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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-09-03
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

The Republican assembled adopts tn
following platform:
% We Republican party
providing for the defenss of against
protection of American industry the
countries without imposing
We the
in accord with those policies and abreast of the spirit
CURED by ever changing condition
t2) nehency of administration at Washing
ton its inadequate tariff law and
suited the closing of
forced deness of millions of workmen.
We legislative senatorial
congressional judicial districts
with the plain requirements of the Constitution and
fragrant violation
permit party
tnnaue in @ Of judicial h,i t - I gro s anu sne con
han that of fitness
We permitting
providing imposed upon
the State by the Democratic immoral political
Kentucky negotiable instruments passing by
delivery
be taken
entirely politics. that the and welfare of the
in public matters
call better schools
country and better for the teachers
We also favor extending the aid of the State to its institutions
education
publicity expenditure
of for political campaigns should
counting by candidates and campaign of all
eced for political purposes
CD We demand the of law providing
contract labor and we endorse the Amendment providing
for convict labor public roads highways
without
Realizing
and religious development the
shall be carried out and the building OF highways
the State by guaranteeing the people honest expenditure
of their shall be
We legislation
bodily injury and we favor the enactment of and equp
able workmens compensation law.
90 We favor giving the Railroad Commission regulate
public utilities
which
tutiona provision against the
oppose a
invested
people enrgng power
the and when such
majority of
such regulation by law as will consolidate and collection of
that the of collection be materially
u2 We condemn the enactment by the Democratic of large
number of obnoxious laws offices
administration
with economical efficient of
0) Reahahs tine Importance TO the state OF the prosperity OIL
heartily their
in a legal ways.
Kentucky undertake
of the United Public Health Service
blindness
which,
a a single section of
5 We call attention the of State yet
jeveoed invite capital labor
all
question woman suffrage fit the adoption
Assembly submitting
people decision the election of November, 1917
90 Republican Kentucky
declare continued county
adoption of amendments thereto be make eff
fective beyond question
Covering Up the purpose
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-09-03

For pains In the back q good remedy
u Dr.. Niles Anti-Pa Piils.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-09-03
USEL|V-vER-LAx
For Lazy Liver and
the Troubles of
Constipation.

Feelsright all the time. Don't lay of
from work for days by taking calomel
when pleasant Liz Ver-Lax keeps yov
on your feet, while relieving your troub-
lie; Safer too, and easy to take. Don't
take anything else. You can't afford
it. Eliminates poisons, cleanses sys-
TEN and relieves constipation. A nat
ural remedy, natural in its actions, sure
in its effect and certain in results. II
won't be long before liz Ver-Lax will
completely displace calomel in every
home. Children can take it freely and
with perfect safety. Every bottle guar
anteed. 5Oc and 81 in bottles. None
genuine without the likeness and sigma
ture Of L. X. Grigsby. For sale by
J. H. WILLIAMS. Hartford. KY.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
frappino Baboons.

Hagenbeck in his book says that bab-
oons are caught in traps made much
like the huts Of savages. Food is put
into the huts, and once the balloons go
inside a trapdoor closes behind them.
Outside balloons make a great to do
and urge the prisoners to escape.
When the trappers come the captured
balloons are terror stricken and try to
force their heads through the walls
of the huts. One baboon was caught
three times in the same trap, and sew
eral when turned loose got back into
the same trap a second time. When
the balloons are carried away all their
comrades thereabout climb into trees
and scream out to the prisoners, who
answer in sad, mournful voices. On
one occasion some big Arabian balloons
were trapped, when 1000 or 5000 bab-
oOns hurled themselves upon the trap
pers, who had hard work to save them
selves with firearms and clubs. AS the
trappers were forced back the victori-
GUS balloons tore up the trap and turn
ed loose the captured balloons.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
The Evolution of the Hoo.

The time honored razor backed hog
is giving place to the sleek porker, on
whose broad back a square meal could
be displayed without a drop of coffee
being spilled and with no danger of
even one of the dishes sliding to the
ground. The rooter is being shouldered
out of the way in Georgia by the hog
that doesn't have to root for living
and is SO fat that its efforts to root
would be ludicrous. Scientists say that
when any part of an animal is Ions.
unused it tends gradually to disappear.
Does that mean that pig culture will
cause the final disappearance of the
nasal protuberance of the hog with
which it formerly was accustomed to
root for its living News.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
Some Measures.

The length of the foot was used for
distances long before it was fixed at
twelve inches. A 'furlong" is only a
furrowlOng. The breadth Of the hand
became the standard because the cas-
lest way of measuring the height of
the horse. The length of the arm gave
the length OF the ell" and from the
elbow to the tip oe the middle finger
was the "cubit." By stretching out
both arms as if on cross man invent
ed the measure of the "fathom."
Cloth measure still DEGREES that two
and One-half inches make a mail"
and this Is the width of four fingers
held together and measured across the
nails. The apothecary's dram" origi-
nally signifed ''only as much raw spir-
1t as can be held in the mouth"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
The Human Face.

Rosa Bonheur, the great painter of
animals, had a system of mnemonics
which was exceedingly quaint. She
could trace in the faces Of those peo-
pie who. visited her a resemblance to
some sort of animal. For instance, II
some one reminded her of a certain
lady she would probably hesitate for
a moment and then say, "Oh, yes, the
lady with the camel facer' or, "Oh, I
remember-she had a cow facer' This
memory system was not flattering to
her friends, but it showed how satu-
rated she was with knowledge Of an
imalS and their characteristics. On ev-
cry human face she found a likeness to
some animal she had studied and de
lineated
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13

Workers in porcelain factories are
literally baked. but by some miracle
they remain sufficiently undone TO live.
At least if they are not quite baked
they endure Il stronger heat than that
which browns the Sunday Sirloin The
furncles wherein procelain is finished
are kept at the iercest heat used in
any industry. \ chain OF workmen,
their heads and bodies swathed in fire.
proof garments. take the finished pieces
from the fire one ut Il time and pass
them, to the cooling room. The man at
the head of this chain-he who stands
nearest the furnace-can only work in
five minute shifts. In his interims of
rest he lies on n mattress. drinking
glass after glass of ice water from the
hands of q snail boy.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
PEARL hA2B0R,
uneIs Sans Formidable Naval Base In
the Pacific Ocean.

Uncto Sans Formidable Naval Base In
the Pacific Ocean.
When it was seen that Manila was
useless as a defense for this country
and would be handicap instead cf q
help in war Pearl harbor. on one of the
Hawaiian islands, nine miles from
Honolulu, was selected, and $13.O00,-
900 was appropriated by congress for
fits forti1cation. 1t has a better har-
Dor than either Gibraltar or Helgoland.
a concaye sweep of land makes the
harbor, which is crowned by a long
ridge of gigantic trees and rugged and
tumbled rock that terminates in an eX-
tinct volcano, known as Diamond
Head. \ frowning mountain side hides
a beautiful lake that is reached from
the sea by an inlet like the neck Of
bottle. 1t covers eleven square miles.
with depth of about sixty feet over
nearly all of 1t. The neck that leads
to the sea is three miles long and hard
ly wider than necessary for vessels to
pass. Parallel with the coast is a coral
Lce1 u4Ale " luS- LuIOuSH ILLS d Cudu-
mel a thousand feet wide has been cut.
1t has been equipped with one of the
most complete naval stations in the
world, mile square in extent. 1t has
a drydock, which Is the largest in the
world, a 100000 ammunition plant
and oil tanks for vessels. The fortif-
cations, extending for fifteen miles to
Honolulu, consist of powerful batteries,
with cement emplacements below the
ground level The ends are guarded
by two forts, neither Of which can be
seen from the ocean. On the land the
guns are defended by series Of earth
works that form a crescent from the
harbor to Honolulu. In the extinct
volcano is a mortar battery. The four
mortars of this battery have an ex-
treme coast range of nine miles, throw
ing twelve inch shells weighing 700
pounds. The seacoast defenses have
fourteen inch guns, and the forts are
supplemented with submarine mines.
controlled by electricity.
Pearl harbor is about 1000 miles
from Unalaska and from Samoa at op-
pOSite ends and a little less from San
Francisco. So with this impregnable
base fleet can guard the whole range
of the Pacific for this distance and
have this safe retreat for refitting and
fresh upplies.-Technical World Mag
aZine
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
On the Mcen.

The question Could II man live oa
the moon?" has been put TO aE e.Ai-
nent astronomer, who replied; Il am
afraid not. A man transplanted TO the
moon would find himself the lone In
habitant of perfectly lifeless orb in
which eternal silence reigns. He
would have TO manage without air,
water or fire. He would not need to
put windows in his house, for there is
no wind. no rain. no dust. upon the
moon. 1t has been truly and practical
ly observed that the moon is apparent
ly abandoned to death, nOurishing no
inhabitants, producing nothing resem
bling trees, flowers or beautiful things
of any kind-uSeleSs, in short, except
as a mass of extinct volcanic rubbish,
which draES the sea into tides and re-
fleets the sunbcams in moonlight"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
NspoIeon's Confidence,

Just before his marriage Napoleon re-
ceived the appointment of commander
in chief of the army of Italy. He
was then twenty-six. You are rather
young" said one of the directors, Ito
assume responsibility so weighty and
to take command over veteran gen
erals"
In one year." Napoleon replied. 81
shall be old or dead"
I'VE can place you in command of
men only" said Carnot, for the troops
are in need of everything, and we
can furnish you with no money to
provide supplies"
"Give me only men enough" Nape-
leon answered, and ask for nothing
more; l will be answerable for the
result. ."-''Table Talk and Opinions Of
Napoleon Buonaparte"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
Pepvs on a Coal Famine.

There was n coal famine in England
In 1906. England was at the time at
war with Holland and, owing to the
presence of the Dutch feet in English
waters, the Newcastle cOlliers found it
impossible to get through to London.
A period Of great privation ensued.
Writing in his diary in June, 1867,
Pepys observes that 'the great misery
the city and kingdom is like to suffer
for want of Goals is very visible and, it
is feared, will breed mutiny" Later
in the month comes the following en-
try: 'Such is the want already of Goals,
and the despair Of having any supply,
that they are come this day to f5 10s q
chaldron."
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
INVISIBLE ICEBERGS.
Conditions Under Which They Cannot
Be Seen on Clear Nights.

Conditions Under Which They Cannot
Be Seen on Clear Nights.
In a recent communication to the
New York Tribune Abbott I'll. Thayer,
the artist, asserts that many vessels
have been lost by collisions with ice
bergs because under certain conditions
of sky and light they are invisible He
cites the fact that on the occasion Of
the Titanic disaster, although the black
ship was clearly visible to survivors at
q distance OF several miles, they could
not see the white bergs against which
they actually heard the wash of the
sea.
Mr.. Thayer claims that on a clear,
starry night the bergs are so nearly
the same color as the sky that they are
totally invisible and that the same is
the case under many conditions of
cloud!1ess, the only exception being
len the side of the berg viewed is in
such shadow that it shows black
against the sky. In other words, it is
impossible to see white against white.
In answer to the criticism of those
who say they never saw a berg at
night that was the color of the sky
the answer is that this is very natural,
because this is the very condition un-
der which the berg is invisible. Mr..
Ihayer makes the suggestion that Il
very simple way TO avoid the danger
Of colliding with an invisible berg
would be to use a searchlight The re-
Election would show up the berg very
plainly.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
Assets and Liabilities.

An asset is something which you
think belongs to you. A liability is
something Of yours which others think
belongs TO them. Neither one OF you
is quite right. An asset without liza
bility would not be called an asset.
Neither would a liability without an
asset be called q liability 1t would
then be debt, while an asset without
liability would be wealth or capital or
property.
An asset is what you think you own.
a liability is what others think you
owe. What your liabilities are depend
upon your assets. What your assets
are depend upon your liabilities
Therefore an asset is a liability and a
liability is an asset-Life.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
Dean sw,ft's Complaint.

1t is no new thing. this complaint
which one hears Of the high cost Of
living. Writing to Stella from Lon
don in the year ITO, Dean Swift re-
marks: II lodge in Bury street, st.
James. where | removed a week ago.
l have the first floor. the dining room
and bedchamber at shillings a week;
plaguy deep. but spend nothing for
eating. never 90 to tavern and very
seldom in a coach. yet, after all. 1t win
be expensive
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
Ypres In EnQIand.

We have the name of Ypres in Eng
land-in that Of the Ypres tower at
Rye, in Sussex. though local talk
knows nothing of its proper pronunci-
alton and broadly calls it the "Wipers
tower" 1t is twelfth century build
ing, the oldest secular building of all
the Cinque ports, and was at one time
the only stronghold of the town, though
later walls and gates were built. The
reason for its name is to be found in
the commonly accepted statement that
1t was built by William des Ypres.
earl of Kent.-London Globe.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
CHASING THE RAINBOW.
Curious Legends That Are Told In
Different Countries.

Different Countries.
We have all of US heard stories OF
the treasure at the end of the rain
bow. There is a pot of gold there, you
know. And if we could only walk far
enough, run fast enough, we might
find 1t and be ever thereafter happy.
That is what our nurses tell us when
we are children, isn't it?
And sometimes we learn that the
rainbow is a bridge, and the thunder
is the roar OF the heavy wheels going
over it.
These are the stories that we hear
in childhood about the rainbow. Chill
dren of other lands hear many other
stories.
In Greece nurses tell the children
that If any one by chance stumbles
over the end of the rainbow his or her
sex is changed. A fine story that TO
tell child! The little Greeks must
run away from the ends Of the rain
BOW instead OF seeking them to find
our pot Of gold.
The little Turk hears from his nurse
LAdC IL ne can out toucn the Dano OF
orange that spans the heavens in the
rainbow his head will turn to silver,
with rubies for eyes and teeth of gold
In many parts of Russia the rain
bow is called a pump, and in Hungary
it is called Gods pump" and "Noahs
pump"
In Russia, in some provinces, the
wells are covered with strong plat
forms, so that the water cannot be
drawn from them by the rainbow, and
in other provinces it is said that three
angels have charge of the rainbow
one to draw water through it from the
earth, another to give water from it to
the clouds and another to return the
water to the earth in the form of rain
Boston Herald.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
FLAG FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
American Eagle on a White Square.
Exposition Trip the Cause.

Exposition Trip tne Nause.
The vice president of the United
States is to have an official flag. When
ever he visits an American warship his
flag will 6utter from the masthead
The flag will be a snow white square
Of bunting, on the field of which win
be blue bird representing the eagle I'm
the coat of arms Of the United States.
The presidents flag consists Of the coat
of arms Of the nation on blue field
This Is the first time that there has
been prescribed for the vice president
a distinctive flag to be displayed on
naval vessels while he is on board.
The president, the secretaries and the
assistant secretaries Of the depart
ments OF war and the navy all have
distinctive flags. The admirals, vice
admirals and rear admirals have dis
ttnctive flags.
1t remained for Secretary Daniels to
provide the vice president with a flag
His action grove out of the fact that
Mr.. Marshall is going to San Francisco
30 represent President Wilson at the ex-
position. He is TO be received on board
the cruiser Colorado, the flagship Of
Admiral Howard, commander In chief
Of the Atlantic fleet; hence the new
dag, which viii be a permanent institu-
don Of honor to the IKE president
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
THE MAN or FORTY.
AS Rule, He Still Thinks He Can Put
Off Doing Things.

AS Rule, He Still Thinks He Can PCT
Off Doing Things.
At the age of forty man has reached
a time of life when it is hardly one
thing or the other The past years have
not been so many as to permit one to
lay down his arms and retreat in quiet
to the shade. 1t is still not too late to
strive and perhaps to achieve. On the
other hand, SO much dusty road has
been Travelled that if one finds it has
not led him far on the way he meant to
go he can hardly delude himself with
the fancy that he can yet go back and
begin the journey anew. The pleasant
sense of superfuous time is gone; one
must hurry, and perhaps it is too late.
Then comes the grief of perceiving
che waste, the loss, the utter futility of
postponements. The world is full of
good and wonderful things. What
wealth Of potential experience and emo
tions, and time and opportunity for so
little! And yet year after year one
goes on blindly and blandly putting off
to some more convenient or appropri-
dIe I1ue, W IudL 4uupOSSlDle peF1Ou
when all will be exactly right, things
he wants to do and can do-a kind ac-
ton, making a new friend, or altering
a whole career!
Once acquired, the habit Of postpon-
ing persists. Hope springs eternal, and
a man of forty finds himself counting
complacently on some day taking up
hunting or entering politics or circling
the globe.-Robert l. Raymond, in the
Atlantic.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
THE STATE OF FRANKLIN.
It Had Short Life In What is Now
Eastern Tennessee.

In 1874 North Carolina, growing i'm
patient of the burden that her western
settlements had imposed upon her
treasury and irritated by the COM
plants of the people of those sections.
passed an act conveying to the federal
government all the lands that now con-
stitute the state of Tennessee.
The people of the country that is
now eastern Tennessee, feeling them
selves left without a government.
made haste TO organize themselves into
an independent commonwealth, which
they called, as a tribute to the illus
trious philosopher, the state Of Frank
lin. These people applied for admis-
sion into the Union; but. the federal
government being slow and unwilling
to act and North Carolina having re-
pealed the act Of cession of her west
ern province to the Union, the state OF
Franklin came into very troubled wa
terS for some years.
Some efforts were made to persuade
the Kentuckians to join themselves to
the state of Franklin, provision hav-
Ing been made for such cooperation in
the constitution of the experiment. but
they came to nothing. The new state
gradually fell to pieces. and in 1877 its
brilliant and able governor, John Sc
vier, was put on trial for high treason.
He was released by a daring rescue
and subsequently pardoned and restor-
ed in name to the leadership, which he
never lost in the affections of his peo-
pie. In 1877 the last legislature of the
state of Franklin held its session at
e.-Philadelphia Press.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
ais IL Possible2"

Prince George of Denmark was nick
is said that when the startling events
of the revolution of 1858 succeeded one
another with breathless rapidity the
emotions of Prince George found vent
in the repeated exclamation. "Est-il-
possible?" King James, enumerating
those who had forsaken him, said,
"And Est-il-possible has gone too"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
HE Family Pet.
"You have no children?"

You have no children?'
"None"
Home doesn't mean much to a MAJ.
without children"
"Oh, we have a family pet. It's our
motor car. l am going to present ii
with new tires throughout, and M
wife is going to buy it new wind
shield. Chicago Herald.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
ROMANCE IN GEOGRAPHY.
Names That Speak of Achievement and
of Desperate Need.

Geography is a fascinating study.
The history OF the human race Is writ
ten in large characters on the earth's s
surface for the seeing eye
Most people know that Pixies peak
commentaries the explorations Of a
daring young officer early in the last
century. But how many know that in
the name of the Bill Williams river
fingers the only memorial to a famous
trapper and Indian fighter OF Kit Car
sons time, TO whom the Rocky noun
tain country was an open book before
even Fremont ''blazed the trail" to the
Pacific
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
No Chicken.

Lady recently married. DO you
know find it quite hard to remember
my new name?
Her Friend-Naturally dear. You had
the old one so long, you know.-De-
troit Free Press.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
Hit Him Both WAYS.

A man was charged with picking a
pocket and pleaded guilty.
The case went to the jury, however,
and the verdict was not guilty.
And the court spoke as follows: "You
don't leave this court without a stain
on your character. By your own con-
fession you are a thief. By the verdict
Of the jury you are a harw-London
Tit Bits.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
japanese Gardens.

The Japanese lay out their gardens
SO as to suggest famous scenes in their
history. Miniature landscapes are laid
out to recall we'll known spots and
suggest the events that have taken
place there.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
The Diet.

"Men are what they eat"
"Then 1 suppose critics live chiefly
on roasts."-EXchange
His Occupation.
"What does your father do?"
"Whatever mother tells him"
81 mean what's his occupation"
"Oh his occupation! Pas a confla-
grafton ejector; puts out fires, you
know."-BoSton Transcript.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13
The Extreme.

''This fee business is a nuisance
You have to give one everywhere to
get the least service"
''I know it. Even if you want to
speak politely to a lady you have got
to tip your Baltimore American
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-08-13

Lawyer to kicking clienb - Well.
have you at last decided to take my
advice and pay this bill of miner
Cient-Yes Lawyer-Very well. (To
clerk william. add So to Mr.. Smiths
bill for further advice. Boston Tran
script.