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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16
HOME Circle COLUMN,
COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS As THEY JOIN
THE HOME CIRCLE AT
EVENING TIDE.
Hints TO Writers.

Be brief This is the age OF tele-
graphs and stenography.
Be pointed. Don't write all around
a subject without hitting II.
State facts. but don't stop TO mo-
rallze. It's drowsy business Let
the reader do his own dreaming.
The plainest Anglo-Saxon words
are the best Never use stills II legs
will do as we'll
Make your sentences short, Every
period is milestone at which the
reader may halt and rest himself.
Eschew preface. Plunge at once
into the subject like swimmer
into cold water. II you have writ
ten sentence which you think
particularly fine. draw your pen
across IL.
Condense. Make sure that you
really have an idea. and then record
It In the shortest possible terms.
We want thoughts in their quintes-
sense.
Strike out nine-tenths OF the adjec-
tives. The English language is o
strong language. but 1t won't bear
too much reducing
And last, but not least, write
legible. Don't let your manuscript
look like the track OF u spider half
drowned In the Ink
Right here is the secret of awk-
.wardnesa- 1t is self-consclousness.
IA girl who thinks about how she
Is going To look when she extends
her hand win hold II out "a stiff AS
a pump handle. IL she Is worried
about the appearance OF her walk
she will stalk over the landscape
like wooden dummy What a
person does gracefully Is doae un-
consciously, So II person would
learn grace abe must tirst learn how
too do things, unconsciously and she
can only learn to do things uncon-
sclously by doing them often
How 10 SPOIL
70 spoil staak-fry IL
To spoil a farm rent Il
To spoil yenr tamper-tret-
To spoil ten or coffse boil II.
To spoil eustard-bake II too
long.
To spoil your friends natter
them.
To spoil an apDetihe en-, every
half hour.
To spoil an Opportunity II
pass,
To spoil a home oil it With fam-
tiy lara"
tn spoil Influence do one thinp
and say another.
To spoi; business--let others at
tend to II.
To spoil good intentions never
carry them out.
To spoil an Office - get above
your business.
To spoil egsaA-eouvert them into
egg nog-'
To spoil time retire late and
sleep in the porning.
To spoil house plants water then
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

1t has been reported to us that
Lena Herman daughter OF Judge ].
NJ Herman was married recently at
San Francisco Cal. TO DR.. King
Miss Herman has been serving as
head nurse in one OF the best hos
pitfalls in that city for some time, =
Wayne News.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16
west VIRGINIA NEIGHBORS.
DoINGs OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE
JUST ACROSS THE RIVER.

Charleston, w. Va. August IA
For the sole purpose of impeaching
a Judge OF the Circuit Court Gov
ernor William E. Glasscock was ask
ed to-day to assemble the State Leg
stature in extraordinary session.The
jurist against whom serious charges
are filed is Judge William r. Ben
nett, of Fayette County. recently re-
nominated at the Republican pri-
mary. A petition signed by numerou
citizens of Fayette County was flied
with the State Executive, charging
the Fayette jurist with corruption.
gross immortality and incompetency
and specific allegations are made In
support of all the charges.
Judge Bennett is charged with re-
ceiving presents and cash. and
while presiding over the Pocahontas
County Circuit Court he Is charged
with having made an improper pro
posal to Pennsylvania woman
whose brother was on trial charged
with a felony,
Four well-known state lawyers
presented the petition to Governor
Glasscoek. They were II. T. Hub
bard, Jr., Charles w Dillon. OF
Fayetteville, the home OF Bennett;
A
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

Mrs. James Damron. wife OF Coun-
ty Court Clerk Damron, of Mingo
county. died at her home in Will
hanson last Monday week. She was
the daughter OF II. X. shumate, de-
ceased, and Mrs. Margaret Shumate.
She was the mother of nine chill
dren, and had been married to Mr.
Damron for fourteen years.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16
SOCIALISM MADE PLAIN.

Charles L. Buie, OF Colorado, WI
speak at the Court House August
10. at : y. m. on Socialism. Cues
tiona answered Ladies' especially In
yited, 81.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

NEW YORK. Aug. 5.-Rufus l..
Perry. Negro lawyer of Brooklyn,
became Jew Sunday when he went
through various ceremonies at the
hands of Rabbi Scheiner. This is
the first negro to do so in modern
times.
Perry is 3S years of age and
single. He lives in Brooklyn and
has his law office in that borough.
He is a graduate of the New York
University Law School. AS Grim
inal lawyer he has attained some
fame.
Accompanied by number OF He
brew merchants and business men
of Brooklyn he came to New York
Sunday afternoon for the ceremonies
at the home of Rabbi scheiner.
The rabbi was assisted by Rev. S.
Meisels. cantor, while large congre
cation looked on.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

too much.
To spoil butter do not work out
all the milk
To spoil pancakes--bake them on
a 'uke-warm griddle.
To spoil breakfast --grumble ali
the time you are eating.
Wiat is good for spying holes
4 people coats when we can't mend
themg Talk of my debts 10 you meal
to pay them;if not. keep your red
rag behind your ivory ridge. A
friends faults should never be
advertised and even strangers
should not be published. He who
makes fool OF another is . fool hir
self Don't get into the habit OF
laughing at other people, for the old
say ing Is Misunderstanding, and
mocking's catching Testing is too
apt to turn into jeering and what
was meant to tickle makes wound
1t is pity when my mirthis anuther
mans misery. Before man cracks
Joke he should consider how he
would like It himself: for many who
give rough blows have very thin
skins. Give only what You would
be willing to take; some men
throw salt on Others, but they
smart II a pinch OF Il falls on their
own raw places. When they get a
Roland for their Oliver. or n tit for
tat. they don't Ike 1t. yet nothing
is more just Biters deserve 10 be
bitten,
II thare is man who thinks n
woman has an easy time OF IL. why
Just lot him pin on a pound vi
false hair and get inside pair Of
corsets aud put on a pull-back over
skirt and be woman himself, and
see how he likes It.
o. its nice to look around you.
and TO feel that you're king. that
your coming home at evening makes
your joyous subjects sing SO you
read soms twenty chapters OF old
Gibbons dope on Rome. and you
know what human bliss Is in your
lLttls home, There is really
nothing better in the way OF earth
ly bliss. than TO toddle home at
evening. and 20 Ent n welcome kiss.
and 10 know that the Kids who
greet you at the pea-green garden
gate. have baen waiting. broken
TINT you were two minutes
late, There Is nothing much more
soothing than a loving woman'u
smile. when she sees your bow-legs
climbing Ger the bargain counter
stile, II you don't appreciate Il,
then the bats are In your dome. for
the greatest king a-living is the
Of homas
ss.s.
should a man speak TO a neighbor
In the atsntorlan tones he often
uses TO his children. n knock-down
would enEue. A courteous tone to-
child is as4eaentiai as a courteous
tona IN n naiWhhnr
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16
JERSEY COW FOR sALB.

Fresh Jersey COW. Six years old.
Apply to NJ. F. CoNLEY. Louisa.
XIV.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

One fly Sunday night delayed =
Houston and Texas Central passen-
ger rain, caused the arrest of a
Pullman porter. and the ayowed in
tention Of at least six passengers to
sue the railroad company for dam
ages. Asouthbound train due in
Vase at p. m. found the Pullman
car, which it nightly picks up here
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

The old soldiers of Logan. both
the Blue and the Gray. have receiy-
ed invitations to engage in the an
nuai reunion OF the Society of the
Blue and the Gray. which win be
held at Ravenswnod on August "a,
2S and 20. This reunion has been
made an annual feature for twenty
two years, and the twenty-third
meeting. this year will be conducted
upon much larger scale than ever
before.
There will be eloquent speakers
first class band, parade and
camp fires burning day and night,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

An Alabama Sheriff was elected
from a train because he refused to
take a handcuffed negro prisoner
into the compartment reserved for
blacks.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

Those who desire TO guess at the
result OF the election to be held in
West Virginia in November next.
should remember that the Democrat
ic party is stronger in West Virginia
at the present time than It has
been for many years, regardless OF
the situation in the republican party
In addition to this unusual strength
OF the democracy. the condition In
the republican party should not be
lost sight Of. The splendid record
made by the democratic representa-
tives from West Virginia in both
houses OF Congress has united and
strengthened the democratic party
in West Virginia until It need not
fear to meet even a united republic
can party In the campaign. The
course pursued by the democrats
from West virginia in both Senate
and House has been such as to
Justify the confidence which has
been placed in them and which has
resulted In bringing together all
democrats and uniting them for the
fight against the various kinds OF
republicans who are trying 10 get
themselves into political power.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

Wireless messages flashed from
an army aeroplane in full flight
fifteen miles away were received
at the aviation station at College
Park, Md.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

1t will take the official count to
determine whether Mayor Cowherd
has won the Democratic nomination
for Governor in Missouri.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

B. C. Murray confessed in Green-
field, Mass, to having set fire TO
thirty hotels and public buildings.
1t will take the official count to
determine whether Mayor Cowherd
has won the Democratic nomination
for Governor in Missouri.
As the result of the campaign
against the hookworm parasite In
Knox county more than 500 persons
have been cured of the affliction.
An Alabama Sheriff was elected
from a train because he refused to
take handcuffed negro prisoner
into the compartment reserved for
blacks.
Wireless messages flashed from
an army aeroplane in full flight
fifteen miles away were received
at the aviation station at College
Park, Md.
National Committeeman Leslie
Combs, of the Progressive party,
favors as symbol of the party in
Kentucky cut of Col Roosevelt
in rough rider hat
The National Palace was blown up
by powder explosion and burned
to the ground and Gen. Cincinnatus
Leconte, President of the Republic
OF Haiti. persisted. Oilers of the
household escaped.
According to estimates made by
the United States Department of
Agriculture, this years grain crops
in this country will be far in excess
of last years yield
The vast amount of Confederate
curl CilCg Stl1cQ ny tnc OhiOh Aiti'
during the Civil War is being dis
tributed among the libraries and col
leges of the country.
More then 100000 of old paper
money, washed and ironed to the
crispness of new, in the Federal
Governments money laundry, will b
placed in circulation again to-day.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson sat for
three hours in New York studio
while an artist sketched char
coal likeness of him. The portrait
Is to be used during the campaign
The Grand Aerie of the Frater-
nal Order of Eagles decided at its
session in Cleveland, o., to refuse
in future to furnish the Aerie ply
stefan TO any member Ill as a result
of intoxicants.
One fly Sunday night delayed =
Houston and Texas Central passen-
ger rain, caused the arrest of a
Pullman porter, and the ayowed in
tention of at least six passengers to
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

As the result of the campaign
against the hookworm parasite in
Knox county more than 500 persons
have been cured of the affliction.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

B. c. Murray confessed in Greeu-
field, Mass, to having set fire to
thirty hotels and public buildings.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

National Committeeman Leslie
Combs, of the Progressive party,
favors as symbol of the party In
Kentucky cut of Col Roosevelt
In rough rider hat.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

company.
A hurried inv sstigation showed
that the porter an hour before had
asked for a cup of coffee at a
nearby restaurant, had found fly
In it. had started a row with the
proprietor, and had been locked up
for disturbing the peace, leaving his
car neglected.
Washington, d. c. The COW with
a jag is the latest discovery by the
Department of Agriculture.
A Virginia husbandman, alarmed
by the indecorous performances of
an ordinarily perfectly mild animal
after munching a ration of ensilage
appealed to the sharps in the de-
partment.
Investigation revealed that 'bossy
had Toasted on fermented corn stalks
and had simply gotten drunk on
raw bourbon whiskey, that was all.
A five-faot rattlesnake escaped
from circus at Edwardsville to-day
and went sightseeing in the prin-
cipal street of the borough. Peo-
pie ran in all directions as the
reptile came down the brick pave
ment and none was anxious TO give
ii battle.
The snake had the right of way,
and when 1t had travelled distance
of 200 yards 1t evidently became
hungry, for 1t found its way into
a lunchroom. The proprietor.
Richard Jones. happened to be alone
at the time, and he did not see
the snake, The fluttering of
aanary attracted his attention, how
ever, and he looked at the cage in
time to see the snake trying 10
make meal of the bird Jones did
not know 1t was rattlesnake. and.
seizing II by the neck, he placed Ii
safely in box and returned it to
its owners.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

The National Palace was blown up
by powder explosion and burned
to the ground and Gen. Cincinnatus
Leconte, President of the Republic
of Haiti. persisted. Oilers of the
household escaped
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

II thare is a man who thinks "A
woman has an easy time OF II, why
Just lot him pin on pound VI
false hair and get inside pair Of
corsets. aud put on pull-baek over
skirt and be woman himself, and
see how he likes It.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

According to estimates made by
the United States Department of
Agriculture, this years grain crops
In this country will be far in excess
of last years yield
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

The vast amount of Confederate
currency seized by the Union Army
during the Civil War is being dis
tributed among the libraries and col
leges of the country.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

The Grand Aerie of the Frater-
nal Order of Eagles decided at its
session in Cleveland, o., to refuse
in future to furnish the Aerie ply
stefan to any member III as result
of intoxicants.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

More then 100000 of old paper
money, washed and ironed to the
crispness of new. in the Federal
Governments money laundry. will b
placed in circulation again to-day.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-08-16

Gov. Woodrow Wilson sat for
three hours in New York studio
while an artist sketched char
coal likeness of him. The portrait
Is to be used during the campaign.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, Wis, Feb. %, 1912.

The work of receiving last season S
crop which is still the principal busi-
ness in the local markets, has been
somewhat interfered with by the par
tial breakup of the country roads by
the recent thaw during the week. The
deliveries, however, have been ample
to keep the warehouses in full opera
tion and packing is proceeding satisfac-
torily at the handling centers. There
is little buying going on all the time
from first hands, at a lower level than
the average of the crops, but no Or
ganized effort can be detected looking
to the cleaning up of the fraction re-
naming unsold. Quite a little of the
crop is still hanging in some portions of
the state and casing weather is needed
to bring it down for stripping. 1t is
not thought the thaw early in the
week brought about the right condi-
tions.
Old goods are moving in limited
way and the demand for binder stock
seems far in excess of the supply to be
found in the state. N. Gillian, York,
Pa, leaf dealer, has secured about 100
cases of old leaf from local packers, as
we'll as 140cs of new leaf this week.
The shipments out of storage reach
1040 cases and 9 cars of bundles from
this market to all points for the week
Since last report 80 cars have been re-
ceived from outside points for ware
house handling.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23
To the Leaf Tobacco Trade:


We beg to announce to our custom
ers and the trade that the business of
growing, packing and dealing in leaf
tobacco, for many years heretofore
carried on by VIM. l.. Hunting, has
been incorporated under the name and
style of William L. Hunting, Incor-
porated, and will be conducted by said
incorporation along the same general
lines as previously. In addition to car
rying stock Of old tobaccos, including
Connecticut Broad Leaf and Havana
Seed, our business of producing and
distributing tobacco seed will be extern
sively developed. Long experience and
careful study and selective processes
have resulted in the development of an
extremely fine and true type of Amer
ican Sumatra or Cuban seed, plants
from which are extensively grown
under cloth in the valley of the Connec-
ticut, the wrapper quality of which has
become world famous. We are pre-
pared to furnish leaf tobacco and true
to-type tobacco seeds at lowest possi-
BILE prices for cash, and correspondence
is solicited.
Respectfully,
VIM. L. HUNTING, INC,
East Hartford, Conn.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23
Pennsylvania.
LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. IA, 1912


The local trade has been treated to a
genuine surprise the past two weeks
by the unexpected sales of large
amounts of 1910 tobacco, a class of
goods of which the local market was sup
posed to be pretty well cleaned out. In
addition to number of small sales,
aggregating, however, very consider
able number of cases, one firm, Eshle-
man & Weidman of Ephrata, sold l ZOO
cases to a New York firm. Some
brought seventeen cents marked weight.
1t would be interesting now to ascer-
tain how much 1909 tobacco remains.
To say that $4,000 cases could be easily
drummed up at short notice is putting
it easy.
The new crop has little, if any, more
of pole-burned goods than the average
crop has. 1t is fine tobacco, and that
is about all there is to say on the sub
ject, and the prices the dealers are
paying for it proves this declaration
No Lancaster county packer, much less
the representative of some of the big
gest concerns of the country, is going
to pay eleven, eleven and half and
even twelve cents for poor tobacco.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23

And already seventy per cent of the
crop has beer sold and a great deal has
been delivered. The packers complain
that the stripping has been done, and
is still being done, carelessly.
At the rate the new crop is still SELL
ing, it will not last many weeks longer,
in spite of the withdrawal from the
field of the representatives of the big
concerns that bought so freely earlier
in the season. The weather, lately,
has not been favorable for stripping, so
this has not been active recently. The
dealers who were early in the field this
season are now congratulating them
selves on their forwardness, as they
secured for ten and three cents tobacco
just as good as dealers later in the sea-
son had to pay eleven and eleven and a
half and twelve cents for
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23
New York.
NEW YORK, Feb. II, 1912.

General activity is the feature of the
leaf market. The volume of business
done seems to give satisfaction to ev-
erybody, but there is complaint about
the small margin of profits in spite Of
the high and ever raising price of the
leaf. But if the packer and dealer does
not make any money on the sales or at
hast that adequate profit to which his
capital, his work and foresight would
entitle him, who is it then who gets the
vast difference in the price of cigar
leaf now and couple of years ago?
Evidently, it is the tobacco farmer.
And yet members of congress do not
tire of proclaiming to the country that
the tobacco farmer is being held by the
throat by those who are using his pro-
duct, that is the packer and cigar man
ufacturer. Would it not be about time
that the leaf trade issue some energetic
protest against these malignant charges
against them, so persistently raised in
the halls of congress. In the mean
while, of course, the leaf trade is max
ing the best of a poor bargain, submit
ting to conditions over which it has no
control. The chief transactions during
the week seem to have been sale of
about 1900 boxes of Connecticut and of
400 cases of Zimmer's. The Connecti-
cut was of the new crop and packers
transaction In wrappers the shade
grown has still general call. Trading
in Sumatra seems to have quieted down
as it generally does at this season so
near to the beginning of the new in
scriptions. The Havana market con-
tinues likewise active, and the pros
poets are bright for very good season
on account of the repeated hopeful re-
ports. of very favorable yield, both
qualitatively and quantitatively, of the
new crop.-Journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23

For SALE-40 acres good land, one
half mile from town, all under high
state of cultivation; s acres to straw
and raspberries, so apple trees; good
tobacco land; 8-room house, barns, hog
houses, etc.. tobacco barn Boxes feet
18 #. 4 in. high, basement BOXES feet
underground. Cost of this building
$3250. The above for $500. Also 40
acres, acres cultivated, balance heav-
lily timbered; house and fine we'll for
$2250. H. G. Randels, Alma Center.
Wis.
WANTED "A third girl in the kitchen
at once. Good wages. Apply at The
Carlton hotel.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23
GAYS MILLS, WIS, Feb. IA, 1912.

The first docking of any consequence
INDUCED in by the r1, buyers w was as that Of
Jean Tobacco Co. of Edgerton. Many
complaints were heard of the treat
ment received, some reporting dock
age Of Is per cent or better. Many
crops were taken straight, however,
and some big checks were received.
FL. r. Peck of Utica delivered one OF
the big crops of the season a few days
ago, receiving 81, 140.25 besides his con-
tract money. Independent.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-02-23
SToUGHTON. WIS. Feb. 16, 1912.

While some sales are reported from
different localities about Stoughton, the
figures paid are decidedly low, such as
z, p and 8 and 8, for what is said to
be inferior goods, but which statement
is not always true. One man in Dunn
disposed of large crop at 63, equal in
quality, the neighbors say, to what was
contracted in the field at II and 4. The
remnants in growers hands are surely
though slowly being acquired.