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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
AOvIE OF MODERN BOOKWORM
Student Would Net Be Influenced by
Any Pleasures the World Could
Offer Him.

Now hehold the student. coming up
the street, He is clad in rubber and
shining black. He is thin of shank as
becomes scholar. He says with
knowledge. He hungers for wisdom.
lie comes opposite the book shop. 1t
Is but coquetry that his eyes seek tie
window of the tObacconist. His heart,
you may he sure, looks through the
buttons at his back.
At last he turns Charles s. Brooks
writes In Yale Review. He pauses
on the curb. Now desire has clutched
him. He jlngles his trousered shil-
lings. He treads the gutter. He squints
upon the rack. He lights upon a
treasure. He plucks IL forth. He
Is unresolved whether to buy 1t or to
spend the extra shilling on his dinner.
Now all you cooks together, to save
your business rattle your pans to rouse
him! If within these ancient build
ings there are onions ready peeled
quick throw them in the skillet that
the Whit may come beneath his nose
Chance trembles and casts its vote
Genie meenie-down goes the shilling
he has bought the book. Tonight he
will spread it beneath his candle. Feet
may beat a snare of pleasure on the
pavement, glad cries may pipe across
the darkness, fiddle may scratch its
invitatlon--all the rumbling notes Of
midnight traffic will tap in vain their
summons upon his window.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
18-CyIinder Engine.

BY leaps and bounds the stationary
type airplane engines are increasing
In power rating in the stern competi.
ton between the central powers and
the allied nations. In England Louis
Coatalen has been doing commendable
work along these lines, and among his
latest products is the 1S-cylinder Sun
beam-Catalen engine, which develops
475 brake horse power, and has nc
fewer than half dozen magnetos and
an equal number of carburetors, says
the Scientific American. The arrange
ment Of the cylinders is interesting
Twelve of the cylinders are arranged
as in the usual twin-six practice, while
the remaining six are arranged in the
upper center, forming what is styled
the ''broad arrow" type.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
CHICKENS FOR EMPTY CANS
Trading Of Discarded Tins and Bottles
for Food Is Common In ThIbet,
Explorer Reports.

Bringing with him an extensive col
lection Of small mammals, reptiles and
birds, Roy G. Andrews, head Of the
Asiatic geological expedition, has ar
rived in New York, after year and
a half in the remote provinces of
China.
The expedition spent much Of the
time in the mountains of Yunnan and
progressed as far as Thibet. Mr.. An
drews' adventures included everything
from hunting "blue" tigers to buying
chickens at the rate of two for one
empty condensed milk can.
Politically China is in chaotic
state, Mr.. Andrews reports, as most Of
the provinces are so far removed from
the central government at Peking that
any change IF authority does not
make itself felt. Socially, he declares,
1t is Overrun with bandits, most of
whom are recruits from the army. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Andrews, there is no
great moral difference between q Chi
nese common soldier aud bandit.
In many places he found traffic by
water impossible because the army has
a habit of using small river boats for
target practice.
The expedition found the border OF
Thlbet an ideal place to live In. Food
may be bought with old bottles and
cans. There are plenty of servants
and no rumor Of the war has pene-
trated that far.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
LIABILITY FOR AGENTS ACTS
oRe Should Ascertain Limit Of Respon.
sabllity Before DeIeoatino Powers.
Says Arthur Train.

Most men think they can get along
without a lawyer. Arthur Train. the
famous author and lawyer. shows In an
article In the American Magazine how
foolish this belief Is. He says:
The most dangerous practice OF or
binary business, or even Of ordinary
domestic life, Is the employment of an
agent or servant without first ascer-
talaing how far you can be made liable
for contracts or purchases which he
may make. Suppose that you have
allowed your hired man to buy lawn
mower and grass seed at the corner
store, that the storekeeper has called
y0u up on the telephone. and that you
have told him that the order was all
right. At the end of the month you
may perhaps receive bill for all sorts
Of implements and supplies which you
have never received. Are you liable |?
Many things which you absolutely for
bid your agent to do may yet be with
In what the law calls the apparent
scope of his authority
in plain language this simply means
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
William Had q Poser.

"Good morning, children" said the
arithmetic teacher. "How many ot
you have prepared an original prof.
lem In multiplication, as l requested!
Only one hand went up.
swell, William, you may give your
problem and the rest OF the class mag
solve It,"
"If my baby sister is a year old nov
and weighs twenty pounds, and keeps
on gaining two ounces a day until She
is sixteen years old, and If the price
of living doubles again in the next ton
years, how much will my sisters grad.
uation outfit cost? Mother says she
would like to know"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12

that, when you employ another to act
for you, you are bound by his acts and
agreements SO long as they are such
as a reasonable man, In view of the
general nature Of his employment,
would assume from all the circum-
stances to be authorized. Obviously,
II the shoe is on the other foot, and
you have yourself delivered goods to
somebody else's foreman, In accord
ance with regular custom. It woulc
be unfair for the employer to refuse
to pay you for the goods on the ground
A Handy Story.
Daughter-Pm ashamed Of you, pa.
! saw you kiss the parlor maid as you
went out.
Pa-Don't be ridiculous. dear. I've
missed two or three bottles of Scotch
lately. and, as / suspected Nellie. I
took the opportunity Of smelling her
breath. that's all.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
Too Busy to Help.

Even in war times a heroine Is often
without influence in her own home
town, writes correspondent. A young
woman nurse gave up a paying prac-
tiee and offered her services to her
country. She is now nursing tackles
In a naval hospital, and, finding how
much pleasure the eonvaleseents take
n music. she wrote home to her fa-
ther to put notice In the local paper
asking for records II anyone had dupli-
Gates or discards.
1t is a place Of about 5000 inhablt-
ants, but not one record did she re.
ceive In answer to her appeal.
Probably they are all too busy with
war work." she commented, humor>
0usiy.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
China 10 on Guard.

While China has not provided for
the internment OF Germans and Aus
TRANS, even those of military age, all
citizens of the central powers are re-
quired to register and are forbidden to
travel. They may engage in peaceful
occupations with China's permission.
The mildness Of the regulating created
some comment among foreigners, but
Chinese officials replied to such criti-
eism by saying they closed the German
banks and are limiting the activities
of Germans and Austrlans even more
than the United States and Japan ara.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
Was Expecting II.

II was his first time under fire. He
had expressed his terror to comrades
q few moments before. They had
tried to cheer him, and as they rushed
into the fray they kept him within
their observation. When the enemy
opened fire he fell. They quickly ben,
over him and hastily tried to deter.
mine the extent Of his injury. No
wounds were visible.
"Are you shot?" asked one.
"I-I dunno" he whined with teeth
chattering, "but 1 must bew
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
Soldier Boys Tobacco Fund

WHEN our bows are at the front,
in the trenches fighting our battles,
VIC should be only too glad to make
any sacrifice for their comfort and
welfare. 1t is just as natural for
soldiers. when on the march or on
the firing lines to want to smoke as
it is for duck to take to water, and
BY Q small donation from each Of our
readers to the Soldiers Tobacco
Fund would add untold ioy and
pleasure to our laddies on the Eu-
ropean battlefelds. Two good ladies
from Rockport have done their bit"
BY donating to the fund and we
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
Leaves II to Audience.

One Of the small Paris theaters has
set about proving that dramatic critics
are not infallible. Every evening be-
fore the rise of the curtain on an adj
versely criticized but no less success
ful play, the irate manager appears,
bearing bundle Of newspapers. from
which he reads the choicest condemna-
tory excerpts. Having thus stated the
newspaper view Of his play. he leaves
the rest to the judgment Of the audi
ence.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
Crushed Possibilities.

Jones. the cub reporter. was fat. but
he looked as melancholy as a fat man
can when he entered the city editors
ONCE.
"why was my story killedf" he
asked gloomily.
"An act Of mercy" said the editor.
you fell down on II first." 4.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12

trust others will follow in their foot
steps. We will publish the names of
all who contribute to this fund. and
now who will be the first on the list
next week. Below are the names OF
the two Rockport ladies who Started
the ball to rolling"
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-12-12
COUNTY COURT.

Meets first Monday In each month
Judge-John Is. Wilson
Attorney. ID. Kirk
Clerk--W. G. Blankenship
Sheriff-S. o. Keown
Superintendent-Ozna Shuts
Jailer-W. p. MidkiR
Assessor--C. G. Hines
surveyor-C. 5. Monkey
CorOner-Dr. A. d. Riley
FISCAL COURT.
Meets Tuesday after first Monday
IN January, April and October.
list Magisterial District-Ed Shown
Hartford. Route
I'd Magisteriai District - Winson
Smith. Select
Ri Magisterial District-W. 8. Dean
Dundee
ith MagisteriaI District IS. W
Leach, Beaver Dam, Route 8
18th Magisterial Districts. l.. Full
kerson. Rockport
9th Magisterial District-R. c. Itch
enor, Centertown
9Th Magisterial DISTRICTS. Y. Rice
Fordsville.
9Th Magisteriai Dis.rici--Dcn W
Taylor. Hartford. Route
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CIRCUIT COURT.

Judgc--R. W. Slack, Greensboro.
Attorney-C. l.. Smith, Hartford.
Clerk-A. c. Porter. Hartford.
Master COmmissioner--Ott G. Mar
tin, Hartford.
Trustee Jury Fund-Cal =. Keown
Hartford.
LIST Monday in Mareh-l2 days
Com'th. and Civil.
lst Monday In May--l2 days--Ciyi
let Monday in July--l2 days
Com'th. and Civil.
Sd Monday in September---l2 day
Civil.
tth Monday in Noyember-l2 days
-Com'th. and Civil.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19

gains. Nothing abeeaintsrfering with
that big convicted fhist the Sugar
Trust, in its many 4Ieonspiracies enor-
mously to enrich itself further out of
the necessities of the people.
Gasoline, steel and coal are as nee
essary for life as food itself, but these
rich corporate robbers are privileged.
So, too. the whole brood of thieving
gamblers and spectators in foodstuffs
who are in conspiracy to raise prices
of all foods till the poor are threatened
even now with starvation-they are also
immune from attack.
o, no, no! These are privileged, big,
wholesale robbers and must not be
touched Nor the cold storage scamps
either; all these well-known gougers Of
the public, like Tennyson's brook, Ego
on forever" but the poor farmer, he
must not be allowed to get his nose off
the grindstone by receiving for once in 40
years a good price for his eel eals, etc.
So grab his grain and his corn and the
rest of it and sell it chelp to brother
Rockefeller and to the Coal, Steel and
Meat Barons.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
ADVERTISE In NEWSPAPERS

Advertise in newspapers. Use the
newspapers in preference to all other
forms of advertising at this time, for
the burden of the newspaper message
of today is closer to the peoples hearts. :"
This is the message that has gone out
from the Hudson Motor Car Company
to its several hundred distributors and
dealers throughout the United states
1.-THE minds of the people are turned
toward daily happenings and, therefore,
toward the daily newspaper. News
papers are the dominant interests Of the
nation.
millions Of eyes search its columns.
Edition after edi ton, filled with history
making reports from all parts of the
world, come all day long from the news
paper presses. And all are eagerly
read. Therefore Hudson advertising
should appear in them more than ever.
1.-THE hotel guest hears the newspaper
falling through his transom in the gray
dawn. Formerly he let it lie, until he
was dressed. Now he jumps up to read
it. The householder eagerly seizes the
morning paper. He reads the last edi-
ton before retiring at night. News
paper circulation has jumped by thou
sands, and readers no longer turn first
to the comics and sport section. World
events more thrilling than any fiction
the magazines can buy have captured
the primary interest Of the public.
1.-The newspaper right now is the
most effective medium possible to tell
the Super SIX story. Readers now turn
to magazines not for stimulation, but
for mild digest of news they have al
ready learned from the newspapers.
Their minds are not receptive but d.
gestive, satiated. The Hudson story
will reach them when the intellect is
sparkling.
Hitherto the Hudson newspaper ad-
vertising has not employed illustrations.
Type has been used to tell the story,
and with truly wonderful results. But
IN these intense times the dramatic ap-
peal is particularly opportune and from
now on Hudson will employ dynamic il
lustrations illustrations with drama
tic interest, picturing stirring scenes or
Super-Sixes in some of the record break
ing accomplishments of the past year.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
BELLS AND KISSES

That gallant soldier, Marshall Joffre,
had the honor of kissing the two divin-
est things in America-the Liberty Bell
and one Of our sweet American girls,
another belle by the way! She had just
presented him a beautiful jeweled
sword, the gift of thousands of Phila-
delphians, and spoken to him in French
with an accent so pure he complimented
her upon it, an eloquent address 1t
shames the scholarship of our statesmen
that but one gentleman in the Congress
could speak French and that neither
could the President nor any cabinet
officer! You may sure Teddy chatted
freely enough with the brave Marshal
in his own soft tongue.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
THAT FOOD DICTATOR

TALK of Food Dictator to limit the
l prices of food to keep down the
greedy farmers who have been growing
80 rich for the past 40 years raising
cereals for next to nothing!
Nothing said, of course, about putting
a brake on the gasoline extortion of that
pious robber, John D. Rockefeller, or
about putting crimp upon the Coal and
Steel Barons, who for generation have
been making vast fortunes out of the
people. Nothing said about making the
Meat Trust abate said little its vast
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
TAKE GRAFT HUNTS

IF there is one form of congressional
1 graft more contemplate than the
rest it is the big sums paid to so-called
Investigating committees" whose
members fuss and tumble blindly around
doing nothing with big noise till the
whole appropriation is spent and then
report that they can find "no conclusive
evidence of fraud or unlawful combina-
ton, ETC., etc." To give but one of a
1000 possible examples, the fizzle of the
recent investigation of the iniquitous
expressions of that big robber, Standard
Oil.
The perfect picture of these dis
honest, humbug investigations is
found in one, made by Attorney Cen
eral Carson, of Pennsylvania, a few
years since, when he was appointed by
that humbug, Governor Pennypacker,
to see if the immaculate Harrisburg
Capitol Building Commission was doing
anything wrong as was generally be-
lieved.
The learned attorney shut both eyes
very tight, and after few days of
blind search, solemnly declared there
was no graft whatever, but to the con-
tray that honest Building Commission
had still $40, 900 unspent All the world
now knows the story how few months
later new land strange to say honest
and fearless) state treasurer, Berry,
Gifted the lid'' and proved to the as
founded citizens that this same honest
Commission" which the Attorney Gen
eral had 80 carefully, SO lovingly white
washed, had stolen the enormous sum
of s6,OOO,OOO!
So it is almost alwsys-big appropria-
tions for the politicians after fat snaps,
and nothing coming from it, but white
wash
And it is not a party matter either
this miserable graft to smother graft,
for the politicians and congressman of
both parties are equally guilty.
Congress now is filling the papers
with the usual big talk about yarning
up the food gamblers and conspirators.
But it is all talk. True, flour is $18. rs
a barrel, and wheat has reached 1925 a
bushel, thanks to the rascals manipulate
ing the wheat exchange; true it is, that
with the largest amount of sugar ever
known in the country at one time, several
times the normal quantity, yet the sugar
gamblers and, of course, the Sugar
Trust as usual, led by Cuban specu-
lator, have jammed the price of sugar
up to 10 cents a pound.
The rogues if left alone awhile longer
will have flour 500 barrel and sugar
Al cents a pound and all the other
staples of life cornered in the same
manner.
That this artificial price of 1926 for
wheat is the work Of grain gamblers is
shown by the fact that closing the wheat
pit in Chicago for only two days knocked
80 cents off this fraudulent figure for
grain, and out in Manitoba where even
stronger action was taken, the slump
was even greater 1t is not the farmer
who gets this fancy ptice for wheat, but
these thieving gamblers in the peoples
staff of life. We doubt if many
farmers in Delaware received much over
81 for their wheat, most Of them certainly
did not get $2-Perhaps that leading
member of the House suggested the
only remedy-Judge Lynch and adorn-
ing a few dozen lamp posts with the
leading speculating buccaneers.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
Women.

Women" remarks Bindle reflective
fy, in a recent novel, bearing the name
Of the hero for its title, "women is all
right if you can keep 'em from marin
yer"
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
Nor That Little [ Ionn,

MAN wants but little here below"
remarked the new arrival in Hades,
as he hurriedly removed his overcoat
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
Our Sawed-Qff Sermon.

It is sometimes better for a young
man to get the marble heart than to
marry the girl and have to eat her
marble cake.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
improves With Ace

improves WITH age.
The older good resolution gets
the stronger it holds.-Florida Times
Union.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
ltnuor From Palm Trees.

More than 80 per cent Of the alcohol
and alcoholic drinks that are made in
the Philippines are derived from the
sap Of palm trees.
Middletown transcript., 1917-05-19
Maunet Lifts Great Weiuht

mAgnct LHtS 1redt weight.
A seven-pound electro magnet that
will lift Is times it's own weight has
been invented for many uses about ma
chine shops.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

in money at this troubled pass, are hoard
ing their wheat. The food situation in
Petrograd is reported as alarming. Peo-
pie stand in line before the bread shops.
Last year at this time 926 pools Of food
arrived in the capital.
England has a sufficient food supply to
meet her needs in an emergency for the
coming winter without further imports, ac-
cording to Kennedy Jones, retiring Direc-
tor General of Food Economy, in calming
the country's worst submarine fears.
Llovd George has also said that the supply
for 1917-18 has been secured, and that
programme of cultivation has been en-
tered upon for the following year that will
make the insular needs secure, even if
the present rate of marine food loss cor
tinues."
Among the British food policies is one to
push the corn production measure, under
which the farmers are to be paid fixed
prices for cereals after the war, while the
farm laborers are to get a fixed wage Of
SG.25 weekly
The Swedish government announces the
taking over of all crops by appropriation,
including all stocks left over from previous
years.
When the Senate got through with the
food bill it was confined again to the con-
troll of food and fuel, and the contemplated
Hoover dictatorship was supplanted by
an administrative board of three, of which
Mr.. Hoover may or may not be one. Price
fixing for coal, gasolene and wheat is prac-
ticaly assured after the bill emerges from
conference, where, however, a row over
the prohibition clause practically suppress
ing whiskey was the expectation of the
week.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-29

win among different laboring groups. The
Workmen's Council, which declares men,
bership of 100000 in New York, and the
Peoples Council have been formed with
the purpose of preserving rights labor has
won and which the American Federation
of Labor now is asserted TO be making no
fight to keep. Doubtless labor does fear an
impairment of wages and standards of liv-
ing by the sudden convulsion of war, and
organizations with the avowed purpose OF
maintaining the standard of living will
make strong appeal Mr.. Gompers, how
ever, saws that the American Federation
of Labor is fully alive to its duty, and
charges that rival organizations are only
a cloak for German plotting among Ameri-
can workmen.
Specific instances Of what labor fears are
the substitution of woman labor for man
labor at lower wage, the local impair
ment of child labor laws as the labor sup
ply decreases, the speeding up Of indus
tries to multiply production and the I'M
portation of cooie and other cheap grades
:-of labor to compete with white labor AM
'sessen the cost of production. The Eas.
PSI. Louis riots and the disturbances at
Flat River, Mo-, are themselves instances
of the effect of such processes upon the
collective mind of the laboring man.