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The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
Drives Off r Terror

The chief eXecuoioner of death in
the wineer and spring months is
pneumonia. Its advance agenrs are
colds and grip. In any attack by one
of these maladieS no time should be
lost in taking the best medicine OBJ
talnable to drive it off. Countless
thousands have found this to be DR..
Kings New Discovery. my husband
believes it has kept him from having
pneumonia three or four times" writes
Mrs. George W. Place, Jacksonville,
Vt, sand for coughs, colds and Group
we have never found its equal. A"
Guaranteed for all bronchial affection.
Price so cts and s1.O0. Trial bottle
free at PAUL Drug Co.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
Saved His Life.

An Irishman applying for a pension
at Washington insisted upon the justice
Of his claim owing to the fact that he
had been wounded while in the service
Of his country.
"How and where were you wound
edr' one of the committee inquired.
Placing his hand over his heart, he
said, 81 was shot in the breast on a re-
trate from Bull Run, yer honor"
"Shot through the breast on re-
treatT' said the committeeman. How
could you be shot through the breast
on a retreatY
81 had the indiscretion to turn and
look back, yer honor"
"But If you were shot through the
breast in the place you indicate the ball
would have gone through your heart.
How Is that?"
"Me heart was in me mouth at the
time, yer honor"
He got his Observation-Disclosures
Ledger.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
DirieO.

Born to the wife of Allen
Wooten, on the 9th inst. a II
pound son.
Mrs. Solomon Stotts, was
stricken with paralysis a few
days ago and is yet in a very
critical condition.
Rev. ]. G. Campbell and H. M
Stotts, are conducting a series Of
meetings at Smiths Grove this
week.
Mrs. Joseph Henson. Sparks
vile, is visiting relatives at this
place this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Finis Stotts and
little daughter, Alice, of Amanda
vile. are visiting their parents
this place this week.
The school at this place will
close next Friday the Goth inst.
Prof. Webb is planning to give
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25

an entertainer that day con.
sisting of music, recitations and
dialogues. A very interesting
program is being prepared. An
admission fee of ten and fifteen
cents will be collected at the
door, the proceeds of said colIec-
ton going to the District Libra
nv.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
EVOLUTION OF THE PIANO.
From the First Crude instrument to It's
Present Perfection.

In the beginning the piano was a
harp shaped piece Of wood, having two
or three strings. From time to time
more strings were added until the
cithara was invented. This was an In
strument in the shape of a capital p,
with ten strings stretched across the
open space. Many centuries afterward
musicians conceived the idea of
stretching strings across an open box.
About the year 200 this was done, the
dulcimer made its appearance. and the
strings were struck with hammers.
For another hundred years or so
these hammers were held In the hands,
and then some genius invented a key
board. which. being struck by the fin
gers. caused the hammers to strike the
strings. This was called a clavicy-
therium, or keyed cithara. and from
time to time it was modified and i'm
proved.
During Queen Elizabeth's time it
was called virginia. and then a spinet,
because the hammers were covered
with the spines of quilts, which struck
and caught the strings and produced
the sound
During the period between 100 and
1900 it was much improved and en-
larged and was given the name Of
harpsichord. 1t was in ITO that
Bartholomew Christofoll, an Italian, in
vented a keyboard similar to the one
we have now. which causes the ham,
mers to strike the wires from above.
and thus developed the piano.
During the last century the inventive
genius of musicians the world over has
revised and improved 1t until it has
reached the present day perfection
Exchange
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
HUM0R OF THE DAY
0. K. at Last.

A man with a low voice had Just
completed his purchases in the depart
ment store.
o. What is the name" asked the clerk.
"Jepson," replied the man.
''ChipsonT'
"No; Jepson."
"Oh, yes, Jeffersonr'
mo; Jepson, J-e-p-s-o-n."
"Jepson"
That's it. You have it. Sixteen
eighty-two"-
"Your first name; initial, please"
"Oh, K"
20. K. Jepson."
Excuse me; it isn't o. K. You did
not understand me. I said Oh"
20. Jepson."
"No; rub out the o. and let the Z.
stand"
The clerk looked annoyed. Twill you
please give me your initials again?"
81 said K.'
81 beg your pardon-you said O. *.
Perhaps you had better write it your
self"
81 said 'Oh'"-
"Just now you said K"
"Allow me to finish what l started
1 said oh because 1 did not under
stand what you were asking me.
did not mean that it was my initial.
Ny name is Kirby Jepson."
"Ohr'
mo, not O., but K. Give me the
pencil, and I'll write it down for you
myself. There; guess it's o. K. now"
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
The Kentucky Mule.

Lew Hudson, an Atlanta mule
dealer. was in Lebanon last week
buying mules. He had bought
several carloads ranging in
price from $197 to S217. John
o. Duncan, of Marion county,
had a fine mule that Hudson de-
sired to purchase. The two
could not agree on g price until
Duncan jestingly told Hudson he
could have the mule by paying 20
cents per pound for the animal.
The trade was made. The mule
weighed 1430 pounds. The price
paid was of course, $3.50. Mr..
Hudson will get a margin on his
investment at that, for South
erners set great store by the
Kentucky mule. The Kentucky
product never goes begging in
the South. Many Mississippians
and Georgians contend that the
Kentucky mule has greater pow
err of endurance than any other.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
MIGRATION OF WEEDS.
How Seed Ripened In Asia May Take
Root In America.

Root In America.
Weeds migrate as we'll as men. Ac-
cording to the best authorities, there
are already 600 varieties at least Of
weeds in New England that were not
to be found there when the country
was first settled. Within less than
twenty-five years after the landing Of
the pilgrims one observer counted
more than forty new weeds the Euro
peans had brought them.
Nature employs all sorts of methods
for spreading life about the planet and
does not seem to care whether the life
is that Of a weed or of a plant fit for
human use. Indeed. 1t uses such IN
romantic material as old rubber over
shoes for seed carriers, as many new
weeds have appeared in a valley in
Connecticut since factory was estab-
lished there that found use for such
CASTOR things.
The overshoes come from all parts Of
the world. The cloth lining is torn out
before the rubber Is used. and from the
seeds that have found Judgment in
such an apparently unpromising place
plants have grown on the dump heap,
and their seeds have found fertile soil.
multiplied and f1ourished. What q rO-
nance there is in the life of such
seed-ripened. perhaps. in Asia. trod-
den in the mud and carried on board
ship on the feet of a passenger. thence
taken to Europe, where it was picked
up by the boot Of an American. was
finally dislodged in the overshoe and
found its terminating place in Con-
necticut-Chicago Record Herald.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
Where He Was.

The mayor of small town was try
ing negro for abusing his wife. She
claimed he got drunk and tried to beat
her and she hit him. The mayor turn
ed to their little girl and asked:
"Girl. was your father under the in
fuence of whisky when your mother
hit him?"
"NO, sab. He was under the kitchen
table," she quickly replied. = National
Monthly.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
tif His Case Exactly.

when father was sick about six
years ago he read an advertisement of
Chamberlain's Tablets in the papers
that fit his case exactly" writes Miss
Margaret Campbell of FIT. Emith, Ark.
she purchased box of them and he
has not been sick since. NV sister eaa
stomach trouble and was also seuetit-
ed by them" For sale by all dealers.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
A Girls Pity.

ut was King Midas. wasn't it. who
turned everything he touched to gold?"
Il believe So"
Poor old fellow"
why do you think be was a poor
Did fellow?"
He never could eat pickle with
his fingers. Chicago Record Herald.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
As IL Should Be.

Shopper want to buy necktie
suitable for my husband Salesman
Sorry. madam. but we are not permit
ted to sell neckties to women who ore
unaecompanied by men, Puck.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
Repartee.

Mrs. Youngwife-Do you cook lob
ster?
New Cook-Always. mum. Do yorse
eat yours raw?-Broeklyn Life.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
In Wronu.

Lady lat fashionable balD-Do you
know that ugly gentleman sitting OPP
posite to us?
Partner-That is my brother, madam
Lady Gin cOnfusion)-Ah, l beg your
pardon. l had not noticed the resem-
blance.-Dundee Advertiser.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
The Usual Method.

Pa-Embrace me, ThOra. Reginald
has asked your hand in marriage.
Thora-But l don't want to leave
mother, pa.
Pa-Oh, never mind that Take her
along with yOu.-Stray Stories
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
Twas sneezy Thing to Do.

"At whom are you looking" de-
handed the young lady of the young
man who obstrurted her path
"Atchoo". replied the hay fever vic
tim and hurried away Houston Post
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
A Fixed Habit

Smith-Has your son any fixed habit
that worries you as to his future?
Jones-Yes. He fights about ten
rounds every morning with the alarm
elock.-Judge.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-25
Country Life and Schools.

lucky Child Welfare Exhibi
recently held In Louisville, distin
gushing it from all other exhibits
is its treatment of the Statewide
problems of education of country
life. The State of Kentucky is one
of the most interesting that could
have been selected for such a
study, because here are the iso-
lated mountain districts, in
which feuds that have endured
tor generations are now giving
way under the advancement of
the school.
Kentucky spends nearly seven
million dollars yearly in the edu-
cation of it's children, of which
about half is spent for county
graded schools. Yet even this
large sum does not meet the
need.
In Jefferson county, for in
stance, with 1O,818 pupils, taught
in one hundred different build
ings, there is no provision for
supervision of the kind which en-
ables a city school system to
maintain high and uniform stand
ards. The city Of Louisville, on
the other hand, spends $22, $50 a
year for supervising principals
and special supervisors, and is
thus able to place expert knowl-
edge on special subjects at the
disposal of all it's schools
The great problem of the ru-
raj school has always been to Sc
cure good teachers and sufficient
salaries for them in sparsely set
tied districts where the popula-
ton seemed insufficient to pro-
vide for more than a single-room
ungraded school. The Mason
county idea is one which de-
serves close study by other
counties. A large consolidated
school serves nine districts.
School wagons bring in the chill
dren who live at a distance. By
this concentration it is possible
to secure better building and
teachers better prepared to do
efficient work in one grade only
instead of teachers trying to COW
err eight grades. The concolidat-
ed school becomes a social center
in which a school spirit can be
developed and in which the chill
dren find wider opportunity for
work. for play and for social
life.
The need of training for agri-
culture is another main point of
this section. Too often the
country boy leaves the farm be-
cause his teachers ideals have
been those of the city, and the
boy has been taught. to see no
career in farm life.
He contrasts the nnskilled farm
ing Of his father with the intel
leetual training of his teacher
without realizing that farming
may also be made a skilled trade.
demanding brains as we'll as
Drawn. The agricultural and
Horticultural resources of Ken
lucky are enormous if properly /
cultivated. Kentucky needs
Kentucky boys well trained for
agriculture
Different organizations are
to meet the deeds of
Kentucky's children. The school
mDrOUan ont IpaUIlo airoS RI
New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
KENrLLATL0Y SYSTEMArLzEn-

Persons familiar with conditions N
the schools will agree with what Mrs.
Stephen s. Wise says about their lack
OF ventilation. The excessive heat and
impure air Of some Of them are a con
slant subject Of complaint by children
and teachers and by those who, like
Mrs. Wise, make it their business 10
visit the schools. Tho conditions seem
to be acknowledged, in part at least.
by Chief Engineer McCann of the
Board of Education, who offers the Gus
tOmary excuses for failure 10 remedy
thcm-that there is a lack Of money TO
improve defective vcntilating systems
and that the city has even refused 10
appropriate funds for an investigation
of the working of such systems In
general.
The trouble seems To he with the ven
tilating systems. Arnold Bennett In one
Of his novels refers more than once 10
his characters as living before ventila-
tion was discovered, when doors and
windows were kept tight I'm order 10
shield the occupants Of houses from the
nOxiOus influence Of outdoor air. Aft"r
ventilation was discovered came the
discovery Of the ventilating system.
Some future realist Of Mr.. BENEFITS
minute accuracy will describe how pco-
pie lived in the age Of the ventilating
system, when the object Of existence
was while indoors 10 breathe no air
that had not been persuaded to come in
by means Of a pumping device. He will
say that they could not open the win
dOWs under any circumstances, for that
offended the monster which was supply
ing them with air. If the room seemed
insulforably hot and the air heavy and
foul. they had TO diStrust the evidences
Of their senses. since this was impoSsl-
bic. for they were automatically, thermo-
statically and In various other impress
Siye ways enjoying perfectly pure air "
exactly the right temperature.
In the stupid days before ventlla-
tiOn was discovered the outdoor air was
regarded as an enemy and Old-fash-
ioned people are still heard TO speak of
the 'baleful night air." When ventlla-
tion was discovered all that changed,
and now there Is worship even of the
system by which air IS obtained When
forty children and teacher swelter IN
a room the first thing to be thought Of
is not their sufferings but the sufferings
Of the system If window should he
opened!
New-York tribune., 1912-01-27

man IN question had registered more
than once Thus the editors proof Of his
charge vanished, and he was promptly
indicted for his offence, as a warning
to all others who might presume to raise
their voices against the boss. Time was
when that would have ended the matter
But this time it did not. Appeal from
ties brought about an investigation,
which showed that the ballot boxes had
been stuffed and the registry books tam
pered with. An upright judge Overruled
the Sheriff and had a grand jury drawn
by elisOrs. The Sheriff, the boss and
lot Of their fellow ringsters were in
dicted, and now the boss himself is SEN
fenced to a year in Jail, with several
freeholders and others to bear him COM
pany. incidentally, the editor who was
to have been sacrificed is still at liberty,
issuing his paper regularly.
Such an achievement ought greatly to
encourage those who in any community
are contending against corrupt political
control. 1t ought to be salutary warn
ing to political bosses Of the Kuehnle
stripe everywhere, though it probably
will not be- The McKanes and Kuehnles
and their fellows seem incapable Of
learning even the most obvious lesson ;
which is all the more reason for apply
ing that lesson to each and every one
of them with unsparing vigOr.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
THE FRENCH DRIFT CITYWARD.

THE FRENCH DRIFT CITYWARD.
France appears unmistakably to have
ioined in the cityward drift of popula-
tion which in late years has been clearly
observed in other countries, including
the United States. The returns Of last
years quinQuennial census emphasize
this fact In 1906 the total pOpula-
tion was 1922, ,245; in 1911 it was 80
6O1. 500. the increase of 349,2G4 being
characteristically unsatisfactory rate Of
growth. In thirty-five years the actual
increase from all sources has been only
2,695, ,721, or almost precisely I per cent.
In the same period the population of
Germany has increased nearly AZ per
cent.
The circumstance Of present interest
Is. however, that In the last five years
the increase of Frances urban pOpula-
ton has been considerably greater than
that of the whole country. Thus in the
Department of the Seine which is prac-
tically all urban, the increase was 3O5,42f,
or about 81 per cent Of the whole ma
llOlldl luCIedSp. III twenty -lultt W.
partments, being those containing the
large cities and towns, there was an in
crease. while in the remaining sixty
four there was decrease. In a large
number Of departments moreover, there
was a loss either as whole or at any
rate in the rural part, while there was
a gain in the chief town. Thus in He
ct Vilaine the population of the whole
department decreased by 3.707. while
that of its capital town of Rennes in
creased by 1882.
This movement cannot he considered
salutary. 1t does not mean an influx
of foreigners to the industrial centres,
because the number of foreigners don't
ciled in the republic is steadily decrea ;
ing, but it Enthusiastically means that the
French themselves are drifting from
country to city. There is a strange
irony, too, in the circumstance that
young Frenchmen should be fOrsaking
the land, when it was for their sake
that the land system was adopted which
has largely induced the slow increase
of population
New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
PENSIONS.

The Tribune Is asked by correspond
ent, whose letter we publish in another
column, TO say what il thinks of pension
legislation now pending in Congress-
We have already protested emphatically
against the passage of the Sherwood
bill, which would apparently add about
$15,000,0OO to the governments present
annual pension outlay Nor do we favor
either the compromise bill approved by
the Senate Committee on Pensions,
which, it is estimated would add about
$90,0O0,OO0 year to the Treasurys
present obligations, or the volunteer Off
F GERS retirement measure, the enactment
of which would still further entail new
outlay.
We oppose all these measures chiefly
for the reason that the government can
not afford to assume any more pension
obligations at present. 1t is paying out
now about S15T 100000 year. and since
June 80 1865, has paid $4,0O0.OO0.OOO TO
those who served in the Civil War and
their dependents. No other country in
the world has ever exhibited such gen
erosity to its veterans. and the genera
tion which fought the Civil War would
have greeted with incredulity any
prophecy that forty-seven years after
the close of that war the government
would be paying more than S15OOOO, 900
annually TO eX-soldiers and their families
Our correspondent asks what legisla-
t1on for the benefit of Union soldiers The
Tribune has ever favored 1t has ia
vored practically all the legislation now
on the statute book. It gave its support
TO the Dependent Pension act of 1890
under whose provisions the annual out
lay for pensions rose from SSS,0OO,0O0
in 1889 to $156, 100000 in 1893. 1t hearth
ly approved the Ware order made during
President RoOsevelt's first term, which
practically established rates of compen-
sation for age, and it also approved the
act Of 1907, which increased the age al
lowances 1t has always been in favor
Of liberal pension laws, but It has also
held that an annual expenditure Of the
average amount for the last few years
should not be exceeded and that further
adjustments Of pension rates should not
commit the Treasury TO any larger out
lay than that
We agree with our correspondent that
a good deal Of pension money now goes
10 persons who do not deserve to re.
ceiye It. soldiers whose records have
been corrected" by special acts and
other beneficiaries of unwise private
pensiOn legislation IJndouhtedlv IL the
pension roll were weeded out there
New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
WHAT THE PAYMENT WOULD
COVER.

One argument against preferential
payment to the Interborough company
runs to the effect that when the city
can borrow money at 4 per cent IL
would be ruinOus finance to pay the In
terborough company so per cent for IT,
or whatever the preferential payment
will be. But the city will get something
more for its So per cent than supply
Of capital. 1t will get an operator for
its subways, and whoever the operator
is he will insist on having pronts'
whether those profits be called prefer
entiol pavment or not The proposed
preferential payment covers operator $
profits and will include all or nearly all
tbe nrofits the IntcrborOugh is likely TO
get if the city insists upon an adequate
service and constant extensions as they
are needed. Any operator would nave
to have profits. so that the comparison
made between 4 and S94 per cent Is mis-
leading.
Moreover. for its preferential payment
the city will get the additional lines III
L
with the present subway. Thls VIII ne
q convenience worth paying something
for. And, again, for the preferential
payment the city will presumably oo-
tain q considerable reduction in the term
of the present subway lease, now re-
carded as a mistake. The length winch
| II has TO run ties the hands of the city
and prevents it from obtaining the
most favorable terms for subway eN-
tensions, II will he worth the city ;
while TO pay something TO have that
lease cut down. Furthermore. for the
preferential payment the city VIII pre-
sumably obtain a contract by Whlch
future additions to the subway system
may be made without delay and endless
neootiation, This and other concessions
will no doubt be made in consideration
of the city's agreeing to allow the Inter
borough company to take out its pro1tS
I'D to S% per cent. or thereaboutS' De
fore the city begins to share in the re-
turns from operation. So it is not far
IN sneak as if the city were considering
the pavment of S% per cent merely to
obtain the use of private capital.
The subject calls for an unbiased cls-
cussion whenever the people are per
mitted TO enter those higher realms OF
finance where the officials now tread
and are taken into the confidence of the
negotiators. The preferential payment,
if one is proposed, should he discussed
on its merits. The reasOnableness or
the rate should be considered and also
the fairness of the amount on which
preferential payment is proposed. The
question is whether or not what the
Interborough has to sell is worth what 1t
asks for it. That cannot be determined
bv denunciation and misrepresentation.
New-York tribune., 1912-01-27

moral penalties only. The practice is
said to have arisen in the third and
fourth centuries, though authority for It
is claimed to be found in the Pauline
Epistlcs. The name Indulgence" was
first used by Pope Alexander IL In the
eleventh century. The practice was
much abused in the sixteenth century,
and the modern laws concerning 1t were
promulgated by the Council OF Trent.
Indugences are sometimes granted on
important occasions-such as the crea-
ton of cardinals-on somewhat the same
principle as that of the granting Of par
dons to prisoners at the coronation OF a
sovereign.-Ed.l