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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
GIBRALTAR OF THE BALTIC"
Powerful Fortress Of sveaborp, Guard
ing the Gulf OF Finland, Has Been
Frequently SO Called.

After more than rs months Of naval
war upon the Baltic sea between the
fleets Of Germany and Russia, the first
successful shot has yet to be fired
against the mighty fortress of Svea-
borg. which guards the neck OF the
Gulf of Finland, and the water ap-
proaches to the Russian capital, says
a bulletin issued by the National Geo
graphic society at Washington. Svea-
borg. best known as the Gibraltar of
the Baltic" powerfully secures its
holders control TO all the wide basin
of the Gulf of Finland, thus giving
them a most important base for dis
putting the control Of the northern
inland sea. II was the acquisition of
this stronghold that constituted the
strongest impelling force in Musco-
vite politics toward the conquest Of
Finland from the Swedes.
Across the neck of the gulf from
Sveaborg lies Reval. the seat of other
powerful shore defenses and of inn
portant Russian navy yards. These
two points block the way from the
Baltic against any naval power al
most as securely as the forts Kilid
Bahr and Chanak Kalessi blocked the
English ships at the Dardanelles.
Reval is situated on a sharp bay at
the northeastern gulf shore of Es-
tonia. Sveaborg fortress stands just
before Helsingfors, the capital of Fin
land.
There are hundreds of small, thick
ly wooded islands strewn over the
coastal waters around Helsingfors. 1t
is upon a group of seven of such is
lands, which are larger than their
neighbors, that the almost impregna-
BILE Sveahorg fortress is built. More
over, small redoubts and batteries are
well concealed in several of the out
lying islands which surround, like
thinly-fung skirmish line, the fortress
near the coast.
Many a vain seaward attack has
shattered against Sveaborg's defenses
in bygone days, and in recent years
Russia has brought the strength OF
inc pace UP W L WtlillCNh NthbuAy ~
quirements. II is said that more than
1000 guns are mounted here and sev-
eral thousand soldiers are quartered
in the fortress even in times of peace.
During the Crimean war the allies at
tackled this point violently and with
out success. The story goes that Eng
fish guns alone hurled more than
thousand tons of shot and shell into
the fortress, almost without apparent
effect 1t has fallen only once, and
then bribery is credited with victory
and not the force of arms. 1t sur
rendered to the Russians without an
effort at defense, surrendering at the
same time that it's garrison of 5000
men laid down their arms and turned
over their formidable defenses, the
whole country of Finland.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
Corrected His Ace.

A well-known textile union official
who is on a recruiting committee tells
a story of a man aged forty-four
years, who was anxious to join the
army.
At the recruiting Office he put his
foot in it by telling his true age, and
was rejected.
Going to the union man he COM
planned bitterly of the red tape ideas
that kept him out of the army.
Well" said his adviser, "go back
and say you made mistake, and that
your real age is thirty-six.
Away went the would-be soldier, and
putting on a bold front, told the re-
cruiter that he was only thirty-six
years of age.
And why on earth did you say you
were forty-four?" asked the sergeant.
"Oh-you see" stammered the
man, Il got bit mixed. It's my moth.
er who is y-four!"-London An
swers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

Professor Percival Lowell, founder
and director of the Lowell Observa-
tory at Flagstaff, Ariz., and an astron-
Omer of international reputation, died
Monday from stroke of apoplexy.
DIR. Lowell apparently was in good
health when he arrived in Arizona re-
Gently from lecture trip. For ten
years much of DR.. Lowell's effort had
been devoted to study of the planet
Mars. His home was in Boston, where
he was born March 10, 1855, but he
went west at certain seasons for stud
les at the observatory he established
in 1894. He was the author of many
works on astronomical subjects.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

Moisture, n 10 Asserted, Causes the
Blood to Circulate Far Slower
Than II Should.


Sleep is the result of poisoning. A
day spent in active work, whether OF
the mind or the muscles, entails exer
ton. Exertion means the breaking
down OF cells in various parts of the
body, and the waste from these brok-
en-down cells forms sort of poison
which II is the duty of the blood to
carry away. When awake, we make
more poison than the blood can re-
move; when asleep, we make less;
consequently by alternately waking
and sleeping, the balance is evened
up.
When we wake up fresh, all these
toxic or poisonous products have been
removed; when we wake up "stele" Il
Is because we have not been able to
get rid of them. Working too hard or
too long, or cleaning too little or too
lightly, means that tic poison is in
creasing in quantity ard our health
suffers. The desire to sleep late
is the body's signal that we need more
sleep in order to get rid Of this body
waste.
In crisp, cold weather. in a bedroom
with the windows open, the blood cir.
culates rapidly. We breathe more
easily, the air enters the lungs more
rapidly. the purifying oxygen enters
the blood more freely and eight hours
of sleep will purge the system of all
the previous days harm.
m rainy weather, or in a room with
the windows closed. the blood circu-
lates slowly and sluggishly. Breath
ing moist air is harder than breath
ing dry air, so that the body has to do
more work. This takes away some of
its capacity for removing the work
poison. In addition to this, when the
air is damp the oxygen is held fast
by the air and It does not go through
the membrane of the blood vessels
in the lungs so easily. The blood,
therefore, receives less of the purify
ing oxygen and is not as we'll able to
rid the body of the poison.
In order to make up for the differ
ence between dry and damp air a
greater number or hours OF sleep are
needed. If, for example, on a rainy
night or in a closed room, the amount
of oxygen received is only one-half of
what 1t ought to be, 1t will be neces-
sary to sleep twelve hours in order
to secure as much good as eight hours
in crisp and dry air.
Sleeping late on rainy mornings
shows that nature is not satisfied with
the amount of recovery from work Of
the day before. This is the cause OF
a bad taste in the mouth" of much
yawning, of aches in the joints and Of
a bad temper at breakfast time. For
exactly the same reasons people in
mountainous countries sleep much
less on the average than those in the
lowlands.-Pittsburgh Post.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
American Efficiency.

We hear so much about German eff
cheney that we are apt to forget Amer
lean efficiency. Let II not be forgot
ten that the first essential of eff.
cheney is the conception and initiation
OF practical and constructive ideas.
In this regard the United States has
led and still leads the world. Indeed,
not a few OF the inventions which
have made warfare so efficient" have
sprung from American minds, Just as
inventions which have done most in
stimulating agricultural and manufac-
turing progress have come from this
side of the Atlantic. The Germans
have excelled in applying important
ideas and important inventions to the
various departments of economic ac-
tivity. The American bent is to ini-
tiate; ii does not always excel
in the painstaking work which must
follow the launching OF a great idea.
Yet there are scores OF examples
ready to hand In this country OF a
SURPRISING efficiency not only OF con-
ception and initiation, but OF sytem-
attic achievement As welI.-Financia
America
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

The Commercial Appeal estimates
the amount of cotton from the 1915
crop at 10, 1862, 800 bales, exclusive of
linters. The crop has been harvested
at rate never before Appropriated.
AS picking and ginning have pro-
crossed the shortness of the yield has
become more and more pronounced
in those districts affected by heavy
rains of last summer, and the boil
weevil.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

Mems, Ark. IL find Cardui to he
all YOU represent" writes Mrs. ii.
b. York. OF tbs city. II suffered
from womanly ailmrn :, for nesriy
two airs. before | tried Cardui.
| have been so relieved since taking
IL. can vt saw enough IN praise.
It has done me- W rid of good ,-ann
| recommand Cardui To all women. y
CarduI is We 5 years old, and the
demand is greater ioda than ever.
Car nj is the standard. tonic med
icine, for women of every age.
Would you like to he well and
strong? Then take Cardui. Its re
cord show, that it " II help you.
Begin today Why wait?-A yer
tisement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

In spite Of the landslide in Ohio, in
the Cincinnati District, Congressman
Nicholas Longworth, Republican, SON
in-law of Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
was reelected.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

In twelve states women vote for
president. Hughes carried two-Illi-
nois and Oregon. The president car
ried the other ten Wyoming, Colo
RADIO, Utah, Idaho, Washington, Ari-
IONA, Kansas, Nevada, Montana and
California.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

An indiscriminate massacre of near
ly 100 women, children and Carranza
soldiers who were on a train near
Coutreros by Zapata followers is re-
ported by Mexico City newspapers.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

Attorney General Thomas w.
Gregory has informed friends, it is
stated, that he will retire from the
Cabinet, for business reasons, it is
understood.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16

The British caught the Germans
mapping on the northern end of the
Western line Monday and by a sud-
den drive captured five miles of front
to the depth of one mile, taking be-
tween 5000 and 1000 prisoners.
Some very strong positions were
taken with slight resistance.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
One Of Lies Necessities.

"Dubwaite figures his expense &C
count rather closely"
He didn't use to be that way"
"Oh, he has car now. A man has
to be careful to keep balance in the
bank large enough to cover his gaso.
line bills"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
Nothinu More lackinu.

Young man." said the elderly mill
ionaire, my daughter has had every
luxury"
Every luxury but one, perhaps, and
that one l am in a position to supply,
SIR"
What do you mean?"
"A husband"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
FIFTY-FIRST YEAR.

WATCH THE DATE-After your
name, renew promptly, and not miss
a number. The Postal regulations
require subscriptions to b. paid in
advance.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
THURSDAY, NOV. 16

The first Texas Norther' hit the
soldiers on the border Sunday, giving
them a taste of the real hardships of
life in the open.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
Preferred Locals

Smithson Water delivered Tues
days and Saturdays. Phone 633-1.
advertisement
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-11-16
For Rent.

Modern cottage, 5 rooms and hall,
large garden, good stable, on South
Main. M. +. CRENSHAW.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
Our Object

in making this remarkable offer OF $o.Oo glasses
for $1.OO pair is simply to introduce our service
in your community as well as National Lenses.
Our National Lenses have met with great sue
cess by many persons who are now wearing
them and are meeting with the same results
wherever they are introduced.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
PRESIDENT URGES SALE
OF RED CROSS SEALS

II am interested to learn of the
success of the sale of the Red Cross
Christmas Seal" says President
Woodrow Wilson in a letter to the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis
made public today.
II note with genuine interest and
satisfaction" he says, "the growth
and increasing success of the work
of the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis and hope that the devotion and
enthusiasm of its active member,
may be crowned with still CREATE
success during the present year.
II am interested to learn Of the
success of the sale of the Red Cross
Christmas Seals as a means for rails
ing funds for the work. and hope
that the people of the country VIII
avail themselves of that ready and
easy means of showing their inter
est In a work which is of so univer-
sal Importance"
Secretary of War Baker is anoth-
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06

lance. A petition asks the appoint
ment as temporary administrators OF
Albert +. Green of Detroit and
Charles |. Wood, of Sea Cliff, l.. L.,
to take charge of her Long Island
real estate and personal property.
Some Other Requests.
Mrs. Palmer had an adopted SON.
Harold, who is not mentioned in the
will, but it is understood he receiv-
ed a share of her fortune in her
lifetime. His wife, Mrs. Winifred
Palmer, gets $4,000 under the will.
Among other requests are: First
Congregational Unitarian Church,
Detroit, $4,000; the Annex Wei
fare Association. Detroit, $4,000;
$4,000 apiece to Mrs. Bertha
Boothby, La Grange, H.; William
A. Livingston, Joshua NJ. Goodwin,
George b. Breen and Henry w.
Clark, all of Detroit; Thomas Ii.
Whittier, Sycamore, Mich, and
Thomas b. Merrill, Seattle. Twenty
one persons in various parts of the
United States, many of whom are
old employees, get $500 apiece.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
IN CRITICAL CONDI-
TION FROM FLAMES

Hopkinsville, KY, Nov. ga
woman who says she is Miss Cath
crime Denton, originally of st. Louis
but recently of Evansville, Ind, is
in a critical condition here as re-
suit of burns sustained last night
when a negro schoolhouse on the
Princeton road was destroyed by
fire. The woman had taken refuge
in the >schoolhouse for the night.
She kindled a fire and fell asleep
When she awoke the building was
in flames and her clothes were burn
ing. She said she came from Ev-
ansville in search of work. Her
parents are dead and she has no
near relatives.
Terribly burned from head TO
foot. and with her clothing nearly
consumed, the woman early this
morning dragged herself to a cross
roads store just outside the city.
She was taken in by a family there
and later removed to a hospital.
Later-This unfortunate woman
died in the hospital.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
WILLS 100000 TO TRAIN
GIRLS FOR MOTHERHOOD
Welfare OF Nation Depends On
Quality OF Its Motherhood,
the View She Held.

The will of Mrs. Lizzie NJ. Palmer,
widow of United States Senator
Palmer, which was filed at Mineola,
l.. l.. recently, provides, it was
learned yesterday, for a form of
benefaction hitherto wholly I'M
known.
Mrs. Palmer left an estate of S4,-
100000. and of this she directs that
$3,O00,O0O be used to establish AID
maintain an institution where girls
and young women Of the age Of ten
end more can be trained and deVel-
Oped with special reference to fitting
them mentally, morally, physically
and religiously for the discharge Of
the functions and service OF wife
hood and motherhood and in the
management, supervision and inspi-
ration of homes"
The institution on which the aged
woman set her heart shall be estab-
lished. she specifies, in Detroit or
Greenfield Township, Mich, and Is
to be known as the Merrtt-Palmer
Motherhood and Home Training
School. Girls unable or unwilling
to pay are to be trained free of cost,
she directs.
In the opening paragraph of the
clause creating this unique institu-
tion Mrs. Palmer says
II hold profoundly the conviction
that the welfare of any community
is inseparably DEPENDENT upon the
quality of its motherhood and the
spirit and character of its homes. "
In the closing paragraph of the
will, made on May II last, two
months before her death, she said.
1T is my hope that before | die
shall at least have initiated my cher
ished project of founding a school
with the aims and objects above
expressed"
But her death came so soon after
the making of the will that no steps
had been taken TO begin the build
ing Of the institution.
Mrs. Palmer lived for many years
~ Great Neck, l.. l., and although
the will 3 10 be offered for probate
in Michigan it may be turned back
to the New York courts for admit
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
Gone Rack To Tobacco.

A Hume man who chewed 20
cents worth of tobacco week con-
Guided to try tobacco cure, says
the Hume, Mo-, Telephone. In two
weeks he ate $3.50 Worth of the
cure, and for the next two weeks,
ate cents worth Of gum, cents
worth ofworth of candy. cents
worth of gumdrops day. During
the two weeks he also consumed two
large rubber erasers, ate the rub
Der tips from fourteen lead pencils
chewed up a dozen pen holders and
browsed off his mustache as far as
he could reach. He is now ch ewine
tobacco again, in the interest oil
economy.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
ENGLAND AND FAANCE
ASKED TO RECONSIDER
Uncle SAM Claims By Right, Il
Safe Passage for New Aus.
trian Ambassador.

Washington, Nov. 29.-The Unit
ed States has sent notes to Great
Britain and France, it became
known today, requesting reconsider
alton by those Governments of their
refusal to issue a safe conduct
through their blockade lines for
Count Tarnowski, the new Austro-
Hungarian Ambassador to this coun-
try, and speaking of the unfortu-
nate effect that Continued refusal
would have on opinion here.
The notes point out that it is an
inalienable right of sovereign ma
tions to exchange Ambassadors, and
insist that a third nation. even in
time of war, is not justified in de-
nying that right.
Great care is taken to base the
representations solely on the
grounds of international right as
distinguished from mere interna-
tional courtesy, making it clear that
the United States is not asking a IA
vor 1r assuming the attitude of
pieader.
Care is also taken not to put the
Government in the position of hav-
ing changed its attitude since the
last communication on the subject,
which Was merely the transmission
of the Austrian Governments re-
quest for a safe conduct. 1t was
planned at first when the rebuff was
received to drop the position of b.
ing a messenger of Austria and
make a formal demand in the name
of the United States.
Should the replies prove unfavor-
able. the United States might se2Jr
, a final note notifying the Allies =
disturb the Austrian envoy at thu
own risk. or 1t might be decided
send an American merchantmen
warship to some neutral port to n
ceive the Ambassador and bring him
across the Atlantic. AS yet. howev-
err. such a contingency has hardly
been contemplated In view of the
confident belief that the Allies will
see tho wisdom OF Welding.
\
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
Notice To Subscribers and the
Press,


On January /, 1917, the business
of the Kentucky Magazine will be
taken over by corporation whose
stockholders, officers and directors
will be composed of representative
Kentuckians of high standing and
wide reputation. No December
number will be issued, the intention
being to begin all operations under
the new company on the first day of
the new year. The November num-
Der already published will be COM
Llimentary to subscribers, and all
subscriptions received prior to jan
uary win he dated from that time.
The November number has been Of
fered to the public as an evidence
OF the standard which the magazine
purposes to maintain. The editorial
management of the magazine after
January / will be the same as that
under which tine preliminary num-
Der was published.
The cooperation of the public is
cordially invited as a necessary guar
antee of the success of the magazine
under the new company.
Very respectfully.
THE KENTUCKY MAGAZINE.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06

er Red Cross Seal enthusiast He
says in letter ordering his supply
of Red Cross Seals for himself and
his children, Betty, Jack and Peggy,
mo other one thing means so much
to the life, health and happiness of
the people of Cleveland as the fight
against tuberculosis
Seals to the number of 5000
900 are now on sale in every State
and Territory of the United States,
even in the Canal Zone, the Philip
pines, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06

cult Court, where the case was tried
on a change of venue, returned its
verdict at 10:45 O'Clock last night,
after an hour and quarter OF de-
liberation. The defendant was In
court. as well as were court officials
and a small crowd. He arose when
the verdict was read and said the
sentence was unjust, that he knew
nothing of the crime.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06

Edward Berry was convicted OF
murder in the first degree for the
killing of Mrs. Mary Frances Brook
bank, at her home in Jeffersonville,
Ind. March 30. last, and was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
The Jury In the New Albany Cir
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-12-06

The end may justify the means,
but II is just as Well to begin right.
Evening star., 1916-12-17
Life Is Short

The span of life is much toe
brief, the years too fast are jump
ing: we're in the sere and yellow
leaf before we've started hump
ing. But Yesterday. it seems to
me, mud pastry | was making
and now I'm old as | can be, my
bent limbs feebly shaking. But
yesterday | went to school and
scrapped with vulgar fractions
and now old age begins to cool
nv zeal for useful actions. If |
could live 500 years, my funeral
would find nle household word
in all the spheres-a name d
leave behind me But Just when
one is getting wise. lii shape to
cut much clover. his works get
bulky and he dies. and his career
is over, Man lives youthful
score OF years, in which he's mere
ly growing; score, before he dis
appears, in which he's merely 60
ing. Ite years in which he puts
[ So aeeting thirty ::
fate takes MIN from his task
alas. that fate should act so dirty !!
And vet it's useless to repine, or
halt in our endeavor; lets try to
make a job as fine as though we
lived forever.
WALT MASON.