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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
new POST OFFICE
RULES IN FORCE
OWENsBORO DESIGNATED AS
DISTRIBUTING POINT FOR
SIX COUNTIES.

The Owensboro postofice has been
designated AZ the central distributing
point of general supplies for Daviess,
Hancock, Butler, Ohio, Mclean and
Muhlenberg counties. This order be-
came effective on last Tuesday, but
was not announced officially by Post
master Laswell until Saturday.
Mr.. Laswell stated that this same
service was being put into effect in
all of the larger postoffices through
out the country. Heretofore. the gen.
eral supplies for these counties have
been sent direct from the department
at Washington, but under the present
arrangement the postmaster at Ow-
ensboro will furnish the supplies
from the local Office. There are 12S
fourth-class and nine third-class
postofiices which will receive sup
plies from the greensboro postofice.
-Owensboro Inquirer. ~
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
No. 80

Perry Crowder. Claude Allen, Lafe
Crawley, Claude Graves, Murray
Maddox, Mary Long, Elzie Allen,
Charlie Fulkerson, Ross whittier.
John Durham, ST., ct al, continu.
ed, on account of smallpox in vicihi-
ty of defendant.
Bruno Frey, continued pending
decision of Court of Appeals.
Same. continued on motion Of the
court.
Ep Risinger, dismissed.
Robert Daugherty, dismissed.
John Tom Edwards, dismissed.
Following set over till Saturday:
Jesse Fulkerson, ct al, Clarence
Durall, Robert Greene, Harry Wood
burn, Claude Graves, Clayburn VIII
son.
Herman Morris. set for 14th day
of term.
Claude Allen, ct al, set over to 9Th
day.
Oscar Durall, continued, with &C.
tachment for witnesses.
Red Tom Autry, verdict Of jury.
not guilty.
Same, dismissed.
John Frog Autry. dismissed.
Charley Alvey, hung jury-11 to I
for acuuittal.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
SOCIETY WOMEN WHO
GAMBLE "LOOK OUT


Madisonville, Ky, Feb. $50
ciety was slapped right in the face
yesterday. Hopkins Circuit Court
convened in jacksonville and Judge
Carl Henderson. of Marion. In giving
his instruction to the grand jury,
urged that body to investigate So
ciety gambling.
He said much gambling was car
ried on in the homes and members
of bridge clubs take home prizes
won In the game. Judge Henderson
said this was gambling and told the
grand jury to investigate every case
and to "indict every woman found
guilty of the act
The Judge told the grand jury too
much was wasted on petty cases of
the poor negro crap shooter while
society gambling was passed over. It
was the society woman who could in
fiuence the citizenship more than the
other class and 1t was the card table
In the home that should be tabooed.
Investigate this. indict them. and
then 60 after the poor negro. and
this lawlessnsss will be stopped"
he said.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
INTERVENTION IN
MEXICO FAVORED
BY GERMAN MINISTER, ACCORD
ING TO LETTERS TAKEN
FROM PAPERS.

London, Feb. S.--Interesting ad-
ditions to the Won Papen correspond
ence are contained in Parliament
tary paper which gives the transla-
tions of all the documents taken
from Captain Franz Won Papen, the
former German military atache at
Washington. and the full entries OF
his bank account, with fac-similies
of checks and stubs.
The only revelation historically
important is that Admiral Won Hin
tee, who was German minister to
Mexico, in the spring Of 1914, favor
ed international Intervention.
Captain Karl Boyd, the former
German naval attache at Washington
wrote to Captain Won Papen oppos-
ing Admiral Won Hintze's view and
strongly defending President Huer-
ia. es@- -
Colonel Herwarth, of the German
stan, wrote that the American mill
tary attache at Berlin, Major Lang
horne, who left Germany early In
1915, was the bearer of letters to
German officials In America.
A letter from Edward Lyell Fox.
an American correspondent In Ber-
lin. contained. an unfavorable opin-
ion Of the American ambassador,
James w. Gerard.
Prince Hatfield and Rhld Seiden-
burg. of New York. wrote concern
ing the stupidity and idiocy Of
Americans" whom the latter termed
Yankees"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
INDIANA MAN FINDS aan os'o
ANIMALS FROZEN TO PLOW

Seymour. Ind. Feb. 8.-When
Tullard Able. a trapper and fisher
man. entered an implement shed on
farm in the lowlands. north of here
he discovered six rabbits, five minks
and one weasel hanging by their fore
feet from a section Of steel on a
plow. Being unable to understand
why they did not scamper away upon
his approach he investigated and
found that their feet were frozen to
the steel. --a ~
The shed was partially filled with
water during the recent flood and it
is believed that the little animals
took refuge in the building from the
high water. When the water reached
the place where they remained they
were compelled to swim and finally
put their front feet on the steel bar
of the pillow to keep their heads above
the water. While in that position
and before the water subsidized there
was sharp drop in temperature and
as their feet were wet ice quickly
formed. holding the animals secure
ly.
Able decided to take one rabbit
home with him, but when he at
tempted to remove it the fore legs
were torn of. SO securely did the
ice hold them. He intended to re-
turn the following day. but during
the night the weather moderated.
The ice was melted and the animals
released. When he returned they
were gone.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
HE SUGGESTS SHOOTING
FEEBLE-MINDED JURORS

San Francisco. Feb. Shooting
of "some of our feeble-minded jury
men" was suggested today by Judge
Frank p. Dunno when Jury in the
Superior Court freed Mrs. Malcena
Dyott, tried for the second time for
wounding her husband, Samuel Dyott
In a quarrel.
Judge Dunno recognized among
the jurors several who recently ac-
quilted in his court Mrs. Mary Pa
mias. charged with killing Michael
Weinstein, a crippled peddler. who
she charged. had insulted her.
"If some of these feeble-minded
women who go around shooting men
would turn their weapons upon some
of our feeble-minded jurymen the
world would be better on" he said
when he received the verdict.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
DEAF MUTES sing
HYMN AT FUNERAL
MINISTER PRAYs WITH FINGERS
WHILE 100 MOURN IN 81
LENCE.

One hundred deaf-mutes, friends
of Miss Ivey ]. Meyers. gatherd to
weep in silence at her funeral SER
vices at Christ Church !, Cathedral
yesterday afternoon. Not word was
spoken, but their grief was express
ed in the language of signs. the only
means given to them to commune
cate their feelings.
The service was conducted by Rev.
James H. Cloud, also deaf, who ex-
tolled the dead woman with the lam
guage of the mutes. Tears usually
shed with cries of grief were ac-
companied only by the serrewful ges-
lures.
AS Rev. Mr.. Cloud prayed with
his fingers the mutes bowed their
heads. AS he began the hymn, near
er. My God. to Thee" from his fin
ger tips. they Joined in the anthem.
An interpreter stood beside Mr..
Cloud and translated the movements
of his hands into words for the few
mourners who could hear.
Miss Meyers died Friday in Sui
phur Ok, where she was an instruc-
tor In school for the deaf and
dumb. Rev. Cloud prepared her for
college in Washington. D. G. and
later recommended her for the posi-
ton which she held in Oklahoma
Globe Democrat.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11

showed our lights and did not antici-
pate a fight. She opened fire, how
ever, as soon as she found she had
been trapped. The fight was lively.
but 1t was short. We shot away the
bridge on the McTavish with the
first two shells. The Moewe did not
have much to fear. She is too well
protected and the shells from the
McTavish bounced away.
1--WE dropped half dozen shells
near the guns on the McTavis's
afterdeck and silenced them before
twenty shots were fired. We had
planned to give her q torpedo In case
we did not sink her by shell fire.
1.-THE McTavish could have been
saved but for her own crew. We
wanted the vessel for the cargo she
carried, and we requested that she
surrender without fight. Had she
done this her officers and crew would
have been landed here with the 9TH
ers.
"Her officers were taken on board
the Moewe. along with probably ten
men of the crew. I only know of my
own knowledge that two men were
killed. One Of them died on the APP
pam the second day after the battle.
We landed three other wounded men
here.
"The Moewe had one. man killed.
When we left her, her crew was hap
by. and there was plenty of food
and coal. The Corbridge, which
was with her, is the best Of
the freighters we captured. She APP
peared to be a new vessel and her
decks are heavy and well protected.
She sould be armed as a commercial
destroyer"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
BOND BROTHERS BUY
BIG TIMBER TRACT

What is said to be the finest tim
Der tract in Western Kentucky was
purchased last week by Bond Bros,
of this city.
1t lies near Greenville, in Muh-
.lenberg county. and contains 1900
acres. The price is withheld but is
known to be at high figure. Bond
Bros. negotiated for the property
several years before concentrating
its purchase.
Nearly all of the timber is fine
White Oak that is very valuable. The
price amounts to many thousand dol
rs.-Elizabethtown News.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
RTFORD, OHIO COUNTY; KY, FRIDAY FEBRUARY ii, 1916
not disclose the nature of their mis-

not disclose the nature of their mis-
sions.
According to the reports which led
to the admission regarding the die
tagraph records, the movements of
about 100 men have been watched
with the result that dictagraph was
installed in Milk-street Office to de-
termine II any of these men were
conspiring to commit or influence the
commission of acts OF war against
Canada.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
Pardons wife Shooter.

Frankfort, KY, Feb. s.-Governor
Stanley today pardoned Albert Sprott
of Campbell county, serving a SEN
tence for shooting his wife. on whose
testimony he was convicted.
; The Governor said he had before
him Mrs. Sprott's confession that
her testimony was false.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
still Is Captured.

Middlesboro. KY. Feb.-Deputy
United States Marshal w. II. Garrett,
assisted by G. J. Thompson. captured
a 'moonshine' still in the Crsks Greek
section of Bell County today. The
still was brought to Middlesboro and
placed in the basement Of the new
postoffice. This makes the seventh
"monshine" still found In that sec
tion within the last year.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11

e. L. Toms. Dundee. to Cordie
May Lee. Hartford. r. 1.
Luther Lilies. Beaver Dam. to Nell
lie Chauvin. Beaver Dam.
v. @. Morris. Horse Branch. to
Mary Aidridge. Horse Branch.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
Plays to be Given for Men IN
Trenches.

Paris, Feb. ga company from
the French National Theater left for
the front today to give series Of
productions just back of the lines
for the entertainment of men from
the trenches. The programme -
largely comic.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
How He Did Hate to Dance.

should give him a good big Tree to
climb. And how he did hate to dance
on his hind legs.
After the Man had gone to sleep
and the Bears were supposed to be
asleep too, they would talk ever the
days work They had to whisper very,
very gently, for if they really talked
It would wake up the whole country
around.
Well, he said, the idea of making
me dance! hate to dance. And the
idea Of standing up on my hind legs
when ! have four perfectly beautiful
legs to stand on. Would Folks like
to see a two-legged Bear-not at all
then why, oh why do they like to
see me stand on my hind legs?'
Its a trick said the ether Bear
well, | hate tricks and want to
amount to anything. | want to see
the wild places-the Woods-to get
back to some Ct ny coed old Friends
to 20 huhting-to be free.
No one is making you stay, said
the other Pear Why don't you leave
tonight, and when you 90 back TO our
old home in the big Woods tell old
Bobby Brown Bear 10 come and join
me. He has always been anxious to
see tho Towns and have tie People
admire him.
YES, he's 50 conceitod. Well, any
way he'll be doing NE favor. So
good-by. say pGod-Ly to our old Man
fer re ard tell him I'll send BCbhy
Brown Bear TO him.
The next day the Keeper thought
he would never Re aAle 10 afford an
other Bear and he was surprised to
find the Bear who was left alone not
Ionely-hut then in two days along
came Bobby BrowA lear Of his own
Tree will! But il was tire Fairy
Queen who had helped show him the
way"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
THE DUKE
BY VIOLA TREHERNE ADAMS.

IL was nothing to be a duke in
Mountphalia, Ned Vernon told Miss
Hazel Bridges the first time he was in
troduced to her, and he begged her not
to be awed at the pretentious title.
Call me Mr.. Vernon, plain Ameri.
can that" he pleaded, with a laugh.
"Or better-Ned."
Hazel flushed at the idea of such ia.
miliarity. She could not be on her
dignity, however, with the bright spirit
at her side, ingenious, sham hater, a
beauty loveT-and he showed it on the
occasion vividly-who quite won her
heart.
You See" explained Ned. my ia.
Their did some rare diplomatic work
for the prince of the little Bavarian
kingdom here and he was given
dukedom-all but the dom Duke he
was, but no perquisites or property.
lie nearly starved and when he died
he left me hollow title. II hangs to
me with the students here-Duke Ed.
ward I'm glad when can leave il
and the memory behind me- I've made
enough to educate myself and get
back to real civilization. | suppose
you'll be going home to the United
States. too, after this term. If you
ever meet me on American soil, prom.
Use that you won't trail in the royal
highness featured"
Hazel promised, with her happy
mirthful smile, little dreaming that
within two months war would leap
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29

uEAIR TALEE
BEARS WHO CHANGED PLACES.
b. MARY GRAHAM BONNER

Once a Man went to a small town.
said Daddy, with two Bears who did
tricks and performed around the
streets. The Man would sing songs
in queer sort of voice and in a
queer sort of language, but at the end
he would always say:
Moneys for the fine tricks of my
Ba ars! He always said Baars in
stead of Pears, and he said it with a
long drawl as if it were great. long,
long word. Then he would pass around
hat and the People who had stopped
to watch him would throw in pennies,
nickels and dimes. For he always
would add. Throw in your pennies,
nickels and dimes
One day a little Girl said, How
about ten cents?' But the man didn't
know what ten cents meant-he had
only heard them called dimes, and III
the country he came from they had
quite a different name altogether.
AT any rate he stayed in this town
for quite few days and made a good
deal of money for his Bears did very
fine tricks and the People enjoyed a
change.
You must admit, you know. that
| Bears are not as common to see as
| Cats for instance"
Both Nick and Nancy laughed at this
for they had never seen Bears perform
in the streets. They had only seen
them in the zoo and at the circus. And
/ of course they saw Cats all the time!
We'll, to continue" said Daddy
"one of the Bears was quite happy
walking around the streets and do.
ing his tricks every day. His Master
was kind and he gave him plenty OF
food. And he got better food than
ever on the DAYS he did his tricks
best. OF course you can understand
that, for on such days the Man got
more money and he liked to give his
Bears nice things TO eat.
But the other Bear hated walking
around small towns. He thought they
were very stupid and dull, and PEG
pie didn't interest him at all.
He always got rather mad that he
had to climb Pole. If he had beer
asked to climb at all, he thought, the,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
|T MEAT WHEN
KIDNEYS BOTHER
!. glass of Salts before breakfast
| n your Back hurts or Bladder
is troubling you.

nan or woman who eats meat regu-
J an make mistake by flushing the
e.. occasionally, says a well-known
c,,ity Meat forms uric acid which
b. the kidneys, they become over
III from the strain, get sluggish and
!, alter the waste and poisons from
g,ad. then we get sick. Nearly all
E-ratism, headaches, liver trouble,
L,r.ness. dizziness, sleeplessness and
E.,r disorders come from sluggish
I-9s.
r. moment you feel dull ache in the
E-.rs or YOUR back hurts or if the
4. i cloudy, offensive, full of sedi-
/. irregular of passage or attended by
|rs.ation of scalding. stop eating meat
Get about four ounces of Jad
h: from any pharmacy; take a
E,poonful in a glass of water before
[jsst and in few days your kidneys
,rt fine. This famous salts is made
4 the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
Lines with lithia, and has been used
,enerations to flush and stimulate
1dneys, also to neutralize the acids
nine SO it no longer causes irritation,
4; ending bladder weakness.
nd Salts is inexpensive and cannot
|sre; makes a delightful effervescent
Eswater drink which everyone
Euld take now and then to keep the
Ehpvs clean and active and the blood
4, thereby avoiding serious kidney
Fplications.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29

forth from the shadows and drive them
like fugitives from the peaceful burg
where he was studying engineering
and she music.
1t was amid the first clangor of arms
that Ned Vernon said: 81 love you'll"
1t was when alarm bells announcing
invasion were hoarsely warning the
people, that they were married, in
haste-never to repent at leisure, how
ever II was to the dread echo of dis
tant cannon that they caught the last
train for Paris.
1t was at the gay capital that the
sour-visaged, grabbed souled precep-
tress, Madame Roscoff, left them, feel
ing it her duty to cable to the humble
little village of Merton, nesting among
the peaceful hills of Vermont, to plain,
honest John Bridges, Haza's father,
the brief words:
Your daughter has married a duke
and is on her way home with him"
John Bridges was a wealthy man.
He and his wife lived in handsome
mansion. They had moved from Sum
merdale, fifty miles distant, never tell
ing Hazel, anticipating pleasant sur
prise for her when she came home.
When John Bridges read the cable
gram Mrs. Bridges tainted dead away.
Married to duke!" gasped her hus-
band. Il never thought daughter OF
mine would disgrace me by taking a
foreign noodle head for husband
Mrs. Bridges wept, declared her
heart was broken. She had read in the
newspapers about titled misery until
she had created a positive bugbear in
her mind.
Her husband was grumpy and rest
less for a day or two, then savage and
wrathful. He frightened up at the
end of the week. coming into the ele
gantly furnished parlor, to which he
had not yet become accustomed.
Nancy" he announced, with a grim
chuckle, I've found way out"
"Out of WHAT" questioned his wife
desolately, for she was still mourning
over her daughters mesalliance. as she
called it.
That duke" responded Mr.. Bridges
His wife groaned. She wrung her
/ hands.
You know. and I know, and every.
body knows that these foreign princes
never marry except for money" con.
tinued Mr.. Bridges.
Yes, John" assented his wife woe
! fully.
I've got some money pursued her
husband. "hut-he isn't going to get
it! I've planned it all out. I'm going
to put that duke through a course OF
SPROUTS that will either wear him out
and send him shopping back to fur
rup' post haste. or make a man o
him
! But if he deserts our darling
shes brought it on herself, hahn
she?" shifted Bridges, and good rid
ance to bad rubbish, hey? Get read!
to move. Nancy"
Get ready to move." repeated Mrs
Bridges, marveling.
Right away"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29
Satan,s May.

Mrs Kilgole was the pretty young
wife of the elderly village pastor,
One day she went into the city with
friend ard, among other things,
bought = now frock Another frock
my dear?" said her husband. Did
you need another" Yes" said the
wife, h>sitatiHgly, Il do need it; and,
besides, it was so pretty that the devil
tempted me" But you should have
said, Get thee behind me. Satan.
Have you forgotten that" "Oh. no;
but that was what made the trouble
hubby, dear. | said, Get thee behind
me, Satan, and he did, but he whis.
pered over my shoulder, 1t just flts
you beautifully in the back And
just had 20 take it then, "-Harper's
Magazine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-29

Where to, for goodness sake?"
Back to the old home"
why, John.
Not a word now" directed Bridges,
with a decisive wave of his hand
Cant you see through a milestone
with hole in it? I'm poor, don't you
understand-poor! poor! poor!" and
there was vengeful, gloating satisfac.
ton in the emphatic repetition.
Il think | see, John" faltered
Mrs. Bridges, but, oh! what a tearing
up"
Worth it, if it scares away this
scamp of duke!" declared her hus-
band. "Oh! I'll make it real to the
public-to Hazel and this precious
sprig of nobility of hers. Poverty.
bowling, grinding pauperism! Now
then-no sentiment. Wen furnish W
the old house just as bare and unin.
wiling as it can be done As to the
meals, no fatted calf wife, Give his
ludship a genuine workhouse diet. 1t
will take some of the grand notions
out of him."
So the plot was laid. The new neigh.
bors of the Bridges pitied their sud
den fall from aflluence." The old ones
back at the home town commiserated
them for making a costly splurge only
to come back to even more humble and
restricted surroundings than before.
And one day bride and groom ar.
rived. At the sight of the sunny nappy
face of winsome Hazel, the mother
broke down and the fathers heart soft
ened. To the duke however. the moth.
er was distant and the father fairly
uncivil.
Duke Edward" however, broke the
ice of severity, despite his gloomy re.
ception. He praised the meals. he was
like some high chevalier in his respect
for Mrs. Bridges, in his love for Hazel
Early the next morning he strolled out.
side to join his father-in-law on the
! porch
Mr.. Bridges" he began in his brisk
animated way, Hazel was telling me
that you had over two hundred acres
in your place here"
oh, yes, such as it is" growled the
old man. Not much good without
capital to work it."
Why" enthused Duke Edward
there you are mistaken! I'm up or
soils and you've got the right sort
here"
What do you know about it?'
queried Mr.. Bridges charity
"Oh, my principal course at one tim,
was scientific farming. 1t would Jus
delight me to join you in good hare
work, making this wilderness blossom
! like the rose. Say won't you let m
try it-father?"
John Bridges WINGED. Then the bal
rier broke down. The duke had disaI
peared. The hopeful, helpful real maj
had become manifest.
Heard your daughter had married
prince or something like that, Bridges,
| observed a neighbor to her father
few days later.
That's right" assented the prou
father-in-law-"a prince of a good fe
low"
Then he went home with a happ
smile on his face. He started whistlin
as he saw his son-inlaw out in tn
fields in true farmer garb hoe in hant
Hazel fluttering near by.
Il say, son." he called out as h
passed them by, we're going to NOV
back to our real home tomorrow" an
then he told where it was and VIII
they had left it,
You're the right sort!" declared tn
bluff old fellow heartily, 'and / recko
smart enough to hold good bushes
if | start you in at it with the capita
hey? Call the scientific farming quit
and let's all settle down to enjoy lii
together!"
Copyright, 1916 by w C. Chapman