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tr 1 6 1 4 .1 Owingsville Outlook. OWIXGSVILI.K. KY (I YEAR iH ADVANCE. TlirKSDAY. APRIL I.

1.V7 ANNOUNCEMENTS. For County JuJtiO. Win. (I. Rimi-v i a candidate for tin' nomination for County -'udge 'f lJ.tlli.

Klcction in November, ISi'7. For Sheriff. Georsp- T. Young, or Owinjville. is candidate for the, nomination for Mwri'T Bntli county, with Setli Botts, nf Sharps-burg precinct, for deputy.

Johnson M. Atcliiwm, of Wyom ing precinct, i a candidate for the IVniorratic noniinntion for Sheriff of Until county, with S. Buscom, for Deputy. For Jailer. We arc authorized to announce Samuel T.

Jones, of White Oak, a cui.lul.iic D. iuiK-iat if nomination for Jiiil.r of Hatli county. Klcction, November, 1M'7. Jo.m rem on, i a candidate for the Democratic iiom-ination for Jailer of Hath Co. D.

S. Nixon, of Prcr-ton precinct, is a candidate for the Democratic l.oniination for Jailer of Haiti county. Public School Superintendent. W. Jarpcr Ijicv, of near Owings- i IK, it a candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for Hath Co.

Su perintendent of Public Schools Election, November, 18U7. For County Clerk. Ocnr n. Brother is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Clerk of Hath. Election, 1897.

a rues T. Peter a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Clerk of Bath. For County Attorney. J. Clyde Nelson, of Sharpsbiirit, i a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Attorney of Hutu.

For Circuit Judge. are authorized to announce W. S. Gudcell as a candidate for Judge of the 21t Judicial district, subject to the action of thelicpub- lican party. Notice.

Obit uariee.memoriume, not to exceed 80 words, inserted free; fl charged for each addi tional eighty words. Correspondents will please re member to always mail their items so that they will reach us on Won day. This matter is seriously im portant to us. Clubbing Term. The Owikosville Onxoox and either of the following will be sent for one year for the price named Octlook and Twice-a-week Lou Isviile Courier-Journal, 11.60.

Outlook and Weekly Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, 1.19. Important Bank Tax Decision One of the most important deci ions of the Court of Appeal in i long time is that handed down last week in the various bank-tax cases sent there from the Circuit Courts. The eases were bunched and re versed or affirmed to conform to the general Judgment of the ma jority of the Court. Judge Payn ter wrote the opinion, JudgesGuffy, White and Lewis concurring, and Judges DuRelle, Burnam and Ha- selricg dissenting. A remarkable feature is that a recent former de cision of the Court of Appeals is reversed.

When the Court wan differently constituted a majority decided in similar cases that an ir revocable contract existed between the State and tbe banks organized or taxed under the Hewitt law, which allowed the banks to pay seventy-five cents on the 9 100 of capital stock for State-revenue pur poses and exempting them from all other municipal, county or State taxation. Some of the Judges dissented from the latter decUion, Judge Paynter writing the dissent ing opinion, holding that the Constitution repealed tbe Hewitt law and it would be no abrogation or impairment of a contract under the Constitution to require the banks taxed under tbe Hewitt law to pay taxes like the banks that could claim no contract with the' Slate that is, that all banks should pay taxes according to tbe value of their property as returned by tbe assessors and equalised by tbe 6tte and county boards of super visors. Tbe new construction of the law works a hardship upon all banks, and especially so upon tbe banks in tbe large cities where municipal taxation is so high, in this way real estate and personalty other than money are usually assessed at from one-fourth to one-third their actual or market value. (That is tbe rule, tbough it has its excep tions in particular instances. As a instance of an exception, a piece of real estate in this town bad been assessed at what was thought to be about half its market value.

The town assessor raised it from 600 to 700. Tbe county assessor listed it at GOO, but the county board of supervisors, comparing it with the town aenient, raised it to 700. The property was sold a tT.T."?." t'J imt cent 'f ii value. Hut in of actual ij cjnaliaiioii iiioriti'f In a it i I ii in f.ir taxation. S.

uti aver- 1 s- hifuii worm ifiu.dinp in larti. house and personalty (out ide of I ali uoiiM ny taxes on A perron worth if IO.inmi and Having 111 property cacn or cash hole wouut pay taxes oti liole lO.tKlO. The unfairness, the injustice, of Mieh discrimination is too maiiifoft for argument. Ptivate capitalists have means of self -defense. Incorporated hanks have none.

Their capital Mock is published to the world nnd I listed us so i i iicli money, and tawd lor the full value. The Hewitt law was leviseil an an equalising measure to give the banks protection against such an unjust operation of la-. and allowed them to pay cents on the 9100 of their cat ital Mock in lieu of all other taxation. I'ndcr this recent division banks in large cities where me municipal rate is so high will be put to it to protect themselves. One way of relief will be to reduce capital stock; another to consolidate until there are only a few banks to a city.

In this town we ltok for a reduc tion of the capital Moek of each of the two banks, in case the I. S. Supremo Court upholds this last decision, as I lie question will le taken before it. The Court of Appeal handed lonn supplementary opinion that banks were not taxable on their deposits. The Dingley protective tnriirhill was to come to a vote in tlio House Wednesday of this week.

It passed. of course, but will have a tedious trial in the Senate unless each pro- ectionist there gets what he wants. Thk Republican party whip cracked lively on the backs of the Republican General Assemblymen who refused to support Hunter, last week, without avail. The lash has loM its potency in Dr. Godfrey's interest.

Congressman Piuii, it is said, desires the applicants for postnias- terhips in the 9th district to file their papers without delay with the Republican County Jucle of their county, or if there is no Republican Judge, with the Republican Coun ty Chairman. TnaiE-Fot-KTiisof the silver Democrats in the House of Representatives enthusiastically applauded the declaration of a South Carolina silver Democratic Congressman in favor of a protective tarilf on cotton. Three silver Democrats from Louisiana are supporting the Ding- ley bill because of the protection to sugar and rice it contains, and one from Texas because of its pro tection to cotton. That's the way she eoes when real Democratic principles are once abandoned. Tiieke is no telling what the ef fort to elect a IT.

S. Senator at Frankfort will result in. The fifth ballot was taken Monday, and Hun ter fell short two votes, getWng and 60 being necessary to elect nt that time. Senator Stege is th latest to desert Hunter. He and six others voted for Hoyle, and one for Stone.

Rlackburn had 41, and Davie 12. Hunter's friends claim his election yet. Bradley stock is in tbe ascendant, as it is rumored that the two divisions of Democrats have nearly agreed to vote for him, which with the anti-Hunter Republicans would give liradley a ma jority. There is a bare possibility that the Hunter men may in exasperation throw their voles to Blackburn and elect him if Bradley appears about to win. CORRESPONDENCE.

TO CORRESPOND- EXTS.Each issue we reserve sufficient space to get in our correspond ents items. When sev eral fail to send initems it discommodes us very much. We would he grat ified if every one would send in on Monday if possible any news they ow, he it much or little, every week. In tluit way ice sliould know better icliat to depend upon and could make a better pa per, as well as being re lieved of so much hur ricd labor on Tuesday to get made up on time. Remember that a few good items each week are better for a newspaper than to wait and semi a larger quantity of some what stale items.

Sherburne. Tom Robertson and Fred Linn, of Bethel, were here Saturday. John Ingram, of Flemingebnrg, was the guest of bis brother Win. Sunday. Dr.

T. B. Vice was in the Grassy Lick, Montgomery neighborhood Saturday. S. J.

Daughertr was the guest of relatives in the vicinity of Wyoming Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. T. J. Daugherty and W. H.

Graham will go to Cincinnati this week, the former to attend the tobacco sales, the latter to buy a spring stock of goods for his More. i Ot illy.ri. I tl'l Willi I Ml I I IP Miss A in a I better. II niy Wiineii is remodeling hi house pulling a nice new fence around il. Miss Pearl Toy, of lower Slate, visited Miss Myriie Toy Saturday and Sunday.

Foi'KO Hill. Robert Moore is in Cincinnati this week. K. D. Williams, of Odessa, was here Sunday.

A groat deal of sickness in this neighborhood. Mrs. Will Atchison, of Wyoming, visited the family of J. A. Wil liams Saturday and Sunday.

Bethel. Rev. Chandler's children arc liu- proving slowly. Miss Kate McAlistcr went to Cincinnati Monday. Miss Margaret Lancaster is visit ing Joe McAlistcr nnd family.

Mrs. Roll a Kirkland is visiting Robert Harrison nnd family at Helena. Miss Sallie Trumbo, of Mt. Ster ling, and L. A.

Trumbo, of Frank fort, were here last Friday and Saturday. He is traveling salesman for the Oil Refining Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Bricp, of Joliet, lister of David Raidy who was accident ally killed last week, is here with Miss Mollic Laiighlin. They will leave shortly for Illinois.

Miss Laughliit will remain there for some time, but perhaps will return to Kentucky again and make this her home. Okla. Mrs. R. P.

Whitton is somewhat better. Farmers arc very busy burning tobacco beds. Mrs. Foster Lynnin, who has been quite ill. Is better.

Allen Campbell, ot Kast Fork, made a flying trip to Okla Sunday afternoon. Rev. James Word, of Mt. Carmcl, preached a large crowd at Okla Sunday afternoon. Mrs.

Lidn Colliver nnd son F.v- erett Russell, of near Day's Mill, visited Mrs. Addie Crain Sunday. Miss Callie Davis, of near Sherburne, and Miss Bertha Vice, of Day's Mill, were the pleasant guests ot Miss Myrtle Vice Sunday. Married, Tuesday, March 23, at i mi rome oi tne uriue, xuiss lseno Whitton and Williams, Rev, Thomas Rhod'ii officiating. We A wish them a prosperous life Wyoming.

Dr. W. E. Phillips is somewhat better. W.

C. Jackson bus returned from Cincinnati. Born, to the wife of Offie At cil ison, March 22. a boy. Miss Surah Estill visited Miss Daisy Snedegar Sunday.

Mrs. J. D. Myers is sutforin from nn acute attack of la grippe. Miss Mary Moxley, of Sharps- burg, is visiting the family of Dr.

Phillips. S. A. Barber is in Morgan Co, this week, surveying land for John Huckwalter. George Six and wife visited the family of James Gregory Saturday night and Sunday.

Miss Ollie Trumbo gave the young people a party, Saturday night, at Marion Manley's. They all enjoyed themselves until a lute hour. Moore's Ferry. William Purvis is able to be out again. Corn is selling at 11.75 per barrel around here.

Mcttie Moody is staving with relatives near Siloaui. Miss Lenna Purvis has returned home from Hillsboro. rectus iva6ti, ot Cogswell, is in this part on business. Cattle are scarce in this part, and buyers are numerous. B.

P. Fanning, of Cogswell, made a fiying trip here Tuesday. Miss Jennie Kissick has returned home from a visit in Fleming Co. W. H.

Fanning has returned home from a visit to Frenchburg, John Ralston is preparing to move his saw mill to Fleming Co Joseph Moody is buying cattle. We wish you suecees, Mr. Moody. Joseph Steinrod, who vras very low with fever, is able to be out again. J.

M. Fanning sold to Joseph Moody seven barrels of corn. Price not known. Several of the youngsters attended the dunce at Dave Jones' Tuesday night. Miss Reala Kissick, of near here, is staying with her sister, Mrs.

Hayden, near Farmers. James Garner, of Hillsboro, visited F. M. Purvis Sunday. Some thing soems to attract him that way.

Several dogs in this part that their owners ought to do something with, lis people don want their sheep killed. George Purvis is preparing to bring his wife home the next trip he makes to Siloain. May peace and happiness long attend tbem. The girls have been eonding let ters down the river in bottles to be answered. We don't think they need to take so much trouble, as there jo boys here that would cor- rcspoiui.

I Oly in Mrs. ll. ni'v Ksoti i- i.o In iter. i 'aiididales me plentiful here his eek. Several from here went out to I'nele Mose Stull's Sunday to meet- M.

T. Case and II. I. Fitch nt-tendid chinch nt Salt Lick Sunday night. Mr.

and Mrs. H. O. Irwin were visiting Mr. and Mrs.

Ilorton, of Preston, Sunday. Jos. Beagle, of Bourbon arrived here Monday nnd ill remain in the county several weeks. J. T.

Moore put an nddition to his tobacco factory last week. Hi is making apple butter. They will not work together, John, I don't believe. Burglars entered the store-house of Peiiix A Son Wednesday night of last week, secured several dol lars in money and some clothing. Robert Case has been on the hot trail of them for the past week.

Salt Lick. Mrs. Dr. Lube Robbing is very ill. Bro.

Cheap was in Olivo Hill lust week. Miss Mattio Pierce id visiting in Grango City. French MeCarty has moved into his new resideneo. C. K.

Kerchovnl, of Ashland, visited his mother Sunday. Porter Case nnd Harry Fitch, of Oly pia, were in town Sunday. Miss Nona Rulcy, of Soldier, is visiting her mint, Mrs. Tom Dick-erson. Dudo Dawson, of Wyomins.

visAl ited his uncle, James Goodpaster, last week. John Holly, of Farmers, and Sam Bradley, of Morchead, culled on their gills Sunday. Mrs. Kendall and daughter Dora, of Farmers, visited friends here Saturday and Sunday. Bro.

(-heap is holding a revival nt the Methodist Church, assisted by Miss Annie Curtright, lady evangelist. Grange City. Miss Ramey, of Bath Is vis iting at Walter Richards'. Kevs. kors ana niuseni are conducting a series of meetings this place.

Our school, which will be taught by Prof. J. D. Myers, will begin Monday. Dock Butcher and wife, of Srack en attended the bedside of Un cle Uiley Cutright, who is quite sick.

Mrs. Wellington Barnes ai.d two sons Alfred and Kelly-came in from Missouri last week to visit relatives and friends. Safe in the arras of Jesun, Mrs A. it. Havens, ile ot A.

u. Havens, passed quietly over the river of death Wednesday eve, 21th, 1897, at 8 o'clock, aged 69 years, after a lingering illness. Her remains were interred in Hillsboro cemetery Friday, March 20th. Fu neral preached by Bro. Ross.

'Aunt Maria," as sho was familiarly known, was a good woman and leaves a bereft husbund and eight children, two sons and six daughters, three of whom reside in the West, and a host of friends and other relatives, to mourn her loss. Knob Lick. Moving still goes merrily on. Mining will be nearly a failure this month. March is still playing his pranks, from tropical to Arctic.

The candidates are still in the field, judging from the way some of the boys corac back from town. Fine fun for the boys, but death on the candidates. There is one candidate that is not using whisky to influence his election. He is using tobacco and papers. But there seems to be an inquiry from some of his friends who stand near him where he is sorting his tobacco, as he had not raised any.

Congress in special session is considering a new tariff bill. The same old bone; the same old Punch and Judy show. The People's par ty by common consent has ignored it. Among the prominent Populists there is much division. Ignatius Donelly is for a protective while Thomas E.

Watson, judging from his editorials, is for free trade. There are two things the Populists have agreed on one is Government issue of paper money, and another is, times have been hard under a low tariff and under a high tariff, but never were hard, when there was a large volume of money in circulation. It seems there have been but few bins passea in tne Legislature as yet. It is to be hoped they will turn their attention to business and not spend the people's money in an endeavor to elect a U. S.

Senator, especially such a man as Dr. Hunter, who secretly claims to be a free-silver man, but has not the manhood to declare it openly. He will wake up to the realization of the fact that the free-silver Democrats will vote for Bradley in pref erence to Hunter. While they oo- pose Bradley's financial views they appreciate his manly course in opposing chicanery and treachery. The words that Bradley spoke still ring in the ears of all lovers of honor.

Whon he was accused of being disloyal to party he made the remark "I have been true to my party, but I am true to my country." Commendable words. While I be Octlook took issue with me for quoting Bradley's words there still remains an appreciation for a man that will rise above'party and proclaim his man hood. Uppor Prickly Ash. The sii-k nre all some better. Alnianz'i Stone was in Montgom erv last week.

J. R. Clark, of Hat Creek, was in the neigborhood Sunday. Samuel I rain bought a pair of oxen of Joseph Horseman for 100. W.

W. Clark, of Flat Creek, vis ited the family of I. M. Shrout Sunday. II.

Carr, of Montgomery visiting relatives in the neigh borhood. Squire George Shrout bought 0 steers of Sum Lathnuu nt $19.50 per head. Miss Susan Gregory visited her uncle, James W. Lane, and family, in Owingsville, Sunday. John Hedrick end wife and Mrs.

Wm. Hedrick, of Flat Creek, visited nt James R. Manley's Sunday. A wedding is reported for this neighborhood, but thought it best to wait till next week to report it. W.

B. Powers nnd wife, of Flat Creek, nnd Miss Lillio McKinnc-van, of White Oak, were visitors at C. G. Goodpaster's last week. Flat Creek.

Mrs. Wm. Rice nnd son llolman visited in Cincinnati the past week. W. B.

Tower and wife visitd near Rcynoldsvillc from Snturday until Sunday. J. E. Williams and W. B.

Pow er's mill is doing good work grind ing every rriday. Misses Daisey nnd Sudie Williams visited Miss Ruthie Darnell Saturday and Sunday. Wm. Mark nnd wife visited the hitter's father, James Emmons, near Reynoldsvllle, Saturday and Sunday. Several from here were at the wildcat nnd dog fight lit Reynolds-ville Saturday evening.

The cat was killed, so reported. Walter Hamilton nnd George Steele, of Judy, visited W. D. Darnell Saturday and Sunday and attended church at Fassett's school-house. John Steel, Will Young nnd Ed die Toy went to see the dog and wildcat fight Saturday evening.

One more dog and cat fight, 1 think, will do. Elbert E. Dawson preached an excellent sermon at assett school house Sunday morning. Every member of the church who was not present missed a fine sermon. He preaches there every fourth Sun day.

Sharpsourg. W. T. Smoot, of Owingsville, was here on Thursday. A.

W. English is here spending several days with Ins many friends. Capt. John Hedges is seriously ill at his home on Hinkston Creek. John Peters, has been sick some two weeks with something like pneumonia.

Samuel II. Thomas, who has been confined at home for some time, docs not improve much. W. II. Canan has been confined to his room for some timo now, with a deep cold.

Mrs. Canan, who has been ill for some timo, is able to go uround. Richard Williams and family moved on Monday from the Canan farm to the Armstrong farm in Montgomery near Judy. Mr. Clay pool, of Fleming, moved into the house vacated by Williams.

S. T. Howard returned last Tuesday from Louisville, where he had been to visit his son John at the Ky. School of Medicine hospital, where he had been operated on for cancerous tumor of tbe bowels. He was getting along nicely and thought to be out of danger.

John A. Berry, who is also there, is do ing no good. Died, Wednesday evo at about 7 o'clock, at tho residence of Samuel Thomas, Enoch Lane, aged about 62 years. He had been a cripple all bis life. He received a fall the day before his death by his crutch es slipping, and received a fracture of the skull, which caused bis death.

Burial on the farm. East Fork of Flat Creek. It is greatly feared that the fruit is killed here by the cold weather. Mrs. T.

G. Daugherty, of Sher burne, was the guest of Mrs. R. T. Colliver Sunday.

Some of our farmers say their tobacco plnnts are all dead, caused by the recent freeze. l.t. Daugherty is erecting a dwelling house on his father's farm, at tho mouth of East Fork. J. W.

Darnell has wheat jointing. Very early for wheat to joint. The farmers are swapping sides with tho land and making preparations for an early crop. I am sorry to hear that the East Fork correspondent got the cart before the horse. lie is trying to follow the examplo set for him by the Odessa who got the cart before the horse last November.

Poor boy, I will ask him a few questions: What kind of times did we have before this silver craze? What became of those 30,000 and 40,000 Democratic majorities in Ky. (when that party wus a unit), and where is the National Democratic majority? What about that Phil adelphia lawyer? The lawyer was Bryan and tho man that handed him the document was the man that voted for Bryan, and when Mr. Bryan looked at the vote it was torn in twain and he could not get any sense out of it. My Bro. Odessa corpt.

reminds me nioro of the old Baptist preacher. He took his text where it reads "Noah took unto himself a wile." Then he laid the bo-ik down for a few mo-1 nieiits nnd a mischievous boy picked up the Bible and pnsl.it two leaves together. By this time it began to read nbout the ark. Then the ob took up the Bible to quote his text again. He said "Noah took unto himself wife.

She was cubits long, sho was SO cubits wide, Miv was pitched within and she was pitched Without. Sonic member after service was over said you made a mistake." 'No, sir," wns the reply; '-I did not. I have the Bible for my proof." Just like these silver men they believe bimetallism is the thing and you can't get them to believe anything else. All of their arguments are weak; no platform to stand on, and, to wind it up, they wanted to rule or ruin. Odessa.

Bud Brother, of Owingsville, was here last Thursday. Bud Brother, of Owingsville, visited R. T. Colliver Sunday. Mrs.

Bettio Doyle, of Fleming county, visited I. R. Darnell's family tho first of last week on business. Jno. W.

Darnell engaged his lambs to Jeflle Atchison for July delivery, two weeks ago, at lie per pound. F. T. Jones sold bis old crop of tobacco nnd delivered it last Wednesday at Owingsville at lc and 2c per pound. Tilford Estill got kicked by fooling with a colt Saturday; haven't heard particulars us to whether it is serious or not.

Prof. McNeil and T. S. Shrout, of Owingsville, and F. O.

Putnam, Hillsboro, were guests of J. B. nd Isaac W. Jones Sunday last. Isaac Stephens sold last week to Warren Swetnam a bay filly, price not known.

She is a very noted filly, recently sold at Owingsville for three bowls of soup. The Saturday meeting at White Oak will be at half-past three in the evening the coming Saturday and will continue at that hour each Saturday during the summer. Ambrose T. Jones lost by death an excellent milch cow Saturday. She left a calf a week old.

Cause not known more than she was seen fighting another cow a few minutes before she died. Jno. W. Darnell attended the cat fight at Reynoldsville Saturday and reports the laugh turning the other way this time, as the same dog that fought the cat the Saturday before killed the cat this time. So no more of this cat.

Charles Rankins, out, good-na- Itured and accommodating mail reamer ana nacK ariver, wno seems at oil times to be ready to accommodate any and all persons in the bounds of reason, had onlast Tuesday to deny a young widower from Fleming Co. at this place, who asked Charley to ride his horse from here to Wyoming nnd let him (the widower) drive the mrIl, by reason of his best girl being a passenger in the hack; but Charley knew what Uncle Sam said and denied him firmly without a blush. The Sick. Tommy Riddle is no better. Ed Henderson is getting better.

R. T. Colliver is getting worse all the time. Mrs. R.

E. Reeves is convalescent. Old Aunt Eliza Powers is very poorly, worse than she has ever been during her late illness. Old Aunt Deborah Jones continues about the same. Mrs.

T. J. Jones is recovering from a severe spell of la grippe. Jessie II. Anderson continues about the same.

Mrs. Wm. Markland is very sick at this time. W. B.

Gudgell has been quite sick for two weeks. Mrs. Za- rilda Jones is about the same. Later. Mrs.

Louisa Powers, better known as "Aunt Lizn," who had been very low for several weeks. died Sunday night between 9 and 0 clock, at ber home near old Pittsburgh: funeral services were hold at the house by Elder B. barker Monday at 3 o'clock; bur ial at 4, at the family burying ground near the home. Aunt Eliza was 78 years old lacking a few days; had been a member of the Christian Church at White Oak for about 40 years. She Ieave9 7 children to mourn her loss, namely: W.

of Owingsville; J. II. and W. of near the old home; Mrs. Geo.

A. Deatley, Mrs. Katy A. Gil- Ion, Mrs. Jas.

II. vv llson and Mrs, R. T. Colliver, all living near by and at the old home. They have the sympathy of the community in their sad bereavement.

Kansas Essay on Man. "Man that is born of woman is few of days and full of microbes. The moment he hits the earth he starts for the grave, and the longer he travels the faster he goes. His visible reward for long days of labor and nights of walking the floor with a teething baby is an epitaph he can't read and a tombstone he doesn't want. In the first, of the seven ages of man he's licked, in the last he is neglected, and in all the others he's a target for the lying, meddlesome mischiefmaker a woman who won't tend to her own business.

If he does not marry his first love he'll always wish he had, and if he does he'll always wish he hadn't, let no man ever follows freedom's flag for patriotism (and a pension) with half the enthusiasm that he will trail tbe red, white, and blue that constitutes the banner of female beauty. He will brave the lion in his den, face the booming cannon, tread the ocean foam be neath his feet, and yet will tremble like a half-frozen, egg-sucking dog when called to account by bis wife for his cussedness. He goes forth in the morning to plow corn with a cross-eyed mule and a roan steer, works hard all day, and comes home at night to find his seven half- clothed children hungry as bears and no bread in the house, and his wife over to one of the neighbors to borrow a hat to wear to a church so 1 Human Nature. Men are just like hogs, however distasteful this may sound to thei hogs. When a hog gels nn ear of! corn every other hog will trt along! lielniul him una squeal and whine and toady for a bite; but just let the front hog get in a tight place, with Ins head fust in a crack, and every son of a sow will jump on In in and tear hiui to pieces.

Just so with men. As long as a man is prosperous and has money he can't keep friends otf with a base ball bat. The moment he is unfortunate and hie wealth is gone, he is not only snubbed by his former alleged friends, but they at onco begin to do him all the harm possible. When a man starts up grade, the world falls in behind and pushes. When he starts down grade, the world steps to one side and greases the track.

Always Harvest Time Some where. rbimgo Tlum-lf erald.) "The wheat crop is always being harvested somewhere," said a man on the Board of Trade. "Just now, whilo the American farmer is not thinking of wheat, the crop of Aus tralia, Chili and the Argentine republic is being put on the market. In February and March tho fields of upper Egypt and those of India are harvested. That of lower Egypt, which is irrigated by the overflowing of the Nile, is harvested in April, while Syria, Cyprus, Persia and Asia Minor also gather crops during that month.

Cuba's wheat will also be gathered in April. "Texas is the first of our States to send wheat to the market. This it does during May; at the same time that the fields of Algeria, Central Asia, China, Japan and Morocco are making their yields. In June those of California, Oregon, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia, tbe Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas.Utah, Colorado, Missouri, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the South of France are harvested.

July sees tbe crops in the other American States and all except the northernmost part of Europe harvested. Russia then begins to gather her grain, more being harvested in August, when Manitoba, lower Canada, North Dakota and the north ernmost countries ot Europe are tbe scenes of the harvest. Sweden, Norway and Northern Russia are the only wheat fields covered with the golden grain in September and October. But Just as these crops are gathered the crops In Peru and South Africa aro ready, and in De cember New South Wales gathers her harvest. Can't Spank.

Bowling Urean Timet.) While the recent term of the Circuit court was in session a well-known young married man of this city, who has only recently attained to the dignity of a proud father and who was then on one of the juries, and who bud a short time before read an account of a decision by a New York judge in a case where a man was arrested for spanking1 his wife and claimed thut he had a right to do so, indited the following to Judge Settle and asked his legal opinion on tbe matters involved: "Honorable Sir I noticed the following case in Judge Osborne's court in Brooklyn, N. of which the facts briefly are: Mr. William Britton acknowledged to spank ing' ms wife and claimed that as head of his house he had the right to do so. Will you oblige me with your written opinion whether or not a man has a right to chastise his wife in the manner above described. This is a vital question affecting our peace and happiness.

Your immediate answer will greatly oblige. Yours, etc." Judge Settle kindly favored him with the following written opinion, which will doubtless prove of interest to more young Bowling Green husbands than the one who asked for the Judge's decision: "At the common law as anciently construed a man had the right to absolute obedience from his wife; she could nave nothing, own no property and what she had before marriage became his upon the mar riage. He even had the right to thrash or whip her in a reasonable degree. But, happily for mankind, the wife is now the owner in her own right of whatever property she may have at marriage or may afterwards acquire. She is equal to the husband, and in many cases 'the gray mare is the better So, under the laws of Kentucky, while a man.

may wallop bis own he dare not wallop bis wife, or even lay his hand upon her in anger. E. Settlx, Judge." Abandoned Turnpikes. (Harrodsburg Saying.) The devil seems to have possessed a few fellows in this, as in other counties of the Commonwealth. They fear not God, neither do they regard man.

Property rights is a subject that they knownotof. Tbe law seems to have no terrors for tbem. They are aliens to reason and recognize no agency but brute force. They are cowards at heart and unblushingly publish themselves as red-handed assassins by anonymous writings addressed to peaceful citizens. The strange part about the whole business is that thecommunities afflicted stand the riotous proceedings ot these ill-bred ignoramuses.

An anomolous state of affairs exists. When the kuklux were in vogue many years ago they hung and shot outlaws and did service to the community; but the toll-gate raider is at war with society and the object of his hate is the law-abiding citizen who honors his State by his devotion to du ty. The heart of the raider, no doubt, rejoices within him as he reviews the results of his recent forays and contemplates the healthy ialS j-jn -e of his terror. The Boards of Directors who have surrendered their pikes to the mob, we shall not accuse of being influenced by fear. But the night-raider will so interpret it, for that word constitutes the code of his organization.

He will get bolder; ho is bound to get holder. His rule is working handsomely and if he doe not go outside the lines of his present object, the evolution of his doctrine wilt be defeated. TJie gentlemen who surrendered their turnpikes have been engaged in a thankless and profitless job and they are beyond doubt happy to be relieved of it, but we believe they are making a mistake. By abandoning their pikes to the county, nnder present law, they can only be worked as county roads and everybody knows what that means mud roads. To think of our magnificent system of macadamised roads, that ws have been more than half a century in building up, returning to the primitive state is enough to make on weep, as well as curse the miserable blockheads who could make such a thing possible.

However, we do not believe the spirit of the people will suffer such an overwhelming calamity to occur. Our present insufficient laws mast be amended so as to authorise the county to take charge of and keen no all aban doned pikes. Before that Is done, though, many of our handsome highways are sure to retrograde greatly, and it will take immense amounts of money to put them In statu quo ante. The foregoing leads np to a statement with reference to the official abandonment, Saturday afternoon. meetings oi the directors In this ity, of the Cornish ville pike, 10 liles; and the Mackville pike, 3 lileft.

Jndore Roach informs ua that the presidents of other roads have signified their intention to aoanaon tne same, to-wit: Kroner's Chapel pike, 5 miles; Baton Kouge pike, a miles; Dixville pixe, 8 miles; Oak Ridge pike, 4 miles. GENERAL NEWS. A tornado did much damage at Austin, Texas, Sunday. Spain and Cuba are conducting a war of endurance, trying to the or wear each other out. War, and perhaps a general European one, is still a not remote posibility over the Cretan uprising.

utw uiimin in aooui 10 nave a spat wun uom ram xruger tor possession ot the Transvaal Republic. Mrs. Margaret J. Preston, the Southern writer of war poetry, died at Baltimore. Stonewall Jackson's first wife was her sister.

The leaders of the W. C. T. U. are trying to have the Stata legist la tu res pass laws against exhibiting tbe vitascops pictures of the Cor-bett-Fitzsimmona fight.

Over eighty thousand tions for postmastershlps have been filed with the McKlnley ad ministration. The number is less than that of four yean ago. Geo. Holmes killed his twin brother Calvin, near Moore's Hill, Ind. Both were smitten with the charms of a Miss Higgs and tbeir mutual jealousy led to fratricide.

Wm. T. Adams, the noted author of juvenile books under the pen-name "Oliver Optie," died of fatty degeneration of the heart at Boston. He was aged 75 years. The Nashville Sun, a prominent silver daily edited and partly owned by B.

C. Enloe, has been assigned to a trustee. Enloe is the promoter of the Dispatch, the proposed silver daily at Louisville. Martha Bull, claiming a collateral relationship with George Washington, and thirty years a society leader at Camden, Ya, killed her paramour Thomas McRaa and then ended her own life, in Hancock Co, Tenn. Perry neath.

First Asst. Postmaster General, says the policy of his department ia not to remove from office any one for offensive partisanship unless It is shown that it was detrimental to the pos tal service. On Paradise Ridge, near Nashville, Tenn, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ade, Lizzie and Henry Ade and Rosa Doirer were burned in their home.

Murder and arson, for purposes of robbery or revenge, are-suspected as the cause ot the terrible occurrence. Corbet and Fitzsimmons had a friendly meeting in San Francisco, at which Corbett begged the fajr.1 of another fighting chance uicio ui, rruuMiiun. cm ram woum never enter mo ring again, but if he did would give Corbett the preference. The father of Will Wood, of Pearl Bryan notoriety, says his son is enlisted in the U. S.

Navy and getting $50 per month. He passed the Civil Service examination. When last heard from he was on a vessel at London, England. He says -he has assurances from the Federal authorities that his son is net wanted for violation of the postal laws, as no indictment could be found on his letters to Scott Jaek- son. C.

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