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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
HOW WILL ALLIES PAY DEBIT
England and France Said to Be In
Peculiar Position Of Financial
Distress.

England's foreign investments are
not owned by the government, but by
individuals, and they will not sell;
and there seems as yet no way TO
compel them. American securities are
the only ones that appeal to the Brit
lsh and French investors at this mo-
ment as beiug good
What no financial expert ever pre-
dicted was the amazing trouble that
England and France would have In
paying for the equipment purchased In
this country 1t has been thought
that these two creditor nations would
merely have to sell their foreign Sc
curlties, or merely stop making Tor
eign investments, to have all the
money they needed. Sir George FAR
ish. representative Of the britlsh
treasury, came to this country last
winter and boastfully told his inter-
viewers and hosts that England could
fight on for five years merely on the
interest from its foreign investments
an assertion that Sir George proba'
bly, wishes he had never made. Even
Lloyd George formerly spoke OF the
5000, 100000 and the $4,000, OOO,OOO
this country and Argentina respec'
lively owe Great Britain; but he mas
long since cnange his tune. England
and France are In a position OF pecu-
liar financial distress, Albert w. At
wood asserts in the Saturday Evening
Post. They are buying war equipment
I'm this country on gigantic scale
They are exporting practically nothing
to this country, and their inhabitants
will not or cannot sell American Sc
curities back to America. They have
nothing to pay with but gold, and they
cannot afford to lose gold.
France is In TN even more embar-
RAISING position She has gone mad
for years over epargnes- savings,
The average Frenchman would rather
go without clothes and food at the
present moment than sell his Amerl-
can securities at loss. A friend OF
mine in New York recently received a
letter from a French banker In which
1t was said that only one thing gave
his clients une grande quietude at the
present moment, and that was their
holdings OF American stocks and
bonds
Wherever you 60 in France today
you will find American investments
held intact; for the Frenchman will
tell you that II he sells others will do
the same, and that would put down
the price OF American securities
which would never do
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
Bird Wears Artificial Leg.

Strutting on the farm Of John R.
Lott, near Freehold N. j., Is the only
wild bird in the country that has an
artificial leg, This handsome cock
pheasant owes it's life to the skill Of
DR.. August R. White, a dentist.
The pheasant. with one leg broken
of Just above the foot, and apparently
injured in a battle with cats, was
found on the farm several weeks ago
and was taken to the Lott home.
Doctor White, sportsman, heard
OF the bird and made an artificial
brass leg, which he fixed to the in
1ured stump with silver wires. After
the pheasant had worn its new leg a
week, the wires broke. Then Doctor
White fashioned another leg to At
snugly about the remnant of broken
bone, and this time procured q sup
port upon which the bird could walk
with apparent ease
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
WAS A BRILLIANT INVENTION
And INSPIRED by the Mother Of All
Such, but II Failed to
Work.

Recruiting OfIicer Spag ETH imperi-
ously entered the laboratory OF Pas
Quale Pasqualli, the inventor.
Follow mel" he commanded. You
have the honor to be set down in my
lists as a decoy, or firing mark. Your
duties will be simply to show yourself
to the enemy's sharpshooters and oc'
cupy their fire while the regular sol.
diers make a surprise attack"
Pasquali, never a brave man, loos-
ened his collar wildly, and cried, But
no, no. don't have to fight. can
serve my country much better in an.
other way. have invented a death
dealing machine the like OF which
has never seen the like OF which,"
The recruiting officer frightened
Was he to have the honor Of discover
Ing an inventive genius for his coun
try?
Explain he commanded.
ut Is called the Deadly Entangler,"
said Pasquali 1T is a powerful can
non that shoots thousands Of yards Of
macaroni. which so entangles the en-.
envy that 1t is then a simple matter to
rush up and STAY them"
Follow me-" repeated the recruit
Ing officer inflexibly. - Translated
From the Italian.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
TOLSTOY'S PROPHESIES

In the autumn of 1910, shortly be-
fore his death, Count Leo Tolstoy
had vision of the future. 1t fol-
lows:
This is a revelation of events of a
universal character, which must
shortly come to pass. Their spirit
ual outlines are now before my eyes.
| see floating upon the surface OF
the sea of human fate the huge sill
houette of nude woman. She is
with her beauty, her poise, her smile,
her jewels-a super Venus. Nations
rush madly after her, each of them
eager to attract her especially. But
she, like an eternal cOurtesan, fiirts
with all. In her hair ornament of
diamonds and rubies is engraved her
name: "COmmercialism." AS allur-
ing and bewitching as she seems,
much destruction and agony follow in
her wake. Her breath, reeking OF
sordid transactions, her voice of me-
talllc character like gold, and her
look of greed are so much poison to
the nations who fall victims to her
charms.
And behold, she has three gigantic
arms and three torches of universal
corruption in her hand The first
torch represents the flame of war,
that the beautiful courtesan carries
from city to city and country to coun-
try. Patriotism answers with flashes
Of honest flame. but the end is the
roar of guns and musketry.
The second torch bears the flame
of bigotry and hypocrisy. 1t lights
the lamps only in temples and on the
affairs of sacred institutions. 1t car
rles the seed of falsity and fanat-
icism. 1t kindles the minds that are
still in cradles and follows them to
their graves.
The third torch is that of the law
that dangerous foundation of all un-
authentic traditions, which first does
its fatal work in the family, then
sweeps through the large worlds oil
literature, art and craftsmanship.
The great conflagration will start
about 1912, set by the torch of the
first arm in the countries of South
eastern Europe. 1t will develop into
a destructive calamity In 1913. In
that year see all Europe in flames
and bleeding. l hear the lamenta.
tions of huge battle fields. But
about the year 1915 a strange figure
from the North-a new Napoleon
enters the stage of the bloody drama
He is man of little militaristiC
training, writer or a journalist
but in his grip most of Europe will
remain until 1925. The end Of the
great calamity will mark a new po-
litical era for the Old World. There
will be left no empires and king.
doms, but the world will form a fed
Grafton OF the United States OF Ma
tions. There will remain only fOuI
great giants-the Anglo-Saxons, the
Latins. the Slavs and the MOngol
ians.
After the year 1925 1 see a change
in religious sentiments. The second
torch of the courtesan has brought
about the fall of the Church. Tht
ethical idea has almost vanished
Humanity is without the moral feel
ing. But, then, great reformel
arises. He will clear the world o
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17

l spare no one, and find my vic
tins among the rich and poor alike,
the young and old; the strong and
weak, widows and orphans know me.
loom up in such proportions that
cast my shadow over every field of
labor from the turning of the grind
stone to the moving Of every railroad
train.
! / massacre thousands upon thou
sands of wage-earners in a year.
l lurk in unseen places, and do
most of my work silently. You are
warned against me but you heed not.
am relentless. | am everywhere;
in the home, on the streets, in the
factory, at railroad crossings, and ON
the sea.
I bring sickness, degradation and
death, and yet few seek to avoid me.
l destroy, crush or MAIN; | give
nothing, but take all.
l am your worst enemy.
l AM CARELESSNESS.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
ltalY'a Red Dates.

May holds some fateful Rnniver.
saries for Italy 1t was on May 20.
1900, that Napoleon crossed the Alps,
and on May rs, Ave years later. that
he proclaimed himself king of Italy.
On May 3, 1859, the French entered
Genoa, and on the 10Th OF the same
month saw the heavy defeat of the
Austrians at Montebello. In May of
the following year the French troops
left Italy. and Garibaldi made his ia,
nous descent upon Sicily,-Pall Mall
Gazette.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17

fundamentally upon poetic concep-
tions of life.
And I see the nations growing
wiser and realizing that the alluring
woman of their destinies is after all
nothing but an Illusion. There will
be time when the world will have
no use for armies, hypocritical relig-
ions and degenerate art. Life is evo-
luton and evolution is development
from the simple to the more compli-
Gated forms of the mind and body. |
see the passing show of the world
drama in its present form. how 1t
fades like the glow of evening upon
the mountains. One motion of the
hand of Commercialism and new
history begins.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
WHO AM L?

am more powerful than the COM
bined armies OF the world.
| have destroyed more men than
all the wars of the world.
am more deadly than bullets,
and have wrecked more homes than
the mightiest of siege guns.
l steal, in the United States alone.
over $3OO,OOO,OOO each year.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
Queer contradlctlon.

II can't understand why my husband
don't like cats.
Nothing queer about a dislike OF
that sort"
But he's so fond of 9 little kitty
thoy have at his club"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
Storm Damage

Irvington, Nav 5l.-(Special. "A
gale of wind and rain swept over Irv-
ington Tuesday afternoon with terrific
force, causing much alarm and doing
considerable damage. DIR. w. b.
Taylor's garage and Henderson's
butcher shop on Main street were I'M
rooted. A plate-glass door in Irving
ton Hardware store was demolished.
An immense smokestack at Irvingtou
mill was blown down, telephone poles
and wires were wrecked, lue was
blown off the L., II. Il St. l.. depot,
windows were smashed, shade trees
and shrubbery uprooted. A veranda at
the home of Col. Bate Washington's at
Double Springs was torn from the wall.
The loss to the town means several
hundred dollars.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
HARMED
Encouraged Over New Road
Improvement MAY Build an
Electric Light Plant.

Harmed, Especial. 1.-The surveyors for
the new pike leading six miles out from
Hardinsburg through Harmed into the
Leitchfeld road, have surveyed as for as
Mt. Zion. Work will be begun on this
pike at once.
Some of our enterprising citizens are
talking strongly of installing an electric
light plant. These improvements, adj
ded to our already up-to-date little town.
with its splendid church and Sunday
school interests, our graded school, with
its efficient teachers, as good citizens as
you will find anywhere, backed by as
good farming land as there is along the
L H. & St L. branch, will make Har-
ned among the most desirable places in
Breckenridge county
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
SUCCESSFUL SALE
BY TRUST COMPANY
The Bank Of Hardinsburg and
Trust Company Holds the
Bankrupt Sale for Abel Gil
IinWater
NEAR IRvINGTON SATURDAY.

The Bank of Hardinsbure x Trust
Co., Trustee for Abel Gillinwater,
bankrupt, held their sale of the real
and personal property of the bankrupt,
on his premises, near Irvington, Ky. d,
on the goth, inst. as advertised, which
was well attended, and the property
sold for very satisfactory prices.
The sale was conducted by Paul
Compton, Cashier Of The Bank of
Hardinsburg 81 Trust Co., d. W.
Henry, Auctioneer, Judge D. d. Dow.
ell, Clerk. The manner in which this
sale was conducted was additional
proof to the public, that 1t is impos-
sible for any one to give to the public
the service which was gwen by The
Bank of Hardinsburg & Trust Co.,
Trustee, as the management of this
Bank and Trust Co., spare no time nor
money In making preparations, in the
way of advertising, and having every
thing in first class condition before Of
fering anything they are interested in
for sale. The public is thoroughly
convinced they are in better position
to give the service desired, as they
have had years of experience in this
class of business, and to prove their
success in this line, their business has
more than doubled in assets, within the
last year, which are now orowding the
Million Dollar mark. Any business
entrusted to them has the direct super
vision of men skilled in this class of
business, in addition to this, their
Board of Directors give their personal
attention and advice to all matters in
which they are interested.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
JAMES R. SK|LLMAN
GENERAL COUNSEL
For l., H. & st. 1. R. R. Com.
pany-Son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. B. SkiIIman, Receives
High Hon0rs.
HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL.

James r. Skillman was on Thurs
day appointed as general counsel for
the Louisville, Henderson & st Louis
Railway company. He has been per.
forming the duties of the position
since the resignation of the late Hon.
r. A. Miller, several years ago. Pre-
vious to that time he had been con-
nected with the company as general
claim adjuster for some years He
will have his Office at the company's
headquarters at Louisville as formerly.
"Mr. Skillman has received IN the
appointment to the chief attorneysbip
of the Texas road, one of the hand
soonest compliments to young man in
legal profession in Owensboro," says
the Greensboro Messenger.
Mr.. Skillmsn is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. b. Skillman, of this city,
and their friends in Cloverport are
very proud of Mr.. Skillman's appoint
ment, which was preceded by close APP
plication to work and reliable methods
during his lengthy connection with the
Henderson Route.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
Two Efficient Public
Servants Are Runninu.

Our neighbor, the 9Th Judicial dis
trict, composed of Hardin, Grayson,
Breckenridge and Meade counties, has
the honor OF being served by the young
est Circuit Judge, Hon. J. X. Layman,
of Elizabethtown, and the youngest
Commonwealth Attorney, Hon. IL.
Dell. Norman, of Hardinsburg, i'll the
State. These gentlemen were each APP
pointed by the Governor to fill vacan-
cies in the offices held by them, and are
now candidates before the people of
their district, asking the endorsement of
an election.
Neither Judge Layman nor Mr.. Moor
man has any opposition, and they will
undoubtedly be nominated by the peo-
pie at the approaching primary. The
members of the local bar who practice
in their district say that the Republicans
will not nominate any candidate i'll the
event Judge Layman and Mr.. Norman
are nominated, and as their nominations
are practically assured, it would seem
that the people of their district, with
out regard to party, recognize and APP
preciate the high character and eminent
fitness of both Judge Leyman and Com
monwealth's Attorney Moorman.-
Hartford Herald.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
To the Republican Party
and Voters of Breck-
enridge County

| wish to announce my candidacy for
Circuit Court Clerk of Breckenridge
county subject to the action of the Re
publican party in the August primary,
19I5.
Your vote and influence is earnestly
solicited.
Twelve years of my life has been
spent in teaching in the public schools
of your county.
This gives many of you the privilege
of knowing me personally and knowing
my worth as teacher and citizen.
In July 1909, after being solicited and
urged by my friends, l offered myself
before the Repu blicau County Conven-
ton as a candidate for nomination for
Circuit Court Clerk of this county.
| had made known to the public my
candidacy but five days before the con-
vention and was defeated by a majority
of three votes.
was young then especially in poll
tics.
Many of the leaders of this Conven-
ton expressed their appreciation of my
strength and assured me If would be
content to wait six years longer they
would nominate me for this office | now
ask for.
After this Convention took my place
in the party ranks as a private and
have asked for nothing at the hands of
the party.
In view of the strength that de-
veloped at this convention and of the
further fact that the party in that con-
vention gave me assurance that would
be remembered six years from that
time, feel that am not now asking
too much when l ask for the nomina-
ton at the hands of the voters.
Again soliciting your votes and in
fuence am, very truly yours,
Guthrie e. Tucker.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
Official Call For RepubIi-
can County Convention

Hardinsburg, KY, June I, 1915.
To the Republican Voters of Brecken-
ridge County:
The Republican State Central Com
mittee has directed that County Con-
veniions be called in each county in
the State for the purpose of electing
delegates to the Republican State Con-
vention to be held at Lexington, Ky,
June 10. 1915.
Now pursuant to that call the Repub-
lican voters of this county are called to
meet in convention at the court house
in Hardinsburg, on Saturday, June ~,
1915, at 1 O'Clock p. M, for the pur-
pose of electing 70 delegates to repre-
sent Breckenridge county at the said
State Convention and transact such
other business as may properly come
before it.
All voters who were entitled to vote
in the Republican Conventions held in
1919, and all known Republicans and all
young Republicans who have attained
their majority since said date are en-
titled and invited to participate in said
convention.
The members OF the Republican
County Committee are also called to
meet on the same day at the same
place for the purpose of transacting
important business and filling vacancies
in the said County Committee.
Witness our hands:
H. M. Beard, Chairman.
d. ID. Dowell, Secretary.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
PR0H|B|T|ON|STS
Rev. Andrew Johnson Selected
For Governor. Woman Named
For Secretary Of State.

The Rev. Andrew Johnson, of Will
more, KY. was nominated as candi.
date for Governor by the State Conven-
ton of the Prohibition party Friday at
the Trinity Methodist church in Louis
vile.
The other candidates nominated are
t b Demaree, Wilmore, for Lieuten-
ant Governor; Mrs. Frances f.. Beau
champ, Lexington, Secretary of State;
Adam Carpenter, Moreland, Treasurer;
NJ. l.. Moore, Franklin, Auditor.
The nominees for Governor and Lieu.
tenant Governor are pledged to with
draw from the race provided either of
the two dominant parties nominate
candidates pledged to prohibition and
include prohibition plank in their
platform.
When the convention was opened
several of the eleven men present asked
if they would be permitted to take part
in the proceedings, stating that they
had never affiliated with the Prohibition
party. This started discussion which
ended in permission being given all
those present regardless of their pre-
vious political utilization, to take part
in the convention, if they declared
themselves in favor OF the prohibition
principle.
The women present held exactly a
two third majority, and made their in
tluence felt.
The platform adopted puts the party
on record as favoring a single term of
six years for President of the United
States, the initiative and referendum,
and the granting of the rights of suf-
frage to women. OF course the plat
form reaffirmed the stand of the party
in favor of prohibition of the sale and
manufacture of alcoholics, Louisville
Herald.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02

Joe, jr., On the Witness
Stand Last Week.

Last Monday we had our first expert.
enee on the witness stand. Talk
about fighting Germany! That would
be child's play by the side Of being
fired into by four big lawyers. Broad
side from both sides. Deeds of sweat
popped out on our forehead, not quite
as large as goose egg.
The first question fired at me was
from a III caliber gun, called Henry
DeHaven Norman. Wanted to know
where lived told him on account
of the two years drouth, had been
boarding with my father at Carter's
CABIN, Carter's Landing, Ky.
Col. Claud Mercer. another large
battleship, and also promoter of the
Dixie highway scheme shot this one
at us: How much are you worth,
Null? Well, sir, when get this dollar
| am expecting as a witness in this
case, and two more dollars, I'll have
three
Sherman Ball, an old bachelor law
yer, asked this question: How old are
you, Null? Judge Layman objected,
being as there were ladies present.
James R. Skillman torpedoed us with
this: What is your occupation? I'm,
sir. what they call corn field canary
or farm clerk
Judge Henry DeHaven Norman, the
dreadnaught, took a broadsde at us
that made a noise like this: Null,
have you been naturalized? No,
Judge, it's impossible to be natural
here. am scared to death
Are you a married man? Col.
Mercer asked. No, colonel, | am not
but don't worry, I'm as Mr.. Chinke
Mattingly once said. | am be gagged.
Then court adjourned.
JOE MUTATION, JR.,
Carter's Landing.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
Did Him Lots of Good.

Dear Mr.. Babbage:-Your paper Of
the 10Th inst, came to hand and l am
very glad that you remember your old
friend. Isaac Rosenbaum, and also that
you remember the good old times
when l came to Cloverport with a
wagon. Nothing ever did me more
good than the reading OF this article
in your paper. remember very well
the bay mule that used to haul the
express from your office to the wharf.
Have you still got that old mule?
Thanking you for your kind remarks
and wishing you much success, | am
Your old friend.
ISAAC ROSENBAUM,
Louisville, Ky.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-02
SPLENDID SERMONS
At EVERY MEETING
At the Methodist Church-Ser.
vices to Continue Through
the Week People Missing
Great Messages.
SERVICES AT 8 AND 7::3O P. M.

The Rev. G. w. Hummell, of Rus
sellville. Ky, is preaching splendid
sermons at the series of meetings at
the Methodist church IN this city. Up
until Sunday night, as the Rev. W. G.
Frank expressed it, 1.-THE attendance
has been painful" Many wonderful
and encouraging messages have been
brought to Cloverport. Among some
OF the thoughts Rev. Hummell has
said: God is always with you IL you
just let him in your life and if Chris.
tians could remember this, they would
never have sorrowful hearts and
gloomy faces. God is never taken
away from us. but by our distress,
worries and sins, we keep Him out of
our lives. After hearing Rev Hum
melPs sermons person is made to
feel that he himself is responsible tor
his pleasures, his business success and
his eternal salvation, because it is the
good pleasure Of Our Heavenly Father
to give them to us, if we seek them.
He makes men see that they have a
mind, will and are not handicapped
by any fate or circumstances
The services are held at D. m. and
1870 p. m. Rev. Hummel is the guest
OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. H Bowmer
With the Rev. Frank and Mrs. Frank,
he has been entertained in the homes
of MIR, and Mrs. A. X. Fisher, Mr.. and
Mrs. John ID. Babbage, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. M pennick, Mr. and Mrs. David
Phelps, Mr.. and Mrs. Il. F. Sawyer.