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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01
HOpkinSViIIe Market
Quotations.
Corrected Feb. 10, 1913.
RETAIL GROCERY PRICES.
Advertisement.

RETAIL GROCERY PRICES.
Country lard, good color and clear
14c and 15c per pound.
Country bacon, 15c per pound.
Black-eyed peas. 1925 per bushel
Country shoulders, 1910 pound.
Country hams, zoe per pound.
Irish potatoes. S1.0O per bushel.
Northern eating Rural potatoes
81 90 per bushel
Texas eating onions, SLIGO pc
bushel
Red eating onions,$l 60 per bushe
Dried Navy beans, $3.50 PEE
bushel
Cabbage. 2 cents pound.
Dried Lima beans. 6Oc per gallon
Country dried apples, lOc pc
pound, 3 for 25c
Daisy cream cheese, 25c' De
oound
Full cream brick cheese. 25c pc
ouni
Flu cream Limberger cheese. 25
PEI pound
Popcorn. dried on ear &c per pound
Fresh Eggs 25c per doz
Choice lots fresh, well-worke'
COUNTRY butter. in pound prints. 30,
FRUITS.
Lemons. 30c per doz.
Navel Oranges, S0c. 40c, per doz
Bananas, Zoe and 25c doz
New York State apples So so tc
500 per barrel
Cash Price Paid For Produce.
POULTRY.
Dressed hens, lac per pound
Dressed cocks, &c per pound
i've hens. 10c per pound; live cocks
&c pound; live turkeys. i4c PEE
pound
Roofs. HIDES, Wool AND TALLow
Prices paid by wholesale dealers t.
butchers and farmers:
Roots-Southern ginseng, S.. rs lb
Golden Seal" yellow root, $I.35Il
Mayapple. 80; pink root. 12c and 10
Tallow-No. |. Al; No. 2, &c.
Woodbury., Zoe to TIC; Clea,
Grease, 21c. medium, tub washed
2Sc to 30c; coarse. dingy, tubwashed
18c.
Feathers-Prime white goose. SOC
dark and mixed old goose, I5c to 30c;
gray mixed. I5c to 20c' white duck
22c to 35c. new.
Hides and Skins-These quotation
are for Kentucky hides. Southern
green hides &c. We quote assorted
lots dry flint, re to I4c. $40 bet
ter demand
Dressed geese. lie per pound for
n, ice lots, live 81
Fresh country eggs, 20 cents per
dozen
Fresh country butter 25c Id.
A good demand exists for sprir &
chickens. and choice lots of fresh
country butter,
HAY AND GRAIN.
No. timothy hay, $24 90
No. clover hay, $23 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, 1913-03-01
Apple Trihe.

Scald a sufficient quantity Of apples
to form thick layer at the bottom Of
a dish when pulped through a sieve.
Add sugar to taste and half the rind
of a lemon finely grated. Mix togeth-
or half pint Of milk, half pint Of
cream and the yolk Of one egg, and
scald 1t over the fire, stirring 1t all
the time and not allowing 1t to boil.
Add a little sugar and let It get cold.
Pour It over the apples and cover the
whole with whipped cream favored
with vanilla.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01

Explorer TelIs Of His Visit 10 the
Dolphin and Union Straits EskImos
"A Primitive People.


Our FIRST day among the Dolphin
and Union Straits Esklmos was the
day OF all my life to which had
looked forward with the most vivid
anticipations. and to which I now look
back with equally vivid memogies, for
It introduced me, a student Of man
kind and OF primitive men especially,
to a people of a bygone age. Mark
Twain's Connecticut Yankee went to
sleep In the nineteenth century and
woke up In King Arthur's time among
knights who rode in clanking mail to
the rescue Of lair ladies'; we, without
going to sleep at all, had walked out
of the twentieth century into the coun-
try of the. intellectual and cultural
contemporaries of a far earlier age
than King Arthur's. These were not
such men as Caesar found In Gaul or
in Britain; they we're more nearly like
the still earlier hunting tribes of Brit
ain and of Gaul living oblivious to
the building Of the first pyramid In
Egypt Their existence on the same
continent with our populous cities was
an anachronism of ten thousand years
in intelligence and material develop
ment. They gathered their food with
the weapons of the men of the Stone
Age, they thought their simple, prim-
tive thoughts and lived their insecure
and tense lives. Their lives were to
me the mirrors of the lives Of our far
ancestors whose bones and crude
handiwork we now and then discover
in river graves or in prehistoric
caves. Such archaeological remains
found in various parts of the world, of
the men who antedated the knowledge
of the smelling of metals, tell fas-
cinating story to him whose scientific
Imagination can piece 1t together and
fill in the wide gaps, but far better
than such dreaming was my. present
opportunity. had nothing to i'm
agine; had merely to look and listen;
for here were not remains of the Stone
Age, but the Stone Age itself, men
and women, very human, entirely
friendly, who welcomed us to their
homes and babe us stay.-V. Stefans-
son, In Harper's Magazine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01
when Women Indulge In Repartee.


Repartee is a delicate instrument,
a fine product, thing of hints, lights
and shadows. Anybody who does not
believe this, please stand up. APP
parently, everybody agrees to the de-
scription. Wherefore there is now re-
lated the example Of the crudest rep
artee ever INDUCED in by man or
woman. .
1t was in a western city, place
which had risen to the dignity Of hav-
ing fashionable suburbs" in which
the inhabitants resented the arrival
of people who did not belong" One
day there appeared In the commu-
nifty a woman who had lots of money
and a fine and ornamental lack Of tact
In dealing with her neighbors. She
called and called and called on the
women in the suburb which was fash
ionable," and, strange to relate, she
could never find them en-"
One woman particularly disliked
her, and was never to be seen. At
last the newcomer met the one who
had avoided her in such marked man.
ner.
MY DEAR" said the avoider ut is
such pity that when you call l am
always out-always."
Responded she who had been snub-
bed: "Out of your home-or your
head?-Popular Magazine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01
Strictly Truthful.

They are already asking for Jobs on
the ground of party services rendered.
One Of the successful candidates tells
US that yesterday morning he was APP
preached by a rough neck whom he
positively knew to be a member Of
the defeated party.
WELL" said the jobberelect, what
do you want?"N
Il want you to remember me when
you begin to give out the Jobs"
Why. what did you ever do for me
OF the party?"
Didn't | stick up for you all durin'
the campaign
stick up for met Why, you're a
Republican"
"Sure. but stuck up for you. I'm
bill poster. "-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01
Notice.

All persons holding claims against
the estate of Mrs. Mamie C. Brown.
deceased. will file them, properly
proven, with G. H. Myers. Crofton.
KY, r. F. d. No. 2. or with Hiram
Brown. Hopbinsville. KY. and all
parties knowing themselves indebted
to said estate will please come for
ward and settle same.
G. H. Myers, Exr.
Advertisement
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01
Dinner Files Into a Mans Door.

Lawrence Walls of New Castle. Del.
secured his Christmas dinner in a
most unusual way. During a storm
the day previous mallard Wild duck.
weighing more than four pounds.
driven by the wind. struck the back
kitchen door of Mr.. Walls house. caus-
ing the door to open. The fowl was
captured, and the next day II graced
the table. forming a conspicuous part
OF the Christmas spread
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01
savIna serubbIna Rrushes.

scrubbing brushes after use should
be put away with the bristle down
ward. II turned the other way the
water soaks into the wood of the
brush and the bristles are apt to be
come loose In consequence.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01
aPressInay a Fur Coat.

OF course. furlined coats cannot
be ironed. as 1t spells the skin, but
wrinkles may be removed by thor
oughly sponging the outside and hang
ing the coat on form to dry out Of
doors.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01

spseIaIIsts Rseommend YawnInu.

Specialists Recommend YawnIng.
In the opinion Of learned specialists
no one can be healthy unless he or
she does certain amount OF yawninE
When you yawn you expel from the
lungs a lot of superhuous air; the
breathing muscles of both the chest
and the throat are strengthened BY
yawning.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-03-01

This is hasty pudding with apples in
IL. Pare and cut in quarters or
elghths. tart apples and cook in the
hasty pudding till tender Eat the
roast pork gravy on It.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23
OYSTER SHELLS
FURNISH LIME
New York Experimental Station
Proves That Food Is Quite
Beneficial to Hens.

Some years ago then well.known
writer condemned the use OF oyster
shell as food for furnishing lime SO
necessary In the construction OF egg
shell. His contention was that the
oyster shell did not contribute lime
sufficient for that purpose. However.
the New York agricultural experiment
station has vetoed that by proving
that a pound OF oyster shell contains
sufficient lime to manufacture about
seven dozens OF eggs.
The proper way to feed oyster shell
Is to have small box OF 1t within
reach SO the fowls may help them
selves at will. Mixing 1t In the morn.
ing mash 10 risky. as there Is a like
lihOod that the hens will consume
more than, is required. and in conse-
quence the shells of the eggs would
become too hard. The hens know best
when their system demands more
lime. 1t is very rare case when a
hen gets too much II constantly with.
In reach.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23

they are nearest to the storm cloud
strata.
3. Trees on damp soil: Because
the moisture makes good contact be-
tween the tree and the earth.
0. Trees deeply rooted: Because
the long roots give a better grounding
and finish n more direct path to
deeper and moister earth strata.
10. Trees with dead branches:
Because they present alluring points.
ii. Trees whose wood has high
electric conductivity: Because the
flash will select the path of least re.
sistance.
IL. Trees whose tissues are COM
posed mostly of longitudinally ar
ranged fibers and other elements:
Because this arrangement would favor
the transmission of the electric cur.
rent.
13 Trees rich in starch Because
starches and sugars are better con.
ductors than oils. resins and wakes.
But years of careful study and ex.
perimenting show that any kind OF
tree Is likely to be struck by light
ming.
In temperate climates thunder.
| storms. with lightning. occur most
commonly during the summer usually
in the afternoon. In the United States
they are four or Ave times as frequent
east OF the Rocky mountains Is west.
emitting from consideration parts
Of Arizona and New Mexico This 10
DUE as explained later. to the general.
ly mountainous condition of the west
Lightning is most frequent In Florida
and Illinois.
In Cuba severe thunderstorms are
frequent. and trees are often struck
and killed. The pine only Is reported
ignited.
Lightning Is extremely rare in
Alaska. and no forest fires are known
to have resulted from It.
It does not follow that the trees
most liable to ignition by lightning are
the ones most responsible for forest
fires. While In general one species
may be more infiammable than an.
other tho degree of inflammability
varies with the locality and season.
The tree most often struck and ignited
in the west is the western yellow pine,
which grows In open. park.like stands,
where the fire hazard Is small.
A tree may be set on fire by light
ming and burn for days without the
flames spreading to other trees or to
the ground, and II the latter be free
from litter, as Is often the case in
western yellow pine forests. the
chances OF the FIRE spreading a.e
small. 1t is probable that the ma.
jority Of forest fires caused by light
ming striking trees is due to the pres
ence OF dry dun, humus or litter at
the base Of the tree. Another posi-.
bility is that some forest fires are
started by lightning striking the
ground and igniting the soil cover.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23

The remarkable animal here pictur-
ed Is the porcupine ant-eater or proc
chinda Of Western New Guinea. 1t Is
about the size OF large cat and be-
longs to the group of very primitive
marsupials known as monotremes, Of
which the ck-billed platypus and the
echinda Of Australia are the best
known types. The body of these ex.
traordinary creatures Is covered with
short. blackish fur, mingled with sharp
spines. The mouth is placed at the
extremity Of a long, trunk.like snout,
which protects long. worm-like
tongue carrying a sticky secretion.
and is used for capturing termites,
upon which these creatures principal
ly feed. The limbs are very powerful
and the claws well adapted for dig
ging. These animals are nocturnal
in their habits, sleeping during the
daytime in some crevice beneath a
rock or log. the long snout being
tucked away beneath the body. II
alarmed while feeding. they immedi-
ately tuck the snout under the body
and squat tight down to the ground.
partially burying themselves in any
dead leaves or rubbish that may be At
hand.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23
PLAGUE OF INDIAN MONKEYS

A plague OF monkeys some years
ago sorely troubled the officials at a
small station On the Saran railway.
In Northwest India. Trucks full OF
grain for export were often stored
up In the station, and the monkeys
came down in large number from
neighboring grove to help themselves
to the grain, picking holes in the tar.
paulin roof Of the wagons.
The officials were wearied out with
keeping watch and soaring away the
thieves. who daily grew bolder, till an
ingenious guard hit upon a strategem,
For several days sweets and fruits
were put on the roofs OF the wagons.
with the result that the whole of the
monkey colony were attracted to the
spot. and soon became perfectly in.
different to man.
One morning, when they were all
busily feeding, an engine was stealth.
lily attached to the wagons, and sud.
denly the train moved Off The mon.
keys were quite scared. and made no
attempt to escape, sitting crouched
together till the train had gone sew.
eral miles and stopped at a Jungle.
Then they wanted no hint to leave.
Every monkey leaped down bowling
and fed into the jungle. whence they
never returned to trouble the railway.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23
BEAVER AND OTTER
BATTLE TO DEATH
Hunter Sees Animals Kill Each
Other in Fierce Fight.
FOUGHT UNDER WATER
They Came to the Surface Severa,
Times to Blow the Water From
Their Lungs, hut Quickly Went al
II Again.

Seaberry, ~ Y.-An otter long
known to woodsmen In this region as
White Eye was killed in IA light with
beaver on Big brook few days ago.
according TO Lem Lawson. who wit.
messed the encounter. The beaver
also lost it's life.
White Eye took It's name from n
circle OF white hairs around It's right
eye. Fishermen on Big brook, the
West Canada and Metcalf stream had
often seen 1t and trappers knew the
animal by the print made by Its
twisted foot In the snow. Lawson
caught the otter in a No. 3 jump trap
otter cramped the trap in n snag
fork and pulled loose.
The beaver was an old male Of the
type known as scout" There had
been no beavers on Big brook for
many years. but the stocking OF the
Adirondacks with a few pairs has re-
suited in colonies all over the Adiron-
dacks and the appearance of outlaw
males In various parts OF the woods.
A year ago the scout beaver appeared
on Big brook and took up Its quarters
in a hole In the bank ut the upper
alderbed Working from this hole
the animal built a dam across the
brook, which is here only a few feet
wide. and raised the level OF the still
water more than two feet.
The otter White Eye usually spent
It's winters on Big brook pond. but
travelled during the summer. It had
hole In the bank near the head OF
the upper alderbedl and when the
beaver built the dam the water was
raised enough to food the otter's re-
treat. 1t IL supposed by Lem Lawson
that this was what started the fight
between the beaver and the otter.
Lawson was stillhunting deer along
the headwaters. when he saw the
beaver closely followed by White Eye.
the otter.
lie waited with interest and then
heard a sharp barking sound. followed
by a hoglike snuflling. The tops Of
the alder bushes began to wave back
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23
OWN BABY HER GRANDCHILL

A woman who is stepmother to her
own children and who has step.
granddaughter born In the direct line
of descent. has been discovered near
Kalamazoo. Mich. Mrs. Christiana
Workinger is the mother of ten chill
dren. Her eldest daughter married
Charles Strabel and after becoming
the mother OF three children, died.
Shortly afterward. Strabel married
the the second OF Mrs. Workinger's
daughters and was divorced from her.
Then Mrs. Workinger. herself. was
married to Strabel. A few days ago
baby was born to her. The child is
the woman's own stepgranddaughter.
She IL also grandmother of her own
children.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23
IBy +. q. pITMMER)

'By +. @. PLrMMER)
From early times there has been a
belief that certain trees more than
others are likely to be struck by light
ming. The elder Pliny said Light
ming never strikes the laurel" This
tree was also called bay. and wreaths
OF its leaves were worn by ancient
rulers both as symbol OF victory and
as a protection from the lightning OF
the gods. Seneca and Plutarch held a
similar belief. which may be traced
down even to modern times. but the
theory as now held includes number
Of trees, different In various countries.
This belief was so firmly established
that such trees as the beech, locust.
holly. olive. walnut. birch, elder,
mistletoe and live-for.ever. supposed
to be effective in warding of light.
ning were placed near dwellings.
To this day there are many who
still insist that the beech Is never
struck. while in parts of the United
States the aspen is considered i'm.
mune from lightning.
On the other hand, II was believed
that such trees as the oaks, particu.
larly cork oak. had very bad repu-
tition for attracting lightning. and
this belief prevails even now. There
is u prOverb:
Avoid the oak. fee from the spruce.
but seek the beech"
And also:
Beware the oak. It draws the
stroke.
Avoid the ash, II courts the flash.
Creep under the thorn. twill save
from harm"
Natives of South Africa have said
regarding the mopane tree. which is
often struck, Lightning hates IT," but
they say that the morala tree Is never
touched. The Portuguese share this
belief.
There was once a widespread belief
in Europe that conifers were almost
immune from lightning. but records
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23

made there showed that conifers
rank third In liability to stroke. The
persistent popular belief regarding
immunity of some trees and liability
of others have given rise to the fol.
lowing theories regarding trees most
likely to be struck:
/. Tall trees: Because they reach
high toward the electrically charged
cloud, and therefore lessen the dis.
tance with the flash must traverse
through the dielectric (air). Such
trees are conceived to be a part of the
earth, extending upward and inviting
the stroke.
2. Trees with pointed crowns:
Because they invite. to their one apex,
a single full-pressure flash. Trees
with rounded crowns. favor the diff.
fusion of the flash into spray.
3. Trees with pointed leaves: Be.
cause static electricity jumps most
easily to and from pointed terminals.
4. Trees with smooth or shiny
leaves: Because smooth surface in.
v!tes flashes. while = hairy or woolly
surface, presenting multitude OF fine
points. favors diffusion.
6. Trees with deeply grooved bark:
Because bark deeply grooved longi.
tudinally guides the current to the
ground. and because the moist sap
wood Is close to the surface In the bot.
toms of the assures.
6. Trees isolated: Because they
are the only marks for the fash and
are conductors.
Z. Trees on high ground: Because
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23

and forth and little waves came rollins
through the overflow, showing that the
two were In violent combat. The wa.
ter began to sprinkle around through
the alders and fall on the open still
water. After "A minute or two the
fighters came rolling over and over in
the water through the alders into the
open.
They broke apart after q moment
and then the otter shot In again and
the beaver carried II down. The wa
ter boiled up white over their paws.
but there was pink glow in the foam.
They rolled over and over. the bea.
YER throwing the otter half out of the
water with one vicious uplift of its
Jaws, and the otter came boring down
with savage swapping OF its Jaws.
Both animals were half choked by the
underwater fighting.
The end came just as Lawson real
ized that the beaver was spelling q
$25 otter hide. He was trying to get
a sight to shoot the beaver and 80
save the otter's hide when the otter
D
stomach and cut II open. AS the bea-
yer rolled over. struggling helplessly.
the otter knew that 1t had won, and
came swimming down the saltwater.
straight toward the hunter. There
was a red cash through the white eye,
and behind the otter the wake was
crimson and foaming.
The otter crawled up on the dam
and as the long. black body left the
water Lawson saw four gashes on the
right side, one nine inches long on the
back, and on the right side of the OF.
ter's paunch was ripped open 80 badly
that the heart and lungs were ex.
posed.
The otter gave quick shudder, be-
gan to roll over and over. and died
within three feet OF where Lawson
crouched.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-23
CROW ONCE WAS A DELICACY

Peacock pie, which figured at the
Elizabethan banquet held to celebrate
Midsummer day. Is not a delicacy
likely to tempt all epicures. Still
most of US would rather eat peacock
than some of the other birds con-
sumed by our forefathers. In the
thirteenth century the heron. the
crane. the crow, the stork. the cor.
morant and the bittern were consid.
cred excellent for the table. Yet the
hare and the partridge were despised
as food. and neither was ever served
In the houses of the wealthy.