Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-14
Knob Lick,

Some corn planted about the 18th
of June is hip high.
Turner Hunt seems n be getting
along slowly. His physician is
treating him now for lead poison
ing.
The heavy rainfall here last week
did no material damage. Am very
sorry to hear of the destruction to
farmers on Prickly Ash and White
Oak.
Born, to the wife of John Sorrell,
a daughter. Their youngest child
being years old, this is the Sec
ond child with s years between
them.
There seems to be an epidemico of
colds in his community. tits hurt
ing the people worse than winter
colds. j. NJ. Colliver Is wrestling
with very severe one.
On Friday (Sth) one of our for
mer neighbors, Geo. w. Shrout, was
laid to rest beside his first wife in
the family burying ground. G. W.
Shrout was a good neighbor, an
honest, upright man, a man that's
missed. The heartfelt sympathy
of this community is extended to
the bereaved ones in their loss.
The Board of the Hurst Home
Insurance Company met in Ow-
in Zsville Saturday (9th) to trans
act some matters in the interest o,
the Co. Among other things they
will have an adjuster to reduce any
property that has run down with
age, and as matter of equity to
raise any property that has been ,
increased in value by improve
ments.
There is den of infamy near
here that has become nearly unen-
durable. There are a few men that
claim to be good citizens who con-
gregate at this den, who use a set
to go out in the Deighborhood and
steal chickens, turkeys and garden
stuff. They then have to have
whisky. They then go through
peoples corn-felds, tear down
fencing, and one night last week
they battered down a 9-wire fence
for j. NJ. COlliver, broke the lock
from a gate and left his corn-field
exposed TO stock. COlliyer says he
has no money to throw away, but
any one giving him information of
the party he will give them ten
dollars.
One more word to my friend the
Craigs corpt., who strengthens the
side in behalf of the millionaires
by citing me to Adams wealth and
Abraham's wealth. Did my Chris
tian friend ever think that these
two cases were the gift of God and
that there was not for every mil
lionaire ten thousand poor, ragged,
pinched and hungry mortals who
had been robbed of their honest toll
by that species of humanity that
never listen to the widows plea or
the orphans cry? Your contention
is it Is not the amount, but the
uses of it. A man with a small sum
can abuse himself and family. But
the man that gets to be worth a
million dollars in life time has
not returned a fair equivalent, and'
there are thousands who have not
been treated fairly. Talking of
this matter brings to my mind what
an old citizen of this county, who
has been dead for several years,
told me of man, not of this
county, but an adjoining one,
who had prospered in business
by selling whisky and merchandise
and was what the people at that
day and time considered a wealthy
man Tor this country. He took sick
and sent for this other man. When
he went he found him very low and
his mind little at rest. lie said to
him II had dream last night that
troubles me. 1 dreampt of starting
to Heaven on a ladder that extend
ed from earth, and after going some
distance up my way beeame-ab~-
kstructed with rags and there / was
compelled to STOP" This man that
told me this interpreted it in this
way: he had reduced so many to
bags % it was burden to his
hind-Aos, my friend, don't you
believe that rags will cutsR good
many from the presence of him
that sits as just Judge?
IDelayed.I
The mind of every one seems to be
conferred on the war. Would it not
be well to look to our own interest
and rights that are slipping away
from US by mercenary legislation?
The Democratic administration un-
der Cleveland issued $685., 200. 900
in bonds in time of peace, and now
the Republican administration I'M
der Mckinley is likely to issues50O,-
900, 900 in time of war. No excuse
for either. Nothing more or less
than a legalized robbery of the
hard earnings of the people. If tho
people stand behind the bonds to
make them good why not stand be-
hind the money and save the peo-
pie the interest on the bonds? And
those bonds, exempt from taxation,
when if the money was issued
directly it would 90 out on its mis-
sion of what money was intended
for, and the property the money
would buy would not be exempt
from taxation. Men that claim to
be smart men say the Government
cannot make money. Without going
into an argument, l would ask why
the Government issued in time of
our last war $6O,OOO,0OO demand
notes that were as good rs gold and
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