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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02

- AS you all know the primary cleo.
ton comes off Saturday and at that
you are to nominate candi-
date for the State Senate.
Some people say that | have not
asked. them to vote for me, II is en-
barrassing for me TO make a personal
canvass for votes in my home county
and I-take this method of asking eve-
nv Democratic vuter in Christian cOun-
ty for their support for the Democrat
ic nomination for the State Senate at
Saturdays primary election.
| have been raised in Christian
county and myself and all my people
have been closely identified with the
county and the City of Hopkinsville
for more than forty years; we have
traded at home and supported its in
stitutions at all times and have made
an honest effort to do my ;Shole duty,
both in public and private life.
We will have many>serious ques-
tons to come before the next session
ofthe legislature and ! believe that my
experience as lawyer, a conserva-
tive business man and as your repre-
sentative in the 1906 and 1908 ses-
sions of the legislature has equipped
me to look after the interests of my
district and my State intelligently, and
L know6I viii look after same earnest
Iy and dnseldshly.
Thanking you for any vote OF con-
6knce you may give me, am,
Yours sincerely,
so FRANK RIVES. !
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Battle In Galicia;
Traitors Were Shot.

Petrograd, July 30.-Accounts Of
the battle in Galcia which have reach :
ed here say the cavalrymen { ught
like heroes. Cossacks, cooperating
with Russians and British motor cars,
defended the Sereth line as long as
the least hope remained. tits report
ed that artillerymen on their knees
implored the infantry to save their
guns, but that the infantry did not
heed them.
General Korniloff's orders to shot t
traitors and marauders are being car
ried out.
The commander Of grenadier div =
sion has been removed for refusir g
to fire on deserters.
The fifth cyclist battalion foug. t
most bravely. 1t kept off three Ger
man regiments with IFS machine gul
and carbines and mac e several bayo-
net charges afoOt. In ole attack tne
men rode Their bicycles.
Some sections of the battalion lost
80 per cent. of their officers.
A member OF the Duma, who has
returned from the Divisk front, states
that after Russian shock battalions
had captured very important German
positions, it was discovered in several
instances that signalling to the Ger
mans was going on from the Russian
rear.
Belgian ertillerymen and mechani-
cal experts in Petrograd, many of
whom were wounded on the User or
at Ypres, are forming battalion of
death" to give an example of military
valor on the Russian front.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Bonds for Sale.

A few thousand dollars Of
Hopkinsyille Water Co. S per
cent Bonds tor sale at par. A
safe and very desirable invest
ment.
T. w. MORRIS, Treas.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
AN EXAMPLE TO Be tMULATED.

In raising by nearly $1,000 more
than the necessary $4,000 to COM
plete the tuberculosis Sanatorium,
Fayette county showed what any
community can do when fully made
to realize the duty that it owes to suf-
fering humanity in fghtinga plague
that it has been proved can be con-
trolled with the saving of thousands
OF lives and hundreds of thousands in
money yearly.
The Fayette' Sanatorium will be
opened next week for fifty patients,
who will be treated free of charge,
in buildings arranged with every
modern suggestion for the treatment
of consumption and presided over by
a doctor who has had life long train
ing in one of the most noted sanatori-
ums in the county. DR.. w. L. Heiz-
err Secretary of the Kentucky Tuber-
culosis Commission, took part in the
campaign to raise the money and
aided largely in awakening the people
to the insidious foe which turks in
the atmosphere and is liable to strike
down the rich or the poor. He will
take pleasure too in aiding any other
county that decides to build sanato
rum, which every county ought to do.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Times Have Changed.

Three years ago the Germans had
inaugurated their mighty campaign
which was to take Paris in three
weeks. Today dug in" on the des-
perate defensive. they must content
themselves with the ventures Of a
hy-by-night aircraft dropping stray
bombs on the noncombatants Of the
city.-Courier-J0urnal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02

McCracken county win plant 1000
acres Of strawberries.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Woman Spy.

A military court at Paris Friday con-
demned to death for espionage dan
Ger known as Mata Hari. who before
her marriage was Marguerite Zell.
She was born in the Dutch Indies and
Gains Dutch nationality.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Wood Alcohol

Evansville, Ind, July 30.-Craw-
ford Scho6eld, private in battery B.
United States Artillery, near Mission.
Tex, whose body was shipped here
from Ell Paso. Tex, died of poison
ing from wood alcohol. according to
the death certificate.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Came To Die.

'Thos. Sears, 60 years Of age died
July 20 at the State Hospital from
Tuberculosis Of the throat. He had
been at the institution only 8 days,
having been brought there from
Paducah. Interment was at the
burying ground.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
U-boats Can't Do 1t.

Vice Admiral Macmillan Nigevoan,
commander of the Austrian fleet, in
an interview to the Neue Frese Presse
declared he did not believe that sub
marines would bring about a decision
in the war.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Compromised For $2,250.

Jas. B. Allensworth has returned
from Chicago, where he compromised
a railroad damage claim for the death
of young man at Streator, ILL.,, an
adopted son of E. l. Gouhot, for ST.
$50.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
US Finds Tetanus in Court
Plaster.

Washington, July S0.--Court plas-
ter, said to have been distributed by
German sympathizers, has been found
on chemical analysis by the depart
ment Of justice to contain teanus
germs. Attorney General Gregory
today warned the public to use only
court plaster from reliable sources.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Just As Siam.

The Siamese minister has presented
to the Austro-Hungarian misister
Slams declaration of war against the
dual monarchy. The note was dated
July %.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02

w. F. Sheridan is the new Super
intendent Of the Louisville division of
the L. & N. He is a member Of tte
lodge Of Elks here.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Joined the Army.

Herbert Shaber, of Alexandria,
KY, who was elected principal for the
Sebree high school for the coming
fall and winter term. has rendered his
resignation, having joined the army.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02
Negro Killed.

William Mckinney, a negro. was
killed by local |. C. freight train at
Cerulean Springs. Mckinney was
trying to get on the caboose Of NOV
ing train.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-02

8Howard Morehead saved Miss Edna
Boone from drowning in the Ohio
river at Louisville, and lost his own
life.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
UNNECESSARY LANGUAGE

Section l. The Select and Common
Councils Of the City of Philadelphia do
ordain That the Director of the Depart.
ment of City Transit be requested to
prepare and present to Councils as speed
lily as possible, so that the same may be
submitted TO the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company for its acceptance Or
rejection, as required by the 1907 con-
tract lease fair alike TO the city and
Transit Company Of the city's high-speed
lines.
THERE is on record an opinion by for
L mer City Solicitor Ryan to the effect
that the city is not required to offer a
lease Of the new lines to the p. r. r. If
it itself intends to operate the sys-
tenn. We see no reason. therefore, for
the inclusion in the proposed ordinance
quoted above, of the words 'as required
by the 1907 contract" These words are
in no wise essential TO the purpose Of the
ordinance and they may be construed
as an abandonment of the city's right to
operate it's own lines without considera
tion of the p. r. T. We suggest, there
fore, that they be omitted
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
GROUCHES WIN NO WARS

THE partisan and almost aslnine cam
L paignlng Of Senator Lewis in the re-
cent congressional fight in New Hamp'
shire was the incentive for the equally
unfortunate attitude assumed by Senator
Harding yesterday in the Senate. II II
we're true that the Government were
having difficulty in floating the loan on
account OF want Of confidence in the Ad-
ministration, the patriotism which would
emphasize the fact is the sort Of patriot
ism not wanted in the United States Just
now. We have not system of govern
ment which will permit such lightning
changes as are possible in England. The
President will be President for four more
years. and IL is under him that the ma.
tion must wage war
To give the impression either to Amer.
leans or to our enemies that the nation
has no faith or confidence In It's elected
leader is to play the German game and
lend strength to the German arms. We
take no pride in that kind OF activity,
and we take no stock in the pessimism
which assumes that tho loan will be Il
failure. 1t will not be n failure. our
special correspondent in New York points
out elsewhere in the EVENING LEDGER
today that the loan will. in fact, be over
subscribed.
II certain subordlnates of the President
selected on "a peace basis, prove to be in
competent-and 1t would be miracle If
all OF them were competent war admins
trators--they will be dropped into pri-
vate life. The severely logical and scien'
tifc manner in which the President has
the Government since the
declaration OF war Is an earnest Of that
1t is not patriotism for any man Of au.
thority in the meantime to embarrass tho
or do aught to divert the
nation from its supreme effort to make
ready.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
WHAT SIXTY BELLS DID

"The next time I take a cargo Of locomo-
tives across" said the skipper of British
merchantmen in port here recently, 'ths
bells will all be silenced with wadding.
"On our last trip over we left Philadel-
pha with sixty locomotives all encased in
huge wooden boxes. intact and ready to be
taken off the ship and placed Immediately
on the tracks to start dragging ammunition
trains to the front. Labors scarcer In
France than it is here and they've no time
to fit locomotives together there,
THE Delaware was as smooth as a pond
as we made our way down to the bay, but
the first wavelets that struck us at the
Capes started something that made ms
want to take a header off the bridge. Every
one of the sixty locomotive bells in the hold
began to ring! And they all kept ringing
all day and all night all the way across the
Atlantic.
AT first thought of going back to dock
to have the bells taken off. But that would
have amounted virtually to unloading the
whole cargo, because of the manner "a
which the locomotives were slowed. II
would have meant a weeks delay, ana
was supposed to get to sea as quickly a.
possible. So we put out that night win
those sixty mad bells going hammer anu
tongs continuously.
II thought we would all lose our senses
Sleep was out of the question. 1t was ike
ringing eight bells eighty times minute
in sixty different keys. You've seen slr
Henry Irving in that play called The Bells
Well, it was like that only this was no play,
but real life. 1t seemed, as one member Of
the crew who is by far too imaginative SAID
as If the ghosts of all the murdered ships
were changing up at us out of the depths
of the ocean. warning us of the U-botu
that had Uttered the sea floors with thele
bones
I'VE fell in with some nasty weethes ?.
we neared the other side. The vessa
rocked and tossed, and every time she
plunged a whole cataract of bells went tear
ing down toward perdition We're In me
U-boat zone, remarked the man at ths
wheel to me one night. 'Goodr l cried
hope torpedo hits us soon Then perhaps
I'll get some sleep
''rhe destroyers that met us didn't know
what TO make OF us, They thought we nag
all gone crazy drunk and were trying 70 ien
the U-boats exactly whore we were. But
told them was cured Of the fear f|
u-boats forever"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
A MAN-MADE EARTHQUAKE

OBSERVERS Of Haig's drive in Belgium
~ said the ground shook as if there had
been an earthquake when hundreds Of
tons of explosives tore up the land for
miles. News dispatches indicate that
more German lives were lost in this man.
made eruption than there were deaths
In the earthquake in Salvador. 1t took
two years to plant some Of those mines;
only two seconds TO explode them. Thou
sands of workers tolled, hundreds Of
thousands of dollars were spent, to pro-
duce this swiftly wrought military sue
cess. This blasting of the worlds enemy
out Of Belgium seems to require an imi-
tation of grim Natures own processes.
At least this incident will give us some
intimation of the heavy toll and patient
preparation that must be undertaken to
accomplish our immense task
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
SHALL A GIANT BE DRIVEN BY
PIGMIES?


THE confidence Of the nation in the
l. perspicacity, judgment and ability Of
General Goethals is absolute and fixed.
His prompt dismissal of Eustis and Clark,
whose anxiety to catapult themselves into
public notice tended to impede rather
than hasten the shipbulding program.
is a disciplinary measure of Importance
to the general wellbeing of the nation.
It is the fate of men who do things to
be the target OF loose-tongued enthusiasts
and theorists. Occasionally these gadnies
of civilization need attention. and the
prompt exposure of their littleness Is In
structive TO the public.
General Goethals, as a matter of fact.
has not stood in the way Of any wooden
ship program that seemed to be at all
reasonable Last Monday, for instance,
he placed an order with the Southern
Pine Association for lumber for 100 ships.
It is a matter Of common knowledge that
numbers of wooden vessels are actually
in process Of construction. But General
Goethals undoubtedly has the support of
the country in his refusal to spend mil
lions on an impractical and visionary
scheme, from which no good results could
be apprehended. He also has the support
Of the nation in his refusal to be harried
by his subordinates, particularly when
those subordlnates rush into print with
attacks full of misrepresentation and gall
Wherefore should a giant be driven by
plgnies?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
SPRING RAIN,

though 1 had forgotten,
But 1t all comes back again
Tonlght with the first spring thunder
In rush Of rain.
remembered darkened doorway
mi, Where we stood while the storm swept bv
Thunder gripping the earth ''' 0S
Ana lightning scrawled on the sky.
The passing motoTbuses swayed.
For the street was river Of rain
Lashed into little golden waves
In the lampllght's stain.
with the wild spring rain and thunder
My heart was wild and gay;
Your eyes said more TO me that nigbt
Than your lips could ever say
/ thought l had forgotten,
But Il all came back again
Tonight with the irst spring thunder
In a rush Of rain,
SARA Teasdals, IL the Century.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

PASTE THIS ON YOUR LIBERTY BONr
We hope no one missed the story of
Nathan Gender, born in Russia, of
Jewish blood, who now lives in a little
Minnesota town. Some one suggested to
him that he dispose of his scrap iron
before the Government decided TO come
along and take II at its own price. And
that some one heard from Nathan Gender.
American. "If the Government wants
that scrap iron 1t can have IT," he said.
"and / will load 1t on the cars. I have
two or three carloads of auto tires, and
It can have them. too. have n little
money in the bank, and that is at the dis
posal of the Government"
A friend who read of this wrote TO ask
Nate Gender II it were so. This was
his answer:
"You can rest assured that II is so,
as ! owe everything l have to this great
country of the United States. 1 came
here twenty-one years ago. l was seven
teen and didn't speak the American
language. l had nine cents on hand.
Thank the Stars and Stripes, now have
a nice wife and four nice children. We
have a very nice homo, and you can bet
II is a happy home; and we have a host
OF friends. All these things l have ac-
complished under this great flag"
Milwaukee Journal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
UNANIMOUSLY AGAINST dope"

TNHE House yesterday vindicated by
l. unanimous vote the campaign waged
by the EVENING LEDGER for a sensible,
charitable and scientific suppression of
the dope evil. The distinguished COM
pany Of gentlemen who devoted their
time and efforts to bringing about this
desirable result deserve and will receive
the thanks Of the public.
No legislation has been enacted at Har-
risburg during this session more mani
testify in the public interest and more
likely TO be productive Of good results.
The Governor we understand, will give
his prompt approval - the measure when
Il reaches him, and we may reasonably
hope that hereafter the reproach Of being
the narcotic drug center OF the country
vim be removed from Pennsylvania and
Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

General Pershing's establishing of
headquarters (for the time being in Lon
dom in close cooperation with allied com.
mands gives our army the same status
abroad as the dispatch of Admiral Sims
some weeks ago gave to our navy. Even
those who are prone to criticize the Ad.
ninistration agree that no better officers
could be found for these posts. 1t is
most satisfactory to realize that the first
activities of the army soon to go into
training will have been we'll prepared for
by the months of study of conditions at
the front that General Pershing will now
begin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
Ten thousand men will be needed to

Ten thousand men will be needed to
officer the new American merchant
marine, including the German ships taken
over. This city should supply more than
its quota for this service, now that the
United States Shipping Board has decided
TO establish one OF the Governments new
nautical schools at the University of
Pennsylvania. These are emergency
schools. not to be confused with the
schoolship training to be given to boys
by this city and State. For the Govern.
ment schools men up to the age of fifty
are eligible. They will complete the first
part Of their education in sixty or ninety
days. being then sent out to gain practical
experience on board ship. The most apt
Of these pupils should be ready for serv.
ice within year; some, who have had
experience, in much less time. Entering
this service is every bit as patriotic as
enlisting in army or navy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

The venerable superstition that
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions come
as penalties for moral dellnquencles Is
nowhere more fatty confuted than by the
case of Salvador, whose capital city Is re.
ported destroyed by a terrific seismic dis.
turbance. This little land is in many
ways a model among Latin.American re.
publics. 1t has long been prosperous,
well governed and virtually revolution
proof. Its law-abldinG population is the
densest Of any American nation. The soil
Is fruitful, the decorative aspects of ma.
ture truly superb. II has indeed been
pride in the strength of her virtues that
has impelled Salvador TO resist various
tli-digested schemes for a union OF Cen.
tral american States. With more refrac.
tory neighboring republics. Salvador had
naturally no desire TO be linked Earth.
quaikes alone marred the smooth progress
~ her life. In Salvador. that Pacific
coast instability extending from San
Francisco TO Valparaiso reaches its maxi
mum. ReadJustment OF fault" lines has
resulted IN some terrible Salvadorean dis
aeters Volcanoes. too, have contributed
their full share 10 those destructive proc
esses Of nature Twice within approx
lnately nifty years San Salvador. the
ttpllal' has been IN ruins. This last out
tll4t asems b have been one q the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09


1. The Judge Advocate General conducts court
martial prosecutions.
2. The next total eclipse Of the sun will be
June 3. 1918, one year from yesterday.
3, George VI. Dallas, OF PENNSYLVANIA, was
Vice President under Polk.
4. The United States forces in the War Of 1919
consisted of 556,G22 soldiers and 10000
sailors.
.. There have been only three admirals In the
United States nnVy--DaVid q. Farragut
Andrew Hull FOOte and the late GeOrge
Dewey,
g. ST. Alban was the first Christian martyr IN
Great Britain. lie lived In the third
century. For seven years he served under
niOCletan and then embraced Christian
lty. IIe suffered martyrdOm on June 22
30i
7. Albion is the oldest name by which the
island Of Great Britain was known to the
Greeks and Romans. II Is now used only
in poetry.
o. General Joffre planned the defenses Of mod
ern France,
o. Tennessee seeded June g. 1851.
10. The "0ld Lady Of Threadneedle Street" Is
the Bank of England. so called from the
street on which it is located
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

worst in the grim record. although there
is possibility that tho loss Of life has
not been so great as on previous occa-
sions. In any event, the sympathies OF
the greatest American republic should go
out TO its tiny southern nelghbor that has
long striven 30 ably TO uphold the
standards of Western World democracy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
Tom Daly's Column

~ "a M bOmfbhn
See vou TO rs: BE pour ot0n VdletI"
An tCe to Vour banner ,Could rally,
But, Sam, zoe need further Instruction
Before ice get mired IN a ruction.
wed hate to start canning a vdlet
An md he tCds Mn to Mdcdulav.
Ifs fierce to discover pour vdlet
Is some other 1chdt-chd-md az -cdll-it;
IT'S not only tough for the vdlet,
But rough on vour feelings, bv oolly.
We todnt TO get rid Of our Udlet,
But help US IN 1ndrkin' our ballot:
You sure can't erpect US TO bounce hin
UntH tCe knoto hotO TO pronounce hirt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

Maybe It is an age of miracles.
Here are people talking about an inde-
pendent company to raise money to
operate a transit system which certain
experts tell us is to show deficits of mill
lions of dollars annually for years to
come. Who are the optimists who are
going to buy stock in the enterprise and
VINO are the gentlemen who are going to
sell II?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09
When the Germans were under t

Wnen Ln0 toTInanS were uHueT ING
walls OF Paris, captured Lille, the great
Industrial city of northeastern France,
was $50 miles within the Teuton lines.
Now Allied troops are only Ave miles from
the city. This is a direct sequel Of tho
battle Of the Marne. 1t is the supreme
paradox of this war of deadlocks that its
decisive battle was fought one month
after hostilities started.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-09

No one doubts that the doctors Of
the country will respond to the call for
service abroad. because few enter the
medical profession for selfish reasons.
Doctors are used to going where they
are most needed.