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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-01-09

One OF Loulsa's worst needs now
isa longer term ofthe publics school.
We can not afford to content our
selves with five months. Nine
months is what we should have,
By all means. The years are
slipping away from tho children,
and with them 20 the oppottunl-
ties afforded by youth to prepare
for their future. II proper advan-
tages. are not provided, We are
responsible for the failure, or any
smaller measure OF success, which
may come to any OF them because
OF this lack OF educational facill.
ties.
This community is amply able
10 sustain good school for the full
term OF nine months. Whatever
extra taxation that may be neces.
slry would be very small burden
upon any citizen. No matter what
lit Is, the investment is the best
that can be made. a good educa-
ton is the most valuable legacy
that can be left 10 children. In a
majority OF instances, those who
inherit property are ultimately
i"worso Off than those who make
their own way.
Give the children a chance,
Lcrs give them all the opportuni'
ties within our power. They are
growing up rapidly and we should
see to 1t that their education keeps
pace with their growth. We have
Ian excellent school building aud
the indebtedness hanging over II
Is now sufficiently reduced to MAKE
Ia easy to carry. Let's get to worl
aud make some arrangement L
have schoulSat least equal to thos'
OF other towns OF this size.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-01-09
City Council Meeting.

The session OF City Council last
Tuesday night was one of the
warmest meetings ever held by
that body. The manner In which
the officials have used their posi-
tions was brought up and caused
a lively discussion All we're pres
cnt and for some time there was
elimination and recriminatlon.
The facts brought out confirmed
the general reports going around
that there had been much derelic-
ton. II is very evident that In
their strife against each other the
officers have lost sight OF the main
objeeI-lhat OF fighting crime and
enforcing the law. Conditions will
never be improved until the OIL
Gers pull together faithfully against
depredations Of all kinds.
Some OF the councilmen, as well
as citizens, talked fright out in
meetinp about the condition OF af-
fairs, and the indications are that
they are determined to bring about
an Improvement,
Before this subject came up,
however, William Sammons, the
Marshal, offered his resignation.
The Council refused to accept II at
once, but agreed to meet again Sat-
urday night OF this week, at which
time II Is expected that the resig-
nation will be accepted. Mr.. Sam
mons has collected the taxes In
less time, 1t is said, than any other
Marshal has ever done, and he was
compllmented on the work. His
delinquent list was accepted with
but three exceptions.
A new arrangement is about to
be- made for street lightssby which
nearly three times the number we
now have will be provided at an
expense no greater than at present,
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

"S'I: Well go whah dey's de bes
I'm done walked too fur to back wa
tab now!' 81: I'm a ole han at dis
busIness-foller me, an you'll wa'h
diamon's.' An 81: Les keep close
together; SOS we won't take one
mother fur de man. Sc: Greed!
"Well, arter we'd bin in dab whila
an didn't see ner hyeah nothin', We
got boil; an raised up an went ti
walkin' 'roun' dab, lax we owned de
place Cease me wanted de bes' mil
luns in de patch)-an' l swah we got
los f'om one mother. But we wuz
dast to holler. Made up ma mine to
tase piece O millun, den fine Riley
m go home-already had sackful
hid down side de railroad track to tote
home wild me. Went up to a stump,
did, an brought a millun down cross
it-'bam!' An de stump jumped up
an tuck arter me! An l thought
hyeah'd gun go off-'bud-duee!
ST: Dab! bress God, de fahmah's
eolllill al tCl liz. AL
wings an flew! ST: 'Br'er Riley, dc
de bes' you kin foh yo' se'f! De Bible
say: Flee fom de wraff to come!"'
An by dat time l had done gone a
mile, an had los coat, shoes, an hat
| made foh one O. ma membahs'
houses, on de outskirts O. de town, an
fell in de do, an ST: Come an git
me-" An I tainted plum away.
Ma membah tuck me in an put
me to bed. an mex mo'nin' he lent me
suit O. his clothes to 60 home in
I'd done fixed up a CHOSE story, an
tole i'm. On my way home, stopped
at Riley's house-see how he come
out. An dey tole me he wuz sick in
bed. wy, amt you hyern it,? seq
dey. An dey showed me whah de
papahs said he'd bin hit in de head
an helt up an robbed! 81: Amt dat
a shame!-nice man as he isl An
went in whah he wuz, an 81: 'Fr'en
Riley, whut's de mattah? Sc: Mat
tah?-matttah? Wy, Revunt, didn't
thank you'd do me that-a-way! ST.:
'Whut'd I do?' 'Do?' sez he, do? Wy.
you broke a watahmillun ovah ma
head! Ats whut you done! Sc:
Ma head hut me so I could hahdly git
to town. Don 'speck l kin write none
foh week Sc: I wouldn't mine II
so: but de millun wuz green!' An he
allus acted col to'ahds me arter dat
But I amt got nothin' 'g'inst watah
millun, all de same"
j. D. CORROTHERH.
Copyright. 1902, Funk G Wagnalls
Co., New York.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25
EASTERN ISLAND
II ENPRE II
II ~
Especial Correspondence.)

II war be averted between Japan
and Russia it will be new proof how
strong those agencies are which every
where in the present day work
silently for peace. Taken each by
each. some of these forces would no
doubt be considered trivial arSl feeble.
but they help each other, and the sum
total of their influence is shown at
this moment with equal plainness both
in the Far and the Near East. Yet
what may sometimes greatly depress
an observer who loves his kind, and
believes in the ultimate triumph of
reason and concord. is to notice how
slowly the race learns the simple
lessons of it's own welfare. Manchuria
is an example of this. Does the name
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

the value of peaches as both a lucious
and nutritious diet, whereat the Rev.
Ezellil took the floor
Il don't keer how high dahkey
gifts up in de worl', ner how much lax
white folks he tries to ack, he'll come
right back to his natch'ul se'f, eff you
shet i'm UP in a room alone wild a
watah millun. An de white folks
laks watah millun. too! Did you know
it? Deed dey does! Dey amt no
'niggah problem when it comes to
watah millun! Wy. when | wuz pas
tah Nv little chu'ch in Injunap'ls,
good ole milun together! An Riley
sho' kin eat. Wy, eff you wuz to set
i'm down 'mungst passel O. dahkies,
an put 'em all to eatin millun, you
couldn't tell fom 'Zaminin' de rines
which wuz Rileys an which wuz de
cullud folks! Fine man, dat Riley
IS. | made ma se'f 'quainted wild i'm
in 1njunap'lis, an used to go up an
fetch i'm almosa any time-'for ma
chu'ch-dat wuZ ma ole racket. Goose
| spent de money as I pleased) An
when Id git broke, l go fetch Riley
agin. He wuz dead easy to wo'k-
glib i'm any ole song! Oh! I wuz
strickly in it, tel l went, lax fool,
an split ma se'f wild i'm. I 'speck
while I'm at it. hettah tell you how
come to do it.
Went to his house one day, I did
(great. big, square house made outen
red brick-stan's on Lockerby Street.
I knows right whah it is-bin dah
mo times den l got fingers an toes),
an l rung de do bell, an sens in
wo'd at | wants to see Riley on
po'tant business. Putty soon down
he come fom his study. 81: 'Bre'r
Riley, does you know milluns has
gone up to fo'ty cents. an still a.
risin'?' Sc: No Reverent; amt it
orful?' 81: Yes, an I don't pose to
pay it, Sc: 'Whut you goin to do?
We mus hab milluns to eat!'
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

ST: 'Br'er Riley, dey's lots O. fahms
'roun' hyeah, an on dem fahms dey's
heaps O. milluns; an de fahmahs 'ud
be willin' to donate 'em to you nose
any night you'll come arter EN-
'vidin' dey CANT ketch YOU ST:
I'm goin' out to try ma luck tonight,
an l called 'roun to see f you'd go
wild me. ST: 'Fo'ty cents fob watah
millun is a outrage!
He went to mumblin sump'in'
bout 'impropriety, moral suasion,
character 'settin' high example, an
one thaing another; an 81: You
CANT eat dat An | see I'd struck
a tendah spot in i'm. Sc: Well. Rev
erent. call 'roun' tonight bout ten
o'clock, eff de weathah's fair, an I'll
thank about it.
Went back dat eb'nin'-as God
would hab tan Riley say: Wait tel
git ma hat An off We put-down
de street-splittin' Injunap'lis wide
open! Riley had a so't o hop-light-lady
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

shores which look to Korea and to
Manchuria. He knows, moreover,
even if his turbulent colonels on the
frontier forget, how strong is the 10y
atty in every Japanese home and how
formidable is the strength which the
unchanging patriotism of the Mikados
subjects gives to his arms. In the
matter of medical help and well-kept
hospitals, a Japanese army is perhaps
better equipped than any in the world.
The czar cannot have forgotten an In
cdent of his own sojourn in Japan.
when a crack-brained fanatic struck
a blow at that head. sacred to the
whole land as being the head OF its
guest. One young girl, more heart
broken than even the others at the
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

seem new to anyone or the historic
fact a novelty that the destinies of
Russia, of China and of Japan should
all be mixed up with it? More than
600 years ago the same races were at
war for much the same reasons as
might to-day make battlefield OF the
Chinese province. Manchuria was the
domain and starting point Of Gangis
Khan and Kublai Khan. Thence roll
ed forth across all Asia and half way
over the Continent of Europe those
Tartar hordes which nearly turned the
globe into one vast barbarous and
Dlood-stained China. In those days
kublai Khan launched his great expe-
dition against Japan, and the story Of
the Spanish Armada and of England's
triumph over it was almost exactly
anticipated by what the Japanese
people did to save their islands. A
most curious picture of that ancient
struggle, painted on chicken skin only
a short time after the Tartar invasion,
was brought to me in Toxic and offer
ed at price l would readily have
given. But 1t was so plainly a preci-
Gus document of state, with the
strange costumes depicted and ancieR
forms Of armor, weapons, boats and
bridges that l sent the ignorant pos
SCISSORS to the emperor's palace, and
his imperial majesty gladly enlarged
the remuneration demanded and
placed it in the Royal library.
What makes me recall. it and wish
there may be no second Manchuria
conflict is that there were groups of
women in several of it's sections, Chi
nese and Japanese ladies and waiting
maids nursing the wounded, so that
even in so distant day war, with
it's terror and ruin, had also its tender
ness. And this. again, set me thinking
that the greatest force which could
be exercised against warfare and in
favor of the universal peace for
which the planet yearns will come
when women do their part to break
the swords and silence the drums.
They might do much more than they
know. l do not think there is any
need to teach Japanese woman about
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

stain thus imprinted upon the hospi.
tality of Dai Yippon, did deed which
the czar well remembers. She com.
posed pathetic letter to her lord, the
Mikado, deploring the disgrace which
had come to his people and the whole
country by such an act of frenzy,
quoting in it examples of ancient days.
when the humblest were sometimes
permitted to become sacrifice for the
highest and most noble. Provided with
this letter, she carried it herself to the
threshold of the palace, upon which.
in accordance with the old customs,
she laid her little foolish but faithful
forehead. and then, retiring to lone
ly spot in the neighborhood, with mis-
guided, but sublimely unselfsh devo-
ton, she put an end to her own exist
ence. and was found lying dead, an
offering. as she conceived, which the
gods and the emperor-nay, perhaps
even the august and illustrious strang-
er himself-might accept to the ex-
cuse and purgation of Japan. A ma
tion which contains children of such
spirit cannot be conquered, and will
never be lightly attacked by prudent
enemies.
Formidable, indeed, as are the land
and sea forces of the Islanu Empire,
it's inner strength consists in the in
tense loyalty and universal self
respect and passion for duty which
are the common qualities of the forty
five millions of Japanese so ignorant
ly disparged by the journals of Mos
COW, St. Petersburg and other capi-
tails. Those Muscovite colonels under
stand and care little for all this, being
everywhere ready. for the sake of pay,
and promotion, to embarrass the pol
icy Of their sovereign, and to push
Russia, through falsehood and blood.
shed, to territorial expansion. Yet
they would learn the depth and mean
ing of it in war, nor can they be
wholly insensible to the sufferings of
those Russian homes, the lowly coun-
terparts of the cottages of Japan, from
which the cruel conscription year by
year drags away the breadwinners,
leaving behind distress and bereave-
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

step, an wuZ adoin' de Mobile bucE.
"Cah'd me out, he did, about 70
miles I'm town, an stopped right in
front NV big ole fahm whah you
could hyeah de milluns jes' a-laughin
an a-talkin' an a-snigglin' in d'ey
sle'bes, lax dey wuz gon' to buss open.
Now sez Riley. dis ole feller
here raises de bes' milluns in de state;
but he keeps mean dog an dey sny
he watches his patch O nights wild q
shotgun. DON know how true { 10.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25
NIQRIMNN|NnnlNMNDI1MNNN Observation-Disclosures
s Who Struck James Whitcomb Riley? s
] with Account BAN of the (
1 Watermelon Less Truthf Told by /
STHE REVEREND EZEKIL LOUDMOUTH :

In order that the reader may un-
derstand fully the events leading up
to the misadventures herein set forth,
brief sketch Of the author Is neces-
sary.
The Reverend Ezeiil Loudmouth
had been the pastor of a colored
church in indianapolis but owing to
his inability to recognize the differ.
ence between tie debit and credit side
Of the church's collection accounts
was deposed: and drifting to Chicago
had SO effectually 'back-slidded" that
the sole remains of his ministerial
life appeared in his costume and the
unctious use of large and inappro-
pirate words. His every day dress
consisted of the regulation ministe-
rial garb; top hat. frock; or as he
termed it Jim Swigger" coat, black
trousers and white choker.
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

l he reverend
EZekil spent
most of his walk
ing hours in the
various resorts
where the gen.
tlemen OF his
color most do
congregate; talk
ing such gifts
as the Fates
might send in
lHe way OF re-
freshment. and
volubly thank
ing the "Lo'd"
for the drops
and cru m b S
which fell to his
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

the pity and the misery Of warfare.
That great and true friend of peace,
the present Gear of All the Russias,
has journeyed among the quiet, bright,
happy cottages of the island empire,
and we'll knows how unwelcome would
be the necessity which took the fish
erman from his nets and the peasant
from his rice fields all along the sunny
The Grit-advocate., 1903-12-25

Naturally the fare in both forms
being Of an uncertain quality. the
times of famine were in an inverse
ratio to the times Of plenty and in
consequence the talk of feasts to come
occupied more hours than their con-
sumption. On this particular occa-
sion the conversation had turned on
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
SHERIFF'S SALE.
IN CHANoERY OF New JERSEY

IN CHANoERy OF NEW JERSEY
Wherein Sarah Tissington Lucy wootton and
Julia Wootton are complainants and James
Brown Ida Esten and Michael Lujanovits
are deIendants. FL "a for sale of mortgaged
premises Returnable to February term,
A. ". 1908.
THOMAS j. HiLLERY. Solr.
QY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
IL Factas in my hands, I shall expose for
sale at public vendue. at the Court House In
Morristcwn, N. j., on
MONDAY THE 26th DAY OF JANUARY
next. A. D.. 1908 between the hours of 10 NJ.
and O'Clock, P. M, that is to say at O'Clock
In the afternoon of said day, all that certain
tract or parcel of land and premises situate,
lying and being in the town of Boonton,
township OF Hanover In the county of Morris
and State of New Jersey.
Beginning at point In the easterly line of
HfSockaway street, which point is the most
westerly corner of a lot number 3d. as laid
down on mao of property In Hanover
township belonging to the estates of Dudley
b. Fuller and James Couper Lord made by
Augusti j, Rossi aud filed In the office of the
Clerk of Morris County; thence CD as the
compass pointed In 1857 north thirty three de-
gree west, slxty-nine and stxty-six one hun
dredths feet along the northeasterly line OF
hockaway street; thence CD north sixty one
degrees and forty three minutes east two
hundred and seven feet; thence 90 south
thirty two degrees and forty-hve minutes
east. sixty and four one hundredthS feet to
the most northerly corner of lot number 55;
thence (Q south fifty y-nine degrees ana fifteen
minutes vest: along the northerly line of the
sad lot No; 90. two hundred and five feet to
Being the same land and premises that were
conveyed to the said James Brown by Per-
dss meila Esten M %. oy deed dated April 3eth 1890,
in Book Y-l2 of deeds pages $50 &c.
Dated Dec 20 1902
,.o,o ABRAHAM RYERsoN. Sheriff.
pr$o.O Chronicle and Bulletin
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
SHERlFF'S SALE.
In CHANoKRY on NEW JrRsr,

In OHANCkRY OE NEW JERSEY.
Wherein the Morris County Savings Bank ia
c0pplainant and Harry r.. Hull, otherwise
Known. as Harry r. 81. Nicholas and
Chamberlain, Ruth W, Sayre, George e.
Sayre. Caroline Amanda Arrowsmith,
Amanda T. Writer, Lewis Writer, Anna M.
Nicholas. Sebastian O. Nicholas. Mary e.
Nicholas, Hiram @. Nicholas, Emma Nicho
las: William w. Nicholas, Nettie Nicholas
and Elizabeth A. Nicholas, and the heirs
devisees or personal representatives of David
A. Nicholas, deceased, are defendants. a ia
for saleIof mortgaged premises =eturnable
to February term, A. D., 1913
JOHN b. VREELAND, Solicitor
QY VIRTUE of the above stated writ of fierI
- facias In my hands, / shall expose for sale
at Public Vendue at the Court House in Nor
ristown, N. j.. on
MONDAY, the 18th DAY of JANUARY, next
A. D., 1908 between the hours of IL M. and
O'Clock P. M, that is to say at Q O'CLOCK in the
afternoon of said day.
All that lot tract or parcel of land and
premises, hereinafter particularly described
Ctogether with other lands) situate lying
and being In the township of Roxbury (ip
the village of Flanders) in the county OF
Morris and State of New Jersey (being the
second lot described In the complainant's bilD
to wit:
Beginning at the side of the road at the
corner OF q lot conveyed by John Ayers to the
said David A. Nicholas'and running thenceQ)
north seventy-flve degrees east four chains
chains and seventy -flve links thence CD south
seventy five degrees west four chains thence
(Q 'uth fifteen degrees east three chains and
seventyhv links to the place of beginning.
CONTAINING one acre and half of land more
ABRAHAM RYERsoN, Sheriff.
DaIsd e1 Dec IL, 1902. Chronicle Era
pf$slO 375C
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
East Indian Children.

East Indian children from their ten
derest years are more carefully trained
in certain respects by their mothers
than the children of the most civilized
peoples The moment the youngest ba-
by ceases nursing its lips are closed by
its mother. If the baby does not keep
them closed, she uses mechanical means
rigidly and even cruelty. When the ba-
by is put to sleep, it is strapped on to
a board, its head slightly raised and its
chin lowered, which tends to keep the
mouth shut. The result is that when
the teeth are forming and making their
first appearance they meet and contin-
ually feel one another. Thus they take
their relative positions and that health
full and pleasing regularity that gives
to the American Indian as a race the
most manly and beautiful mouths in
the world.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
sYMMEs' HOLE.
The Peculiar Theory That Was Once
Advanced by "a Scientist.

The Peculiar Theory That Was Once
Advanced by Scientist.
Probably the oldest idea ever for a
moment entertained by scientist was
that of John Cleves Symmes concern
ing the condition of the interior of our
globe. Symmes was jurist, scien-
tist, or, as the French would say, a
''savant," of international reputation,
an explorer "on his own hook" and an
all round man of letters, yet one would
think that some of his ideas must have
originated with the king of Bedlam.
He believed and lectured before learn
ed college societies in support of his
views that the earth consists Of from
five to seven hollow concentric spheres
and that at the poles there is a round
opening entirely through each of the
several spheres.
According to this queer theory, these
spheres are placed one inside the other,
like a nest of crockery ware, with an
open space of few hundred miles be-
tween each. Furthermore, he believed
that both the outside and the inside
of each of these bubblelike spheres are
inhabited, which would give not less
than ten and probably fourteen "thea-
ters of action" instead of the one hab-
table surface with which we are all
acquainted to greater or lesser de-
gree. Symmes lived for many years
near Newport, KY.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
SHERlFF'S SALE.
In CHANorRY OF New JER

In CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Wherein Elijah Garter is complainant and
Joseph 8. Waugh and Johanna NJ Waugh
his wife, Charles NJ. Waugh and Jessie e
Waugh are defendants. Fl ia for sale of
mortgaged premises. Returnable to Febru-
ary Term, A. D. 1903.
CHARLES A. RATHBUN, -Solr.
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fie
ID Facias In my hands. / shall expose for
sale at Public Vendue at the Court House In
Morristown, N. J. on
MONDAY. THE I'd DAY OF FEBRUARY
next, A. D.. 1903 between the hours of 10 m,
In the afternoon of said day. all the following
described tract nr parcel Of land and premises,
situate, lying and being In the Borough of
Madison. formerly in the township of Chat
ham. In the County of Morris and State of
New Jersey;
Beginning on the old roaduat a corner of
Doctor Henry p. Green's doOr-yard fence;
thence ~ southwest In line of Doctor Henry
p. Green's door yard fence and In line of Abra
ham Britton two hundred fee- to q stake in
the fence for q corner of this lot; thence CD
southeasterly in line of said Britton forty feet
to stake for a corner of late John N.
Kitchell's lot. now owned bv Ralph Schenck
two hundred feet to the south side of the old
Morristown road; thence "a northwesterly
along the south side of said old road forty feet
to the place of beginning, said to contain one
quarter of an acre of land be the same more
or less.
Being the same lot Of land described in a
deed from Andrew Riley and wife TO said
Thomas Walsh bearing date March 28, 1874.
Dated December 20. 1902.
ABRAHAM RYERSON,
Sheriff.
Chronicle and Eagle pf $7.20.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
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The Glass We Eat.

"How much glass do you suppose you
consume daily?" physician asked Of
one of his patients the other day, says
the Philadelphia Record, and then went
on, in response to the others interroga-
tive look: "It is fact that we all swai-
low each day more or less glass, the
manufacturers not yet having reached
the point where their product is imper-
vious to the action Of fluids. He who
drinks beer consumes the most glass.
A chemical analysis Of any bottled beer
inevitably reveals some of glass con-
stituents. But the water drinker. too,
swallows his share. In a carafe or in
glass pitcher have you never noticed
the odd line which marks the level that
the water has had? Well. that line
shows how the water has changed the
appearance of the glass slightly by abb
sorbing some Of its components. And
SO every day, when we drink beer or
water or milk, we consume little glass.
But it does us no harm. l have yet to
hear OF any disease that 1t has ever
caused"