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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
water Elenhant. b AfrIea.

The scientific world is still discus
alng the reported discovery Of a new
mammal in TIE Congo state, mann
NAL known to the natives as the wa
ter elephant" NJ. lie Petit OF the
Paris Museum Of Natural History re-
Gently reported that he saw five OF
these saimals plunging into the wa
ter oa the northern shore of Lake
Leopold the Second. He stated that
they appeared to have shorter bodies,
smaller ears. and relatively longer
necks than ordinary elephants. and
apparently were not possessed Of
trunks He estimated their height at
about six feet II has been pointed
out that the description Of the water
elephant accords almost exactly with
Dr. Andrews restoration OF the
palaeomastod0n. a. creature which
dwelt in the Fayonm IN the lower ter
tiary age.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
Escaned Nith IA Iila.

Twenty -one years ago ! faced an
awful dea..!.. ?. wFiles n B. Martin.
Port Harrelson. SIC. f'Doctorn said
] had consumption and the dreadful
cough had looked like il. sure
enough. Itried everything ! could
hear Of, for my cough. and was un-
der the treatment OF the best doc
tor in Georgetown. s. c. for q year.
but could get no relief. A friend
advigsi me to try Or. Kings New
Discovery. did 70. and was COM
pletely cured. Ifeel that owe my
life to this great throat and lung
cure" It's positively guaranteed
for coughs. colds. and all bronchial
affections. SOC g. 81 90. Trial BOT
tie free at all druggists
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

Prof. John Spencer Bassett, author
Of "A Life Of Andrew Jackson" is &C
customed to illustrate his lectures at
Smith college with incidents in Amer
lean history On one occasion he re-
peated a well-lmown story in regard
to Stephen A. Douglas, closing with a
moral which aroused peculiar interest.
Douglas, as a narrative runs. was
once sitting In profound sleep in the
corridor OF the capitol when Adeline
Cults, a Washington belle, passed by.
She did not know the sleeper, but was
struck with compassion on seeing
such a splendidly intellectual face
under such conditions, and STOPPING
down laid her handkerchief over II to
protect 1t from the flies. Douglas on
awakening found tho handkerchief,
sought the owner, and eventually
married her. There was pause. and
then the professor added: You la
dies, the moral Of this story is: Have
your pocket Handkerchief marked"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
Not a Day in Bed.

Granting. S. Gin q letter from
gsrnmling. Mrs. Lula Walden says:
y was so weak before ! began TAX
sng Cardui. that Il tired me just q
little. Since taking Il. l do all the
hsuoe work for my family Of nine,
nn,h have not been in bed a day.
Cnrdui is The greatest remedy Tor
women on earth" Weak women
msed Cardui. tits the ideal wOman's
ionic. because /. is especially adapt
el for women's needs. It relieves
Gackache, headache. dragging feel
iEaEs, and other female misery. Try
Cardui. A few doses will show you
what it can do for you. It may be
Just what you want.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
RULES FOR RIGHT LIVING


Frederic Harrison, bnrrislor. bis.
tor,sn. philosopher. pubiicist. posltiv.
lst and anti-woman's su1ragette. cele.
brated his elghtloth birthday recently
IN London In spite OF hts great age.
Mr. Harrison n stiil hale and hearty,
and hiB intellectual activity r. 90
cnnicnaliy evidenced IN acutely rea-
soned letters to the press. A self
discipllnarian. he attributes his phys
zeal and mental fitness to the rigid
observance OF his own Spartan rules
Of life" Here they are: Touch not
tobacco. spirit. nor any unclean thing.
Rise from every meal With an appe.
tite. Walk daily two hours. Sleep
nightly seven hours. Be content with
what you have"
Playing cards and tobacco are MI.
Harrison's aversions. Men and wom-
en-, /" he says, who are too dun 70 take
pleasure in talk. too Ignorant to read.
too lazy TO dance, deaf to music. blind
TO art. unable 20 keep themselves
awake, betake themselves 70 cards"
An for my Lady Nicotine, he cannot
md words strong enough to denounce
her with. Smoking Il "a beastly dis
ease" to be summed on grounds med
icAl, moral, social and esthetic.
Mr.. Harrison. however, is betteE
known az the greatest living disciple
Of Auguste Comte than as a social
Don ouixote. His presidential ad-
dresses TO the Positivist society are
said by good judges to contain some
Of the fnest high thinking" in the
English language. In view OF these
and other virtues, people here are
proud to hail him grand old London
or, born and educated within the
sound Of the bells of Bow.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
Ends Winters Troubles

TO many. winter is season of
trouble. The frost bitten toes and
fingers, chapped hands and lips,
chilblains, cold sores. red and rough
skins, prove this. But such troubles
fly before Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
A trial convinces. Greatest healer
of Burns. Boils. Piles. Cuts, Sores,
Bruises, Eczema and Sprains. Only
25c at all druggists.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
Kill More Than Wild Beasts.

The number Of people killed year.
" by wild beasts don't approach the
vast number killed by disease germs.
No life is safe from their attacks.
They're in air. water, dust. even
food. But grand protection is af-
forded by Electric Bitters. which de-
stroy and expel these deadly disease
germs from the system. That's
why chiIls, fever and ague, all ma
larial and many blood diseases yield
promptly to this wonderful blood
purifier. Try them, and enjoy the
glorious health and new strength
they'll give you. Money back. if
not satisfied. Only SOC at all drug
gists.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
CRAFTY PRELUDE OF SHOPPER
Preliminary skIrmIsh by Which She
Ensures Best Service When Real
Campaign Begins.

Chicago people certainly have the
knack Of getting on. shopper said.
'In the suit department Of big store
/ met Chicago woman who had been
IN Philadelphia less than a week. She
said she wasn't buying anything; had
Just come to get the lay Of the land.
In the process Of getting It she stopped
a cash girl and said:
els that Miss Blake selling white
linen skirts to that fat woman? I'M
derstand you have a Miss Blake In
this department
"No, that is Miss Barton said the
cash girl.
This Chicago woman wrote the
name in her address book. Then she
showed me the names Of saleswomen
in several other stores.
This is only a preliminary to real
shopping, she said. 1T pays me to
take the extra trouble. II expect to
buy more than IS worth of anything
at a strange store l learn beforehand
the names Of the saleswomen whose
looks / like best.
"'Then when / 60 back to buy, !
cen say, as l shall do here tomorrow.
4 would like Miss Barton to wait on
me-, and although Miss Barton has
never set eyes on me, the fact that
] can call her by name gives her the
impression that she must have sold me
= 500 dress at some time and get
twice as good service rs ! would get
q knew nobody by name"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
NEVER USED THE REVOLVER
Judge Carried One unVaeksa Through
West and Then New NeFiS
Burglar Stole II.

A group Of New Workers on their
way to New Brunswick for the
moose hunting season were discuss
ing the new firearms law. A we'll
known justice of the supreme court
admitted that he was so doubtful
about the scope of the law that he
had sneaked away from his apart
ments in a taxicab with his rifles
carefully concealed from the eyes OF
passing policemen.
(which reminds me-" he said, and
the crowd settled down in peace, FOR
the justice was a great story teller
~Of my frat trip to the west, more
years ago than 1 like to think of,
The west was wild and woolly then
a. / viewed it, SO my slender luggage
included a revolver TO use against
hostile Indians and outlaws. The
trip was peaceful enough to suit
anybody and that gun was never I'M
packed. When l got back to my
New York fat put it away in a bu-
reau drawer thinking it might come
in handy some day And then I'll
be hanged if a burglar didn't get
into my rooms in a week OF so and
pinch that gun"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
YOUNG DEER WAS ARRESTED
Waterman With che Aid Of a Rope
Captured the Animal While
In the Water.

: Patrol wagons have queer passen-
gers sometimes, but surely there was
never a queerer one than the deer
that the Boston police arrested. The
deer was not much more than &
fawn, or at least he had not been
grown up for more than a few
months. Perhaps that is why he got
into such trouble. He was found out
I'm Boston harbor, but how or why he
got there he refused to tell.
A fisherman saw the animal first.
The man was out in a motor boat
when he saw something in the water
that did not look like anything he
y q ever seen before. He steered
ward it and found that it was a
Ter with antlers that rose above the
water like branches of coral beneath
the sea. The man threw a rope
around the deer's horns and towed
it to shore, and the police were
called. They came with q patrol
wagon, into which they loaded the
frightened beast. The deer was taken
to the police station and fed, and the
newspapers we're notified to find out
who the owner was. 1t was thought
that the deer had strayed from sons
private game preserve.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
DIAMONDS BECOMING SCARCE.

Two explanations of the advancing
prices of diamonds are given. First
the syndicate controlling the rough
diamond market limits production in
order to increase its profits. Second,
the yield of the diamond mines, as a
whole, is decreasing the Kimberly
mine is virtually exhausted of the
best stones. These explanations are
given according to the respective
viewpoint Of the parties who offer
them.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
judge Black Chosen.

Frankfort. KY. Dec. 29.-The tip
is out here that Attorney Genera :
elect James GSrnett has selected
Judge James D. Black, of Barbour
vile. as first Assistant Attorney
General Of Kentucky and that Judge
Black will accept the post.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
New MatrOn Appointed.

Miss Mamie B. Fisher Of Danville,
Ky, was made matron Of the Eastern
Kentucky Asylum, to succeed Mrs.
George Duncan, who resigned.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
A Cash OGer.

The Kentuckian has made a special
clubbing rate with The Memphis I
Weekly Commercial Appeal byf
which we will furnish both papeq
for one year for the very low sol
cription price OF e %. The 60
mercial Appeal is one Of the d -
and best papers in the South ~
we hoDe 70 receive many new SstD
scriptiona on this offer: $225 oa,l
for both papers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
Parsons Poem a Gem.

From Rev. H. Stubenvoll. la in
praise of DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
They re such a health necessity,
In every home these pills should b.,
If other kinds you've tried in vain,
USE DIR. KINGS
And be we'll again" Only 25c at al
druggists.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
klLLEO swoROFIsH wIrA aIFLE.

When Capt. Enos Nickerson Of
the fishing schooner Pontiac reached
the wharf at Boston the other day,
he proudly exhibited a 45O-pound
swOrdfish which was pierced behind
the left gill with a rifle bullet.
Captain Nickerson was fishing in
the South channel, and upon seeing
good sized swordfsh he deter
mined TO substitute the rifle for a
lly iron. One bullet performed the
deed and the priced fsh rolled over
'Vith a great tapping Of its tail and
rs easily hauled on deck. This is
first time that a swordfsh has
neNp % have been caught ia
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

Bowling Green. KY. Dec. BEEN
Cophmiiler. aged seventy.eieht. was
killed in an accident at the mines
near here. He was running en- en-
CINE, which turned over. scalding
MIN ~ death
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

Say, there's a page Of this China
special stun missing Anybody seen
it2"
"Eh! What was ny
why, a nst OF the leading insur'
gent generals
Holy smokes Was that ~ Say, !
thought Il vas tie bin " fare o. the
new Chineao restaurant and chuche4
~ ~ Ia rnsIe basket"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

FOR RENT-Residence now occu-
pied by Prof. B. Hamlet; possession
given Jan. LIST. Apply to T. L. Met
calfe.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
New Feed Store.

l have opened a feed store in con-
nectionlwith my grocery. and will
run two delivery wagons which will
enable me to make prompt delivery
Of groceries and feed.
w. P. QUALLS.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

Constipation causes. headache,
nause dizziness. languor. heart
palpitsUon Drastic physics grips,
sieks6. weaken the bowels and don'l
cure Doan's ReRuIets act gently
p |pfe constipation Is cents.
1uf druggist.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
THE THRICE-A-W WEEK EDITION
OF THE
new YORK WORLD
Practically a Daily at the Price Of a
Weekly.
No other Newspaper in the
world gives so mach al so
low a price.

The great Presidential campaign
will soon begin and you will want
the news accurately and promptly.
The World long since established a
record for impartiality. and any
BODY can afford its Thrice-a-Week
edition. which comes every other
day in the week, except Sunday. 1t
will be Of particular value TO you
now The Thrice-a-Week World al
80 nbounds in other strong features,
serial stories, humor. markets. car
toons; in fact, everything that is TO
be found 10 a first-class daily.
THETHRICE A WEEK WORLDS
regular subscription price is only
Sl.OO per wear. and this pays for 1856
papers. We offer this unequallvd
newspaper and the Hopkinsville
Kentuckian together for one year
for - 65, The regular subscription
price Of the two papers is $500
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

"Oh, I've known too much Of them
ever TO marry one OF them Marriage
IS purely a confidence games as see
H. and when you lose confidence or
start IN without any marriage is sure
to be a iailurel
Yes, yes Pm coming as fast as /
can't She moved toward the door
Then she turned a smiling counteance
10 the bookkeeper
Here she said, good natnredly.
Just remember that what said was
an hasty Perhaps those men 90 a
lot Of pretending, but il you listen
carefully you1 hear my own sweet
voice telling Mr. Jacobs. Ia one more
minute, how extremely sorry am
that ! was delayed and that II was an
ayoidablel And. do you know. I'd be
fesrfully angry II they dared int.
mate 10 me that / didn't earn ma, san.
airy or that ] wasted a lot OF valuable
iime just hearing myself talk"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
The Rush
~ Of Business

"Oh. never will get this Christ
mas list made outl" said the little
etenographor impatiently, az she
hasti1y threw her notebook into .
trawor and grabbed materials 70 an
Bwer the busner that was getting fran.
tlc. 'aThis II the 'bteenth time I've
barely got It started when some one
wants to write his friend that be en-
ioyed the dinner he took with him
yesterday or wishes to inform some
one whom he never saw and never
wiz see that he received hts valued
favor-which he never even read
throughput though he can do ALSO
luteiy nothing for him he begs, most
ardently, to remind him that--and NJ
ont Hunt Talk about women gush
ingi"
The bookkeeper turned an apprecia
tive cOuntenance toward her and pre-
nae.d 20 liatan.
"Oh, busa onl" she exclaimed cross
". a. the summons became stu more
imperative I'm engaged for a while
yeti" And she snapped a rubbed
band across the buzzer.to deaden the
noise.
Actually. there aren't ten letters 9
day that are absolutely necessary. y
she declared. There's a lot Of fol.
derol. that passes back and forth. and
gets filed as business. though it IL
simple waste Of time and postage
whsn the men receive the letters
they realize what rubbish they are
and laugh at them But when they
get started debating they like the
sound of their own voicesl
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

House and stall room attached.
garden. stable and big vacant lot on
Durrett's avenue.
BID. MOORE.
Hopkinsville. KY. R. F. d. No. 3
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

FOR RENT Five-room cottage with
ball. good garden and stable.
N. F. CREsHAw.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

why" and she gave her notebook
an angry fling. this thing here, /
warrant, has about one page in ten
filled with business that needed to
be transacted! The rest is gush and
affectationl And yet the men pride
themselves on their uuickness and
their lack of red tape and their abil-
ity to cope with big situations. And
you won't find one man in q dozen
who doesn't make supercilious re-
marks about detail and say that he
hasn't time to attend to that-that's
what he keeps clerks f0rl
Il heard MT Brown this morning
tell his wife over the phone that he
simply couldn't get home to her lun-
cheon, he was so busy-his desk was
simply piled with work He was very
sorry, but business had to come be-
fore pleasure and she'd please make
his excuses to the guests and so on
all that rot.
well. expected busy day when
/ heard that and so ] prepared for
rapid dictation. Wen, what did
get? To one man he wrote that the
matter was on his desk and as soon
as he had time he'd look il over and
write him in detail, which he begged
leave to trust was satisfactory And
to another he wrote that business, as
he very likely knew, wasn't what Il
MIGHT he and therefore he wouldn't
be able to 80 into the matter, but we
might in some months, time-per-
habs-with which he, trusted he might
sign himself very sincerely! And to
another that he was ih doubt as to
the ACCESSIBILITY Of taking out such
and such paper. just at present. but
after due consideration he would
write him further, and he desired,
with great gusto, to subscribe him
self his obliged friend. And so on
through the whole list! Why, there
wasn't a letter that couldn't have
been done away with altogether, let
alone being put OF until after his
wife's luncheonl
but all those letters made him
think he was a very busy man and
I've no doubt that he thinks he's in
dispensable to the company
Some day I'm going to run off a
lot Of form letters, saying that I'm
very sorry, but haven't yet had time
to look into the matter, but will write
further when time permits. think it
makes the men feel good to tell peo-
pie they are too busy to think. Per
haps II might be we'll for me to offer
my services as thinker for them!
"They all know that they'll decide
against whatever matter 1t is that
keeps pending! It's hypocritical at
titude, to say the least They pretend
to themselves that they're busy. They
pretend to the man to whom they
write that the matter really interests
them and that they're really going to
discuss It, and think il over, when
they know they aren't even going to
look at Il again And they pretend
to the company that they're doing
business eight hours day And then
they'll go home and pretend to their
wives that they've had hard day!
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

FOR RENT-Three upstairs
rooms on corner next to Ideal Motor
Car Co. Apply to T. L. Metcalfe.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

Had dyspepsia or indigestion Z r
years No appetite. and what ! dl
eat distressed me terribly Burdpc',
Blood Bitters cured me ~ "A
Walker. Sunbury. Ohio.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02
PREFERRED LOCALS

% j. II. DagR for contracting
building and general repair work Of
all kinds. Phone 476.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

Cottage Of s rooms at % West 18th
street. newly painted and in good
condition. Less than one square
from Main street.
Apply to CHAS. NJ. MEACHAM.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-02

To loan on first-class real estate 81.
curity. The rs. KNIGHT q co.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-02-06

futile. Laprade was the last one that
the authorities would have suspected
and not the least suspicion had been
cast upon him. The boy works for
Deacon Fayette GoSs in No. mill Of
the American Thread company, and
previously worked for the Windham
Silk company. He was always home
between 8 and $50 o'clock each even
ing. 1t was his habit to roam the
streets early in the evening, and most
of his holdups took place on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday evenings. Mon
day evening he confessed to six hold
ups. There have been a number of
others, and it is believed that he is re-
sponsible for them also. In February,
1911, he held UP a lady on Chestnut
street and another on Church street.
On Dec. % he attacked a woman on
Broad street, grasping her by the legs.
In the same month he grabbed an
other woman on Pleasant street, and
on Dec. "a he took a chance at two
ladies on Walnut street, frightening
them so badly that they dropped their
bundles and ran home. On Sunday
evening, Feb. 4, he made his last as
sault, upon a married woman on Pearl
street. This one proved to be same
lady he assaulted a year ago this
month. Her husband furnished clue
that was instrumental in leading to
the lads arrest. When questioned as
10 why he had attacked his victims.
his only statement was that he wished
to Brighten them, which he did most
effectively. He said he grabbed them
any place he could get hold of them
and then scurried right home. He will
be arraigned in police court this Cues
day. morning.