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NINE m HSlost of Mrs. gyres' 3E Their Be (From the Oklaboi 1 Matilda JaoeB Ayres, the prettiest young woman and the best cook in Taylor County, Ky., although ocly 33 years old, has1 been married nino times and never be?n divorced. It is claim ed that she'hi>lds tho world's record as to husbands, but then sha began early, eloping when she was only 15. JTer ninth and last marriage took place last week at the church on Pi ucy Creek, in Taylor County. Her full name is Matilda Jane Harkins Kllct-Boards'Wyckton-Lowman - Low i?an-HuuBon-Dumenil-Ayreu. The new mate's name is Mason Ayres. This woman, whose life has been as full of romance as Kentucky is of feuds, is a strong opponent of di vorce. "No man or woman should marry unless they are in love," she says. And if they are in love nothing can separate them but death. Neither has the right to seek freedom by law, and while they may separate if condi tions become unbearable, neither Un der any eondition has the right to wed unless the other is dead." Up above the "Washfoot Baptist" Church in the hills near Lone Star is the graveyard, and the row of stones, side by side, bear inscriptions that tell briefly the story of Mattie Ayres and her life of romanee. For she has buried the eight hus bands side by side, with graves just alike, with head and foot stones in exact duplicate. The first headstone in the row con tains this insoription : Morgan Adair Eilet, Beloved Husband of Matilda Eilet. Till We Meet Again. And down the line of gravestones the same inscription appears, only with a different name each time, until the casual visitor begins to speculate concerning the meeting and wonders if it will not be more like a conven tion. The girl's romanee commenced when she was 15 years old and fell in love with Morg Eilet, who lived in Oamp bellsville, the county town of Taylor County, and was the gayest, hardest riding, handsomest and "drinkingest" man in all the country round about. Ho was also the "cornet pi ay ingest" young man and the "make-lovingeBt" in the district?to use the form of speech that is commonest iu tho Tay lor County hills. Mattie Harkins had been to Lexington and to Frankfort, and she was the "citifiedst" girl around about Taylor County idiom. She saw Morg Eilet at Campbells ville, one night when he played a solo with the Silver Band, and her heart was won. But the father objected and one frosty morning the girl fled across the bills to join her betrothed, pursued by the old man. The twain reached a Justice of the Peace first and she met ber father a bride. Harkins prepared to dispose of his new son in-law after tbe Kentucky fashion, but his daugh Ipped in front and defied him to itually old man Harkins forgave Eleven months after the elope lorg went hunting. While he ting on a fence bis rifle slipped, immer struck ? rail and the bul rced his brain. >ie Eliot remained a widow jaBt nths, when ber heart was won phen Boards, who was elderly, and wealthy, owner of a large nd much timber land, ybody said.she had married him money and bated bim accord Quo day withip seven weeks of dding, as Boards was riding award Cnmpbellsville after fore 5 a mortgage, he was shot from h and Mattie Eilet Boards be i wealthy widow. in a swarm of wooers came l ?b soon bb the 'young widow to a touch of color to re ib? ?neavy- mourning wh ich ened her beauty. She was kind itient, but not one of them I any advantage until Ed Wyck ms from down; about Gadberry ?r County, where he bad been ing < an illicit still. He was >g revenue officers and he wan around Campbells ville and the nt country. > day after they bad been married months, .the revenue officers a raid. : There were ten men party and ?d was away from They oame to the housewhere ide was waiting in alarm, and a Jalldog attacked them and was by ? shot. Tho officers ; burst bo bouse, discovered the shrink to, and domandsd to know ifnere 1ES WED. lusbands "Died With. >ots On." na State Capital.) the still was located. She refused to tell. At that instant two of Wyckton's sisters entered, and a fierce battle ensued, the women fighting, ecreaming and struggling to | reach their (runs. Three other sisters, aroused by the sound of the struggle, rushed to the house and engaged in the encounter. After a fearful strug gle the five were overpowered and bound. At that instant Ed Wyokton ran from the wo^ds and opened fire upon tbe posse believing that his wife and sisters were being ill-treated. Sta tioned behind a tree he dropped two of the posse. Then one man crept out along the fence?a shot rang out, and Mattie saw her husband throw up his hands, reel in a circle, and drop dead with a bullet in his brain. Almost crazed by grief and the shock, Mattie devoted her wealth to freeing the sisters of her husband, and managed by employing excellent law yers, to set them free when the Fed eral Court met at Louisville. Mattie Harkins, widowed three times in three years, went baok to live at home, sear Lone Star, building a pretty home on the site of the rude house from which she eloped as a school girl. Two years later she was quietly married to Nat Lowman, who had been one of her girlhood lovers. Nat lived just two years, then died of consumption, his wife nursing him tenderly for over a year. She buried him alongside of the others and mourned for nine months,, then'became the bride of Andy Low man, Nat's brother, who won her by his solicitude and tenderness during his brother's illness and death and during ber fourth widowhood. He lived only a short time. Eleven months after her fifth be reavement Manuel Hudson came by chance to the house. He won Mattie's love by bis kindness to her little giil baby, and six months after they met they were married. Hudson was shot in a row at Frank fort the next year while lobbying in the Legislature for a timber land bill, and one year later his widow was led to the altar by "Pony" Dumenil, who met her at Frankfort when as Mrs. Hudson she attended a session of the Legislature. Dumenil took her to live at Harrodsburg, but that same fall he was stricken with heart disease and fell dead in the lobby of the Gibson House in Cincinnati, where he had gone to buy goods. The eighth gravestone was erected in 1'Mattie Harkins's" Cemetery, and the people of Taylor County declared that her husbands were the "dyiug est" lot of men they ever saw. This did not stop the flocking of baohelors and widowers toward Lone Star, and the unmarried girls made complaint that the handsome multi widow was stealing all the available men. Mason Ayres, a young saw miller, Was the ninth man to win her heart, and although they have been married for nearly a week he still re mains happy and hearty, and Mattie Ayre&'s "waiting list'* is beginning to get discoursed. i? mm - . REMEDY FOR HAY FEVER. After Trying Other Treatments, Byomei Wae Used With Perfect Success. J. F. Forbes, a well known Western railroad man, whose home is at Mo Cook, Nebraska, writes "I have never had any relier from any remedy for hay fever, even temporarily, until I discovered the merits of Hyomei. t always recommend it when occasion requires." v There is no Offensive or' dangerous stomach dosing when Hyomei is used. This reliable remedy for the eure of all diseases of the respiratory organs is breathed through a neat pocket in haler that cocoa with every outfit; so that the air taken into the throat and lungs is like that of the Whito Moun tain a or other health resorts, where hay fever is unknown. The fact that ? vans' Pharmacy agree to refund the money to asy hay fever sufferer who us?s Hyomei without success, should inspire confidence in its'power to effect a euro. A complete outfit eosts only tl.00 and extra 'bot t?ea but 50 cents. . _-- . ? K - ,y ' ? An awfnl easy way to make money is not to get married. ? A man can learn a lot simply by realizing that he don't know much. ? To be popular with yoercelf is a very dangerous thing to-popularity with others. ? A man is very modest about the qualities he possesses; his vanity is about those he doesn't. A girl thinks a man is mad*y in love withiicr if he says-her baby sis ter has a sweet disposition. THE DISPENSARY AND THE SCHOOLS. Editors Anderson Intelligencer : While the question of Dispensary is imminent, a great many good men are taking part in it, and they are not so much troubled about tho thing that does not hurt them as the thing they fear will hurt them. These "good" men don't drink whiskey?or niaybo they ca.i let it alono?but it is the schools, the schools that trouble them! ' What will become of our children and our grandchildren, and our great, great grandchildren without the use of whiskey money in our schools? "We can't get along without it," they think, "and our children, etc., etc., etc., will grow up ignorant.'' It makes no difference about the drink?let them be drunk, if they want to, but an eduoation they must have. The common schools of An derson County are some of the finest institutions on the face of the earth? the way they are conducted?and we must lave them; and if we abolish whiskey we lose our sohools. The well-meaning, Christian drinking gen tlemen who give us the full houses in jails, penitentiaries, poor, mad and other houses, prosperous gibbets, gallows, murders, suioides; necessity for sheriff, constabulary, lawlessness and lynching?give us whiskey drink ing and a?er?a cent and a half or couple oents per year for each ohild in the State,, and?a?we cannot get along without that little bit of money. Truth is, we are too poo?:, too beggar ly, and we oan't get along without that little change. Don't know what made us so poor, but we can't get along without that couple cents per head per year to keep up our sohools. The State is not worth a copy-book, any way; it could not afford to givo us schools unless we paid in those big round thousands of dollars for whis key?it needs it to pay salaries to men who keep up the honorable name of the State! What is the difference if they are paid on whiskey? They get their salaries and it's all the same tous. Don't they givo us out of every dollar a cent, or maybe two, in twelve months to keep up our child's honor and mako a man or woman of the little one? "We see quite clear ourselves how it is, and any one who does not see it as clearly must be blind as mud. It is whiskey and sohools, or no whiekey and no sohools, and we can't afford to have our ohildreu grow up in ignor ance: we can't get along without that small change, and you good friends of Progress, who throw all you are worth into the Liquor Tub, fill it, fill it; we'll laugh at you, and all you drunk ards and foolish; and we won't let our wife or our daughter?if we can? speak to you or be seen with you. We don't want you in our churches, you are not good enough for us; but if you'll keep on drinking we'll use that little cent and a half, or two oents, at our Bohools for our ohild. You oan give in your dollar and keep the empty bottle. Much obliged." Editors Intelligencer, that is the language, of many who think if the Dispensary is broke up the County will go to smash 1 Really, is it so? Can't the school get along without the Dispensary? Tell ub about it, friends. R. R. L. The Mad Dog Fallacy. In all my own experience -with dogs I have not only never seen a "mad dog," bat have never known a dog owner-?and by that I mean aman who has had experience in keeping dogs? who has seen one. If, then, rabies is so exceedingly searoe hydrophobia be comes really an impossibility and the fear of it should be dismissed without a thought. A person may get dog bittenj but iu the language of the New York tough, * 'Forget it.' ' If \t is * a bad bite it may twitch later on and you may begin worrying, so it is a good plan to get rid of the twitching or. throbbing in order to < forget. I have been bitten so often that I think no more of it than a mosquito bite, and this is what I do. If it is on the hand I put it under the fauoet and wash it thoroughly, with the object of cleaning the wound and preventing inflammation from any dirt or foreign cubs tance. While doing this some one is getting the bicarbonate of soda and some clean rags or lint. With water a or earn passe of. the soda is made sufficient to p?^wor the wound well, then puttlry > tua on a rag it is applied to the ??., nud and bound up. If in the course of an hour or more the application seemu to be drying, a little water is poured on the bandage to soak through to the soda, or tho hand dipped in water.?Country Life in America, ?Some men never realise whit hypoorites they are until death stares them in th? face. ? When a girl declines to let a young man kiss her it is reasonably sure to make her angry if he lets it go at that. ? I ?- People worry for fear their cool s will -give notice and their pastors won't. ? Nothing will ever happen to a girl who gets caught with a man in .the dark as she will tell it. Fair Price for Cotton. Mr. Harvio Jordan, president of tho Southern Cotton association, has just senl out the following: "The South is to bo congratulated on the prospects for general prosperity during the uext IS months. Tho loy alty of Southern farmers in standing together during the last three months of tho year and holding their staple off a depressed cotton market and follow ing this by curtailing production for 1905 by materially reducing tho cottou acreage and use of guano under cotton is more largely responsible for tho present conditiou of good prices thau all other causes combined "The loyalty of Southern bankers, cotton men, fertilizer companies and business men goderally who have so generously contributed funds to the as sociation, and the Southern press which, during tho hard struggle of the farmers for the past six months to whip in the fight they had undertaken, has done such valiant and cllcotivo public service without price and other highly important factors unite in making possible existing conditions. "All of these things coupled with bad seasons following in the wake of a heavily reduoed acreage and an en ormous demand for spot cotton by the spinners of the world gives to cotton the strongest statistical position it has ocoupied in many years. If crop conditions do not rapidly improve the supply of raw cotton for consumption in 1906 will fall far short of the de mand and prices will go very much higher. But abnormally high prices will be as dangerous for the future to the produoev and spinneras abnormal ly low prices, and wo must endeavor to bo conservative and consistent. "It will be the part of wisdom for all cotton producers to discourage speculative interests that would tend to drive the prioe of spot cotton above 12 cents per' pound just as it is im perative that no farmer should ever again sell a pound of middling cotton under 10 cents per pound. Lot us not encourage inflated prices that will hamper the mills, curtail consump tion of cotton and encourage the growth of the staple in foreign felds. We hold a complete monopoly of the cotton industry of the world up to 12 cents per pound and at that prioe good profits to the produocr can be real ized. "The recent advance in cotton is in ducing many farmers already to sell their crop for delivery in Ootober. This is bad policy and generally in dulged in will deluge such an enor mous amount of the Btaple on the market during that month as to break prioes and prove injurious to those who must sell. Learn to market the orop slowly and do not go into specu lative propositions. "By co-operative action refuse to sell any cotton under 10 cents and so market the staple as to keep the legit imate demand active and healthy at good prices. "The Southern Cotton association in its meeting St Memphis, June 29, 1905, endorsed the plans for immediate construction of warehouses under the plans and sp?cification of the insur ance companies and to be owned and operated by the local communities in which they are built. The rapid de velopment of a ootton warehouse sys tem is absolutely essential to the best system of marketing ootton for high prices and this matter should be push ed at every ootton point in the South. "It is now imperative that the form ers rally in eaoh oounty and build up the membership of the association. Those counties whiob have not yet or ganised should get into line at once. Those that are organised should be pushed by the looal officers and the membership of eaoh rapidly increased after the crops are laid by. 'We want to be in a strong position by September to bandle the situation next fall and winter. The outlook is most encouraging. The State and oounty officers of the association are to be congratulated on the splendid work they have done and now that success is assured they should redou ble their efforts. "We have everything to be proud of and must not let the golden oppor tunity now in reach to still better for tify our position fcr the future, slip by or fail to.measureup to the highest standard of our duty one to another." . ?An old fool is worse ?than a young one because be is us much surer by as many more years as he has that he isn't. fiUGEigUS GEfll -? STRENGTHEN THE STOM KEEP ' ' . A wealthy philanthropist in New York spends thousands of dollars ev ery summer . providing milk for the babies, with the result that the mor tality is greatly decreased. He ap preciates the fact ihftt, disease germs are ens?ruon in the summer and that the stomach must be kept healthy to resist their attacks. Older people do not live on a milk d*et tu insure health, but they can so strengthen the Btomaeb -and digestive organs by tho use of Mi-o na that they Says Animals do Think. An article printed recently in the Eagle, which treated metaphysically the question, "l>o animals think, or not?" attracted the attention of aSuf folk County, L. I., farmer, and lover of all in nature, and he answers th< question in the affirmative, as follows: ''In order for man to know and un derstand his so-called brute fellow creatures, he must live with them, love them and win their confidence, when he will soon marvel at the intel ligence they exhibit and the half-hu man characteristics they evince and wonder what would be their outgiv ings were they capable of communica tion of what is passing in their brains, through the power of speech. In my experience with -horses and dogs, es pecially, I have found that tluy think sufficiently to discriminate in their action in regard to differing objects. Let me give but one illustration just now: "The lirst horse I ever owned was given to me by my father, when the animal was i> years old. Ho was re covering from the disease then termed distemper and required Borne little ex tra attention to help him recover tone apd condition. The quickness with which he seemed to recognize my care of him and its benefit interested me greatly, and it was but a short time until I loved him as well as I did any member of my family, and better than I did myself, for when circumstances oreatcd tho allotment of comfort and discomfort between us, it was not him who received the latter. He was met tlesome and high spirited and soon be came restive if auy one but myself handled him, so that wo became the only two harmonious when he was a factor. In the farm work we were ever together, and he so soon learned tho difference between corn hills and weeds from my training that I noticed him make a short step to avoid tramp ing on one of the former. After a while he was coupled in team with an other one of tho farm horses which I had lost its eye sight through opthal mia or some such disease. "Very speedly my pet learned the infirmity of his mate and leaned gent ly against him on the road, guiding their travel together so uniformly that the ordinary observer never suspected aught to be the matter with the eye sight of either. When turned out to pasture, the blind horse was kept be tween his mate, and the fences and other animals were driven away when approaehing too near. The olimax was reached when the two were turned out in a field where there was a wash out from a receat rain. Soon after be ing put into the field the blind horse ' wandered bo muoh toward the washout I that I was about to go after him to turn him away. My amazement may i be imagined when I saw my beloved pet trot over to his mate, pass around on the washout side of him, throw his head over his withers and push him away from danger. With suoh evi dence, can there be any doubt of thought and conclusion in horses, at least?"?Brooklyn Eagle. In and Out. A prominent physician in Baltimore recently perpetrated a witticism at his own expense. It was late at night. The doctor had lost his night key; the door was looked; he was cold from a long, ride and the more he rang the door bell the more tho suspicion grew in his miud that some one had chloro formed the entire houoehold. Finally, however, his sister was aroused by a long ring of the hell. Naturally she thought that there was some one at the door who wished to see the doctor, and that, as the doctor was out she would herself have to answer the sum mons, else the caller would keep ber awake for a long time. So hastily throwing a loose gown over her night dress she hurried to the door. Open ing the door the least bit in order not to present her dishabile to an entrud ing eye, she shouted through the crack in a tone of sleepy impatience: "The doctor's out," and was about to clo.ie the door, when the physician thrust one foot through, at the same time ex claiming: "Yes, I know the dootor's out, but he wants to get in." ? In summer a man thinks he is oooling off when he is drinking whis key and. in winter that he is freezing to. death when he isn't drinking it. ? Some men do well by doing their best f rien do. mv 1B1 tJUHifMKl. ACH WITH MI-O-NA ANI> WELL. \ too, will be free 'from sickness in the summer season. Mi-o-na restores complete health to the whole system and oures headaches, baok-aohe, sleeplessness, pains and distress after eating, vertigo, heart burn, and the general debility which result from a weak stomaah and im perfect digestion. A guarantee to refund the money if Mi-o-na does not show help, is giv en with every 50 cent bor. 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