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YIAR EARLINGTON HOPKINS COUNTY KY THURSDAY MARCH 2 1905 No IgTHOUSANDS

CONVERTED

Louisville Evangelistic CampaignSwept the City With Force

SEVEN THOUSAND CONVERTS RE

SUIT

Louisville KY Foby 27The end of the general evangel ¬

istic campaign came with lasttnights services hut in many ofthe churches tho work will becontinued for one or two weekslonger After estimating thenumber of conversions at yestorday services the revival manag ¬

ers say that they believe tho to ¬

tal for the ontiro two weeks willbe nearer 7000 than 0000 whileabout 12000 persons signed thecards to indicate a desiro to lead

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a Christian life It is thoughtthat fully 75000 diUOrent persons heard tho Drenching nt oneor noire meetings whilo the total attendance at all the meet-ings

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will co well up into thehundreds of thousands

Dr J P Oulhoun believes thatabout 1000 conversions were ac ¬

complished yesterday which inaddition to the 2000 during thefirst week 8000 on DecisionDay and 2000 during the lastweek brings the result well upto 7000 I

DIES NEAR NEBO I

Mr Joe Mullen Passes Away After aShort Illness

Mr Joe Mullen aged 01 yearsand one of the pioneer settlers ofMcLean county died last Thurs-day

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night near Nebo from auattack of lagrrippe Mr Mul ¬

len lived near Sacramento andwas on a visit to his th ugh=

tel who lives near Nebo whentaken ill and after an illness ofabout eleven days passed away

The interment took place inthe family graveyard at Sacra ¬

mento on Friday Ho leavesseveral children one of whom isMrs Nary Hodcc of this city

Ho was well known here hav ¬

ing visited his daughter at thisplace frequently The sympathyof tho community is extended tosorrowing relatives in this theirlark hour of trouble

DR HARPER TO RETURN TO WORK

Will Resume His University Duties as

f Soon as He Leaves the Hospital

Chicago Feb 25Dr Wil-Liamj f

11 Harper intends to re-

turn¬

to the University of Ohi ¬

cago teach his Bible classesconduct his duties us Presidentof the institution and live thelife he has lived for the last do ¬

cade as soon as ho is ableto leave

hospitalWithfor his ultimate

recovery offered by his physi ¬

cians the noted educator willmake no radical changes in hisdaily duties Dr Harper willwork to complete in detail plans

more thou TeYybarsjumlwhich1-m linn never fully made publicThis will consume much of histime

He is beUeved to have passedthe crisis and his removal fromthe hospital in two weeks is al ¬

most ti certainty

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I JACK S MOORE DIES

Sudden End of Popular Young Insurance

Man at Hopklnwille

Hopkiusville Ky Feb 27Jock S Moore aped thirtyfouryears of age one of the mostprominent insurance men of theState holding the position ofspecial agent of the Hanover Insuranco Company for Kentuckyand Tennessee died suddenly athis homo here lest night of heartdisease Ho had been indisposedfor several days but had been athis oifice Saturday and the endtying entirely unexpected

Ho wasIl member of theChristian Church and the Ma ¬

sonic and Knights of PythiosLodges His inothr and onebrother Dnrrott Moore of Chi ¬

cago survive him Intermentwill take place hjaro tommorrowafternoon

GONE HONE

Mrs 1 J Lipscomb Died at Hit HomeHere Last Thursday

Mrs Yeturia B Lipscomb thewife of 11 Lipscomb of thiscity died at her home lastThursday after a lingering ill-

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She was the daughter ofOolr D and Mrs Nancy Gor ¬

don Hardwick and a cousin ofW L Gordon Sr of Madisonvine She joined the SouthernMethodist church when quiteyoung laid remained a memberfor a number of years after ¬

wards uniting herself with theOuinborland Presbyterians andwas a consistent member of thischurch up until the tine of herdeath She was interred in theEarlingtou cemotary Friday aft ¬

ernoon in the presence of a nun ¬

ber of friends She leaves anaged husband and three childrento mourn her loss Blessed arethe dead that diem li the Lord

AFTER FORTY YEARS

Draft ot 1863 In Kentucky is Declared II

legal

On or about the first of Feb ¬

ruary 1803 President Lincolnordered draft of 500000 men inthe United States Kentuckyhadbeen pretty liberal in send-

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volunteers to the army andthousands wOo still going andfor this and other reasons thedraft was not enforced until 1804

Now after a period of fortyyears tlio Court of Claims of theUnited States has declared thedraft not legal on the groundthat Kentucky had already fur-nished

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her quotaThe chances are good for a

large amount of money to be re-

turned¬

to some of the older citi ¬

zens and heirs of others as eachone drafted was released fromservice in the army on the pay ¬

ment of BOO If this amount to ¬

gather with accrued interest isnow returned to each one whopreferred paying to service in thetinny it will amount to morethan a thousand dollars in eachcase If this moneys is returnedit will be the juosVris > f bringingsunfilnnofuto many ne dy homesin many counties in tins end ofKentucky Y

JACK CtllNN SEES ROOSEVELT

My Kind of a Man He Does ThingsSays the Kentuckian

Washington Fqb 25OolJack Chinn of Je1it ckn madean early call on President Rouse ¬

velt this morning to pay his re-

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Roosevelt ismykiud of aman snidOolJnokuH dyesthings Changed my palitics7Not at all IVani aRboypltrBtynii Dmeeritti-

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Three Million Pounds of TobaccoSampled and Ready for Sale

PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF ASsoci ATION AUTHORIZED TO SELL

THE CROP AT AGREEDPRICES

Special to Tun BEEShuiKlitersvllle Ky Fob 7lho

Vobster County Tobacco Associa ¬

tion hold its semimonthly mootingIn DIxon last Saturday Every sec ¬

tion where time association existswas represented except Onton Theexecutive commute utter a shortharmonious session made in subetnncarhofollTiiiirouort

First that >the three millionpounds of tobacco now hold by theassociation was sampled and nowready to be offered for sale

Second President lieu WatsonDIxon and Sooty J V PoolePoole be authorized to negotiatesaid sale either by correspondenceor otherwise to the local buyers orto foreign manufactures or buyers

Third that all tobacco now strip ¬

ped be hung up or kept In safe keep ¬

lug condition That what is to bostripped yet bo so managed by hang ¬

ing up or any other method that noone may loose anything on gettingtobacco damaged while down andwaiting for a sale to be effected

Fourth that each delegate consti ¬

tute himself a committee to canvasshis respective territory to ascertainthe sentiment of tho tobacco growore as to tho expediency of curtail ¬

ing the next crop and report sameat the next meeting Should thesentiment to curtail prevail steps tothat end will be submitted agreedupon and taken at once

Fifth that the association nextmeet In Sebrco March 11 at 0 oclocka

mWhilo the committee was formu ¬

lating its report tho court house hadbeen filled by farmers and sympa-thizers

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In the tobacco move and hadboon entertained by lawyers Harrisand Bourland with tellingspeoches

The repprt ot the committee wasreceived without a dissenting vote

Secretary Poole made u nice talkthat was well received Calls for IG Nance were made but owing tohis weak physical condition havingjust recovered from a nine dayseelge of la grippe was unable to re¬

spond further than to excuse him-self

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and thank the crowd for itscourtesy

Mr J A Aldndgo was next calledand responded in a pointed and tol ¬

ling speech of live minutes or morey Jim Raikes of the DIxon Journalwas next called forth and the manythings that Jim said and the way hesaid them showed that Jim wasLOADED for this occasion so muchso that Louts Hancock formerly ofHenderson county who was nextcalled was forted to confess withono sceptk n Jim haumrulo thebest speech ho had ever heard onthe subject of the present tobaccosituation and the workings of thoAS orE

Mr Hancock also held the audi-ence

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quite a while in presenting tel ¬

ling points that showed him to beno novice in extemporaneous

speechmakingIttho weather may

be favorable for the Sebree meetingas an eiTort will be made to an effortwill be made to get some able speak ¬

ers there as well as to groom sortieof our lesser lights or local celebrit ¬

los for that occasionYou will observe Mr Editor from

th e foreging that the contest is onin tleso ends of the earth Theprice sot by the association is 8 forall dark western tobacco and Of forgreen nondescript and drowned to ¬

bacco It is estimated that it costsall told six dollars to produce a Ii un ¬

dred pounds of tobacco Grantingthat to be true it will be seen that

J8 > Is no extortionate price for tobac-co

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That the merchant who soils apair of brogan shoes for 185 thatcost 100 makes a higher per centprofit tHan does the farmer whosoils 1 pound of tobacco at Sf that-costUto produce that when hosells for less than Gs he soils at asacrifice But there is a changecoming Th farmer is going toawalro erelong He fl assist inmalting prices instead of allowingthe other fellow to do tho pricemaking See if he doesnt NED

Special to Advertisers 1

The late Jay Cooke said of his ft itrt<

sell the bonds of the government during thecivil war period My greatest assistancecame from the newspapers They helpedme convince the farmers that the governmentBonds were the

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safest investment they couldmale and then the securities began to disap ¬

pear into the pockets of the men I wanted to

have them1 Mr Cooke was advised to

spend 100 in advertising the bonds but hisfirst outlayin that 1 line was

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GEN WHEELERS DAUGHTER

Will Be Sponsor for the South at NextConfederate Reunion

Louisville Ky February 20Gen Stephen D Lee comman-der

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in chief of the United con-

federate¬

veterans has announcedthe appointment of Miss CarriePeyton Wheeler daughter ofGen Joseph Wheeler to besponsor for the South at the con ¬

federate reunion tobe held inLouisville Juno 14 15 and 10Miss Wheeler has selected MissLena Swift of Atlanta and MissClara Hall of Louiovillo to beher maids of honor

Box Party

A box party will be given atthe Armory Friday night March10th for the purpose of raisingfunds to add another room to theMethodist parsonage The par-sonage

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now has only three roomsand as Rev King the presentminister has a large family theyare consequently very much incouvienced The program of theparty will be as follows Eachlady young or otherwise whowill is requested to prepare alunch in abox and place hername therein These boxes willbe sold to the gentlemen at 25cents each and the gentlemanpurchasing the box will share hislunch with the lady whose nameis found on the inside Both be ¬

fore and after the lunch ap ¬

propriate games will be institu ¬

ted for the amusement of thepeopleThewill accept and it is hoped alarge number will respond re ¬objectforMORMON TITHING SYSTEM

Government mill State SnlnrlcM millEven TliiiNc of School Teachers

rant Iny Tribute

Washington March 1 SenatorKearns of Utah in the course of afarewell speech In the senate TuesdayIn which he Inveighed bitterly againstthe Mormon hierarchy referred to thetithing system He said that no ac¬

counting was made of this vast sumof onetenth of the Incomes of all theMormons and that the president of thechurch expended It according to hisown will He said the hopelessness ofcontending In a business way withthis autocrat was perfectly apparentand continued

It will astound you to know thatevery dollar of United States moneypaid to any servant of tho govern ¬

ment who is a Mormon is tithed forthe benefit of this monarch I Out ofevery thousand dollars thus paid hegels 100 to swell his grandeur ThisIs also true of money paid out of thepublic treasury of the state of Utah toMormon officials But what is worst ofall the monarch dips Into the sacredpublic school fund and extracts fromevery Mormon teacher onetenth of hisor her earnings and uses it for his un ¬

accounted purposes and by means ofthose purposes and the power whichthey constitute he defies tho laws ofhis state time sentiment of his countryand is waging war of nullification onthe public school system so dear to theAmerican people

FOR THE INAUGURATION

Governor of Fourteen States WillIlirtleliiate la the IiiaiiKiirallon

fit IrcNlileut Uooficvtlt

Washington March lWlth thegreat bulk of the arrangements for theInauguration of President 1tbosevcIt ohMarch 4 completed the work has narrowed clown to winding up the finaldetails

The governors of 14 states are ex¬

pected to participate In the paradeThey are Governors Boll of VermontRoberts of Connecticut Cobb of MaineMcLano of New Hampshire Higglnaof New York Cummins of Iowa War¬

ner of Michigan julanchard of Loulalana Penn packel ol PennsylvaniaMontague of Vlrgihia Glenn of NorthCarolina Herrick of Ohio and Warfield of Maryland

Gov Cummins of Iowa has arrlvedhere He announced thatmS highschool boys of Iowa are coming to jointho high school representation in theparade

commandingthenounced the detail of a regiment o-flo battalions of marine i for the Iniufniral par df Those will humbur i

about GOO men exclusive of the Marino

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GETTING READY

Details for the Inauguration Rap ¬

idly Being PerFectedGov ¬

ernors of Fourteen States

IWILL BE IN PARADETWashington DO March 1st

With the great bulk of the ar-rangements for the inaugurationof President Roosevelt on March4 completed the work today narIrowed down to winding tip thefinal details The headquartersof the Inaugural Committee wasa busy Scene and Chairman Wil-son

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and Secretary Hitchcodkgreeted a host of visitors andconferred with their corps dfcommittee assistants One ofthe first arrivals today Was aband of Sioux Indians whotold the committee that theywere anxious to participate inthe parade in their native regal-ia

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Gen Wilson referred themto the Commissioner of IndianAffairs They cannot be as ¬

signed places in the processionbut may be given some outsidehonorary duties in connectionwith the inaugural ceremoniesThe Indian representation in theparade will consist of the dele-gation

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of half a dozen famouswarrior chiefs recently an-

nounced¬

and a cadet battalionof 300 of the Indians from theCarlisle Indian school at Oar ¬

lisle Pa The Carlisle Band offifty pieces will accompany the

battalionTheof fourteen

States are expected to partici ¬

pate in the parade They areGovs Bell Vermont Roberts

Connecticut Cobb Maine McLane New Hampshire HigginsNew York Lea Delaware Cum ¬

mins Iowa Warner MichiganBlanchurd Louisiana Pennypacker Pennsylvania Monta ¬

gue Virginia Glenn North Oar¬

olina Herrick Ohio and Warfield Maryland

The influx of inaugural visitorshas begun and all the railroadsentering Washington have madepreparations to handle an im ¬

mense crowd from every quarterof the country Some of theregular troops including theSeventh United States cavalryfrom Georgia and 800 troopersof the Ninth cavalry from Mis ¬

souri have arrived Gapt SethBullock former Sheriff of Deadwood county SD and a per ¬

sonal friend of President Roose ¬

velt who will command a dti >

tachment of cowboys in Clio pa-

rade>

reached here ahead of luadetachment in order to arrangefor their reception

All along the cline of marchand adjacent streets flags andbunting are displayed on build¬

ings reviewing stands haveibSSgbuilt on both sides of Penusyivania avenue at frequent inter ¬

vals between the Capitol anti tbeWhite House-

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Complaint Is made that Tom Lawson IB slow in reaching the climaxof his story Val Street says therewill be no climax

The SickMrs Lout Owen mid son are both

quite ill this week with Gold andgrIppe

Mr James Priest is quite ill thisweek with a severe cold

The eldest daughter of Mr andMrs John Smiley is ill with coldand grippo

The family of Mr Wm VInson Ison the sick list this week

Mrs Henry Clements who hasbeen ill for sometime is iitiltrovtng

Mrs Joe Brown has been ill forseveral days but is improving

Mr Olarcnco Fox who has beenill with rheumatism for sometimeis no bettor

MrHujryOlnySmltlfl ablo tolc out againy

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