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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05
1.-The Eternal Quest. "

The ultimate object of every
human life is happiness. A lit
tie further along the road to the
grave we expect to find it. The
farmer adds acre to acre Of his
earthly holdings, works in rain
and sunshine in his desire to get
in a position to enjoy himself.
The banker sits and in nerve
wrecking intensity concentrates
his mind on the problem Of best
Investments" hoping to put by
enough to one day stop and be
happy. The lawyer delves into
the musty tones to find a hoary
precedent for enthroning wrong,
slips with alacrity from this tC
that side of the question, in or.
der that he may garner the gold,
en- fees wherewith to purchase
this much sought bliss. The
doctor braves inclment weather
sacrifices his own and his pa
tents vitality, that he, too, ma!
grasp that elusive phantom W.
call happiness. The editor works
seven days each week fourteen
months each year, on half-pa!
and half-rations, knowing tina
he will rest in Abraham's bosom
and give his delinquent subscrib
ers the hal hap' when they bei
him to bring them ice water ant
palm-leaf fans.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05

One result Of the parcel
post will be to bring more
people back to the country to
live.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05

Thanks to you, faithfuland
comparatively few, Morgan
County teachers who sub
scribe for and read the
LICKING VALLEY COURIER.
You are the salt of your pro-
fession. You are progress
sive, up-to-date, efficient,
capable. You are actuated
by a sincere desire to be OF
service to your fellow man.
To you a silver dollar does
not look as big as a. cart
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05
Hawkins Confession
H. H SwANGo.
President.

We still have a few copeis of
Hawkins Confession for sale.
Better get one while they last.
Most remarkable story ofscrime
ever written.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05
Daylight breaks Ger hill and plain,

Birds usher in a newborn day.
Across the field the lowing herd,
Makes for its grazing ground away
The workmen whistling as he goes,
To resume his task of yesterday;l
Strong of arm and light of heart,
His work far better is than play.
All nature joins in one loud call,
A call to duty-haste-obey!
Arise, don't say, tits not for me-" :
But do your task while yet tits day
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05

There is a vast difference be-
tween happiness and pleasure.
Pleasure, in greater or less de-
gree, comes to all, but happiness
to few. assert, believing, that
to many people happiness is an
impossibility. Pleasure must
answer for them and they go to
the grave unsatisfed, 1t is only
the asthetic soul that can be real
ly happy. 0ftimes happiness is
reached through poignant, pain,
but that only makes it the more
complete. The contrast adds to
the enjoyment,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05

All look forward to the future
for happiness-and it comes to
but few. The human race, as a
rule, gets only the striving for
happiness, and it is their own
fault. A few rare souls find
happiness as they go along, be-
cause they look to no4v instead
of the future. The matter of
happiness is relative. 1t is pure
ly personal to each of us. The
modern conception of what hap
piness is prevents most people
from ever realizing it.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05

Happiness can not be purchas-
ed. Therein it differs from
pleasure. Who has the price
may purchase pleasures, but we
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05

You rarely ever hear the
sober truth in a saloon.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05
LICKING VALLEY COURIER.

Term0-one Dollar year in advence.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-09-05
y For Chills & Fever
IT, 70 The New Discovery

s For RHEUMATISM and GOVT, deep.
seated and apparently hopeless cases, any
age or condition. Used by Specialists in
every quarter of the Globe. Pleasant to take
waste time with compounds, cure.alls and iniments
The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-27

TO THE VOTERS OF GARLAND CoUNTY:-
 ACCORDING TO DEMOCRATIC CUSTOM AND USAGE IN ARKANSAS CIRCUIT CLERK MAY HOLD OFFICE AS LONG AS HE FEELS THAT HIS SERVICES ARE SAT IsFACToRY TO THE PEOPLE AND UNTIL THEY THEM SELVES ARE SATISFIED THAT ON ACCOUNT OF LONG TENURE IN OFFICE THAT HE MAY HAVE FORMED POLITICAL ALLIANCES WHICH MIGHT RENDER HIS SERVICES LESS ACCEPTABLE TO HIS CONSTITUENCY. IN PROOF OF THIS CONTENTION NUMEROUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE MAY BE CITED IN WHICH THEIR CLERKS HELD OFFICE FROM EIGHT TO FIFTEEN YEARS sUC- CESSIvELY BAXTER COUNTY HAD ONLY THREE CLERKS IN FORTY YEARS; BENTON COUNTY HAD ONE CLERK FOR SIXTEEN YEARS BRADLEY COUNTY HAD ONE FOR TEN YEARS; A CLARK COUNTY CLERK SERVED TEN YEARS; CRAWFORD COUNTY HAD ONE FOR TWENTY-sIx YEARS; HAMPSTEAD COUNTY HAD ONE FOR THIRTY YEARS; MONROE FOR TWELVE YEARS oUACHITA COUNTY FOR TWENTY FOUR YEARS PHILLIPS FOR TWENTY TWO; POLK FOR TWENTY; SEBASTIAN FOR FOURTEEN YEARS; MONT GoMERY COUNTY HAD ONE FOR SIXTEEN YEARS, AN OTHER FOR TWELVE AND THE PRESENT CLERK IS RUNNING FOR HIS FIFTH TERM so IT MAY BE oB- SERVED THAT IN THE OPINION OF THE PEOPLE, THE LONGER A CLERK SERVES, THE MORE VALUABLE ARE HIS SERVICES TO THE COUNTY; OR AT ANY. RATE, WHEN THEY SECURE GOOD ONE THEY DO NOT CARE TO TAKE CHANGES ON NEW MAN
 FEEL THAT MAY SAY, IN ASKING THE PEOPLE FOR THEIR SUPPORT FOR ANOTHER TERM AS CIR CUIT CLERK OF GARLAND COUNTY, WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST DEGREE OF CONCEPT, OR THE SLIGHTEST DISPOSITION TO UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF MY SERVICES, THAT HAVE FILLED THE OFFICE IN A MANNER ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY. MADE NO
The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-27

PROMISE TO THE PEOPLE ON THE STUMP AS MR. SUI- LENBERGER SAYS, WHEN ASKED THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE SECOND TERM, THAT IF ELECTED WOULD STEP DOWN AND OUT
 DID NOT ATTEMPT, AS MIR. sULLENBERGER SAYS TO INDUCE HIM TO ENTER INTO A SCHEME BY WHICH HE WAS TO BECOME A CANDIDATE ALONG WITH MY SELF REMAIN AS SUCH UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE FOR ANY ONE ELSE TO ENTER THE RACE AND THEN WITH DRAW so THAT WOULD BE LEFT ALONE AS THE ONLY CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE. DID NOT TELL 6IR. SULLENBERGER AS HE SAYS, THAT WOULD DIS CHARGE HIM AS MY DEPUTY IF HE PERSISTED IN HIS DETERMINATION TO RUN FOR THE OFFICE AGAINST NE. HAVE NEVER SOUGHT TO TAKE AN UNFAIR AD- VANTAGE OF A MAN IN MY LIFE HAVE DONE MY FULL DUTY AS CIRCUIT CLERK OF THIS COUNTY AND HAVE DONE MY FULL SHARE OF ALL THE CLERICAL AND DETAIL WORK IN THE OFFICE. MY DEPUTIES OF COURSE AIDED ME IN THIS PARTICULAR AND THAT IS WHAT THEY WERE EMPLOYED FOR; OTHERWISE WOULD NOT HAVE NEEDED THEIR SERVICES ALL OF THE ABOVE STATEMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO ME- BY sULLENBERGER I WISH TO DRAMATICALLY DENY AS UNTRUE IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
 DO NOT BELIEVE IN MUD SIINGING IN A POLTT IcAL CAMPAIGN BUT WHEN AM CONFRONTED WITH FALsEHooDs AND MISREPRESENTATION T CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO STAND UNDENIED AND 1NcHAI. LENGED
 ASK YOUR SUPPORT FOR REELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF CIRCUIT CLERK UPON MY RECORD HAVE SERVED YOU EFFICIENTLY AND FAITHFULLY IN THE PAST, AND IF REELECTED WILL PROMISE YOU SIM LIAR SERVICE IN THE FUTURE
 YOUR oBEDIENT SERVANT
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
Hogan to Settle J. p. ranu,e.

To test the right of the 1,700 JUS
tices of the peace in Ohio to hold Of.
flee under the judicial reform amend
ment to the constitution, Attorney
General Hogan has announced that
shortly after January 1, when the
amendment becomes effective, he will
start either mandamus or quo war
ranto proceedings in court
Attorney General Hogan has come
to the positive conclusion, after study
ing the constitution, that under the
new amendment the position of every
justice of the peace in the state has
been abolished and that after January
l they cannot legally hold their Of.
fees, since, in fact, there will be no
offices for them to hold.
To bring the question to a final set
tlement by the supreme court, Attor-
ney General Hogan, therefore, has de-
cided to bring suit Immediately upon
the amendment becoming effective. 1t
is probable that he will decide upon
the quo warranto method and in that
event suit will be i1led against some
one justice of the peace challenging
his right to hold office. The case will
then be taken to the highest state
court for final decision.
Members of the constitutional con.
vention are vigorous in their asser-
tions that the language of the amend
ment cannot be reasonably construed
as abolishing justices.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21

Columbus. - Discovery has been
made of the plight of four pehiten-
tiary prisoners, who, because they
were insane and transferred from the
states prison to the state hospital,
have been unlawfully held for years
after their prison sentences had ex-
pired.
John H. Whaler, sent to the peni-
tentiary in 1874, has been confined 80
years after his term expired. L. B.
Chidester, forger, received in 1873,
should have been released in 1884
Jerry Carter, sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for arson, has been detained
"a years. Charles Willis should have
been released 27 years ago.
The insane prisoners will be trans
ferred Immediately to their respective
counties to be probated. Their plight
was discovered when the state hos
pital authorities, where the men are
now confined, sent a bill to the prison
officials for the keep Of the prisoners
for the last several years.
Under the statutes, such prisoners
should be released at the expiration
of sentence and taken back to the
county in which they were convicted
and probated. =
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
coNDoN OVERS SUCCESSOR.

Randall J. Condor, superintendent
of schols of Providence, r. l., will ac-
cept the offer of the superintendency
of the schools of Cincinnati and will
assume his new duties as soon after
he is elected as he can close up mat,
ters in connection with the school de-
partment in that city.
Mr.. Condor made his decision
known. He said that he had given the
subject careful consideration and had
reached the conclusion that he ought
not decline the Cincinnati position.
He said:
Il have conferred with large num-
ber of citizens, with members of the
school committee and of the city coun-
Gil during the past few days, and, while
they have expressed a strong desire
to have ME remain and await develop
ments, they have none of them been
able to offer any substantial assurance
that the necessary financial support
can be secured for carrying into effect
the program which / have indicated,
and which in all essential particulars
was unanimously indorsed by the school
committee last May.
Under these circumstances, while
should personally prefer to remain in
Providence, can not feel that for pro-
fessional reasons l ought to decline
the larger opportunity Immediately Of
fercd by the Ohio city. Ihave accord
ingly sent word to Cincinnati that IL
the school board accepts the report of
their special committee, and am
elected, l shall feel free to accept"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
Reserve Drinking Cups Must Go,

hurther steps toward the absolute
removal of all drinking vessels from
trains and waiting stations have been
started by the state board of health
The crusade in the interest of public
health will extend to the cups hel.i in
reserve, to be furnished only on re-
quest. These were installed to meet
the rising sentiment against indiscrim-
mate drinking as a matter of commu-
nicating disease, hut by ruling given
October 81 the United States public
health service at Washington decreed
that even they must go, so far as in
terstate traffic is concerned, unless
washed in boiling water after use by
each individual
Since the concerted action against
the public drinking cup was begun
several railroads of the state and the
Pullman company have placed in their
cars placards which state that reserve
cups may be had for the asking. 1t is
directed
by this ruling" explained DR.. Eu-
gene F. McCampbell, executive secre-
'tary of the state board. "even the
cups held in reserve must be abol-
ished. There will be absolutely no
means of drinking publicly and each
person will have to provide his own
cup, unless sanitary substitutes, to be
used only once each, are provided"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
Steubenville. - Eleanor, 5-year-old
daughter of Harry Dougherty, was
burned to death here
TWO Admit elvlnn Rrlnus.

Columbus. ]. c. Meader Of
Cleveland and L. C. Miller of Ak
ron, loan agents, pleaded guilty be-
fore Judge Evans to the joint indict-
ments charging them with having
given a bribe of $1OO to Representa-.
tive Owen J. Evans of Stark county,
on April Is, 1911, during the session
of the last legislature, to influence his
vote against the Haas loan-shark bill.
Miller was fined $500, which he
paid. Meader was let off with fine
Of $3.50, after Prosecutor Turner
stated to the court that Meader had
no money and that his wife was sick.
He was given 80 days in which to pay
the fine. The costs were added in
both cases.
Evans pleaded guilty in June, 1911,
to having received the bribe from
Miller and Meader. Charles w. KEN
pei, clerk of the house, has testified
before the grand jury that unwittingly
he had carried the money from Miller
to Evans, not suspecting that it was
= hribe
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
OHIO WOMEN
PLAN CAMPAIGN
PROPOSE TO CARRY SUFFRAGE
ELECTION THEY WILL ASK
FOR DURING 1914.
NEW ORGANIZATIONS WILL Be FORMED
Over $1,000 Remains In the Treasury
With Which to Make the Start 70
Elect Their New Suff-
rage Officers.

Columbus.-With more than $4,000
In their treasury and thousands of
women all over the state interested
in the cause, the woman's suffrage or
ganization of Ohio has decided to
start another state campaign to win
suffrage for women and ask an elec.
tion on the question in 1914.
They are going about the task with
care and with plans fully matured.
The educational campaign to be
opened will be kept going. New or
ganizations will be formed and every
effort possible will be made to get
such large number of women inter
ested that the movement will be COM
mended to the men of the state.
There will be frequent gatherings
in the state and at these it is hoped
to make a showing of strength that
will demonstrate sentiment in favor
of the reform is growing. Outside
speakers will be brought in, but the
principal reliance to handle the stu.
alton in the state will be placed on
Ohio women.
One of the first concrete results of
the new campaign will be shown, the
women claim, when the next munich
pal elections take place, in the in
creased number Of women who take
part in the limited suffrage that is
afforded.
More than 500 women from various
parts Of the state attended the suf
frage gathering here.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of War
rem. state president, made a formal
report, showing that over $4,000 had
been available for the fight in the
state and that over $4,000 remained
Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, state or
ganizer, in report of activities dur
ing the recent campaign, praised
many women whose services, she
said, were signally effective.
Three hundred women attended the
suffrage luncheon and the chamber
of commerce hall was filled to hear
the address of Prof. A. r. Hatton of
cleveland, who spoke for suffrage and
gave his reasons why it should be
adopted as one of the forces in bet
tering conditions of government
The new officers chosen were: Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren,
president; Mrs. Frances R. Easement
Of Painesville, honorary president; !;
Mrs. A. B. Wolfe of Oberlin, recording
secretary; Mrs. Zell H. Denny of
Warren, treasurer; Mrs. Dora Sandoe
Bachman of Columbus, auditor.
Miss Elizabeth ]. Hauser will be
retained as state organizer and will
have charge of the organization of the
coming educational campaign.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
After rax.poaaInu scheme.

The state tax commission, with the
aid OF Attorney General Hogan, is
making an effort to prevent escape
from taxation on mortgages made in
the form OF deeds or leases. In the
opinion of the taxing authorities, this
scheme of getting around the pay
ment of taxes on mortgages is becom-
ing more and more prevalent
An investigation quietly conducted
into the methods used in the transfers
OF property gave rise to the suspicion
that the deeds or leases recorded were
in effect nothing but mortgages. In
an opinion given the taS commission,
Attorney General Hogan holds that
the taxation on an instrument of this
kind depends on whether It is a genu.
inc deed and lease or mortgage in
legal disguise.
1t is explained by the attorney gen.
eral that where b deeds his property
to A in consideration of a specified
sum and in turn receives from A a
lease with privilege to purchase with
in a specified time for the amount of
the purchase price, the contract does
not create in the hands of A anything
which can be assessed to him as a
credit" or an investment" The at
torney general says that the evidence
may be clear that the real intent was
to execute a mortgage through evil
dence showing a previous attempt to
borrow money.
AS test of the deed and lease ar
rangement, Mr.. Hogan says that If the
rent under the lease seems in reality
to be interest on loan the fact may
be taken as giving the transaction the
suspicion of being a mortgage.
"The mere fact that the grantor re.
mains in possession, even under a
form of lease" says the attorney gen.
eral, "is a circumstance tending to
show that the agreement for re.pur.
chase in connection with the deed con-
stitutes a mortgage rather than a
sale. lnadequacy of the price at
which the legal title to the property
changes hands is a circumstance of
considerable weight as tending to
show that the transaction is a mort.
gage"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
sCoFFERs
Often Make the Staunchest Converta

The man who SCOTS at an idea or
doctrine which he does not fully un-
derstand has at least the courage to
show where be stands.
The gospel of Health has many con-
verts who formerly laughed at the
idea that coffee and tea, for example,
ever hurt anyone, Upon looking into
the matter seriously, often at the sug-
gestion of friend, such persons
have found that Postum and friends
advice have been their salvation.
"My sister was employed in an east
ern city where she had to do calculat-
Ing" writes an Okla. girl. "She suf-
fered with headache until she was al
most untitled for duty.
"Her landlady persuaded her to quit
coffee and use Postum and in a few
days she was entirely free from head
ache (Tea is Just as injurious as
coffee because it contains caffeine, the
same drug found in coffee.) "She told
her employer about it. and on trying
1t, he had the same experience.
"My father and have both suffered
much from nervous headache since I
can remember, but we scoffed at the
idea advanced by my sister, that cof-
fee was the cause of our trouble.
However. we finally quit coffee and
began using Postum. Father has had
but one headache now in four years.
due to a severe cold, and have lost
my headaches and sour stomach.
which am now convinced came from
coffee.
"a cup of good, hot Postum is sat.
isfying to me when l do not care to
eat a meal. Circumstances caused
me to locate in a new country and /
feared would not be able to get my
favorite drink, Postum, but l was
relieved to find that a full supply il
kept here with a heavy demand for
It," Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Greek, Mich.
Read "The Road to Wellville," IN
pkgs. There's reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from tlnae to time. They
are genuine. true, and fmIl 81 hunaA
lnterest. Adv.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
Kenton.-John Swallow Was fatally
hurt in a runaway here.
Prison Reforms Given Attention.

Columbus.-Efforts to solve peno.
logical problems at the Ohio peniten-
tiary by the honor system, baseball
games, ETC., have attracted attention
in all parts Of the world. Almost
daily communications are received at
the Office of Warden Jones from per-
sons interested in prison reforms.
From Europe two newspapers, the
Graphic of London and the Temps Of
Paris, have made inquiries.
The prominence of the local insti.
tuition was brought about by the inno-
vations started since contract labor
was discontinued. Attention first was
attracted by the organizing Of base
ball teams among the men. AS the
games continued without any compli.
cations, much interest was manifest
ed by students of sociology. Further
interest was added by the installation
of knitting mill, soap factory and
a coffee roas ter.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
FAMOUS oHIoAN DIES.

James Quay Howard, author of the
first published biography of Abraham
Lincoln and for the last 15 years one
of the assistant librarians of congress,
died at Washington recently. He was
rs years old and was born in Newark,
o. In 1861 President Lincoln appoint
ed Mr.. Howard consul Of New Bruins
wick, Canada, where he stayed until
after the civil war ended. Mr.. Howard
wrote the official campaign life of
Rutherford B. Hayes ami was the au-
.hor of History Of the louisiana Pur-
chase"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-21
Farms for Children.

Perhaps the smallest farms in the
world, each four by eight feet, have
been devised by Mrs. Henry Parsons
for the International Children's School
Farm league, and demonstrated In
New York. Each child becomes owner
Of his diminutive farm, in which he
works, grows and harvests seven diff
ferent kinds of vegetables, and these
are borne by him in triumph to his
family. About each farm Is an 1S-inch
path, which he keeps in order; under
his instructor it becomes a tiny OBJ
ject lesson in good roads.