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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31

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FOR ras SAKE OF saEvlrY.

81 heard a story in Germany, %
says Sehmittnacht, who has just re-
turned, "about novelist and an edi-
tor. The editor had ordered a story
Of certain length, and the novelist
had written several hundred words
too many. In order to make the
story fit the space at his disposal the
last few paragraphs were condensed
into a single sentence. This is the
way it read:
""Von Beriken took a small glass
of whisky, his hat his departure, no
notice of his pursuers, a revolver out
Of his pocket, and, finally. his life "
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31

c. PIPER Hill. Va. Mrs. Ida Con
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Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31
CONDEMN THE MusTAcHE.

English doctors who grow mus
taches once ran the risk of spelling
their practice. G. w. E. Russell,
in "One Look Back" remarks
"Quite certainly the first time / ever
fell into the hands Of a mustached
doctor was in 1877. Everyone con-
demned the hirsute appendage as
highly unprofessional and when soon
after the poor man found his way
into a lunatic asylum, neighboring
doctors were not surprised, that
there was a bad family history. and
that he himself had shown signs Of
eccentricity. That meant the mus
tache and nothing else"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31

AT an examination held in a junior
school composition on cats was set.
One young hopeful wrote the follow
ing: Cats that's made for little
boys and girls to maui is called NAL
tese" cats. Some cats are known by
their queer purr; these are cazisd
'Purrsian" cats Others with very
bad tempers are known as AN
gorie" cats. Cats with deep feelings
are called Feline" cats. Very fine
cats are called "Magnificata"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31
USEFUL WORK IS BILIr1LEO


II one examines the ordinary nov.
el he will find that in most cases the
story glorifes- at least by implica.
wealth and rank. On the other
hand--at least by implication--it
encourages a contempt for poverty,
and, what is worse, for any form OF
honest. useful labor. If in the course
Of tale any character appears
among those who are intended to be
attractive and has attributed to him
any occupation by which he earns his
living, it is usually a very gentle
manly one. Lawyers, artists, doc
tors, clergymsn or stock broking
kings are the most frequent types.
But, while some Of these callings
are useful and some are not, ne in
fluence Of fiction does not end with
approaching them, for it goes on to
pour contempt on all others. All the
persons who appear in the course Of
the story who fiji any really indis-
pensable Office, such as agricultural
laborers, fishermen, carpenters, do
nestle servants and mechanics are
Systematically belittled.
This characteristic of uselessness
is an almost inevitable accompani-
ment to the hero and heroine in
most novels. More SO in the case of
the heroine than the hero of course.
How earnestly most writers strive to
convey the impression that if at any
time in the course Of the story the
heroine has to do any useful work,
that is an indignity and an injustice.
How carefully the story secures that
she shall be delivered from such a
positions. H. Haiford, in the So
cialist Review.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31
EIaht Who Deserve slap..

Eight men who deserve to be
slapped on the face: He who despises
a man of power; he who enters a
house unlimited and unwelcomed; he
who gives orders in house not his
own; he who takes seat above his
position; he who speaks to one who
does not listen to him; he who in
trudes on the conversation OF others;
he who seeks favors from the ungen-
erous; and he who expects love from
his enemies. a Persian Saying.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31
polsoNs N PLANTS DO ooop


The part played by the powerful
chemical substances secretcd in the
various parts Of many plants is inn
perfectly understood Free prussic
acid in some plants was the remark
able discovery made not long ago,
and now Professor Peche has con-
Guided that ia the cherry laurel this
poison is stored in various tissues
as reserve plant food. Other Ger
man biologists have been seeking to
prove that various plant poisons give
protection against enemies. Results
have been obtained by Prof. W. Pey-
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acids, oils, alkaloids, glucosides and
other chemicals Of plants are poison
GUS or offensive to rabbits, snails, in
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plants, such as are used for human
food as salads, are poisonous to
snails and slugs, and are protected
nearly as effectively against rabbits.
Beans, peas and lentils contain some
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maize, oats and rye-repels snails, as
do hairy stalks and sticky surfaces,
and plants having bundles Of cal
cium oxalate crystals are offensive or
poisonous not only to rabbits and
snails, but even to man.
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31

Stage Manager-This is the set
ting for the balcony scene in ''Ro-
meo and Juliet"
Critic-But l seem to miss some
thing. Where is the ladder?
Stage Manager-Ladder? The
modern Romeo does not. climb lad
der. He comes in an airship-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31
OBSERVING CHILD.

Mother-Now go kiss nurse good
night and let her put you TO bed.
Little Helen-Don't want to | She
slaps folks that try to kiss her now.
Mother Why what a story,
Helenl
Helen Well, you ask papa If she
don't. Dartmouth Jack O. Lantern,
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Children Cry
FOR FLETCMER'S
= a . T Q RIA
Ice And Electric Plant For Sale

See the advertisement elsewhere
of the Lafayette Ice & Electric Co.
The company wants to sell by Jan
uary lst. Everything in good order
and now running.
Advertisement.
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SURE FACT.

"This couple want their wedding
chronicled as a marriage in high
life"
sHow DO they make that ortf"
"They we're married in an air
ship"
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Nice outlet Place.

ibid you md nice quiet place to
spend the seasonf" "Yes." replied Mr..
Growcher. Everybody else In the
family went away and stayed home"
Nv darlington Star.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-12-31

Mr.. Newwed-When we were on
our honeymoon trip no one could
tell we were a new bride and groom.
Oldwed--How did you manage it
Mr.. Newwed-Every time we
came to tunnel l got up and got a
drink of water.
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-30

There was one man more persistent
than the others. Her mother called
him Horace, which the major mel
lowed into Hoddy He was tall, blond,
good-looking, devil-may-care, edu-
Gated, witty, amusing; and in evening
dress he appeared to be what it was
quite evident he had once been, a
gentleman. At first she thought it
strange that he should make her, in
stead of her mother, his confidante.
AS to what vocation he pursued, she
did not know, for he kept sedulous
guard over his tongue; but his past,
up to that fork in the road where man.
hood says good-by to youth, was hers.
And in this direction, clever and artful
as the mother was, she sought in vain
to wrest this past from her daughters
lips. To the mother, it was really nee
essary for her to know who this man
really was, had been, knowing thor
oughly as she did what he was now.
Persistent he undeniably was, but
never coarse nor rude. Since that
time he had come back from the
casino at Monte Carlo, much the worse
for wine, she feared him; yet, in spite
of this fear, she had for him vague
liking, hazy admiration. Whatever
his faults might be, she stood witness
to his great physical strength and
courage. He was the only man, among
all those who appeared at the Villa
Fanny and Immediately vanished, who
returned again. And he, too, soon
grew to be part of this unreal drama,
arriving mysteriously one day and de-
parting the next.
That a drama was being enacted I'M
der her eyes she no longer doubted;
but it was as though she had taken
her seat among the audience in the
middle of the second act. She could
make neither head nor tail to it.
Whenever she accompanied her
mother upon these impromptu jour
neys, her character, or rather her at
titude, underwent a change. She
swept aside her dreams; she accepted
the world as 1t was, saw things as
they were; laughed, but without merri-
ment; TESTED, but with the venomed
point 1t was the reverse of her real
character to give hurt to any living
thing, but during these forced march
es, as the major humorously termed
them, and such they were in truth,
she could no more stand against Civ
ing the cruel stab than, when alone
in her garden, she could resist the
tender pleasure of succoring fallen
butterfly. She was especially happy
in finding weak spots in her mothers
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-30

in life f1ocked about her, why, it is
the eternal tribute demanded of beau
ty. Here and there the men were not
all the daughter might have wished.
Often they burnt sweet f1attery at her
shrine, tentatively; but as she coolly
stamped out these incipient fires,
they at length came to regard her as
one regards the beauty of a frosted
window, as a thing to admire and
praise in passing One ache always
abided; the bitter knowledge that had
she met in kind smile for smile and
jest for jest, she might have been her
mothers boon companion. But deep
back in some hidden chamber of her
heart lay a secret dread of such
step, a dread which, whenever she
strove to analyze it, ran from under
her investigating touch, as little balls
of quicksilver run from under the
pressure of a thumb.
She was never without the comforts
of life, well-fed, welldressed, we'll
housed, and often her mother flung
her some jewelea trinket which (again
that sense of nenace) she put away,
but never wore. The bright periods
were when they left her in the little
villa near Mentone, with no one but
her old and faithful nurse. There,
with her horEe, her books and her
flowers, she was at peace. Week into
week and month into month she was
let be. Never a letter came, save
from some former schoolmate who
was coming over and wanted letters
Of introduction to dukes and duchess
es. If she smiled over these letters
it was with melancholy; for the dukes
and duchesses, who fell within her
singular orbit, were not the sort to
whom one gave letters of introduction
Where her mother went she never
had the least idea. She might be in
any of the great ports Of the world,
anywhere between New York and
Port Said. The major generally dis
appeared at the same time. Then,
perhaps, she'd come back from a
pleasant tram-ride over to Nice and
find them both at the villa, maid and
luggage. Mayhap night or two, and
off they'd go again; never a word
about their former journey, uncom-
municative, rather quiet These alb
sences, together with the undemon-
stratiye Temperatures, used to hurt
Fortune dreadfully. 1t gave her
clear proof of where she stood, exactly
nowhere. The hurt had lessened with
the years, and now she didn't care
much. Like as not, they would drag
her out of Eden for a month or two,
for what true reason she never could
quite fathom, unless it was that at
times her mother liked to have the
daughter near her as a foil.
At rare intervals she saw steel-eyed,
grim-mouthed men wandering up and
down before the gates of the Villa
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-30

the dark beauty of a high-class Span
lard, possessing humor, trenchant COM
ment, keen deduction and application;
worldly, cynical, high-bred The stu
dent of nations might have tried in
vain to place her She spoke the
French of the Parisians, the Italian
of the Florentines, the German of the
Hanoverians, and her English was the
envy of Americans and the wonder OF
the Londoners. The daughter fell be-
hind her but little, but she was more
reserved.
AS Fortune sat beside the young col
lector that afternoon, she marveled
why they had given him Percival Al
gernon. Jones was all right, solid and
substantial, but the other two turned
it into ridicule STILL what was the
matter with Percival Algernon? His
tory had given men of these names
mighty fine things to accomplish
Then why ridicule? Was it due to the
perverted angle of vision created by
wits and humorists in the comic week
lies, who were eternally pillorying
these unhappy prefixes to ordinary
cognomens? And why this pillorying?
She hadn't studied the subject suf-
ficiently to realize that the business
of the humorist is not so much to
amuse as to warn persons against be-
coming ridiculous. And Percival Al
gernon Jones was all of that. 1t re-
solved itself into a matter Of values,
then. Had his surname been Mont
morency, Percival Algernon would
haye fitted as a key to it's lock. She
smiled. No one but fond mother
would be guilty of such crime. And
if she ever grew to know him well
enough, she was going to ask him all
about this mother.
What interest had her own mother
in this harmless young man? Oh,
some day she would burst through this
web. this jungle; some day she would
see beyond the second act! What
then? she never troubled to ask her
self; time enough when the moment
arrived
ct had an interesting adventure
last night, most interesting one"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-30

which of the four was by all odds the
most popular theme. All agreed that
she was handsome ia a bold way. This
modification invariably distinguishes
the right sort of women from the
wrong sort, from which there is no ap-
peal to a higher court. They could
well afford to admit of her beauty,
since the dancer was outside what is
called the social pale, for all that her
newest escort was prince incognito.
They also discussed the play at bridge,
the dullness of this particular season,
the possibility of war between Eng
land and Germany. And some one
asked others who were the two we'll
gowned women down in front, sitting
on either side Of the young chap in
pearl-grey. No one knew. Mother and
daughter, probably. anyhow, they
knew something about good clothes.
George was happy. He was proud,
too He saw the glances, the mods Of
approval He basked in kind Of
sunshine that was new. What an ass
he had been all his life! To have
been afraid OF women just because
he was Percival Algernon! What he
should have done was to have gone
forth boldly, taken what pleasures he
found. and laughed with the rest of
them.
There weren't two other women IN
all Cairo to compare with these two.
The mother, shapeIy, elegant, with
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-30

she had often heard him referred to
as that brute or that fool or that
drunken imbecile" If a portrait of
him existed, Fortune had not yet seen
it. She visited his lonely grave once
year, in the Protestant cemetery,
and dreamily tried to conjure up what
manner of man he had been One day
she piled her old Italian nurse with
questions.
Handsome? Yes, but it was all so
long ago, cara mia, that l can not
describe him to you"
did he drink?" Behind this ques-
ton there was no sense of moral
obloquy as applying to the dead.
"Sainted Mary! didn't all men drink
their very souls into purgatory those
unreligious days?"
"Had he any relatives?"
81 never heard of any"
WAS he rich?"
mo; but when the signora, your
mother, married him she thought he
was"
1t was not till later years that For
tune grasped the true significance of
this statement. 1t illumined many
pages. She dropped all Investigations,
concluding wisely that her mother, If
she were minded to speak at all, could
supply only the incidents, the details.
1t was warm, balmy, like May in the
northern ATTITUDES. Women wore
white dresses and carried sunshades
over their shoulders A good band
played airs from the new light-operas,
and at one side of the grand-stand
were tea-tables under dazzling linen.
Fashion was out Not all her votaries
enjoyed polo, but it was absolutely
necessary to pretend that they did.
When they talked they discussed the
Spanish dancer who paraded back
and forth across the tea-lawn They
discussed her jewels, her clothes, her
escort, and quite frankly her morals,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-30

began George, who was no longer the
shy, laundering recluse They were
on the way back to town.
Tell it me-" said Mrs. Chedsoye
He leaned over from his seat beside
the chauffeur of the hired automobile.
(Hang the expense on a day like
thisD "a fellow brought me a rug
last night, one of the rarest outside
the museums. How and where he got
it I'm not fully able to state. But
he had been in violent struggle
somewhere, arms slashed, shins bat
tered. He admitted that he had gone
III where many shapes of death
lurked. 1t was a bit irregular. l
bought the rug, however. Some one
else would have snatched it up if I
hadn't. I wanted him to recount the
adventure, but he smiled and refused.
tell you what it is, these eastern
ports are great places"
How Interestingly" Mrs. Chedsoye's
color was not up to the mark. He
was not seriously wounded?"
ooh. no. He looks like a tough in
dividual. I mean, a chap strong and
hardy enough to pull himself out of
pretty bad holes. He needed the
money"
Did he give his name?" asked For
tune.
Yes; bat no doubt it was assumed.
Ryanne, and he spelt it with an ne.