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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
IN The SEWING ROOM
SHORT BITS or WISDOM THAT
ARE or VALUE.
WIN He Found t. ne Labor Savers as
Well IS Econcmical-How Rusty
Needles May Be Effective
" Cleaned.

When darning rent IN wooden
goods and it is impossible to ravel
out the goods itself for thread to darn
with, use long hairs from your own
head The loose weave OF the wool
loses the hair in Its meshes. and so
the darn becomes Invisible.
The best way to clean rusty needles
ie TO run them up and down In the
earth. Just go out in the garden and
stick the needles in the ground. then
pull them out. Have the needles
threaded. with the thread tied double,
so there will be something to catch
hold of to extract the needle from the
earth. This method is even better
than using an emery bag.
When buttons come OF shoes and
you sew them on again, run through
all the other buttons with the same
thread with which you replace the
missing ones. II will strengthen them
all and make the next button sewing
a task far in the future.
Small holes in black or white hid
gloves can easily be mended with
court-plaster. Cut the plaster a little
larger than the hole itself. and stick
It to the under part Of the glove d.
rectly over the hole. pressing the kid
down smooth on the sticky surface of
the plaster. This will last az long as
the gloves themselves do.
II the tip breaks of the end Of your
scissors. the Jagged point may be
smoothed of by rubbing 1t on q whet-
stone. The point will be uneven. but
1t will cut all right. The same treat
ment may be used for bIunted needles.
Glove clasps, or snap fasteners are
better to use as fastening for plack-
cts on cloth dresses than are hooks
and eyes. But when the latter are
used be sure to buy those having the
peat eyes instead of the ordinary loop
eye.
Silk petticoats always give way first
at the seam; therefore, when you buy
a new one, sew silk seam binding
over each seam on the right side.
This will often serve as cure for
wornout petticoats.
When doing drawn work or hem
stitching on linen. soap the place
where the threads are to be
drawn, using a thick soap lather and
a soft brush. After the work is once
started. 1t will be an easy matter to
draw out the threads, as they slip very
easily on the soapy surface.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Peanut FUDGE FiIIlno.

Two cupfuls of sugar. one pint OF
milk, four squares of chocolate, four
tablespoonfuls of butter. one teaspoon.
full of vanilla essence. one cupful OF
chopped peanuts. Put all ingredients
into a saucepan and let this stand at
the back Of the range until the mix
ture liquefies. Boil until a soft ball
is formed; beat until creamy; spreaf
between cakes
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Aunt Maria's Cake.

One-half cup butter, one cup brown
sugar. one c2p sour milk. two cups
-four. one teaspoonful soda put In dry
-four, one teaspoonful cinnamon. one
half teaspoonful cloves. one egg (beat
white separately, one teaspoonful mo
lasses. one cup chopped raisins. Bake
one hour
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07

is too important a matter for a wo-
man to be handicapped by weakness.
bad blood or foul breath. Avoid
these kill-hopes by taking DR.. Kings
Life Pills. New strength. fine CON-
plexiOn. pure breath, cheerful spir-
its-things that win men = follow
their use. Easy. safe. sure. 25c All
d ugRists.
Advertisement
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Picked Urine.

To pickle tripe cut into squares and
lay in an earthen pot, and pour over
boiling vinegar enough TO cover In
which blade OF mace. . doxen whole
cloves and q stick OF cinnamon have
been boiled. II will be ready for csc
In IL hours.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Mail Carriers Will Fly.

This is an age of great discoveries.
Progress rides on the air. Soon we
may see Uncle Sans mail carriers
flying in all directions, transporting
mail. People take a wonderful in
terest in discovery that benefits
them. That's why DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Coughs, Colds and
other throat and lung diseases is the
most popular medicine in America.
at cured me of a dreadful cough"
writes Mrs. j F. Davis. S,ickney
Corner, Me-, after doctors treat
ment and all other remedies had
failed" For coughs. colds or any
bronchial affection it's unequaled.
Price SOC and $l.OO. Trial bot
tie free at All Druggists.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Lion and Lamb.

Senator-elect James and Senator
Bradley arrived in Washington We'd
nesday. and it was announced that
they would work in harmony for all
measures not political in their ma
ture. and especially for legislation
of interest to Kentucky.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Bridge Gave WAY.

Seven were killed and one injured
when c. & o. freight train crashed
through the Guyandotte bridge into
the river. carrying the structure
with it. F. V. Weber. engineer, of
Russell. KY. was among those killed.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Chestnut Salad.

Shell large chestuuts and blanch
them. Then boil until tender, While
they are still hot immerse them In
French dressing TO which has been
added little onion Juice. Drain and
chill thoroughly. Serve In a bed OF
watercTess.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07

To feel strong. have good appetite
and digestion. sleep soundIy and en-
Joy life, use Burdock Blood Bitters,
the family system tonic. Price.
$1.00
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Bride of a Week.

Evansville. Ind. Jan. Mrs.
Golden CrOxsll Graham. wife of Or.
r. H. Graham. and a bride of a
week. was stricken with apoplexy
Tuesday and died in a short time.
The body will be sent to her former
home. McLeansboro. H.. for burial.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
AeosntuatIna Plant 4

Aeeentuatlno Plant Z :. actors.
II has been found that under red
light eight through red glassl plants
become more robust than IN any 9TH
or. They also become more pro-
nouncsd In their chief Characteristic
leafy plant becomes more leafy, all
shades OF green become more pro
nounoed. the sentative plant more
sensitive and all in every way become
highly specialized
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07

To clean white iron bedsteads use
a damp cloth and a littls cooking soda.
This win leave the bedstead clean
and white. Soda viii also remove
nearly all stains from the sink.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
HOpkinsyiIle Market
Quotations.
Corrected Dec. %, 1912.

Country lard. good color and clean
l5c and 16c per pound.
Country bacon. 15c per pound.
Black-eyed peas. SO 25 per bushel.
Country shoulders. 1890 pound.
Country hams. 22c per pound.
Irish potatoes. $1.OO per bushel.
Northern eating Rural potatoes
$1.00 per bushel
Texas eating onions, $1.3O pc,
bushel
Red eating onious,$l 80 per bushel
Dried Navy beans. $40 per
bushel
Cabbage. u cents Q pound.
Dried Lima beans. l0c per pouno.
Country dried apples. 1Oc pc,
pound. 8 for 25c
Daisy cream cheese, 25c oei
pound
Fell cream brick cheese. 25c per
round
Fu'i cream Limberger cheese, 25c
PEI pound
Popcorn.dried on ear &c per pound
Fresh Eggs 3Oc per doz
Choice lots fresh, well-workeo
country butter. in pound prints. 80,
FRUITS.
Lemons. 30c per dozen
Navel Oranges, 30c. 40c, per doz
Bananas, zoe and 25c doz
New York State apples $500 to
$500 per:bushel
Cash Price Paid For Produce.
POULTRY.
Dressed hens, 12ac per pound
Dressed cocks, &c per pound
live hens, lOc per pound; live cocks
&c pound; live turkeys. ID: PEI
pound
RooTs. HIDES. Wool AND TALLow.
Prices paid by wholesale dealers te
butchers and farmers:
Roots-Southern ginseng, IS. 70 ID
Golden Seal" yellow root, $I.35 Il
Mayapple. 81; pink root. 12c and 49,
Tallow-No. l. Al, No. 2, &c.
Woodbury., Zoe to TIC; Clear
Grease, 21c. medium, tub washed
2Sc to 9Oc; coarse, dingy. tubwashed
1Sc.
Feathers-Prime white goose. Soc
dark and mixed old goose, I5c to 30c;
gray mixed. I5c to 30c. 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- I4c. 9-1O bet.
ter demand
Dressed geese. lie per pound for
choice lots, live 81
Fresh country eggs, % cents per
dozen
Fresh country butter Csc ID.
A good demand exists for spring
chickens. and choice lots Of fresh
country butter.
HAY AND GRAIN.
No. timothy hay, $24 20
No. | clover hay, 1923 90
Clean, bright straw hay. 25c bale
Alfalfa hay, $25 90
White seed oats, SOC
Black seed oats, SOC
Mixed seed oats. 65c
No. 2 white corn. Soc
Winter wheat bran. $500
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
Heavy Snow Falls.

A heavy snowfall in the Cascade
Mountains last night caused the rail-
roads again to renew their fight to
keep the tracks open.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07
FARM LOANS
Low Rate Of Interest

We are in position to max
loans on improved farm lane
in Christian county, in an
sum, SO, 700 or over, on short
notice. Your note will read
to be repaid at the end Of
ten years, with the privilege
of paying 500 or more at
the end of the first year and
on any interest period there
after.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-07

OF four good pictures every Business Man
shopper wonderfully refreshed by stopping for hour OF clean
Conducted by home and the taken at
the box Office is all spent right here with you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Prince of Poland

When Segismund awoke next, morn
ing he would awake as Prince of Po-
land AND would be treated by those in
attendance upon him as if he had re-
tired a prince the hight before.
His long years Of captivity they
would tell him. if he referred to them
were but a dream of the night.
The King would then observe how
segismund bore himself Should he
behave with gentleness and courtesy
with nobleness and as showing consid-
Grafton for others, as having realiza-
ton of the duties and obligations OF
his high station; in short betray those
qualities of mind and heart which
should grace a future King--tnen Ba-
silio would at once resign the crown
to his son. acknowledge that he had
not read the stars Alright and retire t.
devote the rest of his life to obtain
ing better knowledge OF theif .nystie {
meanings
But if, on the other hand iscgiSnund
showed himself TO be possessed OF such
qualities as would render him unfit e
rule should betr,sy the latent monster
which the stars had predicted, then Il,
would be sent back to his captivity and
the succession bestowed upon Astolpho
whom the King commanded in thai
case to marry his cousin Estrella.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Cursing His Fate

And yet there was about the youth
q high and naughty look, a nobleness
that seemed struggling through the
clouds of passion which agitated his
breast.
Confinement and despair had given
to him that peculiar look which comes
from harsh experience and not from
years--an old look which yet does not
affect the appearance of youtn.
The lamp burned on a little table
and the prisoner walked up and down
his limited area, lamenting and curs-
Ing his fate at times, and at times ad.
dressing nature, the mountain, the
clouds. the storm and the stars. and
again letting his soul soar into realms
of unframed philosophic speculation re-
garding the mysteries of the here and
the hereafter.
They approached nearer and stood al
the doorway. when the captive, sud
denly seeing them, cried ous: who
are you. that venturing on the ,siser-
able rocks have ventured on a miser-
able life-and your own death?'
Rosaura explained that they were
travellers from across the mountains
who had lost their way and, seeing q
light, had come to ask shelter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Shadows From the Tower

but be assured, you savage once let
loose will not be Gagged again. Where
are the golden years of life you stole
away from me?
''Why sits that old man on the throne
he should be judged from? Down with
him that 1 may trample on the false,
white head
There came the blast of a trumpet and
the space behind the throne rapidly filled
with soldiers wearing black masks.
'TIa, the guard.' cried Segismund, the
shadows from the tower"
He rushed toward the throen, but the
soldiers surrounded him and he was borne
away. crying out wildly: Reach me a
sword-fill me such bowl Of wine as that
you gave me this morning"
When he had been forced to his chamber
the bowl OF wine he called for was handed
to him and in it was dose of that
same NARCOTIC which had been the day
before administered to him in the lonely
tower.
The poor old King was overcome with
grief-all that the stars had predicted OF
his son he fancied he had seen displayed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12

By the Kings orders no sword had
been girt upon the prince when he had
been dressed that morning, but the furi-
Gus youth seized the sword of Clotaldo
and was about to strike him with 1t
when a voice said: "Fie, my lord--a
young man raising his hand against. sit
yer hair?'
1t was Rosaura, still wearing her page 8
dress, who spoke and swiftly disappeared
through the crowd of courtiers. But
Segismund had caught a glimpse of her
and spoke wildly of an angel who had
come to his tower.
The usheys cried: Room for Astolpho,
Prince of Muscovyi" and that prince en-
tered the throne room, greeting Segis-
mund with stately courtesy.
Segismund made no answer at first, and
then returned a sury one. 1t was ex-
planned to him that Astolpho was SOW
ereign prince and his cousin.
20, l am tired of all this cried segis-
mund. Princes, cousins, chamberlains
and compliments. Blow the trumbpet and
with one blast scatter these butterflies
and bring to me soldiers with whom a
King feels like KKing indeed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Soldiers in Masks

The prisoner looked upon Rosaura with
admiration and was beginning to reply
when there came the sound of a trumpet,
and he exclaimed:
That is the trumpet of the watch.
Should they find you here quick. behind
those rocks and hide"
Here. take my sword to defend your
self" cried Rosaura, filed with pity for
the captive-and she threw it toward him
retiring at the same time with Fife to
a hiding place behind a moss grown rock.
A body of soldiers, led by a man well
advanced in years and of stern and un-
compromising bearing and aspect, now
appeared before the door of the tower.
The soldiers wore black masks, but the
face of the leader was uncovered.
Each soldier bore torch.
What" exclaimed the leader, "a
sword. and his eyes fell upon the weapon
Rosaura had thrown to the prisoner
This sword had wearer; find him and
bring him here"
'clotaldo, good Clotaldo,, begged the
prisoner.
But the leader turned away to see the
soldiers bringing forward Rosaura and
Fife whom they had easily discovered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Welcome, Indeed

Then Room for the Princess Estrel-
Ia" was the cry, and that young and
beautiful lady entered with her train of
attendants. She welcomed Segismund
to his own, saying that she was his
cousin. He gazed upon her with wonder
and admiration and cried out
20 thus have I seen the moon leading
a fair bevy of stars over the threshold
of the mountains. This is welcome in
deed My kinswoman-my cousin-the
twin stars in your heavenly face shall
overrule those evil ones which have so
darkened all my past"
And Segismund, catching her by the
arms, started to embrace her.
She released herself laughing and the
whole court exclaimed in horror at the
lack of courtly breeding in the prince.
The chamberlain said pompousy:
Pardon me, your highness, but this
is a princess absolute, and is affianced
to the prince who just addressed you.
Get hence, you fool, with your white
sticsk,'' cried Segismund while Astolpho
saying. ''The cause is mine,' began s
very dignifed speech to his wild cousin
what? you talking again?" interrupted
Segismund. you are prince. are you?
well, SO am I. And listen, all Of you."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Warmed Bv the Stars

But now before the august assembly OF
his council and his family, King Basilio
told a strange and startling story. 1t
was TO this effect:
His Queen had died in childbirth and in
dying had given birth to boy. Naturally
the great astrologer had cast the horo-
scope of his son and had read in the
heavenly scroll such things as filled him
with horror.
Beginning with the killing of his mother
by his birth the King read in the stars
that the child would grow up to be as
great a monster of iniquity as was to be
found in the worlds history.
He would trample on his fathers gray
hairs. would be a tyrant to the people,
would drench the country in blood and ut
terly destroy Poland
Reading the forewritten record, the
King had had the child Immediately affer
it's birth taken secretly to lonely tower
in the mountains, where he had ever since
remained prisoner, unknown of any save
the faithful steward, Clotaldo, and the
chosen men who had formed his guard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
On the Polish Frontier

A FIERCE storm swept over a
~ rugged range of mountains
4 \ which guarded the frontier of
Poland as two be1ated travellers. for tho
night was falling, made thier way with
difficulty down the steep decliVlties to
a valley where light, shining from a
half-ruined tower, seemed to 6ive evil
dence of human habitation and refuge
from the inclemency of the weather.
One of the travellers seemed particu-
Iarly out of place amid the perils of
that wild region, and neither the clank-
Ing sword nor the pages costume,
neither the resolved. bold and courage
Gus expression of face nor the strength
and agility displayed in making the de-
scent, could have prevented n person
of sharp and observing disposition from
suspecting that a remarkably handsome
young woman had chosen to masquer-
ade as one of the sterner sex.
Such was the fact, for the traveller
was Nine Rosaura, bound for reasons
of her own, on a secret journey from
Moscow to the court of Basilio. King of
Poland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Testing a Prince

But of late Basilio, feeling That his
end was not far off, thought to settle
the succession before his death. lie
had been haunted by fear that, per-
hans. he had not read the stars fright
The stars never lied, but mortal and
erring man might sometimes--even the
wisest of them-err in the reading Of
them.
He had, therefore, caused the YOUTH
who had been christened Segismund, TO
be brought, under the influence of a
strong opiate, from his prison to the
palace.
He would awake next morning IN d
princely bed surrounded by lords IN
waiting and all the luxury and pomp
which was his by birth.
In his imprisonment Segismund mad
been instructed in religion--but IN
nothing else OF the> world he had seen
nothing but the view from his lonely
tower and the only human being ne
had seen since his babyhood had been
his masked and silent guards and old
Clotaldo, who had told him noohing
of himself or of what lay beyond the
mountain barriers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Either Mad or Dream ming

Breaking from his attendants, he
rushed from the bedroom. travcrsed q
long corridor wildly and burst into
the throne room.
There is the same glamour here"
he cried. II am bewitched. Yet these
things seem palpable. This bright
shining floor answers to the stamp of
the heel" He passed a great mirror se-
in the wall and stopped to look at his
own reflection.
rs this fantastic Segismund,' he said,
thesam who last, ard all rights be-
fore, laid himself down to sleep in a
dark tower which the wolves howled
arounda
Yes. 1 went to sleep in tnat dark
tower and awoke upon a bed of gold
with gayly dressed shapes standing
about who handed me wine in golden
cup and called me Prince Segismund,'
our prince the Prince of Poland
'If I am not mad I am dreaming
Well, let me dream then. But suppose
l am not dreaming? Then those who
have wronged me by keeping me la
chains in that grim tower shall an
swer for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Chained to the Wall

When the storm had broken over them
the travellers had dismounted. tie one
from a horse and the other from a mule
and those animals. taking fright at All
especially heavy clap of thunder, had
dashed down a mountain pathway
leaving their former riders to continue
their journey on foot
The youth who accompanied Nine.
Rosaura was Fife, young but devoted
servitor of herself and her family.
The. storm abated as they approached
the lonely tower.
AS they came nearer they saw
through an open door a youth about &c
years old. roughly clad in skins and
confined by a chain, one end af VIII cll
was fastened to the solid wall and the
other to fetter riveted about his right
ankle
The length of the chain permitte,
him to walk in the confines OF tbs
small apartment in which he was Sc
cured and to approach the door. but no
to pass it.
There was something fierce and sui
len about the expression of his face
combined with a look of hopeless des-
pair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
LIFE IS a DREAM

given that sword to his Muscovite captor
in the days when his white hairs were
black. and he told the travellers that he
would find accommodations for them that
night in the tower and would, the next
morning. conduct them TO Warsaw,
whittier he himself was bound.
He looked euriously at Rosaura, but
did not betray his suspicious regarding
her sex.
In proper time there arrived in War
saw not only Rosaura and Fife, but the
prisoner Segismund also, who was brousht
along by Clotaldo under strong guard
of soldiers.
The youthful captive had been given
strong opiate mixed with his food at
breakfast and slept soundly in the closed
litter in which they carried him all the
way to the capital. which journey took up
the greater part of the day. He was taken
directly to the royal palace and put to
bed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-12
Heirs to the Throne

If Basilio died without offspring the
throne would go either to mis- niece, the
Princess Estrella, daughter of his sister
Clorilena, now dead. or to his nephew,
Astolfo who had succeeded his father as
Prince of Muscovy. and was the son OF
the younger sister of Basilio, Recisunda.
Astolfo and Estrella were the members
of the royal family who had been sum-
moned to meet the King upon affairs of
state and were now present.
Estrella founded her claims to the sue
cession upon the fact that she was the
daughter of the elder sister, and Astolfo
his upon the proposition that male heir
of the same degree of relationship should
take precedence of a female one.
But Estrella was comely princess, as
well as an ambitious one, and Astolfo had
already made her the proposition to COM
promise their claims and unite their pre-
tensions by marriage.
Estrella, on her part, agreed to con-
slider the matter, her ambition being
tempted by the prospect of being at once
Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess Of
Muscovy.