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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18

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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
Peonage In Belgium.

Cardinal MERCER, primate of Bel
GUM, on behalf of himself and all the
Bishops of Belgium, excepting the
bishop of Bruges, has issued a pro-
test to the world against the deporta-
ton from Belgium by the Germans of
thousands of inoffensive citizens in
order to set them to forced labor"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
Luck Was With Him,

A young man who had received the
privilege of shooting over the land Of
a farmer got rather close once or
twice to the home grounds. Later In
the day he met the farmer you've
had pretty good luck" said the farm
er. well, no." said the young man,
hesltatingly. II haven't had any luck
at ALL" "Yes, you have,7 repeated
the farmer. "This morning you just
missed my best Shorthorn.."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
HOPEFUL.

"Your speeches all seem to end
where they started"
Il hope that's right replied Sem
ator Sorghum. 81 began this line
of speeches in congress"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
Methodist Church.

Rev. Lewis Powell, D. D. Pastor.
Sunday School at $50 a. MI. H.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
The Universalist Church

Rev. Thomas Chapman, Pastor.
Services Sunday evening at ECO
O'Clock; Subject The Temptation.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9:45 a. m.
All are cordially invited to these
services.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
TALKING SHOP.

"0f course you are eager for the
triumph of right"
eyes," replied Mr.. Dustin Stax
shut it's hard, sometimes, to tell
which the right side of the market
really is"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18

Christian Circuit Court, Ky.

Jennie X. Walker
and Others,
Against EQUITY
William Walker
and Others.
BY virtue of Judgment and Or
der Of Sale of the Christian Circuit
Court, rendered at the September
Term thereof, 1916, in the above
cause, shall proceed TO offer for sale
at the Court House door in Hopkins
vile, Ky, to the highest and best bid
der, at Public Auction, on Monday
the fourth day of December, 1916,
between the hours of ten a. M, and
four p. M, (being County Court
Day., upon a credit of twelve months,
the following described property to-
wit:
Beginning at stone in the West
line of 277 acre tract, conveyed by
Jim Gray and wife to the party Of the
first part; also Thos. Crabtree's line
and S. E. corner to a timber lot of IS
acres; thence with line thereof, N.
n, Z. 80 poles to a stone N. z. corner
| to S. lot in Mrs. Elgin's line; thence
witha line of the 277 acre tract and
Mrs. Elgin's line, S. 40, E. SO poles
to stake at the turn of Mrs. Elgin's
fence; thence with fence S. 46a E. Al
poles to stake at the turn of a lane;
thence with the several lines of Mrs.
Elgin's fence N. AL, E. Al poles to a
stake in the Highland Lick Road;
thence S. So, E. poles to stake at
the corner of a fence and a corner
to small piece of land, say, one
acre, conveyed by G. w. E1gin to
Joshua Gray; thence with line there
of, N. AZ, E. 13a poles to stake in a
lane of Elgin's; thence with his line,
N. 70, E. 621 poles to stake in said
line and corner, to the improved lines
Of Lot No. 2; thence witiKa line there
OF S. 8, Z. zoo poles 10 stake in the
middle of the DISQUALIFICATION
Road in the line of the 1861 acre
tract; thence with said line and the
middle of said road, S. SO, w. III
poles to stake in said road; thence
5. I'll, w. % poles to a stake in the
middle of said road; thence S. 81, w.
80 poles to stake in the middle of
said road and corner to a one-acre
tract sold by NJ V. Masse and thence
with its line N. 123, w. 122 poles to
stake, another corner to said acre lot;
thence with another line of said lot,
S. 62, w. 12f poles to stake in Mrs.
Cobb's line; also the West boundary
line of said 116a tract; thence with
said line N. l23, w. 1914 poles to a
stake and pointers, Mrs. Cobb's cor
ner in Crabtree's line; thence with it
N. SO, E l9i poles to a stake and
pointers, corner to Crabtree's 277-
acre and the 1861 acre tract; thence
with Crabtree's line, also line of the
277 acre tract, N. Is, w. 500 poles to
the beginning, containing 1929 aeres.1,a
Sold for division and costs herein !,
expended. For the purchase price,
the purchaser must execute bond
with approved surety or sureties,
bearing legal interest from the day of
sale until paid and having the force
and effect OF Replevin Bond.
Bidders will be prepared to comply
promptly with these terms. "
LUCIAN H. DAVIS,
Master Commissioner.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-18
PARTLY TRUE

Games told me that I've gets two
hundred dollars week from the
concern he works for
$50 he does-to put in the bank
for them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
HOTEL LOBBIES
Abernethy Proud of Hobby

Most every one has a hobby, but there are some persons who do not know what their real hobbies are, and if they did would not tell anyone This IS not the case with Judge H. B. Aber- nethy of the municipal court. He has a hobby and doesn't care who knows it. In fact, you always find Judge Aber- nethy ready to talk about his beloved pastime. Aside from listening to the tales of woe from the unfortunate vic hms of circumstance who are arraigned before him each day, he likes best to don a pair of overalls or other suitable habits and dig among the growing vegetation on his garden lot
 Just as soon as my days work on the bench is over" said Judge Aber- nethy T beat it for home and spend a lew hours toiling among the soil and vegetation. It's great, believe me. I nave so many things planted and grow ing that I can't think of all of them to tell you. do not raise vegetables merely for my own use. I divide with the nelghbors, and besides I just like to see them grow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21

confined to mobocracy alone, but to seek to correct other civic disorders and remove other Instructions from the way of southern progress"
 The association is to meet annually to hear reports and for the adoption of measures for the prosecution of it's work. In the meanwhile, an eX- ecutive committee should be engaged all the year round in carrying out the purposes of the organization
 The movement will commend itself, of course, to all people jealous for the fair name of the south, but 1t should have the active support of every lover of law and order. If the good citizens or a majority of them in every southern state will only enroll themselves in the association and strive earnestly to promote an antimob sentiment, lynching will soon become all but unknown.
 Dr. B. F. Riley of Birmingham was elected corresponding secretary of the organization referred to, and as he has long been raising his voice and using his pen against mobbish mani festations all educators and others de- string to help the cause would do well to correspond with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
Bv James Russell Lowell.

By James Russell Lowell. The rich mans son inherits lands,
 And piles of brick, and stone, and golo' And he inherits soft, white hands,
 And tender flesh that fears the cold,
 Nor dares to wear a garment old; A heritage 1t seems to me. One scarce would wish to hold in fec The rich mans son inherits cares;
 The bank may break. the factory purn' A breath may burst his bubble shares,
 And soft white hands could hardly earn
 A living that would serve his turn; A heritage. it seems to me, One scarce would wish to hold In Tee. The rich mans son inherits wants
 His stomach craves for dainty Iare' With sated heart, he hears the pants
 Of toiling hands with brown arms pare'
 And wearies in his easy chair; A heritage 1t seems to me, One scarce would wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor mans son inherit? ?
 Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, hardy frame, hardier spirit;
 King of two hands, he does his part
 In every useful toll and art; A heritage, 1t seems to me king might wish to hold in fee. What doth the poor mans son inherit wishes o'erjoyed with humble things. rank adjudged by toil-worn merit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
CORRECT ANALYSIS

To the Editor of The Age Herald: In my very humble opinion you have in today's issue of The Age-Herald in lyou editorial regarding President Will sons mandate or u1timatum to the Elm peror of Germany, given correct analysis of the question at issue. Your opinion therin expressed seems to me a most rational and just conception of the matter involved and one which, I trust, will, after mature deliberation by the American people, become the opiinon of all
 I am no German partisan; in fact, my sympathies are altogether with the al lies, but am for right and fairness everywhere and all the time for every body. And as I love America, my na- tive land, and am ever jealous of her welfare and honor I heartily commend ycUr editorial mentioned and trust that your views therein expressed may be the actuating views that will gov ern the conduct of "the powers that be" at Washington and that the neu- trality and honor of this country will be maintained and at the same time the rights and the lives of all Amer ican citizens shall be safeguarded by the strong arm of these United States.
 o. T. DozIER.
 Rirmingham April 20 1913
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
To Suppress Lynching

Last years lynching record in. the south was appalling lynchings in Georgia and nine each in Alabama and Mississippi-but just as Hull was being reached in the mob spirit the postmaster in a small Florida town, accused of killing man, was seized by friends of the deceased and, with out trial, was summarily put to death. All lynchings are atrocious but the one in Florida furnished an example of exceptional brutality.
 One way that lynching can be sup pressed is by an organized movement among law-abiding people for the purpose of arousing public sentiment and cooperating with state officials in their efforts to apprehend and bring to trial those bloodthirsty men guilty of taking the law into their own hands.
 Representative of more than 50 southern colleges who gathered in Birmingham two weeks ago to confer about educational matters were prompted while here to give expres- sion to their humanitarian patriotism by forming an organization to inau- gurate just such a movement as had been suggested by leading citizens of their sections-a movement fol putting an end to lynching. As one oi the educators participating in the meeting remarked, "The proposed ac- tiyity of the association is not to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
THE HERITAGE

Content that from employment springs
 A heart that in his labor sings; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fec What doth the poor mans son inherit?
 A patience learn'd by being poor. Courage, if sorrow come, to bear it.
 fellow-feeling that ia sure
 To make the outcast bless his door. A heritage, it seems to raA A king might wish to hold in fee O. rich mans son. there is toll,
 That with all others level stands; Large charity doth never soil,
 But only whitens, soft, white hands
 This is the best crop from thy handa: A heritage, it seems to me, Worth being rich to hold in fee. Q, poor mans son, scorn not thy state:
 There issfworse weariness than thine. In merely being rich and great:
 Foil only gives the soul to shine.
 And makes rest fragrant and benign: A heritage itsseems tonne, Worth being poor to hold in fee. Both. heirs to some six feet of sod.
 Are equal in the earth at last: Both, children of the same dear GoA
 Prove title to your heirship vast
 By record of well-filled past: A heritage. 1t seems to me, We'll worth a life to hold in fee. sa :,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
Judge Harwood in City

It has been said that some office holders die and others are defeated, but none resign. Judge Bernard liar wood of the Sixth judicial circuit, how ever, resigned from his office before his term expired, despite the fact that It was generally conceded that he could have been reelected indefinite- ly without opposition. Judge Harwood, who formerly resided at Eutaw, but who is now engaged in the practice of law, was in Birmingham last night He was registered at the Motion
 T enjoyed serving on the bench in my circuit" said Judge Harwood, but Since ! resigned from the judgeship I have not had time to give much time to politics. In fact, practically every one in Tuscaloosa has temporarily laid aside politics and is now engaged in working to make the joint centen- nial and commencement big suc- cess"
 Judge Harwood was accompanied to Birmingham by James Rice, solicitor of Tuscaloosa county. MT. Rice was elected to his office after an extreme ly hard fight and when the legisla- ture passed it's judiciary bill his term was cut down to two years and his office abolished. However, he became assistant to the circuit solicitor for his county, which is on a fee basis and was not nearly so bad as being entirely removed from the public pay roll, according to MT. Rice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
Enthusiasm over Reunion

There is more enthusiasm over the coming reunion in Birmin gham than any ever held by the veterans" writes Gen. A. J. West of Atlanta, one of the highest officials among the Georgia Confederate veterans, who will deliver an address before the meeting of the Sons of Veterans here. "The people of Georgia, as well as the old soldiers are greatly interested in the reunion, and you may expect a very large crowd of visitors as we'll as the vet erans, sons and daughters. I am doubly interested in the reunion this year be- cause Congressman J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama and I placed Birmingham in nomination."
 General West is one of the best known veterans. He was made a cap- tain in the Confederate army at the age of IS by special act of the Con- federate Congress and he served on the staff of General Henry D. Clayton of Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
BOB .BURMAN's TIME

From the Savannah News.
 Followers of the automobile racing game are not surprised when news comes of the death of a favorite driver in the heat of a contest, because they are fond of saving: Sooner or later it will get them all." Many of the old favorites who handled steering wheels on Chatham county roads are gone. Strang, Grant, Bruce-Brown were among them. Anu now Bob Burmans S name is added to the list Game he was, calm despite his nickname of Wild Bob,'' driver his competitors feared and. respected, clean racer, a drawing card at the course, a fighter during every minute of the con test, an establisber of records that seem ed amazing as lie made them, he will be long remembered as one of the best all-around racing drivers the dangerous game has produced.
 Many of the racing men are fatalists. They believe they will die when tneir times come,' and they go into races thinking not of death, but of winning. They know it is dangerous, but it Is a road to fame and wealth. and as the old drivers drop out there are plenty of new ones anxious to shatter the records set up and willing to take chances and run risks to smash them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
Art and Opulence

The other day at an auction sale Ill Naw York John Mccormack, the Irish +enor. paid S4O0O for Blakelock landscape, painted by that untortu- ra+e artist who has recently been re- stored to his family after spending 17 wears in an insane asylum, neg lected and almost forgotten until the growing fame of his pictures drew nublic attention to him and made the story of his vicissitudes famlllar to newspaper readers from one end of the country to the other. blakelocN is an old man now, but fortune has smiled on him at last, and he Will spend the remainder of his life Tn comfort, lionized by world which scorned him in his younger days and bv it's cold indifference unsettled his reason.
 MT. McCormack's purchase was ln- cidental to the requirement of sev- eral masterpieces of art, for which he paid a price far beyond the reach of anybody but successful singer, moving picture actor, or captain of industry. He recently bought another Blakelock for $10,000 and Corot for $20,00O. These purchases indicate to what degree of affluence MT. Me Cormack has been raised by the pos session of wonderful voice and good business judgment which has enabled him to profit amazingly by his gift. Although the critics do not place Me Cormack in the same class with Ca ruso as tenor, it is said that his an- nual income from concert tours, opera engagements and royalties is even greater than that of the celebrated Italian, whose voice has brought him more money than he knows what to do with.
 Mccormack has one advantage over Caruso as money maker. He caters more to the popular taste-or rather the popular comprehension. People crowd auditoriums to hear McCor- mack sing ballads who could not ap- preciate the art of Caruso. It is said that Mccormack has sung to greater crowds than any of his contempo raries, and that is probably true. These attributes have made him inn mensely popular and the thousands of persons who have alternately smiled and wept at Mccormack concerts don't begrudge him the wealth which makes it possible for him to become an art collector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
ALABAMA PRESS

Selma Times: Dallas county needs to lay five miles more of good roads and her pro rata of the Jackson highway will be ready for delivery
 Talladega Home: Colonel House would rather be man of mystery than come out in the open and accept a job.-Age- Herald. He is doing the work minus the criticism that comes with publicity.
 Mobile Register: Alabama knows noth- inb about this race suicide business. Dur ing the fiscal year just closing there were twice as many births as deaths, and the rate is 21.2 per thousand. We await the congratulations of Colonel Roosevelt
 Guntersville Democrat: Those muni- ton dealers who smuggle arms and ann munition to the Mexicans when it is cer- tain that the same will be used to kill American troops, are public enemies and should be handled by the most rigid mil- itary court.
 who predicted that Carranza and his sol diers would assist in capturing Villa real ize now that they were mistaken in their estimate of Mexican character. False hood deceit and treachery permeates the whole lot, high and low
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
As Ruskin Felt

John Ruskin, the English art critic, social reformer, seer and prose poet, who did more than any one man of letters of the last century in stimu- lating a love of nature and the true and the good and devloping refined taste among the plain people, has been ardently esteemed by altruists and social service workers ever since his fame extended throughout the English speaking world, more than fifty years ago. But if Ruskin was a dominant force in the cultural realm while he lived the influence of his ethical teaching and his virile Chris tian example is even more pervading today
 When he published his Modern Painters" Seven Lamps of Archi- tecture," Stones of Venice" and oth- CT works on art, only those especially interested in esthetics read him. But the purity and eloquence of his Eng fish and the beauty and energy of his thought finally appealed to all liter ary circles, and his essays and lec- lures on the principles of political economy and his homilies to wage earners on the homely virtues of life won for him not only the admiration but the affectionate regard of the masses.
 l Ruskin was passionate lover oi truth for truths sake. He was sat. urated with the Bible and shaped his philosophy by the precepts of the
 Master. He preached righteousness and lived as he preached. Many ol those who had only skinned through
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21

Ruskin's books formed the impression that the great apostle of Christian ethics and Christian democracy was a believer in peace at any price; and many latter day pacifists have thought of him and spoken of him as one of themselves.
 But one has only to read "Crown of Wild Olives," published in London Tn 1866, but which did not become in vogue in this country until twenty five or thirty years later, to find how far away from so-called pacific ism he was. An extract from this famous little book, quoted in the New York Sun, was reproduced Tn The Age-Herald of Thursday last, and it is so pertinent to present con ditions the following brief paragraph is worth repeating:
 q tell you that the principle of IloliiLCSl1cIcuCS, do iO" PiS"NNS among us, is as selfish and cruel as the worst frenzy of conquest, and diff fers from it only by being not only malignant but dastardly."
 Fortunately for America the pacifists are in the minority, but followers of MT. Bryan or other ad- vocates of noninterference will get no comfort from Ruskin, who lived not for self but for humanity and whose discourses on truth and the beauty of holiness will have a cher ished place in literature and religion for long years to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-21
War Should Be Averted

Despite President Wilson's note to the Kaisers foreign office in the na- ture of an ultimatum, there should yet be some way of averting war between this country and Germany.
 The President in many previous notes has been emphatic in his pro- tests against Germany's submarine warfare. At least once before it was thought that the United States had said it's last word; yet through the offices of diplomacy friendly relations between the two governments con- tinued. The note dispatched this week and received in Berlin yesterday was the most peremptory document that has yet passed through the state de- partment during the European war. If other notes have seemed to contain the final word, this last has empha- sized the idea that unless Germany agrees to abandon it's method of sub- marine attack on passenger and freight-carrying vessels of enemy countries, and destroying the lives of innocent men, women and children travelling on unarmed ships, diplo- matic breach must occur.
 As The Age-Herald pointed out yes terday morning, Germany should not be expected to discontinue her sub marine activities; and she will prob- ably not do so.
 The President is right in demand ing of Germany to respect the rights of American citizens, but he goes too far in his demands of the German government. Germany does not wish to become involved in hostilities with the United States. And there is no reason why this country should be drawn into this European war.
 Time-even a little time-has a sobering effect upon governments wrought up to high tension, and if Germany postpones reply to the note for few days the President and his advisers may conclude that it would be a grievous error to insist upon the full demands made upon Berlin. And Germany has way of taking time.
 At any rate, there should be ground for hope that the Kaiser will not ab- ruptly challenge President Wilson's threat to dissolve diplomatic rela- tions. And there should be further ground for hope that, while the sever ance of diplomatic relations usually means war, it might be different in this case.
 The Age-Herald repeats what it said in concluding it's editorial yes- terday: There is no reason for war between the United States and Ger many. The good sense of the states men of both countries should prevail"