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aWOVEl ENTREE DISHES

crape Paper Canoes Are Unique

and DecorativeIMILUANT RIBBONS USED

Old Fashioned Crystal and Glass I-npdivtdual Salt Dishes Much Sought

After by CollectorsAnother StyleIIResembles Old Time FruitWhen in doubt as to what kind of

dishes to use for serving salted alm-onds

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or any of the little luncheon andilinner sweets and appetizers whichmow have an important place in themenu one can always resort to oddlittle conceits made of paper Theseare easy to fashion or they can bemade to order and then the chance fordisplaying original ideas and arrange ¬

mentSgives a certain zest to the host-s

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who likes to surprise and pleaseher guests Little crape paper canoesbearing the college pennant are uniqueand decorative and if one wants acomplete fleet or to suggest a regatta

FOB SALTED AIiMONBg

fete then these small craft should bemade in different shapes and deco ¬

rated with Various college colorsSimple little cups covered with fancy

paper and tied with ribbons are notnew yet they are always pleasing andgo well with almost any pattern ofchina or style of crystal This seasonthe ribbons are in brilliant contrast tothe paper and often tied in with theknot is a little souvenir or perhaps aflower By using the smallest size ofpaper shell one can place this in tupcenter ofa handsome paper flowerIswisesthas a number of petals as they makethe dish fill too large a space

fashIjonedwhich were made in glass as well aschina for almond dishes They aremost attractive and are more econom ¬

ical than the colored paper ones in theend Just now these dishes are quiteinexpensive but the supply growssmaller daily so that it is well to be-gin collecting promptly if one fanciesthem at all A quaint old set of rath j

er deep salt dishes had fluted rims andlittle glass knobs all over their squatty

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Bides Another style had small pedes ¬

tals making them look like miniatureold fashioned fruit and cake dishesEven when they do not match they gotogether if they are of the same sizeand either all made with stems or allperfectly flat

Arranging a DivanEveryone does not know that a

wide divan Is made more comfortableby having at its back two huge hardpillows that will support the softeronesIt Js usual to heap up a great vari ¬

ety of these extra soft ones on a largedivan so that any one sitting or reclin¬

ing may arrange them according to-nes comfortThese are needed it is true but they

also need a support The wall is usu ¬

ally too far back from the front edgeof the divan to serve The two largepillows made of the material whichcovers the divan are not only comfort-able

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but artisticThey may be stuffed with excelsior

into coarse muslin or ticking then cov ¬

ered with the chosen fabric They lookbetter with a heavy cord around theedgingIf

end of the divan is againstthe wall as well as its side a thirdpillow may be added to give an addedframework to the little pillows

This is not an expensive trick but ifa housewife ever tries it she will neverlet the divan go without this part ofIits equipmentp

Washing BrushesIt is best not to put ones heavy

backed silver brush into common usefor their hair at least not in citieswhere the soot laden atmosphere

p leaves a coating of Itself on the haireach dayofIwhich makes it necessaryto wash it at least twice a week if notoftenerThis

constant washing ruins agush that has an expensive backTherefore a brush should be usedthat has an ordinary wood nhandleIaad back with good stiff bristles toWithstand the softening action of wa-ter arid boraxS

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Ivf1809 The Lincoln Centenary 1 909 fd<ilIto n

f Voted For Him Lifelong

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wHENLincoln was nominat ¬

for the presidency hisIobjected that he was

without official ex ¬

perience that he had served only afew terms Ih the Illinois legislatureand one term in congress and that hewas practically a failure in politicshis course In congress having drivenhim into private life for many yearsand his radical sentiments in the de ¬

bate with Douglas having defeatedhim for the senatorship They alsourged against him the fact that he hadbeen beaten for senator on a previousoccasion making two defeats for oneoffice Many other things did they al¬

lege which seemed like very large ob ¬

stacles then and look like very smallones now

As for the charge that he was a po ¬

litical failure a close examination reveals the fact that it was Lincolnshonesty alone which caused his re ¬

verses In congress he was too hon ¬

est to approve all the administrationspolicy regarding the Mexican warWhen he ran for senator the first timehe lacked a few votes of havingenough to elect him and magnani¬

mously tharw his strength to LymanTrumbull In order that a man at leastpart way right might be electedWhen running against Douglas Lin ¬

coln pad the bravery to declare thenation could not endure half slave andhalf free This and other bold utter¬

ances lost him the senatorship butgained him the presidency Indeed

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common people believedLThe Lincoln inI s

investigation reveals the unusual factthat each of Mr Lincolns defeats lefthim stronger not weaker He wasbuilding his political house on therock of principle not on the sands oftemporary success

For this reason the charge of offi ¬

cial inexperience did not hurt him It-si all right to hold office if one at therespectbut

the other he is not apt to go higherLong fealty to a cause Is a greaterrecommendation to the people thanlong tenure of place

Lincoln was twentythree when hefirst ran for the legislature and twenItyfive when he was first elected Thattallest defeat he ofteq said after-ward

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was the only one he ever suf ¬

fered in a direct appeal to the peopleSo much for the charge that he wasIUa political failure

The common people believed In Lin ¬

opportunitypractically all the votes in New Saleis where he lived although it wasDemocratic while he was a Whig

Lincoln was only beaten that time bypeople who did not know him Neveragain was he defeated by populartote The only thing that enabledDouglas to win in the contest for theuatorship was a gerrymander In theIlegislature Had direct election of sen ¬

ators then obtaliid Abraham Lincolnwould have bees United States senatorfrom Illinois and not Stephen ADouglas fur Lincoln beat Douglasabout 4000

When Lincoln was in the legislaturehowever the euatorial contest wasnearly a quarter of a century away Heserved in the body ejght years A su¬

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0 the retained his honesty all that limeA man who can go through eight yearsof an average legislature and keephonest is worthy of higher things An ¬

other remarkable thing about Lincolnslegislative career is that he introducedfew bils The business of the averagelegislator is to introduce a whole gristof bills he knows cannot pass just asthe business of the average legislatureIs to enact a grist of laws that cannotbe enforced The fact that Lincolnkept free from the creation of surplusrubbage of this sort is another markof his unusual quality

Outside of keeping his character andrising above the deadly bill introduc-ing habit Lincolns most conspicuousservice in the legislature was In get-ting

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the capital removed to Spring¬

field When he entered the body itmet at Vandalia The removal strug ¬

gle came a few years later and Lin ¬

coln led the Springfield forces Any-one who has ever been through a coun ¬

ty seat fight can arrives at some Ideaof a state capital war by multiplyingone county by all the counties In thestate Nearly evecity and buddinghamlet in Illinois wanted that plumand it took hard work and general ¬

ship to land it Springfield then conslated of a few houses and a largenumber of ambitions For such atown to ask for the state capital ex-hIbited

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gall of a high quality but tocapture it away from all the othercompetitors took executive ability andsleepless endeavor The credit for the

achievement was chiefly given to Litcoln

One of the places in the race wasJacksonville with the redoubtableStephen A Douglas as its championPoor Douglas He was u questiona-bly

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an adroit politician and a man ofunusual ability Among the ordinaryrun of horse trading politicians hewould have been preeminent The aonly trouble with him was that he waspitted against a man HIsE was thefate of the Imitation when it meets thoreal thing Lincoln beat Douglas in athe race for a wife in the contest forthe state capital in the campaign forthe presidency and really in the can¬

vas for the senatorship for whileDouglas received the empty honorLincoln had the glory and the popularvote The Little Giant had the shellof the cocoanut but the big giant hadthe meat and the milk

During Lincolns legislative serviceIllinois was on the boom The Interjnal Improvement mania was In fullforce There was little or no moneyIn sight but the legislature capitalizedthe great expectations of the futureand appropriated millions The worldhas never seen such exuberant finan ¬

ciers as the legislators of a new stateOrdinarily they have not enough realmoney among them to start a smallcountry newspaper yet the large andgenerous way they mortgage the fu ¬

ture and give away the peoples sub¬

stance makes Wall street look smalland conservative in comparison

Iti must be admitted that Lincolnwas about the leader of this sort ofboom legislation in Illinois He want ¬

ed to be known as the De Witt Clinton of the new commonwealth Somecanearerme

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Is not fair True that early extrava ¬

gance did almost bankrupt the stateBur who could have foreseen the panicof 1837 The people demanded theseinternal improvements elected theirrepresentatives on that sort of platform and in the legislature itselfthere was practical unanimity in pushtag these bills The purpose was goodIt grew out of the right spiritthat ofoptimism and construction The onlytrouble wins that the Illinois legislatorsof that early day were not high finan ¬

ciers and had not learned how to waterstock Lincoln never did know any¬

thing about finance either public orprivate But he always belonged tothe constructive side and placed thenation abovp self and that is morethan most financial experts can boast

In his last two legislatures Lincolnwas the Whig candidate for speakerwhich made him the minority leaderof the house He was on importantcommittees and was regarded not onlyas one of the most convincing debat ¬

ers of the body but better still as oneof its most effective working members

His service in congress did not begintill 1847 six years after he left theAgetother able and ambitious men in hisdistrict As a result three or four ofthem had to take turn about andLincolns turn came last

If Abraham Lincoln had remained incongress more than one term he wouldhave become a leader just as he henbeen in the legislature It requireslong service to gain prominence ineither house in Washington Mr Lincoln was much more to the front thanthe average new member He gainedfame as a debater and a wit hisspeeches were made campaign documeats he was soon known as the beststory teller In congress and he waswinning his way in more solid andsubstantial things Like most of theconscientious Whigs of his day however he was not In full accord withthe Mexican war Several great andgood American statesmen have commatted political harakiri by opposingsome of Uncle Sams wars In thisvery struggle Thomas Corwin one ofthe greatest stump orators In American history prepared the oven for hispolitical cremation Nor was he theonly one Lincoln himself was forcedout of public life for practically tenyears That he Survived and was ableto reenter at all showed his hold onthe people of Illinois His districtwhich had been Whig was changedpermanently to Democratic We preachand practice free speech in this coun ¬

tryexcept In wartime This is onereason why the sooner war is endedforever the better Anything that pre¬

vents liberty of thought and expres ¬

sion Is a false thingLincolns chief sin against the genius

of the Mexican war was in the intro-duction

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of what were known as thespot resolutions The reason he

could not be forgiven for them wasthat they could not be answered Theyrut the administration in a hole a sit ¬

uation in which no administration likesto be The Mexican war Is a period inour national history concerning whichmost patriotic students do not care tobe too inquisitive I generally try toskip it myselfnot the fighting I meanbut the causes that led up to it Thefighting was rather one sided but wasglorious from our viewpoint But asfor the things that produced itwellwhy not talk about something else

One of Lincolns most famousspeeches In congress was that In whichte exploited General Cass as a mili-tary

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hero It belonged to the orderof campaign stump speeches but wasgocd of its kind The relation of cam ¬

paign speeches to real orator is aboutthe same as that of campaign songs toreal poetry In fact the average cam ¬

paign as It has been conducted Is apeculiar combination of mendacity pet¬

tifogging and barroom wit This is itspublic aspect The inside part ofltwould usually put somebody into thepenitentiary if it were public Cheapadulation of our candidate and cheapabuse of the other have been the ruleFortunately we are beginning to escape from the crassest features of thething In Lincolns day they were atheir height That was not his fault

The tool of campaign oratory he tookas he found it and used it effectually

In this particular General Cassspeech Lincoln recounted his own ex-ploits in the Black Hawk war Hismanner of handling the subject showed

great and redeeming virtuehe didnot take himself too seriously

To understand Mr Lincoln both inthis earlier part of his career and at

later period it muss be borne in mindthat In the best sense of the term hewas a politician This was true of himas a Whig and later as a Republican

Nor should it be forgotten that MrLincoln was a party man He inFisted on organization and on strengthcuing the party at every possiblepoint One of his reasons for oppos-Ing

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any alliance with Judge Douglasat the time Mr Greeley and other in-

fluential Republicans were urgingpuch a union was that It would dis-Integrate the party In his candidacyfor the senatorship and In both cam-paigns for the presidency he an-nounced

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his fealty to the party plat-forms In fact he gave a very shortletter of acceptance pointing to theplatform as a sufficient declaration ofIlls principles When a candidate forpresident he not only made his lettars of acceptance short but refrainedalmost wholly from speechmaking or

expressionsThuseonal views as far as possible fromthe canvass and put the partys viewsInto the foreground

Abraham Lincoln was a politicianrne of the greatest we have seen butare was a politician for country andnot for self v

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DIRECTORY

KeetKCkv

According to the last census Kentuokv has a population of 2147174

The Area is 40400 square miles r 400of wh ch is water It has river bordertins on the East North and west j

The streams w thin the State U arule head in tbe South East and flow j

in a North Westerly direction thisfact retarded the construction of rail-roads

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and th develcpment of our reyerrsThe were built from

the East and went over the more levelterritories North of th3 Ohio river andSouth of the Cumber and Mountains

ndemand days here was only a limited j

for coal and lumber Nowthat the demand has increased realroads have been built a id others aracontemplated that will develop owresources It oull seem that o av

kind provideice has held in reserveour almost inexhaustible utilities untOa time when they are most needed bythe country 0 ir supply of limber iimited but there is enough to leerfr many years to come °

We have a coal area of ove fifteenthousand square mils enough p sup-ply

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the world Othor minerals awaitdevelopmentNatural

and oil inmanyocalltiesy ¬

There are no more bad peoplein Kentucky than in other states inproportion to population Good peopie 1aredJ

Clark County tLand acres 158176

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Land assessment 5452120 V

propertyincludingTax rate for all county purposes

SOcts on the hundred dollarsThe foot hills of the mountains are

on the Eastern border of the coantTthe Kentucky river on the South rmstwentyfiveWinchester has extensive lumbermills °

Three railroads Igo entirely acrossthe county Chesapeake Ohio Louis ¬

ville Nashville and LexingtonEastern

Blue Grass is a natural product Un ¬

cultivated land will set itself in Bluegrass Crops of timothy and clovercan be raised with profit Corn wheatrye and oats are the grain crops To-bacco is raised in large quantities

All fruits that are adapted to theclimate can be raised with profitpopularLion

CIRCUIT COURT

1st Monday in April2nd Monday in September1st Monday in DecemberJ M Benton JudgeB A Crutcher Attorney

COUNTY COURT s

4th Monday in each monthQUARTERLY COURT

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3rd Tuesday in each month r4J4iS A Jeffries AttorneyHoward Hampton SheriffJ A Boone County ClerkW T Fox Circuit ClerkRoger Qulsenberry AssessorW R Sphar TreasurerGeorge Hart Jailor >Coronerg

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

1st Dist J C Richards

ScottRenick3rd4th Dist J E Ramsey5th Dist Robert Trub >

6th DistF F Goodpaster-7th Dist Beu E Wills-

Wnctester F>

County seat area a circle one and ahalf miles in liameterPopnlationc-ensus 1900 5964 The city has over=elaped the corporate limits and now hasa population that should be included inthe limits of eight thousand It is lo-cated

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on the dividing ridge betweenthe Kentucky and Licking rivers hasrnlightsdid graded schools and numerouschurches IisdtheStateassessedvaluationofallpropertyincludingontheEdrailroads center at Winchester theshippingfacilitiescation for factories New concernsare given five years exemption fromwilltakeSCITY OFFICERS K

J A Hughes Mayor i 1kFF P Pendleton JudgeBilaud D Ramsey Collector fN H Witherspoon Treasurer iJ D Sonslev Assessor <

POLICE

Mal Tarpy ChiefAlbert TannerJohn BallardCarol Azbitl

BOARD COUNCIL

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2nd Ward

3rd Ward

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John He eseW P Hackett

J A B Martinl T L Toddj IiggJ

14th Ward J D JonesWard G D McOullum

Sil DinelliFIRE DEPABT3 EJfT

A R Baldwin ChiefJno W Harding Secretary r

Burr if flllutiG W Strother President iC H Beee becretaaH Yf Sen Yener Treasurer

CornettWJames Hisle Zeria BraN K Fosteri y 4i