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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Nils Mary Warren Collins left
this we k for Louisville, where she
has entered DEMONSTRATION Bust
ness University.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mrs. M. j. Ross is visiting her
daught'r, Mrs. John T. Moore, and
Mr.. Moore, in Louisville.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. H. Y. Taylor, of Maceo, spent
the week. nd with his daughter,
Mrs. Howard Ellis, and Mr.. Ellis.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Squir, w. S. Dean and Mr.. Porter
Mcdowell, of Dundee, were in Hart
ford, Monday.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. J. Douglas Williams made
his r gular trip to Centertown last
Friday night, accompanied by Mr..
Ellis L. King.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. James Hancock, of
Leitchfield, spent the weekend in
Hartford.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mrs. r. B. Martin has returned
to her home at Cromwell, afoar
spending several days visiting h'r
son, Otto c. Martin, and Mrs. Mar
tin.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. Raymond Phillips left several
days ago for Ell Campo, Tex, where
he looking over the situation with
thu prospect of locating.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Roofing, roofing, rubber roofing.
We have a good supply. See us be-
fore you buy. ACTON BROS
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

LOST--Some where on Beaver
Dam, r. 2, or in Hartford, onb pair
eye glasses in morocco cas-. Please
return to T. W. sHARER,
Hartford, Ky. 40-tf
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. John Taylor, of Maceo, is Wis
iting his sister, Mrs. Howard Ellis,
and Mr.. Ellis.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

L. G. Barr tt, wife and little son,
of HARTFORD, spent Sunday with j.
w. Barrett and family, Of the New
Baymus neighborhood.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mrs. w. o. RI ad, of Horse Branch
was pleasant caller at this Office
Saturday.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. G. A. Ralph, who has b, en- III
of typhoid for the past two weeks.
is no better.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

If you desire to purchase a resi-
denc, in Hartford, see Barrett &
Hagerman.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

! Mr.. J. Y. Hagerman was in Leitch-
field, Monday and Tuesday, on bust
ness.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. Roy Keown, of mar, Fords-
Vile, attended the speaking herr,
Monday.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

The best place to buy your specta-
cles is at FRANK PARDON'S
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Frank Pardon greensboro, Ky.
For New watches.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

II you want to sell your residence
or farm, list it with Barrett & Ha-
german.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04
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Rev. H. G. Truman, was in this
city, Monday.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. James McSherry, Of Beaver
Dam. was among our callers, Mon
day.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mr.. Porter Mcdowell, OF Dundee,
was in this city, Monday.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Mrs. Charles p. Duff, OF Sulphur
Springs, is very i'll Of fux.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

For farm lands see Barrett & Ha-
german at the Herald Bldg.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Gov. Cox speaks in Louisville
Friday night, October s.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-10-04

Frank Pardon repairs watches,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
Anti Tobacco Agitators
 Working Hopefully

WHlLE many persons refuse to
 w take the anti-tobacco cam paign seriously, it is making head way. The convention now in session at Indianapolis shows that the re- formers are in earnest.
 The majority of the delegates are women, but not few men opposed to Lady Nicotine are taking an ac- tive part.
 When the no-tobacco movement was started several years ago, the argu- ments were aimed for the most part against cigarettes, but later the pro hibition of the weed in every form its production ahd sale-was included in the crusade.
 Now that John Barleycorn and all other intoxicating beverages have been abolished, will tobacco come next? It is hoped not, but stranger things have happened. Who would have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
Recruiting Drive for
 the Regular Army

1.-THE War Department is prepar-
 lI ing for vigorous drive for re- cruits for the regular army.
 While the numerical strength of the army on a peace basis has not been finally determined by Congress, it is to be approximately two hundred and eighty thousand, The recruit ing machinery of the department is being trained on those figures.
 Notwithstanding the fact that Uncle Sam pays the enlisted men of the regular establishment we'll as compared with the pay of other years, recruiting is not as brisk as desired. Even when the army was under one hundred thousand the ranks were never quite full
 The government now appeals to the patronage of young men. The de- mand for industrial labor is greater today than ever and wages are higher than ever. Yet goodly percentage of men of military age there are who have a liking for military life and to all such the War Department lis pinnine it's hopes for early re- cruits.
 It is believed that by the coming summer the army will be close tc the maximum mark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28

and Trotzky, which we were gravely told, time and again, could not last "six months longer" has gone on, month after month, and is stronger than ever. Petrograd and Moscow, which were "tottering," or in immi- nent peril of being captured by the anti-bolshevik forces, are still in the hands of the bolsheviki. Instead of being defeated themselves, the bol- sheviki have decisively beaten Kol- chak and Denikine. They are now so firmly established that they have ceased to regard themselves as being On the defensive. Missionaries are no longer needed. World revolution is unnecessary to the maintenance of bolshevik rule in Russia.
 Whether we continue to shut our eyes to the true situation or acknowl- edge that the only government chat has shown any stability or coherence thus far is that set up by two such impossible characters as Lenine and Trotzky, we must concede that an amazing amount of transformation has been disseminated in America, either intentionally or otherwise, about what has been going on in Russia.
 It isn't pleasant to contemplate the failure America and the allies have made in trying to solve the Russian problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
BURIED EMPIRES

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 m ECENT wonderful archaeological IM discoveries in Africa once more
 serve to impress us with the majesty of civilizations antiquity Here, it is said. is clear evidence of a civiliza- tion which antedates that of Egypt, one which makes of the civilizations of Babylon and Tyre comparatively recent events. The world will await with in- terest the story of it's records. These tales of monuments and tombs, of strange writings, deciphered by the scientists, have put us in touch with the life of hoary centuries have gal vanized so to speak, the men and wom- en of the ancient days until they move and speak, love and strive then pass to their appointed places.
 It is interesting in this connection to learn from a distinguished professor of Assyriology, of Oxford, England, that a new tablet places the blame for the fall of man on the sturdy shoulders of Noah. According to the tablet, Noah was ordered by the Lord not to eat of the fruit of the cassia tree-as though anybody would want to!-and because he objected to prohibition and did eat the curse of i'll health fell upon him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
- sss------------------- LUKE NcLIfKE SAYS

woman seldom wears the same fare on the street that she wears in the house. %hu vet she would get mad if you told her that she was two-faced
 After woman has been married for 10 or 10 years she is greatly surprised to learn that the words Love and Obey are contained in the marriage service.
 Shapes is shapes Maybe this is the reason the slim princesses usually select
 Excelsior as their class motto when they graduate from high school,
 woman never looks on the first page Of a newspaper for war news. She turns over tc@ the column devoted to court news and reads all the new divorce sults that have been filed
 slender girl can lose herself in the wild abandon of the dance. But a corn fed keeps the brakes on She never knows when something will bust.
 If a man has sense enough to keep his mouth shut when he has nothing to say the world will put him oown as a grouch.
 The drNs announce that no candidate for office. from President to town con stable. will get by their organization un- less he is in favor of prohibition enforce ment. Yes, aiid if the vets had sense .er cugh to forget the,s- pcs.ticaI parties and vote for none but liberals, the drys would have nothing to enforce.
 Few men ever get deaf from listenins tl the deafening applause that is coming their way.
 Once upon a time man stopped ana thought before he spoke. And he dis covered that he was not going to say anything, anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
Bo.shevil1i Are Wearing
 An Air of Confidence

A SOVIET republic strong E enough to fight the world with between four hundred and fifty million and five hundred million dol lars to spend in foreign trade alone, and we'll equipped armies in the field, are revelations that do not exactly conform to our previous ideas of what the bolsheviki have accom- plished and may yet accomplish in Russia.
 There may be disposition not to believe some of the testimony given by Ludwig c. A. K. Martens before a Senate Investigating committee. but the self-styled Ambassador" talked like a man who had nothing to conceal and his evident straight forwardness is given additional weight by some facts we have re- cecently learned about soviet Russia
 For one thing, the power of Lenine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
DINNER WITH ARAB PRINCE

cream, constituted the repast. Forks were conceded to us westerners but falsal merrily ate with his fingers
 when a guest got through he rose and gave his place to another In the beau truly lighted garden below, Beduin oanclng and sword play was going onj eolIee was served in this garden, in the manner of the desert, by negro who two or three times passed around tn circle with little cups which he half Filled with the blackest coffee. Then came the entertainment. There wa music from Arab musicians pIavin ! Arab instruments. There were patri ] otic choruses from the Bow Scouts
 Ihere was more dancing. There. wa snort play in whic hone of the daueb ters of the martyrs" represented ..Da mascus in Captivity" bewailing her rate in a high monotone, which changed to songs of joy at the entrance of an ; other girl impersonating the deliverer Faisal with his army Thet guests de ! parted early, bearing their. sheaves with them In the shape of the silken gar- ments in which they had been clothed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
Short Winter-But
 It Is Not Yet Over

9T1HE north has had rough win
 G ter, but in the south mild tenn perature has prevailed. There was a freezing spell in December, but the blizzards forecast since then have failed to reach this far
 It is not too late, however, for a touch of zero weather. It will be re- called that in February, 1899, begin ming on the 18th of the month, this entire section was in the grip of the ice king. In Birmingham the mer- cury dropped to 10 degrees below zero, and remained below several days. Louisiana and Florida were frozen up It was the coldest spell ever known in the south.
 Has the coming February anything so severe in store? Meteorol3 3gists VIII iOb SlNG CNcll uCSS etilQ lAiC goose bone prophet is silent. Maybe the groundhog next Monday will give us something to go by, but the rec ords have proved that there is little dependence to be placed in his move ments.
 The farmer welcomes freezing temperatures, for every freeze mel lows and fertilizes the earth, but in the cities a mild winter season suits best.
 It will be generally hoped at any rate that we may escape such bliz- gard as visited us in February, 1899.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
F g E Bill Yopp, Former Slave, Was Loyal to the End
.Cymbelinc.

A FEW days ago Capt. Thomas EA Yopp died at the Confederate Soldiers home in Atlanta. Himself a unique character, it was the devotion he inspired in a former slave that made Thomas Yopp somewhat of a celebrity outside of Georgia.
 For the past ten years Bill Yopp, who served through the Civil war as Captain Yopp's body servant, had taken up collection, usually of dimes, to buy Christmas presents not only for his "old marster," but for all the other inmates of the home. Nat urally, that was the kind of Christ mas story no wideawake reporter would overlook and Bill was known far and wide.
 The old negro must have fared bet ter than his erstwhile owner, in a worldly way. At any rate, the cap tain was compelled to find a refuge with his comrades at the home, where he ended his days, honored but poor. Shortly before his death Bill was given lifetime job at the home, so he could watch over the captain. Bill was at the bedside when the captains spirit sought another abid- ing place Few of us are more sin cerely lamented in our passing than Captain Yopp was incurred by "Ten Cent Bill" who doubtless thought of the gallant young southerner going away to war more than half a cen tury age, with brisk young negro at his heel7.
 In James Lane Aliens "Two Gen tlemer of Kentucky" the friendship of two old men, one white and the oth- CT black, forms the background of one of the most charming stories ever written. Mr Allen may have had in mind characters known to him, or his story may be pure fiction, but that of Captain Yopp and old Bill is equal ly moving and tender It might well inspire Thomas Nelson Page-now that he has gone back to literature or MT. Aller to write another master piece.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Fire Drills Important


 Fire drills are aimed, not so much at the fire as at the panic usually ae' ccmpanying it." stated w. J. Williams state fire marshal who was in Birmlng- ham yesterday They are most impor- tant both to the schools and to the in- dustrial plants where there are large number of people, both old and young employed In the schools there should oe short talks on fire prevention, evils Of .carelessness and damage by fire to life and property These lessons should be free from excitement and addressed to the common sense of the pupils, rather than to their feelings and imagination.
 Tt would be well also if every child could be given individual instruction by the parents in the need of being very careful with all inflammable articles; Their feelings should not be aroused bg stories of the horrors of fires or refer erce to any particular disaster Tney should be interested in simple means Of fire-fighting and handling materials which come under their daily observa- tions at home or at school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28

From 'Is the Caliphate in the Melting
 Pot?" by Frederick J. Bliss, in Asia"
 magazine for January.
 6NHE tangled tale of British policy
 relating to Arab lands, or, rather
 the tale of clcshing policies; of mutually annulling promises, made to different parties; of evasion; of plausi ble and desperate attempts to recon cfle irreconcilable engagements, fath- cred by short sighted opportunism of supposerd military necessity; of the present dismay ana wrath of those who feel themselves to have been swindled plete and the time for publishing to the world the finished chapters is not yet ripe. But of friend one may speak at any time. It is held that prince cannot have friends, but this prince of the desert. whohe pediggee, going back to Mohammed, relegates the sovereigns of Europe to the ranks of parvenus, calls his friends my brother"
 
 Faisars was the chief figure. The great dinner party faiready mentioned was given in house and garden on the road to the Salahiah in Damascus. It was a triple festival The dinner was in honor of the American commission CTS, but the night chosen was the night closing the Moslem fast, ushering in the Moslem feast while. by chance, on that afternon peace had been signed with Germany On entering the chief guests were draped in silken cloaks of many colors and silken wells were bound to their foreheads with silken ropes. The sight of the round spectacles on the face of one of the American commissioners, a grave college president peering over rose colored garment was typical of the Alice in Wonderland" atmosphere that permeated the scene. What an assembly of all sorts and conditions of mem The guests must have numbered GOO or more. Here were real Arabs from Arabia, with swarthy flames and side curls bristling with weapons. Here were British and French army officers with their wives. Here were Druse Sheikhs from their impregnable hills in the Hauran. Here was band of Boy Scouts from Jerusalem. Here was a bevy of little girls, daughters of Da- mascus notables. the martyrs" whom Djamel Pasha had hung. Here were the leaders of the present Arab movement, Christians as well as Moslem. Herff was a gentle. inoffensive- choking old gentleman, no other than Izzet Pasha. that head of Abdul Hamids Kitchen Cabinet" who. with pockets lined with loot systematically extorted from appli- cants for office, had escaped from the Young Turks II years before in a Brit ish coal steamer hurriedly purchased for his flight And walking from group to group was the Emir Faisal. easy. af- wable, democratic, every inch king
 For the chief guests diner was served on the open balcony overlooking the garden. We sat cross-legged on Aar- pets and ate in true Arab style. without plates. each dipping into a huge pyra- mid of rice infiltrated with chicken. This dish. with bread. curded milk and heavenly sweet connection in which believe pounded almonds favored the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
THE TAVERN BY THE SEA.

By Edmund Leamy. There's musty little tavern at the
 back of God-knows-where. On tiny little twisted cobbled street. us gas lamps through the windows
 throw a fuzzy, muggy glare, And it's there that of an evening sailors
 meet. Till it's closing time at midnight one by
 one they come and go, And the hours are passed in revelry
 and song, And warns of days seafaring, sun and
 shine and storm and snow, And good red rum to drink the evening
 long. But when the last lone reveIer has van-
 ished down the street, And the moon rides low and palely in
 the sky, Then they come. They come all silently
 on swiftly moving feet The others-sailor men of days gone by. And very jovial shades are they. and
 very glad to be Again within the tavern as of old. Swapping lies and salty stories of tho
 deathless sweeping sea. Tales of lust. and love, and lure of
 yellow gold. A ghostly pot-boy serves them breakers
 filled with ghostly ale, And a ghostly host smiles broadly from
 the bar, And they drink deep drinks with laughter
 till the dawn comes gray and pale, When they pay their scores and go with
 the last star. And I'm told that these old sailors,
 though it may not all be true, Are very, very wicked bad and bold. And they sail on ghostly cruises OCT
 the oceans trackless blue. On ghostly ships in search of ghostiy
 gold And whether they're successful, I be-
 lieve it matters not, For ever there's good cheer and conn
 pany, And mate to swap a yarn with. and
 man to share a pot Of ale. witnin the tavern by the sea. And it may not quite be heaven. but
 what more would sailors ask When the long trick is finished and is
 over. But able in the tavern, and sa'h And a vig of ale with some old fellow
 rover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28

and Instead of living to the ripe old age of 50,000 years, he died after hav-l ing lived a paltry few centuries.
 The scientist insists that this tablet was written 5000 years ago, and that it evidently records tradition which goes pack to the very early history of man.
 We cannot dispute this authority. As a matter of fact, we do not wish to do. so. We are glad that we have this be- lated exoneration of our slandered first parents. Adam may have been a gen. tleman after all; and we always have. contended that Eve was everything a. glorious first creation should have been
 Noah's reputation justifies the sus- picion at least that he may have been the first sinner.
 However, we are inclined to believe. notwithstanding the evidence of the Assyrian tablet, that man has been falI-s ing upward ever since God placed him here on earth. The best man of todayl Is better man than ever was any' dream Adam. Aspiration. guided by. love and mercy, has been lifting man through all the ages since he rose frya,l groveling before the dark shapes of Tear and superstitution and felt in his, burgeoning soul the divine impulse toI prayer and faith
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
Walker To Get Out of Mud.

We are in the mud over in our conn tY now but when the s25O0O 900 of highway bonds are issued we expect to get out of it." said Representative Cal vert of Walker county who came to Birmlngham yesterday to attend the meeting of the republican state execu- tlVe committee. From what I can learn in conversations with the voters believe Walker county will return an overwhelming majority in favor of the bond issue. We need money to build sood roads anu that is the only way we can get it. The farmers in my county are prosperous and are making preparations fer better crops than ever this year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
Birmingham,s Rapid Growth.

The last census showed phenomenal increase in Birminehams population, but that was due chiefly to the wide extension of the city's boundary lines but since then there has been rapid growth in the central district as well as in the outlying sections. said Al pheus Dalton of Chicago.
 My last visit to Birmingham was in 1911. The business section has spread out and improved in every way since then. and the residence districts have made great strides. When I was first here in the early nineties thought Birmingham would long re- main in the mining camp class. But it has long ago passed that stage. This is one of the handsomest cities of the 100000 class in the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-28
Home Enr Girls Needed.

There is not thing needed more Tn Birmingham than a home where girls earning their own livelihood and not living at home may reside" said Mrs Conrad Ohme. "and it is home of thls kind that the Big Sisters expect to build or buy with the funds secured as result of the membership cam paign now being carried on. Accord ing to officials of the Young Women Christian Association. many girls, some days as many as fifteen are being turned away from this organization, which is already overcrowded. We ex- pect to have a matron who will be mother to the girls and at this home they may live for nominal sum and one in keeping with their small sal aries. Untrained girls who come to Birmingham from the other sections of the state seeking employment are un- able to earn anything but small sal aries at first and our home will look after these girls. we hope"