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Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-03
A Vlsit to the Country.

Dear Uncle Jed: am a little girl eight years old and thought would like to write letter to you. will tell you about my vacation in the country this summer.
 I was away all simmer and had q fine time. There were eleven cows and two little calves and used to drive them hose every night. There were also two hcftAs tstaed Dan and Dick. They would taits efsAs Iron my hand. Thtfa weke iots ef hen's too; and come pretty little chickens, fed them at night ana get the akss.
 i used to have lots of fun with the cat and dog. The cats name was Pete and the des's Buster.
 liked to watch the four pigs. They lived in a big pen filled with mud.
 While up there went huckleberry>
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-03
The Birch Tsses.

Dear Uncle Jed: You called for . talk Of lesson on trees. Wiil write about the birch There are several kinds of birch. The white. bdrch srows very plenty and the wood is used for spools and also for fuel.
 The black birch is used for lumber. They use it for horse stables. Tris Ia better than oak for them, for they dont wear.
 There Is slippery, yellow and silver birch, and another kind called paper birch. The bark is thick and you carx Peel is off in sheets one after anotier. Years ago they did not have paper, as we do now and they used this pa per birch to write letters on.
 This kind We have as well as tho other kinds of birch on our place.
 LUCY CARTER. Age 10.
 Scotland
 Uncle Jed thanks Lucy for a nno speciment of paper birch sent to him.)
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-03
What He Did on His vsosti,,.

Dear Uncle Jed: I want to tell you about my vacation. I have stayed at home, but have had a good time. just the same. have had httle work to do every day
 have learned a lot. I live on Hanks Hill. I am now in the fifth grade and learn a lot. want to be perfect this year, So try to go to scfiool ever yday. I have bcen every day so far. We study hard.
 wish all the children wrote about their vacation.
 l have picked all kinds of berries, and wish to get some more.
 Hanks Hill.
 EDWARD KUCKLE.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-03
\ ss.utiful Dream.

It was a fine spring morning. As I had been away the night before. felt restless and nervous. About 4 o'clock l aWoke. The beautiful songs of birds rang from hill to hill My ear was busy listening. For a good while I couldn't go to sleep. because of such lovely music.
 The next thing I do not know Whsther I went to sleep, am quite uncertain; but. any way I thought two birds were at my window.
 One said, What kind folks live in this house!"
 "Yesr the best is the little girl. She threw some crumbs to me. I just love her"
 'Let's give her a song of love"
 Yes; let's"
 And such a song you never heard in all your life. Even the worms and insects were surprised. But in the midst of their song there was a bang bang. The singing ceased. and found myself on the floor.
 really wondered whether it was a dream or not, and hurried to the win dow. But nc bird was there, not even on tree close by; and did not hear q bird once as I stood looking. Was 1t dream? It must have been.
 RUTH B. MCOLLUM, Age 13. Mansfield Depot.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-03
Willy Herss.

Willy and Harry are brothers and they live in a city far out on prai-
 ries in Illinois; and Harry is much older than Willy. but they love each other very much and frolic together a great deal. It makes Willy little man to play with his elder brother,
 and Harry d better man to play with his younger.
 HAROLD BLAIS.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-03
LETTERS TO UNCLE JED.

BaiHc
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
BELL OF TRAGIC MEMORIES
Has Remarkable History That VIII
Strike the Reader as Being Typl-
cally Russian.


The Kamaoulle Koloko, or BELL
With the Ear Torn Off," had most
omantic history. In the sixteenth
entury Prince Dimitri, the rigbtful
leir to the Russian throne, WAS de.
,osed by revolt led by Boris Godun-
#, who was afterward proclaimed
gar. The seat of government was
hen at Uglich and thither Dimitri was
ent, in order that he might remain
nder tle direct observation of the
lsurper
Boris, fearing that the populace
night awake to the justice Of the
,laims of the young prince, planned
he assassination of Dimitri. He was
me day stabbed in courtyard. None
If the bystanders showed any DISPOSE
ion to aid him. A priest, however,
rom the cathedral belfry, saw the
rhine and Immediately began tolling
he great bell, which was held sacred
md rung only on unusual occasions,
UGH as at a coronation or the death of
; car.
Furious at this tacit expression Of
eproach. the car commanded that the
riest should be tortured and executed
md that the bell should be taken down
md placed beside the body Of its
ringer. This order was fulfilled, and
the bell was beaten with clubs by the
entire populace, the Car Boris being
at their head.
The car then decreed that the bell
should be exiled to Tobolsk and that
one Of its hangers be removed to in.
dicate Its disgrace Weekly,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
DR.. S. r. Collier and a

DR.. S. r. Collier and a
coterie of gentlemen associa-
ted with him, have secured
leases on about 10000 acre S
of land in Morgan, Wolfe,
Magoffin and Johnson,
and oil and gas Operations
on a large scale may be ex-
pected in near future. They
already have one we'll down
about 200 feet at Camel City
and others will be drilled as
soon as arrangements can be
made. With the operations
for oil and gas under way
and the surveying Of two
separate lines of railroad a.
cross the county with a fair
prospect Of work beginning
on at least one of them soon
things are beginning to look
good for Morgan county.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
DOG HAIR.

The above is a very com
mon expression used, no, in
aptly, to describe the little
fellow who can't endure the
idea of his neighbor prosper
ing in business. There are
men who simply cannotstand
to see their fellowmen do
well. If they can't ruin his
business and blight his pros
poets by Misrepresentation,
and by taking all kinds of
mean advantage, they will
encourage opposition, either
in business or politics, when
such opposition serves no
other purpose than to satisfy
their hell-born hate. No
material advantage is even
gained by such practices as
these and yet there are men
who, for spite, will go out of
their way and neglect their
own business in order to do
a neighbor an injury.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

Our townsman, w. T..
Foreman tells us that he
contemplates buying a rock
crusher and moving it to
some point in the county and
crushing limestone for the
farmers to use on their i'm.
poverished land. This is a
step in the right direction.
and Mr. Foreman should have
every encouragement in his
new venture. By the use Of
crushed limestone the
peoE lie Of Morga county CAL
greatly increase their yield
Of corn and can also grow as
good bluegrass as is grown
anywhere in the state.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
Formula for Rapid Firing.

The rife for rapid firing should
have shotgun weight, shotgun bal
ance, shotgun trigger pull, shotgun At
and the sights must be such as can
be caught instantly without effort in
alignment, The hands grasp the
piece firmly, not with the rileman's
loose grip, but the left arm pushes
forward while the right draws back,
and the trigger is pulled by trans.
ferring the drawing back force to the
trigger finger, and not by any con-
scious crooking of that finger. The
moment the bead covers the mark the
bullet must be under way, be the aim
good or bad,-outing.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
Westminster catechlsma.

The longer and shorter Catechisms
of Westminster, along with the con.
fession Of faith Of Westminster, the
documents which contain the creed
of the Church Of Scotland, are &C.
copied by the Presbyterian church OF
the United States and Of other Eng
disappearing lands. No party In the
American Presbyterian church has
disclalmed the Westminster stand
ards openly. although of course there
are some who do not follow them very
closely. The Westminster catechisms
are not to be supplanted by the inter-
mediate catechism adopted by the
Presbyterian general assembly at
Louisville, KY. during the week
which ended May 20.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
Beware Of 0intments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy
the sense of smell and completely
derange the whole system when
entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescrip-
tons from reputable physicians,
as the damage they will do is ten
fold to the good yon can possibly
derive from them. Halls Cat
arrh Cure, manufactured by F.
j Cheney & CO., Toledo O., con-
tains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying Halls
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally
and made in, Toledo, Ohio, by F.
]. Cheney & Co. Testimonials
free.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills fol-
constipation.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

To those editors who have
been training their little pea
shooters on Watterson, the
veteran editor of the Cou-
rier-Journal, we would COM
mend his editorial in that pa
per of August 7th, entitled:
Harlequin a t Chicago.
Read it carefully, thought
fully, if in your power lies,
and when you are able to ex-
press one tenth as much
thought in twenty times as
many words let us hear from
you, butuntil that good house
please hold your peace as re-
q; rds "Marse Henri"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
KILLED INVADER OF HER NEST
shrewd Tactics of Grow Resulted In
the Death Of DefenseIess Preda-
tory Cobra.

If the testimony offered by an Eng
fish naturalist in Ceylon be given full
credence, then the cobra Is not SO
dangerous snake as popular reputa-
ton makes him. In at least two in
stances, reports this naturalist,
cobras were chased by large birds.
In neither case did the snake seem
to have any hypnotic power, such as
Is generally credited to snakes IN
general.
A crow was seen fighting an in
truder into its nest situated at the
very top Of tree. The crow was cir
cling at close quarters and pecking
hard at the nest, cawing loudly all
the time. The nest was some 40 feet
above the ground
Presently a snake came out of the
nest and started to descend with the
crow in hot pursuit pecking at the
cobra continually. The snake took
refuge about ten feet down in a
clump Of dead ferns from which 1t
was chased out by the crow. 1t came
from branch to branch until 1t
reached large horizontal limb,
which stretched out about 20 feet.
Here the snake was at great dis
advantage, inasmuch as 1t could not
urn upon the crow. The latter SEEM
ed fully to appreciate the situation
md It's tactics were excellent. 1t
would peck hard at the spine close
TO the tail and then peck near the
makes neck. At each peck pieces of
he snakes skin were torn out;
whereupon the cobra would lie quite
notionless But just as soon as 1t
syinced signs of again attempting to
escape the crow would recommence
is attacks with extraordinary surety
If aim, After Is minutes the cobra
vas dead.--IIarper's Weekly.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
nIhat VIII Do.n

Big as a house was one OF the two
arguing at the corner and he sawed
the air with arm and mighty fist.
My, but he was laying down the law
to the other fellow-a little chap
and in such public place 1t was the
more humiliating. The big mans
anger was at Its height and his words
the loudest and strongest, when the
little fellow turned to face him and
quietly said:
THAT will do"
Did you ever have small man
with little red on his cheek bones
and eyes between blue and gray
bore you with those eyes and remark;
That will do?"
Well, II did do.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

We have just purchased g
big supply Of body type Of a
smaller size than that we are
useing on the Courier. This
was done to enable us to put
more and more reading in
the paper. Already the best
equipped newspaper in the
mountains, the Courier is
constantly adding to its
plant. Nothing is too good
for Courier readers" so we
keep a-growing.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

Approves plan to beat
Powers" "May COME TO
KENTUCKY AND ASSIST IN
FIGHT. ;"
Thus reads the headlines
of an article in the Courier
Journal of August 18th.
We Gods! what next may
we expect? The biggest of
all Bull Mooseies coming to
Kentucky to help defeat Cabe
Powers, martyr, the idol of
X en- tn ky Republicans.
Wouldn't that stun you?
And just think! it hasn't
Deen long since CaDe Qldn' I
know whether he was a Bull
Moose or a Taftite. But he
had to get off the fence and
he thought it wise to fall on
the standpat side. And now
the big Bull is going to horn
the innards out Of Martyr
Powers political body. My!
Won't those good Republi-
cans of Morgan county who
gave of their substance to
helg save Powers guilty neck
be furious? How sad. But
politics is hell.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

Not within the last ten
years have there been such
fiattering prospects for a
bumper corn crop in Morg n
county as there is at present.
Not only corn but all other
crops did we'll this season. n
1911 crops of all kinds were
poor, and as a result the
people of the county have
just gone through a very
hard summer. 1t is various
ly estimated that from one
hundred to two hundredthou-
sand dollars have gone out of
the county within the last six
moths for meal, flour, meat
and feed stuff. This enor-
nous amount ought to be
saved to the people the COM
ming winter and spring and
business generally ought to
feel the stimulus occasioned
thereby.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

IiI ~ y
1t is rumored that Presi-
dent Taft has already pre-
pared vetoes for the tariff
bills which he anticipates will
pass at the present session
OF congress. Such an action
is characteristic of the man.
Even those Republicans, who
for the sake of party regular
lty are supporting Mr.. Taft,
cannot consistently defend
his administration.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

Although laboring under
difficulties West Liberty has
grown steadily in population
during the last ten years.
We havemore nice residences
and fewer shacks than any
town of like size in Eastern
Kentucky. This is the re-
suit of individual civic pride.
If we only had enough COL
.lective civic pride topush the
concrete sidewalk PROPOSE
ton through it would add
Immensely to the appearance
and convenience of our town.
Not only that, but it might
prove to be a splendid invest
ment. A great many of our
walks are actually dangerous
and this fact is well known
to the town council. Ifsome-
one meets with an accident
because of this condition, the
question will not be, evil
they get damages?" But
chow much will they get?
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

The interests of one man
or on set of men ought
not to count when such inter
ests are detrimental to the
well-being of the entire COM
munity.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

The Republicans party is
still of the opinion that un-
less it takes the poor little
'INFANT INDUSTRIES" under
its protecting wing they will
perish ere they get strong
enough to stand alone.
Magnanimous old foster
mother thou, G. o. p.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
WANTED

An indus 'r,,cus boy or girl, 10
to IA years of age, to learn the
printers trade. Must be of
steady habits and not afraid of
work.
Splendid opportunity for the
right one.
Apply to Courier Office
West Liberty Ky.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

Don't worry about the flu
ture. Well all get just
WHAT coming to us, says the
Cincinnati Enquirer. That's
just the reason why most of
us persist in worrying.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
A hero is born every minute,

A hero is born every minute,
But al he is too often unknown,
He fights life's battles unnoticed:
He dies without tremor or groan. I.
The world recks n ot of his valor,
No song in his lr.ises is sung;
Yet he's not whit less'a here,
Tn ugh he stands not other heroes
among.
He is loyal to friends and to duty
He dies that others may live;
He gives up what others hold dearest
What more can mortal man give?
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

One of the most common all.
ments that hard working people
are afflicted with is lame back.
Apply Chamberliain's Liniment
twice a day and massage the back
thoroughly at each application,
and you will get quick relief.
For sale by all dealers.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

TIE Georgia man who has
invented a seedless water
melon should now turn his at
tention to painting the lily.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

A pessimist is a calamity
bowler who is afraid that
things may not turn out as
badly as he hopes.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

If some men wanted to use
the Golden Rule" they
would have toask their wives
where to find it.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

bestowal OF patronage, by it
fraudulent pension system, by
waving the bloody shirt" and
deceiving and betraying lowly
voter. No great truth has it adj
vocated. Humanitarianism has
not been one OF it's cardinal prin-
ciples.
- y
1t has been the party of plum
der and pillage. While claim
ing to be the laboring mans
friend it pilloried him with the
law while it's progeny, the trusts,
robbed him. Without a COM
mendable purpose it must cease
to exist. Defeated, it will be
shorn of its power to legislate
and adjudicate for the favored
ieterests. 1t will have no pat
ronage to bestow, and having nc
great principle of good as a nu-
cleus around which men might
rally to build anew the party is
-
forever dead and it's only mourn.
ers are the office holders.
y Il
The American people have re.
allied the fraud that has beer
perpetrated upon them. So bit
ter is the dissention among the
Republican leaders that they are
FEELING on each other, and "whel
sogues fall out"-you know thu
rest. The disruption of the re-
! publican party has loosened thu
chains OF political bondage from
millions, and these will readjus
! themselves at the dictates O.
reason and free from prejudice
This will be a year of surprise
and one which men will, NOR,
chan ever before, vote accordin,
to the light within.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

DR.. G. H. Ellsworth, Dentist,
Rochester, N, ", says Foley
Kidney Pills gave him immediate
relief and strengthened him Won
derfully. "For some time past
have been bothered with weak
kidneys and bladder trouble. IT.
regular action, pain, and dizzy
spells all troubled me. Foley Kid
ney Pills gave me immediate re.
lief and strengthened me won.
derfully. | am pleased to recon-
mend their use" Foley Kidney
Pills are specially prepared fol-
kidney and bladder ailments, and
are always effective for rheuma.
tism, backache, weak back and
lumbago. For sale by all dealers.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

Look out! thelnew crop Of
boy babies will soon be wear
ing the high sounding name
of "Bull Moose"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

1t is fortunate that we
have politics to divert our at
tention from base ball occas-
ionally.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
The Passing Of the 6. 0. P.

Prophetic vision is not requir-
ed foretell that the campaign of
1912 will be the last fight of the
republican party as national
organization. If the impossible
could happen and Taft win this
the party might live-a galvan-
lied corpse another term, but
even that is doubtful; but out of
power, torn within by dissention
and without one single great
truth to which men could rally it
will go to pieces after its defeat
in November.
For years the people of this
nation have realized that the
great cohesive force that held
the republican party together is
patronage and the reflected glory
of an achievement half a century
past. Its sole purpose has been
to carry out the behests of the
favored interests in return for
huge corruption contributions. 1t
has never and can never be the
party of the people. When it,
in the COS, accomplished the
doubtful benefit of freeing the
Negro, it did the thing for which
it was formed, and, if that be
good, the only good act in its
history.
1t has lived because it was the
most perfectly organized politi-
cal machine the world has ever
known. 1t has lived by prosti-
tuting the public press, by the
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

Roosevelt is trying to make
the nations motto 'Me
Piuribus Unum.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

A PPR0POS of nothing else.
"A and to change the sub
jact rather abruptly, it is rather
a matter wonder that, proper.
tionately, the farmers Of Nor
gan outnumber the teachers il
their patronage of the local pa.
per. In other words, a greater
per centage of the farmers sub.
scribe for and read this paper
The IDEAL farmers are fast real
ling that the time is come tina
soil fertility must be conserved,
and are seeking the best meth.
DDS of farming. The are quicL
to recognize the CoURIER's eff
forts to aid them.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

1T is more than likely that the
teachers depend principally upon
the school journals, and they are
indispensable to the live teacher,
but the COURIER is seeking tc
bring about an increased interest
in the schools on the part of the
patrons-to arouse an enthusi-
asm that will be satisfied with
nothing but the best in the way
Of houses and equipment. In
this the teacher could aid greatly
by urging the patrons in his dis
trict to subscribe.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
Wanted, At Once

20 teams to haul logs at Helo-
chewa, KY.
HARLAN HARDWOOD LUMBER
IF COMPANY
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15

We are ready to do that job of
yours.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-08-15
LICKING VALLEY COURIER.

rerms-one Dollar year in advenee.