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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
c. ". Cruteher.
Central City. W. Va
FARM FOR SALE.

llO acres. in good state Of Guilt
walton. well fenced. 90 acres N grass
and young orchard OF rs apple trees
and 500 peach trees. Never-failing
water on the place. Postotfice. store,
mill. school and church house about
mile distant 3 coal veins Good
oeiled log house. with box addition
Good barn. 10 miles west OF Louisa
on public read For price. call on
Joe Webb. Trad. Ky. or 81 +. Con-
ley. Louisa. Ky.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
Sale.

am going to move to Palntsve and in order to get money to pay
debts of moving offer entire stock of Cen
things
give a prices
Good Saddles for ss45 Shoes
Misses Shoes low Sc and sllO choice of about IS Mems
Fancy Mems Fd
each ss5 Pants
Bbbed oas &c Boy Knee Pants worth
Boy Heavy
paper
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
Bring In Your Wheat.

The Big Sandy Milling compaHs
plant At Louisa Is in fine running
order and producing the best resrlss
very competent miller Is In charge
Farmers are urEed to bring IN sheh
wheat and have It made into flor
The best Of treatment guaranteed
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

Don't feed heIfers that are intend
ed for the dairy large quantities OF
fat producing foods. but an abundance
of good hay and q limited supply OF
oats and corn. for the habit OF lay
ing on flesh in calfhOOd Is liable
to follow her TO motherhood. and
lead her to placing the results OF
heavy feeding on her back instead
Of In the milk pail
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
A SIGNIFICANT PRAYER

May the Lord help you make
Bucklen's Arnica Salve known to all,
writes ]. C. Jenkins. OF Chapel Hill
n. C. 1t quickly took the pain out
Of a felon for me and cured it in a
wonderfully short time Best on
earth for sores. burns and wounds
sc. at A. NJ. Hughes drug store.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

Let the barnyard manure for the
garden be well rotted If it is desired
TO cultivate 1t into the soil early in
the spring; but. II coarse. green ma
nure has to be used. scatter broad
cast during the winter and rake up
or mulch part Of It before plants are
set in spring. OF course this applies
TO ground that has been plowed the
past fall.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

During the winter many farmers
will often permit their horses to run
down in flesh and be in bad condi-
ton to do the early spring work,
when this could easily be prevented
by giving them the proper care and
attention.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
Voice from the wild.

johnnie on his nrst visit TO hia
grandparents. Who live In the country.
communicated with his anxious fam.
~ a. tollova; Dear Nal an veil
AID hope you are Your hysaE asa~-
lohn
'li you want something roo. -,
. red cabbage and 60 y raw.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
Farm News.

A good many farmers leave the
small potatoes right on the ground
at digging time. where they will waste
and be lost. They would get far more
good out of them by picking them
up and boiling them for the hogs.
Hens Ike them too, first-rate.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
REMEMBER THIS SALE BEGINS =
Friday, December 20, 1907.
5 SALE BEGINS

Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Collars
Bankess Shoes Tnware Looking Rope
Stock Powders suspnders
Gloves Groceries Hars HOSIERY Nails and Hinges All kinds
Toys. Notions &C
Sch PTo111s
only
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

Fifty fowls are enough to keep in
one house and yard, and II you keep
your flock all together you are more
likely have trouble with disease than
Il; you divide them into small flocks
You can know your individuals better
this way. and when disease breaks
out the sick fowls can be quickly dis
covered and removed.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

The farmers wives and daughters Il
Missouri received more than $4O.-
100000 for their chickens and eggs
last year. This is more than the to-
tai receipts from the surplus wheat
crop OF the State
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

Practice; Eye. Ear. Nose and Throat
office Thomas Block. 10th Street
In Office Monday. Wednesday,
Friday and Sunday forenoon.
ASHLAND, KENTUCKY
At catlettsburg the rest OF the
week and Sunday afternoon.
] have furnished rooms at Catletts
burg now for patients who have to re-
main for treatment or operation.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

A balanced ration is an allowance
of food which is so mixed and pro-
portioned as to produce the max
imum of food value and the mini
mum Of waste
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

The wise farmer must understand
that hogs which are one Of the most
profitable products Of the farm, should
not be glutted on corn worth 50c
a busaeL Try carrots. peas. town
Stops and the like
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
FOR SALE OR TRADE

A gray mare for a fresh mich COW.
D. NJ. Jones. Louisa. Ky. Two miles
out on Lick Creek n
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

Crops do not depend so much upon
the kind of soil on the farm as they
do upon the kind of man that is on
the farm.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

of the harmless qualities by dropping
peeled white onion into the sauce
pan, which turned black il any dis
onous fungi were present
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

The Presidential Election II ap.
Troachlng. Times have changed
That IL all. Mr.. wstterson II Z
Democrat. and has always been .
Democrat. never . Republican.
Es-ehtiAl differences out OF the
way. Democrats are getting To-
gethtr The courier Journal Il goin.
20 srpb<rt the ticket And there you
have H."
Send your order for this eombinA
tor to us-not 10 the Courier Jour
nal The regular price OF the Week,
~ courier Journal alone Il 81 q
year
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20
For Sale.

Two houses and lots in Central
Addition. $3.50 each. One house and
lot In lower Louisa. near the rail-
road, $500. Ny residence on Lock
avenue $500. Do not waste your
time IN writing or coming to see me
II you are not willing TO pay these
prices.
c. n. cruteher.
Il. Central City. W. Va
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-12-20

Bring me your butter and eggs. W
N. Sullivan
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price; maybe it gives picture of the
article also, but you don't see the
goods. The local merchant shows you
the goods; you may examine them
critically; he may allow you to test
them or to call in an expert to advise
you. Is it fair to conclude that the
catalogue article is the cheaper just
because the price is lower?
An element that must enter into the
comparison of goods and prices is.
that in any attempt to fool the Gus
toner, the local merchant is decided
y at disadvantage. He must show
he goods, not merely describe them.
His business depends wholly upon the
limited trading area of his town and
his ability to inspire confidence within
that circle. He cannot afford to make
practice Of misrepresenting his
goods.
The mail order house is not so tied
down to the maxim that Honesty is
the best policy" 1t has no neighbors.
no fellow citizens, no mutual interests
with its patrons. Its trade area is
these conditions do not demand extra
ordinary vigilance in supplying hon.
eSt-made goods. And where Vigilance
is not a needed employe in the busi-
ness he is generally taken of the pav
roll. which makes a saving in expense.
as we'll as in the cost of the goods. If
lower prices are quoted by the cata-
logue house. may not this account for
it?
VIII 1t pay?" Is it a matter of
economy to buy inferior and damaged
goods when the same money. or even
little more. will pay for goods of the
best quality? Which course does a
mans first duty to his own household
dictate?
But to get at the bottom of that
question, we must consider the far
reaching general effect of mail order
trading. II single catalogue houses
are to be capitalized at $40 600 600
they must be reckoned with along
with Standard Oil, the beef trust and
raiiroad mergers. If they are allowed
to suck the blod from our country
towns. your grandchildren will find
conditions much the same as those Of
your grandfather's time. Their mar.
kets will be- 80. so or rs miles avay.
The towns and villages will be de-
serted. and the hubs" will be too dis
tant to send the radiating spokes of
rural mail. telephone lines and other
modern conveniences far into the
country.
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to hold the family. There is a finer
side to life that appeals to ones bet.
ter nature, and this can only be salts
fled by careful blending of the artis-
tic with the utilitarian.
A house may not be any more con-
venient because it has vine Chamber
ing over the porch columns, playing
hide-and-seek among the spindles and
brackets, but it is more comfortable
because 1t looks better and. appear
ance helps to engender love of home.
Vines and flowers In this way add an
Intangible asset that cannot be meas
ured in dollars.
have known families to fix up an
old house without putting much ex-
pense on it so that it looked a great
deal better than other pieces of prop
erty in the neighborhood that were
much more pretentious. An. air of re-
fnement may be given to a house by
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OF interest in advising vines that are
most suitable for the exposure, eli
mate and soil There are some kinds
of hardy ivys and other climbers that
will creep up a brick or stone wall;
the same vines would have to be sup
ported on wooden house, and then
they would prove Disappointing Even
the trumpet vine fails to climb up
boards. but it will attach itself very
firmly to a barn or outbuilding that is
boarded up and down.
The architect can furnish the plans
for house and the carpenter, plum
bers and painters can leave it in a fit
condition to live in, but only the own
er and members of the family can
transmogrify the empty house and
brlckyard grounds into a home. The
word home" means a great deal when
we make the most of it. Unfortunate
ly, through lack of early education,
too many people fail to realize it's full
significance. 1t is not the value of
house or the amount of money laid out
in the furnishing that makes 1t COM
Portable. Some very expensive estab-
lishments are unsatisfactory and some
cheap houses may be counted among
the most homeiike. -.s's =
Here is a little stery.and-a-half
house. Is feet six inches wide by Al
feet six inches long, that may be built
for 81 800 or $4,000 that, in the hands
of intelligent, kindly disposed persons.
NAV be made a inOdel homo II 4, ;,,%
the Kind Of house to settle down in
for the balance Of your days with the
expectation Of enjoying: life.
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TWO BIG QUESTIONS
THE "MORAC OBLIGATION" AND
"DoES 1T PAY?"
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
An Honest Answer to These VIII
Keep the Trade with the
Home Merchant Every
Time

copyrighted. 1906. by Alfred c. Clark)
When the thrifty person or his wife
"sits down for the first time-or any
.time-with the mail order catalogue
and its temptations, there are two
and only two, points to be taken into
consideration
One of these is moral obligation.
and the chances are that that will be
dismissed as sentimental nonsense.
The other is-Will it pay? and to
THAT the thrifty person will be in
>clined to interpret aneanswer from the
prices quoted in blacK-faced figures in
the catalogue.
Neither of these questions should
be lightly dismissed Moral obliga-
tion IS not sentimental nonsense. and
black-faced figures sometimes lie.
= The duty q man owes to his own
community and his obligation to trade
\ at home are so often reiterated in the
e country press that, possibly like some
OF the preaching, it has a tendency
to harden the hearts of the sinners.
What has your neighboring town
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Mr. William A: Radford will answer
HS aGesnons and give advice FREE OF
CQsI on an subjects pertaining TO the
paper. On account of his wide expe-
rience as Editor. Author and Manufac-
turer. he is. without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all inquiries to William A. Radford No
1874 Fifth Ave. Chicago. H.. and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
A story-and a-half house, with seven
rooms and good sized unfinished at
tic for storeroom and tor clothes lines
in winter is given in this plan There
is just as much floor space upstairs
in this house as there is downstairs,
but there is not so much head room
because of the low roof near the
caves.
There are four bedrooms, the one
downstairs, however, may be made
into very cozy library if it is not
needed for sleeping purposes. But
find there are good many old-fash-
ioned folks who like to have a bed
room downstairs. In some cases the
old folks have been accustomed to
sleeping on the ground floor in the old
house and they won't change, or it
may be because of some infirmity
member of the family may not want to
| climb the stairs. In such cases this
downstairs bedroom will come in very
handy.
When there is bedroom downstairs
there should be a bathroom within
easy reach. In this plan the bathroom
opens off from the kitchen in the fur
thest corner, where it is much out of
the way as possible, but where it is
convenient. This arrangement is liked
on farms. The younger folks may run
up and down stairs easily, but the old
folks like to be made as comfortable
as possible on the lower floor They
have worked hard to supply comforts
and conveniences for the whole family
and now begin to feel that it is their
turn.
In this house the kitchen and dining
room are the two best rooms and the
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15
A Fish Story.

Trout protection, Nonsense" said
a gunner of local eminence Trout
are amply able to protect themselves.
Look at their depredations among
ducks for example, and you will agree
with me that it's the birds that need
protection. It's common thing for
trout to jump from the water, seize
duck by the neck. drag the unfortunate
fowl into the depths sufficiently to
leave its feet sticking in the air. where
1t can get no purchase upon the uni
verse, and thus drown it. Then the
trout picks the feathers from the bird,
eats 1t at it's leisure and swims away
out of the jurisdiction of the courts.
Are there any fishermen? None? Too
bad. This would be match for one
of their fish stories"
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household, and that among the duties
to his family and to the heirs Of his
estate Is that OF practicing judicious
economy-buying where he can buy
the cheapest and to the best adVan-
tage. And this brings US to the Sec
ond point in the argument-the para
mount question in this commercial
age-"WilI it pay?"
BY most people an affirmative an
swer to that question is accepted as
the call of duty. AS matter of fact,
viii it pay?" is good test to apply
to any project or proposition. There
are commercial. as well as political,
demagogues, and the man who is ap-
pealed to on the score of patriotism
or profit, duty or dollars. can scarcely
do better than to sit down by himself
and submit that question-"Will it
pay "'-to his own best judgment
Proyided always, that he goes to the
very bottom of it.
What are the relative advantages of
buying at the local store and ordering
from catalogue house? Advantages,
uhuCL oIdhu, lIldI HSuI0 III lue QuPS-
ton, will it pay?" Don't get away
from that question. 1t certainly is
very comfortable to sit down by your
own fireside and select dress pattern
or sulky plow from a printed des-
cription and a picture of the article;
much more comfortable, in fact, than
hitching up and driving to town on
raw day.
consideration more important,
perhaps. IS that the printed price in
the catalogue seems, in some cases at
least, to be lower than the price
quoted at the local store. Isn't that
conclusive? Let's see. The catalogue
describes the goods and quotes a
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15

given you. Mc Farmer? A market for
your produce What has made 20 to
80 per cent of the present value of
your farm? The accessibility of a
market. You know what your grand
father did on that same farm? Drove
his hogs and hauled his grain 80, so,
maybe IS miles to the nearest market
town, and received prices for them
that would make you howl aboN the
trusts. And he hauled back the fam
lily supplies for which he paid what
you would consider monopolistic
prices. Do you happen to know what
the old farm was worth then? Well,
it lacked good deal of being $75 or
500 an acre
Yes, the home town, with its handy
market, has advanced the value of
your property and made you worth
several thousand dollars more than
your grandfather was worth. The
home town affords schooling for your
children, and perhaps social and
church privileges which your family
would not otherwise enjoy The rural
mail routes and telephone systems,
radiating from the home town, as
spokes from a hub. bring to your
home the greatest conveniences of
modern times
Have you ever noticed that the first
thing the settlers Of a newly-opened
reservation do is to send for a wagon
load of mail order catalogues? Well. 1
n 10
every six or eight miles. start two or
three general stores, build a school
house, a church, blacksmith shop, a
grain elevator. petition the depart
ment for post Office. and start a
newspaper. They know, from former
experience that, with these things
close by. life will be endurable, what
ever hardships may come They know.
also. that without them they must live
lives of isolation and endure an exist
ence that Is contrary to all natural
human instincts.
On the other hand. it goes without
saying. that the average country town
cannot exist without the support Of
its tributary territory. Then, il that
town affords the advantages for the
rural citizen that have been enumerat-
ed. there exists what we may call an
interdependence and a moral obliga.
tion between the two. Are you. Mr..
Thrifty Farmer, living up to that OBJ
)igation when you do your trading
With the mall order house?
To this line OF argument the farmer
may answer that his greatest obliga.
don, his arst duty. is to his immediate
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15
Willing to Conform.

Richard" said his. precise wife. In
an undertone, 1T is all right for YOU
to avoid elaborate ceremony in intro
ducing the guests. to one another, but
wish you would not say, Mr.. Throg-
Son, shake hands with Mr.. Wfgmore.'
l do not approve of that style of in
PRODUCTION"
."'Afl right. Amaryilis, heartily Re.
sponded the host "I1i cut that out.
Hello. F4atbush.> AwfulIy glad to see
you. Mr.. Flatbush, wiggle fiippers
with Mr.. Skimmerhorn."
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WHERE WOMAN is SUPERIOR.
Vegetarian Springs Few Facts on
Astonished Companions.

"Since the first of the year." he
said, Il haven't had smoke. and I
haven't taken drink"
Everybody looked at him with
amazement, respect and awe. How
strong -willed he must be, they said:
how ascetic. how spiritual. 1t was tre-
mendous.
And yet" said pale vegetarian.
"all women, or at least 80 per cent. OF
them, maintain this wonderful absti-
nence their whole life long. Why
don't you praise them for it,
With his medicated handkerchief
he brushed the sneer from his lips.
I'VE men," he said. beside women
are hogs We call our women silly;
we won't give them the vote: but the
average woman lives on higher
plane than the average man. She
thinks of nobler things than money
grubbing, drink, tobacco. food.
Did you ever hear your wife
growl about the cooking? Did you
woman is above the hoglike pleasures
Of the table. She is above such a
tobacco and whisky seance as is now
going on here"
The vegetarian put on his cap OF
medicated flannel. and. despite the
warmth of the night, drew the flannel
eartabs over his ears
Give woman her due" he ended
"She is finer-fibered, a more temper
ate. a more spiritual creature than
coarse, gross, hog-like man."-Cincin-
natl Enquirer
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15

ones that will be appreciated by the
housekeeper. The dining room, Is by
Is feet, with door opening out on the
side porch, may be made very coy
and comfortable, and the kitchen, also
with side porch entrance, is a model
Of convenience
There is something about the ap-
pearance of a low-built house that ap-
peals to most persons in the country
and in the smaller towns and villages
house like this with great deal of
veranda lends itself to decorative pur-
poses a great deal better than high
er house that is more severely plain
American people are beginning to
learn that the building of a home
means great deal more than the
mere supplying of a house big enough
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15
f,FRlENDs HELP
st. Paul Park Incident.

After drinking coffee for breakfast
l always felt languid and dull, having
no ambition TO get to my morning
duties. Then in, ,about an hour or so
weak, nervous arrangement of the
heart and stomach would come over
me with such force l would frequently
have to lie down.
= AT other times had severe head.
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed and digestion SO impaired that
had serious chronic dyspepsia and con.
stipatiOn. A lady, for many years
State President of the w. c. T. L.,
told. me she had been greatly bene-
flied by quitting coffee and using
Postum Food Coffee; she was trou-
bled for years with asthma. She said
1t was no cross to quit coffee when
she found she could have as delicious
an article as Postum.
Another lady. who had been trou-
bled with chronic dyspepsia for years,
found immediate relief on ceasing cof-
fee and beginning Postum twice day.
She was wholly cured. Still another
friend told me that Postum Food Cof-
fee, was Godsend to her. her heart
trouble having been relieved after
leaving off coffee and taking Postum.
So many such cases came to my
notice that concluded coffee was the
cause OF my trouble and / quit and
took up Postum. l am more than
pleased to say that my days OF trou-
BILE have disappeared. l am well and
happy" There's a Reason" Read
The Road to Wellville." in pkgs.
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15

ly improved with vines around the
verandas. Light vines, such as honey
suckle, Madeira ana clematis in front,
with some of the heavier sort at the
side, and the kitchen porch is just the
place for laroe-leaved vines like the
Virginia Creeper and Dutchman's s
Pipe.
Not all kinds of vines do we'll on a
wooden house. The florist or nursery
man, however, will take a great deal
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15
Labor Of the Novelist.

The way Of the novelist must be
hard" said librarian of an uptown
branch. The other day an immacu-
lately gotten up individual came into
the library and announced that he
was writer with a speciality of dia.
:ect stories. We got him several books
that he asked for. and little by little
he took me into his confidence. I
want the Scotch dialect for the stern
father he explained; then when I've
got enough of that I want some dia-
iect for sea captain. and then / want
q duke-or maybe you can tell me,
would duke drop his h'sr-N. Y.
Sun
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15
EDITOR.

keeping the grass neatly trimmed
along the edges of the walks.
A house. to look well, must be kept
painted. Good clean paint looks bet
ter if it is. partly screened by vines
or shrubs, and there are many in
stances where rather a ~dilapidated
outside appearance is improved in the
same Way, but nothing looks quite so
we'll as well preserved house with
pleasant surroundings that. show care
and attention.
A low house like this may be great,
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15

A fruit tree in the back yard il
worth two family trees in a glass case
Barbour County index., 1907-05-15
New York Real Estate Values.

Trinity building, just north of the
ola churchyard. in Broadway, pays re-
turns on valuation of So, 100000. In
1857 the land with the building on it.
which stood until few years ago, was
bought for 100000. Farther up Broad
way. for the site on which the Astor
mousse stands with the original build
ing on =. John Jacob Aster paid $780,.
600. The land alone is now worth ,$3..
000. .000.-Cent Per Cent