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r Br THE HICKMAN COURIER CsYsrt V iltrn Ktntnckr Uki ths Dsw" W. 0. SPEED, and '3. 0. BEXTON, r Editors and rropritor. ONE DOLLAR Villi YEAR CASH IS ADVANCE. Entered at the nickmnn, Kentucky, postoOlcs a second-class mull mutter, OUR METHOD WASTEFUL IRISH ECONOMIST GIVES AMER ICAN FARMERS ADVICE. Farmers of Middle Wilt Have Uoen More Like Land Bpeculatora Than Agriculturist. Xcw Vork. Slinking before tlic Heo noniic and llisttirinvt Association, Sir llornrc I'lunkctt, of DtiUHn, wlio lias brought about almost a riirnl rev olution in Ireland, ami is wild to know more about the resources of the United States than 00 jt rent of our own citizen, said: "I soc n rapidly increasing cost of llv ing. At the end of a century, a Mr. Hill lias told j ou, tlioro will be a vat I m jHirtatidii of food stulT. into America If your farming method are not changed for the better. Such a situation rail for urgent action by congress and by state legislatures. As an alien 1 have no right to say what such action should be, but if I may not prescribe, I may describe. "The system of agriculture In the Cen tral U'cst, or that ruirt of it settled thirty years ago, was the most wasteful I ever saw. The so-called farmer was not a farmer, but a land simulator. He went into the country knowing that the land was sure to rise in value. So he bough all tlto land he could get and then robbed the land to meet his obli gations until he could realize hU eventual sure profits from a sale. There has got to be a change. I believe .there will come in this country co-operation be tween farmers the plan long ago forced upon the farmers of older couutries by the competition of the then virgin soils of America." MISS BELLE KINNEY WINS Her Design for Memorial to Women of South Selected. Managua. ltcccnt reports that the American, Oroce and Cannon, were tor tured before being shot are untme. The facts were in the possession of the state department at Washington a month ago, and it was generally suposed tliut auy details of the tragedy lud been given publicity through official channels. As it is, advantage has been taken of the oportunity in some in-ttqnecs to paint n picture that was more interesting than truthful. The glory of C'apt. Anibul Chaves, ho refused to obey an order to take cum nund of the firing Miiad, is dimmed somewhat by tho light of known circum stance, (ieneral Toledo, Medina and lriasa had implored Xelaya to abandon his purpose cf shooting the two Ameri cans. Zclaya, however, could not be influ enced, and Cicneral Toledo finally or dered Captain Chaves not to assume com mand of the squad. Clrarea chose to obey Toledo rather tlian the president, and as a consequence wns arretted and held in jail for six weeks. I'pon his re Irate Chaves made the most of the episode. AMERICANS MOT TORTURED Zelnya Wm Firm and Unyielding to Requests for Mercy. Atlanta, (In. A design for a suitable memorial to the women of the Confed eracy was aekittd hero Wednesday by u committee of Confederate veterans named by (Jen. Clement A. Kvans, at the Memphis reunion lust June. All the Mouthern states except one were repre sented at the meeting. Only two artists submitted designs, Louis I'otter, of New York, who is now in Athintu, and Mil Belle Kinney, of Nashville. The design submitted by Miss Kinney was selected. The committee held a session this morning at which plans vvoru prepared for perfecting their organization and raising funds for the erection of monu ments to tie women of the Confederacy in each of tho .Southern states. lor the purpose of raising funds to pay for the erection of one of these me morials in the capital of each of the Southern states, the following committee was appointed: (Jen. O. C. Walker, South Carolina, chairman; Gen. Julian U. Carr, North Carolina, treasurer! (ien. John 1. Hickman, Tennessee, secretary i Ceil. J. O. Wnddell, Georgia; MuJ. C. M. Kclder, South Carolina! Ma. L. V. Scott, Mis sissippi; Col. James Dlcklus, Louisiana. The price agreed upon for the monu ment is $5,000, the veterans entering into uu agreement to accept no less than ten in duplicate. TWO NEW BUGABOOS OF CHILDHOOD. ' - - A (Copyright. 1MJ.) ; DRAG CHINESE OUT OF CARS. Celestials Being Smuggled in Via Texas and West. Denver, Colo. Federal officers drugged two Chinese out of their berths in l'ull mail sleepers and will send tneni to Suu Francisco fur deportation. The ofliiers uy the Oilentuls are incmlH-rs of tho baud of eight young Chinese who swum the Itio (irande river several nlhti sgo. Ofliciull assert that bundled of Chinese are being smuggled across the Mexican border, takeu to obscure points in Texas, Colorado and other Western tales, uud then shipped in freight curs to the East ern cities, Ths Anti-Cigarette League Says the Cigarette Is as Dad as the Hookworm. COTTON GOES TO 16,16 INCREASED BUYINO OF ACTUAL COITON. Spinners Turned Bulla Receipts Are Light Some Selling for Bulls' Account. Memphis, Tenn. The cotton market arose from its holiday rest with a bound ing start and with the inception of busi ness prices were 15 to 2(1 points higher in .American markets and throughout the day the advance was maintained with only such variations as are incident upon the profit-taking that nccoiupanies n bull market. It was a big, broad tilTuir, and in point of trading the day has sel dom been exceeded this season. Large sales wrte made for bulls' accouit. The market absorbed this selling with scarce ly a flicker and was at the close nigh up to the best level of the session, with March in New Vork selling at 15.87 and May 16.12c. Active options wero 13 .o 10 points higher, January in svmpathy with the advance in spots, showing rela tively greater advance. The rise was accompanied by an ac tive demand for spot cotton at Southern markets, which were almost without ex ception 1-8 cent or more higher. At Memphis the quotation was marked up to IS 1-3 cents middling, tho top notch f the season. At New Orleans 3-16 cent was put on, making the middling basis 5 1-2 cents. Receipts for the day were small at ports and interior towns and during the holiday interim were (mite small at the port. Cotton prices are nliout one cent high- r than a month ago, but the technical position of the market seems goui ami bulls are opulent and confident. HIGH PRICES COME TO STAY America Ceasing to Be Producing Nation, Declares Clark. Washington. '"The present high prieen for farm products have come to stay; tho rural population is playing out; the resent census, if it classes the unineer- o rated villages as towns, will show be tween CO and 03 per cent, of populitiun Hving in towns," declared Hepresrntativo Champ Chirk of Missouri, the minority leader of the house. "At the present rute, in twenty year, the I'nited States will cease to bo an exorting nation for gricultural products, except as to cot ton. "One of the principal causes of the high prices of farm products is the world wide movement of people toward towns and cities. Wh.le a few Jx-oplo in towns ml cities have gardens and raise chick- cus, and occasionally pigs, practically the ntire town ami city imputation are non- producers of anything to eat, but aro consumers only. For the first time, last ear, Argoiitmn beat us in exporting corn, nnd Argentina and llrasil aro now tlgliting to take the frozen meat trade from us." WE ARE MUSICAL BARBARIANS Neglect of Musical Education Key note of Meeting. Chicago. The American people aro uimieal barbarians, and tho function of the American musician is to civilize the people." Till declaration by I'resideltt Abram W. Harris of Northwestern Uni versity, was tho keynote of the thirty first annual convention of the Music Teachers' National Association, which met here Tuesday. "It is a regrettable fact that music plays such a little part in tho education of the K-ople," said 1'resideut Harris, "and it is u shame that college gradu ates know so little of the sublime works of music. A young man who goes Into the world without uny idea und apprecia tion of music is oorly t-ipiipiicd for his lite work, for he is forever burred from the uplifting qualities to bo derived from gieat musical compositions." SAID "AMEN" TOO LOUD. Fervent Worshiper Arrested Awaits the Grind Jury's Action. Fairmont, W. Va. llecuuse, it l al leged, ho worked himself into a frenzy, and the volume of his rented "aniens" tame near breaking up seveiul sessions of u let U al meeting of the Methodist rhiirrh, L. M. Snyder, a prominent far mer, was urri'sted and held In $000 bond to ivyvuit the artion of the grand jury on 1 charge of disturbing religious worship. 30 PERISH IN STORM BLIZZARD OREATEST EXPERI ENCED IN YEARS. Fiv Million Dollar in Property Destroyed in nnd Around Boston. Hundreds Are Homeless. New York. Kighteen persons In and rar New York perished In the C!irii mas blizzard or from arridrnt eauiil by it. Six of thee died from exposuie after being caught in snowdrifts. Utii ers were drowned and several were killed by- trains. Blockades on railroads crested a short age of food supplies and u consequent increase in price, which contributed to tlm hardship of the poor. STEAMER WRECKED. Five Million in Property Destroyed la Vicinity of Boston. . Boston, Mass. Masses uf wreckage, apparently from the five-ruaU-rchooiwr Davis Palmer, of Boston, were found on the Wch at Hull Monday, and It T,! lievn! the vessel struck on one of Mi nuter ledges of the bailor during Sun day's storm and went to pieces, Uh the lot of all on board, a total of twelve men. rive million dolUr loss was the esti mate made uf he havoc wrought in ah-1 around Btou by (ho lilizrartl ay it swept New Kngland and drove a record tide over the coast. ( -IA On land no fatalities liarcbccnfie nortcd besides tho four known toftiav occurred in Chelsea, where a tidal vvJe bursting through the dyke along Island Kml river. Hooded eighty acres of homes and forced 2,300 persons to flee, scantily clad, into the raging storm. Tho storm was the greatest that New Kngland has experienced in eleven years. All along the coast phenomenal tides were reported. In many places sen walls were battered to pieces, boulevards razed! and curbs and houe along the shorn destroyed. ATTEMPTED TO KILL MOTHER Would-B Murderer Is Barricaded tn House and Heavily Armed. Memphis, Tenn. Heavily barricaded in a little Itouso on Kay u venue, ariiutl with a heavy sltotgun ami a pistol, and swearing tnat he will kill the first rtn who attempted to take him, James Fraak Hit lloach, tho young man who attempted to kill his mother, Mrs. Sullie E. Mi'ier, is hemmed in by a ossi of ufllerrs, who slowly but surely are drawing the lines of their dragnet closer about the man, wlio, from present indications, will never bo taken alive. Frenzied with rage bceanse his mother had upbraided him for an alhrr.1 tlwft, Batch, lo is 30 years old. walki-d Into tho rear room of his mother's little dwell ing, and without a word of warning sent a bullet crashing into her hmd. With' a groan she staggered to her feet, and" then, after tottering several stops, pitched forward on tho floor MORSE NEAR PRISON STRIPES. Only Technicality Between Banker and Fcdnal Prison. New York. Only a technicality now stands between Charles V. More, bank er and one-time Ico king, and the lift ecu year sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta. Judge Hough, In the I'nited States court today, denied his motion for a new trial, but close upon the heels of the decision Martin W. Littleton, his counsel, announced that one more stand would be taken. Tomorrow he wilt move in the circuit court for a writ of error on Judge Hough's decision of today, If this is denied, Morse will begin tho new year serving his sentence for viola tion of the national banking laws, the supremo court of tho United States having previously refused to interfere) In tho case. Runaway Boy Returns Rich, Indianapolis, I nil. From Nashville, the seat of Brown county, a capital yet iintcxlied by a railroad, mines (ho story uf the return to his parents In the lonely hilt country uf John Freushaw, whom tho old folks had not seen or heard from for twenty years, and who brought back to them nut only (heir lost son, but also a Christmas present of $1,000. John irenshavv was 13 years old when he ipiurrelcd with his father and ran away irom uoine. TELLS OF COOK'S FLIGHT IN DIBQUIBK, KK WENT TO KUKOrU UNDER AN ALIAS. Had His Moustacbo Shaved Off and Changed His Cloths When lis Was Making His Escape. New York .lust how Dr. Frederick A Cook, the discredited !e finder, lied front New Yolk In disguise, look an nv siinied .imino and sought reluge hi Eu rope was made public Sunday by I harles Wake, formerly a ttauntli Cook supporter. "Just before he started north for (he Hle be atkrd me to seomipany him," ssld Mr. Wake, 'but I was unable to go. The next I heard of him was when he cabled from lirrenlsnd on his way south that he had reached the earth's tup. "I met him on hi arilial In New ork. I was In mom or less renstant 'ouch with hfm until he went to the Hotel (iramatan, where he thought he iiuld work undisturbed on his datu for t openhagen. Ijiter he asked me. to ee him about a plot to deprive hthi of his reciinls. He had ttsylil various let ters, he said, and i-elif fd 'that Ids ene mies might even tok'e hti life to get pos session of his silt a. . , "l also received ' similar ie tiers, threatening death toIr. Cook, What lo made me share, In the apprehen sivrness of Dr. Cock and his wife was the knowledge that large' sums of money were spent to shadow him and myself. "At last the doctor became to (earful of harm that at Ms request I nt every night at the Hotel (irsmatan from Not. 19 up to the time he left. Ha was unable to get sny sleep, and lcamc a nervous wreck. Meanttme he grew room t vcitnrn. I could get hardly it word out f him. "It was finally arranged that Mr. Lonsdale, Dr. Cook's secretary, should sill fur Coenhagen with a tytwnrilteii copy of the records and (hat tho doctor and his wife, with the originals, should all for (ieuoa under assumed names on the Odrle,' leaving Nov. 27. ImsJalr sras (o meet Dr. and Mrs. Cook at Strt (In, rjermanr. "They left the (intmatan the after noon of Nor. St, and by a circuitous route reached (he IVnnsylvanla station, lersey CHy. On (he way the doe(or had his itiotitehe shaved off and exchanged Ml del by for a slmieh hat." "The next heard from Dr. Cook was letter from Toronto, rreoived on Nov. 27 by his wife. He asked her to meet him In Europe. In It he Saul, 'My wife is mere iHipoitattt than the polar mat ter.' On Dec. -I Mrs. Cok sailed for Europe with the original records. n Dee. 10 T received a cablegram from Dr. (ok from IJsUin, Portugal. I have no Idea where. the doetor is now." cutTown "expenses. Democrats Win Fight Ship Subsidy Bur ing the Session. Washington. "Tlie program of the Democrat in the house of this session is to keep down the amount of the si proprUtloii UHs und to vote sgaiust ship subsidv." said Minority Ixailsr ( barap Hark of Missouri. the Ikmimi leaders are rashlng everything to grt the a im propriation measures through, and t't sutijvct nnd the ship subsidy prnistsition Ivem to I hi alsHit the only two things that are to be twken up. "We are oppolcd to ship sulstidy lulls. We favor a' river ami harbor bill. I took for adjournment of Congress In .ipril, certainly by May 1." CARRIE NATION APPEALS. ilned 1 100 in Police Court for Slushes Bar. Washington. Mrs. Carrie Nation ha nppeuted the ease in which she was fined $100 for smashing the bar at the uiihhi station In this city to the district ciwt tft apK-al. Her attorney lias raised sev ers! tsinstltutiotml questions in her de fense, tho prlwljial one l-lng tlmt the prosecution, should have lieen made In (Jie iwioe uf the I'nited States instead if the District of Columbia. Benefactions Break Record. New York The total pnblle Ixtiefec itos In the I'nited States during the just twelve months was $111140,000--$10.010,000 greater titan any previous year, ucrtirdlng (o New York newspa pers. The principal Iwnrfaetar In 1000 have bcvii tho late John H. Kennedy of New York ($88,330,000), John 1). Ilocke frlJer ($13,885,000) and Andrew Carne gie ($l,08C,Sll). A third was given sseifieally for educational work. The total benefaction In the United h'tntes In the last seventeen years sdd up to $1,000,110,000. Renames Ills Baby. New York. John Henry Thlrey, of Iing Island City, philanthropist, scholar und educator, is trying io settle the iiies tlou of how he will bring ubout the re naming of his latest son, hirn September 14, last. The child wus named in honor of Dr. Frederick A. Cook. Mnco Cook's exposure Mr. Thlrey ha been seeking tho mean of relieving the youngest Imrn from bearing tho name. He does not know whether to appeal to (he cour(s or simply to have (he child rcchristeiicd. FEAR LYNCHING OP NEGRO. Slayer of Charles Lowery Brouiht to Psducah for Safety. Paducuh, Ky. Being threatened with lynching, Homer Bridges, a negro, who shot und killed Charles lowery, u young whlto limn of Murray, Ky was brought here und lodged In Jail for safekeeping. 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