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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
WHEN THE CANAL is OPEN
Will Change Course Of Freight Traffic
Between Europe and Valparaiso,
Austria and New Zealand,

The Hansa, the organ of the Ham,
burg ship owners, after consideration
Of the probable effect of the opening
OF the Panama canal upon steamship
routes, states that after the month OF
June, 1913, should the canal be opened
to navigation at that time, steamers
proceeding from Europe to San Fran
cisco will no longer go via Cape Horn,
a route of 1881 sea miles, but will
save $500 sea miles via the canal
route. Steamers proceeding from
Montreal to Sydney now cover 1850
sea miles, but in the future will be
able to do so over a route of 1882 sea
miles.
1t is difficult to predict the effect
of the canal upon freight traffic be-
tween Europe and Valparaiso, the
Cape Horn route being only 2,1OO
miles longer than the canal route.
Passenger ships probably will pass
through the canal, serving the east
coast of South America by means OF
auxiliary ships sailing from West In
dian ports.
Trade between Europe and Japan
will not be influenced by the canal, as
the Panama route will be 1000 miles
longer than the one now followed.
From New York to Shanghai, on the
other hand, the difference in favor OF
the canal will be 1,40O sea miles. The
present route from Europe to Aus
tralia is 500 miles longer than the
route via the canal, which is scarcely
enough to threaten any great change.
1t is assumed that a part Of the BUSH
ness from New Zealand to Europe.
which today comes via Cape Horn,
will pass through the canal hereafter.
saving 1000 sea miles. The canal
route will be selected also by passen-
gers who wish to avoid the rough and
stormy rounding Of Cape Horn. The
chief part of the steadily increasing
business between New York and Aus
tralia and New Zealand should there
fore proceed via the canal rather
than by the Cape Of Good Hope, saw
ing 1900 miles
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18

come for my answer az soon a. THIS
storm lets up"
In the basket was a chicken dressed
and ready to bake, a mince pie, sug-
AIRED doughnuts, a layer cake and
stewed cranberries.
1T was thoughtful Of him." she
said with a little throbblng IN her
veins. 'T wish he had come himself.
suppose he couldn't miss his dinner
party, though. Wonder II Joe will get
there. He must be showed In worse
than any one"
with a sigh she went to work to
prepare her solitary meal.
II will get the best meal--a COM
pany dinner and set the TABLETOP
Luke, too, a place opposite mine, and
maybe he will be here in spirit"
She put the chicken in the oven to
warm, made hot biscuits, cooked a
golden squash and proceeded to set
the table with the best linen and
dishes. When dinner was ready she
heard another loud stamping. This
time on the front steps.
Luke has reconsidered and comet"
she thought as she few to the door.
There, painting, smiling. rosy-cheek-
ed and snow-covered, stood Joe. Vita
a glad little cry Of welcome she ush-
cred him in
'It was hotter work than last years
harvesting" he laughed.
How did you happen to come,
Joe? And aren't you going to your
aunt's dinnerT
81 hear you were showed in and
alone. l wasn't going to let you eat
alone. took shovel and tunneled
my way through"
81 looked In the cupboard a while
ago and found there was nothing. So
l planned a ham and egg dinner.
Think of the dinner your aunt will
havei"
'I don't care If you have only bread
and water If you will share 1t with
me, Vere."
81 was only joking, Joe. Luke sent
me down a chicken dinner this morn
ing. It is all ready to sit down to-"
Joe looked disconsolate.
what a chump l am! Mother has
stacks of things and I might have
brought you dinner as we'll as not.
Luke always outdoes me-"
'He didn't this time, joe" said the
girl softly. ut was a thousand times
nicer of you to come than it was to
send me a dinner. When I got his
basket, Joe, doubted you and thought
you were not thinking of my plight.
When I set the table, put a place
opposite mine and pretended 1t was
for Luke. But now"
But now. vere." may occupy that
placer"
Eyes, joe"
"And Vere," he continued, summon.
ing all his fortitude, may I always
have that place-with your"
Hearts won. He read her answer
in her eyes.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
CLEARED UP THE MYSTERY
Son Enllghtens Mother a. 20 Queer
Remarks After Partners' Names
on Program.

The young mans mother was
strengthening up his chiffonier and she
picked up one Of his dance programs.
This is part Of what she read:
1. Two-step. x.
2. Waltz. Miss Brown, pink lady.
3. Two-step, Miss Vansant. blue.
4. Walk. x.
5. Two-step. Miss Dusall, red,
black in hair.
6. Waltz. Miss Dawson, old rose.
z. Two-step. Miss Barnes, gold
locket.
s. Waltz. Miss Mckay.
9. Two-step. Miss Buchannon.
son." said the mother that even
ing, "what are those remarks after
your partners names? Miss Brown
would not be pleased to know she had
been called the pink lady"
why, mother, that's all right. Lots
Of the fellows mark their programs
like that. You see, a fellow can't al
ways remember a girl when he meets
her for the first time, there are so
many Of them. SO, to avoid embar-
rassment, he notes some distinguish
ing mark. Now, Miss Brown wore a
pink dress. The X indicates, Of course,
the girl 1 accompanied to the dance
Miss Dusall wore a red dress, but SO
did others, so to be sure not to waste
any time hunting her l noted that she
had black band around her hair. The
girls with whom l am acquainted
know without any descriptive notes
o, it's all right, mother. In that way
we never have to go up to girl ant
ask her if she is herself."-Indianap
oils News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
Good Story, Anyway.

Ollie James of Kentucky, recently a
representative, but now a senator,
tells of the time when he was driving
through a billy section of his native
state partly for pleasure and partly
on business connected with his po-
litical hopes. He came to a farm
house where there was a nice looking
well and windmill, and he pulled in
and asked the farmer if he might have
a drink.
"Ah'm sorry, sah," said the farmer.
"Ahd suttenly like to 'comadate you,
but | cyant. Eff you all IL jest drap
into Jones place, bout a mile further
on, maybe you can git somethin'."
"But | thought noticed fine we'll
here on your place" said the senator
from Kentucky.
"Why, that's water! l didn't know
you wanted water; | thought you
asked me for a drink. You sure can
have all the water you want"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
RATHER CRUDE AND BOLD
Bethel Preacher Gives Congregation
of SheIlbacks Startling Descrip-
ton of Bad Place.

ct knew the late Clark Russell
WE'LL" said a Philadelphia shipping re-
porter. "The unhappy man, racked
with rheumatism, lay for many years
on his back as helpless as a newborn
babe. That, perhaps, was how he
came to leave 100000. He couldn't
spend anE-of his money, you see.
Authors make less than is sup
posed. Clark Russell was once talk
ing to me about authors earnings. He
said that publishers exaggerated the
earnings so as to get more people to
write for them.
HE said that the millionaire pub
Usher, in order to draw authors on.
painted the prosperity Of the success
full writer with the bold. crude exag-
geration whsrewith the preacher in
the mariners bethel painted the hor-
rors of the bad place.
A bethel preacher, he explained
was describing the bad place to a con
gregation of shellbacks.
'Shipmates,' he said, you've seer
the molten iron come running out Of
the furnace, haven't you? 1t comes
out white hot, sizzling and kissing
like some kind Of snaky, horrible
monster. Well, shipmates-'
"The preacher pointed his forefingeI
at the awed shellbacks.
"'Well, shipmates,' he said solemn
ly, they use that stuff for ice cream
in hell"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
Quail In Southern California.

Ranchers from the Coachella Valley
who were in Los Angeles today, re-
ported that quail were so thick in the
valley that crops of all kinds were be-
ing destroyed, despite the efforts OF
the state game wardens, who are now
trapping the birds by thousands and
sending them to other sections Of the
state. One rancher said he saw one
covey of quail that must have contain
ed 5000 birds.
"They were so thick the sun light
was shut out when they flew past" he
said THE quail are very wise" he
continued, land hunters find trouble
in shooting them, while trapping is
still more difficult, Los Angeles cor,
respondence San Francisco Chronicle
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
Heads and
Hearts
by Belle Mandates

(copyrisht. 1911. By Associated Literary Prsssl
It seemed TO We're as she stood at
the little mullioned window Of the
farm house, that all the snow clouds
OF a century had gathered to send
long, singing slants of frozen sleet to
the already white ground. She turned
in relief to the big, pleasant room
with its cracking open fire and re-
solved not to look out of the window
again.
But there was little else to do. She
had arisen that morning long before
daybreak in order to get breakfast
and drive to town with her parents,
who had taken the morning train to
Eldred. They had disliked to leave
her alone, but some one must remain
at home to care for the stock and
milk the cows. The daughter Of the
nearest neighbor was coming to spend
the night.
The wind ragged with violence
throughout the afternoon. We're sew
ed and read until her eyes ached, and
she welcomed the time for the night
choring. she fairly had to battle her
way to the barn, and 1t was no small
task to get the pals of milk back to
the house.
After she had eaten her lonely sup
per the telephone rang and she went
to answer the summons with fore
holdings. AS she had expected, her
friend did not dare to venture forth on
such a wild night.
We're was optimistic. She assured
herself that no tramps or burglars
would modest her. She would go to
bed early and on the morrow-here
her heart gave a little leap of min
gled fear and pleasure-there was the
big annual family dinner at the Faulk-
ners to which. she was invited. She
was not one Of the family, to be sure;
that is, not yet, but the indications
were that she would be.
Luke Faulkner and his cousin, Joe
Faulkner, were the indications, both
being aspirants for her heart and
hand. 1t was the old story Of chow
happy could l be with either" From
practical, sensible viewpoint, Luke
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18

was more eligible. He owned and
titled his we'll cultivated fields, was in
dustrious, ambitious and progressive,
Vere's level, little head thoroughly APP
proved of Luke.
Joe, on the contrary, was OF the
happy-go-lucky nature that answered
to the call of fishing pool or hunters
horn when there was urgent farm
work to be done; but he had soft,
brown eyes and a warm-hearted, ire
sistible smile that moved We're in
spite of her resolution. Heads had
been winning for week back, and
the annual dinner given this year at
the home Of Luke's mother would de-
termine the question. She had prom
Used Luke his answer on that day, and
she had almost decided 1t should be
In the Affirmative. She hoped Joe
would not make II hard for her to
stick to her purpose.
The storm ragged throughout the
night, and the next morning she look
ed out on miniature snow mountains.
She became apprehensive as to her
means of exit, for their farm was in
a valley surrounded by hills. She
called up the neighbors by telephone
and learned that her road was already
impossible from drifts. She tele-
phoned her predicament to Lukes
mother, who was most profuse in ex-
pressions Of regret.
Her inventory of her larder re-
vealed the fact that there was moth
ing cooked or baked in store, for her
mother expected to be home on the
morrow.
81 shall have to eat a simple ham
and egg dinner" she told herself.
About IL o'clock there came Wig
orous stamping of feet at the back
door, which she FASTENED joyfully to
open. The welcome visitor was Luke's
hired man.
Il was jest two hours a gittin' down
here. Had to come afoot. Can't get
team through Luke sent you bas-
ket of dinner and this ERE note"
After he had departed, We're read
the note.
my dear Vere," It ran. 1T has
spoiled our dinner that you can't be
nth us. / am sending you few
things for your dinner, as / hear your
FOLKS are away Sorry I can't get
oyeg but = e our busy day. Shall
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
Tablets In Memory Of RevOlu.
tiOnary Soldiers.

The Col. John Green Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revo
luton, will soon place two bronze
tablets on the new cemetery gate
posts. These tablets will be placed
in memory Of the Revolutionary
soldiers buried in Christian county.
the name Of each soldier to be en-
graved on them.
If there are persons in the coun-
try who know and have proof of any
Revolutionary soldier being buried
in the county they are asked to COM
municate Immediately with Miss
Mamie Startling, 215 East 18th st.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
CourtesY.

Visitor-rve just come from the
DOCTORS funeral, but / didn't see any
of you there
Hostess-No my husband didn't
care to go, as funerals always upset
him.
Visitor-If you never go TO other
peoples funerals | don't see how you
can expect them to come TO yours.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
A case In Point.

ut takes all kinds OF people to make
a world"
"Yes, yes. That's quite true. Two
men Of my acquaintance stood for an
hour on a street cDrRer yesterday and
argued about the 2ew footbaN rules"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
G. o. WRIGHT ) c. JOHNSON
Wright&JOhnSOn
REAL ESTATE AND LOANS.
Special Attention Given Farm
Properties.
Office Corner Ninth & Main Streets
HoPKINSvILLE. KY.

Below we give few Of the many
choice bargains on our lists. Proper
ty cheerfully shown at any time.
There is no safer or better invest
ment at this time than to put money
in Christian county farm lands or
Hopkinsville town lots.
Christian County Farm Lands
NO. /.
261 acres farm II miles east of
Thompsonville. splendidly improved,
good house 10 rooms. plenty fruit,
well watered, 60 acres fine timber,
on good highway. Price $35 per
acre. Great bargain.
NO. 2.
Is acres, nicely improved for small
place, near Tennessee state line,
west of Edgoten. 10 miles from
GAINESVILLE, / mile from pike. cot
tage house. good tobacco barn. good
cistern, plenty of fruit, good neigh
borhood, price $1,000.
NO. 8.
50l1 acres, GAINESVILLE pike. IL miles
from town, one Of finest farms in
Christian county, splendid improve.
ments, water and timber. $85 per
acre.
NO. 5.
$50 acres in three adjoining farms
consolidated. Will sell separately or
as a whole for from $50 to $50 per
acre. On GAINESVILLE pike. with ele
giant country home and all modern
improvements, including two cot
tage residences if divided.
NO. 6.
500 acres miles from town on Can
ton pike, well improved and well
watered, will price SIS as a whole, or
will divide into three tracts.
NO. z.
241 acres on Fairview and Pembroke
pike, 81 miles north of Pembroke
aid % miles east of Fairview, &C
acres in timber. $50 an acre.
NO. 8.
"a acres. mile from GAINESVILLE
pike, ten miles from town. excellent
improvements of all kinds. great
chance for an ideal home. $1,000.
Town Lots
House and lot East 18th St., Hop.
kinsville, house 6 rooms and two
verandas, concrete walk and steps
lot 50x135. Price $1,000.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
Room For Rent.

Large. nicely furnished room on
first floor. with all modern improve
ments. Apply to .. M. HigginR &
Son.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18

Cottage on East 18th street. rooms
and two porches, water in kitchen.
Concrete walks and good stable.
Price $l700.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18

Cottage on Mcpherson Ave, IS rooms,
lot 57x175, front and back porches,
new house. Possession Dec. 1. Price
S1250.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18

Bungalow on Hopper Court, brand
new, 6 rooms, bath. electric lights.
Price $4,000.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18

was more eligible. He owned and
titled his we'll cultivated fields, was in
dustrious, ambitious and progressive,
vere's level, little head thoroughly APP
nrOvod IF Tuka
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-18
Town Lots

House and lot East 18th ST., Hop
kinsville, house 6 rooms and two
verandas, concrete walk and steps,
lot 50x135. Price $1,000.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD
SITUATION is DESPERATE
No Breaks Reported Sunday, But
Heavy Rains Cause Rise In
the River

From Vlcksburg, Miss, south to
New Orleans, the Mississippi river is
from half q foot to two and a feet
feet above any previous record stage.
An additional rise this week of ap-
proXimately one foot from New Or
leans north to Baton Rouge is pre-
dicted by the weather bureau.
Soundings made by United States
army engineers shows that this re-
cord breaking colume of water in the
big river is moving at the rate of 81
per feet a second, or approximately
one mile an hour, faster than ever
before recorded in the Mississippi's
flood territory.
Dangerous points in the levees in
louisiana
Baton Rouge, Bennett Carre. TWEEN,
ty-five miles north of New Orleans
Morrison, Plaquemine, Scott's Land
ing, Cypress Hall New Roads and
third district, New Orleans.
River Sunday almost stationary from
Torras south.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
The PowderIna Closet.

When capricious fashion ruled that
ladies should wear only white hair
the color supplied by nature being Of
no importance-the operation Of put
ting on the powder made special ar
rangements necessary
These took the form of a special
room or cabinet, and in every house
Of any pretention n small chamber was
set aside for the exclusive use Of pow
dering the hair curtain divided in
the middle, a powdering stand to hold
the bowl Of powder, and possibly
stool, were all that the closet con
tanned, and through this curtain tb
lady whose head was to be powdereo
protruded her head, the maid standing
on the other side and throwing" tho
powder at her head by means of a
powder puff To preserve the eyes
and complexion a mask was held to
the face.
Unfortunately, no illustration of a
''powdsring closet" seems to have
been preserved
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
Second Gas Strike at Duncan.

Duncan, Okla.-A second and
stronger flow of gas was struck in the
we'll being drilled for oil on the Jones
ranch, ten miles northeast of here
After the strike of ten days ago the
we'll ceased and drilling continued,
and Wednesdays big strike, which ex-
oeeds a flow of 100000 cubic feet per
day, was made at depth of $50 feet.
OHara & Bott, a Pittsburg firm that
is doing the drilling, are elated over
the find, They announce that the well
will be capped, and other prospect
wells started in the search for oil.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09

Torras, La.--Rushing about the
streets like persons bereft of their
reason, women screaming and men
yelling as they hurried into their
homes and grabbed their children and
what articles of clothing and valuables
they could place their hands on in
their mad effort to reach places of
safety, and the stampeding of animals
turned loose by their owners to seek
safer places, were some of the chaotic
conditions that prevailed in Torras
Thursday night when the alarm was
sounded that the levee at the junction
Of the Old and Mississippi rivers had
given way to the mighty pressure OF
the flood waters before 1t
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
Fourteen Bids In.

Muskogee, Okla.-Bids for the pine
and hardwood timber on the unal-
lotted timber reserve in the Choctaw
nation, comprising 479,9O4 acres, were
opened in the Office Of the supervisor
of the FIVE civilized tribes. Fourteen
bids were received, covering the entire
aorege and aggregating S1,5S6, ,S75.S3
The appraised valuation of the lnad
and timber is S1,565,362.16. The bids
will be forwarded 70 the secretary OF
the interior for approval before the
timber is sold.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
FOR EVERY FAMILY
MEDICINE CHEST

To the head of every family the
health OF its different members is
most important, and the value of an
agreeable laxative that is certain in
its effect is appreciated. One of the
most popular remedies in the family
medicine chest is a combination OF
simple laxative herbs with pepsin that
is known to druggists and physicians
as DR.. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin. This
preparation is mild and gentle in its
action on the bowels, yet positive in
its effect. A dose of Syrup Pepsin at
night means relief next morning,
while its tonic properties tone up and
strengthen the muscles Of stomach,
liver and bowels so that these organs
are able in a short time TO again per
form their natural functions without
help.
Druggists everywhere sell Dr. Cald.
wells Syrup Pepsin in 60c and $1.00
bottles. If you have never tried this
simple, inexpensive, yet effective
remedy, write to DR.. w. B. Caldwell,
2O1 Washington st., Monticello, ILL.,,
and ask for a sample bottle DR.. Cald-
well will be glad to send it without
any expense to you whatever.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
Tired Of II.

The four-year-old had taken his re
proof in a gratifying spirit, had ad-
mitted his fault, and sued sweetly for
pardon Encouraged by his receptive
attitude, his mother ventured to add
a few general ethical truths; but with
the first hint of transition from the
concrete to the abstract a mild re-
sentiment dawned in his eye.
Mother" he demanded, respectful
ly but firmly, when is this con-
versation going to stop!"-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
Force Of Habit strong.

At the informal gambol which was
given by the Chicago members Of the
Lambs club recently, John Drew told
of an actor who had the misfortune
to fall off a ferry boat at night. OF
course there was great confusion on
board. The searchlight was turned
round and round in an effort to find
the man He came up for the third
time just as the light struck him.
and from force of habit the actor
raised himself and delivered & most
ceremonious bow. Then the Tescuers
grabbed him.
The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1912-05-09
HorrIbIeI

81 think the worst pun l ever
heard" Ode Wolf Hopper is talking)
was perpetrated in my presence the
other day. A bachelor friend of mine
has a curious custom of never carry
ing or even possessing a watch
was talking to him about this, and
said:
"How do you know what time It is
in the morning, when you want to get
up?
That's easy replied he. MY
neighbors keep chickens. The rooster
is my crownometer THE Sunday
Magazine.