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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
QUEEN BY RIGHT OF MIGHT
Ruler Of Cows In Rhone Valley, Swits
zerIand, Must Prove Her Right
TO the Throne.

In the Rhone valley, Switzerland.
an extraordinary ceremony is carried
out every summer. This is the
choosing of a queen COW by the COVE
themselves. A large number of
COWS are assembled in q field I'd
choose their queen. The queen cow
is the one which is strong enough I'd
fight all the other cows off the pas
ture and remain in possession of IL
herself. The owners of the cows are
not allowed to encourage their beasta
in any way.
The honor Of owning queen cow
is keenly coveted by the local herd-
men, and they do everything they
can in order to turn their animal out
a winner. In their eagerness to
bring their beasts fit and well on the
day of battle, many of the herdsmen
feed on bread and wine. The cows
descend from a fighting race, and
are always eager to have a scrap.
The election" of the queen cow
often lasts the greater part of the
day, and is watched BY crowds, who
come to the scene FROM miles around.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
LIKE NOBODY IN HER SET
Remarkable Comment Made by Young
Lady Of Fashion on a Lecture
by Dickens.

Chauncey NJ. Depew, the young
octogenarian, tells the following:
81 once heard Dickens lecture. He
had rare talents both as a speaker
and as an actor. Micawber, Capt
Cutie, Dick Sawyer-he gave in-
imitable impersonations of them all.
l had for my companion a young
lady, a leader in the fashionable set.
'How do you like it?' L said, ems
tranced and delighted. '0h,' shd
remarked coldly, such common peo1
pie are not in my set and 1 neve1
expected to meet them Three hus1
bands, a scandal and a divorce werd
her contributions 20 q novel of So
ciety.
81 also heard Thackeray delivet
his lecture, The Four Georges H4
wanted to do everything that Ameri
leans did and when his host al dini
ner had plate of Saddle Rock oysi
tiers, each as large as his hand, pun
before him, Thackersy said, What
am 1 to do with these?'
"Eat them whole, our way sug1
gested the host.
''Thackeray closed his eyes and9
when the bivalve disappeared, re-
marked: Il feel as if l had swal4
lowed a BABY" !
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
A FEW EPlGRAMS

No man knows exactly how he looks.
A rut is a grave without ends or
top.
Evil commerclallzed is evil en-
throned.
If there were no clouds there would
be no rainbows.
That man is great who has great
friends and great enemies.
Whether a man Is a sneak or u de-
tective depends on his motive.
A true church Is the embodiment Of
the spiritual ideals of the race.
The things which are fundamental
are rooted in the constitution of ma
ture.
When young man goes through col
Iege in an automobile he is moving
some.
Remember that this day-today-ls
the greatest day in the history of the
world.
Nature Is well-dressed-fou changes
Of rniment il the year is the divine
allowance.
Certain women would die happy II
they could see this old world swept
and busted.
A criminal is a pesslmlst-when a
uan believes everything is going wrong
be goes wrong.
4 religious doctrine or theological
dogma. II true, will find its best illus
ration In nature.
Snail men sometimes build great
acme s.-DOctOr Carbon.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
cHILEANs FAVOR AMERICANS.

The young Chilean is rapidly abb
sOrbing American ideas of business
and politics. The Union club, the
most exclusive in Santiago, grants
temporary membership to foreigners.
The majority of these temporary
members are Americans, for the
English and Germans have their own
clubs. Everywhere the American
and Chilean are meeting with in
creased goodfellowship. Last year
two young American engineers rep
resenting a great copper company
gave a Washington's birthday dinner
in Santiago, and all of the guests
were Chileans. One of the Ameri-
cans got into an argument with a
Chilean over some point in revolu-
tionary history. He found that the
Chilean knew more about it than
he did himself. For Washington
and Lincoln are embodiments of ma
tional ideals to the Chileans no less
than to ourselves. There is scarcely
a town in Chile that has not its
"calle Washington" and there are
many statues of Washington in the
larger cities.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11

ferred to him indifferently as the shift
less rover. All how changed, or rath-
er how affectedly changed, were their
sentiments now that rumOr had it that
Uncle Seth was rolling in wealth.
He was n reckless, whole-hearted
soul and he heaped up gifts for his
many pensioners. Each one, down to
the babies, had some kind Of trlnket
set with one of the nuggets discovered
in his mine, a small bagful of which
he had brought East as samples. He
was Toasted, toasted, petted, each one
of the three families We'd with one an
other in outdoing in hospitality. Then
came the disllluslOn.
Seth had gone to the city and had
interested capital. That is, a broker
age house had agreed to furnish ma
Chinery for the mine and build con-
Meeting railroad link across 1t, prOvld-
ed investigation verified his represen-
tation. One fatal word closed this ex-
ploltation and shattered all of the
hopes of the chrysalis CrOesus.
That word was "Salted" Seth had
been "hocused." Some real nuggets
scattered here and there among the
carbOnlferous veins, and the mining
sharks had impoverished gulleless,
credulous old Uncle Seth.
Soon the truth came out. Instead OF
warm roasts among his doting rela-
lives, Seth began to receive cold shout
ders. One by one his former time
serving friends began to edge away
from him. Only one remained true
Allie, the slave of the family. where
she was barely tolerated because she
was a child Of toll.
"rve got a thousand dollars left"
Seth told her. "and I've learned my les
son. l want to adopt you, Allie. and
I'm good for years Of work yet. We
may not live very luxuriously, but Wen
be happy. Ell, little girl2"
"Yes. surely that. dear Uncle" re-
sponded Allie, with her sunshiny ways
and tender smile. I'm famous house
keeper and I'll try TO make you COM
Portable"
Uncle Seth was brisk. original and
tireless. He rented a neat little cot
tage with a patch of land around 1t
and started In to raising medicinal
herbs on CONTRACT for a city chemical
house. The plants required extreme
care, but the promised returns at the
end of the season were large.
One afternoon Allie, gazing down
the road looking for the return of her
uncle from the village, was startled
and terrified TO discover him hanging
limp and helpless In the arms OF a
young man she had never seen before.
She ran out to him. pale and trem-
bling.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
THE THRICE-A-WEEK
EDITION OF THE
new YORK WORLD
IN 1917

Practically a Daily at the Price OF
Weekly. No othersNewspaper
in the world gives so much at so
low price.
The value and need OF newspaper
4 n the household was never greater
n tan at the present time. The great
war in Europe is now half way into
its third year, and, whether peace De
at hand or yet be far off, it and the
events to follow il are sure to be OF
absorbing interest for many a month
to come.
These are Notwithstanding affairs, in
which the United States, willing or
unwilling, is compelled to take part
No intelligent person can ignore such
issues.
THE TRICE-A-WEEK WORLDS
!. regular subscription price is SLIGO
per year, and this pays for LOT
' papers. We offer this unequalled
newspaper and the
HOPKINSVILLE KEN rUCKlAN
CTri-weeKly,)
together for one year for $2.65.
The regular subscription price OF
the two papers is $500
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11

According to Scientists, There Are but
Two coIors for the Eye-Lsw
Of Heredlty.

What is the color Of your eyes?
In the light Of science there are only
two sorts of eyes-blue and not blue.
II is a fact that all eyes are blue or
blue-gray in ground, but a great
many have some other pigment in
front Of the iris. Hence appears a
strange law of heredity.
In a village of Burbage, Leicester
shire, England, recently an interest
ing experiment was made. A group
of members of the British associa-
ton was drawn up in line along one
side of narrow lane.
On the other were marched by,
and halted at intervals, one hundred
or so schoolchildren, distinguished
with various badges.
Ardent Investigators would now
and again advance from the line of
scientists, halt a group Of children,
and inspect with magnlfying glasses
at close quarters their eyes.
1t is asserted that where both par
ents have blue eyes all the children
have blue eyes, and where both par
ents have brown eyes all the children
have brown eyes; but it is where the
parents differ that the alleged law
of heredity is most surprising.
In this case brown eyes are said to
be dominant and blue eyes recessive,
so that of the children of mixed par
ents three of every four will have
brown eyes and one blue.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
Chinese Bean Eaters.

The chief reason why people can live
50 cheaply In China and yet produce,
for that nation a tremendous man;
power, is that they eat beans instead
of meat; but nothing like the navy
bean, which by many people who do
not get much exercise is considered a
rather heavy food. Furthermore. pork
and beans as fed to the men In the
United States army and navy becomes
monotonous after while, even though
the addition of the carbon contained
in the shape of pork fat makes such a
meal possess every element necessary
60 sustain life.-Exchange.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
Pure Gold
By Elizabeth Schoen Cobb
!. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Copyright. 1917. By ". q. chspmanj

copyright. 1917. by W. @. Chapman-l
"The royal lap Of luxury, and fed on
the fat Of the land" Seth Dockrill
would state, with complacent smack
of the. lips, gloating over a fond remi-
nlscence.
snow, husRs and hominyl" he would
add. sorrowfully, but instantly would
brighten up and add, with an express
sion Of reverence and affection upon
his furrowed face, "and AllieT
He designated Allie Bruce, his step
niece. orphaned poor, abandoned by
friends, like himself. And then old
Seth would expatiate upon the virtues
of this paragon of all devoted, unselfish
maldens, bravely, Loyalty steering the
frall bark Of destiny for both.
This had happened: Uncle Seth,
after years Of rowing, had returned to
his native village, according to the To-
cal paper, fabulously rich. When this
hint of opulence was simmered down
to practical basis its essence proved
purely prospective. 1t appeared that
Seth had bought a gold mine in Ari-
zona with the earnings and savings Of
years. He had come East to secure
financial cooperation in developing it.
He had few thousand dollars In
liquid funds as a nucleus for future
operations.
There were three families in Benton
to whom he was kin. They had forgot
ten him for years, they had ever re-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
Growth Of British Debt.

During the year ending March 81.
next. $S,2600OO,0O0 will be added to
the gross debt Of the British govern
ment, according to an estimate by the
London Statist. If this estimate proves
accurate the gross debt will then stand
at S27, 530O00,OO0. OF this sum, how
ever. $7.150.OO0,000 will represent
loans to British allies and domlnions
leaving a net debt OF $20,3S0, 100000.
At the close OF the fiscal year ending
March 81, 1914. the debt totaled S.
256.O0O. 900, so that the war will have
added SIT ,l24. 100000 to the net debt
II hostiiities should continue until
March 81. 1918
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
STATISTICAL NOTES

st. Louis taxable wealth is
now So, 294,S30.
New York has 800 school
teachers not naturallzed.
Chile produces 100000 tons
Of nitrate Of soda yearly.
Argentine yearly exports
100000 wet-salted and dry
hides.
Cooperstown, N. Y, is to have
a new hospital, to cost $250,0O0.
New York In 1866 paid 20
cents a pound for graduated
sugar.
Japan In the next four years
is to send 10000 laborers to Bra
I'll.
British allies this year have
bought 100000 hides in Argen-
tina.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
AROUND THE WORLD

Britain has paper-rags saving cam
paign.
Hawaii produces 70 edible sea-
weeds.
Many women are occupying English
pulpits.
Georgia marble companies have con-
solidated.
Alberta. Canada, is to have q Bel
CLAN colony.
Rome is consuming Increasing guam
titles OF wine.
Missouri gives conviets Saturday,
half holidays.
Hungarian gypsies have fed to Spain
~ escape war seryLce. =
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
l.. & N.

Effective Apr. IS. 1877.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.

- TRAINS GOING SOUIh.
NJ. 90 C. gin. o. Lim.ll2:2l am.
No. 5l-St. L. Express 5:29 p. m.
No. 95-Dixie Flyer 1882 a. m.
No 55--Hopkinsville Ac. 700 a. m.
No. 53-St. L. Fast Mail 5:36 a. m.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
No. &C. & St. L. Lin. 5:29 a. m.
No. Syst. Louis:Express 1920 a m.
No. 94-Dixie Flyer 7:o5 p. m.
No. 56-Hopkinsvile Ac. 1855 .. m
CNo. 54-St. L. Fast Mail lO:l4 p. m.
No. 81 connects at Guthrie for
Memphis and points as far south as
Erin, and for Louisville, Cincinnati
and the East.
Nos. So and IS make direct con-
nection at Guthrie for Louisville,
Cincinnati ard all points north and
east thereof.
No. SO carries through sleepers to
Atlanta, Macon, jacksonville. st.
Augustine. and Tampa, Fla. AL o
Pullman sleepers to New Orleans.
Connect at Guthrie fer points Eas,
and West. No. SO will not carry To-
cal passengers for points north OF
Nashville. Tenn.
w. N. CHANDLER. Ticket Agent.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11

Any skin itching is temper tester.
The more'you scratch the worse it
itches. Doan's Ointment is for piles,
eczema--any skin itchii G. Coo at all
drug stores. -Adver,ise
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
Ma, Mo sIuuer Than His ideal.

You will realize the Vision (not the
idle wish) of your heart, be II base
or beautiful, or a mixture OF both, for
you will always gravltate toward that
which you, secretly, must love. Into
YOUR hands will be placed the exact
results of your own thoughts; you Will
receive that which you earn; no more,
no less. Whatever your present envi-
ronment may be. you will fall. remain
or rise with your thoughts. your
Vision, your Ideal. You Will become
as small as your controlling desire ; as
great as your dominant aspiration
James Allen.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
HORRORS OF WAR.

Ofiicer-That's a pretty awkward
lot you've got there, sergeant.
Sorely Tried Sergeant Major
They are that, sir. It's the likes o
them, sir, that brings 'ome to us
what horrible thing this war is
Passing Show.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11

&AAl AOA NAONho NAAeAN -
Minnesota inventor has patented en-
ahlcs them to change the dates on a
calendar at each midnight.
Norway's abundant deposits of titan
um ore are to be utilized for the manu-
facture of dyes and pigments by re-
Gently formed company.
10 convert a dry battery into Ian
fern there has been invented handle
for carrying an electric lamp, reflector
ana connections for the battery bind
nS posts.
a now picture molding, stamped from
sheet metal, is intended to be nailed
20 wall before the plaster Is applied,
che latter helping to support the weight
1t carries.
4 German inventors potato planter
is featured by hollow wheels through
which the cut tubers are fed into ex-
cuyatlo1s made by spades attached to
the sides of the wheels.
Hollow tile building blocks patented
by an Iowa inventor are provided with
dead air spaces that prevent the en-
trance OF water or even moisture
through the cemented joints.
Experimenting with overhead cur
rents to increase the growth Of plants,
British electricians have made oats
produce about 80 per cent more grain
and SO per cent more straw.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
IT'S A HABIT.

81 got this suit on Friday the
18th"
"Did it bring you bad luckr" !
~Oh, no. l broke the hoodoo By
not paying for the suit" J
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
APPROPRIATE EJACULATION.

Dentist-Are you game, sir? For
you'll have to have all your upper
teeth pulled out.
Patient-Then I'll do it, by gum !
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
NATURAL TASTE.

''That prims donna has such a
liquid voice"
81 suppose that is why the audi
ence is drinking in her notes.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
BY COMPARISON.

"Did you miss your first husband
very much?"
"Not until after l married my
second"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
HOW IT STARTED.

''What do you think of my hus-
bands friends?"
81 don't like to talk about other
women, dear"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
FORCE OF NECESSITY.

81 wonder how the real facts in
that story came to leak out"
II guess it was because 1t
wouldn't hold water"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
WEAK STUFF.

Professor-This poetry In the adj
vertisements make me sick.
Confessor--Yes, it certainly Is ad,
verso.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11
NEW THINGS UNDER SUN

An attachment for clocks that
Minnesota Inventor has patented en-
lhlcs them to change the dates on a
calendar at each midnight.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11

A criminal is a pesslmlst-when a
uan believes everything is going wrong
he goes wrong.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11

4 religious doctrine or theological
dogma, If true, will find its best illus
ration in nature.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-11

Srall men sometimes build great
acme s.-DoctOr Carbon.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-12-20
KIDNEY SUFFERERS HAVE
FEELING OF SECURITY

You naturally feel secure when you
know that the medicine you are about to
take is absolutely pure and contains no
harmful or habit producing drugs.
Such a medicine is DR.. Kimer's Swamp
Root, kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The same standard of purity, strength
and excellence is maintained in every
bottle of Swamp-Root.
Swamp-Root is scientifically compound
ed from vegetable herbs.
1t is not a stimulant and is taken in
teaspoonful doses.
1t is not recommended for everything.
According to verified testimony it is
natures great helper in relieving and over
coming kidney, liver and bladder trou-
bles.
A sworn statement of purity is with
every bottle of DR.. Kilmers Swamp
Root.
If you need medicine, you should have
the best.
If you are already convinced that
Swamp-Root is what you need, you will
find it on sale at all drug stores in bottles
of two sizes, medium and large.
However, if you wish first to try this
great preparation send ten cents to DR.
kilmer & Co., Binghanton, N. Y, for 9
sample bottle. When writing be sure anc
mention this paper.-Adv.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-12-20
Small Presentations.

Many physicians have a habit of
writing prescriptions without calcu-
lating the quantity of medicine their
patients are to take. This leads to a
great waste of drugs and much I'M
necessary expense. Which leads the
New York Medical Journal to urge
physicians to be more careful.
Another evil result of this far too
common practice. is that partly used
prescriptions are stored away in the
medicine chest, and next time the pa
tient has, or thinks he has, the same
symptoms, he takes What he supposes
to be the same medicine.
But the chief reason why physi-
clans should not prescribe four or six
ounces when they know only one or
two will be used. is that 1t is wasting
the drugs and making the patient pay
far more for his medicine than is al
all necessary.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-12-20
No Time to Make a Swap.

An Indiana man was travelling down
the Ohio ON steamer with a mare and
two-year-old colt when by a sudden
careen of the boat all three were tilted
into the water. The Hoosier, as he
rose putting and blowing above water,
caught hold of the tail of the colt, not
having a doubt but that the natural in
stinct of the animal would carry him
safely ashore. The old mare made for
the land, but the frightened colt swain
Justify down the current widl its owner
still hanging fast. Let 90 of the colt
and hang onto the mare :" shouted
some of his friends. Boob. ~ ex-
claimed the Hoosier. spouting the wa
ter from his mouth its mighty fine
telling me to let go the colt but to q
man who can't swim this amt exactly
the time for swapping horses"
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-12-20
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

Has been used for all ailments that
are caused by disordered stomach
and inactive liver, such as sick head
ache, constipation, sour stomach,
nervous indigestion, fermentation of
food, palpitation of the heart caused by
gases in the stomach. August Flower
is gentle laxative, regulates digestion
both in stomach and intestines, cleans
and sweetens the stomach and alimen-
tary canal, stimulates the liver to Sc
crete the bile and impurities from the
blood. Sold in all civilized countries.
30 and 90 cent bottles.-Adv.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-12-20
Gypsies' Christmas.

The gypsy Christmas is love feast
and carnival in one. The wandering
folk come together in tribal celebration
to choose their queen for the beginning
year. Each clan has its own usages
and superstitions. In Roumania the
cradle, so they say, of nomadism, the
gypsy queen is crowned with roses. and
roses tip her scepter and her wand. In
place of holly and mistletoe the hardy
little rosebud which blossoms at this
season on the apex of the hills is hon
ored not for its sweetness merely, but
because of a fair Christmas legend
which the gypsy folk would make dis
tinctively their own.-Chicago Tribune.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-12-20
MEMORY MAPS" ARE FREAKS
Try to Draw Outlines of the Various
Countries and You VIII Be Sur
prised at Your Ignorance.

A man and wife sat at the table at
their home trying to draw the outline
map of Europe, from memory. OBJ
serves the Ohio State Journal. They
soon found that they knew little about
lit. They had been reading of European
events for years, and yet when they
came to putting their mind picture OF
the continent on paper they forgot their
geography entirely. The man had read
Anabasis and Homer In the original
and yet put Greece between the Adri-
at1c and the coast of Spain, and left
Austria out altogether. The wife had
Spain and France side by side on an
east and west line, with Belgium to the
north, covering both, while she made
the boot of Italy a fashionable $40
galter Anyone looking at the two
maps could tell they were not of
America or Asia, but of where, he
couldn't say.
But seriously, it Is delightful
amusement and might with profit be In
dulged in more. After one gets through
with Europe, take the other continents
and the countries that belong to them.
And then one might come nearer home.
1t would be really sad to\ observe the
ignorance concerning our own local.
ties. but it would be amusing, too. Just
for fun, have a company draw maps of
Great Britain and Ireland, or Turkey,
China, Kansas and Nebraska, Louis
lana, Delaware, ETC., and much sur
prised you will be to see how this old
earth had changed since you trusted
1t to your memory.