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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
THE WEEKLY HALF HOLIDAY MOVEMENT.

Quite a large audience heard Mr..
Jessup Sunday night in his address
to storekeepers and clerks in the in
terest of the weekly half holiday dur
ing the summer. Mr.. Jessup said he
was speaking primarily in behalf OF
the clerks who, in the nature Of the
case, could not take the initiative in
such a movement. If any change
comes it must come from influences
on the outside. He made it clear that
those interested did not mean, in
spirit or in letter, TO coerce the mer-
chants. The first thing to understand
is that the merchants know how to
run their own business. They can
not afford to ieopardize their business
by undertaking untried methods, es-
pecially schemes of enthusiasts and
dreamers. II was only meant to sug-
gest to them how they might aid in
certain community interests. Mr..
Jessup said he was always glad to
get suggestions from merchants and
others on the outside as to how the
church could better serve the people.
Once he asked one hundred business
men to suggest how the church could
do more for the people. One man
answered, Come down out of the
clouds and live on earth awhile. A
good suggestion. He was trying tc
live on the earth in this special adj
lvocacy.
Mr.. Jessup answered all objection;
to the closing movement. Once mer
chants objected to the six O'Clock
closing. Now none of them would
90 back to the old way. Country
people as well as city people would
soon catch on to the new arrange
ment and there would be no incon
venience at all. Stores observe ma.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
DECORATION DAY.

Saturday, June 3rd brings around
again Confederate Decoration Day,
when loving hands will place flowers
on the grasses of loved ones and
plant another milestone on memory's
highway. The local chapter of the
U. D. c. has always remembered and
celebrated the day and the officers
for this year are anxious that the
celebration shall be in keeping with
past traditions. All veterans with
their wives and families are asked to
meet at 900 O'Clock on Saturday at
the Avalon. At $50 cars will be
waiting to carry the veterans to the
cemetery and the whole gathering
will go in body and services will be
held before the heat of the day. Rev.
A. S. Anderson of Westminster
church will deliver an address APP
propriate to the occasion while other
local ministers will take part in the
further ceremonies. The veterans
will be brought back to the Avalon in
time for dinner. All friends and
well-wishers of these old heroes will
bring well filled baskets and flowers
as in times past 1t is hoped that
there will be a large attendance of
Daughters of the Confederacy and
that every veteran in the county will
be there.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01

the manners and customs in which
they lived and not by those of our
times. In Westinghouse day nearly
all men drank mint iuleps, OCCASION
ally danced, and bet and swore with
out any consciousness Of sin.
No feature of late years has proved
more satisfactory to all concerned
than the Page of Presidents" ITS a
straw to show the direction of the
wind-an idea of merit, furnishing
amusement, instruction and profit to
the readers and indispensable evil
dence of the value of advertising to
the business men participating.
The contestants will soon get a
chance at the SIS gold cash prize to be
given by the Kentuckian in its page
of Presidents" contest.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01

knows how to farm.
Mr.. Geo. r. Pierce is growing al
falfa. Mr.. Miller, on the Canton pike,
| has flock OF Rhode Island Reds.
Mr.. C. R. Bouldin is growing alfal-
| ia. Mr.. j. H. Stevenson, farming
Mr.. Richard Leavell's farm, has a
wonderful field of wheat for this
year.
Mrs. g. E. Brewer is breeding up
fine flock of White Wyandottes.
Mrs. H. |. Minty is improving her
flock Of White Wyandottes with new
blood.
Mr..M. H. Carroll has fine clover
and is fighting grasshoppers to a
finish. Which will VIM
1t is noticeable that there are very
few sheep in Christian county. This
is indeed a mistake, as there is a
world OF shortage of mutton and wool,
and it will take many years to catch
up, il ever. Not eve lamb should
be allowed to leave Christian county
this year,
Mr.. John H. Whites great two
year old filly, Julia Leone, won the
first at Jamaica, N. Y, recently and
third at Belmont in the big stakes
against some of the world champions.
Frank Rives plowed under 40 acres
OF barley. His red clover is waist
high. His alfalfa cannot "be beat. I"
He is one of the best chill farmers"
in the State. He believes in diversi-
fication.
Richard Leavell's fine farm of 1900
acres is looking good these days His
wheat fields are among the best in
the county. His clover fields are won
derful. Mr.. Leavell's system is right
up-to-date, both from business and
agricultural standpoint. His tenants
are his partners.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01

tional holidays now and no one is
Inconvenience. Jewish merchants
observe religious holidays. They do
it from principle and we honor them
for it. No one objects. Banks close
at noon on Saturday, a real inconven-
fence. People adjust themselves to
the closing. The closing plan does
work in other places; there is no rea-
son why it should not work here.
Mr.. Jessup gave the results Of his
interviews with merchants. He had
interviewed thirteen dry goods and
clothing merchants. Ten of them
would go into the closing plan if all
did. Four were doubtful, with a
leaning toward being unfavorable.
OF thirteen grocers interviewed eleven
would enter the plan; two were doubt
full. A few grocers were anxious to
have the closing. Of the four jewel
ers interviewed all would enter the
plan if it were generally observed.
Only one furniture store was inter
viewed and that one would 90 into
the plan if all did. Hardware men
were not interviewed; nor the meat
market men. Summing up Mr.. jess
sup said he believed at least a part Of
the closing might be realized, especi-
Ially among the grocers, and he eX-
pressed the hope that the merchants
if they did not give the.half holiday
by closing, would grant a whole holi
day to half their employees each week
during the summer months.
! At the close of the address an index
vote was taken of the congregation.
Eighty-nine patrons voted in favor Of
the closing. twenty-five clerks voted
for it. Four merchants voted for it.
Only one negative vote was cast. The
others present did not vote.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
ONLY DAUGHTER
OF Mr.. and Mrs. 7. B. At.
kins Dies After Long
Illness.

Ruth Atkins, little daughter OF MIR.
and Mrs. T. B. Atkins, died on Tues
day night at 9:15 at the home of her
parents on the GAINESVILLE Pike, She
had been in poor health for long
time and everything possible had
been done for her relief. About a
year ago she was taken to the Mayo
hospital and her condition was very
sFhuch improved by the treatment
there, and it was hoped that she
would be entirely restored to- health.
Whooping cough contracted during
the winter, however, undermined the
strength that had been gained and in
spite of the constant care and atten-
Stion of devoted parents, friends and
physicians the end was inevitable.
The sympathy of the entire commune
ty is given to the parents in this loss
of their only daughter. Two little
boys survive. Little Ruth was ten
years old on the Doth of last Novem-
Der. Funeral services at the ceme-
terry at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
How's This (?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
r. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned. have known +. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able TO carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
uous surfaces of the system. Testimonials
nj free Price 20 cents per bottle. Sold
20 all Druggists.
Fake Halls Family Pills for Constipation
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
ANNOUNCEMENT.

| wish to announce to my
friends that / am now with the
Reach Furniture Company. a.
MANAGER of their Undertaking
Department, which has been re-
Gently added.
Mrs. Twyman, who is a reg
ularly licensed Embalmer. will
act as one of my assistants.
J. w. TWYMAN.
Residence Phone 272,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
Woman Jailer.

Mrs. A. w. Stone, of Eddyville, is
the only woman jailer in Kentucky.
She sent in her first claims to the
State Auditor this month. Her hus-
band was iailer and when he died she
was appointed to fill the vacancy.
There are thirteen candidates for the
Office entered in the August primary.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
SOUTH CHRISTIAN NOTES.

Magnificent clover crop Of the
county worth many thousands.
More grasses for Christian county.
Among the farmers of South Chris
tan who are paying especial attention
to legumes and permanent meadows
is Mr.. NJ. A. Mason, who has a four
year old meadow (Wingo Mixture).
He will SOW a lot Of Crimson Glover
and Alfalfa this summer, and is plan
ming an up-to-date hog forage and
feeding demonstration. He has
fine farm, well managed, and a beau
tiful home in the midst of splendid old
forest trees.
In the same neighborhood DR.. Bell
has fine farm. Mr.. Tom E. Rober S
is operating the farm and has good
field of wheat.
King Peacock, tlie fine stallion, the
property of Mr. B. P. Eubanks, is a
splendid looking fellow, and is in fine
fettle. He is a good one and has won
many premiums. See him.
Coming in from South Christian on
the GAINESVILLE pike, beautiful homes
greet ones eyes. Mr.. r. H. Rives
has a fine home on fine farmers
farm. Mr.. Rives is a believer in live
stock and soil Improvement.
Mr.. H. |. Minty has a fine home,
good cattle and is improving his farm.
Messrs. j. j. Robertson, w. H. King,
j. j. Van Cleve and Fred Harmed,
are among the very best farmers in
the State. MIR. Robertson mas spien-
did young cattle, also Mr.. Van Cleve.
Mr.. Hugh Henry works his stallion
on the farm, and it is good idea;
gives vitality and stamina. Mr.. Henry
knows how.
Coming on in one sees Judge w.
T. Fowler's handsome home. Judge
Fowler is what is usually called an
agriculturist lone who has other
means of support. But the Judge
knows his business, even though he
is lawyer. He has a fine flock of
sheep, the best paying animal on the
farm.
Nuke Nelson has the best barley in
the county, and plenty Of fine clover
and FISH.
On the Renshaw farm thrives the
prettiest pony on earth. He is stall
lion, wonderfully marked, and his
colts favor him. Some great Rhode
Island Reds also reside there, and we
see as well beautiful field of alfalfa.
Mr.. Guy Startling, another agricul-
turist, is developing into soil builder
of the highest order. He has nine
acres of alfalfa, and twenty-five of
Red Clover on a 70-aere farm. He is
having his crops and farm cultivated
by a good tenant. He will SOW Sweet
Clover in washes this year. Watch
him grow.
Mr.. Henry Altsheler will make you
sit up and take notice. He is sowing
lime rock (2a tens per acre. ON cow
pea ground to DE turned under for
alfalfa. He will crush lot OF rock
this year on his own farm, and it is
predicted he will make one Of the
very best citizens the county affords.
You can learn something from him.
Talk 20 him.
Mr.. j. C. johnson has lot of fine
wheat and clover, as well as an alfalfa
field of several years standing. (An-
other argriculturist who know how to
farm.
| DR.. T. w. Blakey is also an agri-
culturist, who appreciates alfalfa, and
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01
SUMMER HOURS.

Carnegie Library will be open
during the summer months from $3.50
to IL o'clock, and from 3 to 6:30p. m.
MRS. VIRGINIA LIPSCOMB,
Librarian.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-01

folks bumped up. with cork. screwed
faces, gouging,. picking, drilling out
toes with plasters. bandages, tape and
contraptions,-and the "holler" in
their corns goes on foreverl Don't
Gus, Simple, never fails Apply IL in
2 seconds. Nothing to stick to the
stocking, hurt or irritate the toe.
Pain stops. Corn comes "clean off,"
quick. It's one OF the gems OF the
world. Try it--you'll kick-from Joy. For
corns, calluses. warts, bunions.
"Gets-It" is sold everywhere, Csc a
bottle, or sent direct by +. Lawrence
& Co., Chicago. Ill.
Sold in Hopkinsville and recon-
mended as the world best corn rem.
edy by l.. L. Elgin and j. o. Cook.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-02-18
0 0 o o o o o Q 0 .
FACTORY HOME WORK.
An Outrageous System of Industry
That Should Be Eliminated.

An Outrageous System of Industry
That Should Be Eliminated.
Six dollars a week is admittedly
starvation wages. Such an employer,
you say, ought either to pay his men
a living wage or shut up shop. But
what of the man who pays what APP
parently is the accepted minimum
wage in New York-$1. so day."
This question Is put to the public by
the New York Charity Organization So
ciety in the annual report of it's de-
partment of general work just issued.
The society answers it's own question
thus:
In our experience this is not enough
to maintain the average family two
adults and, three children in New York
city according to American standards
of decency. Health, education, NOR
ais, one or ALL are almost certain to
break under such a wage. Sooner or
later sickness. malnutrition, low vital
ity or bad housing bring the family to
charity for help"
Several other problems met by the
society in its work are stated in a sim
liar effort to arouse thinking on the
part Of the public. One of these is
factory home work. Such work, says
the society, lis outrageously underpaid.
1t involves long hours. 1t induces
child labor-despite the most careful
inspection. 1t makes real home life
impossible. If not the result, it is at
least the corollary of low wages paid
to men. . .
Home working women. isolated as
they are from one another. have no
means OF organization. no way of en-
forcing demands upon the contractors
who employ them. Factory home work
just because it is done at home defies
effective regulation. There is only one
alternative-factory home work must
be abolished"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-02-18
THE GAY STATESMAN.
A Tribute to the Versatile Genius of
Alexander Hamilton.

because no man can live exclusively
to himself either for good or evil. with
every mention of Burr's name the fig
ure Of Hamilton rises, an avenging
ghost. Even before that precocious
young native of the West Indies walk
ed into our military history at Prince
ton, lad only nineteen, lost in thought.
a cooked hat pulled down over his eyes
while his hand rested upon a cannon
that he patted absentmindedly as If
it were fayorite horse. he had done
valiant work for American liberty with
his pen. From the time he touched
our shores to the July morning more
than thirty years later when Burrs
bullet laid him low he was a force to
be reckoned with
And his was one of those natures.
keenly alive on many sides, whose as
tonishing maturity of intellect did not
snuff out the zest of life He became
my boy to Washington very early
In his service worked willingly at
headquarters day In and day out with
sober application equal to Washing
tons own, yet contrived to snatch from
such never ending drudgery youths
dear and fleeting joys He brought
gayety even to Washington's mess ta-
Bile, courted black eyed Elizabeth
Schuyler under the muzzles of British
guns and in the years of their mar
ried life together managed with all
his prodigious labors to bend social
graces as well as the solid qualities of
his mind to enriching their days and
nights.
Besides being great statesman, he
was ian enjoying gentleman" to use
the quaint old phrase. Talleyrand
corrupt and appreciative, looked upon
him with amazement. III await divine
PEurope," he said, which, from a Eu-
ropean of that day, about an American
was near the highest praise Hamil-
tons management of the treasury,
without breath Of scandal or self seek
Ing, filed the Frenchman with even
greater astonishment. Il have beheld
one Of the wonders of the world" he
exclaimed-'a man who has made a
nation rich laboring all night to pro-
vide his family with bread Helen
Ntcolay In Century.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-02-18
Women. TONGUES, of Nassau.

You emerge from the custom house
shed OF Nassau OF the Bahamas into
the warm, spicy murmur of the negro
thronged street that tells you that you
are in the tropics This murmur you
soon perceive is compounded Of a curl
Gus soft shuffling OF feet-the effect Of
the loose down at heel shoes or slippers
affected by the negroes-the soft, COO
ing darky voices, pathetically childlike
and friendly. to which a note of ex-
hilaration is added by breezy rat
Ting overhead that puzzles you till you
discover its origin in the great bean
pods OF the poinciana trees. "Women's
tongues" the natives call them. be-
cause of their keeping up this continu-
Gus streamlike chatter even on the
stillest day.-Richard LIE Gallienne In
Harpers Magazine
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-02-18
CARLYLE AND HIS WIFE.
A Glimpse of the III Assorted Coupl,
and Their Home Life.


1t is certain that the Carlyles were
an I'll assorted couple. She considered
from the beginning that to marry him
was an act of condescension on her
part. The daughter of country doc
tor of Haddington had descended from
the skies, like Diana to Endymion, to
marry the son of a stonemason. -
But he loved her and was happy In his
love.
Not so she Jealous of him as she
was-furiously jealous-not as q lover.
for there she knew she was safe. But
she could not bear to think that If she
were famous II was as his wife, where
as she, knowing herself TO be brilliant,
would faip have had him to be known
as the husband Of that wonderful Mrs.
Carlyle. 1t was his success, social and
literary, that she resented. It irked
her TO be in the second place, and she
could not forgive it. -"
There was something else OF which
the lady was jealons. and that was the
agony OF concentration which her hus-
bands work meant for him. At mo-
ments her ''saeva indignatio" against
that Carlyle" as che would contemp-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-02-18
THIS PLANT Is A THIEF.
Dodder Steals All the Digested Fooe
of It's Clover Neighbors.

Dodder Steals All the Digested Food
of Its Glover Neighbors.
Possibly he's too lazy to feed him
self, or it may be that he came from
a family of criminals and can't over
come his heredity. At any rate. he's
a robber, thief and plunderer None
Of these names is too severe, and If
you doubt it ask the farmer, who
knows him for the damage he does
every year to the clover and alfalfa
crops The plant is the dodder
Perhaps we can forgive the dodder
for not preparing his own food, for he
has nothing to prepare it with. Nearly
all plants have chlorophyll, the sub
stance which makes plants green and
digests the food which they take from
the ground and the air, The dodder
has no chlorophyll.
SO 1t has to turn robber to live After
the seed springs from the ground the
dodder vine reaches out until it touches
some other plant clover, for example
1t attaches itself to the clover stem by
its tiny rootlets and begins to eat the
food which the clover has taken and
digested
After awhile the root withers and
dies, and the vine keeps reaching out
for more victims. binding them to-
gether with its tiny threads. You prob
ably have seen the small, pale, bell
shaped flowers climbing over field of
clover.
Once dodder gets a hold in a clover
field the farmers only escape is to cut
clover and dodder alike and burn the
crop. And the farmer believes this
death none too horrible for the little
robber vine.-P Philadelphia North Amer
lean
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-02-18
How She Won Sher;dan.

Harriet Mellon, the old time English
actress. did not lack astuteness. even
at seventeen. Her admirable answer to
Sheridan when he asked her to read
the part Of Lydia Languish In THE
Rivals" with view to proving her fit
ness for Drury Lane. could not have
been bettered by ripe diplomat:
Il dare not, sir, for my life. would
rather read 1t to all Englane. Suppose.
sir, you dM me the honor Of reading IL
to mer
Delightedly Sheridan acceded and.
after reading nearly the whole Of the
play, enrolled her In the Drury Lane
comnany.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-02-18
MARvELS OF ACCURACY.
Wonderful instruments In Uncle Sans
Bureau of Standards.

Standing on one of the many high
hills that fringe the nations capital is
group of buildings that house one of the
greatest aggregate Of wonder work
ers in the new world. In their en-
chanted chamber truth makes fiction
seem tame and commonplace. Men
make fairies appear. weak. insipid and
impotent as doers of strange things
Entering. one may see grain of
sand become a mountain. an inch be-
come mile. an unappreciable zephyr
become a bowling storm. the football
Of fly become the laundering tread
OF a draft horse upon thrashing floor
the heat of candle roaring furnace
the unperceived warmth of star a
cheering fireside and the pressure of
a finger the force of thousand giants
in one.
These enchanted chambers are the
creation of the United States bureau
Of standards.
Here can be seen instruments Of
such delicacy and precision that the
mind at first fails to grasp the full sig
nfficance of what they can accomplish
In one room is a balance so sensi
tive that the mere presence of the op-
orators body generates an amount of
heat sufficient to disturb its accuracy.
In another there Is one so delicately
adjusted that it shows the los. OF
weight due TO the reduction of the
earth's attraction when two pieces Of
metal are weighed one upon another
instead of side by side
Remarkable beyond the imagination
are the heat measuring instruments
which register infnitesimal fluctua-
tions OF temperature. \ ray of light
may have started ten years ago from
some distant star and may have spent
all of those ten years hurting earth
ward bound through space at a gait
so astounding that it could girdle the
globe I'm far less time than it takes to
blink the eye Yet when it falls upon
the sensitive bolometers at the bureau
of standards they will tell the OBJ
server how much heat that ray brought
with it from the star TO the earth.
Such are a few OF the most delicate
instruments. But there are others
which are as powerful as they are sen
sitive.
In the engineering laboratory there
Is huge testing machine which can
tear apart the strongest steel girders
used In building great skyscrapers,
while on the floor above are little cleo
trical furnaces capable OF generating
heat intense enough 10 melt the most
refractory materials. The bureau can
measure accurately cold great enough
to liquefy the very air we breathe and
heat which can melt solid rock Ma
tional Geographic Magazine.