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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
WHY HE ENJOYED 1T.

Sam Bernard, the comedian, was
walking down broadway when huge
crowd attracted his attention. He
Joined the crowd, to find that it was
watching a handful of laborers who
were digging hole in the street.
"Odd, amt it," said the manager,
chow little it takes to gather New
York crowd? Here we are, couple
of hundred of us, breathlessly watch
ing a few men shovel dirt. BY the
way" the manager added, "that
chesty chap in the pink shirt seems
to enjoy his job. Look at the snowy
way he fourishes his shovel"
"Why," said Mr.. Bernard, "that's
Platt, an ex-altor. You see, he never
played to such large and apprecia-
tive audience before"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
FOUND TIME FOB KINDLY ACT
British Statesman, IN High once,
Made Glad the Heart Of School
girl Who Asked Advice.

Viscount Haldane, the British lord
chancellor, who is to visit Canada
this summer, is not only a great legal
luminary, profound theologian, and
authority on German literature, but
one of the most approachable Of men
as well. In this connection a Ger
man gentleman resident in London
tells a delightful story.
"My daughter" he says, ATTENDS
a school in Hampstead. Her mis-
tress gave her an English translation
of sentence from Goethe as the title
for an essay. That's not in Goethe
l said, when she quoted the words to
me. 1T must be, father, or Miss
would never have said so.'
Well, you ask the lord chancellor
/ said in jest; he knows Goethe by
heart
"The girl took the Jest for earnest,
and sent note to the lord chancel-
lor. BY return of post came letter
from the house of lords, in which
Lord Haldane presented his compli-
ments and referred the young lady
to passage in Carlyle, where the
words from Goethe might be found
translated as the mistress had set
them. The letter is now framed in
the girls bedroom. II was a charm
ing act" adds her father. 81 could
not imagine a german chancellor
to answer a schoolgirls LET
ter"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
FOR YOUR COMPLEXION.

Now comes a New York scientist
and strikes blow at the arsenic and
cold creams businesses by telling US
that to have perfectly lovely COM
plexions and white skins we must
eat plenty of salt, even if We turn
ourselves into walking reservoirs aft
erward by drinking deluges of water.
And only while ago Mary Walker
or somebody else told us to eat on
ions for the same purposes, Still,
come to think of it, we can put the
salt on the onion and SO follow both
counselors, can't we?
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
Mineral Waters.
Advertisement

The following citizens of Hopkins
vile and Christian county are using
the mineral water from Church Hill
mineral well. Anybody afflicted
with indigestion. constipation or
stomach trouble can inquire of them
as to the virtues of the water. Mum
cty Moss, Roy Kenner, Gus. Breath
lit. j. c. Hooe. j. w. Lander, Rev.
E. W. Barnett. Elem. G. Clardy.
John c. Gary. Del. Henderson and
many others.
Anybody wanting this water can
telephone $685.. or Coates Drug
Store L. H. SMITHSON.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
FOLLOW OUTLINE OF HOUSES
Authority on woman's Dress Puts For
ward an Idea Concerning the Hat
Dear 70 FemlnlnIty.

Did it ever occur to you that head
gear takes on the form of houses
It is hard to account for some Of the
weird hats Of the day by this theory.
although perhaps an effort to carry
out the lines Of the skyscraper may
be traced in the beanstalk decora-
tions of feathers and flowers which
tower skyward from our hats.
However hard to prove, this is a
theory put forward by an authority
on woman's dress. To understand
its claim to consideration call up a
picture of medieval woman with a
tall funnel-shaped headdress--the
benin. Isn't it for all the world like
the spire of a Gothic church? And
doesn't il also suggest the peak tent
where her crusading or warrior hus-
band or brother or father spent much
of his time?
Take the eastern turban for anoth-
er example. 1t is almost like the
dome of some mosque or synagogue
in outline.
Another eastern example is the
Chinese coolie. When he is wearing
his rainy day straw hat he looks as
if he had vertically donned the roof
of his own straw-thatched hut.
Dome and pagoda parasols, which
properly may be classed as head COW
erings, are evidently not alone in Dor
rowing their outlines from buildings.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
WHAT NOVEL READERS LIKE
the Subject, and the Matter Still
Is Under Discussion.

That old question whether the
poor prefer to read stories about
themselves rather than about the rich
has been revived in England and dis
cussed by serial writers. Some be-
lieve that most readers, whether poor
or rich, prefer novels dealing with a
class different from their own, and
some maintain that the majority of
readers are more interested in their
own class. Nobody knows. But
something undoubtedly depends
upon the novelist himself. Dickens
lad no difficulty in interesting every
body in the poor. Thackeray made
The well-to-do and the rich interest
ing. So does Howells. So does Mrs.
Wharton. And innumerable others.
On the other hand, Jack London.
Kaufman, James Oppenheim, and
possibly two or three others have
sketched wonderful pictures of lowly
and obscure lives. The "gTeat Amer
can novel;" which may have been
written, but is still awaiting publica-
ion, will deal neither with the rich
nor the poor exclusively, nor with the
middle class, but with all sorts and
conditions of men. 1t will be novel
If democracy-neither aristocratic
nor proletarian.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
: THE THRICE.A.WEEK EDITION
OF THE
NEW YORK WORLD
Practically a Daily at the lice
of a Weekly.
No Other Newspaper in the
World Gives So Much at So
Low a Price.

This Ia 4 time of great events and
you Rill want the news accurately
and promptly. The Democrats, for
the first time in sixteen years, vii
have the Presidency and they will
have the Presidency and they will
also control both branches of Con-
gress. The political news is sure to
be of the most absorbing interest.
There is a great war in the Old
World. and you may read of the .ex-
tinction of the vast Turkish Empire
In Europe. just as a few years age
you read how Spain lost her last foot
Of soil in America. after having
ruled the empire of half the New
World.
The World long since established
q record for impartiallty, and any
body can affords its Thrice-a-Week
edition. which comes every other
day In the week. except Sunday. II
will be Of particular value to you
now. The Thrice-a-Week World al
30 abounds in other strong features.
serial stories. humor. markets. car
toons: in fact, everything that is to
be found in first class daily.
THETHRICE.A-WEEK WORLDS
regular subscription price is only
500 per year. and this pays for l56
papers. We offer this unequaled
newspaper and the Hopkinsville
Kentucnan together for one year
Cor s2.65.
The regular subscription price OF
tue two papers is $500.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
JOURNALISTIC STUNT.

Staff Photographer-I've caught
snapshot of the fleeing gambler
City Editor-Good! Now take
time exposure of the police in pun.
suit.-Judge.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
PROCESS FOR PRESERVING MEAT.

A Russian army surgeon has in
vented a process for preserving fresh
meats, which consists of dipping car
cases in a solution of acetic acid,
then in a solution of common salt in
glycerin, the two forming a thin,
elastic, dry crust.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
IT'S ON VIEW.

''Have you seen Mamie's engage
ment ring?"
"0f course. Did you have an idea
that she was making an effort to
hide it?'
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
advertisement.
To Mammoth Cave July 3Oth.

Round trip railroad fare $3.40
-5oard a. Cave hotel including the
several routes in the Cave for S. so.
Making total cost for two days trip
$500. Special Coach on regular
rain 7:05 a. m. from Hopkinsville
See L. & N. Agent.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22

If you have a house or
building of any kind that
you want moved see r. G.
Lawson or call Cumberland
phone 1882.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
cLANcY's LUCK.

Hogan-Did Clancy's wife get
separation?
Grogan--she did; four cops tore
her off him.-Brooklyn Life.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
For Sale.

Farm of so acres, more or less.
Ituated near Church Hill. All inn
'rovements. Apply to A. B. Land
4r. Lafayette. KY. or j. W. Lander,
Hopkinsville.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
FAMILY SUPPORT.

"Does Palette make any money By
having his work hung on the line p
''No, but his wife does."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
sIDEsTEPPINe A TOUCH.

"Sir, could you assist a heart
bowed DOWN."
"I'm afraid not. Pm not heart
specialist"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22

See J. H. Dagg for contracting
building and general repair work Of
all kinds. Phone 476.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
Notice To Tax Payers.

The tax books are now ready and
xes are due. Psy now and avoid
the penalty. s
LOWE JOHNSON. s. C. G.
advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
LITERARY GREATNESS.

'Ts he a great writerp''
"Great? Some day they'll be
forming cults that pretend to under
stand him."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
FASHIONS LATEST FREAK.

Shave you anything to say about
the three-story skirt?"
Nothing I'd care to have print
ed"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
HIS NATURE.

"That actor hogs the whole show"
"Quite natural, isn't it, for a
ham?"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
Mules For Sale.

25 Head Good Big Mules for sale.
Good for following purposes.
RICHARD LAVELL.
Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
For Sale.

One good second hand. a H. P,
horizontal international gasoline en-.
line. in good running order. at o
'argin.
PLANTERS HARDWARE co.
Incorporated.
advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22

We are prepared to do all kinds Of
hizh-grade job printing. Try US.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22

For Sale. A gentle driving and
work horse. five years old. 16 hands
high. Will sell at a bargain.
j. G. JONES.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
Tennessee Central
Zine Table No. 4 Taking EffeC'

November II, 1912.
EAST BOUND
SO. IL Leave Hopkinsville $50 am
Arrive Nashville. 9:45 am
SEo. IA Leave Hopkinsville 3:45 pm
Arrive Nashville. 700 p. m
WEST JUND.
ne. Il Leave Nashville. .7:55 an
Arrive Hopkinsville ll:1Oa.p
Ne. Is Leave Nashville......5: Pr
Arrive Hopkinsville 8:l5 Pm
T L. MORROW. Agen.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22
WANTED!

To cure your hogs of cholera.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
]. c. YOUNG,
Oak Grove, KY, R. R. 2.
advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22

II you want to do good business.
Advertise In this paper.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-07-22

Phone 1868.
Advertisement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11

increase the yelosity and the volume OF the pos
tai matter to be carried from point to point with
in the limits specified In this movement toward
better service New York is following in the wake
of kindred efforts abroad.
The underground conduit tube. which is
pretty costly to install, is not the type generally
recommended for interctty interstate service.
The majority OF the installations virtually ele-
waited viaducts Of one sort another which
be laid over the country without any particular
regard to territorial contours, most of the sys-
TENS being good hill climbers and intended to
follow the shortest route between points, in this
feature showing a radical difference from the
procedure in laying out the regulation trunk
lines.
As might naturally be expected, the mono
rail system has been strongly urged by some OF
the people very much concerned in promoting
rapid transit both for mail and for passenger
service and OF the most interesting OF these
contemplates doing the double duty OF carrying
people and postal matter at a rate OF 200 miles
hour. The engineers have figured that this
could be done at fuel cost not exceeding three
cents a mile Whether this ambitious project
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11
TWINS IN STRANGE FEUD


II was grandfather's chair-a plain, old wood
en- 'rocker"-but, insignificant it appeared, 1t
was sufficient for spelling the best part Of
two lives. says an exchange Just because Of the
chair Luke and Mathew Gregory, twin b.Others,
made for themselves an existence queer as
any recorded in the pages of fiction. Bee use OF
the chair they dwelt side by side in a house liter
ally divided. They gave up love, friendship and
social intercourse For twenty-three years they
met every day without exchanging a word. For
twenty-three years they glowered at each other
from opposite sides of a living room. For twenty
three years each sat in the chair every other day
and read out of the bible turn and turn
about. The house divided by actual meas
nrement and continued divided until 1t full
filled the prediction of the scriptures and fell in
reality.
Luke and Mathew Gregory were simple, hard
working miners. Each day they went to the
great collieries at Wilkesbarre, labored on
through the day chatted with their other fellows
and returned home at night. Yet they naver had
a word one for the other, despite the fact that
they cooked at the same stove and ate from the
same table
The Gregorys were of Scotch birth and came to
Wyoming valley with their father John Gregory,
when lads of only three years. The elder Greg
DRY had been q miner in Scotland With him he
brought his household effects. among which were
the chair. With thrift and energy tie father
made his way little by little. From his meager
wages he saved something and through his skill
was advanced step by step until he reached the
position Of boss of the mine, When he died,
after the boys had reached the age of seventeen
the lads We're well able to look after themselves
The twins had always been inseparable and the
father foresaw difficulties in leaving what he
had 10 them share and share alike, including the
one-and-one- half-story cottage
When they celebrated their thrtieth birthday
each announced to the other that he vas think
ing of taking a wife They shook hands and
went TO bed ioyfulIy. The brothers i no idea
OF parting after thirty years, and Diet mined to
pool their earnings and build a second cottage on
the lot they owned next door. OF course, the
household goods would be divided Bit by bit
they portioned them out without disagreement
until they came TO the chair. There nothing
in the intrinsic value OF the piece of furniture to
provoke dispute. To uninterested it was Just
WORKOUT old affair. too attractive To the
brothers that mattered not at all It had been
their fathers before that. 1t halowed by
countless associations Luke felt that he ought
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11
22 az NJ AzzzEv

will see its accomplishment within our time is Of
debatable but the elements of risk are
less than most people would imagine, thanks to
the stabilizing powers of the gyroscope, improve
ments in electrical propulsion and the metallurgi
cal advances which make it possible to obtain
lighter and stronger materials than could be had
a few years ago.
About year ago the engineering world was
decidedly interested in the demonstrating per
fOrmances of a small levitated railway. the
climax Of years of study the part of its in
ventor, Emile Bacheiet. Certainly that small In
stallation did remarkable things, and the
question is. a full-sized plant be made to
run as effectively and within the limits OF com
mercial economy?
Mr.. Bachelet made novel use Of the repulsive
force OF certain magnetic stream lines, and his
carrier actually made to float in the
air thus avoiding rail friction and other associate
hndrances. His purpose was to provide means
of transporting mail and some kinds OF valuable
express matter aggregatng in unit weight, with
the car, total of about 500 pounds; and from
New York to Boston he prophesed a speed in
transit of quite 300 miles hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11
MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee. Sept. 6, 1913.


Butter-Creamery, extras, 27c;
prints, CSC; firsts. 24@25 seconds,
p q 23c; renovated, 23Q 24c; dairy,
fancy, 25c
Cheese-American, full cream, new
made twins, 140141ac; Young Am
ericas, 1413 @15c; daisies, Is a
Is 13c; longhorns, Is 1ac; limburger,
new, 141ac.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality, 10000; recandled, extras,
% q 24c; seconds, IA q Ice.
Live Poultry-Fowls, lac; roost-
ers, go Toe; springers, 16 q Is 1ac.
Wheat-No. 1 northern, 92c; No.
northern, Gle; No. northern, Sc @
S9c; No. l velvet, 81 q Size.
Corn-No. yellow, rs NC
Oats-No. 3 white, 42@42Ac; stand
ard, 41A @42Ac.
Barley-No. 4, 65@72c; No. 3, "
@75c.
Rye-No. 2, 67@69c.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 1900
S.2o; fair to best light, S.25Q8.70;
packers, 7.25@76O.
Cattle - Butchers steers, SIS "a
| S.46; cows and heifers, 5000 1870:
feeders, 61O@670; calves, 1925 %
1856.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11

to have it and did Mathew. At first they
joked about it, then they argued and finally quar-
relied. Luke came home night and announced
that the girl of his choice had promised to marry
him.
"Ye maun gle me the cheer as weddin' geefe,
he told Mathew
THAT I wilma" answered Mathew
The next night came Mathew with similar
announcement and a similar request. The an
swer of Luke was: Il wilma
Nothing could be done. The prospective brides
waited tearfully month by month. They grew at
first angry, then Indifferent and finally sought
husbands elsewhere.
A year passed and Luke and Mathew no
a solution. Then, after a discussion in
black anger Luke declared that they would di-
vide the house and all in it and never speak
again. Mathew agreed. The two brothers set
to work silently They drew a line across the
center of the front walk up the porch steps and
directly through the middle of the house. The
stove in the front room on Lukes side of the
house but the stove in the dining room on
Mathews. Where the line bisected the dining
room the table set so that each had his
just portion.
mark drawn through the center of the
cook stove and up the stovepipe. All the chairs
were equally divided, but the grandfathers chair
remained. What to do with that still a prob
lem. Finally it was decided to place it exactly
in the center of the front room. 1t was agreed
that it should be used by the brothers on alter
nate days The doors were sawed in half and
hinged that neither should touch the property
of the other. Bricks and copper divided the
cook stove fire space, and all When the
grim details had been settled the brothers retired
each to his own portion of the house and
menced the long silence. In the twenty-three
years that followed neither stepped the
boundary line. They cooked their own meals,
each on his part of the cook stove, carried
the food TO their respective ends of table and
ate without speaking, At evening, when Luke
was entitled to the chair. he pulled it over into
his part of the house and sat down and smoked.
The next night Mathew enjoyed the same priv
lege.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11
SIZE
Land Titles in Virginia.

The United States government
never owned public lands in Virginia,
there never was a land office in that
state, and, of course, no lease or sale
of public lands there. Land titles in
all of the thirteen original states, in
Guiding Virginia, traced back to pro-
prietors or grantees direct from the
British crown. Our present public
land system was not introduced until
after the establishment of the gov
eminent, and the first surveys and
sales Of public lands in America were
in the present states of Ohio and In
diana
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-11

THE OLD. OLD GAME.

At nine D. m. they were seated at
opposite ends OF the couch. At $50
they were slightly nearer TO each 9th
er- At ten o'clock they were only
three feet apart. At 10: 80 there was
scarcely any perceptible space be
tween them
The young man spoke.
Has your father gone TO bed" he
asked.
Yes. Tom"
Has your mother gone to bed?"
Yes, Tom
Do you think your little brother is
under the couch2"
No, Tom
The young man heaved sigh of re
lief
It's your move. he said