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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

The fls.h annual tobacco fair at
Maysville was largely attended by
tobacco men from Kentucky, Ohio
and Virginia. Samples OF extra
fine tobacco were sold at auction
and brought amazingly high
prices.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26
Notice of Dissolution.

The merchantile firm OF Thomp-
son & O'Neal, Of Busseyville, KY,
has mutually dissolved. Z. s.
Thompson assumes any indebted
ness that may he against the firm,
and all accounts due the firm are
to be paid to him.
G. S. Thompson.
W. ID. O'Neal,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

chased an organ. 4, Reub Well.
man Is on the sick list =. John W
Ratclif, aged about sixty, died al
the home OF his son at TorchlIght
Of lung fever, after an Illness o
five days. Died, the 2lst, Glau
Gus II. York, age SO, OF heart
trouble. The funeral service
was conducted by Rev. Miller, and
the remains laid 10 rest in the See
grave yard. Wandering Joe
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

The first land skirmish of the
Russc-Japanese War has taken
place on Korean territory, a picket
of cossarks attacking and captur-
ing five J ,panese soldies, an officer
and two civilians.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

The negro, who assaulted Mrs,
Alice Shields in Roanoke, Va, a
few days ago is TO be hanged on
March, Is, 1904. The prisoner was
tried with 7oe soldiers guarding
him to prevent lynching.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

Gov Beckham has approved and
signed the bill originated in the
House of Representatives appro.
priatlng annually $4,000 for the
extension and continuation Of the
work of the Kentucky Children's
Home Society.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26
RATcLIFF.

All work ~ Mt . stand still on account
Of The severe winter weather q, B.
Belcher received oar load Of corn
Saturday, which greatly relieves the
situation here in regard TO the feed
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

senaioyn. II. dargls has filed
~ asafhst hls brother, Judge
James hargls, at Jackson, for A
dissolution =. OF the ilrm OF HareIs
brothers, alleging incompatIbIlIiy
OF temper and failure to agroe
upon settlement. The amount
involved la estimated at $4,000.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

The viii of the late Senator
Hanna leaves to the family an
estate valued at 100000. There
were no public bequests.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26
kINNER.

Nathaniel Curnutte age q
and Miss Georgia Buskirk II, were
united In marriage Sunday Feb.
2lst at Rev. Mlller's home. The
bride is the charming daughter Of
George Buski.k OF near lIubbards.
town, W. Va. The groom Is an
esiimable young man OF KInner
and is well liked by all who know
him. Thor friends wish them
many happy days and success
through life. NJ.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26
Democratic Ticket.

Eight companies oithe third inian-
Try, stationed at Fort Thomas,
KY, have been ordered to Panama
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26
OSIE.

Some of our hustling farmers have
begun preparing their best land for
cultivation Several boys FROM else
where were prosecuted at this place on
last Saturday for disturbing church.
Most of them were fined. We hope
this very disgusting conduct is at an
end but if not, we want them to re-
ceive the law to its fullest extent. -.
Guss Dean contemplates visit to the
mines in the near future. !. Linzy Jobe
will soon leave for Seattle, Washington,
where he will accept position with
his uncle, Albert Meede Mr.. Meede
wos formerly State Senator, of w. Va.
:. Miss Lizzie Jobe will soon visit in
Louisville >. Mrs. Sam Rose entertain
ed several of the young folks few
days ago 1t is said we are to have
Sunday school organized at this place
soon. Let us hear from Sunny Side
again. Hannah"
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1904-02-26

We have lots Of rain and snow put 1t
will soon be time for farmers to hustle.
JEFF Spillman and little son passed
down our creek Monday Dave
Kitchen and George Carter passed here
Sunday WIN. Cater, who has been
visiting relatives here for the past two
months will soon leave for her home in
county Virgie Large called on Cleva
Carter Sunday b. f. Carter visited
his daughter Viva Holbrook Monday.
Mamie Large has been visiting
relatives on Blaine Ora Prince call
ed at d. II. Taylor's Tuesday .. Our
constable, q. G. Wellman, has made
several arrests in the past month j.
Squire Hughes made a flying trip to
Louisa Monday Wavie and Stella
Chafiin passed down our creek Monday
We are glad TO say Leota Wellman
is improving -, Ella Carter win soon
leave for Carter county Valentine.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
AT THE THEATERS
Bijou-"The stain of Guilt"


Maybe there. is nothing doing this
week at the Bijou! THE Stain of Guilt
is the bill and the atmosphere .reeks with
thegultra -melodramatic. = ~ - - a." ~
IF any police station can boast of d more
miscellaneous collection Of weapons. it
must be that the community in which it
is situated Is ''bad town." The minor
climaxes punctuate the action with such
frequency that it would require a sta
tistician to enumerate them. A gun is
pulled here and a knife flashed there, un-
til one wonders whether 1t Is not '49 again.
1.-THE Stain of Guilt" is of the Johnny
on-the-spot' type.
There is villainous italian who triesz to
stab nearly every one IN sight. Of course,
someone else looms up at the critical mo-
ment and, if strong enough, hurls him
across the stage. If 1t is a girl or a, news
boy, the opportunity is seized to make a
gun-play. The other characters are just
as stereotyped. V
So far as the playing is concerned, there
might as well be bunch Of talking auto
nations moving thru a mediocre story,
guided by strings controlled from behind
the scenes. A bona flde negro shouts the
real thing in coon songs and makes fun in
an Indifferent manner The soubrette,
Matte Lockette, dances we'll and acts ac-
ceptably. F. H. Manning.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
How Commerce Rules.

Red clothing has gone out of style
along the lines of the Pennsylvania
road. The company has decreed that
no woman wearing red dress will
be allowed on the tracks. She who
appears SO appareled will be arrested
and. punished as a trespasser. Red
shirts are forbidden to the track
walkers and section hands and like
wise red neckties and handkerchiefs.
Thus does one more of the Liberties
Of the employee disappear before the
necessities of industrial progress.
Many times has an engineer on the
Pennsylvania seen a flash of red
ahead, put on the air brakes, "slid''
the train and blistered the rails only
to find that the cause Of his alarm
was an inoffensive Italian woman pick
ing up coal along the track. Her skirt
Of beloved red had seemed to the en-
gineer in his bounding cab to be a
wildly waving symbol of danger. In
similar manner f1orid1y arrayed track
men have stopped thru trains whose
engineers are greedy Of every second.
So, red must go on the Pennsyl-
vania. No thought is taken Of the
humble pleasure Of the coal pickers
and the employees in cheerful red
This luxury will henceforth be denied
to the unfortunates who are in any
| way under the control Of the Pennsyl-
| vania. Commerce rules the world
and all must bow to it's imperial
mandates.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11

Where does the Pioneer Press find war
rant for it's statement that 1.-The universal
experience has been that the elective
board in general and the elective school
board in particular is a nest Of corrup-
ton, bribery and spoils in politics? We
have an elective board in Minneapolis,
which is probably as free, at the present
time at least from corruption, bribery and
spoils as any department of any city
government in the United States. Not
all the acts Of this board meet with pop
ular approval, but the character Of the
men who compose it is such that corrup-
tion, and jobbery are never insinuated
with regard to their management Of school
affairs The Pioneer Press is led to this
extravagant statement by trying to make
strong argument against the policy IA
vored in the recent Chicago election
where, on referendum vote, the wisdom
of having the school board elective or ap-
pointive, was decided in favor Of the ap-
pointive method by vote of 115,OO0 tc
$4,000. Possibly an appointive board may
4 as rule, produce better results but the
fact that ST. Paul has had some sad ex-
perience with elective. boards does not
| justify the extravagant language INDUCED
4
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Spiral Arithmetic.

To the Editor Of The Journal.
Many persons in this city will remem-
ber the time, about twenty years ago,
when it was considered necessary and
best for teachers of intermediate and pri-
mary grades to dispense with the use of
any textbook whatever in the teaching Of
arithmetic. A grievous burden was thus
imposed upon these teachers thru the
preparation Of daily lessons and the placing
of the same upon the blackboard Pupils.
too, were obliged to copy these lessons
from the board, and much time was wasted
by all concerned. Hence the fashion
passed, and arithmetics were again adj
mitted to lower grades. .tsa $
From no text at all to one that simplif1es
and. rationalizes5 every detail Of school
arithmetic to the final degree of possible
perfection, is the distance measured by
modern school methods in twenty years.
This has been a far cry, and still COM
plants ascend as to results
have had two children in the grades
Of our city schools for the past eight
years, and am thoroIy familiar with the
|arithmetics used No teacher who fails
with these books could possibly succeed
with any other; for they are unsurpassed.
In this opinion am indorsed by the most
prominent educators of the state; hence.
wherever the fault may lief fault there
be at all-it certainly is not the arithmetics
themselves.
The truth about these books is that
the teacher may do spiral, work or not
as she pIeases. If she wishes TO study
fractions alone for a month, she has but
| to use the pages given to fractions; II
compound numbers needs more attention,
she has but to follow those pages in turn
The spiral, or rotary system is one of con-
slant reviews and should give the best re-
u. IS. r.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11

The Warren Sheaf conveys the follow
ing information:
Z P. A. Gunders, former assistant bank ex-
aminer, has been in Warren, and made no bones
of saying that any one who would actively take
hold Of the Dunn campaign would be furnished
with the sinews Of war. He said Dunn wanted
Marshall county, and going to have 1t,
but acknowledged that, as 1t now stands the
county Is strongly for Collins So far as learned,
no one was secured to take charge of the county.
and such man may have to be imported. When
Dunn can put money and time into a Collins
stronghold, 1t shows that he is making the fight
of his life, recognizing that he has lots of work
to do.
Since returning from the northern part
Of the state, Mr.. Gunders has been at
work in the state auditors office, prepar-;
ing some ammunition for the campaign.
He is a versatile individual.
The Collins advisory committee for
Hennepin county has called a meeting for
this evening, at which practically every
precinct in the city and county will be
represented. 1t will be the first meeting
of the organiza ton that is being worked
up to look after the judges interests in
Hennepin. The meeting will be held at
Columbus hall on Nicollet avenue, be-
tween Third and Fourth streets. ~
shown at the last distribution Of cam
paign funds from the Dunn headquarters
in Hennepin county, according to the re-
ports that are leaking out While some
workers are said to have received as high
as 5000 for the good of the cause, others
who work just as hard and need the
money just as badly, were put off with
smaller amounts. -
The Glencoe Register tells Of some
Murray county farmers who were talking
politics recently, and expressing a prefer
ence for Dunn but" said one of them,
Il am afraid he will not be nominated.
The great money power back of Collins
campaign will not allow us common peo-
pie to show our preference"
| Who has been "stringing'' those Murray
county farmers, anyway? Or were they
just "stringing'' the editor of the Register,
who has been touring that section of the
state for Dunn? ... III.
| The ninth district may, furnish "a third
| candidate for railroad and warehouse
commissioner, to contest with Judge Mills
and Ezra Valentine. e. j. Herringer, the
well-known auditor of Norman county
and first alternate at-large to the ma.
| tional convention, is being talked of by
his numerous friends. He has not made
any decision, but If he should enter the
race he would make trouble for some Of
| the present aSp1rants. ---.. +.
The Browns Valley Interlake Tribune
| inquiries:
Is it really fact that the Dunn people are
encouraging dark horse movement with Secre
tary Randall the central figure? Such
move should be regarded with suspicion even BY
| the friends Of Randall. The seventh distric
| already has enough candidates for state posi-
| tions--all able and worthy-without having an.
| new ones to consider
The Long Prairie Leader gives this in
| formation:
Hearst sentiment is being very quietly WORKED
| up locally, and. from present indications, Tod
| will send solid delegation to the state con
vention for the millionaire New Yorker.
Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
From City to Farm.

Professor B. T. Galloway, chief Of
the plant industry bureau Of the de-
partment of agriculture, predicts that
boys from the big cities. He calls
attention to the fact that the move
ment Of the. boys and young men from
country to city has been stopping, and
that the tendency now is from the
city to the country.
Professor Galloway is a great be-
lever in the possibilities of scientific
farming. He knows a score Of ways
in which old farms which are worth
less when worked according to old
time-worn wethods, may be made
veritable gold mines by the applica-
ton of a little sense and industry. He
has made actual experiments in a
number Of cases in the vicinity OF
Washington and can point to farms
which few years ago could be bought
for the taxes or a little more, and
which now are worth small fortunes
and are yielding all the way from
$4,000 to $4,000 a year. These op-
portunities, Professor Galloway thinks
will be appreciated more and more by
young men who find it hard to get on
in the big cities, and they will &C
east and take up farms. 7s'' 4"
It would be a strange thing, indeed
If it should come to pass that young
expert farmers from the west,; where
the best methods in agriculture are
being developed, should go east to ap-
ply them to the abandoned farms Of
New England and Virginia and reclaim
those now barren acres to profitable
husbandry.s .... ..,-...-. .....
AS for the movement of city boys tt
the country Of which Professor Gal
loway speaks, we have examples O.
that tendency in our own state. There
has been such a pressure for accom-
modations in the classr ooms Of thu
school Of agriculture at ST. Anthon!
Park from the cities of Minneapolis
and st. Paul that they have beer
obliged at that institution, in justice
to the real farmers, boys and girl
| for whom the school was established
to deny to any applicant the privilege
Of enrolment as a pupil who has no
resided at least six months on a farm
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
MONDAY EVENING,

that way. True. but unless it is estab-
lished beyond question that the spiral
method is good what justification is there
for the use Of a textbook constructed on
that plan? And It is by no means proven,
at least not to the satisfaction Of all .of
us, that the Spiral method is the best.
Experiments in educational methods are
necessary, of course, If there is to be any
progress, but experimentation should be
indulged in outside Of the professional
schools to very limited degree. It is
sometimes hard on the subject.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
Lyceum-"The Merchant of VenIce."

After a legitimate actor has been seen
in many roles more or less unfortunate;;
after he has played the many parts which
a stock theater imposes without too much.
regard for the tastes and abilities Of the
actor, it is a fine thing to see him come,
for the moment into his own as does Ben
Johnson at the Lyceun this week.
An actor Of good schooling and great,
ambitions who has long made con-.
scientious study Of Shakspere and has
much experience in Shaksperean roles, Mr.:
Johnson brings to the part Of Shylock a.
love for the work and an ability for ex-.
preston which is as gratifying as it is un-:
usual There have appeared on other
stages Of the city players Of legitimate
roles who are, in many respects, not Mr..
Johnson's peers.
The other members Of the Ferris COM
pany naturally suffer by comparison with
Mr.. Johnson. but Cecil Owen deserves COM
mendation for his Prince of Morocco, and
Charles G. Burnham and Joseph Totten
| are decidedly successful as Old Gobbo and
Launcelot Gobbo. Grace Hayward makes
an attractive Portia and is better cast in
| that part than in anything she has re-
! Gently done. Mr.. Murdoch does not rise
| to the occasion as the Merchant and Mr..
| Johnson's line: why look you, how you
STORM! does not find it's excuse in Mr..
Murdoch's acting.
| Most of the others in the cast are ac-
ceptable, altho some of the talent in the
minor roles IS strongly suggestive of the
/ amateur stage The scenery is excellent
and with the exception of the incidental
music, which consists of Bowery ballads
| the performance is worthy of the support
which it received from the audience last
! night. Earl c. May.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
ToIstoy's RerlaIous and philosophical.
Views Set FortF In Book of Essays
by Aytmer Maude,s a Personal Friend and
Close Student OF the Great Russian
New Book by Alfred Russell Wallace
Promised. 81. sseks..t. t.a - sE I

: 3 - |s !. Il rs ~.
Aylmer Maude's personal acquaintance
with Leo Tolstoy and his long study of
the man and his writings make his book
OF ESSAYS about To1stoy one of peculiar
value. Mr.. Maude himself states the sub
stance and purpose Of his book thus;
Each essay in this volume expresses, in one
form OF other, Tolstoy's view of life; and the
man OBJECT of the book is not to praise his
yleWs but to explain them. His positions not
being fnal revelation of the truth attainable by
man, may and should be subjected to criticism
and to denomination from other, points of view.
But necessary preliminary TO profitable criti-
clsm Is comprehension; and this necessary pre-
lmlnary having heretofore. ins relation to Toll
my first aim is clearly and simply to restate
certaln fundamental principles with which he
has dealt Seven of the essays deal directly
with Tolstoy and his writings, the other three
utlHze MS teaching more indirectly, k
& Without question: Mr., Maude has done
English readers Of .To1stoy a very great
service in giving them the benefit Of his
long study Of the great Russian, who, ac-
cording to the ordinary standards of life,
had the problem of what to do solved, but
who turned aside from the enjoyments of
fame and fortune to go in search Of an
answer to the question, What is the
meaning of life?" to go in search of it
among the peasants, be directed by them
to the Christ and there find that
on which to rest his beliefs. In
Christ's teachings Tolstoy finds five COM
nandraents, which, he says, will, If fol-
lowed, alter the whole course of mems
lives for the better. These command
ments are summarized in one Of Mr..
Maude's essays thus: -
Do not be angry. ~
Do not lust. %
Do not bind yourself with oaths.
Resist not him that Is evil
be good to the just and the unjust.
| In view Of the approaching publication
| of an edition Of To1stoy$ by the publishers
Of the volume in hand (Funk & -Wag-
nalls), the book with its extreme lucidity
and its purpose, as stated above, excellent
/ ly carried out, is very timely. =
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11
Peaceful Britain.

It Is cabled from London that, on
the initiative Of King Edward, Lord
Lansdowne, the British secretary for
foreign affairs, has informed the Rus
sian ambassador to Great Britain that
his government would be happy to
open negotiations for a settlement Of
all differences between the two gov
ernments.
This is an unusual proceeding for
the British government which, during
the greater part of century has an
tagonized every movement of the rival
Asiatic power toward the farther east,
and has been near physical conflict to
prevent Russia from acquiring con-
4 Sfol of Constantinople and the outlet
to the Mediterranean, from pushing
down to the Persian gulf and getting
leverage on India, and from push
ing her southern Asiatic boundary too
close to the Himalayas and India.
AS to this English proposal for a
composition Of differences with Rus
sia, it is limited that England will let
Russia come down to the head of the
Persian gulf with her railway tracks,
and will consent to the naturalization
of the outlet from the Black sea to
the Mediterranean, but, as Lord Lans-
downe has offered to begin negotia-
tions without indicating any definite
basis, and Russia has not yet accepted
the offer, the business is still sus-
pended in the. air. Russian Panslav-
ism which usually has control in Rus
sia, and is no friend of peace, is not
likely to consider any modus vivendi
which does not give Russia three
fourths of the loaf.
Britain meantime, Is fully consen-
tient to the persistent progress OF
Colonel Younghusband's armed expe-
dition In Tibet to the grand lama's
capital Lhasa, the sacred, to bully the
government into trade concessions
with the ulterior purpose of absorbing
dreary Tibet and securing tscien.
tiflc frontier. for India The late Lore
Beaconsfield died without finding the
scientific frontier for India he hat
sought, but he left Afghanistan NOR,
Of buffer state, as against Russian
invasion of India than it had been
Russia has been avowedly seeking
scientific frontier in Asia, and is nov
engaged in trying to locate, it on th
shores of the Pacific ocean. 4s..
This is the reason Great Britain
unbends her dignity and seeks to pre-
sent to the world the spectacle of tn
Lion and the Bear in loving co-opera
ton for the peace of the world. Ye
it will not do to be very ,sanguin
about this peace mirage projected o.
the face of the sky. Mirages soon dis
solve in unsubstantial mist.
The Minneapolis journal., 1904-04-11

Alfred Russel Wallace the author Iof -"Man's
Place in the Universe" tho 81 years old, Is
still in undiinintsheq health andE with andimih-
snesy Me- Wasss pas aFsasy
typewriters and secretaries His. books are in
his own handwriting, which sis' very clear and
firm, and shows no evidence Of the eighty lone
years behind the hand that pens it,
At the. risk and against the desire of
encouraging the practice of submitting
verses to The Uneasy Chair that piece Of
office furniture submits below 'Scarin'
Ma, ''@by w. S. Levings.s The chair warns
all persons Of poetic aspirations that this
establishes no precedent, but is only lone
of those exceptions that proves the rule
that the chair does not consider the av-
erage versifiers work, which has not
found place in a book as belonging ur-
der the head News: of the Book World.''
Here are MIR. Levings lines which seem to
us to have caught with a considerable
measure of success the. child spirit
~, IS scARIN' MA.
.Onet /; scared ma turrible; = Jt
Purity nigh tin she cried I guess. .s
She uz heDpin' us undress an =;
Went in next room SOS me i J..
An sister May can't see t all, nearly,
An men, when she came back,
uz rite hind th' door an -. ~ o..
Jumps up quick an hollers -,-
'.Boo," ist like that, did,
An nen ma says CON- an nen-
"Hoos at awful loud she did; yes stree.
An nen I laffs an says .t7
''Its list mel
W. s. Levings Minneapolis.
The Harpers will publish, on April IA, j. J.
Bells new book relating the "Later Adventures
Of Wee Macgreegor' the little Scottish urchir
last year.
s,-.s. The Uneasy Chair.