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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
Electrocuted.

While engaged in doing some
repair work, on the Ohio Valley
Electric Railway line near Ceredo
at 2 o'clock Monday morning. Chas.
Reynolds, an employee, was killed by
a voltage of electricity from live
high tension wire.
Reynolds and force Of men be-
longing in this section of the Com
pany's line, was sent to do some
repair work up in West Virginia at
point between Camden Park and
Ceredo. He was engaged in putting
in new cross arms, carrying a ten
sion wire, when live tension came
in contact with his hands and body,
killing him almost instantly. He
was horribly burned from the heavy
voltage of electricity, and fell life
less to the ground Ashland indie
pendent.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
Summons Was Acquitted.

A. l.. Sammons, the man who has
been in custody for many months
under a charge OF having murdered
an N. 4 W, call boy at Glen Hays
was given trial at Wayne on last
Saturday and was acquitted OF the
charge. The call boy had been
working at Williamson and had re,
ceived his monthly pay and had
gotten on a freight train TO take q
trip down the line ard next morning
his body was found by the railroad
tracks near Glen Hays. bearing
marks that he had been murdered
and robbed. Railroad detectives
went to work on the case with the
result that sammons was arrested.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
Friday, November 10, 1909.

The appointment of F. L. Thomp-
son to the Senate to succeed the
late Senator Johnson, of North Da-
kota, increases the Democratic
membership in the upper branch of
Congress to thirty-three, The Re-
publican members number fifty-nine
For only few months at a time
in recent years have there been any
vacancies in the Senate. The quota
of forty-six States is now filled by
the appointment of Thompson,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19

rights, that our judiciary may no
longer doubt its prerogatiye, and
thus forever put an end to this
interstate commerce traffic by
which one state is given the privi-
lege to ship liquor into another
state, to there be sold in its original
package. This is all wrong, but so
far the liquor manufacturers are
permitted to do this, their right
judicially unquestioned. 1t will not
always be thus. Thine makes an
cient good uneouth," says Lowell
And 20 that man should put an
enemy to his mouth to steal away
his brains" says Shakespeare,
Some dozen years ago Louisa and
Lawrence county got rid of their
saloons and the business and pro-
fessional men of Louisa tell me they
will never get back. talked with
number of Louisa's best known
people-physicians, lawyers, mer7
chants-and everyone with whom
talked told me how infinitely better
off were the people without saloons.
And it is so all over Kentucky. l
did not have to go to Kentucky to
learn these things am not wholly
unfamiliar with the history of this
state since before its second settle
ment at Boonesborough in 1875 to
the present time. and II is with hope
and anticipation have year by
year watched its prohibition senti-
ment gather form and force. May
this force increase until every sa-
loon. every brewery. every distillery.
whether it be the moonshiner in
her mountains, or those in Louis
vile and elsewhere, now protected
by law, shall be buried in oblivion,
unwept, unhonored and unsung.
And now to Louisa and its fiji
teen hundred or more, all nesting
here in the valley, with its semi
mountains on either side, farewell.
and in the words of the ancient Rip
who fell asleep on the Kaatskills.
may you all live long and prosper.
It is Thursday, 1910 p. m, Nov. 4,
1909, two days after the Louisa as
well as the Logansport battle, the
iron horse is pulling up-I am go
ing to call it the Big Sandy valley.
"All-aboard, says the conductor at
Fort Gay, in West Virginia. Just
across the river from Louisa, and
soon we are in Kenova, thence to
Portsmouth, Ohio, arriving at Gin
cinnati at 6:22, all by the Norfolk
& Western. A wait until 800, and
at 1925 Friday morning we again
beheld the lights twinkling in the
valley of the Wabash. 1t is pleas
ant to trayel-sometimes; but there
is something pleasanter, the return.
.... G. o. FENTON.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
Turkeys and Appendicitis.

The scientists OF Harvard have
discovered that turkeys are dying
in large numbers of appendicitis. In
New England, once noted for its
production of turkeys. the birds
have become scarce because OF the
inroads OF the disease. IL has
spread as far South as Virginia and
has invaded Michigan.
An epidemic is due to break out
among the turkeys in this section
week, but it will be trouble the
prominent symptoms of which will
be loss OF head.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
AS OTHERS See US.
Continued from page one.)

Continued from page one.)
oaks on the rugged foothills of the
Cumberland mountains. 1t was in
deed pleasant company. Would
that it were at our own doors and
had the pleasure OF reporting 1t
in detail as | have many similar
occasions, But | must away from
these congenial Kentuckians to the
location of Louisa.
The farther stream is the Tug
and this the Levisa, forming as you
see the Big Sandy just below the
bridge there" Thus spoke one of
Louisa's citizens to nae as We APP
preached the toll bridge across the
two former rivers, which bridge
joined us with West Virginia, And
then in fancy went back to my
early school days, for it was among
these days knew the most in geog-
raphy. To cast aside my modesty
for the moment, there was time
when some of my schoolmates
thought me we'll along in geography,
and without confirming their belief
may remark, in passing, that when
seventeen | could name and describe
every river of any Importance in the
world, and some that weren't, even
down to TinSer's creek and the
Cuyahoga of the Western Reserve
in northeastern Ohio. If these lines
should happen to fall beneath the
eye of some one well informed as
to the origin of the names of these
rivers, | should be pleased to hear
from him. On the map of Rand,
McNally & Co.'S Complete Business
Atlas, published in 1888, there is no
Tug river nor Levisa river. The
former is down on the map as the
Big Sandy, and the latter as the
West Fork of the Big Sandy. No. 8
of the Eclectic Series OF Geogra-
phies, issued by VanAntwerp, Bragg
& Co., and which was first entered
in 1870 by Wilson, Hinkle & Co.,
and copyrighted by the same people
in 1877, gives what is locally known
as the Tug as the Big Sandy, and
what is called the Levisa as the
Louisa Fork. Frye's Advanced Geog-
raphy of 1899 gives Tug Fork and
West Fork as forming the Sandy
river, the Big being omitted. The
Encyclopedia Americana, 1906, ed
tied by Frederick Converse Beach
of the Scientific American land by
the way whose article on Logansport
/ had the pleasure of wTiting), re-
fers in an article under Kentucky
to "the Big Sandy with its Louisa
fork" This article is written by
William Goodsell Frost, Phi. D.,
president of Berea College, Berea,
KY.
Now, if you know the names OF
these two rivers that come together
at Louisa and empty into the Ohio
twenty-five miles north at Catletts-
burg, you know more than do,
after spending -Four Days in Ken
lucky"
A word as to the pauper industry
of this state. / refer to the liquor
traffic. Up here in the Wabash
country we have been taught that
Kentucky is famous for three things
-handsome women, fine horses and
fighting whisky. The first two are
admitted. The last is not true
Kentucky is. ahead of Indiana in
| prohibition sentiment at this very
moment. OF its 119 counties about
100 are what we call dry. The truth
is, however, there is not foot Of
dry territory between the 49th par
allel and the Gulf, nor will there bt
until our congress shall assert III
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
Increasing Its shipping Facilities

The N. a w. railway has doub-
led the capacity OF the stock load
ing pens at Fort Gay, by the add
ton of three new pens and two
new chutes, and for the convenience
of shippers each pen is supplied
with water and equipped with mod
ern troughs,
Fort Gay has become quite a
large shipping point for this sec
ton, Eastern Kentucky. as well as
West Virginia.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
H. b. Hewlett Now Deputy.

Circuit Court Clerk elect, H. B.
Hewlett, has been appointed deputy
clerk and is now serving in that
capacity. An assistant was needed
in the office, as the Illness OF
Clerk Shannon's wife has kept him
out of the office very much re.
Gently.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
Have Disappeared.

Sherman Sebastian, OF Magoffin
county, who several months ago
mysteriously disappeared In this
city, has been located at Torrent,
KY, but his brother, James, has in
his turn disappeared and search
is now being instituted for him.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19

You will make mistake Il you
don't see Loar a Burke's line OF
shoes before buying elsewhere.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19

Stop and see my new store just
above the passenger depot.
~ W. NJ Sullivan.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19

Our Doughnuts are the best II
the world. Try them. ..
Louisa Bakery.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16

tenaeiously held and prevents nitrifca-
tion. This brings about a condition
which pineapple plants can not endure.
In many of the fields which are made
up of red soil, there are found plans
which turn reddish color and die. This
is especially true of fields which have
been cultivated for some years Mr..
Kelley has found that these plants are
surrounded by water-saturated soil.
The continued cultivation of pine
apples on this land has been found
to hasten the oxidization of organic
matter in the soil, and with the deple-
ton of organic matter The soils con-
tanning such high percentages of ferric-
hydrate are soon reduced to a state
where drainage is greatly interfered
with
Moving water is not detrimental to
pineapples, but stagnant water soon
brings about the death of the plant.
A series of experiments is now being
planned with the view to securing bet
ter drainage. That the growers have
recognized the necessity for improving
the drainage, is evidenced by the intro
duction of open bitches at short dis
tances in the fields.
It is believed that the perfection of
drainage systems, together with the in
PRODUCTION Of more organic matter, will
bring about better condition in the
soils.
Proof of these contentious has been
secured in the experimental patches, for
ON the better drained portions, fertiliz-
ers which are proving of little value
on the poorly drained stretches are
showing fine results
Experiments are soon to be COM
menced whereby leguminous crops will
be introduced. These will be plowed
under, and in this way the organic matt
ter in the soil will be materially in
creased.
In many instances, pineapples have
been planted in the soil for eight
or ten years, and in the meantime no
organic matter has been added. Fur
thermore, the old plants have been
carefully drawn from the land and
burned. Thus the soil soon degenerates
into poor physical condition.
The station is also experimenting on
the influence which various treatments
of the soil may have on the flavor Of
pineapples.
In connection with these tests, a
series of experiments is being carried
on to ascertain what other crops will
grow in this soil 1t is the intention
to make practical demonstration from
which the grower can draw his own
conclusions. It is the intention to ro-
tate pineapples with corn and other
crops. thus enabling the grower to pro-
duce his own fodder for his live stock,
and at the same time improve the con-
dition of his soil.
These are but few of the expert
ments that are being carried on at the
experiment station, and it is safe to say
that, by the time the work IS complet-
ed the worlds store of pineapple lore
will have been greatly increased.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16

Without blare of trumpets, quietly
and unostentatiously, work is being
carried on at the United States Agri-
cultural Experiment Station in Makiki
that promises to accomplish wonders
for Hawaii. The earnest band of scien-
fists, brought together by the Federal
government, is working steadily with
test tube and retort, pick, shovel and
cutivator, to find just how Hawaii s
soil can be made the most productive,
and the wealth and fame of the Terri
tory thereby increased.
There is no problem too stubborn for
the devoted party of scientists to
tackle, and there is no letup in the work
until the puzzles have been solved, and
the knowledge blazoned forth to the
world.
Located here in the middle of the
vast Pacific Ocean, is group of is
lands more fertile than any like area
in the known world. Nature covered
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taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to see what it would do.
and | am restored to my natural
health. Mrs. ETA DONOVAN, Box
200. Willimantic, Conn.
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For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
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suffering women owe it to themselves
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Proof is abundant that it has cured
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
the islands with verdure fit for an
Olympian garden. But modern civiliza-
ton demands that the trees and shrubs
shall be producing. When new
territory is opened up, the first ques-
ton is, Chow can we raise the cereals,
fruits and vegetables, demanded for
the commerce of the world?n It is just
this question that is being answered at
the experiment station.
One of the important problems to
which the scientists at the experiment
station have turned their attention, is
the production of the mango on a com
mercial basis. Though in tropical coun-
tries that luscious fruit has long been
noted as one of the choicest gifts of
nature, but little has been known con-
corning the best methods of propaga-
ton, and the tricks resorted to have
been cumbersome and not always sue
cessful
The successful growing of the mango
from the seed alone was long ago
demonstrated to be an impossibility.
No matter how fine the fruit from the
parent tree, the new growth from seeds
taken from that tree is liable to be
far from choice Obviously some meth
cd of grating or budding had to be
resorted to.
In India for many years this difficult
ty has been overcome by the method
known as marching. A ported tree, of
known variety, is placed in close prox-
unity to a thrifty seeding tree, the
bark of the potted tree is abraded,
an abrasion is made in the bark of the
seeding, and the two wounds are bound
together. Within short time the two
trees grow together. Then the choice
tree is severed just below the place
where it is joined to the seeding, and
the seeding is cut off Immediately
above the joint. The result is, that
the upper part of the seeding has all
of the good points of the known tree.
Though highly successful as far as
individual results are concerned, this
method is entirely too clumsy to make
it be commercially practicable, and OBJ
yiously some other way of improving
the mango fruit had to be discovered
It was upon J. Edgar Higgins, horti-
culturalist at the experiment station,
that the task of working out the
problem fell. The horticulturist tried
several means of grating, with greater
or less success, until he concluded to
attempt a modification of one of the
oldest methods of budding known.
A piece of 'fbud woods cut from
the limb of a mango tree of known
variety. is secured. The seeding which
is to be budded is prepared, Tshaped
opening is cut in the bark, a piece of
bark containing bud is cut from the
budwood. inserted beneath the bark of
the seeding, and the whole is bound
together
When the bud has become well es-
fablished in its new home, the part of
the seeding tree above the bud IS cut
away and soon the result is the same
as that secured by the clumsier method.
Repeated experiments have demon
strated that this method of. budding IS
eminently practicable, and through
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16
IMPROVE MERTS At
M'GREGOR's LIGHT

Maui News-Lighthouse Engineer
A. Richley arrived in Waikiki Mon
day evening with a corps of assistants
and has been at work since at the
lighthouse at MeGregors. Mr.. Rich
lev was met at McGregors Wednesday
by Lieutenant Houston, who came to
McGregors on the Z. s. L. H. tender
Kukui.
The lighthouse win probably be re
moved to higher ground and out or
the dust from the road that so much
interferes with the light now being
seen at distance. Mr.. Riehley IS
having water tanks erected for the
lightkeeper.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16

CSAcoeA1sNeOsOs CsOsOsOsOsO
Der, but the results did not begin to
become patent until the warm weather
set IN. Then the fruits of the expert
ments began to show themselves.
The chief characteristic of the fruit
IN the black, unfertiIized soil. is the
p1nklsh color, and the fact that it is
sour and devoid of flavor. On piece
OF this soil where fertilizer has been
applied, the plants are vet somewhat
yellow, but the fruit is normal and the
production is estimated at about ten
tons to the acre.
On the red soil each subsequent
planting has resulted in a decreased
harvest. Largely on this account the
experiment was undertaken Results
indicate that the liberal application of
hlgh-grade fertilizer will materially in
crease the growth.
But the experiments now indicate
that fertilizers win not serve as a
panacea for every pineapple i'll. The
pineapple plant is notoriouslv sensitive
to adverse physical conditions in the
SOIL. The soils here contain large per
centages of ferric-hydrate, which, to-
gether with the clay in their compost
ton, enormously increases their water
holding power.
In the times of heavy precipitation,
which are frequent in the Wahiawa
district, the soil becomes thoroughly
saturated with water, and this water is
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-16
EXPERIMENT STATION COMES
TO AID OF AGRICULTURIST
Problems Facing Growers Are Being Solved by
Federal Scientists---PineappIe Troubles
Diagnosed and Obviated.

the efforts of the horticulturist, the
known varieties of fruit with as great
certainty as can the orange or other
citrus trees.
Another branch of agriculture which
the Experiment station has taken up,
and one of even greater immediate i'm
portance to the Territory than the de-
velopment of the mango, is the study
of the pineapple.
Just one year ago, in response to in
quiries from pineapple growers, the
government decided to make some ex-
periments along lines which the culti-
walton of the pineapple in the Territory
had demonstrated to be necessary. w.
P. Kelley, a chemist connected with the
Department of Agriculture, was sent
over to solve some of the problems
then facing the growers.
Kelley started to work at once on a
practical basis, securing piece of land
in the Wahiawa pineapple district for
his tests. The first puzzle to be solved
was why pineapple plants, grown in
the black soil at Wahiawa. turned vel
low. Then also it was necessary to as
certain what might be done to improve
the yield of fruit in the red soil. The
red earth, in its virgin state, produced
perfect fruit in satisfactory quantities,
but subsequent crops showed a decided
falling off. Obviously, some treatment
of the soil was necessary.
The prevailing impression among the
growers was that the black soil was
sour and that lime or some basic fer
tilizer was necessary But both chem
zeal and field tests failed to show that
such was the case. But the chemical
Investigations did disclose the fact
that the black soil contains very
high percentage of manganese, and
that it is this substance which is
largely responsible for the yellow color
in the pineapple. plants. Careful ex-
aminations were made, and it was as
certained that each sample tested con-
tanned from ten to fifty times as much
manganese as did specimens of red
soil.
Manganese has loHg been credited
with being plant stimu1afft, but the
experiment work at Wahiawa has DEM
onstrated that it may often over
stimulate plant, by so increasing its
normal activity that the chlorophyl of
the plant becomes oxidized or bleached,
hence the yellow color.
The application of an acidic fertil-
izer, which contains large amounts of
readily available plant food, seems to
overcome this. The experiment station
is undertaking to ascertain the funda-
mental reasons why this takes place,
what the influence of the manganese
is on the other constituents of the soil,
It's nitrifying power, and SO forth
While the work has not reached com
pletion, it is safe to say that the black
soil may be treated in such way as
to render it exceedingly fertile.
The black color of the soil is not
caused by the humus which imparts
this color to soils elsewhere, but the
manganese. 1t may be safely stated
that no such extensive areas of this
soil, as are to be found in these islands,
exists anywhere else on the face of the
globe.
Fertilizers were applied last Septem-
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without stopping
on the way. I
tried three differ
ent doctors and
each told me some
thing different. I
received no benefit
from any of them,
but seemed to suf-
fer more. The last
doctor said moth
ing would restore
nv health T hogan
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AFTER
DOCTORS
FAILED
L ] Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound Cured Her

: Nllllmantic, Conn.-"For five wears
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