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t MISS STARLING
Tells Many Interesting Thine
About Siam as She
Sees It
STRANGE BIRDS SEEN
Making a Reputation in Asia
With Her Kentucky
Biscuitsj
Prae N Siam Dec 14 1909 >
Jurist Monday morning we leftBangkok and traveled all daythrough a very interesting country
f most of it low and marshy with anoccasional glimpse of mountains in
1 the distance InsteaOMhe birdswe see at home there were storkcranes herons aigrets Joche rwater fowl The rive along whos-
bank the railroad lieRig full of fis
and all along the Way we saw nativescarryingothsome of them per-fectly eno o s I can tests I
that BFithem make veryee o
I was surprised to see what jf°od
train service they have The co hesare built English style and wod ijjj
k BucFandtselves and we spent a mo ea antday We reached Pits p e atsundown and spent t t therefor the trains in Siam ot run at
I Rht The two missy Caries theree
v Shellman and Mr Jones mot usand took us up the river 4o theirhomes where we sent the nightThey had a new gasr me launch andhas been having u good deal oftrouble with a r Everynow and then W r ould failand the launch c It W g aroundand run j another boatFinally it refwsla to g<f at all andwe had to cl mb up the bank andwalk the rest of the way
Next m ruing we were up earlyand starred again We reached Tait
>+ atllqjXjfock and found the place
elab rat ely decorated in honor ofpcfa prince who had come up to cel ¬
ebrate the opening of the railroadWe have no missionary here only aSiamese Christian doctor who hascharge of the dispensary there whotook us to his home for the nightSo we had the loft and a comfortablebed to sleep in making tworoomsby putting up a curtain Next morn-
ing we were up early again to catchthe train As we were nearly a milefrom the station and the carriagewas late Miss Buck and I started towalk leaving the Whites to followWe reached the station time fortrain to start and no Whites Finally when we had about decided wewould have to stay there anotherday the carriage came dashingaround the corner with baskets andbags on top behind and hanging outat both sides and broke down justin our sight After a long delaythey made the last sprint with MrWhite running by the aide of thehorses holding the harness togetherJust as they stopped one of thelamps broke off in his hands WellIfl firililly boarded the train with
l no greater loss thin that of Mr Wsl spectacles a rather serious state of1 affairs for him when it may be
months beforQ he can get anotherpair but he lost something every
time we d In fa he was a-
lwayhitntinoromehing and ar ¬
at Afterspending several hours in transfer ¬
ring supplies from boxes to basketsthat the coolies could handle Mrs
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K GEORGE WASHINGTON1 The first president was born Feb 11 1732 but the correction of thebirthdayhy >
in 1799 Gen Washington owned 51395 acresof land besides much otherI
property and was the richest man in America
ROY GARNETTDIED SATURDAY
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A Popular Young Man Passed i Away After7
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Roy Garnett youngest son of Mrand Mrs Joe F Garnett diecTatat 630 oclock Saturday evening atthe parental home in the countryHe had been ill for several weekswith a complication of diseases thatmnde his recovery hopeless from thebeginning The young man wastwenty six years old and WES uhmar ¬
riedHe was a young man of a jovial
lighthearted disposition and wasvery popular with all who knew him
W toll me to get in my chair and
start on and that they would followon the ponies right away So I started off and never saw anything moreof the crowd that afternoon MrW is the slowest most easily mixedup man I ever saw and they didntstart for two hours after 1 did Thenthey stopped for afternoon tea auniversal custom out here and didInot get into camp until about darkBut I had one of the most delightfulafternoons of my whole trip Theway was through mountains and Iwalked a good part of the way be-
tween walls caverns wite gorgeouspalms and ferns and tall trees withslender white trunks and no branch-es
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except at the top A lovely streamfollowed us most of the way In themiddle of the afternoon we stoppedto rest and I slept half an hour inmy chair and then got out myvio ¬
lin and played for an hour Thiswas my first night of sleeping in thejungle We had a tent and cct andI slept as well as if I had been In myown bed The next day the scenerywas not so pretty as we passedthrough the rice plains and the roadwas hot and dusty I was surprised tosee what good roads they havehere This nigjitwe slept in a sallaa thatch covered raised platformwhich Buddhists build all over thecountry toIImake merit a verygood feature of their religion Thisbrought us within two hours rideof Pre and we went in the nextmorning
T J C J lfrlsoN D F SMITHSON Dibic EVERETT
Undertakers and EmbalmersJohnson Smithson Everett
ninth Street Wear L b V Depot
PROMPT SERVICE DAY OR NIGHTCUMBERLAND PHONEnlghtl61Dick
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At one time he was engaged in busi ¬
ness in this city but of late yearshad assisted his father in his largefarming interests He was a member of Hopkinsville Lodge No 545B PO E and a member of LocustGrove Baptist church His funeralservices were held at the familyresidence yesterday morning at 930oclock by Rev E W Barnett andthe interment took place in River¬
side cemetery01
You may be interested to hearsomething of this mission ThoughPre is not a large place it is a strate ¬
gic center and one of our most sat¬
isfying fields of labor The two bestmission homes in Laos are herebeautiful houses of teak which hasbecome so precious it is now sold inBangkok by the pound and the gov-
ernment¬
refuses to allow it to besold in Laos at any price the housein which I am to live is of leak Itis a beautiful brown wood and standsthe weather without paint or anyother preservative The two houseshere are built on the river side acurious but all too frequent short-sightedness
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on the part of the mis-
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who had charge of buyingthe site for when the river rises itIwashes away the banks and thehouses will have to be moved at onceto save them Last year for lackof forces the mission here had to beIabandoned and now these two housesare idle So we are all camping outin
themWehaving a good and rather
full meeting Dr McGiluary 82years old rode horseback from Chiehg Mai an eighJdays JOurney andreached here in good condition Ithink I never met a lovelier lot ofpeople than our Laos missionariesnot only good people but most ofthem attractive socially and mental ¬
ly I wish you might know them allfor it would take too long to writeabout them When I get to ChlengMall will write you about the peoplethere Miss Gilson is about brokendown and will go home as soon nlIshe can now that Miss Buckare
OurhreIdays We have a session from 9 to
12 every morning The English hornhave two lovely tennis courts andwe have been having a tennis tour ¬
nament that has taken up the after
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SCRAP IN
LEGISLATUREj
Question of Control of Telc1
phones Comes Upin GenI
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THE COUNTY UNIT BILL-
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And4ts Companion the ViceBil Sidetracked Indef
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Fij ijJtfort Ky Feb 18TheCommittee on Telephune and Telegr plynade two reports in the Senate Newcomb bill whichwouldjglace the telephone companies
of a commission withreIportSenators T A Combs and G AWyattjjjgned the minority report favoringjthe passage of the bill
Newcomb moved that theminority report be substituted forthe majority report and this pro
a parlientary brush betweenSenators Newcomb and Conn LinnPresident Cox ruled that the minori ¬
ty report could be substituted fori the adverse report if the Senate soelected Senator Linn spoke againstthe motion and insisted that therules require a twothirds vote toadvance the bill instead of a majority report as President Cox ruled
The minority report favoring thebill jivas substituted for the majorityreport by a vote of 18 to 16 Thebill was then placed in the orders ofthe day
The Watkins county unit bill andits twin brother the Vice bill wereput to jeep for the rest of the ses ¬
sion The Vice bill was reportedwithout expression by the SenateCommittee on Religion and MoralsUnder the rules it is indefinitelypostponed and cannot be taken upagain A motion to advance theWatkins bill was defeated by a voteof 16 to
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