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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26

The political wizard of one OF
the Louisville papers pauses to
remark: with the entry of X
It. Taylor, a well known CONNER
cial traveller and Democrat OF
Fulton, the Legislative race in the
First District, Fulton and Hick-
man Counties, becomes triangu-
lar fight. Bob Taylor has long
been actively identified with
party affairs in Southwestern
Kentucky, and the first plank An
his platform is the submission OF
Statewide prohibition amend
ment to the people of Kentucky.
The same position on this questio,
is being taken by his opponents
for the nomination, Ote Piper
and w. l.. Hillman, both of Hick-
man County. The entry of Mr.
Taylor makes the first from Full
ton County. Little attention Is
paid in that district to rotation
between the two counties IN the
matter of choosing "a Representa-
tive in the Legislature.
The Charleston Republican sls-
pended publication last week, ON
account of the high cost OF pa
per. The Republican was found
ed in 1906 by G. N. Stille, and
was for years the only party or
gan in Southeast Missouri, with
the exception of the Cape Glrar-
deau Republican. The suspen-
sion leaves the local field exclu-
sively to the Enterprise Courier.
A young society woman went
into Kansas City drug store re-
Gently to buy a bath sponge she
asked the clerk to give her .
sponge bath. The clerk tainted.
Graham -FOUR n u pound saekl
|at Bondr,ant'a
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26

A tax of two cents a pound on
all cotton raised in the United
States is the novel suggestion of
Il. j. White, a prominent cotton
buyer Of jackson, as means of
revenue and to induce the firm
ers TO reduce their acreage and
produce more food.
Astronomers say great big
comet is coming toward US at the
rate of more than a million miles
. day and will soon be seen IN
the NWtwestern sky for the
next three months. IL will be at
its best in June.
Morley Bradley, of Columbus,
Ky, was here last Friday in a
gasoline boat, stopping here for
. few hours. He IL distributing
free pumpkin seed 10 river towns
for the j. +. Polk Canning Com
pany.
Mrs. j. A. Carter, after AN
operation for appendicitis at a
Union City hospital, is reported as
improving nicely.
Fresh candies and cigars at the
Busy Bee.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26

As a patriotic move to assist in
raising food products, Police
hief Luther Graham, of Paducah,
has publicly announced his per-
mission for the people to kill
chickens entering gardens and
authorizes the public to throw
the dead fowls back into the
yards of the owners. Numerous
complaints of tresspassing chick
ems have been made at the police
station and Chief Graham said
that this would be the best way
of stopping the chicken nuisance
and helping those who desired to
raise gardens. The lawsuits re
sulting will cost more than both
chickens and gardens are worth
Money for 20 years-yes, How
ard & Burney, at Union City,
will let you have it, and you can
pay any amount of it back at any
time after one year; money on
government plan, pay once each
year. Low rate Of interest, but
little cost to get it. See them at
once Loans in Fulton or Obion
Counties.
The Courier has the agency
for the best house in the country
supplying loose leaf ledgers
binders, etc., also regular and
special forms of ruled leaves fol
same.
The death Of Mrs. Artie Reeds
widow of the late A. G. Reeds
took place at her home in Union
City Wednesday, April 18th.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26
INCREASE CORN YIELD.

Plant Bats Prolific, four ears
to the stalk; so bushels to acre
In Fulton county. Select, shelled
seed, grown in this county. Linn
tied amount for Gale at So BUSH
ell or bushels for s. delivered in
Hickman. Cash with order. Leave
or mail your orders to Courier Of
flee, Hickman, KY. tip
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26

I The Courier has special club
bling rates with all Memphis, st.
Louis and Nashville paperA u
you want all the war news, let
us send you s.city paper daily
or weekly.
Better groceries and meats for
the same money-at Bondurant
Bros.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26

--..ne prope- y prov
or before May 10, 1917,
with the administrator, or same
will be forever barred.
All parties indebted to the SIS
tat, will please settle at once
r. b. Cobb, Admr. 5-lOp
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26

Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
The Old Standard general Strengthening tonic.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC. drives out
Maiaria. enriches the blood. and builds up the ~
tenn. A true tonic. For adults and children SOC.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26

$50 Bushels d. F. Cotton Seed
for planting.-W. s. Barkett,
West Hickman.
Parships, Celery, Peppers, Let
tuce, Oranges, Apples, Figs, Can
Berries, Nuts, etc., at Betters
worth g.
Last Friday night Miss May
Holly and Herman Oliver drove
over to Squire Owens and wsre
quietly married.-Jordan News. !.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-04-26
II
Alaska

Alaska
good fol
but it is also 60
tatoes. One farmeI -
with having grown II IONS of po-
tatoes to the acre, a high record.
Another is reported TO have pro-
duced between SIS 10 $50 bush
els to the acre with yield of
other vegetable crops in like pro-
portion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

the director general of volunteer or
CARNATIONS. That committee then had
in mind the desrability of further I'M
dertaking to compress the moss into
nat sheets by means of machinery, in
which form it is light and portable and
emlnently suitable for use in dressing
stations. field ambulances, etc, where
storing accommodation is very limited.
or for transport overseas to the most
surgical dressings and appliances were
sorely needed.
Some of the MOSES have been used in
medicine since ancient times and to a
certain extent still are. This class of
MOSES are called lycopodium These
are all club MOSES, f1owerless herbs
with an erect, PROSTATE or creeping
stem that is widely branched and close
ly covered with small simple leaves 1t
is recorded that there are about one
hundred species distributed throughout
the temperate and tropical climates
Gerard, the old English herbalist, had
some of these MOSES in the London
herb garden. He wrote OF their emetic
properties and ascribed to them various
medicinal virtues.
One of the MOSES found in the Andes
was used as a cathartic. Lycopodium
powder once held 4 prominent place in
materia medica, but pharmacists and
physicians have very little use for it
now. Lycopodium is used to some ex-
tent in dyeing wooden cloth. and the
powder. being very inhamma BILE, is used
in fireworks and flashlight powders.
lycopodium because of the fact that
it's clublike or clawlike sheets bear a
resemblance to the claws or toes OF
wolves
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

potatoes. other vegetables and other
food for the year for the whole family,
including children, boarders and de-
pendents.
The other list of family expenditures
that are estimated include rent. pay
ment on house if owned, coal and wood,
gas, electric lighting. clothing. taxes,
property insurance. life insurance,
charity, religion. labor organizations,
other organizations, carfare, furniture
and utensils. books. newspapers,
amusements. vacation, distilled and fer
mented liquors, tobacco. sickness, fu-
neral expenses and extra purposes.
After these figures are obtained four
questions are asked the housewife. and
they form the most interesting part of
the entire investigation: How do you
dispose of your surplus after you meet
your expenses? How do you meet
your deficit if you have one? What
restrictions of your former standard of
living has been necessary to make your
income meet the high and increased
cost of everything? What substitu-
lions of cheaper articles of consumption
have been necessary?
When the answers to these four vital
questions are published an important
sidelight will be thrown on the in
genuity of the American family. Are
Neutrality-suspicious. thrifty? Are they
adaptable to changed conditions? How
do they manage when they get in a
hole? Can they change their diet with
out starving their bodies? These are an
swers that will have an interest for
the country at large.
Every one is interested in how Mrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

DRINK

fact that concentrated cider would keep
much longer than in its original condi-
tion and in cold storage would keep
indefinitely.
Delicious this new kind of cider is,
it is not being adopted commercially,
for the simple reason that no manufac-
turer is willing to put it on the market,
though all who have sampled 1t admit
its superiority to many of the soft
drinks which now are popular at the
soda fountains. The reason is that
Uncle Sam will not give the formula
exclusively to any one bother The
leading drink purveyors insist that
commercial success in marketing a new
drink depends chiefly upon the manu-
facturer having the exclusive secret
and patented recipe which will give
his brand a monopoly.
However. being always paternal Tn
Gle Sam has gone still further in his
efforts to teach the apple raisers the
full value of their crops. for he has had
his chemists compile and issue a bulle-
tin with all of the methods, directions,
cost and even recipes for the utiliza-
ton of cider made in this new way
and then teaching ways of making
splendid apple strip that is marketable
The same bulletin gives recipes for a
number of dishes in which the sirup
forms part
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
The New Cornnnamd@rim-C Chief of the French Armies

trenches can withstand such artillery
fire. said the dazed German officers
when taken prisoners. In four hours
and half the men of Gen. Mangin,
who executed the operation which Gen.
Nivelle had prepared. won back all the
ground which he crown prince had
been six months conquering and on
which he had sacrificed half a million
of the best German troops.
Three given lads of verdun-
Poilu, Bonhomme and Eat-up-a Gun
History shall tell their name.
For they shall have the victor's fame,
So runs the song of Nerdun. 1t is
about the same thing, in less cere-
moniouS words, that was said in the
official promotion of Gen. Nivelle to
the rank of grand officer of the Legion
of Honor: He has shown. in his com
mand cat Nerdun). along with the most
brilliant qualities of chief, an en-
ergy and force of character, which have
powerfully contributed to develop the
operations engaged along the whole
front. After stopping the enemy's ad-
vance toward what had become the
moral stake of the war. he took up the
offensive. foot by foot. and by repeated
attacks succeeded in dominating the
enemy on the very ground which the
latter had chosen for a decisive effort -
When Nivelle first came to Verdun
one officer asked another about the
new general:
What sort of a man is he?"
The answer was
He is man.
STERLING HELLO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

the course of the next process, which
ultimately determines the weight Of the
volatile matter in the lot of ,v..l.
Larger samples of the same coal are
rolled until they pass through a six
tieth-inch mesh, or to the consistency of
fine gunpowder. If these samples are
allowed to stand a few days, the heav-
Ter particles gradually work their way
to the bottom of the bottle and adhere
to it, To overcome the resulting I'M
eveness of the mixture, the bottles are
placed on a wheel and slowly revolved
vertically until the inclosed coal pow
der is again mixed. One gram is then
passed through substantially the same
process as that which the first or coars-
err sample has undergone and the result
compared with that of the first process.
To ascertain the ash at the bureau of
mines, they use the sample from which
the moisture has been taken. place it
in cool muffle. "a small open retort,
which they gradually heat to $50 de-
grees c., and then they burn it to
constant weight or until nothing more
will be consumed. The result is uncor-
rected ash and is composed of iron.
lime. silica and other inorganic sub
stances. Ash is what causes trouble in
furnaces, makes clinkerS and seriously
interferes with perfect combustion.
To determine the volatile matter. they
weigh a gram of sixty mesh coal into a
platinum crucible and heat it in an
electric furnace at a temperature Of $50
degrees c. for seven minutes. This
drives off all the volatile matter and
leaves in the crucible small residue in
the form of coke, which is chiefly COM
posed of ash and fixed carbon. The
volatile matter driven off is represent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

as to what to do with the culls and
apples too small for retail sale that
would net them any profit.
Cider-making. though neither diff
cult nor expensive, did not give the
solution. for it is SO perishable. so
bulky and the price it brings too low
to make it profitable. So, also, cider
may be made into vinegar, but there is
a limitation to that market.
All sorts of experiments were made
toward finding a method of keeping
cider. but they did not result satsfac
torily. Finally, a barrel of frozen cider
gave the key. 1t was observed that
when the cider was allowed to freeze
naturally. the ice formed in nearly
solid mass around the outer sides of
the barrel, leaving in the center a con-
centrated frozen liquid which pos
sessed all of the favor. but which con-
tanned much less water. The outer ice
proved to he mostly water. with very
little of sugar. Analysis of the con-
centrated cider proved that it con-
tanned sufficient proportions of the acid
and sugar to preserve it. and the chem
list believed that at last had been
found a means to keep cider for the
market after its usual season was past.
Laboratory experiments duplicating
natures freezing finally established the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
MOSS USED AS DRESSING
FOR WOUNDS OF SOLDIERS

"A IT OSS in medicine and surgery is no
NWll new thing, but revival of very
old practice. Moses are of many
kinds. but that particular member of this
extensive family which is now serving
mankind so well in the military hospitals
in Great Britain. France, Russia. Italy.
Egypt. Mesopotamia and in various other
lands is called sphagnum moss.
Sphagnum moss grows in great guam
titles on nearly all the wet parts of the
moors and mountains of Scotland, and in
other parts of the world. 1t is feast to
the eye, with its variety of beautiful col
ors-pink. crimson, yellow, green and rus
set-and it forms such wonderful, soft
carpet underfoot that it has been found
to be of the greatest value in making
surgical dressings for the wounded, on
account of its extraordinarily absorbent
qualities. In the British isles thousands
OF workers have been busy gathering.
cleaning and drying large quantities Of
this moss, and many depots have already
been established in different parts of Eng
land. Scotland and Ireland. where the
moss is stored and prepared for use in
the hospitals.
"Spha gnur1'' comes from Greek word
signifying sage or lichen. and sphagnum
moss is the common name for bog moss.
of which there are good many varieties.
These MOSES occur in all temperate eli
mates. AT first sphagnum moss was class
ed by botanists as Of one species. Gradual
ly botanists multiplied the species to four
teen; then. later. they reclassifed the
sphagnei into only four species. and still
later the number was expended to nine,
and today the number of species is a sub
ject of discussion Sphagnum moss has
long been used for making mattresses.
and it is said that when they become
lumpy they can be restored to their origf-
nal softness by taking out the moss, soak
ing it in water and drying it. In some
of the northern regions of the world this
moss is used as lining for clothes and for
boots. and another curious use of the
moss is as lamp wicks Spnagnum moss
is also extensively used in wrapping roots
Of plants that are to be shipped a long
distance.
Some time ago contributions were So
iici.ed in the United States for the
Aberdeen sphagnum moss committee,
which had sent out many thousands of
moss dressings to the hospitals of the
allies, according to acquisitions from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
The Minor Poets.

In HE late Jack London had a hatred
OF the minor poets. a species
mat of late years has increased enor-
mously in America
Minor poets. London said one day
in New York. ARE apt to be vain and
jealous and nasty. / once sat between
two minor poets at dinner.
II saw your willamette in a maya
zine, said the first, as they were dis>
cussing the soup.
Did YOU said the other, with as
sumed indifference.
'"Yes, and / heard neat compile
ment paid to it. too. by a young LADY,
What did she say
The first minor poet laughed. and
there was note of triumph in his
voice.
why he answered. she wanted to
know if l had written it,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
Investigating the Cost of Living i'm Washington

Jones is able to buy her little house
send her three children to school look
ing clean and neat, keep her whole
family well and happy when her hus-
band only makes hundred dollars a
month. Every one wonders how she
possibly does it, but it is not an easy
matter to walk into Mrs. Jones' home
and ask her what she spends for this
and where she buys that and how she
manages to make Mr. Jones hundred
dollars go SO far.
But when the bureau comes out in
print with the answers to each and
every one of these bathing queries it
will be a boon to all housewives, wheth-
er they be in the class with Mrs. Jones
knowing how to make one dollar do
the work of two. or in the class of
housewives whose pocketbooks are
being rapidly depleted by the flood of
high prices.
The last question on the schedule bids
air to outrival all of the others in
interest. What substitutes it asks,
"of cheaper articles have been neces-
Sary? In the answers to this query
will be found the whole story of how
Washington has met the high cost of
living.
of Agriculture has been engaged in
a vast amount of experimentation in
regard to the nutritive values of diff
ferent food. 1t has shown that rice.
for instance, is a food that far excels
white potatoes in value to the human
body. This and a number of other facts
of similar nature have been published
to show that the American menu is
capable of wide variety-indeed, the
staples of the world are at its COM
inland
American man or woman will be bene-
flied thereby.
These facts have a direct bearing on
the facts which the bureau is assem-
bling. How far has the information of
the Department of Agriculture aided
combating the grim specter, II. ..
of L.? How far have Washingtoniaus
been Chinese-ized into eating rice, and
what other schemes have been adopted
for substituting desirable foods for
former staples that are soaring into the
realm of Injuries?
Such facts as these side issues though
they are in the bureau investigation.
NAV prove to be the real benefit to the
man and woman in this citv who have
no use for abstract facts about the cost
of living in their home town, and who
are never interested to look at a sta
tistical table.
sembling these facts will. as soon as
their assignments outside are covered.
return to the offices of the bureau and
begin the work of tabulation. The
tables of statistics will subsequently
form a report with some such official
title as Cost of Living in Washington
for Families Earning $500 and Less?"
The maximum figure, $780, it may
be said. was chosen for the reason that
the present scale of retail prices in
vogue affects most strongly the earners
of all sums ranging up to this figure.
Also. Investigations that are being
made all over the country are using
$1,000 as their limit. Officials here
wanted the Districts statistics to be
uniform with those in other parts of
the country.
The statistics will finally appear in
the form of summaries and avera ges
of the items of income and expendi-
lures. They will then be ready for the
reference of each and every person
who desires to consult them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
The Cigarette Beetle.

t. VERY smoker of cigars and ready
IA made cigarettes knows that often
one of these things will not draw be-
cause of puncture that has been made
in the wrapper by some insect that
evinces a marked fondness for tobacco.
That insect not only chews tobacco.
but actually eats it. and. more than
that. it feeds exclusively OH tobacco.
and because of its activity one might
be justified in assuming that its health
is good. This destructive insect is gen.
orally known as the cigarette beetle.
and his official name is lasoderma SER
ricorne. A good many of the character
istics of this beetle are treated of in
a bulletin issued by the Department of
Agriculture under the caption, The
Principal Insects Affecting the Tobacco
Plant
A writer in the National Drug Clerk
says: OF the insects injurious to cured
topacco none approaches in economic
Importance, the species which has be-
come known as the cigarette beetle.
The name Cigarette beetle is more or
less of mlSnomer, since the insect
not only feeds in all kinds of dried to-
bacco, and even in snuff. but also in
many other substances. such as rhu-
barb. ginger, cayenne pepper. ergot.
turmeric, yeast cakes, rice, figs. pre-
pared fish food and dried plants pre-
pared for the herbarium."
This beetle has become of consider
able trouble and loss to wholesale and
retail tobacco dealers within recent
years, and the report is that it is null
tiplying in factories. warehouses, to-
bacco barns and stores: Injury is done
by this beetle to leaf tobacco before
ii is made up into cigars. Tobacco has
a long list of insect enemies that at
tack the young. the growing and the
mature plant. The list as compiled by
the entomolosists and tobacco experts
of the Department of Agriculture in
cIudes the tobacco beetle. the white
speck, northern tobacco worm, also
known as the horn worm; southern to-
bacco worm, the bud worms, the suck
fly, the tobacco leaf miner split
worm, cutworns. cabbage plusia, the
tree crickets the mealy bug. tobacco
louise, tobacco slugs. the cigarette bee
tie and the drug store beetle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
A Bad Enemy.

rrHE late John D. Archbold of Stand
u ard Oil fame was a good friend
and a bad enemy.
A magazine writer, in the good old
muck -ra king days, rushed up to Mr..
Archbold one afternoon and shrilled:
Mr. Archbold. this morning. while /
was investigating the labor conditions
of the pressmen in your Bayonne plant.
a skunk of a boss named Rutherford
called me a four-eyed jackass and
broke one of my ribs. Me a jackass-
and a rib broken! Now. Mr.. Archbold,
what are you going to do about it?
"Do?" said Mr.. Archbold. with a cold
laugh why, nothing. You'll have to
consult a vet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
Pro and Con.

A NOVELIST was arguing against
AZ vegetarianis,n.
The Veget;irianS' claims are fantas-
TIC" he said. IT'S no use reasoning
with them. You must just advance
fantastic counter claims against them.
"A rabid vegetarian once said to me.
1T is a matter of universal record
that meat eaters grow like the meats
they eat. Thus the beef eater becomes
dull and bovine. The mutton eater be-
comes sheepish. The veal eater is a
calf The pork eater a hog
My loud laughter interrupted him.
True, quite true, my friend, ! said.
And have you also noticed how all you
vegetarian potato. eaters are pretty
small potatoes?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
During the Appeal.

a MILK dealer interrupted an analy-
g "a sis of the New York milk famine
to tell a story.
Two men," he said. were carrying
on long course of litigation about q
small spring. The judge said wearilYs
during the third or fourth appeal:
What is the use OF making all this
fuss about little water?'
Your honor is perhaps unaware
said one of the lawyers, that both lite
giants are milkmen.'