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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
PEACH coBBLER NOT KNOWN |
eastronomic Delight a Mystery to
New Yorkers-French Chefs Idea
Of Dishes Dear to Americans.

Yes, everybody smacks his lips and
forgets to hint dyspepsia when you
interview him about hot biscuits and
fried chicken. Peach cobbler, though,
appears to be one Of those southern
dishes that haven't Travelled north.
DR.. Halton wanted to know if it was
an alcoholic beverage. Miss Mabel
II. Kittredge, head Of the Associa-
ton of Practical Housekeeping Gen.
tiers, said that she hadn't come across
it in her experience and therefore
couldn't give an opinion as to its di-
gestibility. Even Nestor A. L. Lat
tard of the Plaza admitted that peach
cobbler was one on hint had
never appeared on the menus of the
hotel of which he is gastronomic
boss. With true French politeness,
Mr.. Lattard avowed that the hot
bread and fried chicken adored by
Americans, being distinctively
American, were most excellent dishes.
zone should not eat fried chicken
perhaps every day." he said cautious
ly. of you eat partridge each day
for a month you grow very tired of
it, yes. Change, change is the thing.
l find the Americans want those
things which tickle the palate, and
it is quite right; tidbits like fried
chicken give a coming appetite.
Fried chicken and hot biscuits we
never see in France."-New York
Tribune.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
ACCORDING TO OLD CUSTOM
Indian Believed to Have Kidnapped Girl
That He Might Have Her as
Adopted Sister.

An Indians devotion to the men,
DRY of his dead sister and desire to
carry out an ancient custom, it was
learned, were responsible for the kid
naping of Matilda Peterson, the
twelve-year-old church organist from
Monroeville.
jeremiah Cooper, forty-eight
years old, Sioux Indian and gradu-
ate of the Carlisle school, and his
younger brother, William, eighteen
years old, are sought by the authori-
ties for having stolen the girl.
The elder brother worked for a
time at the Peterson home. Accord
ing to the mother of the missing girl
the Indian told her that since his
sisters death he had seen a vision
which told him to adopt Matilda as
his foster sister. The girl was dark
and had jet black hair, and it was
said that he told her mother that she
so resembled his sister, to whom he
was devoted, that he must take her
according to the old Indian law and
raise her.
1t was reported that the Indians
had escaped into Pennsylvania. The
federal authorities at Philadelphia
have been notifed.-Elmer On. j.
correspondence New York Sun.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
PROSPECTIVE REVENGE.

"Do you think $40 will be enough
to give the minister" inquired the
prospective bridegroom.
you'd better make it $25," re-
piled the best man. 'He is going to
be married himself next week."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11

"Say, old man, 1 am going to be
in town all night. Your family is
away. Can 1 come around and oc-
upy room in your house?"
Sorry, old fellow, but all the
rooms are filed"
"Filled with WHAT"
"Why, souvenir postal cards from
my family"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
PLAIN REASON.

"Why does it cost more in court to
kiss a pretty girl against her will
than a plain one|
81 suppose that stolen kisses are
appraised at their face value"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
COSTLY STUFF.

"This dinner cost me $40 a plate,
old man."
Gust cabbage and potatoes2"
81 raised these vegetables myself"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
PRICES ADVANCED BY WAR.

The Balkan war has brought about
a rise in certain lumber prices in Eu-
rope because Of the big demand for
wood for ammunition boxes.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
SUFFICIENTLY ADVERTISED.

81 found a pocketbook on the
beach yesterday"
"Did you advertise it?"
eyes; l told my wife,"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
NEVER AGAIN.

First Country Boarder-Were you
here last summer?
Second Ditto-No, and that's why
Pm here this summer, believe me!
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
What Puzzled Him.

What are you pulling aboutf"
I'm writing a sketch for vaudeville
on the current political situation"
well. you ought to have plenty of
good stun to put In" THAT isn't what
puzzles me. I've got 20 much good
stun / don't know what to leave out"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
SUGGESTION.

"Why did they use to call them
fugitive poets?"
81 guess they ran them off with
dogs"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
cVNIcIsM.

"a poet sings to his lost love,
Your footsteps echo in my heart ,"
"Better that than her heel prints
on his neck"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-09-11
NOT IN HARMONY.

81 think he has a sunny DISPOSE
ton"
81 know he has a shady record"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
Owes Her Life TO
This Lung Medicine

The manufacturers Of Eekmans Alter
ative, n medicine for Throat and Lung
affections. regret that all sufferers OF
these serious troubles do not take the
trouble TO investigate for themselves
what this medicine has accomplished dur
ing the past fifteen years In number or
cases Read this;
Griffith. Lake Co, Ind.
Gentlemen: About September 10. 1908,
my mother-in-law was taken sick with
Catarrhal Pneumonia which developed
into Lung Trouble. In January, when
Rev VIM Berg, Of st. MichaeIs Church.
at Schererville. Ind, prepared her for
death, he recommended that | get Eek
mans Alternative. and see u 1t would not
give her some relief The attending
physician declared she had Lung Trouble
and was beyond all medical aid. So /
Immediately had Rev. VIM. Berg to send
for q bottle Practically without hope
for recovery. ! insisted that she try the
Alternative which she did | am glad TO
say that she soon began TO improve. Now,
she works as hard as ever, weighs twenty
pounds heavier than she ever did before
she took sick, and Is Ia good health.
IAf1dsvit JOS. GRIMMER.
above abbreviated: more on requeSt.)
Fckman's Alternative has been proven by
many years test to be most efhcaciouS
for severe Throat and Lung Affections,
Brorchitis bronchial Asthma. stubborn
Colds aud in uphuilding the system
Contains no narcotics. poisons or habu-
forming drugs. Ask for booklet telling
of recoveries. and write TO Eckman
laboratory, Philadelphia. Pa, for evil
dence. For sale by all leading druggists
Red Cross Pharmacy, Barre, Vt
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
Another Notch To the High Cost of
Living.

Editor, Barre Daily Times Accord
ing to notices already up, table board
will be raised to 81 per week, on and
after Nov. /, 1913, and this move has
caused one young man to buy a ticket
back to the old country. Wen, this is
only one case of jumping from the fry
ing pan into the fire. Now, the next
thing, it seems to me, for the working
people to do, is to raise the price of
labor in order to meet the growing gro
Gerry bill. When we all get up at the
top, we will only be where we com
menced when all was at the bottom.
These are only the results of our crazy
capitalistic system. | wonder what the
farmers wife thinks about this? Are
the clerks to blame for everything2 l
haven't heard from her, since the clerks
went out on strike. l don't know wheth-
er she's man or a woman, but whatever
she is, she had better get wriggle on,
and help to solve these problems.
Now / wonder what the working man
will do in the coming winter of his dis
content. To meet the butchers bill, and
the grocer mans, too, and Shyloek COM
ing for his pound of flesh or the rent.
j. Z. Callaghan.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
HoU to Make
Better Cough Syrup than
You Can Buy
! Family supply, Saving 81
and Fully Guaranteed.

A full pint of cough syrup-as much
as you could buy for $2.50-can easily
be made at home. You will find nothing
that takes hold of the ordinary cough
more quickly. usually conquering it in
side of % hours. Excellent, TOO, for
spasmodic Group, whooping cough, bron-
chial asthma and bronchitis.
Mix one pint of granulated sugar with
IL pint of warm water, and stir for 2
minutes. Put 215 ounces of Pinex fifty
cents WORTH in pint bottle, then add
the Sugar Syrup. 1t keeps perfectly.
Take teaspoonful every one. two or
three hours.
This is Just laxative enough to help
relieve a cough. Also stimulates tho
appetite, which is usually upset by ~
cough. The taste is pleasant. {
The effect of pine and sugar syrup on
the infamed membranes is well known
Pinex Is q most valuable concentrated
compound of Norway white pine extract,
rich in guaiacol and other natural
healing pine elements. Other preparas
tions win not work in this combinations
This Pinex and Sugar Syrup remedy
has often been initiated, but the old suc-
cessful mixture has never been equaled.
1t is now used in more homes than any
other cough remedy.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction
or money promptly refunded, goes with
this preparation. Your druggist has
Pinex, or will get it for you. If not,
send to The Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
A GREAT TONIC

You will get real benefit from a cours,
of treatment with DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People. These pills are
not merely q stimulant, giving tenn
porary relief; they build up the body
anew by making rich, red blood which
gives color to the checks and lips and
brightness to tired eyes. Sleep is once
more refreshing and the step becomes
lighter as strength and energy return.
The new blood, which DR.. Williams
Pink Pills make, will restore disordered
stomach to its normal condition, posi-
lively strengthen the digestive organs and
increase the flow of digestive fluids.
The tonic effect of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills enables the system to recover from
many ordinary diseases of the blood and
relieves such as ansmis, chlorosis, rheu-
matism, nervousness, stomach trouble,
sick headache and St. Vitus' dance.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists. Get 50c box today and be-
gin the treatment at once.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
MADE INTO BRUSHES.
The Waste from Desk Material Being
Utilized

Waste wood in the manufacture of
school desks is now being used for the
backs of cheap, brushes, according to the
statement of the forest service.
A large manufacturer of school desks
in Michigan had considerable amount
of waste material in sizes which were
too short to enter into the manufacture
of the smallest desks, and could not
be utilized further with his machinery
or in his line of work. This material
was all hard maple in pieces an inch
thick, afoot or so long, and about three
inches wide; for a long time it had been
consigned to the waste pile and sold as
fire.wood. This waste amounted to from
1000 to I.500 board feet each day. A
nearby manufacturer was using practi-
caIly this quantity of maple, which he
was saving up into small pieces for
making the backs of cheap brushes.
Members of the forest service, inves4
tigating methods CT eliminating factory
waste, conceived the idea that the blocks
used by the brush factory could be
readily secured from the waste of the
school desk manufacturer, and on this
basis got the two together. Arrange
ments were made so that the brush
now places orders with
the other firm for its raw material and
what was formerly waste is now a
source Of profit.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28

After dealing with the various kinds OF
steaks, in which, by the way, he tells
about the steak that the butcher eats
| himself, he goes on, as follows, about
roasts and chops:
"A roast of beef costing 81 or $l.5C
at the present time is not much; q
hungry and healthy family will probably
finish it in one meal, You can still en-
Joy good roast beef, and surely for less
money, only buy the right cut. From past
observation the writer knows that out
of 10 customers ask for the first cut OF
the rib roast. OF course they are the
most expensive cuts. The fifth, sixth,
and shoulder ribs are hardly in demand
and the butcher has hard job selling
them. These end ribs or shoulder ribs
of roast beef are not only considerably
cheaper to buy but are richer in nour-
ishment and food value. When buying
one of the three or four ribs OF beef,
say, for instance, weighing five pounds,
you will find that you hardly have suffi-
Gent meat left after it is carefully
trimmed and the bone taken out. The
difference in price between the first cut
on the rib and the two last cuts is at
least six cents per pound; and when you
ask for a shoulder rib roast, ask the
butcher to insert a piece of suet in the
center of the roast, or, if he has time,
to lard it with thin pieces of fat. An
other good piece of meat for roast beef
is the top sirloin, which is not so cheap,
but is recommended because it has no
waste.
"The next important item on the meat
bills is chops, either lamb, pork or veal
chops. Lamb chops, however, are the
kind mostly demanded, and of course
the demand is for loin and rib. chops, the
most expensive. There is the same solu-
ton as with steaks-buy shoulder chops,
they cost less and are sweeter. This
same principle again applies to pork
chops. The shoulder chops are very
sweet and tender, and the butcher viii
sell them for less; but very few people
know about them"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
MANY USES FOR BIRCH.
From Canoes to Shoe Pegs, According to
Dept. of Agriculture.

From furnishing material for canoe
in which to hunt whales some hundred
odd years ago to supplying New Eng
land factories of to-day with ll,00C
cords of wood annually for shoe pegs
and shanks is, according to the depart.
ment of agriculture, only part OF the
services the birch tree has rendered and
is rendering the people of America.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie, the depart
ment tells us in a bulletin just issued
on the uses of birch, hunted whales in a
birch bark canoe. The animals were
found at the mouth of the Mackenzie
river. He failed to strike the game, and
concluded that it was probably for the
best. While the canoes are frail. it is
pointed out that the bark of which they
are made resists decay longer than any
other part of the tree
! 1t would be difficult, the department
goes on to say, to estimate the value of
the service of the birch bark canoe in
the discovery, exploration, development,
and settlement of the northern part of
this continent. From the Arctic circle to
the Great Lakes, and southwark, for a
century and a half, that light but ex-
ceedingly strong and seryiceable vessel
threaded the lakes and rivers, bearing
trade and carrying civilization where
no other boat could 60 The French ex-
plorers and missionaries made journeys
of hundreds OF miles in these canoes,
often carrying cargoes which would
seem beyond the capacity of such frail
vessels.
The range of uses to which birch wood
is put is surprisingly large. According
to the department, the, articles into
which it goes range from church pews to
kitchen tables, and from organ pipes to
newell posts. We may have our first
sleep in a birch crib and our last in
birch coffin. The spools on which we
get our cotton and silg thread are birch
spools, and the lasts on which our shoes
are made are likely to be birch lasts.
The largest of the spools hold $4,000
yards, the smallest 90 yards. The woods
beauty, strength, and rigidity make it
prominent as material for musical in
struments, and the same qualities bring
it into extensive use for flooring.
Many people have an idea that shoe
pegs have nearly passed out of use, but
the amount of birch previously men,
toned as made into pegs and shanks
yearly in New England seems to dis
prove this notion. Birch, the depart
ment says, is often put on the market in
imitation of other woods, and we may
open many a door, sit ON many a chair,
and write on many desk which we
imagine to be mahogany, but which is
really birch stained to resemble the
genuine article.
Nine species of birch grow in the
United States, but sweet, yellow, paper,
and river birch stained to resemble the
About 100000 board feet of the wood
finds its way TO the market yearly.
Paper birch is one of the few American
species with hold on the forest strong
er than it had when America was dis
covered. Large tracts are now covered
with this birch where there was little
of it a century ago. II comes in after
fire. and some tracts it has taken pos
session of cover hundreds of square
miles
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
PURE MILK CAMPAIGN.
Conference Is Called by Boston Chamber
of Commerce Nov 6.

The growing appreciation that IN
these days of high cost of living milk is
one of the best and cheapest articles of
food, has led the Boston Chamber of
Commerce, through its newly organized
committee on agriculture, OF which The
odore n. Vail is chairman, to begin an
active campaign in the interests of in
creasing the confidence of the consumer
that the milk of New England is safe
and pure and has a greater value for the
money than any other food on the
market.
In a letter calling a conference of
representative producers, distributors
and consumers to be held at the Boston
chamber of commerce Nov. 6, at 10 a. m,
Chairman Vail says:
"For the past few years there has
been constant agitation before the
Massachusetts legislature for or against
some legislation for the control and
protection of the milk supply. This agi-.
tation has conveyed to the minds of the
consuming public the impression that
perhaps milk is more or less dangerous
article of food. This has had tendency
to retard the consumption of milk,
which is to-day one of the best and
cheapest of food products.
"The consumer should have confidence
that the supply of milk is safe and pure,
and that the food value is greater than
in any other food market. The produce
ers should be interested that the condi-
tions of their supply are such as to COM
mand the confidence of the consumer.
This will result in the gradual increase
Of the consumption of milk to the great
benefit of consumers and producers
alike"
The conference is called in the belief
that if all parties interested in the milk
question. producers, distributors and
consumers, come together at confer
ence they may be able to agree on some
legislation that would be benefit to all
and means of establishing confidence
in milk as pure and cheap food.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
QUANTITIES OF NATURAL GAS.
Half Trillion Cubic Feet Production
Breaks All Records.

| Natural gas production has become
one of the leading industries of the
United States, and to this country be-
longs the credit of making natural gas a
commercial product. l. is the best of
| fuels-cleaner, more convenient, and
more efficient for almost any purpose
than any other fuel. Were it possible to
transport natural gas as coal, petroleum,
or other fuels now in use are transport
ed, it would be the leading fuel of the
world and its value would probably ex-
coed that of any other commodity. As it
is, enormous quantities are wasted an
nually, quantities too great even to be
estimated. and it is with the greatest
difficulty that interest can be aroused in
the importance of conserving this val
liable fuel and in preventing the exhaus-
ton of the fields. Although steps have
been taken in some localities to prevent
waste, it still goes on.
The utilization of waste gas from the
oil wells is different parts of the United
States has been an important means OF
conserving this fuel, and the increasing
number of plants edected and2 being
erected for the extraction of gasoline
from this casing head gas" was one of
the most important features of the nat
ural gas industry in the year 1912.
The year was one of greatest prosper
ity to the natural gas producer and a
record breaker for output, according to
B. Hill. of the United States geological
survey. The total estimated consump-
ton of natural gas in the United States
in 1912 was 562 ,203, $4,000 cubic feet,
valued at SS4 ,563,957, an average price
of 1904 cents thousand cubic feet,
compared with 1895, 02l 900 cubic feet,
valued at S74,62l 1874, an average price
of 1856 cents, in 1911. The number of
domestic consumers supplied with gas in
the United States in 1912 was 1927 ,557
and the value of gas consumed for do
nestle purposes amounted to $50 800,
SS3, while the number of industrial con-
sumers was 1896 and the value of gas
consumed for industrial purposes was
1913 ,603,074 On the assumption that u.s.
900 cubic feet of gas equals in heating
power ! ton of coal, the fuel displaced
by gas consumed in 1912 was equivalent
to approximately 100000 tons of coal.
Probable Increase in Production.
In the latter part of 1911 and through
out 1912 the price of petroleum con-
tinued to advance. This stimulus of
higher prices made drilling more active
in every district and resulted in the dis
covery of some new oil and gas pools, as
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-10-28
RURAL WATER SUPPLIES.
Are Source of Contamination in Many
Cases.

The responsibility for diseases due tt
polluted water is so often put on the
water supplies of our large cities that
the conditions in American rural dis
tricts are usually thought of, il not ac
tually pictured in the public mind, as
almost ideal. Naturally enough, farms
/ which are remote from areas of longest
ed population seem to be ideally situat.
ed for obtaining wholesome water. In
reality, however. deplorably insanitary
conditions as regards the farm water
supplies prevail widely, if we may be-
/ lieve state and national government re,
ports.
A large proportion of farm water sup
ply in the less billy portions of the
country, where springs are not abund-
ant, comes from shallow wells which
are particularly subject to contamina-
ftion. Deep wells are safer, but are not
entirely free from danger of pollution
The chemist of the Canada experimental
farms, DIR. Frank T. Shut, concludes
from an examination of several thous-
and samples of water used on farm
homesteads in Canada that probably
not more than third of them are
pure and wholesome" Investigations
made by the bureau of plant industry,
in cooperation with the Minnesota state
board of health, showed that of 70 care
fully selected and typical farm water
supplies in Minnesota, mainly well wa
tiers, 30 were good and 80 were polluted,
usually because of careless or ignorant
management, and generally as result
of poor location or lack of protection
against surface wash or infiltration. The
rivers, surface reservoirs and cisterns
Investigated were found to be polluted
to such an extent that it is doubtful
whether satisfactory supplies can be Sc
cured for household use from such
sources. In an, examination of the rural
water supplies in Indiana it has been
found that of the private rural water
supplies examined, 1T were deep wells,
All shallow wells, five ponds, 40 springs,
and 81 cisterns. One hundred and six
teen of the deep well waters were of
good quality, As were bad and 10
doubtful. But l59 of the All shallow
well waters could be used, 200 We're un-
equivocally bad, and 43 were of doubtful
quality. A large percentage of the wa
tiers used by the families in which ty-
phoid fever had occurred was unequivo-
cally bad.
With the development of the country,
the growth of the population and the
greater danger of pollution of natural
water supplies is vastly increased. Even
wells can be improved and rendered less
subject to pollution if proper methods
of driving them deeper are employed.
The best safeguard, according to The
Journal of the American Medical Asso-
citation, is the education of the public
TO the underlying facts of contamination
so that by the application of common
sense the sources of danger can be avoid
ed by property holders and others.