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The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22
The Law of specuIatlon.

Big men are given to taking profits,
while smaller men are laying basis
for profits that may or may not b"
shown. The law Of the fishes In tbs
sea applies in Speculation. The bis
and the little fish have their respec.
tive missions. and the small ones are
safe when the large ones are not
hungry.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

4-Why have a dry, dismal
looking yard when you can hav"
it filed with green grass and
blooming flowers, and can at the
sane time get rid of the dust III
the street,
5-Why suffer other incon-
veniences when you can have
everything for the comfort and
health of your family right In
the housed
els it not true that the an
swer is not ''lack Of money" but
lack of economy and enterprise
and indifference to getting the
most out of lifef
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22
You Cannot Answer These Questions

why do you continue
bathing your knees and elbows
one IA. a time, when you can
stretch out In a full bath tenn
pered to suit you, and can do so
every morning if you wish7
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-filled cistern wat
er when you can get it from a
large reservoir filtered through
the best filter plant South of the
Ohio Riverf
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

Keep the seed corn dry. Freezing
will not hurt it if it is entirely free
from moisture.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22
Clark County.


always welcome.
Clark County.
Land acres, 1876.
Value of real and personal prop
erty including franchises, $12,004,-
$40.
Tax rate for all county purposes,
so cents, on the hundred dollars.
The foothills of the mountains are
Oh the Eastern border Of the county,
the Kentucky River on the South,
forms the county line for a distance
of twenty-five miles. Ford on the
river, South of Winchester, has ex-
tensive lumber mills.
Three railroads go entirely across
the county-Chesapeake & Ohio,
Louisville & Nashville and Lexington
& Eastern.
Blue Grass is a natural product.
Uncultivated land will set itself in
blue grass. Crops of timothy and
clover can be raised with profit. Corn,
wheat, rye and oats are the grain
crops. Tobacco is raised in large
quantities.
All fruits that are adapted to the
climate can be raised with profit.
The census of 1900 gave the popu-
lation at 1864.
Circuit Court.
First Monday in April, second
Monday September, first Monday in
December, ]. M. Benton, Judge; B.
A. Crutcher, Attorney.
County Court.
Fourth Monday In each month.
Quarterly Court.
Third Tuesday in each month.
County Officers,
J. FL. Evans, Judge.
S. A. Jeffries, Attorney.
Howard HAMPTON, Sheriff.
Lee Evans, Deputy.
John Bedford, Deputy.
J. A. Boone, County Clerk.
Sam Powell, Deputy Clerk.
W. 7. Fox, Circuit Clerk.
Roger Quisenberry, Assessor.
C. A. Tanner, School Superintend-
W. r. Sphar, Treasurer.
George Hart, Jailer.
l. Brinegar, Coroner.
Justices of the Peace.
First district, ]. C. Richards.
Second district, j. Scott Renick.
Third district, Eli Dooley.
Fourth district, J. E. Ramsey.
Fifth district, Robert True.
Sixth district, F. F. Goodpaster.
Seventh district Fen. E. Wills.
Winchester.
County seat, area, a circle one and
half miles In diameter. Population
census 1900, 1864. The city has
over-iaped the corporate limits and
now has popula ton of near ten thou
sand. 1t is located on the dividing
ridge between the Kentucky and Lick
ing Rivers, has water works, cleo
trio street ears and lights. Unlimited
natural gas. Splendid Graded
Schools and numerous churches.
The Kentucky Wesleyan College is
located at Winchester. The fire de-
partment is one of the best in the
State.
The assessed valuation of ali prop
erty, including franchises, 1862, 499
The tax rate on the hundred dollars
is sixty cents for city and fifty cents
for schools. s~ rr,.
The C. & O., L. & n, and L. & E.
railroads center at Winchester the
geographical location and shipping
facilities make the city desirable To-
cation for factories. New concerns
are given five years exemption from
taxation. The Commercial Club Will
take pleasure In giving information.
c..j Officers.
]. A. Hughes, Mayor.
S. B. Tracy, Clerk.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

White of egg in the mustard plaster
will prevent its blistering the skin.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

Be sure the colts get exercise dur
ing the winter. Give them a run out
side every nice day.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

In raising colts remember that false
economy during the first year or two
will cost you dearly later.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

Trim the apple trees early in the
spring.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22
c..j Omcers.

j. A. Hughes. Mayor.
S. B. Tracy, Clerk.
F. II. Haggard, Attorney.
F. P. Pendleton, Judge.
Riland D. Ramsey, CollssssA
]. S. Reese, Assessor.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

It the matter of feeding hay to
horses observe the following sugges-
lions If you would feed economically:
Either heavy or light horses that are
doing regular, steady work should not.
IL one wishes to feed economically.
have more than one pound Of hay per
hundred pounds Of live weight. That
is. a thousand-pound horse should re-
ceive ten pounds of hay day, and a
1.500-pound horse Is pounds day. A
1.5oO-pound horse that is doing steady
work should have about four pounds
of hay with his morning feed, the
same amount at noon, and about
double the amount at night. Many
horses will eat 80 or 40 pounds of hay
a day II they have free access to It.
II horse. is allowed to eat such guam
tides, half of It is wasted. and if he is
eating that amount Of hay, it is worse
than wasted. for 1t does the horse an
injury.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

Pennsylvania must have some aw-
fully good and awfully poor cows, for
the average annual production per
COW OF the state, according to the
dairy officials of the state experiment
station, is 100 pounds of butter fat
worth $48. These figures mean that
while there are good cows which are
returning a profit, there are also very
many very poor ones which are be-
Ing maintained at an absolute loss.
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

Getting angry does not help things.
1t only complexities matters and
plunges one into a series of difficulties
The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-02-22

More than ever do the hens need
something in the way of green food.
Now that you cannot give them the
trimmings from the garden provide
clover meal scalded and then cooled
before feeding. Also give them
carrot, beet or turnip to pick at A
good way to manage the vegetables is
to hang by a string from the CELL
ing, just high enough so they will have
to jump for them.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
CABBAGE A VIRGINIA PRODUCT
iRoannke WoriaA

Roanoke WORLDLY
While Virginia may not claim the
cabbage plant as her own, she can Law
claim to production of this necessary
vegetable on large scale. The cab
bages of Southwest Virginia, too, are
known far and wide-even in Roanoke,
to which point it is interesting to note
that some of the product is shipped
home from the Northern markets.
To be more definite: Over the lines of
the Norfolk & Western alone from the
Southwest counties have been shipped
more than 5000 cars of cabbage this
season! Think of thatl We do not know
how many heads of cabbage a car will
hold, but we feel safe in saying that
the 5000 carloads totaled several million
heads of cabbage. From the vicinity of
Rural Retreat alone 1900 cars have
been shipped to date. Isn't Rural Re-
treat some cabbage.
This is one of the phases of agricul-
ture or trucking in Virginia that cannot
be discounted in considering Vireinia's 8
resources.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
LEARN A TRADE BOYS.

Ex-Mayor Hayes, Of Baltimore, says
that he is sure he would have been
better lawyer If he had learned to shoe
horses. He believes that every boy is
better OFF if he learned trade of some
sort, mechanical occupation that trains
the hand and eye to precision. Some
thing in that. Talking sometime ago
with an oldish man, who for many years
followed a speciality of medicine. he now
being an assistant in a newspaper Of
fee, he said: when / was a bow I
went into a newspaper office as a sort
Of reporter. had just left my fathers
shop where / helped TO build wagons.
got some notion Of newspaper work
then, and though afterwards | studied
profession and practiced this for years.
still, now that am unfit for that sort
Of work find my early knowledge ac-
quired in newspaper Office very use
full, for ! am making my living, and
beside that am in a work have always
liked. Had ! not gotten the little
knowledge of the pen-craft then could
not now be busy; and to be busy is to
be contented- There is nothing knocks
an old fellow out SO quickly as to be
idle. But to this day find occasional
use for the trick OF the hand acquired
in the wagop-shop.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
WHERE he LEADS I'll FOLLOW.

said. Let me walk in the fields.''
He said. ''No. walk in town."
said, There are flowers there"
He said, "No flowers, but a crown. d
l said. "But the skies are black;
There is nothing but noise and DIM
And He swept as He sent me back;
There is ruore." He said, "there is
sim"
1 said, "But the air Is thick,
And fogs are yelling the sum-"
He answered, Yet souls are sick.
And souls in the dark undone."
l said. 81 shall miss the light
And friends viii miss me, they say, I"
he answered. ''6hoose tonight
IT ! am to miss you. or they"
! pleaded for time to be given,
He said, ''Is it hard to decide1
1t will not seem hard in heaven
To have followed the steps Of your
Guide"
George Macdonald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Not understood. We move along ssunder;
Our paths grow wider as the seasons
creep
Along the years; we marvel and we
wonder,
Why life is life, and then we fall
asleep
Not understood.
Not understood. We gather false i'm
And hug them closer as the years go
by,
Till virtues often seem to US trans
gressions,
And thus men rise and fall and live
and die
Not understood.
Not understood. Poor souls with stunted
vision
Oft measure giants by the narrow
gauge.
The poisoned shafts of fslsehood and
derision
Are oft impeiled gains. those wSo
mold the age
Not understood.
Not understood. The secret springs of
action
Which lie beneath the surface and
the show
Are disregarded. With self-satisfactiou
We judge our neighbors, and they
often go
Not understood.
Not understood. How trifies often
change US.
The th,u uRhtless sentence or the fan
ried slight
Destroy long years of friendship and
estrenge us
And on our souls there falls freezing
blight
Not understood.
Not understood. How many breasts are
aching
For dss lack of sympathy. All, day by
How many cheerless. lonely hearts are
breaking!
How many noble spirits pass away
Not understood.
o GodI that men would see a little
clearer,
Or judge less harshly when they can
not seel
o Godi that men would draw little
nearer
To one another!-they'd be nearer
Thee,
And understood.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
THE SMILE OF A WOMAN.

The smile of a woman, it brings bacl
the sun
When shadows drift down and the dav-
light is donei
Inc smile of woman, it lifts and il
The heart that is heavy, the spirit that
Inc smile of a woman, in worlds that
are night
with garments of winter, wind-driven
and white, ''
Dawns down the dark valleys and over
III spring laughs again on the lips of
the rilis,
And summers soft morning connes back
to the land
with rose in her hair and bloom in
her handl
The smile of woman-it brings to the
earth
The music of morn on the red lips of
mirth. "a
The hope and the JOY and the dreaming
of rest
its breast. '"
The Bentztown Bard.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
VIRGINIA OYSTERS OF LONG AGO.

While the President was regalinp
himself with gusto on the famous Vir-
ginia bivalves, we wonder if any anti
quarian reminded him of the occasion
when more than a century ago, and
near the same spot, General Washington
and the Counte D'Estaing and the Mar
quis de Rochambeau, lunched together
and smacked their lips in appreciation
Of the same esculent dainty. The
French fleet sailed into the Capes and
dropped anchor in Lynnhaven Bay.
Washington crossed over from Hampton
to perfect with his allies the plans for
taking Yorktown; and after the council
OF war was ended, the three comman-
ders ate a meal together of which a
great toureen of Lynnhaven oysters
formed the principal dish. A letter of
the time credits the Marquis with hav-
ing said that he and all his men would
die a-fghting or drive "de sleeps of
Angleterre from desc waters where
dose butiful shel-feefh inhabeet. +" Mr..
Taft was less heroic but quite as en-
phatic when he declared the Lynnhavens
to be the best oysters he had ever
tasted. -Virginian- Pilot.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10

tors. This was from less than an acre
and you will find also that Mr.. Clarl
claims (but not in this issue) that ever,
SIX inches from a perfect stand of 3
mixture of timothy, herdsgrass and
sspling clover makes a ton.
isowed ii acres in grass in September.
1903, 10 acres sowed in sapling clover
and timothy and one acre in timothy.
herdsgrass snd clover, and it is from
this acre that cut the six tons. got
q splendid stand on all oft. After cut-
ting it, it was so thick on the ground I
wss compelled to turn it several times
oy hand In order to cure it properly.
When ready to go in the hay house l
selected q shock from each end of the
acre ut being g long strip of land, and
shocks as uniform as possible) and
weighed them after being cut sig or
seven days. 1t measured in height from
. to 4 feet over the entire acre. 1t had
fallen before reaching maturity. This
Is an acre by the drill did not weigh
any from the ten acre field, but would
suppose from the growth it would aver
age 8 tons to the acre,
The first thing necessary for a good
crop OF hay IL red clay subsoiI and the
top soil made rich enough to bring it. r.
put my land in German clover and fol-
lowed with COW peas and used plenty of
harn-ysrd manure, and lime, putting
on 2 or tons to the acre-lime gotten
from burnt shell kilns. Lime applied
after turning in clover and peas. Before
seeding to grass l top-dressed heavily
with barn-yard manure, and at seeding
time used about 4 or 5 hundred pounds
OF raw bone meal on part of it. and
same amount Of Acid Phosphate ON the
rest of field After thorough prepara-
tion. seeded with wheat drill about 25
quarts to the acre of seed. which bought
and mixed myself. two parts timothy
and one part sapling clover, and on the
one acre two parts timothy, one part
sapling clover and one part herdsgrass
Or red top. have about twenty-one
acres In grass at this writing, a good
stand on most of it. have no hay for
sale. as | am feeding it to stock and
would advise others to do the same if
possible.
My postoffice is Center Cross. but NV
farm is in King and Queen on the Dragon
that divides Essex and King and Queen.
ELLIS M. CARLTON,
Center Cross, Va.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
CURSE OF INrEMpERANCE.
The Burning Words or CGi. Inger
soil Are Worth Recalling.
tFrom ono of Bob Ingcrsolrs addr.s.s,

trom one OF Bob Ingersoll's addressesJ
lntemperance cuts down youth in its
strength and age in its weakness. 1t
breaks the fathers heart and bereaves
the doting mother, extipguishea natural
affection, grasses coniugal love, blots out
hiiai attachments. blights parental hope,
and brings down mourning age to the
grave 1t produces weakness, not
strength; sickness, not health; death.
not life. 1t makes wives widows. child
rem orphans. fathers fiends, and all of
them paupers and beggars. 1t feeds
rheumatism and nurses gout, welcomes
epidemics. invites cholera, imports
pestilence. and embraces consumption.
1t covers the land with idIeness, misery,
and crime 1t fills your jails, supplies
your aims houses, and demands your
asyiums. II crowds your penitentiaries
and victims for your scaffolds. 1t is the
lifeblood Of the gambler, the element of
the burglar. the prop Of the highway
man. and the support Of the midnight
incendiary. 1t countenances crime.
respects the thief and esteems the
biashphemer. 1t violates obligations.
reverences frauds. and honors infamy.
1t defames benevolence, hates love.
scorns virtue. and ISLANDERS innocence.
1t incites the father to butcher his off
spring, the husband to massacre his
wife, and the child to grind the para
eidal axe. 1t burns up men, consumes
women. detests life, curses God, ana
despises heaven. Itdebases the citizen
degrades the legislator. dishonors the
statesman. and disarms the patriot. 1t
brings shame, not honor; terror. not
safety; despair. not hope; misery. not
happiness. and with the malevelence of
hend it calmly surveys its frightfuI
desolation, and. unsatisfied with it's
havoc, 1t poisons fidelity kills peace.
ruins morals. blights confidence, slays
reputation, and wipes out a nations
honors, then curses the world and laughs
at its ruin.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
BAD HABIT.
NothIns At All Turns Up For Men
Who Sit Down And Wait, Like
MicaWber.
Norfolk Landmark


i suppose it'sa fact, z" said Mr.. Mac
"hackt that about the worst habit
one could contract is that of sitting
down and waiting for something to
turn up.
i've known a lot of men that have
had this habit, but have never known
one OF them to have anything come TO
him yet. OF course, there's a chance
OF a mans being struck by lightning.
nut II you take the total population of
the world and divide it by the number
struck you would find that the chances
OF ones being struck are very small
and the chances of anything coming to
man who is waiting for something tn
turn'up are great deal smaller still.
you see, as tell my son, William
MacWhackt, jr., something that is to
say, that the something that we are al
ways looking for to turn up, is really
not, as you might say, a thing of mi
gratory nature; that is, not thing
that seeks people. In fact, one of its
chief characteristics consists in it's in
clination to stick somewhere, generally
more or less far off, in which il Is like
gold in its raw shape. which lies buried
IN the earth at a great distance. where
we must go and dig for it and dig hard
II we want to get it Measles and va
rious other Affections come to us. hut
not so, as rule. with something, mean
ing prosperity, which we must 90 out
and seek. :. '''-
so tell William that l hope he
won't join the great army of those who
sit down and wait for something to
turn up. He might be struck by light
ming but the chances are so much
against it that it would be a terrible
waste of time to figure 'em out and
there wouldn't be any thing coming to
him then.
What hope is that William willget
out and look and dig for what he wants
and not SIT down and wait, and he
won't find the competition as keen as
perhaps he thinks, for really there is
not such an everlasting lot of steady.
stick-to-it diggers. There's a chance
Tor every man that means business.
And then tell Willie that if he
doesn't get the, biggest prize in the
whole world he'll get something. and
something worth having, if he'll only
get out and get to work around among
men IN the places where the diggings
are found.
That's what I'm hoping William ir..
VIII do-go out and work like man for
what he wants; the thing of all others
that l hope he won't do is to sit down
and wait for something to turn up..,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-12-10
WINTER CRABS BETTER
THAN SUMNER VARIETY.
slightly Larger Than the Common
Kind and Have Finer Flavor.
avs N New York naner.

Says q New York paper:
barring naturalists and few unnat-
uralists. there are not many persons
who know that the winter months is
the height of the Grabbing season around
New York. The commonly. accepted
potion 10 that the grabbing season is at
Its height when persons bent on captur-
ing this elusive crustacean hire rowboats
and go in pursuit Of him In the creeks
and bays with small nets baited with
chunks Of meat.
IL they have good luck two men in q
boat may bring in few dozen crabs
as the result of an afternoons fishing.
What would these amateur crabbers
think of a catch of 40, 600 crabs in four
or five hours? Such catches have been
made at this time of the year in the
waters of New York harbor.
1t is well known by lovers of crabs
that those caught in the summer, bar
ring the soft shell crabs are almost
worthless az compared with those taken
in the winter. The winter crabs aver
age but slightly larger than those caught
in summer. but they are much heavier
and Of far better flavor.
Men who make it business to catch
crabs part Of the year say they think
the winter crabs are of different va
riety from those that are found in these
waters in warm weather. The princi-
pal difference in appearance is in the
apron. or flap Of jointed shell that folds
around the after edge Of the creature
and covers part Of the under side. The
apron of the winter crab is broader
than that OF the variety found here In
warm weather.
The winter crab is deep water ami
NAL. He is never found as is the sum-
mer crab in the shallow creeks and in
the seagrass along the shores of the
bays.
From some time in November until
about the iast Of March is the winter
grabbing season. The crabs are found
bsdded in the soft mud Of the deeper
parts Of the bays; never in sand. They
are usually in water from fifteen to
feet deep.
They lie entirely covered with mod ex-
cept their eyes, and do not move unless
raked out with the dredges of the fish,
ermen. Crabbers say that these crabs,
although fat and heavy at this time of
the year, die in the spring where they
are lying in the mud. Toward the end
OF the season the dredges bring up
mostly dead crabs or empty shells.
The winter crabs are boiled, deviled or
picked and shipped away as crab meat.
Although these crabs are nearly as
large as some of the Holsters used and
are considered by many lovers of sea
food as OF finer flavor, there are no crab
palaces to correspond with the lobster
palaces Of New York, nor has
the crab yet made much of place for
himself in these gilded haunts of the
lobster.