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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
The Earthquake Habit.

When Italy was shaken up by an
earthquake three years ago the inter
est in the calamity over here was
deeper than mere curiosity. The sym
pathy of the nation went out to the
stricken people. Some months later
disaster at San Francisco thrilled the
land for days. The recent fresh visi
tation in Italy failed to arouse at first
even the interest manifested in 1905.
We are somehow hardened to the no
ton that earthquakes are inevitable il
certain regions. Unless it comes clost
the announcement of a destructive
shock is not startling.
Earthquake prevention is among the
bold propositions of latter day science.
Assuming that the disturbances are
due to electrical forces, the idea has
occurred that the subterranean cur
rents might be manipulated by the
hand Of man and kept from overcharg-
ing any given point. Italy seems to
be the field where this theory could be
applied. Within the last century and
a quarter the peninsula and the neigh
boring island of Sicily have been seri-
ously shaken scores of times. So many
visitations mark that region as the
one where causes may best be studied
and devices of whatsoever sort and
purpose put to the test.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
An Amateur coniurer.

During little pedestrian trip a gen.
tleman came Unexpectedly upon a
country race course and on one por-
ton of the ground found a thimblerig
establishment in full work Notwith-
standing the remonstrance of his COM
panion, the gentleman, who was bit
of a madcap, insisted on watching the
game
''Now, would the gent like to wager
a crown he could find the pear re-
marked the expert.
YES" was the reply.
The money was on both sides depos-
tied, and the pedestrian. lifting up the
thimble, pointed out the required pea
and took the stakes
A second bet. double or Qui:s.' end
ed, to the surprise of the expert, in tile
same result.
Then a third wager. "a pound or
nothing" steadied the nerves of the
loser and the trick was accomplished
with great caution. The gentleman
lifted up the thimble and showed the
pea, at the same time pocketing the
stakes.
"S'heIp me-" etc., Il didn't put it
therer' exclaimed the bewildered art
list.
mo, but l always carry my own
pea" rejOined the man who had come
out right as he went on his way with
the spoils of war.-London Tit-Bits.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Similar to Kentucky.

The climatic conditions of the Pan
handle are very similar to those of
Kentucky, except that the rain fall
III winter Is less. and therefore less
mud, while the rainfall during the
growing months is sufficient for the
growing of profitable crops Of wheat,
barley, oats, corn, Kaffir corn, milo
maize, timothy, alfalfa and every va
riety of vegetables and vines.
Owing to the large part of the
State used in growing cotton. The
price of Panhandle grown grain is
equal to that paid in Chicago. Our
State Railroad Commission has fix
ed State rate on grain that enables
the mills in Texas to pay the Pam
handle farmers more for their wheat
than the same wheat would bring on
the Chicago market and the same can
be said Of all winter grain grown in
the Panhandle, as the freight on grain
paying, the highest Interstate rate,
costs more than the Panhandle pro-
duce at Chicago prices to Texas con-
CumprS
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25

stands for more that is great and
good than any other word applied to
a State or Nation. Seventy-fve per
cent of the counties are prohibition
and Statewide law will be voted at
the coming fall election. 1t is a heavy
fine to drink whiskey out of your own
bottle on a railroad train or in sta
ton; card playing is forbidden in
public places, on cars or IN hotel Of
fees. Gambling is no longer a mis-
demeanOr but a felony. Packing a
siX-shoOter is a heavy fine. In no
State can more people be seen wend-
ing their way to Sunday Schools and
churches. The Railroad Commission
requires the railroads to give prompt
and equitable service. Upon the
whole, no State is better for a home
than the great Lone Star State, and
no section of the great State offers
greater advantages to the capitalist
and the man who has his fortune to
make. Lands can be bought now
and paid for from the proceeds of the
first, and certainly, the second crops.
If | have left unsaid anything that
will interest any of your readers, l
will be glad to answer any inquiries
addressed to me at Groom, Texas l
would, as a parting word, say to
those contemplating coming to the
Panhandle, to do so now, as every
month sees an advance in lands, as
the flow of farmers is very heavy
from all the Older agricultural Sec
tons of the Eastern States.
Yours truly,
H. T. GROOM.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Exnerf Eidurind.

A well known actor tells story of
a ne'er-do-well in a little New Eng
land town where he has often spent
his summers. Il was walking down
the main street one day." said he,
when L saw old Silas grinning from
ear to ear. 1 hardly thought that he
was that glad to see me. So after
speaking to him l said: why the smile
that won't come off, Silas? What has
happened to make you so happy this
NmorningY I've been a-gittin' married
this mornin',' was the unexpected re-
ply. Married. Your [ exclaimed.
why, Silas, what on earth have you
done that for? You know you can't
even support yourself as it is WAL,
said Silas, you see, it's this way: L
ken purity near support myself, an 1
kind of figured out that she could fin
ish up the job. '"-Argonaut.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
A Birdseye View.

The following incident occurred dur
ing terrific thunderstorm at the home
of a contractor who lives in the vicini-
ty of Tampa, Fla. The contractor and
his family were sitting on the veranda
watching the storm when a bolt of
lightning struck a tree not fifteen feet
from where they were sitting.
The shock was terrific, but no one
was injured, although they were all
badly frightened. The young son, with
great excitement, was telling that he
jumped two feet high.
How do you know you jumped so
high?" said his father.
'Why," said Johnnie, IT looked down
while was up."-Youth's Companion.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
PRESIDENT HELPS ORPHANS

Hundreds of orphans have been
helped by the President of The Indus
trial and Orphans Home at Macon,
Ga, who writes: eve have used
Electric Bitters in this Institution for
nine years. 1t has proved a most ex-
cellent medicine for Stomach, Liver
and Kidney troubles. We regard ii
as one Of the best family medicines
on earth" 1t invigorates the vital
organs, purifes the blood, aids d.
gestion, creates appetite. TIC
strengthen and build up thin, pale
weak children or rundown people il
has no equal. Best for female com
plants. Only soc at Phillips Drug
Store.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
a Sensible Person.

An old Scottish lady during her last
illness was assiduously attended by
a physician, to whom she invariably
gave guinea when be came to see
her. He told the friends with whom
she lived that her death would proba-
bly, be very sudden, and one day when
she seemed to have become uncon-
scious the doctor was hastily sent for.
On his arrival he found that his pa
tient had ceased to exist, and, taking
hold of her right hand, which was
closed, but not rigid, he calmly ex-
tracted from it the customary fee, re-
marking as he did so to the attendant
friends, Sensible to the lastr'
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25

4-Why have a dry, dismal
looking yard when you can have
it filed with green grass and
blooming flowers, and can at the
same time get rid of the dust in
the street?
5-Why suffer other incon-
veniences when you can have
everything for the comfort and
health of your family right in
the hOuse9
els it not true that the an
swer is not slack of money" but
lack of economy and enterprise
and Indifference to getting the
most out of lifeq
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Eyes Only For Her.

Martha-YOu don't mean to say you
have accepted that Mr.. Spooner? Why,
he is so awkward, you knowl l saw
him holding an umbrella over you the
other day, and all the water it caught
he allowed to drain right on to you.
Nancy = What better. proof could l
have that he is in love with me? He
hadn't the least idea that it was rain
ing, the dear man!-Boston Transcript.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
WINCHESTER BOILER MILLS.

The oldest and best Institution ID
the county is the Winchester Roller
Mills. Why not use home four-the
best made. Kerr Perfection and
White Pearl -four has nc equal
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
TEXAS LAND
OF PROMISE
Mr.. H. T. Groom Writes Entertain
ingly of Resources of the
Panhandle.
To the Editor of The News:

To the Editor of The News:
So many Of my old friends living
in Clark and surrounding counties
have written me regarding the Pan
handle of Texas, that | take this
method of supplying the information
they seek. The rapidly enhancing
value of lands, not only in Kentucky
but in all the agricultural districts
of the older States, is no doubt the
IcauSe of these inouirieC
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Not Surprised.

Mrs. Gramercy-Sbe must have been
surprised when her husband gave her
such an expensive present. Mrs. Park
Not surprised. my dear, but suspi-
cious.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
You CanOt Answer These Questions

Why do you continue
bathing your knees and elbows
one ID. time, when you can
stretch out in full bath tenn
pered to suit you, and can do so
every morning If you wish?
2-Why pump and carry wat
er for your kitchen and laun-
dry work when you can have it
at hand for the turning of a
faucet?
3-Why take chances on
drinking germ-iflled cistern wat
er when you can get it from a
large reservoir filtered through
the best filter plant South of the
Ohio River7
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25

: You may try to do many a days
worry, but you can do only one days
work at time.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Live Stock Section.

AS live stock section, the cham
pionship prizes won at the Chicago
Fat Stock Show prove that no other
State can produce better cattle, while
the mules and horses bred in the
Panhandle have all the good quail
ties of the Kentucky bred animals,
with the advantage of better hoof
and greater staying powers owing to
the drier climate and higher altitude.
Broom corn equal to the best grown
in Champagne county, Illinois, can
be produced in the Panhandle and
this very profitable crop is receiving
attention, having a rate of
so per ton cheaper to the market
centers Of the East using rail to Gal
weston and water to Boston, New
NOrly op6 Dbila dolnbio
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Hog Breeding.

Hog breeding is one Of the most
profitable branches of live stock
breeding in the Panhandle. With al
falfa and Kaffin corn, they can be
produced cheaper than in Arkansas,
where they feed on natures crop
the acorn. Cholera in Arkansas
sometimes wipes out a breeders whole
herd of hogs, while so far the Pan
handle has never lost a hog. from this
disease. A 100000 packing house
now being erected at Amavillo will
take all the hogs and cattle that will
be offered.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Sugar BeetS Coming Crop.

Sugar beets is the coming crop.
The crop has been grown successfully
for eight successive years by several
cattle feeders, the analysis showing
from ID to Is per cent sugar with a
purity Of from SO to Sc per cent. A
sugar factory will certainly be erect
ed as capital will not long leave this
industry that pays from % to 80
per cent in an undeveloped state.
The erection of a beet sugar factory
that will pay the farmer So per ton
for his beets, the crop yielding from
Is to % tons, will cause the level
rich lands of the plains section of
the Panhandle to quickly go to 800
per acre and over. Such lands in the
sugar beet growing sections of the
West, growing no heavier crops than
the Panhandle, are now worth over
1925 to 5000 per acre. The Pan
handle when this industry is de-
veloped, can produce sugar enough
for the Nation.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
The Water is Pure.

The water is pure and free from
the fever germs that cause so much
sickness and unhappiness In sec
tons where the water is shallow and
contaminated with fever germs.
Fathers and mothers should study the
'healthfulness of the new section to
which they propose to migrate. In this
regard the Panhandle stands without
an equal. The rosy checked boys
and girls that can be seen at the Pan
handle schools bespeak a noble race
of men and women who in d few
years will grow up to further develop
this greatly blessed section of our
country.
Mosquitoes do not invade the hous-
es and bars are not needed or used.
Values Advancing.
Land values are advancing rap
idly and with the coming of beet
sugar factory viii equal or exceed
those of Kentucky. The word Tex
as used to stand for everything that
was tough-today the word Texas,
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-25
Golden Silence.

think the first virtue is to restrain
the tongue; he approaches nearest the
gods who knows how to be silent even
VIXEN he is in the right.-Cato.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05
GOMPERS WRITES ON BRITISH
TRADE UNIONS
CONTINUED from Page Fourteen.)

and the idea that the churches repre-
scented the classes"
On Wednesday evening, the large
hall of the Cooperative Society's
building was crowded on the occasion
of a meeting of the Social Democratic
Party. The principal speaker was the
old-time Socialist, NJ. FL. Hyndman.
Ben Tillett made a characteristic ad-
dress. One Of his sallies was the old
reference to those who go to chapel
or church to pra for the working girls
en- Sunday and prey upon them the
rest of the week." Some of Mr.. Hynd-
mans points, as reported, were: For
two whole generations trade union1sts
looked at wages and nothing else, and
the was they stood in
the way of progress" The unemp1Oy-
ed question went to the very root OF
modern society. 1t could not be cured
by mere tinkering: but only by recog-
nizing that the workers were under
such conditions that they were forced
to band themselves together in order
to make a clean sweep of q system
which was rotten to the core. In
the matter of poverty, excepting India
which we were robblng, th1eV1ng
and ruining-there was more Squalor,
misery and horror IN ~proportloh 70 our
population in this country than any
ether in the wor1d"-and he knew it
s.nretty WE'LL "The President of the
Trade Union Congress had spoken Of
the budget as the most glorious budget
ever rough in the history of finance.
Well. he could not see anything in 1t
beneiting the working classes LAS
to the proposal to tax land values
1T would simply strengthen the CAPT
talist class, which was their worst en-
emv. for the landlord was only the
sleeping partner in the plumber" In
conclusion. he prophesied. that the
ultimate victory of the party to which
he belonged was as certain as the fix
ture Of an eclipse or the return Of a
comet
Neither MI. Hyndman, nor Mr.. Har-
die. nor Mr.. John Turner (the Ellis
Island "Anarchist'), nor any Of the
EXTREMIST or moderate M. P.'s present
would find it an easy matter to explain
to an outside barbarian how it is that
so many shade Of Socialism, and SO
many factions supporting them, exist
among the self-styled Socialists, all of
whom are so significantly certain of
the future social State. If they could
only agree now!
Other side meetings were held in
various halls of the town or in the
public squares: By the WOmen's Trade
Union League, which now claims a
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05

Several times in the last five wears
difficulty of arriving at right conclu-
siOns as to the overwhelming out-pour
Of new books by reading the MANY
and varied announcements Of pub
fishers and the deliverances Of opin-
ions of newspapers even of more pre-
tentiOus class. The difficulty arises
in the variant, partial OF antagonizing
opinions of critics of taste.
candOr and judgment, acquisition and
ability. and the excessive praise be-
slowed by literary opponents on both
sides of the Atlantic. / had occasion
often during a p~rOtracted connection
the croWding productions Of
al writer's. You will find the same ex-
With newspapers to upon
the want of caution, accuracy and ex-
cessiVe laudation of ephemeral ooks,
and the great extravaganza INDUCED
in by supposed capable critics as to
the quality and real excellence of
writers in the last ten or fifteen a
or even longer.
/ nave pointed out tina so great is
the indulgence of critics and their
exaggerated praise of new writer's that
the proper use Of adjectives appear to
be forgotten or diSliked. So profuSe,
SO e~XtraVagant is this use of Superla-
tiVeS as applied to new writer's. that
if the great genius of the world in its
literatures were to there
WOuld be no language strong enough
left With which to characterize their
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05

powers and productions. The news
papers in recalling of them have
caught the c~ontagion and eFory
speaker becomes a wondrous orator,
and politicians are al
fersons, Websters and Calhouns. You
will find language uIte
mand upon it to portray latter-day
genius, or strong enough to describe
the Crowding reductions of ephemeIal
writer's. You will find the same ex-
haustive terms applied freely to the
recent poets and to recent novelists as
are applied discriminatory to the
great masters in the ages from Homer
to Tennyson, and from Rich'~]9Hn
and George Eliot (Miss Evans). Recent
critics so laud and magnify late con-
temporarieS that the eaderS not thor
oughly Versed in the literature of the
three last centuries will conclude that
in Newman, Doyle, Hawkins and a
dozen other of romantic and histori-
cal school yOu have full rivals Of Scott,
Hugo. Dumas, the Elder, and any
others of the greatest of that wonder
fully fascinating school of novelists.
When Meredith, Hardy, Blackmore,
Mrs. Ward and others OF the last thirty
or forty wears are considered o will
be induced to believe that they are all
essentially greater, not only greater
than Bulwer and Charles Reade, Miss
Murdoch, Charlotte Bronte. Charles
oL1d bI1N11 ~ GA
ally very clever type, but greater than
the greatest in any age or hi IN
Guiding the great four named above
Scott, T~hackeray, Dickens and George
Eliot.
AS there is but little INDICATION of
Saner, more reliable, judiciOus crltlsiSm
now than twenty years ago, 1t is nice
to plead for purer taste, for Saner cr1tl-
cism and judgment and clearer
insight into the value of books,
SOundness of judgment, a finer taste
in literature, a proper discrimination
IN books, a more correct appreciation
of terms and more discriminating in
sight are surely necessary, else false
judgment and low taste and INSULT
clent insight must continue to doml-
nate and pervert and abuse the minds
pt readers. There can be no sound
Interpretation of genius without sanity
81 mind, a clear reliable
mtormation, and genuine culture. L
nave been misled often by undeserVing
praise, by the cruel ~indulg@n.@ II
<~NpcrlatiVes in criticism, by unhamper-
"d enthusiasm in praise of new a4-lGEs
well as exaggerated laudation OF the
''ll. 1t will be indeed a most desirable
Ign of Improvement when there is a
? turn to sober and balanced criticism
- q more rigid and candid eXamlna-
''H OF contemporary authors ana
'rf productions.
-" suDcr-abounding adjectives in
ii@L Q of ordinary books must cease,
'Id flSht judgment and sober insight
"dSed upon frankness n candle
augment, study and discrimination II
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05
privilege I have 50 much enjoyed.

If you would have q mere glimpse
at the tremendous ~iniQuities of the
present huge, grinding, s~coundrelly
tariff tax levied upon the tamelv sub
missive working people of the United
States for the benefit of the rich, let
me reproduce again a brief paragraph
from a thoroughly reliable writer on
the huge tariff outrage, Miss Tarbell,
a well known, practical writer in the
american Magazine The statement
is accurate: read it, study it:
Fifty years ago the cheaper grades
of wool came in free and there was a
UNIFORM "A per cent duty on all kinds
of manufactured goods. But to-day
wool bears a duty of IL m a pound,
while woods and worsteds, blankets
and clothing bear duties graded down
from 1897 per cent, on the cheap
Worsted the poor man buys, 10 S94.32
per Ger on the superior article Of
the rich man"
hi old Democratic party previous
to the war was opposed to hig tariffs.
l gave recently a few lines to show the
contrast between the tariff of tina
Crane old party in 1916 and the tariff
or the relgnlng gang of robbers led
py n Rhode Island tax oppressOr and
his willing. submissive friend Taft.
who plays something of a double game
as to taxation. In 1916 the Demo-
cratic tariff averaged 16 per cent. In
1909 the tariff tax of the Radical
party averages 48 IL per cent. and
upon probably over one thousand diff
ferent articles in the tariff schedule.
Any people that will submit to such
p~rotracted rObberies deserve all they
receive at the hands Of insatiate rob-
bers and oppressors.
There is a great deal to be learn
ed from reading provided you read
What IS proper, what is wise, what
is fruitful and Notwithstanding as
we'll as e~levating. The great
majority Of readers try to salts
fly themselves with writings, books.
etc, OF a very poverty-stricken
kind. I hear a great deal of
vapid nonsense INDUCED in Y
people Of some pretension to edu-
cation and even real culture and
some pretention say to a friend, Il
rea none but the best novels, for I
am very particular in my reading.
But I don't like Scott I heard the
same person not long since speak in
a rather contemptuOus way Of
Dickens. This reminds me of the
opinions Of people of real intellectual
parts and fine taste. That superior
Scotchman, Andrew Lang, most SEN
silly refers to Thackeray'S Bar
ry Lyndon" as that masterpiece" and
so it is, as all but fools may see.
Coleridge, the great poet, gave as
CONTINUED on Page Sixteen.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-10-05

/ nave but recently finished my
reading of Capt. Samuel A. Ashes
History of North Carolina l Will
not here undertake a critical paper
upon it, but will content myself with
expressing a high admiration of its
ability, usefulness. interest and
thoroughness. 1t is indeed a great
credit to the author, n l trust ne
will he spared to continue it until
finished. find it particularly edify-
ing stimulating and entertaining. 1t
is an historic work of much value,
whatever you may think of particular
records and incidents. 1t is ex~cellently
printed and handsomely bound and
contains over 700 large octave pages.
I am glad indeed that / have been
spared long enough to complete its
reading for when began 10 read It L
ba5 NO idea that my vision and health
would ever permit me to read 1t
through carefully and entertainlHgiy-
MANY thanks to the author for the