We reported
at Brownsville last week occurred at
Beech Grove instead Of Brownsville.
We were misinformed as to the place
Bobby Burns has said the best
laid schemes of mice and men viii
oftimes go astray." This applies to
politics as well as any other subject.
Ed. II. Siberell left Monday for
Poplar Bluff and other points in Mis-
souri,. lie will be gone about ten
days, and there will be no preaching
at che Christian church next Sunday
on account of his absence.
Ed. S. r. Logue, formerly of Nash
VILE. but now of Dyer, Tenn. will
begin a protracted meeting at Mt.
Hermon next Sunday. Prof. w. G.
Jones. of Bloomfield. Mo, will lead
the song service. Everybody invited
]. II. Pickett had the misfortune
to have barge load of corn-6OO
bags-to sink at the incline Sunday
night. The barge was raised Monday
and most of the corn recovered. The
grain belonged to the Bryant-Polha
mus-Faris Grain Co. The loss will
be very small. Falling of the rivel
caused the barge TO sink.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-08-17
GIRL KILLED By HAT PIN
Flight In Motor Car Results Fatally to
Nouns Womsn-Her Asssil-
ant Arrested.

New York. Aug. ia quarrel be-
tween members OF a party of young
women returning from a Long Island
shore resort. ended in a fight with
hatpins as their car was pulling into
the city over the Queensborough
bridge. Nineteen-y~ar-old Alveda Car
penter was stabbed in the heart and
dropped dead In the street as she
alishted from the car. The police ar
rested one OF her companions and
charged her with the murder
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-08-17
GENERAL 'VEDS TYPIST
Marriage Of Boxer War Leader Long
Kept Secret, Reported From
Germany.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. lb.-That
Gen. Homer Lea. leader OF the reform
army In the Boxer rebellion in China
in 1900 and a well known author, was
married to his former stenogapher.
Miss Ethel Tower. in Memphis last
June. was the word received from
Wiesbaden. Germany.
Gen. Lea departed for Germany
June II to consult an eye specialist
and married Miss Tower en- route. She
accompanied him to Europe, but news
Of the wedding was suppressed.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-08-17

Latest styles and patterns In wal
paper. --Fethe a. French.
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Tha steam roller certainly had
some weight.
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Missouri, Boy Killed by Train.

Pacific, Mo. Aug 15.-Charles
worthington. II years old. was killed
by Missouri Pacif c train at Lsbadie,
eight miles west of Pacific. Worth.
ington was walking along the track
and failed to heed the approach OF
the train.
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Go to Sullivan Bros.-the place
where good clothes are priced 10
please you
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1911-08-17

van Bros
Latest styles and patterns In wall
paper.--Fethe 4 French.
Go to Sullivan Bros.-the place
where good clothes are priced TO
please you.
James Laird. of Memphis, was the
guest of Miss Versie Smith Saturday
and Sunday.
Couldn't trade us out-skin us out
and finally had to get out Oh, you
convention.
r. l.. Gray, the blacksmith, is fig
uring on erecting a brick building
where his old shop now stands, and
have an uptodate blacksmithing es-
adjustment.
s. A. Brooks, whose home was re-
Gently destroyed by fire. asks us to
state that he had no ash barrel about
his premises, although the report
went out that il was thought the fire
started from such a source.
The Lodgton precinct was pretty
well represented here Saturday. A
mong others we noticed w. f.. Mat
lock j.. c. Browder, Ed Williamson,
Lon Binford Van o'Neal. Chas. Hill,
Wallace Tyler and Jno. G. Lawson.
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with her father, VIM. Stoker.
Mrs. j. II. Pickett and Mrs. John
Maddox, of this place. visited Mr..
and Mrs. Thurman Pickett several
days last week.
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JURY TO IND|CT BEATTIE
EARLY TRIAL PROBABLE FOR AL
LEoEo WIFE SLAYER.
Crowds Flock 20 Courthouse, Where
States Greatest Mystery
is Investigated.

ChesterBeld Courthouse. Va. Aug.
15.-when the grand jury took up the
case OF the Commonwealth OF Virginia
against Henry Clay Beattie. Jr., VINO
IL charged with wife murder. hun
dreds OF nearby country men and
sooros OF curious from Richmond sur
rounded the little red brick court
house. Not one-ifth OF them could
find room within. aud the sherns
force. aided by the Richmond police.
drew a GORDON OF guards about the
little building to keep the crowd in
order.
For Virginia was seeing the real be
ginning Of its most famous and mys-
FERROUS murder investigation. Vir-
ginians came on foot on horseback
and in every kind of old and new We
hicle.
Chesterfield county farmers reaped
a golden harvest. At Centralia, the
nearest trolley station, four miles
from the courthouse. they were lined
up with their buggies, surveys and
even farm wagons. TO transport the
would. be spectators for good round
sums
Trolley Service Doubled.
Even the trolley line covering tho
~ miles from Richmond to Centralia
recognized the demand and put on
double service. Every car was crowd
ed 10 the limit.
All this was despite the fact that
the proceedings we're purely formal
Only a few witnesses. Of the half hun
dred obtained by the prosecution.
we're on hand. and even before the
grand Jury convened, It was said.
Beatties indictment was certain.
The main matter of speculation was
the date TO be fixed for the trial Up
to the last minute. Attorney Harry
NJ Smith, for the defense. declared
he would not press for long adjourn
ment Special Prosecutor Wendsn-
burg was planning an attempt TO have
Beattie put on trial Thursday or Fri
day that a jury might be obtained by
Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Not only did the late Mr.. Havemey-
er play the violin well, says the Hal
stead Independent but he was ex-
tremely clever at making the other
sugar men dance.
Political comment in the Kinsley
Graphic: Bun" Adams. of Butler
county, is going to run for congress
against Victor Murdoch. Bun" will
probably think he is a pancake after
the election.
From various of the Kansas week
lies it is gathered that this is also he
season of the year when the local pro-
motors of chautauquas are not de-
claring anything very startling in the
way of dividends.
As the Augusta Journal has noticed
it; The promptness of a curly headed
man in taking off his hat is only equal
led by the promptness of a bald head
ed man in putting his hat on as soon
as politeness permits.
Bert Walker, editor of the Osborne
Farmer, is also a bachelor. So per-
haps the following is a. personal mat
rimonial advertisement which he in
serted i'll a recent issue Of his paper
in the Village Deacon column: "A gond
cook and a soft voice that turneth
away wrath are better to be desired
than great riches"
An announcement from Mary and
Lsizzy, the Cedar Point correspondents
OF the Florence Bulletin: One of the
twins expects to leave this week to
travel in the south. Mary is going
away and will leave Lizzie here 10
keep up the good work. But We don't
do this work for q living. No, we DO
1t to keep from starving to death. Wa
could write home for money, but
what's the use. We wouldn't get it.
So give us all the news you have.
Life in Washington, D. c., is insid-
iOuS and works tricksv changes in
congressman. One from the Fourth
Kansas district went down to the cap
itol last March as plain Fred Jack
son, one of the common people. Last
week there was an article in Leslie's
Weekly by IF. Schuyler Jackson, con-
gresham from Kansas" Get thar
through your noodle? r. Schuyler
Jacksoni In the language of Ebert
Hubbard, wouldn't that give you the
everlasting peewees Toronto Repub-
lican.
Says a feminine sartorial expert in
the Mankato Advocate. A serious
problem confronts the ladies of the
land Rats" have gone out of style
and they are no longer recognized in
the best society and right there il
where the trouble began. The girls
all had big hats. bought for the ex-
tensive foundation furnished by col
lection of rats" The rats were driv-
en- out and left the hats tout on a
limb" figuratively speaking, and now
the girls want to know how they are
going to make those big hats stay on.
We have been appealed to to furnish
from the abundance of our experience
and knowledge. some f. rmula by
which those enormous hats may be
made to stay on straight. AS the first
guess we recommend liquid glue II
that doesn't furnish relief. Wen pre-
| scribe again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[F,ron. the Atchison Globe.

[FFron the Atchison Globe.1
Too many freproof buildings are de-
stroyed by fire.
There always seem to be plenty of
phonograph needles
AS your customers are your friends
be patient with them.
In appearance is there anything worse
than a skull cap?
To change hattery TO well-deseryed
praise, head it your way.
Briefly stated, a woman's notion of
Her Rights is her Own Way.
Unfortunately, the dogs muzzle
doesn't keep It from bowling.
If you want to be happy take that
chip off your shoulder and smile.
When they finally decide to go, visi-
tors aren't often allowed to miss their
train.
Talking seems to be the principal
hobby of men, who claim TO have some
other kind.
When a little girl practices her mus
ic lesson without being told, how
Proud her mother is.
Courts and juries may sometimes shy
at circumstantial evidence, but the g3s-
sip never does.
Perhaps enc could get an injunction
against the horses, but it probably
wouldn't keep them away.
writer who enjoys reading Of bro
ken collar bones, says polo is the great
est game ever invented.
Most of the plain, blunt men, unlike
Marc Antony. don't love their friends
as much as they should.
Common sense is like money: very
few people have any. but a great many
tell how it should be used.
At some time in his life, nearly every
man gets The notion that a govern :
ment job would be a great snap.
About all we can think of in favor
OF tie motorcycle today is that it
doesn't claim to be musical instru-
mont
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Keep your eye on the girl who brags
about her modesty.
The chronic kicker doesn't do it al
together for exercise.
The pugilist's short cut to fame is
generally an uppercut.
Even when he has poor eyesight the
golf player is lynx-eyed
No man can be happy without a
certain amount of self-conceit.
One secret even a woman can't al
ways tell is the secret of success
The weather man might try putting
some pleasant weather by for a rainy
day.
You can't convince the glazier that
the peOnla who live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones.
We are apt to speak of a man as
being lucky when he succeeds in some
thing we have failed at
The fellow who goes around looking
for trouble generally meets somebody
who takes him at his word.
It takes two to make quarrel, and
the quarrelsome man seldom has any
difficulty in finding the other one.
1.-THE less We have the easier We
part with it, said the Wise Guy. Yes.
especially our hair" replied the Sim
pie Mug.
I am securing the country for a
clean play" said the theatrical man
ager. why don't you seour some OF
those you already have?" asked the
dramatic critic.
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tlnged ominously with red underneath,
He turned and ran toward it, shouting
aloud as he ran. But strange to the
place, he came roundaboutly to the fire
barely in time to see a haunting
sight.
A big old mansion, halt ruinous, was
spoutins fame from half It's lower wine
dOWs-the inside must be a furnace,
the stairs impossible. The gratings
set in the windows were red hot. and
beginning to bend-the heavy doors,
still resisted, but were hlistering out
side And at an upper window. also
barred. thought but lightly. Mason
stood, trying vainly to wrench away
the bars. Clay shouted at him. He
nodded, but kept on struggling. With
superhuman effort he pulled away
half the grating, turned and came back
again with something helpless. shap-
less. limp within his arms.
Help was coming-men and ladders.
Before the ladders could be set. the
men got up them, flame inged smoke
wrapped the figures at the window. AS
Clay reached his arms for Mason's
helping burden there came a blast as
of the pit, almost full in his face. He
reeled away from it. by 4 miracle
keeping hold, and dragging out the old
wreck of man. Eager hands relieved
him-he called to Mason-but there
was no answer! Fire had done its
work, taken it's toll.
Grandad never knew. He died before
sunrise. Men said, even in the pres
ence of death, he had sacrificed his
grandson to his avarice. It was his
fear for his boarded gold which made
MIN insist upon the grazing. Except
for it, both might have heen saved.
II hate to speak i'll of the old, spec
Ware, But reckon old George Ma
son would be right dowr. glad if he
knew he had taken his money and his
grandson with him.
Clay remained for the reading of the
will-that same sense of responsibility
chung to him. When he heard the
| dry-as-dust document he was glad he
had not shaken off his hauntings. For
with much verbiage, but plain beyond
peradventure, the fortune was left to
young George Mason, with the hope,
not the condition. that he marry Flora
Mcleod, and the provision, that should
he die, childless and intestate. his heir
should be his lawful wife. Failing a
wife, the next of kin came in.
There were dozen OF tnel at least,
outwardly grief-stricken, yet with
eager expectant eyes Clay smiled
grimly as he rose to face them, and
say:
''Then send for Mrs. Elsie Ensley
Mason 1 witnessed the marriage, and
have the certificate. intrusted me for
safe keeping
To this day Ashmore mas never had
such another sensation. Not even when
three years afterward John Walter
Clay, Esquire, was very quietly mar
ried to the young Mrs. Mason. People
thought it odd they did MOI settle down
in Ashmore-only little of the money
would make the old Mason place the
finest in town. The house had burned
to the ground to be sure. but the sit
uation was unrivaled Mr. and Mrs
Clay did not deny that-yet neither
wanted to live there-even though they
did not believe in ghosts.-( Copyright
1911, by Associated Literary Press.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor do you hear the Ice man COM
plain about the hot weather.
= =
Also, the same folk who find fault
with the heat of summer do likewise
with the cold of winter.
Only a small number of humans fail
to wear on all occasions the medals
they may have captured on one.
There are not nearly so many dew
otees as there used to be of the theory
that might makes right.
y
How much better Joking are the
coinures of the women who have gone
back to doing their hair with the allot-
ment provided them by nature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14
THE SUSSEX DOWNS.

At dawn they seem so far away. like
cities in the air.
Where nists are hastions tall and gray,
where clouds are temples fair;
At dawn King Arthur's knights might
ride on cargers hly-White
Above the Downlands stretching wide. all
mystical with night.
At noon they're bright with wondrous
hues, with all an opaPs CLEANS,
With sweep OF lucent greens and blue,
with silver-ribboned streams;
At noon, where once toward ramparts
high the Roman eagles presS'd,
Gray shadow-shapes go hurrying by like
souls that know no rest.
AT dusk the quiet Downlands loom like
homes of hearts content,
Where, folded in the purple gloom,
thoughts sleep till night is spent;
At dusk they seem 'twixt Earth and
Heav'n like threshold stones set gray,
Where angels carrying star-boughs seven
keep Gods great watch till day.
Pail Mall Gazette,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14

Taking a lesson from the results
achieved at the Nevada penitentiary
under the honor system + controlling
convicts. Warden Arthur Pratt of the
Utah penitentiary. has este blished a re-
markable camp of prisoners far from
the big walls of the state prison here.
He has sent 90 of his wards to work
on the roads in the northern part of
the state, near Willard City. They will
be out in the daytime under six guards
and at night the only thing that will
hold them will be a stockade. which
could be easily preached by cunning
men.
OF the So men in the gang, two are
under sentence for life and 50 others
are serving terms of from five to 80
en- from the prison. They have been
trained in the work around the offices
and gardens there, and are needed.
| The convicts themselves will attend
| to all the cooking and other camp
work. Every precaution has been TAX
ordered. The men will o3the regular
! ly and change their clothing often
They will have eight hours of work,
and for their recreation time in the
stockade will have reading matter, in
Guiding the daily papers. Some of them
and give concerts 1aey are not
compelled to dress in the convict
stripes, but worI- in khaki suits and
hats, so that if there should be a de-
sire to escape the clothing will not
identify them.
| Warden Pratt, however, has had no
reports of trouble in the few days the
camp has been established, and fears
none. He says the most of the men
in the penitentiary begged for u chance
to join the gang.
"All the men who have gone have
given their word of honor to me that
| there will be no misbehavior,'' says
the warden. "I.have no fear that they
will break the faith. have had heart
to heart talks with all Of them, and
those interviews have brought out
their manhood. One man who had
been sentenced to so years asked to
go. I said to him: You have served
time in another prison. What assur-
ance have I that you'll keep faith?'
He answered: I have served time
in another prison, but I have never
been in a prison before where 1 was
placed on my honor. If give you my
word, would sooner die than break it.
The road work will do me good. It
will make a man of me. 1 will learn
how to work, something I have never
done in my life.
This man was sent out with the first
squad and prepared the camp. and he
has been a force for good with the
others. It is the intention of the war
den to establish other camps as soon
as the success of the first one has been
demonstrated and to give all prisoners
who he thinks can be trusted an op-
portunity to go to them.-Salt Lake
City dispatch to the New -ork Times.
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The origin of the Dollar.

The word dollar" was in our Ian
guage at least 800 years ago, for it -
used by Shakespeare several times. 1t
is supposed that the word was in use
in London in the latter part of the
sixteenth century, having been brought
in by the north German merchants,
who managed the trade on the Baltic
and in Russia
Dollar appeared first in an Eng
Hsh dictionary i'll 1745. 1t is a bor-
rowed word, being the German thai
err The coins issued by the mint in
JoachimsthaI were called "Joachirns-
thalers." When other minis were es-
tablished, the "Joachims' was drop
ped, and the coins were called simply
''thalerg."
The dollar was adopted congress
as the unit of our currency on August
Is, 1885 It was to Curtain 1854
grains of pure silver; bue when the
mint was established, in 1872, the re-
Quirement was reduced to 37125
grains of pure silver. The coinage of
dollars began in 17a4.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHs.
IFrom the chicago Newa.J

LFrom the Chicago NewaJ
Some mothers spare the rod and
spoil the slipper.
The sharp business man is ALWAYS
prepared for dull times.
Probably most people think You are
as foolish as you think they are.
bachelor who reads the MARRIAGE
notices isn't satisfied with his lot.
It is said that writer's cramp noo~a
often affects the stomach than the
wrist.
Beware of the man whose do.
crawls under the house when its rnss7
ter enters the gate.
II a mans head is filled with wis
dom he doesn't have to use his r,,o,,tI.
as a safety valve. @'AA
When q man tells a widow that she
is the only woman he ever loved 80
takes 1t with a pound Of salt. NAiS
II a word to the wise is SUFFICIENT the
her husband foolish indeed.
The undying love of an old toner e..
liquor goes to prove that faniI1a~a;otlr.
aoesn.t always breed absoIute o Ivy
tempt ~1e con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-14
A PIG TURNS PHILOSOPHER.

Once there was a pig with sensl-
live snout and a quirlky tail. writes
Richard Nightman in Success Maya
zIre. His feet were black with the
muck of the sty and his thick yellow
skin. once soft and pink, was covered
with stiff bristles.
The pig proved beyond peradVenture
that his natural function was to wallow
and root and gorge, but one day ne
took his snout out of the trough and
said. "Bless me. what's the use OF
boins, n mere pig! 1 have specialized
on swill long enough; it bores me- This
stv is fine after it's sort, but as a
constant passion and environment II
gets On ones nerves. 1 need a fad
Fouv. dash Of enlivening bitters in
the Gun of existence. Let me see-oh'
YES III be a philosopher, at least sun
davs and tell the nightingales how to
really sing
Ard it was so. and the reporters
waited on the pig and put his apnor-
isnos into the daily papers and the
people said, ooh, myi'
mis- was some time ago. The pig
has since passed into pepsin and pork
and lard and toothbrushes and feruli-
1er. and is now very useful, though
thoroughly partitioned. contribution 10
the social welfare.