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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
LESS LUNAcY IN LONDON.

Lunacy in London is on the de-
cline according to figures given in a
report by the asylums committee.
The number of insane persons for
whose accommodation the council is
responsible has risen this year by
272. But this is less by nearly 80
per cent than the increase recorded
last year, though it is practically the
same as the increase of 1912 over
1911. The average annual increase
over a period of "a years is 462. The
increase in the total number of luna
tics (including those in the case Of
the metropolitan asylums board, in
warehouses, or with friends) is also
declining, Though not so remarkably,
This year it is 353, as against SOC in
1913 and $50 in 1912. The average
annual increase is 521. The number
of criminal lunatics for whom the
country is called upon to find accom-
mediation is this year reduced to "a /;
and the total number of patients in
the London asylums (19,524) is y
higher than last year.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
ALL GOOD IN RIGHT THINKING
Sow Proper Thoughts and Rejoice In
the Harvests They Bring TO You,
Is Sound Advice.

Efiicacious doses OF what?
Thought! Health and cleanliness Of
mind are the first requisites health
ward. How obtain them? BY right
thinking. ITO recognize the nature
and action Of thought is education"
arousing human beings to the neces-
sity for right thinking, and the
power attained thereby is a work we
may all engage in.
The walk, talk, yes, move every
member through Thought" Have
you ever noticed the movement, the
carriage, the stumbling gait of the
mentally deficient? They are I'M
able to direct thought. Thought is
one of the greatest powers; it is an
arrow which enters the depths of
right thinking"
Be careful to direct the intelli-
gence high; practise this for one
week, then note results. Scientists
admit that to think is hard work I;
that is why so many are willing to
allow others to do their thinking for
them.
Sow a good thought and you reap
good act. Sow a good act and you
reap a good habit. Sow a good habit
and you reap a good character
Kansas CITY Star.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
WHAT is A sENTIMENTALIsTY

Sentimental is one of the most
difficult catchwerds in the world to
define; and you can get a roomful Of
intelligent people quarreling over it
any time. Perhaps, for our purposes,
it will serve merely to say that the
sentimentalist is always, in one way
or another, disloyal to facts. He
cannot be trusted to give a straight
account, because his own sense Of
things is more valuable to him than
the truth. He has come in on the
top of the pragmatic wave, and the
sands of Anglo-Saxondom are strewn
thick with him. He serves, in Kip
ling's phrase, the God of Things as
They Ought to Be according to his
private feeling). His own perver-
sion may be esthetic or intellectual
or moral or sociological, but he is
always recognizable by his tampering
with truth.-Katherine +. Gerould,
in Atlantic.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
LAW AS TO BURGLARS TOOLS
Supreme Court Of Wisconsin Has
Handed Down Definition That
Constitutes a Precedent.

A legal definition Of burglars
tools is made by the supreme court
of Wisconsin in State VS.. Bolinski, in
constituting a statute which prohibits
person from having in possession
a "machine tool or implement de
signed for cutting through or break
ing any building, room or vault, with
intent to use it in order to seal from
any building, room or vault any
money or property.
1t was held that the word "tools"
includes implements used to perform
a physical operation when directed
by hand and are movable for such
operation, as distinguished from a
machine, which is a combination of
parts by which, when motive power
is supplied directly, or by relation to
another physical instrumentality,
some physical result will be pro-
duced, and the term machine tool,
or implement" as so used, includes
a bottle two-thirds full of nitroglyc-
crime, three pieces of fuse, fitted with
a decorating cap, which, when used
together, might cause an explosive
force which could be used to break
a building, room or vault.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
THEATER PRICES LONG AGO.

Talk of reducing theater prices in
England recalls the charges made in
former times. In Shakespeare's day
the ordinary prices we're: Boxes, one
shilling; pit, sixpense; gallery, two
pence; which, making allowance for
the difference in money values,
means that boxes were cheaper, but
that for other parts of the house the
charges were about the same as they
are today. Sunday afternoons, when
new plays were usually presented, al
prices were doubled.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
Determination Wins.

Men foreordained to be great are
the men who make circumstances.
They never wait for them. They walk
In the path no man has hewn out.
They build their own road. Even fate
will stand back when she meets the
man who laughs at her frown. De-
termination will conquer. 1t must.
Force is the lever which moves the
world. Il will" can make the very
mountains come unto you.-New
York Weekly.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
SMALL SISTERS lust PRIDE
unbounded Activities Of Her Senior
Drew Forth the Little Ones Fer
vent Admiration.

Family pride is a jewel. But II
isn't everybody who has so enthusiasts
tic a press agent as a certain little
Jewish girl wEo has been identified
with the feminist movement on the
South side.
She was presiding at a political
meeting the other night, and her
younger sister made one Of the audi
ence. Admiration was written large
on the face of this sister. She list
ened in rapture to every word that
the presiding officer spoke, and
finally eonfded in a lady who sat
next to her.
"That girl who's speaking" she
said, els my sister,"
"So?" replied the other. "She
looks like a real clever girl"
"Clever! Well, she goes to all the
parties and the tangoes, and she
wears a satin dress"
Indeed? She must be very
smart"
"Smartl Well, would you believe
it that on top of all her social en-.
gagements and her activities in poll
tics that girl went and got herself
engaged last Friday night "-Chi.
cago Inter-Ocean.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
Ingenious Calculating Machine.

A Hungarian citizen has invented
an instrument which shows instantly
the amount OF interest due on any
given sum for any period at any
given rate Of interest. The instru-
ment made in the size and shape OF
a watch, is Of very simple construc-
ton and inexpensive. All that is nee
essary to operate 1t is to place the
hands in the proper position on the
dial and the exact amount OF interest
In each case is Indicated on the dial
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
HOpkinSviIle Market
Quotations.
Corrected April IS, 1914.
RETAIL GROCERY PRICES.

RETAIL GROCERY PRICES.
Country lard, good color and clean
14c and 15c per pound.
Country bacon, tic per pound.
Black-eyed peas. $3.50 per bushel
Country shoulders, 15c pound.
County hams 21c'per pound.
Irish potatoes. $1.30 per bushel.
Northern eating Rural potatoes
s1.30 per bushel
Texas eating onions, s25 per
bushel, newIstock
Dried Navy beans. $500 per
bushel
Cabbage, new, 3 cenrs o pound.
Dried Lima beans. Coo per gallon.
Country dried apples, 10c per
pound. 8 for 25c
Daisy cream cheese. 25c Der
pound
Full cream brick cheese. 25c pei
round
Full cream Limberger cheese. 25c
per pound
Popcorn, dried on ear &c per pound
Fresh Eggs 30c per doz
Choice lots fresh, well-worke6
country butter. in pound prints. 30c
FRUITS.
Lemons. 25c per dozen
Navel Oranges, 20c to 40c per do; l..
Bananas, 15c and 25c doz
Cash Price Paid For Produce.
POULTRY.
Dressed hens, 12ac per pound
Dressed cocks, &c per pound
live hens, lie per pound; live cocks
Sc pound; live turkeys. 14c PEI
pound
Roofs, HIDES, Wool AND TALLOW
Prices paid by wholesale dealers Il
butchers and farmers:
Roots-Southern ginseng, Sc. 70 ID
Golden Seal" yellow root, $I.35 II
Mayapple, 81; pink root. 12c and 49,
Tallow-No. l, al: No. 2, &c.
Woodbury., I0c to I7c:IC ]
Grease, 21c. medium, tub washed
2Sc to 30c; coarse. dingy ,tubwashed
18c.
Feathers-Prime white goose. Soc
dark and mixed old goose, l5c to 30c
gray mixed, I5c to 30c' white duck
22c to 35c. new.
Hides and Skins-These quotation
are for Kentucky hides. Southern
green hides &c. We quote assorte'
lots dry flint, I2c to I4c. $40 bet
ter demandi
Dressed geese, lie per pound fOl
choice lots, live 81
Fresh country eggs. rs cents pei
dozen
Fresh country butter 25c Id.
A good demand exists for spring
chickens, and choice lots Of fresh
country butter,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
USEFUL KICKER.

Jonas-Hez Corntossle is the lazi-
est man in the country.
Silas-What makes you think so
Jonas-When he wants to churn
he puts a bullfrog at night in 8
crock of milk and next morning
there is the greenback sitting on a
hunk Of butter.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
HAY AND GRAIN.

No. | timothy hay, $22 90
No. | clover.hay, 500 90
Clean, bright straw hay, 25c bale
Alfalfa hay, $21 90
White seed oats. sac
Black seed oats. 53c
Mixed seed oats, Csc
No. 2 white corn, 92c
Winter wheat bran, $500,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
THE REAL APPEAL.

at is very hard" sighed an over
worked teacher, "to teach the young
idea how to shoot"
"No," replied an intelligent stu
dent of juvenile human nature, mot
I You give the young idea a cAt-and.
at rifle"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05
AND ELSA WAS ONLY SEVEN.

'Don't you think little Elsa gets
more and more like me?'
Certainly; soon We shan't be able
to distinguish the difference between
you. She grows older and you grow
Younger. "-Fliegende Bletter.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-05-05

Clerk in Bookstore-Here's a
good book. A collection of twelve
tales of the best writers of fiction for
$3.50.
Customer-Isn't that rather high
Clerk-Not so high for a twelve
story affair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-13
The Mayor and the School Pay Bills.

The Mavor has followed the right course in dis
approvng of the Boylan and other bills affecting
the salaries Of New York City school teachers he
PROMISES TO have the question Of adjusting salaries
taken I'D by the Board OF Estimate and Apportloh-
ment and the Board of Education, so that meas
ure may be presented at Albany representing tne
Judgment of the city authorities and not alone tne
desires Of teachers associations fighting for larger
pay.
Associations of city employees would we think
gain more in the long by acting in harmony
with the city government than by running to Al
bany and trying to pass legislation over the heads
of the Board of Estimate and other city boards ana
commissioners. The present system, as Mr.. Mitchei
Justly says creates unsettlement OF mind ana
breaks down discipline. II one class Of employees
gets special dspensation from the Legislature all
other classes will raise funds and put agents TO
work at the state capital
1t is better TO stick to the home rule idea ana
have the schools managed with.as little interference
as possible from Albany. The city is willing to IN
crease salaries as its resources increase. But IL
ought to be allowed to make the readjustment in It's
own time and in its own way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-13
PRISONERS OF WAR
A Contrast Between the COS and
Mexico To-day.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Our papers are fun nowadays OF
battles I'm Mexico, and OF villa and Car
rama shooting their unarmed prisoners
It all reminds me wildly OF our old Civil
War days, by contrast. and what we did
with our prisoners then. The first rebel
prisoners / saw We're just this side Of
Williamsburg, Va, IN 1882. AS was
riding up the road there one bright May
morning | met n column Of Confeder-
ates marching down, several hundreds OF
them, guarded by Union soldiers. The
road was lined with our soldiers both
sides, standing at ease. watching the
rebels as they filed by. and as they came
opposite 10 where sat on horseback one
Of our men so far forgot himself as to
shout out: Hello. Johnnies-you damned
rebels You ought all TO be shot or
hanged :" Instantly-qulcl1 as a fash--a
young officer stepped out of our ranks,
and. shifting him on the mouth with
hard blow. shouted out. Hush. you
damned coward. Don't you know those
fellows are now unarmed prisoners OF
war? And how dare you insult them, or
he disrespectful TO them" And thereupon
our unfortunate soldier skunk back into
the ranks. while all up and down the
pike our soldiers clapped and applauded
the ohivalrous officer.
The next we knew much about prisoners
OF war" was at Appomattox, Va. April
.. 1865. or course, we had seen many
meanwhile. but General Lee surrendered
that day and reported his men out OF ra-
tons and hungry. How many men have
you?" inquired Grant. oh" Leo replied,
II don't know exactly. There has been
n good deal Of lighting and struggling re-
Gently, and ! have had no morning re-
ports for two or three days. But l sup
pose about $4,000" Instantly Grant
called to his chief OF staff: General
Rawlins. send 10000 rations for three
days into General Lees lines His men
must not go hungry while they are our
guests here"' And that Is how our
Union generals treated their prisoners
OF war" during our great civil War.
And yet now. In this twentieth CEN
fury, these miserable MeXicans shoot
their unarmed prisoners down like dogs.
as the cruel and savage Greeks did three
thousand years ago. In the days OF Philip
and Alexander and we have no official
American voice raised against these
wholesale and repeated massacres and
murders only last evenings papers re-
port that they shot 800 prisoners after
the taking of Torreon. What would
George Washington and Ulysses $. Grant
do II they were here. and cannot Presi-
dent Wilson do something 10 stop these
unspcakablo outrageq and wholesale
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-13
A DANGEROUS Bill for the City.

Sentiment in this city especially in Brooklyn and
Queens boroughs which most directly affected
has crystallized rapidly against approval Of the
Foley-Maier bill, in the hands Of the Gov
ernor. 1t may be that the terms OF the bill do not
hand the control Of the Catskill water supply
10 the Conservation Commission 1t is possible
that the bill grants additional franchises to the
private water companies 1t does enough else to be
dangerous to this any other municipality
The bill specifically grants freedom from munich
pal competition TO any private water company IN
less the Conservation Commission gives to the mu-
nicipality It's consent for such competition Judge
Cullen and other defenders Of the bill say this pro-
vision is similar to in the Public Service COM
missions law. AS matter OF fact it goes far be
yond that law. Under the water company measure
this city might not lay water mains i'm Queens
10 supply public buildings fire hydrants without
the consent Of the state commission There il no
such prohibition in the Public Service commissions
law against municipal action for municipal pur-
poses. This water company bill may embody a gen
eral principle OF value but its special application in
Queens County IS open TO the objections raised by
= the city authorities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-13
Still Drifting in Mexico.

The Tampico incident and SPANS representations
with regard to the wholesale deportation OF Spanish
subjects from Torreon emphasize afresh the en-
barras sments Of the administrations Mexican pol
icy The President exercises only feeble and In
direct influence with the Huerta government, when
continues in power in Middle and Southern Mexico,
and his efforts to restrain the COnstitutonalists
have been so far a complete failure. We do not
recognize Huerta and have not acknowledged the
belligerent rights of the Northern revolutionsts
Our government is therefore cut off by its own In
action from playing that helpful role in Mexico
which belongs TO the United States the con
trolling power on this continent We do not want
to see European nations intervene in Mexico to pro-
ect foreign interests yet we have made any action
on our part in their behalf difficult and unlikely
to be fruitful as possible.
The London Spectator APPLY said the other day
that the chief trouble with Mr. Wilson's and Mr.
Bryans foreign policy IS that it is conducted with
out the aid Of experts Experts are dstrusted at
the State Department The "watchful waiting
programme born Of that distrust. Yet as THE
Spectator also remarked, there is something
worse than being ruled by experts and that is being
ruled by circumstances, as Mr. Wilson now is ruled
in Mexico" What the country needs is a policy
with definite purpose, which will turn circum
stances to account not a happy go-lucky depend
some Mexican problem to solve itself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-13
THE IDEAL COMMISSIONER
His Characteristics Were Largely Pres
emit in Mr.. Mckay.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The police question is getting 10
be n good deal OF farce and demoraliz-
ing to the force. 1t was a mistake to ask
Colonel Goethals to fill the position after
he had accomplished the greatest success
of his life, from completing work I'M
paralleled in worlds history to a lower
ore in the city government. with so many
chances against success in passing new
laws. And now, not obtaining these
changes nor the services OF the colonel, IL
IS another mistake If Captain Mckay will
do us the honor TO accept the place to
LET him 60 He is West Pointer and
fully capable OF filling the position.
Tho police force is semi-miltary and
It's work Is semiwar at all times. and
no citizen should be It's head. Theorists
are not worth a cent. but men OF action.
This is hard. practical work. nerve-rack-
ing. constant work night and day. and
no let-up.
IL needs n man brave. physically strong
with nerves OF iron. used To facing death
at any moment and accustomed to COM
handing men and acting quickly; not
citizen who never faced a gun or bur
elar. or maybe never shot little spar
row Possibly he might have got out OF
he'd I'm the dead of night and fired n
bootiack at "A cat on the back fence,
Such men are not NJ for commissioners,
to lead and command men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-13
Reducing the Watchful Waiting
for Business.

Tho decision Of the administration 10 restrict It's
antitrust programme 10 the passage OF Que JILL
trades commission bill, will lessen the ""''ni'
waiting" of business. This bill is innocuous ui'ies'
# contributes TO the "mana OF investigator,
Mr.. George w. Wickersham, ex-Presldent Iai'
ATTORNEY General says it will. At any rate It's us
cussion and final passage will offer no oos'"''' "
the commercial recovery. Nothing OF so'ViD
mental nature will stand in the way OF fe'ui "'As
prosperity now that the antitrust programme ""'
been whitfield down, except the interstate WV
merce Commissions delay in relieving 'ne eN"N
upon the railroads. And perhaps thls conni'''i'-
will be influenced by the New Jersey CongreSSlon"'
election to take a more serious view OF us 'esp0N
sibilities The administration appears 10 nave oeeN
The Panama Canal tolls question Will keep the
Democratic party busy for at least lnoh'n' Al'i
II Is settled the party would have little solach i
for big antitrust programme 1t woud oe III III
mood for the record Mr.. Wilson set out 10 mahe'
The President intended his CONSTITUTION Oh 1eao0
IN he the big item Of this session. but CIRCUMSTANCES
disposed otherwise The tolls bill repeal has Oeeh
the big issue compelling the administration 10 pu'
forth all its energies other measure yet mas
U furnishes a good excuse for dropping the III
thought out and utterly superfuOus antitrust pro
gramme which was unwisely proposed
The trades commission should be made something
other than bureau of corporations with new
name 1t should be more than mere investigating
body. 1t should lift some of the burden OF en1orc-
ing the Sherman act off the Department OF JUSTICE
II might give permanency to the trust policy OF the
government by assisting In the disintegratlon Oh
unlawful combinations and by furnishing aid ana
advice 10 companies seeking TO put and TO keep
themselves within the law.
We have in the Interstate Commerce ComhS-
sion an example Of the "manla for investigation
against which Mr.. Wickersham warns the trainers
of the new bill. The Interstate Commerce COM
mission never knows when to stop investigating
Mr. Brandeis can always lead IT upon q new trail
1t always suspects that something which will alter
the whole face Of things IS being hidden from 1t IN
some blind alley Decisions are difficult for body
minded as it is. Common sense with IT is at dis
count. Nothing will be gained from having trades
commission upon its model And the trades com
mission provided for in the administration bill goes
back to an earlier and model-to the model
OF the Interstate Commerce Commission and the
state railroad commissions before they had any real
powers except 10 Investigate. something better
than this should be created If It IS TO he worth
while
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-13
AS TO REVOLUTION
Old Facts Are Cited to Show the Folly
of Overcon6dence To-day.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: I have read Mr.. +. G. r. Gordon's
letter which you published In the Peoples
Column In your issue Of this date. May
I be permitted 10 call Mr.. Gordons az
tentlon to the fact that when the scum
of the underworld became the arbiters
Of fate I'm France when the Montespans
and the Du Barrys began 10 control the
affairs OF man and nation, when the
flthiest degenerates. bedecked with gold
lace and decorated with ridiculous titles
were given precedence on every occasion
TO the most brilliant minds In the KING
dom: when the Incompetence eXtraVa-
gance and corruption OF public oficiais
and the wild excuses Of the royal court
had impoverished the people and driven
the national treasury into bankruptcy.
and when the insolerce. arrogance am
brutality OF tho mobiles" had comolneu
with famine, hunger and pestience 10
arouse the passions OF the people ID
manner which found expression IN tno
events OF the French Revoluton-thers
were even then quite a number OF stat
lgtlClanSF VINO NeIo ItdNf "
France had never been so prosperous ~
at that time and who condemned tl'
critics Of the government rs pessini''''
and "destructionists"
Mr.. Gordon quoted few extracts iro"
certain reports which purported 10 sno"
tina, wonderful improvements were maoe
last wear in the working conditions OF inc
people. but he did not say anything aoou,
the hundreds of men who were killed anu
manned I'm the. strikes; he did not say
anything about the $4,000 people who arc
out Of work in this city alone; he did not
say anything about those who are wotS,
ing for dollar or two week, and Nc
forgot to mention the fact that If any IN,
provements have really been made ens,
were made only as result OF inc 's"'
which the people put up. NAO'N
New York. April II, 1914