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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
ROUGH ROADS HURT SCHOOLS
Communities Having Advantage of Inn
proved Highways Can Afford to
Build Better Buildings.

That good roads materially affect
the county school system has been re-
peatedly demonstrated. In states
where the roads are kept up well the
attendance at school is so per cent as
against GA per cent in states where the
roads are neglected and are in bad
condition. Improved roads make it
possible to consolidate or centralize
the schools and to establish graded
schools in the rural districts. Such
schools centrally ilocated will accom-
modate all of the children within a ra-
dius of from four to five miles. In
many communities having the advan-
tage Of good roads, commodious build
lngs have been provided, more com
petent teachers have been employed
and modern facilities for teaching
have been supplied at a minimum>cost.
There are about two thousand consoli.
dated rural schools in the United
States, and 1t is significant to note
that the states that have made the
greatest progress in the building and
maintenance Of good roads have the
largest schools. No community can
afford not to have good roads and
where a few enterprising citizens will
take the lead the results can be real
lied.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
GOOD POINTS OF SHROPSHIRE
Ewes Are Excellent Mothers, Are Gen
tie and Easily iandled-Lamb Is
FaVorite in Market.

Mr. Herbert f. Powell, Ionia, Mich,
in a letter to Farm Home gives the
following reasons for his preference
for the Shropshire breed of sheep.
l. The Shropshire ewes are good
mothers under adverse conditions and
make friends of their keepers.
2. The Shropshires are the leading
attractions at the fairs in the sheep
department both as to numbers and
nice fitting. The Shropshire when
properly cared for makes a fine pic.
:ure and is a work of art either in pas
ture or the show ring.
3. The Shropshire is gentle, easily
handled and a pet with the man fit to
care for sheep, and a great contrast
to the wild Merino.
4. The Shropshire lamb Is the lead
ing fcvorite in the Market and sells to
the best advantage as soon as it is
large enough to dress well. The big
ger the lambs the better they sell,
provided they were well fatted The
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
Pains All Over.

Houston. Tex. For five ye ars."
says Mrs L Fulenchek. OF this city.
81 suffered with pains all over. es-
pecial y 10 my back and side. and was
so weak | could hardly do my house
work. A friend tod me Of Csrdui.
Since taking it. feel so much bet
ten Now can do all my housework
and pains don't bother me any more
at all. F" Cardui is q strength-build-
ing medicine. Fifty years Of success
have produced. amongst its many
users, confidence in Cardui ST d v hat
il will do. During this time, Cardui
has relieved the female ailments Of
over a million women. Why not
yours? Try it today. Your drug
gist sells II. -Advertisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
ROAD
BUILDING
MACHINE FOR ROAD BUILDING
Useful for Applying hot BItumlnous
Binder Under Pressure, Filling
Spaces Between Stones.

A recent addition to road building
equipment is gasoline driven ma
chine used for applying the hot blum
nous binder under pressure so that it
will penetrate and ill the spaces be-
tween the stones, says Popular Me-
chanics. After the first course Of
stone is laid this machine is run over
the roads, discharging the bituminous
binder through a series of vertical
pipes at the forward end. As soon as
the binder has hardened. a second
course of stone is laid and rolled, the
rolling forcing the two courses into
one compact layer. The binder is then
applied second time, and the proc
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
TREES ALONG THE R0ADSIDES
Many Organizations Have Promised
Their Aid to Provide Free Fruit
for the Weary Traveller.

Fresh fruit plucked from roadside
trees is a pleasure travellers will be
able to enjoy several years hence,
when they stop for lunch in some
shady nook.
In many communities civic associa
tons, farmers organizations ard hor-
ticultural societies have promised
their aid to provide free roadside fruit
for the traveller.
This very pleasant idea was origi'
mated by a southern Missouri nursery,
which has placed $4,000 apple. peach
pear plum and cherry trees along the
side of the Missouri section of the
National Old Trails highway. The
fruit will be free to transcontinenta'
motorists.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
FARM
ANIMAL
SHEEP KILL HARMFUL WEEDS
Generally Agreed Animals Eat All But
Few Of the Exceptionally IN
pslatable Varieties.
CBy f. T. sFfAwO

Wy IT, 70 H|AA - Nv -
It he's been estimated that sheep
win eat 90 per cent Of an troublesome
weeds. They are. in fact, commonly
used in cleaning up weeds from fields
fence rows. road sides. stubble fields.
and corn fields The common belief
among farmers IS that weeds eaten
by sheep are so broken up in the
digestive processes that the seeds will
r1s terminate after passing through
the body &c r. re case of other live
stock. However, weeds are rarely
permitted to go to seed II enough
sheep are turned in the field while
the weeds are young and tender
In some investigations carried on by
the Canadian government among
considerable number of sheepmen to
determine the kinds Of weeds eaten by
sheep, It was generally agreed that
sheep would consume all but a few
exceptionally unpalatable ones, such
as MULLEN. Scotch thistle, etc.
Where sheep have been kept, but
where for some reason they have been
disposed Of, a striking difference has
usually occurred in the appearance Of
the farm. Weeds have sprung IN and
grown where they had formerly been
kent in check There is no better So
luton to the weed problem than
flock of sheep.
In economy Of production sheep are
not surpassed by any other domestic
animal. Besides converting waste
products into nutritious food they will
also manufacture a finished product
out of the roughage and grain Of the
farm at least as cheaply as other
classes of live stock.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
Road Building Machine.

ess is repeated until the road is COM
pleted. This process makes it posi-
BILE to build a compact road with no
openings into which water can pene-
trate. The bituminous binder is car
ried in the large tank, which has a
capacity of $50 gallons. 1t is heated
by steam coils in the tank, the steam
being supplied by flash boiler which
is fired by fuel oil. Steam supplied by
this boiler is also used for running an
air compressor by which the binder is
forced into the spaces between the
stones.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
The Honor of the Boy Scout.

The most important scout virtue is
that of honor Indeed, that is the basis
Of all scout virtues and is closely al
lied to that of self-respect- When
scout promises to do a thing on his
honor, he, is bound to do it. The honor
of a scout Will not permit of anything
but the highest and the best and the
manifest. The honor of scout is a
sacred thing, and cannot be lightly set
aside or trampled on.-From the Boy
Scout Handbook.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
Much in Brief Dream.

It is written of one of the mosI
eminent Of Englishmen who was did
tating to his amanuensis chapters d
an important work. and whke SO ed
gagged was overcome By Aeep II
dreamed of matters of great momen1
of diplomatic conferences, exhaustin3
many days and weeks. BecominI
awake he chided his secretary for PED
hitting him to sleep, and was astounI
ed to be told by the scrivener thaI
he had not finished the last sentend
that had been dictated. Volumes hav
been written crammed with such "a
periences in infinite variety.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01

When scratches develop. wash and
dry the leg perfectly, and then do not
wash again, but every three days sat
urate the skin OF the affected parts
,,th a mixture Of half an ounce OF
coaltar dip, four ounces Of flowers OF
sulphur and one pint OF sweet oil OF
cottcnseed oil Work or abundantly
exercise the horse every day. DO not
clip the legs. See that the stable is
kept clean and well ventilated. Feed
horse lightly and keep his bowels &C
tive.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01

Individual farmers can materially
help the good roads cause by rigging
up road drag and using IL on roads
adjacent to the farm when the ground
is sufficiently moist
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
imported shropshires on Pasture.

Shropshire lamb not only grows large,
but gets ripe easily, and the carcass
makes a fine appearance when ready
for the market.
3. The percentage of lambs to a
given number Of ewes is much larger
with the Shropshire than with other
mutton breeds. The Shropshire out.
numbers all the other mutton breeds
combined, and is the all around favor
lite breed Of sheep,
Wherever you show Shropshires you
are sure to find a large class and hot
competition. The larger and better
the show, the more honor there is In
Re winning.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01

We are authorized to announce
HON. JAMES B. ALLENSWORTH
of Christian county, as candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Commonwealth's Attorney, for the
Third Judicial district. composed of
Christian. Galloway. Trigg and Lyon
counties.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
We are authorized to announce
JUDGE GUS THOMAS

Of Graves county as a candidate for
the Demo crstic nomination for judge
of the Court of Appeals from the
First district, subject to the Demo.
cratic primary election Aug. 7, 1915.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
ReauIarltY In Eeedlna.

1t is equally as bad to oyerfeed as
II is to underfeed poultry. There
should be regular hours for feeding,
and never feast today and a famine
tomorrow be allowed. Avoid too much
carbonaceous food. Carbon is oil. fa,,
starch, sugar, etc. -carbonaceous ma
terial.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
We sre authorized to announce

JUDGE J. T. HANBERY,
of Christian county, as q candidate
for reelection as Judge of the Third
Judicial District of Kentucky, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
primary election Aug. z, 1915.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
W. are authorized to announce

HON. HENRY M. BOSWORTH
of Fayette County, as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Kentucky, subject to
the primary election August 1915.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
We are authorized to announce
HON. DENNY P. SMITH.

of Trigg county, a candidate for re-
election as Commemorative Attor-
ney of the Third Judicial District of
Kentucky, subject 20 the action of
the Democratic party at the primary
ele :tion, Saturday, August 7th, 1915.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01

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burns, So aids, sore thro at. tr, Dr..
Thomas Electric OIL, a splend d
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
Keep the Little Pigs In.

Do not educate the little pigs to be
fence crawlers and breakers by hav-
ing a fence they can get through II
they try. Fix all the fences In good
shape before the pigs are old eEeusb
- ret tke S4blta F;
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
We are authorized to announce
HON. THOS, S. RHEA

as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Auditor of Public
Accounts, subject to the primary
August z, 1915.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
Harm by Bad Roads.

Muddy roads always add to the dis
lance to market and cut the profits on
produce.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
We are authorized to announce
CLAUDE R. CLARK

as a'candidate for the Republican
nomination for Clerk of the Chris
tian County Circuit Court. Primary
August Z, 1915.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
We are authorized to announce

HON. A. o. STANLEY,
a candidate for the Democratic nom
inadon for Governor, subject to the
action of the primary August 18th,
1915.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
Poorly FittIna Collar.

The horse with sloping shoulder
causot work with any ease or profit
10 a collar made for an upright shoul-
41r. .fN.le,I 49, 49,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01

HON. JOHN c. DUFFY,
of Christian county, as candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Attorney General, subject to the &C.
ton of the August primary election.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01

Cairo is the largest city in Afric
Popuiation eXcee ding 100000.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-06-01
Optimistic Thouqht.

He who can at all times sacrifice
pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-21

have Hitted internationally between
nerlin and Washington. Secretary
Lansing has addressed n note to Aus
tria that amounts TO little less than
an ultimatum. Vienna must be puzzled
indeed. for what IL food for the inter
national goosc Is hy no means food for
the sander. Germany may do with
impunity what Austria is called sharply
to account for doing. To the ordinary
observer the Ancona note appears to
have been written In vigorous language
with tho hope OF rehabilitating the
national administration NJ home In the
opinion of the voters: not forgetting
that the President Is to be a candidate
for reelection next year.
About all that can be said in favor
OF the relations OF our government
with nations abroad is that we have
avoided actual conflict, except In the
case OF the foolish occupation OF Vera
cruz with its loss OF American lives
and Improbable results. Otherwise
tho whole course OF the administration
has been failure. We are in dlsfavor
with Germany and Austria and We are
the laughing stock OF England and
France. The government has blum
dorod ~ every turn and the efforts it
has made TO correct It's errors have
only made matters worse.
We are no longer able 10 pose as
the one great neutral nation ready to
stand between the belligerents as a
peacemRker whe. the hour for laying
down arms has come. The German
attitude toward us is illustrated by tho
Lusitania and the Boyd incidents.
How France feels is well set forth In
recent discussion OF tho subject by
Monsieur Coudurier dc ChRssaigne.
distinguished French journalist. who
asserts that France is disappointed in
the lack of moral support given ,Se
allies by the government at Washing
ton and he points out that America
will not be wanted In the peace con-
ference at the close Of the war. The
French critic says that in that case
We would be much I'm the same po-
sition "a the referee who endeavors to
figure In a contest only after Il is over.
The dismal failure at Washington
can be remedied in but one way-by
tho summary removal of the cause
next November.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-21

MYTH a commission of leading
w scientists appointed by the
President to investigate into the
cause of the slides, with millions of
tons of commerce sent II, 1000 miles
out of it's way around the Horn, and
the little Panama railway trying with
all its might to do the work of the
big canal, Culebra Cut has once more
caught the attention of the country.
Everywhere people are asking why
the slides cannot be stopped. Time
and again. they have been promised
that the trouble was all over, or soon
would be. Last summer channel
was kept open for months; canal tolls
yielded a neat profit; engineers an
nounced that in eighteen months the
slides would be stopped and in three
years the possibility of their recur-
renee removed. Then, as though in
conscious irony, Cucaracha from one
side and Culebra from the other flung
down mountains of mud and rock and
spoiled the slow labor of thousands of
men as easily as you would KICK over
an ant hill.
The ironic humor of the slides is
fully appreciated on the Isthmus. They
are personalities of a mysterious, dis
turbing sort.
well, l guess old Cucaracha's s
dead" complacently said the brawny
captain of a dredge last summer as
he stared at the great red bruise on
the slope of Culebra Mountain. And
the next day old Cucaracha gave
dying kick and slammed down a few
hundred tons of mud for his dredge
to laboriously suck out again. Where
upon. he went at it, streaming sweat
and profanity in the tropical heat
Through Mountain
C,,lA nf to n1aaT ThrnllRh
a mountain range. the puny Central
American chain that unites the Andes
with the Mexican Rockies, completing
the backbone of the hemisphere. \
very small mountain range is this one
at Panama. but it has core of solid
primitive rock and a crest several hun
dred feet high.
Culebra Cut goes right through this
core, with a wall of solid rock on
either side, but over the solid rock
lies q covering of soil which towers
equally high-or did at first-and does
not stand so firm. When the French
men made the first scratch on the
back of Culebra Mountain little rills
of earth came pouring in from either
side, and as the cut deepened they
grew and gained headway until the
thing became a race between the men
and the cascades of mud-a race that
Is not yet over.
The engineers however. were con-
fident, and they based all their con-
fidence upon a term-the angle OF
repose Any material, they pointed
out, will keep on sliding until il
reaches a certain angle of repose for
the clay walls of the canal and issued
an authoritative statement of the mil
lions of cubic yards of mud that would
have to be dredged out of the canal
before that angle was reached. And
after they had dredged out those mil
lions, more millions slid in and they
issued another estimate. And so on,
down to this writing.
Meanwhile. the canal has been
closed since September II, and all au-
thorities, Constitutional and admins
trative. refuse to prophesy when It will
be open. There were $4,000 tons oil
commerce waiting to go through the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-21
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY
BY BRIGGS

Geraldine Farrar has been in the
public eye for a long time, but state
ment that appeared yesterday In
State contemporary gives us the nrst
intimation that she is OF such a
tigress-like temperament as to draw
blood from the nose of fellow
actress and bite the man who plays
the role of officer in the hand" From
reports given out by the patient, 1t
must have been bird in the hand" F"
Owing to a scarcity of dye, do
nation of 200 pairs of stockings an
nually made by a Norristown hosiery
manufacturer to poor children will
not be made this year. And yet they
do say that the lack of protection of
industries never works a hardship.
The chickens In Yardley will not
behave, and so hereafter they will
have to scratch in their own back
yards. The members of town council
down there have passed an ordinance
restricting domestic fowls, including
turkeys, ducks, chickens and geese,
from running at large either on pri-
vate or public property" Not what
you thought, was It?
A pioneer resident of the city of
Scranton, Edward w. Weston, has
offered to pay for two-thirds of the
cost of municipal athletic field if
the city will pay for the other third.
Needless to say, the city has accepted
the offer, and all of Scranton's youth
are delighted.
A shocking exhibition was given in
Johnstown the other day when a
couple of miners were walking through
puddle and one of them attempted
to brush a loose wire out of the way.
The wire seized him hungfily and
everybody who tried to step to his as
sistance in the charged water hoped
nimbly out again. He was finally
pried loose with a non-conductor in
the shape of broom.
Williamsport laundrymen may
place a tax of one cent on every
package going out of their establish
ments after January first in order to
cover the additional expense which
the Workmen's Compensation Act
will entail.