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Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16
kentucky Educational ASSO-
CidtiOn

The entucky Educational Associ
alton is the organized leader in mat
tiers educa tioral in the State, and
its plain dut, is to make n supreme
effort to improve the content, the
organization and the administra.
ton Of the public schools II the or
ganized teachers of the State do not
take and maintain an intelligent
and patriotic lead in these matters
which embrace their lie work, have
they any cause TO complain il others
assume their addicted leadership
One part Of our schol system cannot
suffer without all parts 1t is the
duty ofevery man and woman en-.
gagged in school work Of every grade
and kind to put his shoulder to the
wheel aud assist in lifting the schools
out of the rut of indifference. Nero
hddled while Rome burned; let no
school men birker while the children
OF the State suffer. 1t is the duty
OF every teacher to attend the an
nual meeting oil this Association and
lend his hand and teart to the grea,
work it is doing The next meeting
will be held in Louisville June 1927
Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16
Mrs. Hattie Block Gets Watch

Did you ever hear the expression,
HE could not give that thing way
if he trled?" This could have beet
applied and very sppropria tely to
the LeautIful gold plated lsdy's
watch given away by the Parker
Mercsnlile Company last Saturday
in connection with the piano con-
test. Two weeksago they snnoun
ced through these columns that OF
that dale they would give ava
toe watch absolutely free TO som.
one OF their customers who hac
trad,d with them since January Isl
tie condition being that the ne
whose name Was drawn from u
box should be present when. theu
name was called. Hhen the tim,
had arrived to draw thu mann
there were only a small numb,
present.. yet the names were put II
to a box and shuihed and when or,
w,,S drawn out and called III il III,
one was present they were to Il
seive the present. Mrs. HAITI
Black was the lucky one, aud 's
erivsd the prize-a beautiful 6terr
Jewell. solid gold elRin watch.
Later on there will be othe
presents given away IN theil
customers, in connection with hi
contest. Match for later announce
ments,
Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16
POWERS HAS OWN
FENCES 70 GUARD
willLCiV. h TO Eleventh Dis
,riCl VOyeTS TO 'etiIe
lars case
CALEB POWERS INDEPENDENT

Representative aleb Powers was
asked TO comment on an interview
given to the press from Somerset
Nv h, certain leaders of the Ed
wards faction in the Eleventh { on
& rsSiona District TO the effect that
1t MAS their intertion to jump into
t L os. welt band wagon, believ-
iue 1t to he the popul r one in the
d s,rict. and IN the hope of involving
Rcpre,entat,ve Powers in a fight
over the delegates to the Republi.
can National Convention and es-
trarging him from some OF his for.
mr. ri, nds. Mr., Powers said:
~ .iis | am for President TAFT
f. q nomination | shall positive.
~ ',iuse To be drawn into any fight
Owe the Gel, gates from the Eleven
tn District to the Republican Ma
t'onal orvention one way or the
other.
NJ, tight in the Eleventh Congress
sional District is one thing, and Mr..
Tait's fight is quite another.
shall take care OF my own when the
time comes. The people of the
Eleventh Congressional District are
amply able to select delegates o the
Republican National Convention to
reflect their views and represent
their wishes without any lnterfer
enCe on my part.
Our last Republican State Con
vention held at Louisville-tbe one
at which Judge O'Rear was mani.
mated for Govenor-adopted unan.
imously, | think, the following
plank in the Republican platform:
Werecognize the high character
and ability OF the distinguished
public service of President Taft
and cordially indorse his admin.
stration and unreservedly indorse
him Tor denomination in 1912.
II was a member of that conven-
ton and feel bound by the plank in
our platform; but. as / said before.
l shall make no fight one way or
che other. Nv time is completely
occupied in looking alter my Con
gressional duties. "-Louiville Her
aid. February 2. 1912.
Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16
YOU NEVER
CAN TELL
Who Will be in the Leod From
one Week TO the Next n
the Piano Contest
MISS JULIA SMITH IN LEAD

A new leader, Miss Julia Smith,
heads the list OF contestants this
week, having a majority of less than
one hundred over her nearest com
petitor, Miss Mabel Matthews.
This only goes on to prove the
uncertainty Of the leaders from
week to week. Every body increas.
ell over their vote last week. One
OF our rules adopted at the beginning
IT this contest was that in the
event that any Of the contestants
did not increase their vote in two
weeks at any time, they would be
dropped from the contest and their
votes not counted. This rule was
adopted to keep all the candidates
busy all the time, and we have vet
to drop the first one This shows
the interest taken, and we are glad
70 retain the entire list.
Right here We wish to state that
II ANYTIME ANYONE thinks there is
omethinp soirg on that is NOT fair
TO the other contestants, we will
deem it a favor if you will please
ell us ahou it. This is your con.
test and every rnle adopted was in
view of keeping it on the level
l. YOU have any suggestions to
make ", will be glad to consider
them also.
Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16
New JurieS

The new system adopted bv Judge
Sampson in the Circuit Court, of
drawing a new Jury every two
weeks has proven a splendid thing
in the dispatch of business in Court,
aud very popular with the mass of
the people.
Under the old system one Jury
would serve through an entire term
of several weeks, and in so doing,
oftimes inaccurately. the members
Of the Jury would begin to take
sides with certain lawyers and try
20 help them, right or wrsng.
Too much intimacy or familiarity
between lawyers and juries works
lniguity This always works bad
frr the interests OF Justice
II is better for the sake of JUS
tice that the members of the Jury and
the legal profession not become TOO
intimate, not too good friends.
The cases should be decided upon
their merits alone without reference
to who are the attorneys represent
ing the htigants. Perhaps the best
way TO accomplish this is. TO sum
mon fresh, strong, uutrammeled
md unconquered jury every week
or so. The new jury has no ak to
grind The constituencies that a
solemn duty is o be psifOrmed rests
heavier upon the uns phsrSN,ed. tai
ismau than upon the praeticed and
long experienced veniremau, and the
best results ma, he expected
}, ASIDE from all this there is the op-
porunily for a greater number of
the good citizens of the County to
pert RIM jury service II is an exper-
fence that every man should, at
leas, have once. il not oftener. Ev-
, cry citizen should understand the
working Of the courts and there is
no ay so adopted to this as jury
, service
! At the January term Of the Knox
! Circuit Court alone more than one
D hundred men had this experience
, and other terms of Court will pro
} duCe hike results. The people APP
; proye Of it and the best results arr
0 obtained.
Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16

would oppose the measure, because
i, takes away part Of my revenue
But knowing the situation as ! do,
! G I'LL not be other than for it
Thi extreme West end ~ Whitley
county is forty miles from the coun I v
seat With n large mountain aud
rough roads between Regardless
%, the earnest cffi's of the officers !
find that it isutterly impossible to
enforce the law so far away from
the seat Of justice. IL is almost i'm.
possible to get witnesses to the
county seat Tor anv purpose, iuolud-
ing witnesses for the grand jury
There is next to NO protection in
that section against lawlessne~s
1t il impossible to keep a deput'
sheriff there
II am supposed to go to Pine
Knot on the Queen & Crescent once
a month to prosecute, hat | can
hardly get there more than half the
time, and when do go | am handi-
capred becadse can not get man
brought to Jail after have convict
ed him have absolutely had to
turn criminals loose over there az
ter had convicted them. simply
because could not get them to Jail
There are fifteen thousand people in
hat section. good citizens, who are
absolutely ~ the mercy of lawless
element | believe that nine enths
oi the peonle Of Whitley county are
for the new county and the few who
are onnosing it are controlled sole
~ by selfish motives. The only Or
uoSitinn comes from few lawVer>
At Somerset aud w lliamsbure
who's clients have large hol 'inp>
IN the new county and who will have
to give up some OF their pr"ctice or
90 to the new county seat to do
the work.
people, anywhere, needed re
liei. these people do, and | believe
thattne Legislature owes it to these
citizens to give them relief they are
asking. Even those opposed to the
new county admit that II is needed
but say that the taxable property |
will not be sufficient to support 1t
and vet think a conservative es'
innate of the taxable property |
would exceed three million dollars.
Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16
List of Candidates

Julia Smith 1856
Mable Matthews 2s249
Nan Logan 27l40
Hilda Fisher 1880
Laura Hays 24760
Margart Helton 1850
Betty Golden 9il0o
Linda Lawson fS4b0
Maggie Terrell 1880
Mrs. Lou Webb 1880
Sarah J. Fuson 20ls4
Elva Jackson 1880
Naomi futile 20S35
Bertha Lane 2+O0s
Clara Lambdin 1910
Jess Ballard 1875
Dortha Miller 20936
Gladys STEELE e2l95
Kitty CArnes 1876
Bertha Hall 1850
Florence shelton 205G0
Bess Sawyer 1890
Mamie v. Seward 22l5o
Mia Parker 1890
Cleo Howard 1920
Francis Farmer 1925
N. X. s. S. North 1875
Louise Hyden 1925
Lutie LOckhRrt 1890
Mary Gilbert 22l90
Elsie Wilson 1880
Myrtle Mitchell 23l5O
Jess Davis 2l7O5
NJ K. S. S. South 1880
Gladys Stratton 1875
Maud Elliot 1859
Alice Hs ton 1850
Ticy Miles sSl50
Evlyn Black l7leC
Jewel I've 1880
Mary McDermOtt 1870
Cleo Jones lSl4E
Beatrice Croley 1864
Ethel Owens IS "a
| Ali e Aruett ltlfC
Lille williams 1874
Evlyn McClung 1884
Della Bishop 1875
/ Mary Berry lS6 y
/ Lou Faulkner 4l5u
Ida Faulkner .,... 1893
/ Daisy Herd lll0
Bulah May l7l2
Mary Savior -' 500 1914
}onnie I've l4l5
Pauline RIaclsharn 1875
Florencs vi Norman 1919
Nora Henson 1856
| Nelle Root 1881
Daisy Rnhsion 1911
RnhrrtA Cole 1919
Maud Cole l0ll
Matte Lawson 22eS
Matte shelton 1887
Pearl BullOck 1855
kmniA Norris 2ll9
Ottie Adams 1929
I.enOra Lewis 1854
Lucille WOOdson 1915
MOllie Gibson 1911
Minnie LlewSllen lsl6
Mountain advocate., 1912-02-16

The Concert Trio. at Union Col
lege. Saturday night, February H.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25
EVOLUTION OF THE CAPITAL
Expenditure on All New Buildings Of
Hewn Granite Has Been Unorudg.
lnely Lavish.

The authorization OF three new do.
partment buildings, designed to be
seen together and accordingly harmon.
lied In their architecture. is the long.
est single step thus far taken In the
evolution OF Virginian village into q
city worthy to be the capital and show
place OF the second in population and
the first in wealth Of modern nations.
lone excepts from the comparison,
for different but obvious reasons. the
British and the Chinese Empires"
He who visits Washington, says a
writer In Scribners. now after ten
years. who has not seen II, say. since
Just after the war with Spain. finds SO
great a transformation that he 10 fain
to take his bearings anew from the
ancient landmarks. and 10 relieved to
md the capitol and the monument
still predominant. Even after nvs
years one nnds the new monuments,
architectural and sculptural, vying in
interest with the old. But the decade
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25
English Among the English.

II was the same genial British OH.
Ger aboard his majestys sloop OF war
Algerine who inquired what "far-hm"
the boat was from.
The cutter had Just returned to the
bay from the west coast OF Mexico and
the critical situation In the tumult.
uous lower republic was being dis.
cussed.
Most extraordinary condition
there" observed the Britisher. Com
munication demoralized and annoying
difficulty in getting the ma-ile through.
don't you know, eh?"
There was a tense pause and then !:
Beg pardon. what Is that mile you
speak Oft" inquired the one with
whom the British "jolly' was convers.
ing. and his question was both limo.
cent and sincere.
THE ma-ile. the posts. old chapi"
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25
CheerfuIIy Informed,

young student of science Of In
dianapolis came to a professor recent
ly with this entry In his note book:
Memo: Inquire further concerning
walnut catsup and the raw material
for Its manufacture"
And the events Of the entry were
these: The student had gone to the
country southeast of the city In an
inquisitive spirit, seeking items of in
formation Of all kinds, and had seen a
sugar camp, where countryman with
brace and bit was diligently boring
tree. 1t chanced to be a walnut
tree.
Might ask" queried the student
with much curiosity, might l ask
what 1t is you get from this tree!"
The countryman looked up at the
tree. noted his mistake and cooked his
eye knowingly.
"Sure-walnut ketchup!" he .e-
sponded cheerfully. and passed on to
the next tree.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25
Which goes to show that there are
a couple OF ways Of speaking thu
grand old language.
672 Sure Cures.

DE Courcey." asked a caller. do
you know OF anything that's good for
a cold?" Our old friend De Courcey
Van Guy aroused himself from hi.
lethargy and spake as follows:
DO know anything that's good for
a cold?" he echoed. my young friend.
know Of 672 infallible ways of cur.
Ing cold. Here is bundle OF papers
from the lower drawer OF my desk. |
have been collecting them for more
than 30 years. came to this town In
the summer Of 1879. You Just try
these. one after another. and II they
don't do you any good. come back and
I'll give you ia more which have
In the next pigeon-holc. You young
follows don't seem to have any sense
you can always cure a cold II you 20
at It right."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25

10 q more eligible period thas "
lustrum for the purpose OF compa'
because It 10 ten years since ne IA. s0
ate authorized its district eo'nnH''
to employ experts for the 'nw
ment OF the park system Of tse +"
trict Of Columbia"
A chief element OF ones Nooe1 :
the costliness OF the new ou"s
Probably the flrst thought OF inc ..
age American. visiting or reshr
Washington. is that OF Mrs Ca'v.
domestic at the sight OF the ess
Of tho sistine Madonna. "Lor,
how expensive!" The expend"''.
all these new expanses OF heSn 81"
ite or marble has been mol ON"
grudging but lavish. The tn'ee -.
department buildings which TOT.
imm ediate occasion OF these re
are estimated to cost $s.Ooo'oo'
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25
6ORL2vC no GUNS

II 1t were toothpick, and place 1t
In the barrelboring lathe, where pow
erful machines bore out the barrel
lathe cuts grooves on the inside OF
the bore to give the projectile ro-
tary movement In the lathe the i'm.
mense gun itself Is rotated upon the
cutting instruments.
By the time the fourteen-inch gun
is finished 1t has cost $62,20S. The
mount costs $4,000 more. The life OF
the gun before lining is necessary is
225 rounds. and the cost of each round
OF ammunition in warfare is somewhat
in excess OF $500. OF which the pro-
jectile itself costs $500. In target
practice the cost OF each shot is about
5000. The fourteen-inch gun throws
shell weighing 1.400 pounds dis
tance OF nearly thirteen miles with
such accuracy that the expert gun
ners can land the projectile some-
where within rectangle with twenty
foot sides. The shell leaves the muz-
zle OF the gun travelling at a velocity
Of nearly half a mile second and at
a distance OF 10000 yards 1t is capable
OF penetrating 15.9 inches OF face
hardened armor. The twelve-inch
guns penetrate 1876 inches OF similar
armor at the same distance.
In the yard is display Of trophies
tfat illustrates vividly the great
progress made in the machinery Of
warfare. The CORVALLIS battery.
captured at Yorktown, is arranged in
! circle on a concrete stand. Com
pared with the immense fourteen-inch
guns In the shop. with their length
Of fifty.fve feet and their weight OF
sixty-three tons; the cannon OF Corn
wallis look almost like watch charms.
Each is about the size OF length Of
drain tile Some OF them have handles
on their tops like satchels They
look as II they might be carried In
shawl straps.
II requires about eighteen months
10 construct one OF the fourteen-inch
| guns, and already six have been COM
pleted and taken out to the naval
proving ground at Indian Head. where
they are tested. The rest OF the twen-
ty guns are in various stages OF max
Ing but all are expected to be ready
when the New York and Texas are
launched next year.
Although the fourteen;inch beauties
are the greateL. attraction to visitors
Just now. the other naval armament in
the shops is OF tremendous interest.
Twelvs-inch giants weighing tiity-six
tons stick out from the lathes. They
cost even more than the fourteen-inch
guns to make. 365.00O being the
amount each gun costs without its
mount. which costs $4,000 additional
They have a longer range than tho
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25

Chinda. Mrs. Taft then presented 10
Viscountess Chinda bouquet Of Aner.
ican beauty roses.
At this ceremony were present Nm
Taft. Viscount Chinda, the JapaAess
ambassador; Viscountess Chinda, kts
E. r. Scidmore and Col Spencer Co.
by, officer in charge of public building
and grounds in the District Of Cofus
bia.
Three thousand trees, third more
than the first shipment, which It VA
necessary to destroy because q
strange parasitic insects, we're receiv
ed in Washington the other day. II
mediately five entomologists-e1 experts
Of the department Of agriculture-vest
to work to examine the trees.
OF 1000 examined there vas
six trees under suspicion, which ve's
subsequently found free OF all dr.
gerous parasitic life. The lot -
been pronounced by experts 10 he "
cleanest collection of trees In ths n
spect that they have ever had oees
sion to examine.
The planting Of the trees, inassr
ated with this ceremony is proeeesse
rapidly. They are all to be plassss
along the water front Of PotssS
Park. There is expected TO be s's'
slight bloom next season, but tvs =
three years must eiapse before ~
will b0 radiant With color
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25

Tnat the quarries of the rex,o, -
worked by the Powhatans ana ...' .s'
cent tribes is amply proved bv -, ~
covery, on their deserted vnla,. ~ ~
and in their shell heaps tbres .ss'
the Potomac-Chesapeake reg,os
countless numbers of Implement, !. q 9
tical with those produced in tho ,... ~
quarries. e ''eal
This group was designed b, W :.
Holmes, head curator of antbro,.'. H.
the figures were modelled by fl y !
Dunbar. the sculptor, and the 49, -
was installed by H. w. Hendle, ~
chronological preparator. ~
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25

larger sized guns, but their lie 10
shorter. lining being necessary after
200 rounds have been fired. 1t costs
$424 each time one OF these is fired
With a war charge and projectile.
Horsepower Figured.
In the shell shops workmen may be
seen Transforming blocks OF brass In
to tubes. an interesting process. while
In vast tank in another building
models OF war vessels are being test
ed. This workshop Is next to the gun
factory In interest. Wooden models.
as large as canoe or rowboat, OF ev-
made by the shipbuilders. The pro-
portions are exactly the same as those
OF the projected ships OF war. Above
the long tank travels an appliance
not unlike crane When the test Is
made the model is weighted in pro-
portion to the weight OF the actual
boat in order to determine the dis
placement. The model is connected
with the travelling overhead device,
which drives 1t through the water at
varying degrees OF speed. A machine
records the resistance, and from this
is figured the horse power required
to drive the actual vessel at given
rate OF speed.
The completion of the Texas and
the New York next year and OF the
Nevada and Oklahoma in 1914 will
give the United States thirty-seven
first-class battleships with tonnage
of HniShaQ
the nine dreadnoughts that are to be
completed at the rate OF three year
before the close OF 1914, 1t will have
thirty-six battleships with tonnage
OF 5S0,87O. Great Britain, which Is
building ten new dreadnoughts. two
to be finished this year, four next year
and four in 1914, will have total OF
seventy baltleships. tonnage 1,1S9.-
0OO In battleships the United States
will rank second. but in armored
cruisers 1t will have twelve, as against
Germany's fourteen and Great Brit
aims forty-four by the end OF 1914.
The tonnage Of the battlesff1ps and
armored cruisers built, building and
provided for according to the latest
navy year book. is: Great Britain.
1,SO9,650: United States. 1924:
Germany. 7S7,63S; France, 626,726:
Japan. 421.S45; Russia, 2S7.O16; Italy.
299.707, and Austria-Hungary. 171,1YS.
IT. number and displacement Of all
war ships. built and building. OF 1.O00
O.. more tons and OF torpedo craft OF
more than fifty tons, Great Britain
has $50 vessels OF 2.324,579 tonnage;
Germany. 26S vessels and 1.0Y7.39s
tonnage, and the United States. 1877
vessels. tonnage SS5,066.
AS to large guns, the United States
navy will have forty fourteen-inch.
thirty-two thirteen-nch and l48
twelve-inch guns. total OF 220: Ger.
many will have 176 twelve-inch and
ninety-six eleven-inch guns. total
of 272. and Great Britain will have
300 twelve-inch and 1874 thirteen-inch
guns. an aggregate OF 484.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-05-25

from the daily life of the aborigines.
These groups form part OF COM
plete series of exhibits showing the
general character o. the various peo-
pies OF the world. One, known as the
quarry group, is interesting to Wash
,ingtonians on account OF the fact that
1t represents scene in the present
District of Columbia before the COM
ing of the white man, 1t shows group
OF six Indians mining or quarrying
rocks for utensils, weapons and other
articles and shaping them for future
use.
This group Is intended to illustrate
the work carried on in the great quar-
ries on. Piny branch and in the asso-
clated workshops not long before the
arrival OF the English, some 800 years
ago. near the point where Eighteenth
street would cross that stream. The
broken powders and fiakage left on
the shop sites are, in places, ten feet
or more In depth.
The man at the left is represented
as employing heavy wooden pike in
prying up the larger bowlders. while
the second breaks them up prepara-
tory to selecting fragments of suitable
size and shape for implement making
The third man roughs out the forms
OF the implements by means OF quick,
sharp blows with a bowlder hammer
using either the selected fragments
or the smaller powders for the pur.
pose.
The fourth workman trims the edges
and shapes up the thin blades with an
implement Of bone or antIer set in a
wooden shaft. The taking Is accom-
plished by setting the point Of this
implement against the edge of the
roughed-out blade, and pressing It
downward with quick, strong move.
ment, REINFORCED by the weight of
the body. Flakes are thus removed
from the under side. and the folded
buckskin pad serves to prevent break.
age of the blade under treatment
This work. however, was not com.
pleted at the quarry. the blades being
usually carried away to be finished az
the implements were needed.
oAAA6 SOuSuc6 are RlVen. A
indicated by the fifth workman. who
chips out the notches and shapes the
points by means OF a small fiaker of
bone or like material, which is pressed
down on the sharp edge OF the blade
until 1t takes hold" Then. by a
quick push. the nake is driven OF.
John Smith Of the jamestown colony.
about 1908. says. speaking of a Pow.
hatan hunter. that His arrowhead he
quickly maketh with a little bone
which he ever weareth at his brassrt
(belt)."
The shaping processes here illus
trated were formerly in general use
among the tribes. The women doubt.
less aided in the work OF transports.
tion and in preparing food for the
Quarrynen. The costumes shown are
modelled after the garments of the
Virginia Indians at the period Of dis.
covery. as illustrated in the drawings
OF John White. artist OF the Roanoke
colony.