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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-01-28

The Germaus have invented ID
Ur naval gun that Shoots " 'n.
100 she'll q distance ui ai mi.'.
| best British gun shoot only
miles The figure gwen '
rre-,. will give the Germans
uuirol'of the English coast 'I
tN Cmias. for distance ,
d.. miles inland. as the .h1nh
pIny - miles wide
Ladies' n - Kid Gloves n'"
Smith q Ambcrg s 'i'ai
% sale
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-01-28
WILL TAKE APPEAL.

Since making mention of the
ease elsewhere in this issue, W.
now understand Dee Harris wlll
take an appeal from the verdict
of the Fulton Circuit Court, winch
found him guilty OF robbing the
Hickman Drug Co. We are not
informed as to the grounds for
the appeal.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-01-28

Sheriff lIuddlcston. Jailer Muir
Gibson. Attorney Roney Circuit
Clerk Morris and deputy, Miss
Bruer. in addition 10 several local
attorneys. are attending court at
Fulton this week.
Mems $500 Florsheim Shoes at
Sl.25. Smith & Amberg's Clean
Up Sale.
Crisco in DE cans.--Prather &
Malone.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-01-28

Once in a while, when We feel
strong enough and patient I'll
nouwh 20 90 ont soliciting adver'
tiang from some of our friends
and neighhors who seldom break
INTO print. We are handed some
thing like this Now tell me-
what is the use OF my spending
money for advertising ! have
been here for years aud every
body IN the county knows what
have Ia sell Yes. brethren,
there still exists few isolated
specimens of the old fashioned
merchant who ask that question
and really believe that there Is
no answer 20 A. II II hard to
answer In fact II ~ hard TO
speak at all. 4 fellow feels like
bringing mp "A l2-centmeter gun
Land shooting a little twentieth
century ginger into the man
Iwho asks IT, Yes, Mr. Merchant
YOU have been here 20 years, hui
everybody in the county does
lNOT know what you sell. They
Imay know that You are here, Just
as they know that there is a olg
tree AT the side of the road a
lnlle ont of town. or the same as
Il they know that somewhere ~
town there is lookup. And
when they come INTO town they
drive past your place-Just az
lthcy drive past the blg tree oI
I'm. calah0osc aud they pull NJ
/ m front of the store of the fellow
s who has NOT been here 2Oyeal'
but who is doing a bigger busl
ness than you are, Just hecaus'
hc adyertiscs and makes goo'
= what he says IN his ads. lo'
. can do the big business too MI
, lOld Timer, any day you get ri'
, of that idea that because yo
} have been here a long time ''
D crybody is thinking about yo'
\ This does not refer TO any parll'
Z ular merchant but to one and "a
= nf mc non-advertisng KIND.
y Charleston Courier.
Z LOST, STRAYED or STOLEN
y Black horse mule about q yea
y old. llla hands high, under %
D and over bit IN left ear - T.
q ward for return of mule To +.
a Robertson, Floating Bridge, by
D Monroe +. Warner ARRIVE
o here this week and takes poi
o ton with the local plant OF u
q kentucky Public Service Co..
~ assistant manager. Welcome
~ a good town, Monroe.
a After March | the producll
N and distribution of habit-formI
v drugs and derivatives OF OPIUM
- cocoa leaves is to be under It
= eral regulation and control.
" Ladies and childrens fine sh'
v at reduced prices.-Smith 4 a
d hnre' 3 Clean Up Sale.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-01-28

Don't forget the choral union
rehearsal tonight
b. G. Hale, ST., spent Monday
and Tuesday in Memphis.
All shoes reduced in the Clean
Up" Sale.--Smith & Amberg,
Ladies Readyto-wear at Clean
Up prices Smith & Amberg.
The river is about as high now
as Tor many months past, regis.
lerlng 32.5 at Cairo. The cold
wave will doubtless hold II about
where il is for the present.
G.. l.. Carpenter and wife left
for Wicklffe, Monday, 10 attend
| thp bedside of Billie Carpen.
ter who was dangerously burned
Dos a moving picture machine. We
ARE not informed as TO the details.
I
MIR Wainscoit. a fimilor char
Iactcr ON the streets of hickman,
LACED and infirm, was this week
ajiidged of unsound mind and
sent to the asylum. For a mum.
her of years he has been ward
lm the county.
The Courier is in receipt of the
following worded communication
Will some of the reader OF the
lCourier please give Me a reclte
throut the Courier telling how
10 make hotcomallie at home and
what to use in making them.- I
II W"
Editor +. o. Howell, of the Full
Iton Semi Weekly News. through
tine columns of his valuable ans
appreciated paper, hands us TN
little compliment for which we ar
indeed grateful THE Hickma'
Irourier is one of the neateS
, and cleanest papers that comes
oar exchange. The people o
Hickman and over the entlr
Fulton county have right
I. be proud of the Courier.
Mrs A. K. Stone graced he
station rs hostess at two enlo.
able little parties last week, CAV.
at her home in honor of Mrs.
\ A. Royal. of villa Ridge, Ill
Z and Mrs. r.. a. Robbins. OF Ma
+ field. The first was a 800 pa
: ~. given Wednesday night; u
3 other a Rock and Bridge part
p given Thursday afternoon. Il
e frcshments of fruit salad, eandl'
y etc. were served.
:, II is the business of our Cover
| ment 10 encourage ITS citizens
a. selling contrahand. If they q
d aud noncontraband goods to l
ID hgerents and neutrals up to 7
IN point where such an act would V
is late the neutral rules the Unit
to States has established. 1t is al
10 the business of tins goVernme
se 10 demand redress If either
IN the belligercnts exceeds the pr
h ileges given it by Information
in law and attempts to hinder q
lt nuncontrahand commerce. Mel
ut or England nor any other coun
YES should be permitted TO throttle
ey neutral traffic. Not sausf
ist with absolutely controlling
dg thigh seas. England persists
holding up our ships IN neut
as trade ami even goes so lar as
IN haul down our flag from III
nd ships. The old Boston Tea /
icy ty" spirit will crop out one
as these days if she doesn I let
or soon. Enough is also a plen'
up Supply your blanket needs
o" Smith 4 Amberg's Clean Up ;
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-01-28

Subscribe for the Courier.
Go to the Crystal tonight.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
An Attempt to End death Avenue"

Again there appears to be agreement
on proposal to abolish the surface
tracks of the New York Central Railroad
on the West Side-this time to substitute
for them an elevated road built along a
private right of way. 1t is devoutly to
be hoped that the plan, unlike many pre-
vious schemes which have been put on
paper but never carried out, will
materialize. 1t has certain features of
merit, and any plan which will end death
Avenue" without giving to the railroad
valuable franchise monopolies will be
welcomed by the public, which for gen.
GRAFTON has seen the fight to wipe out this
menace end in draw.
Such a solution of the problem would
not involve use of any Of the citys north
and south streets. Moreover, it would
not monopolize the tremendously valuable
waterfront, for which there must be
systematic development under city con-
troll, not exploitation by any one favored
corporation. An elevated structure on
property owned by the railroad corpora
ton would not be subject to the objec-
tions which might properly be raised
against any scheme to build one along a
city street.
| Under the latest law on this general
question the Board of Estimate is
authorized to agree with the management
of the railroad on plan for the removal
Of the tracks. The public will await
further details of the one under considera-
tion with much interest, and the profound
hope that at last something has been
worked out which actually will work
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
On Rhetoric.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Rhetoric is the soft answer to Kul-
tur's punch. Rhetoric is too proud to fight,
and while it admires "The Battle Hymn OF
the Republic" it is as a work Of pagan art.
"Sink or SWIM survive or perish" etc, was
choice bit of American rhetoric of the old
school. Uttered in deep seriousness, the
styles have changed it to humor. We pass
this classic rhetoric to all Americans as they
hit the trail for Davy Jones's locker-if they
cant swim, let em sink; if they can't sur
vive. let EN- perish. Rhetoric is an appeal
to the head. of the Old Head of Kinsale
we shall from time to time sink more
rhetoric. Rhetoric is a stickler for salutes.
We may not even recognize that nation
exists. But let any negation of a nation,
dead or otherwise non-existent, fail to salute
Old Glory and we come down upon il with
the mailed fist. Then IL that ghost of a ma
tion does not salute us we recognize there
is no Huerta to 90 but home. 1--WE who are
about to die salute you'll" is another choice
bit of rhetoric. We like to have Americans
say that as they 90 down at sea, victims Of
German hate and possibility. We like
Il because II is classic rhetoric and also be-
cause it alludes gracefully 10 the salute Of
ghost-the suppositional backbone OF the
country of these dying innocents. The
world cannot be half rhetoric and half Kul-
tur. Therefore, while the going is good. we
should grab all the rhetoric we can.
TAPIR.
Hik Mex, Long Island, Dec. 8, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
Offensive Hyphenates.
Brooklyn, Dec. 7, 1915.
q Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: While | have offered no comment myself
on your smashing editorial "Americanism VS..
Cowardice," feeling as | did that could add
nothing to a thing which expressed my own
sentiments and convictions so much more
strongly and satisfyingly than | could hope
TO do, | have. however, been much interested
in the comments Of others on the subject.
OF the many who have so warmly COM
mended it no comment need be made. They
are merely expressing the feelings which
are to be expected from Americans, that Is,
straight, legitimate Americans without bar
sinister in the middle of their names
AS to the hostile critics. whose letters you
print with a generous openmindedness graft
flying to contemplate, they also have a right
in a free country to the expression Of their
opinions. These critics, for the most part,
are either petulant, sputtering aliens, re-
vealed by their names, TO whom American
ideals and principles are naturally repugnant,
or anonymous writers, like j. o. 7. in this
mornings Tribune, whose letters are un-
worthy of notice.
But the letter of Randolph W. Shannon, of
Of insolent, heartless brutality which cannot
pass unnoticed. | do not know who or what
Mr.. Shannon is. Judging from his style it
may be charitable TO assume that he is
sophomore in college and that maturer years
and few sound moral spankings will cause
him TO look back with shame at the callow,
unthinking cruelty Of what he has JUS,
written. Whatever he be or whatever his
age, he bears a name which leads one TO
sumo that he is an American, and he halls
from a good old town halowed by many
associations Of his country's struggle for in
dependence and the seat of great university
where hundreds of American young men are
being formed into, hope, loyal and useful
American citizens.
Therefore. as an old Princetonian myself
(and | confidently believe | may also speak
for almost all other old Princetonians), |.
resent and brand as nothing less than black
~uard'v Mr.. Shannons insolent, cold
booded reference TO those American men,
women and children, many of them highly
honored and useful citizens, who were foully
murdered on the Lustania, as "few ad-
venture seeking Americans" He is welcome
to his own opinions on politics and interna-
tional law, but it is time that he and his
kind kept within the bounds OF common
decency. GEORGE WESTERVELT. /
New York, Dec. 6, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
Improved Conditions in Ireland.

There is much encouragement in the
latest census figures from Ireland. The
third quarter Of the current year shows
a net increase of 1886 in the population
a phenomenon extraordinary enough to
attract attention and perhaps in itself
sufficient to refute the stories spread
abroad Of late about emigration.
The fact is that emigration has de
creased TO a remarkable degree, and the
reason is sufficiently plain: wages are
better than they were and there is plenty
Of employment for the inhabitants. The
number of emigrants in the three months
reviewed was only 3,511-less, perhaps,
than half the number that might reason
ably be counted upon in ordinary times.
1t is said that the improvement in con-
ditions would be even more striking were
il not for the high infant mortality. That
may be true, but the general death rate
is given as only 1874, and surely that is
below the average, which in recent times
has been somewhere in the neighborhood
OF 10 or 10.
AS TO the persistence Of the high tuber
culoss mortality, it only means that no
miracles have been worked by Lady Aber-
deems campaign. In that respect Ireland
is no exception for we, too, have been
deluded by enthusiasts in the crusade
against the Great White Plague. Nor is it
reasonable 10 look for any marked inn
provement as long as Dublin and other
cities tolerate the dreadful housing condi
tions that still prevail.
Upon the whole it would be imprudent
10 draw general conclusions from the
latest census. Ireland is obviously more
prosperous than IL has been in many
years. the population Of the warehouses;
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
Patronage VS.. Public Interest.

Mr.. Murphy says that neither he nor
Tammany Hall has any candidate for the
postmastership TO succeed Mr.. Morgan.
the candidacy of Mr.. Pow
ers, formerly an Assistant District Attor-
ney, is being pushed by several Democrats
well and favorably known at "the Hall,
and there is no reason to believe that there
would be grief in Fourteenth Street if the
place went to him.
Senator O'Gorman has predicted that
New York will have a Democratic post
master within a couple of weeks. And if
the powers that be at Washington so de-
cree it, this city can do nothing but curse
the court. There should be no misconcep-
ton of the situation, though, on the part
of Washington. Postmaster Morgan is an
able, efficient, faithful public servant, un-
der whose management the postoffice here
has shown a singularly fine record in
increase Of profits, holding down Of ex-
penses and excellence of service. If he is
to 20, it will be merely because his place
is wanted for a deserving Democrat"
The issue stands Patronage VS.. Public
Interest" No speeches, no apologies, no
explanations can disguise it. The bare act
will constitute the administration record
on this particular matter.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
Retirement in Old Age.

Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew speaks from
experience of the problems Of old age
which robs his findings of something OF
their platitudinous import. And on the
face of it. 10 tell a man TO keep busy until
he drops is sound advice enough, and at
least as ancient as Luther, whom Mr.. De
pew quotes. Retirement is indeed
snare and delusion, usually brief and
unhappy pause before disintegratlon.
Golf has ameliorated it, but not suffi-
GENTLY, because it is not the limbs so much
as the mind for which constant exercise
is needful when life "is fallen into the
sere, the yellow leaf"
But the choice is by no means as simple
oc all this. 1t is not every man who,
full of years and honor, may relax his
pace as have Mr.. Depew and Mr.. Choate
and DR.. Eliot (Mr. Depew's models) and
let their momentum carry them on COM
fortably to a graceful close. The prospect
for the average run of mortal Americans
Is a full maintenance Of the routine or
idleness. There are hungry youngsters
watching eagerly TO take the reins from
their hands, and once they have given
them over there is no expectant public in
wait to honor them with polite duties or TO
attend to the dissemination of their ac-
cumulated wisdom.
And it takes a stout heart to face the
prospect of full maintenance of the bust
ness or professional routine Of America
life through ones declining years. The
race is geared to youth. The old man
finds it increasingly painful, if he is ca
pable of keeping up at all, and is naturally
tempted to prefer any. alternative, how
ever dreary.
There is really no help for the unloveli-
ness of old age in the American environ
ment until such time as we all of US live
our lives less breathlessly, reduce our pace
10 a walk, which we may maintain to the
end. and regard sanity and health above
accumulation. The argument against re-
tirement will then seem less of trite
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
AMERICANISM VS.. COWARDICE
A Collection of Tribune Articles
Wanted for Distribution.
n the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: II seems a pity that so many Ameri-
can men and women should be losing the
inspiration Of your editorials. They contain
splendid Amercansm that is broader than
partisan lines and greater than the circuia-
tion of any single newspaper.
should again like to suggest that
collection Of these articles be reprinted in
pamphlet form for general distribution
among at least 100000 Americans.
To make my suggestion definite, am
willing to subscribe 500 as beginning tow
ard bearing the expense of such project.
Are there not others who believe as | do that
the sound principles expressed in these
articles should be thus presented to a
broader circle and who would wish to share
in the expense?
learn from reliable sources that in all
probability it will cost about $4,000 to put
out 100000 copies, and while | hope that
many more than that would be published 1t
would be a good beginning
WALLACE T. JONES.
Brooklyn, Dec. 7, 1915.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
The Duration of the War.
the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir; From passage from your paper,
which has been copied into tie British press,
| see that you are Of the opinion that The
war will last another year-perhaps two
years. The former period is by no means un-
likely. but study OF the German and Aus
trian casualty lists shows that the latter IS
out OF the question.
Allowing on the one hand for underpubh-
cation and on the other for wounded who
have returned tC duty, two factors which
nearly balance each other, though with
some preponderance in favor Of the former;
one finds that for the first fifteen months OF
the war the Germans have lost about -
per cent OF their army. including reserves
and the Austrisns about 80 per cent Of theirs
II the same ratio OF loss continue and u
is likely TO be increased rather than dmn-
ished. by reason of the inferior quality OF the
troops now in the feld-by October !, 1915
the Germans will have lost about so per
cent of their armv and the Austrians about
90 per cent OF theirs. To come to setusl
figures, Germany will have about 100000
men left, and Austria about 550,000. Even
with the great power which the defensive
has in modern war. il does not seem likely
that 100000 men fighting on four fronts
can hold out for twelve months against the
vastly greater numbers which the Allies Will
have. FREDK G.. JACKSON.
Leeds, England, Nov. %, 1915
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09
Postmaster and Politics.
From The Springfield Republican,

From The Springfield Republican,
The Postofice Department was inevitably
under fire at the meeting Of the National
Civil Service Reform League in Philadelphia
The time was opportune for criticism Of
the old, yet vicious, system Of political ap-
pontments to postmasterships, which legti-
mately call for nothing but business admins
tration. The Republican postmasters Of both
New York and Chicago are soon to be re-
placed by Democrats. and four years hence, in
case the Republicans should gain the Presi-
dency in 1916, the Democratic postmssters
of those cities will be replaced by Republi-
cans. Senator O'Gorman is evidently nam
ing the next New York postmaster, or COM
ing very near it. and in Chicago Carter IIar-
rison thinks that the President should nom
mate a German-American. Political reasons
will dominate the choice of these postmasters,
IL the party politicians succeed in control
ling the Executive. Some administration in
the future will distinguish itself by ending
the political regime OF more than century
in the business Of carrying the United States
mails.
New-York tribune., 1915-12-09

wholly unexplained, the British have failed
and are still failing in the work Of organ
izing their new armies, and gallant ad-
vances, considerable gains, even the cap
ture of the most important positions, as
at Saribahr and again before Lens, are
rendered useless by the subsequent failure
Of support to get up.
To all this there is now added the col
lapse of the Bagdad operation, which
even threatens to prove very grave disas-
ter. involving the whole expedtionary
army. What the causes of this defeat are
remain obscure, but the consequences, the
blow to Allied prestige all over the Near
East, even in the Far East, can hardly
be exaggerated. Like the GallipOli cam
paign it was an operation that could only
bo justified if it succeeded, and it has
failed irrevocably.
In this situation there is no mistaking
French impatience. The French generals
who failed have been "scrapped," inexora-
bly, and unfailingly. Joffre has sent to
the rear those who blundered or proved
UNEQUAL to the occasion. But no such
process seems to have taken place in Brit
ish ranks. Hence French criticism, which
never finds its way into print either in
France or Britain, is growing steadily.
1t is easy to exaggerate the meaning Of
this criticism. 1t does not imply future
break in the lines of the foes of Germany.
French opinion agrees with British about
the value Of the British feet and the
greatness of its achievement. France is
going through the war as best she can; no
one who has been in France recently ques-
tions this, or fails TO recognize French
confidence in ultimate victory.
What is said quite frankly in France is
that British diplomatic failure in the Bal
kans-and in Paris the Bulgarian fiasco
is charged to the British-has for the first
time moved the French TO question the
wisdom Of permitting the British to play
the role of senior partner in the Allied
firm in the diplomatic field. British fail
ure in the military operations of the year
has already provoked discussion of the
of naming a French general
.Foch has been mentioned-to command
the British troops in Belgium and France.
All this has been kept under the surface
so far, but there is no mistaking the fact
that French criticism of British high COM
mand is on the increase. The present dis
pute on the Balkan campaign may lead to
a general readjustment Of conditions and
a settlement of outstanding differences.
But it would be idle to undertake to dis
yuise the extent of French dissatisfaction
at this moment over the long continued
failure of the British to get their armies
into shape and thus to dc their share in
the great task.