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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
Lost Art of WaIklnu.

1t is all very well for 10000 fans to
cheer the physical prowess of q
Smoky Joe Wood or a RUDE Mar
guard. But it would be more impor-
tant to know how many of these 40
600 can throw ball home from cen
ter field themselves, declares a writer
in the American Magazine. 1t is all
very well to have trolleys and motors
which make ntercommunication easy
between distant points. But 1t would
be more important to know in how
many cases any useful purpose what.
ever is served by going from one to
the other and back again, except the
temporary satisfaction of vague ner.
vous desire for change; and still more
important to know who would have
the win power and the leg power to
get there II he had to walk Walking
requires and develops both. 1t is good
for the body and good for the soul
and 10 all true lovers of the open
road and the manifold pictorial beau
ties Of our countryside 1t is the only
form of locomotion. The time will
yet come when We shall walk again
1t is our fate. After all, we were
born with legs, not cylinders.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
intellectual Humor.

The region of intellectual humor,
which may be roughly illustrated by
such sayings as that of George Sand
that nothing is such a restorative as
rhetoric, or the claim advanced by a
patriot that Shakespeare was undoubt,
eddy Scotchman, on the ground that
his talents would justify the supposi,
ton. The humor OF George Sands
epigram depends upon the perception
that rhetoric, which ought to be based
upon a profound conviction, an over.
whelming passion, an intense enthusi.
asm, is often little more than the
abandonment of a personality to a
mood of intoxicating ebulience; while
the humor of the>Shakespeare story
lies in . sense of the way in which
a national prediction will override
all reasonable evidence,-A. c. Ben.
son, in AT Large"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
PATROL SYSTEM IN VIRGINIA
Experiments Made by Public Roads
Office Of Department Of Asrieul-
ture en- Earth Roads.

The Office of public roads of the
department of agriculture has been
making experiments on an eight-mile
stretch of road in Virginia to demon
strate the results that may be OBJ
tanned on country earth roads by con
tinuous work under patrol system
A patrolman was employed to furnish
a horse, a cart and small tools, and
he was supplied with a road drag
built OF plank and required to fur
nish two horses to drag the road when
ever It was in suitable condition for
dragging, usually following each rain.
The use OF the road drag has great
" improved the daily condition OF the
road and rendered 1t smooth and com
Portable for travel for greatly in
creased number OF days In bad wealth
err. The department expects to con-
tlnue the experiment this year. for 1t
Is already apparent that the entire
eight miles of road will show remark
able improvement under the system
attic work of the patrolman.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
500 REWARD, 500

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able 10 cure in
all lis stages, and that is Catauh. Halls
Catauh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity, Catarh
beinga constitutional disease requires con-
s,itutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure
is taken internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous sdffases of the system
thereby destroying the foundation Of ihe
disease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The propFieto's
have so much faith il its curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
care that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials.
Address =. ]. cmENEy & co, Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Halls family pills for constipation
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17

by 1914, at the present rate Of con
struct!on. 1t is held that the improve.
ment of roads adds $4,000 per mile
to contiguous property, and on this
basis the building of the riyer-to-the-
gulf highway will give net increase
in property values to property along
this roadway of $4O0,000,O00.
The counties through which this
highway will pass are Galveston, Har
ris, Waller, Brazos, Robertson, Falls
Limestone, MoLonnan, Hill, Navarro,
Johnson, Ellis, Tarrant, Dallas, Den
ton, Collin, Grayson and Cooke, the
road to be double-tracked from Hearne
north
Another highway of slate impor-
lance is the Dallas-Te xarkana high
way, beginning at Dallas and passing
through the counties of Collin, Gray
son, Fannin, Lamar, Red River and
Bowie, which will cost approximately
100000. There are 2104 miles of pub
lie highways in these countries, ana
the building of the trunk line vii
probably result in the improvement o
the entire mileage of the counties, a.
well as stimulate road building II
counties adjoining the project.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
TEACH THEM GOOD MANNERS
Chicago Children Are to Take a
Course of Instruction from the
Gentle Schoolma'am.

Mrs. Ella Flagg Young announces
that hereafter the teaching of good
manners will have a place in the cur
riculum of the Chicago public schools.
No one should object to having the
children learn their manners and
the schoolma ans ought to help the
parents, or, where parental instruction
and example are lacking, ought to in
still the germ Of gentility and polite
ness into the minds of the youngsters,
but why put it into the curriculum
which already In the average public
school is crowded to such an extent
that it overreaches the time limit
with home study and cuts down the
essentials of instruction to an unde-
sirable minimum? asks the Philadel-
phia Bulletin.
To be sure, some graduates Of the
old-fashloned public schools have been
known to feed themselves with their
table knives, have shown a lack Of
familiarity with finger bowls, and 9TH
erwise have betrayed ignorance of all
the requirements Of the code of polite
society, but in the majority of cases
they have accounted their school time
quite as we'll spent as if they had de-
voted stated number of hours a
week to coming the pages of book
Of etiquette. In most communities
there is a generally accepted belief
that men and women who qualify as
school teachers are by nature OF
breeding possessed Of such manners
as instinctively, by example or per.
sonal precept, to suggest the gentle
art Of society, and only the occasional
incorrlgible among their pupils evil
dences 4 need for a course" in man
ners. But Chicago may be different
Mrs. Young ought to know, and If the
boys have been putting their feet on
the desks and the girls have been
chewing gum in public and cleaning
their teeth with hairpins and hatpins
they surely should be corrected, even
II their spelling blanks continue tC
look like a page from the report Of
the commission on the simplified code
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
SCIENTISTS CAN ONLY GUESS
Are Unable to Explain the Disappear
! ance and Temperance Of the
Dread Plague.

Why did the plague disappear from
England? asks the Pall-Mall Gazette.
Mr. Bernard Shaw incidentally asks
this deeply interesting question in
letter to the Nation, and we cannot
say that we are satisfied with his an
swer. He says he knows" that
plague has been "extlrpated" by com
mon sanitation" Until the recent
sporadic imported cases, the last re-
corded cases of plague in England
occurred at Nottingham in 1867. In
that year plague vanished utterly from
England for two and a half centuries.
No one who has examined the records
of the seventeenth century can be-
! lieve that it was "eXtirpated" by SAM
tation. Very gradually in the sue
ceeding century and half plague
Withdrew from Europe also. The date
of its disappearance from CONSTANT
nople has been fixed at about the
year 1S41. 1t remained endemic only
in few lonely places in the world,
such as the highlands of western
Arabia, Yunnan in China, and Meso-
potamia Sanitation, though an ex'
cellent palliative, certainly never
drove the plague from STEAMBOAT and
Cairo and the southern Mediterra-
mean, any more than it did from Eng
land. The shrinkage of plague is as
great a mystery as the recent fresh
outburst which is injecting the whole
world. Perhaps the explanation is
that in a few years bacteria may &c
through the myriad Transforming proc
esses of evolution which in the case
Of humanity take cons to complete,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
WORKS ON AUTOMATIC PLAN
Ingenious Idea for Electric Light ls
Economic and In Every Way
Satisfactory.

An automatic electric lighting plant,
designed for private house use, is
mounted on two cross Orders for con-
venient portability, and comprises an
oil engine, dynamo, automatic start
ing switch and water tank.
The small battery also supplied has
a capacity much below that of the
charging plant. The apparatus is so
designed that while the battery is
charged and not at work the engine is
at rest, and it continues at rest while
the lamps turned GU are being fed SUI.
ficiently by the stored current.
But when the battery voltage falls
below q certain point the automatic
switch sets the machinery in motion
The starting current-quickly cut of
by a time-limit circuit breaker-turns
the dynamo, and this starts the en-
gine. which runs as long as needed.
When the lessened use of current
permits the battery to become sufil.
GENTLY charged the switch stops the
engine.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
Want protectlon for Lions,

The legislative council of British
East Africa is expected to adopt
proposal at present before it for the
protection of lions on crown lands.
Up to the present game licenses which
stipulate the number and class of ami
mails that may be killed or captured
have ignored lions, which have been
regarded as vermin. Now, however,
it is proposed to limit each holder OF
big game shooting license to four
lions. The other day a game ranger
who is said 10 be familiar with all
the conditions in British East Africa
expressed the opinion that the propo-
sal would do very little, II carried into
effect, to prevent the determination OF
lions in certain parts Of the protector.
ate. "They are being exterminated,
he said, by the advance of civiliza.
ton. Exterminated may not be the
right. word, for they are really being
driven away. In my opinion, how
ever, there will be no actual disap'
pearance of the lion for o very long
time to come, although, even when he
is on the game license, there will be
complete freedom to hunt and shoot
on private land"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
Humanity Ear From Perfect.

When one becomes SO wise and
worldly that she looks for deceit in
stead of better qualities, she becomes
an extremely morbid and unhappy
creature.
Humanity Is far from perfect, How
tiresome perfection would be IL we
met nothing else!
All women are not unkind to each
other. All women are not flatterers
and unworthy ones frlendliest senti.
ments. Be on the watch for whole.
some, true friends and you will find
them,
Every one has experiences that
SKATER ideals ought to be shattered.
They are seless.-Exchange
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
GAVE OLD LADY GREAT SHOCK
Queen Mary's liberation Of Cigarettes
Has Revived Good Story In Eng
lish Social Circlea.

A cable dispatch recently reported
that Queen Mary of England had
given evidence of having changed her
mind with regard to women smoking
cigarettes at society functions by gra-
ciously announcing that although she
did not smoke herself she did not wish
to deprive others of the pleasure be.
cause she happened to be present. 1t
is said that an old courtier at the gath.
ering where the queen displayed such
a change of mind regarding the weed
said that he hoped she would not in
future receive such a shock as his
mother, a stately lady of the old
school, had received fer similar era.
ciousness.
1t seems that the old nobleman's
mother was an energetic opponent of
tobacco using in any form In any
place and by men of any condition.
The late King Edward one time visit.
ed the old castle that was the heredi'
tary residence. AS mark of honor
the old noblewoman had cigarettes
passed around, to the wondering
amusement Of the king. When the CT
garettes reached a neighboring earl
who had attended the gathering with
his countess, the former took up q
cigarette and handed it to his wife
with marked bow. The old noble
woman stared and swallowed hard
King Edward told the story many
times within the next week. The old
lady never again suffered herself to
relax in her antipathy to tobacco for
fear she might bring another woman
user to light.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
GRADE HALF MILE FOR $3.50
Riley County, Kansas, Outfit Did the
Work In One Day-Three Men
Were Necessary.

One traction engine, one road grader
and three men graded half mile OF
road in one day. This was accom-
plished Oh a Riley county road at a
cost of $3.50, says Kansas Industries
The engine, running on kerosene, con
sumed fuel at the rate Of 20 gallons a
day which, at cost Of ~ cents gal
lon, cost $3.50. Three men were neces
sary to do the worl--one TO run the
engine and two on the grader
With the exception of the engineer
the work can be handled easily by la
borers. The cost Of road grading
ranges from SIS to $50 mile, depend
ing on the soil and condition of the
road, the width graded, and the price
of labor
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
Guard Your Children
Against Bowel Trouble

Many children at an early age
become constipated, and Frequently
serious consequences result. not
being able to realize his own con-
dition, child's bowels should be
constantly watched, and gentle
laxative given when necessary.
DR.. Miles Laxative Tablets are
especially we'll adapted to women
and children. The Sisters of
Christian Charity, SCI Charles ST.,
Luzerne, Pa, who attend many
cases Of sickness say Of them:
Some time ago we began using DR..
Miles Laxative Tablets and find that
we like them very much, Their action
Is excellent and we are grateful fes
having been made acquainted with
them. We have had good results In
every case and the Sisters are very
much pleased"
The form and flavor of any medi-
cine is very important, no matter
who is to take it. The taste and
appearance are especially important
when children are concerned. All
parents know how hard it is to give
the average child medicine" even
though the taste is partially dis
guised. In using DIR. Miles Lax
ative Tablets, however, this diff.
Guilty is overcome. The shape of
the tablets, their appearance and
candy-like taste at once appeal to
any child, with the result that they
are. taken without objection.
The rich chocolate flavor and
absence of other taste, make DIR.
Miles Laxative Tablets the ideal
remedy for children.
II the first box fails to benefit,
the price is returned. Ask your
druggist. A box of IS doses costs
only rs cents Never sold in bulk.
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart. Ind.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
lnterestlnn Mcmorv les.

Ask anyone to draw representation
of watch face with Roman numbers
and you will have plenty Of evidence of
the unreliability OF incidental memory.
or two hundred persons examined by
Myers only eight omitted the vi from
their drawing of the watch face, and
only twenty.ono put iii instead of the
more familiar notation, w From this
II would appear that impeachment Of
a witness because of his inability to re.
port some incidental feature Of an
event or scene Is not psychologlcally
iustlfed.--Case and Comment
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
HIGHWAY
Iu|R(VEl MRDl
GOOD ROADS NATIONAL ISSUE
CONGRESSMAN Rorland of Missouri
Says It ls One of Biggest Cues
tions Facing People.

OF the addresses given at the recent
Federal Aid convention in Washington,
called by the National Good Roads
board, none contained more compre'
hensive summing up Of the situation
than the remarks Of Representative
William P. Borland of Missouri, VINO
among other things, said:
81 believe that the good road ques'
ton Is the biggest question, without
exception, now facing the American
people. In congress, we are trying
earnestly and sincerely to deal with
this problem of the extent and char'
acter of federal control and federal
aid to good roads. There are dililcul'
ties confronting us.
Some of us believe in continuous
system OF roads; roads that 60 some
where; roads that give us the benefit
of the scientific progress of engineer
ing skill that has been developed In
connection with road building We be-
leve that federal aid, II 1t comes at
all-and it must come-must mean
better type of roads, long roads, roads
of higher class, roads of more per
manent character, roads that go some
where, roads that mean something IN
the development OF the country.
II want to say TO you frankly, that
the easiest proposition to get through
any legislative body is not proposi-
tion that really means betterment; but
proposition that distributes its little
advantages as widely as possible il
we could take little federal money
or a good deal of federal money, or
as much federal money as we could
lay our hands on, whatever the amount
might be, and spread it out over every
road district in the United States, and
put 1t In the hands of the existing
road overseers for the existing system
of roads, and not ask anything in re-
turn, we could get the greatest ap
plause and the most tremendous
unanimity of opinion back of 1t that
any legislative proposition could pos
slbly get. There is no doubt about
that.
"But here is the idea that must Occur
to every thinking man. We do no
have to improve the 2,150,0O0 miles o.
highways in the United States. Tha
need not stagger any mans imagina
ton. Experience has shown at til.
very threshold OF this subject that 81
per cent. OF the traffic on roads goei
over less than ten per cent. of thu
roads. II we had a system OF goot
roads leading fairly into every section
OF the country, within the reasonable
reach of the majority of the citizens
and producers and tax payers of the
country, that system would be a vast
advantage over the present system oil
isolated local control of highways.
IF we can bring that about by a
spirit OF selfsacrifice and cooperation
mot necessarily with any stubborn
ness or pride of opinion-but If we can
get together on the idea that 1t Is bet
ter TO have some good roads than 1t is
is to have no good roads, then we will
all get behind some proposition and
accomplish something for good roads;
and 1t is going TO take that spirit OF
cooperation and self-sacritice to bring
about legislation"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
SELBY SHOES

for Ladies' and have full and complete line hand
Our line Of Seby Oxfords, of all feathers and kinds, will
be in this week. and prices will be the lowest Don't
take chances you want the correct footwear SO buy
from us.
Our Reputation for handlers of reputable
goods in your midst for the bas Is years is your guaan
tee that you will not be deceived.
Trade with the old reliable merchant
of West Liberty and you will make no mistake
We are the only merchant who visits the marees and
brings to you the very latest styles. The goods offer
you not be purchased by catalogue They must be
seen. The people of West Liberty appreciate this fact
We want to serve you with the best and will appreci-
ate your trade
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
rnn.worklnn Ample Trees.

Apple trees up to a foot in diam
eter may be top.worked, II unsatis
factory. Core, however, should be
used that too much Of the top is not
removed In any one year, Cut of
about one.third OF the top the first
year and insert scions on stubs not
more than two or three inches in
diameter The next year remove
more Of the top and insert other
scions, and the following year com
plete the work.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
Grass and Live Stock.

Grass and live stock should go
hand in hand. There is no farm, in
my Judgment, which, If properly han
died and kept at least one-Ealf OF the
time In grasses and clovers, and grad.
ually brought under proper system
of rotation, would not produce more,
in fact, double the crops which 1t
now does, and yet constantly be grow
ing better and better.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
Announcement.

Morgan County's Sunday
school convention, will convene
at Camel City August 9 and 10,
at two o'clock P. M. Every body
invited to attend this convention
and especially the superintendent
are earnestly requested to be
with us. w. j. Vaughn and other
Sunday school workers will be
present. For futher information
see the program, you can get one
by dropping US a card.
Ellis Ward Secy.
A. B. Hale Pres.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17

Summer travel is stimulated in
Wales. During the summer months
one can obtain on the Cambrian rail-
ways a ticket which carries one any
where he likes as many times as he
likes within a prescribed area of about
10 milesS and, for a fortnight, third
class, the cost is less than a SOW
erelgn ($4.S7).
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
chIekens and Hoes.

II woman can hate anything she
hates a collaborating hog. The
chickens don't know the difference be-
tween that kind and the other, so keep
them apart, and keep peace in the
family.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-07-17
Guard Earlv DEVELOPMENT.

No matter what the subsequent use
Of the pig on the farm is to be, his
early development should be carefully
guarded.
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-12-12
Ramah Butter Factory.

The butter factory for Ramah will
soon be reality. Mr.. Stull, .the con
tractor for the Hastings Industrial com
pany, started the erection of the new
enterprise last week and the factory will
be structure 26 by "a feet and is loca-
ted between Diederich's drug store and
the Pfaging residence. 1t will cost in
the neighborhood OF five thousand dol
lars and will be ready for business in
about 60 days. This is the best enter.
prise that has ever located at Rama
and will mean great deal to the town
and community .-Simla Reporter.
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-12-12
Mother Jones Returns.

DENVER, Colo. Dec. 2.-"This is fight
to tnish,' said Mother Jones upon her
arrival in Denver from Washington,
whore she has been working with Con
gressman EDWARD Keatingin his attempt
TO start congressional investigation of
the Colorado coal strike. Mother Jones
has returned to Colorado to aid the
striking coal miners.
The miners are more enthusiastic
and better equipped today to fight the
battle for industrial freedom than they
were when the strike was called Sep
tember 23d. The coal operators of Col
oratlo do not seem to appreciate the fact
that there are 2,d00G00 organized labor
people in the United States directly in
tereSted in this struggle. We are ready
TO fight to tinish aud there can be but
one victory for the miners
The Elbert County tribune., 1913-12-12
The knocker.

After God had finished the rat
tlesnake, the toad and the vam-
pire, He had some awful SUBJ
stance left, with which he made
a knocker. A knocker is two
legged animal with a cork-screw
soul, water-sogged brain and a
combination backbone made of
jelly and glue. Where other peo-
pie have their hearts he carries a
tumor of rotten principles. When
the knocker comes down tn c
street honest men turn their
backs, the angels in heaven take
precipitate refuge behind theil
harps and the devil bar-locks the
gates of Missouri Bruins
wicker.