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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

The sons of Mr.. j. J. Hunter,
who have been sick with typhoid
fever for six weeks, are consider
ed to be improving and will soon
be out again.
We have taken notice in par
ticular of the boys raised in this
section and especially in Grady
vile that they always come to the
front, sooner or later. The young
man that | have in mind is one
with whom | have had the pleas
ure OF drinking water out of the
same springs and sitting under
the shade of the old apple tree.
| knew too we'll that his lot some
day would be cast in fields of gold,
silver or copper. Robert your
many friends here were glad to
hear from you through the col
umns of The News. Write again.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

the people will be accepted in a
peaceful manner and the reforms
inaugurated under peaceful meth
DDS can not yet be determined,
but it looks like the very reverse
is coming. Revolt, disconnected
and excited public opinion pre-
vail in every province and lndl-
cate revolution even more
b loodier than France eX-
perienced in her transformation.
Russia and Japan faced each
other, as nations, struggling for
territory and the war was con-
Quoted on the great rules that
hold the victor responsible for
the treatment of the conquered,
but revolution in Russia n w
would not be so conducted. 1t is
to be hoped that peaceful, per-
manent settlement may be reach
ed establishing political and re-
ligious freedom and that the
world may be saved from the
direfulness of a bloody revolution.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08
YOSEMITE.

Barney Williams, who has a
paying position at Somerset, is at
home to remain till after the cleo
ton. This will be Barney's first
vote and he means to be on hands
when the time comes.
Mrs. ]. K. Coffey is exhibiting
a O. pound sweet potato raised in
her garden. It is of the old
fashioned Bermuda variety and
is a Cracker jack.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Sharp and
Miss Annie Sharp started this
Friday morning to visit friends
in Indiana. They will be absent
about five weeks.
Herbert Jones is assisting Mr..
D. A. Thomas in the bank at
Middleburg. Herbert don't 90
to Dunnville as often now as he
use to go.
The election is the most quiet
one / have ever seen. The Re-
publicans seem to be relying on
the big majority. and the Demo
Gratis are willing to let them drag
along with that idea.
The Fifth Sunday Missionary
meeting at Mckinney, on the 18th
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

The effects of strong drink, the
general appearance Of those I'M
der its influence and it's fearful
costs to honor and happiness,
ought to be such a striking OBJ
ject lesson to young men as to
forever array them against its
use even in it's most moderate
form. How unfortunate it is for
a useful man, and all honest men
are useful, to acquire a thirst for
whisky. How m ny bright
minds have been wrecked, happy
homes destroyed and vigorous use
fulness assassinated by the use of
whisky, no one can approximate? ?
Every part of our great country
faces this evil and every young
man must be exposed to it's fear
full consequences. Young man,
if you want to be useful, honor
able and reliable, pick for your
guidance the path that has nc
dram shops and no dram drinkers
near it. Don't trust yourself to
take the social drink. Every
drunkard started in this way and
no one purposely started to the
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

and 18th of October was a failure
as to attendance. These meet
ings have usually been most in
teresting, but from some cause
the meeting at Mckinney was
not attended as it should have
been.
A difficulty occurred at Kidd's
Store five miles North of this
place Saturday night, October,
18th, which resulted in the serious
wounding of Elvin Mays and
Claude Grubbs on one side, and
John Pemberton on the other. It
seems that there has been some
trouble between the parties be-
fore, and Mays and Grubbs are
said to be tough citizens, and
were under the influence of whis-
ky when they went to Pember-
toms house on the above date
and attacked him. Pemberton
happened to have his AK handy
and striking right and left soon
had both his antagonists on the
floor bleeding from ugly wounds
in the head and shoulders, while
he too, was bleeding from pistol
wounds in the breast and arm.
Warrants were sworn out Sun
day for the arrest of Mays and
Grubbs, but when Sheriff Elliott
went to arrest them, they had
been spirited away and could not
be found. DIR. P. S. Humphrey,
who dressed each of the men, :
says they are dangerously cut
and has some fears that they
will not recover. Mays and Grubbs
bear unenviable regulations
always drunk and in trouble of
some kind and it is remarkably
strange that they have not been
killed ere this time.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

drunkard's grave. You can be
sober and useful or participate in
the vices and be worthless and
miserable. No pen can picture
its woe and misery, no mind can
outline it's length and breadth of
destruction. 1t begins in a social
drink and ends in a tragedy.
Headaches, heart-aches, disap-
pointments, remorse, bankruptcy
misery and the loss of character
and credit are sure to come to the
man who give himself to drink.
Young man look at the sober man
andsthe drunkard and you will be
convinced.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

The student of history and the
lover of freedom are watching
Russian movements with more
interest than were manifested in
the great conflicts between that
nation and Japan while making
some of the bloodiest chapters in
the history of war. Russia is
now in trouble from which there
is no port of safety to seek ex-
cept the entire overthrow of Au-
tocratic administration. Whether
the concessions made by the Car
to grant a constitution and broad
en-, in many ways, the liberty of
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08
farmers report a good yield.

IoIlIiSIS ISpOIC a SOOU yl0Iu.
Quite number of children in
this community are afflicted with
throat trouble.
Leon Shuffit, w. S. Pickett and
M. Kemp were here Friday on
on business.
Mollie and Lee Flowers, stud
ents of the l.. W. 7. S., spent
Saturday and Sunday at home.
Rev 3. Wilson has closed a
series of meetings at Big Greek
church, which resulted in quite a
number of professions and the
church as we'll as the community
at large being revived.
Rev. Wright, pastor of the M.
E. church, North, arrived Friday
to take charge of his work. We
are glad to have him and his fam
ly in our to wn.
P. Mitchell and wife and Mrs.
Rilda Burlington, Of Edmonton,
visited here Saturday and Sun
day.
Phil Shirrell and family, who
have been residing in Indiana
for the past two years, have NOV
ed back to this community and,
we are glad to state, will locate
in our town.
Sam Thomas one of our best farm
erS, made a trip to Russell coun-
ty last week with a view of buy
ing a farm. We understand that
if the trade is made Mr.. Thomas
and his family will move there in
the near future.
Miss Clara Wilmore entertain
ed her pupils at the Wilmore
House last Saturday afternoon
with a candy breaking. It was
delightful to see the little folks
enjoy the occasion.
Gov. j. R. Hindman, who has
been with his sick brother, VIM.
Hindman, for several days,
dopped in to see us on his re-
turn home and informed us that
his brother was improving and in
a few days would be up again.
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G. T. Flowers was in Columbia
Friday.
Mrs. w. T. Grissom, of Bliss,
was the guest Of Mrs. w. M.
Wilmore Wednesday.
The wheat crop is looking fine
in this section.
Zed Akin and family, of Sparks
vile, visited at DR.. L. C.. Nell's
Saturday.
G. E. Nell spent Monday in
Edmonton on business.
Paul Wilson is now a student
of our school. The pupils are
glad to have him with them.
Corn gathering is moving along
nicely in this section and oul
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

Again Middlesboro's troubles
have been revived, and organized
armed resistance of the law seems
to hold away. The militia rid
died a blind tiger shack and two
of it's defenders are supposed to
have been wounded. 1t is report
ed that Shelby Ball, the main
leader of the gang, has been
wounded and taken refuge in
Lee county, Va, and that Frank
Ball has fled to parts unknown.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

1t is an old saying that the
price of liberty is eternal vigil
ance, but that is not really the
price, but only the means of
maintaining it. The price of
liberty is revolution with all Of it's
horrors and fearful costs.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

Blood poison creeps up towards the
heart, causing death. j. E. Stearns,
Belle PLANE, Mimi, writes that friend
dreadfully injured his hand, which
swelled up like blood poisoning. Buck
lens Arnica Salve drew out the poison,
healed the wound, and saved his life.
Best in the world for burns and sores.
25c at T. F. PaulPs drug store.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08

The large shoe factories have
advanced the price of shoes due,
they say, to a shortage of hides.
With the present low prices of all
grades of cattle it seems to us
that an unusual amount of skin
ing ought to be in progress.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-11-08
WE'D, NOV. s, 1905.

Louisville is just entering a
boom in building and several sky
scrapers will be built within the
next Is months.
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
MITCHELL WILL BE DEMO.
CRATIC.

For long time Mitchell county has
in fact it has given the biggest un-
varying Republican majorities and
Republicanism and mica have been
the chief products of the county. But
all that is going to be changed. An
era of industrial progress and rail-
road construction has at last reached
Mitchell county and in North Caro-
lima Progress and Democracy are one
and inseparable.
Yesterdays papers noted that Col.
Isaac H. Bailey, the former Demo-
cratic State Senator from Mitchell
county, and other progressive citizens
OF Bakersville had obtained a charter
for a bank to be established at the
capital of Mitchell county, and now
comes the news that Col. Bailey has
sold the timber on thirty thousand
pany for seventy-fve thousand dol
lars. The company has plenty OF
money and will erect lumber mills and
furniture factory. Mitchell is rich
in hard-woods especially adapted for
the manufacture or furniture and
when the railroad is completed the
sale of this hardwood will carry much
money to Mitchell county.
Democratic legislation has greatly
increased the school fund in Mitchell
county. With good schools and i'll
dustrial enterprise, Mitchell is going
to go forward in progress and be-
fore many years it will join hands
with the other progressive counties
in the State for Progress and Democ-
South
The news & observer., 1905-10-12

certain maxims about grey hairs and
wisdom. Only in the last few months
the world has seen such lighting by
grizzled veterans like Oyama and Togo
as to put the limit of the tactician
a good deal longer on the way than
the forty mile post. A prize fighter
may be an old man at forty, but the
brain that commands a great battle
stretching over a front OF a hundred
miles is not necessarily the weaker
because it has known the experiences
of man from pomatum to grandchil-
dren.
And, lastly, think of what the coun-
try would have been under the forty
year rule. If history has not played
us false indeed, Washington became
a father at a mature age. Think of
an orphaned United States and throw
theory to the winds!
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
SOME NEW OSLERISNI.

Brigadier General Constant Will
liams. in his report to the Wal De-
partment SO far makes himself dis
ciple of the Osler theory as to rec
ommend that in the future no man
should be allowed to be captain
in the army after the age of forty
wears. He bases his argument or the
hypothesis, presumably, that after thar
age men are incapable of hard CAM
paigns and perhaps apt to be over
cautious and inactive.
This is interesting as a freak and
more interesting in a general view of
what would have happened had the
world come some years ago to the Will
liams idea with regard to the age of
it's fighting men. What a difference
the plan would have made in the
songs, not to say the history, of the
world. Where would have been our
heroes? wellington would have been
nobody; Napoleon would have let
the world alone because nobody would
have given him a commission; Grant
and Lee would have had to make way
for some young bucks with half grown
nustaches True these men fought
nightly and it does not appear that
they ever became fatigued on their
strenuous campaigns to the point of
lying down to rest or going to the
corn doctor for repairs in the hour
of battle. But General Williams has
said it and there will thrill go
through the army. 1t is noticeable
also that the object of his attack is
captains. OF course the colonies
would be younger and the generals
younger and the retired list would
grow like a musquito colony. We
imagine that in the ranks of the Off
GERS, where each man is waiting fol
his fellow to die or be promoted or re-
tired, the rule would be popular
one. But when the country Is a
war, there is a feeling that it is {
mans game and we are not yet ole
enough to have entirely out-groWf
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
1T Is INVALUABLE.

Everybody in the South is now
thinking and talking about cotton, and
therefore the coming of Latham,
Alexander & Co.'S magnificent stand
ard book of reference, Cotton Move
ments and Instructions" is most well
come. 1t is elegantly gotten up, is
chock full of valuable statistics, and
an invaluable wade mecum in the
cotton world. The book this year is
handsomer than ever and is fuller OF
interesting and instructive articles and
prepared with great care aud can al
Ways be relied upon.
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
RALEIGH is THE PLACE.

What will President Roosevelt talk
about when he comes to the State Fair
I'm Raleigh next week? 1t has been
given out that he will make his plin-
cipal speech in Raleigh, and the pub
lie is on tip-toe to know what his
theme will be.
Some say he will talk on the rail-
road regulation bill, some think
Chinese. immigration will be the
theme, others predict that the Par
anna canal and Southern industrial
development will be the subject and
others that he will mainly concern
himself with a tribute to the North
Carolina valor as displayed in signal
ways in the early history of the Re-
public. The Biblical Recorder expects
him to speak his mind upon the dis
closures in the insurance investigation.
and thinks he will lose much of public
confidence unless he does so. 1t sug-
gests that Raleigh is the place to
make his deliverance.
No matter what his theme, he will
find that Raleigh is the place where
he can best make history by plain
and direct utterance upon great pend
ing questions.
The news & observer., 1905-10-12

errors. People in this country seem to
like eccentricity in their great men.
President Roosevelt is one of these
unbeatable characters in public lie.
He has taken the fancy of the aver
age voter, and the average voter ould
willingly allow him a margin of IS
per cent. of error in his public acts.
provided the error showed nothing
more than bad judgment or inpet-
uosity.
Another such man is William Ira
vers jerome, District Attorney OF Now
York city. He can get anything he
wants from the people of New York,
no matter what the general political
conditions; and the observer of events
will do we'll to consider this sugges
tion of Congressman Champ Clark's:
Watch Jerome and his smoke in
New York. He is likely to shoot past
Bryan, Folk and other men nearly as
prominent in the race for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination in
1908. II Jerome attends to his job
and attempts to send these insurance
men to prison he will go to the top
just as Cleveland did"
If Mr.. Jerome catches the insur-
ance grafters and lives and keeps his
health, We should not be at all sur
prised to see him become President.
Nominate him and he will win. \ 9TH
ing can stop him. But he will not
toady for the nomination. he will not
be prudent in his utterances, he will
not put the soft pedal on any of his
favOrite chords
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
WILL NOT STAND FOR GRAFT.

North Carolina will not stand for
graft. In all the testimony of the in
surance companies so far given it is
seen that only $3.50 has been paid to
a North Carolina lawyer, and that
was for advice at the time the Craig
act was changed as to insurance COM
panies. 1t will not permit North Caro-
lima legislators to be corrupted and it
will not be silent and see money paid
by its people to be squandered or used
for corruption funds.
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
BABY'S TERRIBLE SORE
EodV Raw With HumOr. Caused Untold
Agony. Doctor Did No Good.
Mother Discouraged.
CUTICURA CURED AT ONCE

"My child was very delicate baby.
A terrible sore and humor broke out
on his body, looking like raw flesh,
and causing the child untold agony.
NV physician prescribed various rem
edies. none of which helped at all.
I became discouraged aud took the
matter into my own hands, and tried
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment
with almost Immediate success. Be-
fore the second week had passed the
soreness was gone, not leaving a trace
of anything. Mrs. Jeanette II. Block,
28I Rosedale ST., Rochester, n. y"
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
OBJECT LESSONS OF STATE PROGRESS.

The State Fair is an annual index
of what the State is doing. The de-
scriptive word is used advisedly. In
the nature of things no fair is more
than partially representative. One
can hope to catch from exhibits but
an inkling of what lies behind. Great
matters take place. factories arise
that cover acres of ground: at the
Fair they are represented, but by a
space which fails in a way to indi-
cate their significance. This made
quacy is a necessary feature of all
fairs No matter how representative
the exhibits of the industries and the
activities of the people may be, there
is yet lacking the capacity for show
inglforth the broad fields of labor and
progress in colors that will bring
realization along with thought. Ex-
advantage of figures when placed be-
fore the eye. There are, for instance,
a million bales of cotton. The mind
does not grasp the fact, just as the
eye looking at the stars spread in the
heavens is unable by it's limitations of
perspective to measure the infinity Of
their distances. A fair is to give a
hint. to place endeavor in kaleidos-
copic effect. to point the way to ap-
probation. 1t cannot hope to show,
all there is; the best of it's ambition
is to show the way for search, TO
open the road to industry, TO indicate
possibilities.
These duties the State Fair has per-
formed with varying degrees of COM
pleteness for more than a. quarter of
century. Its value as an annual
event in the life of the State, as a
forgotten their own work in contem-
plation of that of their neighbors is
incalculable. 1t has been in detail
series of object lessons of oppor-
tunity 1t has gathered together the
salient points of progress and of in
dustry, it has shown achievements
and beckoned to greater things. Yet
as the State Fair has grown it has
spread until by the very comprehen-
siveness of it's aims it has become
difficult to perception. Amid the cla-
NOR of worthy things which could
not be left out, we have come to over
look many things that are worth
while The State Fair has out-grown
With this end in view the State
Fair Edition of the News and Obser-
YER has been prepared with much
labor for the purpose of to degree
filling this want 1t has been intend
ed to show the people of the East
what there was in the confines of the
West; to acquaint the truckers with
the making of furniture; to show
the manufacturers of timber the
wealth of the cotton fields; to let the
spinner know the value of the water
powers that lie almost at his doors.
These things are known vaguely OF
all men. When they are put down
succinctly in figures the appeal is one
that is more. insistent than general
knowledge. What the State Fair
Edition has sought to do has been to
give to North Carolinians picture of
The news & observer., 1905-10-12

President McCurdy says that insur-
ance companies are not established to
make money for policy-holders, but
are philanthropic institutions which
is ''in duty bound to spread itself,
even though this growth prevents him
from realizing as much as he ex-
pected." The spread itself as inter-
preted by McCurdy is to spread over
the whole McCurdy family and make
them rich at the expense of policy
holders
The news & observer., 1905-10-12

their State as it is, to show them the
land they have to work with, the peo-
pie they live among, the activities of
sections, the opportunities that are
only partially undeveloped or that
deserve an even greater notice than
they have received. So is State
made by diversity of labor, by utili-
zation Of resources, by a knowledge
of conditions and advantages that
tend to make home industry home
supplying OF such is the gospel of
material prosperity.
Edition misses in completeness in the
same way that the Fair itself misses
in exhibits. At the same time it IS
more concise One can look and
see. The articles therein are designed
to cover with more or less complete
Hess anu, III 50 Adl DIS lileS eAtehu'
with entire accuracy, a score or more
of the more important lines of bus-
ness which are contributing to the
new epoch of success upon which the
State has entered within the past two
decades. The paper is full of object
T1l0 tv,l II CDR nf he
growth of some separate industry lies
the narration of achievements of men
who wrought with scarcely more
than the capital of their manhood.
1t is a glorious story, the figures OF
these giant businesses made for the
most part by farmers boys from small
beginnings. In more than one sense
they are objects lessons, not only of
what the State affords, of what it is
capable of accomplishing today, but
of what stout hearts and brave may
accomplish tomorrow. Every dollar
which blesses North Carolina today
was made The wealth that we have.
which we are only now realizing that
we possess was the product of brains,
of sacrifice, of determination. The
great businesses which are set forth
in this edition were capitalized on the
of men who were deter
mined to succeed in spite of condit-
ions. They represent no unearned in
crement. From a people who were
poor have come the foundations of
riches. North Carolina is yet looked
upon as poor State. If there was
method Of estimating the net returns
of invested capital it would be seen
to be the richest of the epoch since
the war.
Taken as an illustration of this
truth, it is hoped that the State Fair
Edition may serve to show many men
their own destinies, the worth of
their own work in relation to the
State at large and that of their fell
lows in other lines; that it may
serve as encouragement to youth; that
it may show the world, anxious al
ways to help those who help them
selves, that in a section of what is
really and truly Goods Country
there is a people yet untainted by the
of excess, modest and
yet confident, in whose manhood, sta
bility of purpose and sober conscious
ness Of responsibility, exist the great
est return for capital that the world
has known.
The news & observer., 1905-10-12
CREATES NO ANTAGONIST.

1t passes our comprehension how
seeing THE Clansman" could create
any repulsion against the negro or
kindly feelings toward the faithful old
negro and revulsion against the par
ticular negro brute, but no antagon-
ism whatever to the negro as a negro.
Sensible men entertain kind feelings
toward all good negroes and determi-
nation to repress the other kind, and
the bad ones are few in comparison
with the many entitled to good
nnininn-