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SONS ANinr*trattTCFt5-OF4#E—_ BLUE GRASS STATE TO HOLD ' - A BIG REUNIONS ) FEDERAL HALL ROWAN HOMESTEA, ! WH/CH FIJRNI5NED wj /NJP/^T/ON FOf£MY < OLD KENTUCKY HONE wo IN WR/CNFOSTER. ■ WROTE H/S FAMOi/5 JONG yn/ss / ^ EEPHEty COMING weea (gf UNI/E/LED ON FOSTER. /)AY._ 'S From PVPrv land and ouprv rlimp I nraH minoto nrill Ka MnriAn Vao. Kentuckians will turn their steps and set their faces toward the old home for the week of June 13-17, when a grand reunion of all former residents of the Blue Grass State will be held under the auspices of the Louisville Commercial Club. Louisville will be the mecca of the pilgrims and it is conservatively estimated that 100, 000 visitors will be in the metropolis of the Blue Grass State during Home Coming week. The suggestion of Home-Coming week, which came from Miss Louise Lee Hardin, of Denver, Colo., has led to one of the greatest gatherings ever held in the country. Though "Old Home Weeks” have been held in the New England States for many years, Kentucky is the first to invite all of its absent sons and daughters to re turn to one city at one time, and it is the first which has attempted to se cure the name and address of every former resident of the state. How great this task was may be judged by the fact that there are now living in other states and territories over 600,000 native born Kentuckians. The Blue Grass State has given of her best citizenship to the upbuilding of other states. Especially in the cen tral and western parts of the United States have Kentuckians gone in great numbers. Indiana has about 60,000, Missouri over 88,000, etc. In every walk of life, in politics, in law, in medicine, in business, Kentuckians have always been in the forefront. In Lincoln and in Davis, the state gave both to the North and to the South the war presidents. To Missouri she has furnished one half her governors and many of ner congressmen and senators. The list might be extended indefinitely were all the Kentuckians who have taken high rank among the distinguished men of their day named. The Breck inridges, Clays, Crittendens, Mar shalls and others have in every gen eration taken a prominent part in the affairs of the state and the na tion. The invitations to attend Home Coming week have met with enthusi astic responses from former Ken tuckians in every part of the world. Acceptances numbering about 50,000 have been received from every state in the Union and from fifteen for eign countries. The preparations for the entertain ment during Home-Coming week have been made on an elaborate scale. The citizens of Louisville are raising a fund of $t>0,000 to be de voted exclusively to this purpose. Five parades, the unveiling of two statues, airship flights and many other features have been decided on. The programme for the four days has been arranged with a view to recall ing in the most attractive and beauti ful form the history of the state. The first day, June 13, will be given over to welcoming and registering the guests. In the new armory build ing in Louisville, the second largest of its kind in the United States, which will be the general headquar ters for Home-Coming week, head quarters for each of the 119 counties of Kentucky will be opened. These headquarters will be in charge of a hostess and a commissioner named from each county by Governor J. C. W. Beckham. Here the visitors will register and receive badges showing the county of their birth. The for mal address of welcome will be de livered by the Hon. Henry Watter son, editor of the Courier-Journal, and the response will be made by the Hon. David R. Francis, formerly gov ernor of Missouri, and the head of the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Other distinguished Kentuckians who will be on the programme during the weeks are Associate Justice John M. Harlan from Washington, D. C., for mer Vice-President Adlai E. Steven son, of Springfield. 111.; former United States Senators Wm. Lindsay and John G. Carlisle, of New York City; former Governor Thos. G. Crittenden, of Missouri; Governor E. W. Hoch, of Kansas; Senator S. H. Pyles, of Washington; Senator Shelby R. Cul lom, of Illinois; former governors of Kentucky Proctor Knott, Simon Bolivar Buckner, 'Wm. O. Bradley and Preston H. Leslie, who has also served Montana as chief executive In recent years. In the afternoon a magnificent floral parade of automo biles and carriages will be given and many handsome prizes will be awarded. The ceremonies of the second day will be in honor of the memory of Stephen Collins Foster. A life size statue of the composer of Kentucky's cradle song, “My Old Kentucky Home, ’ is now being made by J. L. Roop. the sculptor, and will be un veiled on that day. One of the hon ter Walsh, of Allegheny, Pa., the only child of the famous composer. A chorus of a thousand voices will sing “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Old Folks at Home,” "Old Black Joe,” and others of the most popular of Foster’s songs. The bands of Louis ville and those employed for Home Coming week will be arranged as one and will together play the song that has done so much to attach every Kentuckian to his native state. Daniel Boone, the hardy pioneer, is chiefly responsible for the coloni zation of Kentucky, and who, when he first saw the dark and bloody ground, declared it to be a park and not a wilderness, will be honored on Friday, which will be known as Boone day. The exercises of the day will be typical of the period in which Boone lived. Following the unveil ing of the statue of Boone, made by Miss Enid Yandell, and which has been presented to the city by one ol her wealthy citizens, the visitors will gather in Cherokee Park, the most beautiful spot in the Falls City. Here a fort and stockade, modeled aftei Boonesboro, will be built and a mimic reproduction of an encounter be tween the settlers and the Indians will bet given. The victory of the settlers will be celebrated with old fashioned games, apple parings, sew ing bees and other simple amuse ments which the pioneers greatly en joyed. A Virginia reel will be danced on a platform which shall be built to hold a thousand couples. At nighl an allegorical pageant, the theme ol which will be the history of Ken tucky, will be the center of interest This pageant is expected to prove the most spectacular event of the week, and it is believed that it will surpass in gorgeousness the annual shows given during the Mardi Gras festivals in New Orleans. Imme diately after the parade has covered the line of march the maskers will enter the new armory building, where Daniel Boone will be presented to one of the most beautiful of Ken tucky’s young women, who will rep resent the New Kentucky, and who. together with the pioneer, will lead oft the grand march, which will open the ball. The ball Itself will be the biggest of its kind ever held south of the Ohio river. The dancing floor in the new armory will accommodate between 8,000 and 10,000 persons. Kentucky orators and poets will have their day on Saturday, which will be known as Greater Kentucky day. An old-fashioned Kentucky barbecue will be held in Shawnee park on the bank, of the beautiful Ohio. Until we meet again will be the spirit of Sunday, the closing day of the reunion. Following the Home-Coming week in Louisville ^County Home-Comings will be held by nearly every county in Kentucky. The business organiza tions of each couunty has appointed committees who, with the comission ers appointed by Governor Beckham, is preparing to take back from Louis ville to each county all natives and former residents. The entertainment of the County Home-Comings will be simpler than that planned for Louis ville, and with the exception of sev eral formal orations and a large county picnic, it has been thought that the visiiors would find the great est enjoyment in seeing their rela tives and friends, and spending the days visiting well remembered spots in the neighborhood of their former homes. ALFRED WHITEHOUSE. ' -— If You Would Be Plump. Eat good nourishing food regularly i three times a day and between meals | drink a glass of cream. Take plenty oi | rest, if possible an hour’s rest each af | ternoon. Be in the open air all you can without exercising too much. If you would massage the neck, chest anti arms with massage cream it would help considerably. In the morning stand before an open window, clad in a loose ! garment. Inhale and exhale slowly fot | ten minutes. Bathe the chest and bust I freely with cold water. Do this each i morning for a month. To Reduce Flesh. Physical culture exercises, vibratory massage or vichy and kissengen salts taken alternate days, a tablespoonful in a half glass of water 15 minutes after each meal and on retiring, ei ther one of these methods will reduce superfluous flesh. Price on Head of Zulu Chief. The Natal government will pay $2,500 for the head of Bambata, the rebellious Zulu chief. It is stated that this handsome offer has made “even the lukewarm chiefs less indif ferent.” WOMEN JURORS IN NORWAY Responsibilities of Citizenship Are Taught as Well as Home Duties. Students of female emancipation may be interested to learn from the report of the National Council of Women m Norway that that country has recog nized the right of women to sit on a jury; that the storthing recently nom inated a woman as the winner of the Nobel prize, and that a school has been started to instruct young girls in the responsibilities of citizenship as we.l as in the care of children. It is also learned that the number of women who voted for the separation of Nor way from Sweden was greater than that of the men. These and other facts of similar character were brought out at a recent meeting of the Women’s Institute in London, where one of the speakers, a Mrs. Fitzgibbon, who claimed to be long to the race “of Vikings of British North America," asserted that Cana dian women were in a position to rule Canada owing to their advanced views and perfect organization the moment an entering wedge could be made by which they might gain the power of sutfrage. WEIGHING-OF THE MAILS. Computation by the Railroads in Or der to Obtain Compensation for Transportation. I obtained from the post office de partment a statement of the weighing of the mails between Quincy, 111., and St. Joseph. Mo., over the Burlington route, which runs through the dls IN MINING COMMUNITIES. The Observance of Law and Order la as Earnest as in Eastern Towns. It is often difficult to persuade our eastern cousins, says the Sunset Mag azine, that life and property among the miners of the far west is as safe as in any part of Massachusetts; nev ertheless, statistics will show that is actually the case. The eastern idea of lawlessness among our miners is the result of the reading of sensation al fiction which describes the gold miner as ready on all occasions to “shoot at tne drop of the hat,” and that makes stage robbing an almost everyday occurrence. In truth, these novels are far less reliable, in their local color, than the so-called “histori cal novels” of the present day. There are still in California and some of the other states communities and towns of several thousand souls wholly de pendent on mining, where the miner can be observed on his native heath, and all his peculiarities observed and chronicled. Several of these towns have excellent governments, with all the accessories of a highly civilized ex istence—high schools, churches, con create sidewalks and electric lighting. In even the largest of these towns it will be found that the police courts have next to nothing to do. Take, as an example, the cities of Nevada and Grass Valley, in Nevada county, each having a population of several thou sand. The records of the police court in both cities for the past year show less than one arrest a month, even in cluding those for the most trivial mis demeanors. Can this be equalled any where else in the world? GREAT CHEMIST KILLED IN ACCIDENT. Prof. Pierre Curie, who, wun his wife, discovered radium, was run over and killed by a wagon in Paris. mall to be weighed for 60 consecutive days—that there was sent out an ag gregate amount of mail from Quincy, starting toward St. Joseph, of 811, 000 pounds. Now, there was put on at West Quincy, which is the first station after leaving Quincy, 1,360 pounds in the 60 days. In order to obtain the compensation, they multiply that 811. 000 pounds by the distance between Quincy and W’est Quincy, which is two and a half miles. Then they add the 1,360 pounds wnich was put on at West Quincy. That serves as a basis for computation between West Quincy and the next station, which is Palmyra. Then multiply that sum by the number of miles which intervene between West Quincy and Palmyra. That de termines the weight for that distance. At Palmyra there was a very large ,amount of mail put on and some mail (taken off. They find the difference be tween the two and add that to the amount of mail that was carried be tween West Quincy and Palmyra. They keep up the process to the end. The same course is pursued on incom ing mail. Then they add these several sums together, incoming and outgoing, and divide it by the whole distance, or 206 miles, between Quincy and St. Joseph, Mo. Put to Sleep by Wheel. An ingenious inventor has produced a mesmeric machine which he expects to be of considerable service to those who are unable to sleep. The instru ment is composed of irregularly placed and curiously shaped “paddlers” at tached to a slowly revolving wheel. It. is sufficient to look at this fixedly when the instrument is in motion quickly to be "mesmerized,” a word which in this instance means merely to be made drowsy and sent to sleep. trict in which I am specially concern ed, said Mr. Lloyd, of Missouri, in the house of representatives recently. I find from that statement—they require BEAUTY OF AMERICANS. Secret of It Lies in Freedom from the Mercenary Spirit in Marriage. The beauty of the American race has for a Ions time been the wonder and the envy of the world. The tall, lithe young men of America, with their bold, intelligent faces, and the tall and graceful young women, to pretty and clever, have impressed for eigners profoundly. It remained for a distinguished foreigner, Dr. Emil Reich, the Hungarian philosopher, to tell the world the secret of American beatuy. Dr. Reich, in conversation with an American woman in New York, said: “The beauty of nations differs very much. The Latins are less beautiful than the Anglo-Saxons. The angularity of the North German woman is notori ous. Money-bag married money-bag, and the result is a people of severely plain aspect. “The Americans are a beautiful race. The American marries because he loves the wcman, and she loves him. The American is insulted if any men tion of dowry is made in his wedding arrangements. Hence the American people have become exceedingly beau tiful. “Love is at the bottom of it all,” Dr. Reich ended. “Love marriages alone produce beautiful, healthy children. America is the one country where love marriages prevail. Hence the Ameri can is the world’s most beautiful race.” HEADQUARTERS OF THEOSOPHISTS IN AMERICA. “The School for the Revival of the Lost Mysteries of Antiquity" has been instituted by Mrs. Tingley. It is situated at Port Loma. San Diego, California. IS MOVING WESTWARD HOW CENTER OF POPULATION IN AMERICA TRAVELS. Census Statistics Show That Progress for Over Hundred Years Has Been Remarkably Regular as to Distance and Direction. New York.—The center of popula tion in the United States has been moving steadily westward for more than a century with remarkable regu larity, both as regards distance and direction. Since the year 1790 the exact location of this mythical point has been calculated officially at Wash ington for every ten years of the na tion’s history. When these points are plotted upon the map and con nected a remarkable line of progress is obtained, in which may be read at a glance much of the country’s his tory. In the year 1790, when the center of population was first calculated, it was found to be at a point 23 miles east of Baltimore. In making this estimate the entire population of the United States of that period was of course considered. It was the popu lation center of a strip extending from Maine to Florida. And since the frontier population of that early day was inconsiderable the center of population was practically the same as the geographical center. To-day the geographical center of the coun try is of course considerably west of the Mississippi. In more than a cen tury these two theoretical points have become widely separated. The center of population in the United States is at present six miles southeast of Co lumbus, Ind. The regularity of this line is the more remarkable when It is consid ered that the United States has grown, I-FU—/ W \ \W I/ci/aa^I L - ' ! At UTfrHQyrl MAP SHOWING CHANGES IN CEN TER OF POPULATION IN 110 YEARS. geographically, by leaps and bounds. The development of the country has not been a steady growth westward as regards its acquisition of territory. The Louisiana Purchase, for example, by adding millions of acres to the United States, at one time would pre sumably have had the effect of draw ing this line of progress sharply to the southwest. By reference to the accompanying map it will be seen that the digres sions of this line either to the north or south have been somewhat less than 50 miles in a full century. These figures apply, however, only un til the end of the last century. Since 1890 the line has shown a tendency to move southward, while at the same time its rate of progress has been abruptly checked. In other words, while the movement of the line was at the rate of about 40 miles every ten years, its movement during the decade from 1890 to 1900 was but 14 miles, a startling contrast with previ ous decades for a century. This ab rupt check to its movement, and its southward tendency indicate, of course, a rapid increase of the popu lation in the south. me nrst movement recorded, that between 1790 and 1800, was from a point 23 miles east of Baltimore to a point 18 miles west of that city, a total movement of 41 miles. Ten years later it was located 40 miles northwest by west of Washington, having moved 36 miles in the dec ade. By the year 1820 it had reached a point 16 miles north of Woodstock, Va„ having traveled an even 50 miles. In the following decade it left the state of Virginia, coming to rest in the present state of West Virginia, 19 miles west-southwest of Moorfleld, a distance of 39 miles. It next trav eled to a point 16 miles south of Clarksburg, in the same state, 55 miles. The next decade carried it to a point 23 miles southeast of Par kersburg. repeating the same distance of the previous decade, 55 miles. In 1860 it moved into Ohio, to a point 20 miles south of Chillicothe, having traveled 81 miles, the longest move ment in its history. Ten years later it had reached a point eight miles northeast of Cin cinnati, 58 miles. The southern ten dency then became obvious, for in the following ten years, between 1870 and 1880, it traveled to a point eight miles west by south of Cincinnati. It next moved to a point 20 miles eats of Columbus. Ind.. and in' the las ten years, in 1900, it had reached Its present resting place. The total distance traveled in 110 years has been exactly 519 miles. Symtomatic. Mrs. Sharpe—My dear, our daughter is thinking of marrying that impe cunious Mr. Nocoyne, who calls on her occasionally. Mr. Sharpe—Gee whiz! Did she tell you so? Mrs. Sharpe—No, but she told me to-day that she thought she could be of so much help to me if she learned to cook and wash and iron and darn socks.—Cleveland Leader. Easily Explained. Her Friend—You seem to be dread fully hoarse this morning, my dear. The Little Missus—Well, Charlie came home so late last night. IS CELEBRATED AERONAUT. Count Henri De La Vaulx Here to In struct American Balloonists in Fascinating Sport. New York.—Count Henri de la Vaulx, premier auronaut of the world, has come to America to show the newly formed Aero club, of New York, the delights of soaring above the clouds. Ballooning, he says, is destined to be the sport of men of wealth and daring. The eagerness with which the idea is being taken up in New York is evidence that the smart set believes it has found some thing expensive enough and reckless enough to insure them against the an noying imitation of the vulgar herd Count de la Vaulx, who is only 3t years of age, has made the longes COUNT DE LA VAULX. (Noted Aeronaut Who Will Instruct Aero Club in Art o£ Ballooning.) trip on record, from Paris to Kieff, ir Little Russia, a distance of 1,250 miles. He has remained aloft longer than any other aeronaut. He was th6 first to cross the English channel in a balloon from the south. One of the most thrilling episodes of his career was in passing, with one companion, over the blazing furnaces of the city of Liege, at night. Far below they could see tiny pigmies, like devils, hammering and working among the flames. All the world seemed afire, the heat grew intense and the air be came so rarified it seemed to draw their balloon down towards the roar ing fires by suction. Terrified and al most overcome, they threw out every thing and succeeded in keeping the balloon in the air until they had passed the city. Before he became interested in bal looning the count's adventurous spir it led him to spend three years in an exploration tour of Siam, Cnina, Japan and Siberia. He spent two years in the wilds of Patagonia and brought back nine tons of fossils and other curiosities which to-day form the most valuable collection of Patagonian an tiquities in the world. ROCKERY OF TOMBSTONES Old English Churchyard Turned In to Playground—Monuments Made Use Of. London—The cry of the Londoner is always for more open spaces, mor| parks, more playgrounds for the chil dren of the great city's poorer mem bers. Recently, in order to provide a playground for the neighboring juveniles, old St. Pancras churchyard was converted into a species of recre ation ground. The place formerly tenanted by the remains of deceased citizens of St. Pancras now rings with the merry laughter of their descendants. It was decided to form an orna mental rockery with the superannuat ROOKERY FORMED OF TOMB STONES. ed monuments. The work has been very tastefully carried out, and the eye of the stranger and sojournei dwells approvingly on this little rock ery, composed of tombstones once the pride of the local monumental mason. Phonograph Becomes Scientist. The phonograph Is touring the world as a scientist. Several years ago a commission was appointed bj the Imperial Academy of Sciences ol Vienna to collect phonographic rec ords to be preserved for scientific study. Some results were obtained bj expeditions to Croatia, Slavonia and Le3bos. From North Tyrol and Voralberg 57 specimens of GermaD dialects have been obtained for the archives and another 57 from Corinthia. From New Guinea have been sent 32 phonographs recording the language and music of the na tives with especially interesting war songs and the accompanying drunj music. From India have been re ceived valuable records of old Sanskrit songs. An expedition which was sent out to Australia is now on its way back and another party is about to start for Greenland. Instead. An old woman was telling her do mestic trials to her clergyman and en larging upon the unkindliness of “her ole man.” The pastor, counselling pa tience and kindness on her part, asked: “Have you tried ‘heaping coals of fire on his head’?” To which there came the proud re sponse: “No, mister, but I’ve tried hot water.”—Cassell’s Journal. TRUTH ABOUT THE TRAPPER Not a Picturesque Figure, But a Cruet and Buthless Destroyer of Game. W. H. Wright, the noted grizzly bear hunter, tells about "The Trap pers Real Character” in World's | Work. He declares that the trapper of to-day" lacks every characteristic which romance has interwoven with his name. He says: "People who have not seen can form no idea of the suffering trappers cause, nor of their ruthless destruction of game. Noth ing escapes them; even the squirrels are sacrificed to bait traps for mar ten and fisher, and not only the squir rels, but ail kinds of birds, whet her game or song birds. In trapping mink, otter, beaver, and a few other fur-bearing animals, the trap is near ly always set near the water, where the animal when caught can drown itself, thus ending its suffering. But with bear, marten and fisher it is dif ferent. The bear must drag a heavy clog about until it catches in some root or bush. There he must wait un til the trapper comes to kill him, and this in some cases Is not for days. me uuues or tne leg are almost in variably broken by the trap, and the leg swells to incredible size.” Mr. Wright gives many examples of the trappers’ brutality. He writes: “One trapper in one day shot 19 large blue grouse, merely to try a new Colt’s rifle. The birds were nesting; he had no use for them, and not one did he even bring to camp. Three year? ago, in British Columbua. an old trap per camped near our bear-hunting par ty. He shot everything be could find even little ducks and marmots. A goat he killed fell over a cliff: amt as it was harder to recover it that to shoot another, he shot another. He was trapping beaver out of season, and boasted of having caught one thai was about to become a mother. I hav» seen the spot where a bear, fast in i trap, had been caught for more than a week in a thicket through which i* was impossible to drag the trap and clog. I once knew an old Frencl: trapper who shot 73 moose and elk in one winter, for bear bait for the spring catch. I asked why he killec so many. He said that he wanted 8 ‘big stink’ in the spring so as t« bring the bears around. All of th« animals he had slaughtered for s spring ’stink’ were shot with a re volver, for they were snowbound ant could not escape. He told me that he dropped five big elk in one pile This frightful destruction by trapperi has exterminated the game.” UNDERSEA COLD STORAGE. Experiment of the English Admir alty Being Carried On at Portsmouth. Important experiments are being carried out by the naval authorities at Portsmouth dockyard to ascertain to what extent the steaming properties of the Welsh coal used in the Britist navy are improved by storage in the sea. Eighteen months ago iron crates each containing two tons of coal, were sunk in the big basin, and at the same time a similar quantity of coal was carefully stored in the open ail at the coaling point and sheltered from the weather beneath tarpaulins At intervals of six months two-ton samples from each storage have beeD taken out and carefully burned, and the results of the experiments have shown conclusively that by submarin* storage of coal its calorific value steadily increases, while by storage in the open air a decided decrease is shown. At the naval coaling stations in the tropics this decrease in calorific value is very great, the sun’s heat drawing all the light volatile- oils out of the coal. The admiralty, having satisfied themselves of the physical and flnan cial advantages of the storage of coal in the sea, have now directed that experiments be made to ascertain its practicability on a large scale. The difficulty is that the submerged coal has to be dried before use, to remove the superficial moisture, which otherwise in the close confines of a warship’s bunker would soon set up spontaneous combustion. The only method of drying so far attempted is by spreading the coal on iron trays In the open air, a process satisfactory enough for experimental purposes, but not feasible for quantities that amount' to thousands of tons. i LEFT EAR IN TELEPHONING Is Brought Into Use for Bc-aons Which at a Glance Are Gnderstand a ble. Everybody puts the telephone re ceiver to the left ear. No one, in' using the telephone, ever listens with the right ear. It is always the left. ‘ Do we hear better with the leit ear? Is that, why we always use it in telephoning?” a man asked. “No,” the pretty telephone girl re plied. “But the receiver, you see, is hung on the left side of the phone. Hence you have to use the left ear in talking, unless you want to incon venience yourself. i "But why is it hung on the left; | side?” she went on. “Was it hung there originally because the left ear had been found acuter than the right? Ah, no. Tne receiver was hung at the left, so that the left hand could man age it. The right hand, in the early days of telephoning, had all it could do to turn the crank—round and round and round—ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-.ing— don’t you remember? ‘‘Now, the right hand is idle in tele phoning. Therefore, for anyone desir ing it, it would be possible to hold the receiver to the right ear. The companies should take this fact into consideration, and they should hang the receiver, not on the left or rignt of the instrument, but directly in front of it. Then we could use, in telephon ing, which ever ear we preferred to.” Time Enough. Teacher—Johnny, I don’t believe you’ve studied your geography. Johnny—No, mum; I heard pa say the map of the world was changin’ every day, an’ I thought I’d wait a few years till things get settled.—Mil, waukee Wisconsin.