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The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-30

try business only,) $500 per year
fire insurance (city business), per
year, $500; surety company, per
year, $1,000. n
Itinerant merchant, per year,
$4,000.
Jenny Lind Table, $500 per day,
$25.OO per year.
Junk Dealer, $50 per year.
Knife Rack, $500 per day; $500
per year.
Laundry and Laundry agent, each
$500 per year.
Lumber dealer, $500 per year.
Lung Tester, $500 per day; $685.
90 per year.
Milk Depot, buying and shipping
milk, $1,000 per year.
Milliners, each per year, $500.
Merchant Tailor, per year, $1,000.
Flour Mill, $4,000 per year.
Saw Mill, $500 per year.
Planning Mill, $500 per year.
Mercantile Agency, reporting for
or conducting same, per year, $40.
Microscope, operated for profit,
$500 per day; $500 per year.
Medicine Vender (itinerant), per
year, $4,000.
Monument dealer, $500 per year.
Manufacturer, on gross output Of
100000 annually or less, $4,000
per year; on yearly output of more
than 100000 annually, per year
$4,000; on annual output of more
than $150,00O per year, $4,000.
Newspaper, Daily, $500 per year;
weekly, tri-weekly or semi-weekly,
per year $1,000. &c.,
Oil dealer (wholesale), per year,
$4,000.
Oculist, per year, $4,000.
Plumber, each firm, per year, $780,
90.
Playing cards, dice, to retail, per
year, $1,000.
Peddler, except meats, vegetables,
or fruits, per day $500; per week,
$1,000; per year, $4,000; meats and
vegetables, per year, $500.
Photographer, $500 per day; per
year, $500.
Picture show, each house, per year,
$500.
Piano, organ or other musical in
strument agent, per year, $500.
Pop Corn and peanut stand, per
year, $500.
Professions: Physician and sur
geon, each per year, $500 each
each dentist per year, $500; each
osteopath, per year, $500; each vet
marian, per year, $1,000; each at
torney-at-law, per year, $1,000.
Painter and paper hanger, each
firm, per year, 1000.
Real Estate agent, each, per year,
$500.
Refreshment and soft drink stand
conducted on street or sidewalk, per
day, $1.OO.
Restaurant, $500 per year.
Rooming or apartment house, less
than 10 rooms, per year, $1,000;
more than 10 rooms per year, $50.
Skating rink, each per year, $50.
Public scales, per year, $1,000.
Shows, dramatic, comic or vaude-
Vile, not in a regularly licensed opera
house, per day, $1,000.
Soda Fountain, $500 per year.
Shooting gallery, $500 per year.
Livery Stable, per year, $1,000. T
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The StOrk

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl R.
Speer, April 81, daughter, Earline.
0 joy! No more stove blacking.
The new smooth finish MAJESTIC
ranges at Forbes Manufacturing
Co., incorporated, have special burn
ished blue cooking tops that need
no blacking-just an occasional APP
plication of paraffine retains their
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NOTES

Mr.. Joe Kelly, who has been I'M
dergoing treatment for several weeks,
returned to his home in the city Mon
day.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-30

Mr.. George W. Crenshaw is rap.
idly improving from his operation for
tonsilitis, Sunday.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-30
Javanese Orchids.

Javanese Orchids.
There Is a very interesting orchid
in Java. the grammatophyllum, all the
flowers Of which open at once, and
they also all wiiher together.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-30

Mrs. John L. Thurmond, of Gracey,
was operated on yesterday morning,
and is improving nicely.
The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-04-30
VISITORS TO
OIL FIELDS
Especial to Kentuckian.)

Fl. Worth, Texas, April 29.-OuI
party of ten is now in Fort
Worth enroute to Cement, Okla,
where the Hoffman Oil Co., of Kentuc
ky, has a 30-acre lease on the south
side of the Gala Belle gusher oil
well, which is only 500 feet away,
also 30 acres on the West side, sur
rounded by oil we'll derricks of 9TH
er aggressive companies. We spent
last night in Oklahoma City, where
the head of our party, Col. Jack
Lewis, received from the leading
daily a five dollar western bill, the
kind that spends all over the United
States of America, as the handsomest
man in the Palace Theatre, out of an
audience of 1900 people. We go
from Fit. Worth to Ranger and Burk-
burnett, Texas, the cities of oil der
ricks. Hoffman Oil Co., of KY, has
wonderful holdings. Our entire par
ty is well pleased with the Hoffman
holdings. Will report of trip to
Burkburnett and Ranger Fields, the
greatest of the entire country.
p CATTLE Eft
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New Almonds, ID. ..............ao sac
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We have all kinds of shelled
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a good cup Of Coffee is Everything.
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Large Soup Pickles, doz. zoe
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"reminiscences of Man Who Refused to Spank Stevenson

laddie in my arms and carried him
to the manse, letting the birds chatter
as they pleased. Right by the door
I met Mr.. Balfour. who was getting
uneasy about Robbie's absence SO, UNI
der the hand told him the whole
story while we placed the boy in bed
The old gentleman laughed quite bit
over what he heard, but I could see
great tenderness in his eyes and
he gave me a shilling out of his great
yellow purse. Here 1t is.'
From the depths of an inside pocket
among some pressed and faded blue
bells and heather slossoms Mr.. Dea
produced the coin. When asked why
he had kept it he merely said TO
mark the day" then turned the con-
versation toward one of his special
pets the giant SNOWFALL bush that
half, shaded the piazza steps.
"Ronrfng John Tod"
Roaring John Tod" the Pentland
shepherd. was another prime favorite
OF Stevenson and Mr.. Dea in those
golden days when the heather was a
bed of down and the bluebells made
exquisite melody for youthful ears
Incidentally the heather isn't near as
good as 1t used to be. Mr.. Dea says
Each year the boxes that come from
Scotland show a vast deterioration
from that of sixty years ago?
What a voice that man had" he re-
marked, and how he did use it!
Among us school lads who attended
the classes held by tender hearted
William Elliott 1t was the great ambi-
tlon to be able to shout like Roaring
John We could hear him calling his
dogs away up on the hillsides and the
echoes would make the tones sound
like thunder. remember the first
time Robbie Stevenson heard the
racket he, took to his tiny heels, and
when he got to Colinton Manse he
crawled under the biggest four poster
bed and stayed there for two hours.
lie only came out on the assurance
that the end of the world had not ar
rived.
They became great friends after
ward and many an hour they spent to-
sether, for Robbie was lonesome sort
OF boy and liked to rove the hills He
took a great interest in the shepherds
dc gs and learned to call them in Tod's
peculiar way. But for only a short
distance, however, as the child's tones
were very weak. The shepherd would
often carry the lad on his back and
enjoyed the tales that We're poured into
his ears as repayment for the rides.
One very wet spring Roaring John
| became III. 1t was a nine days Won
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David Dixon Dea Of Brooklyn Ceshe Memories of His Boyhood
With the Great Author ScotandReca

failed to prevent this bit of juvenile
backsliding which Stevenson said
himself caused him many hours of
agony in childish repentance. The
vivid imagination, which Sfterward
thrilled so many thousands, seethed
with accusations of wrongdoing and
the punishment TO follow, and 1t was
to forestall this doom that Robbie
decided on physical chastisement to
square accounts. With the resolution
for restitution to Providence firm in
mind he appealed to Mr.. Dea for as
sistance in pursing his soul Of fancied
sin. Robbie's idea was that a sound
spanking would at least bring him in
sight Of the gates of heaven in case
his earthly career should terminate
suddenly.
Mr.. Dsa's story.
To Mr.. Dea the incident is as fresh
as though 1t occurred yesterday, 81
let him toll 1t in his own way, minus
the delightful Scotch accent-which is
inimitable, so why try to initiate It?
"Bobbie. of course, was a much
younger lad than at that time" said
Mr.. Dea, 1T might say he was only a
strlpliaR like Joe there" pointing to
the five-year-old grandson, while /
was a chunk Of a hoy. Many's the
day 1 have seen him tramplng along
to his grandfather's manse, for he
seemed to like it better than his own
home. And I don't wonder at that.
for Mr.. Balfour was a grand man.
I can picture him now with his high
hat and long white hair going from
place to place at all hours trying TO
do good for somebody, and the people
loved him throughout the country
side. He was inceed a grand man.
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Tammany Hall saw the possibilities
of making friends with oppressed rent
payers and offered to aid the commit
tee in its work. y large committee of
lawyers In good standing with the or
ganization was appointed under the
Craftsmanship Of Robert E. Luce. who
later was made a Supreme Court JUS
tice.
When the committee gets a COM
plant that John Smith is to be dis
possessed and doesn't know what he
is going to do about it one Of the Tam
many lawyers is assigned-to appear as
Mr. Smiths attorney in the Municipal
Court. Incidentally the lawyer does
SO without retainer or hope OF reward
except the gratitude OF the imposed
upon tenant and the favor of the pow
ers that be. Many Municipal Court
Judges sympathize with the Mayors
committee and its programme for
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a little. investigation conducted by Mr..
Hirshfield, under full authority OF
law, to determine whether that partic-
ular owner of real estate was paying
his rightful share of taxes. 1t was all
very simple. Tenants explained what
that landlord had done to them or
hadn't done for them. The landlord
told his story of Increased costs of
housing operations.
The Idea Dawps on Them.
If the Commissioner was satisfied
by the figures that the landlord was
trying TO get a greater income from
rents than the moral law allows ne
would wind up by advising him that If
his property produced such big re-
turns 1t surely was worth more for
taxing purposes. Then came the an
nouncement that he would notify the
tax assessors to boost his assessed val I
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people of moderate means the land
lords agreed to give monthly tenants
leases for year. This feature Of the
settlements has caused downright sat-
isfaction on the part of the tenants.
They now have no fear OF receiving
further rent boosts or being threatened
with eviction for twelve months at
least. Assurances of homes for year
mean much in these days when you
can walk the streets for hours without
finding ITO Let" signs.
The committee built the foundations
of its mediation and Cancellation pro-
gramme by getting together a deter
mined group of cooperators.
William p. Burr, Corporation Coun-
sci, cooperated to the extent of as
signing Walter. S. Kennedy. Assistant
Corporation Counsel, to take charge of
legal affairs at the committee head
quarters.
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helping those who cannot help them
selves. Although the Judges are bound
by hard and fast rules of law in pass
ing on dispossess cases. some OF them
make practice of having conferences
with tenants and landlords out Of
court. There are many instances on
record where they have found the ten
der spot in a landlords heart at these
meetings and the dispossess action has
been withdrawn.
David Hirshfield, Commissioner OF
Accounts, is one of the best little CO.
operators the committee has. A large
number of landlords who insisted the
Mayors committee was only a joke
and ignored requests to drop in and
talk things over found themselves IN
der subpoena to appear before the
Commissioner of Accounts for a hear
ing. The action wasn't Mayors COM
m!ttee proceeding at all. 1t was simply
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uation, to its proper figure. More than
one proflteer decided to cut down his
demands as soon as 1t dawned upon
him just exactly what the Commits
sioner was driving at.
The committee was unable to compc!
stubborn landlords to appear before its
agents until the Board of Aldermen
came to It's rescue. Now Alderman
William c. Collins, chairman of the
Committee on General Welfare, issues
A!dermanic subpHnas, and the land
lords against whom complaints are
filed appear at the hearings in prefer
ence to going to Jail for ignoring an
Aldermanic mandate.
Most of the hearings in the Munic
ipal Building arc Conducted by Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Kennedy
Capt. Charles \. Goldsmith, confidcn-
tial examiner. and members of the
lawyers committee. Sometimes Mr.
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Saz4z q SES ~ SzE zzz6 az NRS INC ~ zS

Hirshfield, who is n landlord himself.
sits in.
Mr.. Kennedy calls the committee "a
tribunal of Justice and Capt. Gold
smith, who speaks a score of Ian
guages and dialects. and needs them
all. likes to refer to it as q court
of common sense"
Generally committee representing
all the tendnts of a building appears
to push the case" The landlord is
there with his accounts \or hur-
riedly dashed off data showing his
income and outgo. The room is small
and there aren't enough chairs to go
round. Tenants glare at landlord and
landlord wears an air Of offended dig
nifty. The mediator opens the case.
All the tenants start to talk at once
and the mediator has his hands full.
He succeeds in restoring order one
minute and tenement house bedlam
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-13

{" HE man who refused to
spank Robert Louis Steven
son." as he Is known far
and wide among neighbors and
friends, is David Dixon Dean. who
lives at 800 East Seventeenth street,
Brooklyn. He is a sturdy old Scot
with a noble Scotch burr, great ad-
miration for America as a fighting
nation and intense love for church.
In fact he lays influenza to the direct
Vaccinations OF the devil because 1t
kept him from hearing three power
full discourses by the minister last
winter. Othen illnesses, which do not
interfere with Sunday devotions, are
necessary to chasten the overproud
soul.
1t was in the year 1914, when John
Tod. "the Roaring Shepherd OF the
Pentland Hills" was establishing a
vocal reputation which has been told
since IN song and story, that Mr.. Dea
was born at the foot of that lowly
range in Juniper Green on the banks
of the Water Of Leith. His birthplace
was but a short distance from Colin
ton Manse, the home of Lewis Bal
four, a circumstance to which he owes
his acquaintance with Stevenson and
several members Of the family. Dur
ing his youth he attended service in
the parish over which Mr.. Balfour ex-
ercised benign guidance.
Relics of the Author.
Next to his grandchildren and the
trim garden back Of his home, which.
he will tell you behind the hand. is
the trimmest in the borough, Mr..
Dea's most treasured possessions are
the recollections of the great author.
Not that Mr.. Dea refers to Stevenson
as the great author. in fact he will
infer that there Is a certain book OF
sermons which are far more edifying
than any gilded production OF modern
who retains the high place OF affec-
ton in the aged Lowland heart.
HE was a queer bit of a laddie.
with his white face and wee black
cloak" Mr.. Dea unused while he
tamped tobacco into a well burned
briar pipe and drifted back more than
half a century. "A queer bit laddie."
he repeated as the match bent under
the flame which memory withheld
from it's proper function. Then as
he found a new light Mr.. Dea started
his story which carried the boy Ste
venson over the Pentlands. through
| Grandfather Balfour's house and into
various hooks and corners which were
filed In later years by an adoring
world of readers.
When a small lad Stevenson had a
habit of sleeping In church. which
was probably due to his Ill health. No
matter how loud the preacher thun-
dered perdition or warned of sizzling
damnation the trail child,s heavy eye
lids would fiutter. then close over the
tired eyes. Winters nipping cold and
summers heather scented hrsszt
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he looked up with those great brown
eyes and l can see the tears in them
yet.
"Will you help to save me from
Help he whispered. for l am very
bad. viii you spank the Dell out
of me?' thought the laddie was daft.
so to humor him asked what he had
done. 1t took a long time between
sobs to learn that ne had slept in
church. Youth that was had sense
enough not to laugh. although sleep
ing in church for a grown person is
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forlorn that pitied him before had
time to think how he had got there.
"'Davie Dea,' he spoke up again,
"'Davie> Dea,' he spoke up again
and his poor little voice faded into
a sob. was so astonished l could
not speak. till l caught my breath
then 1t was to ask him what the Dell
he meant-yes, 1 mentioned the Evil
Ones name despite the Sabbath,
was that COMPOUNDED. All the while
Robbie had crept toward me until he
was resting his hand on my arm. then
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no laughing matter; it's a grievous
offence. but for bairn-hoots.
AT first there was no use of argu-
ing with the child. He was for laying
himself across my knee then and
there to receive the trouncing he be-
lieved meant salvation, and pleaded
that a heavy hand be used The more
singing the blow the more hope for
redemption was his idea, and on my
word one good lick would have broken
him in two, yes, clear in two. Now
my father had taught me that pa
tience is one of the greatest assets a
man can have. so I minded that for
the BARN was sore distraught and be-
sides loved him.
When I asked II he had told his
grandfather. the good Mr.. Balfour
cbout his trouble Robbie shook his
head. He couldn't, he said. being
afraid the old gentleman would hate
him, then he called again for the
spanking. for Robbie was a stubborn
child. Meanwhile l was searching my
mind for good savory point in the
Bible, for l realized the boy was a
dreamer and thinker who could under
stand II his case was fitted into the
text properly. Somehow or other IL
was hard to get just the right thing
then like a flash the Thief on the
Cross came into my head. 1t makes
me smile now when l recall what odd
notions boys have, but II comforted
Robbie Immediately
"'You don't think / am any worse
than her" asked my little companion
wistfully
"'Not near as villainous,' and added
cannily, he was forgiven just for the
asking. Just to think II l were to
spank you when you might get for
giveness for the asking then we ar
rogate ourselves as sinners, which
would be far worse than If We let well
enough alone
The hoy Fiads Comfort.
THAT was a telling point and for
full five minutes he sat thinking.
Suddenly he turned to me. the tears
all gone, and with a pert smile on
his face whispered Let's recite u ST.
lent prayer for forgiveness Then he
leaned his head against my arm and
closed his eyes.
Eat that moment tho birds began
lighting and 1t was impossible for me
to close my eyes in devotion; be-
sides thought 1t was silly business
to bother Providence with trivialties,
After Robbie had been quiet for full
ten minutes / began to think ho had
prayed enough, SO l coughed alouc
and stirred him a bit. However, he
only seemed to snuggle nearer I
looked at him more closely and-what
do you think, he was sleeping as a
baby.
Without more ado I gathered the
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(continWed on Eleventh Pass.l
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By HERBERT A. PIERCE.

spank Robert Louis Steven
u .o., % m L. L.. i..a..... L. :.
The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-10-18
PoLIcEMEN's ANNUAL, Rail-,

Twenty-Five and even thirty years
ago much was made Of the Policemen .
annual ball The one given Monday
evening, February 6, 1893, was no ex-
ception.
Of course the Spalding hotel was
selected as the place to give the ball.
\ card was displayed in the lobby
with this information, viz: "The
Spalding Belongs to the Force"
The dancing took place in the big
dining room. It started at $3.50. Chief
Horgan had been i'll and was extreme.
ly busy, therefore the duty of leading
the grand march was delegated to
Handsome Tom" Hayden, as he was
called in those days. His partner in
the task Of leading the grand march
TO the strains Of Hoare's orchestra was
Miss Hayes. About 200 couple took
part in the grand march but manv
more eventually were present and took