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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-02
TWO men Shot DEAD
BY negro IN CHASE
Others Are Wounded in Fierce
South Carolina Battle

Hampton, S. c., May ARMED with
breech-loading shotgun and BAG
of ammunition, some of the shells
loaded with buckshot, young negro
by the name of Henry Austin, sur
rounded in a swamp near Luray, this
county, fought for hours yesterday at
ternoon and last night, posse of men
attempting to capture him for at
tempted criminal assault.
Dead and Wounded.
J. Frank Bowers, one of the largest
planters in this section of the county,
was killed
F. D. Edenfield, magistrate, of Allen
dale, shot dead
DR.. S. c. Moore was shot through the
arm, neck and face, with load of
buckshot, in Columbia hospital; may
die.
McTeer Bowers, brother of the man
who was killed, is seriously wounded
and George Hanna is painfully wound
ed.
Unidentified man shot and, perhaps,
fatally wounded
The fight with the negro, who was
surrounded in a swamp, started short
ly after 4 o'clock and at o'clock the
posse under the direction of a deputy
sheriff, had the man surrounded, and
was waiting for reinforcements.
Prepared for Battle.
Austin, the negro, attempted to as
sault the wife of one of the prominent
citizens of Luray between and 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon and hal
gone to the residence prepared to with
stand the attack he knew would come.
He carried with him a shotgun and
sack filled with loaded shells, wearing
in belt also a pistol of large cali
bre.
The news of his attack spread rapid
ly and in less than half an hour the
little town of Luray was emptying
itself of people who were joining in
the chase for Austin. The sheriff was
sent for, and was away from Hamp-
ton at the time, and a posse was or
gained by his deputy, who impressed
into service every man he came across.
Trailed to the Woods.
Austin's trial was taken up and fol-
lowed into the woods and to a swamp
about four miles from Hampton, where
he was quickly surrounded by a large
crowd of armed men.
Finding that he could not get out,
Austin worked his way back into a lit
tie bay of water. AS he was followed
into the bay by a portion of the
posse, the negro opened fire on his
killing one and wounding
three
GnnJ Co.. No.o H.,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
FEAR TO DISPLAY EMOTION
Mistaken sense Of What ls Dlsnlfisd
ls a Common Fault Of the
Times.

This is not an age in which clear dis
tinctions are made in the meaning OF
terms. Grotesque errors arise through
haphazard conclusions drawn from
this loose method of reasoning. One
Of the popular misconceptions Is that
the display Of emotion on the part Of
men Is belittling and indicates q weak
ness Of character, disgraceful and
shaming to the victim, says writer
In the Pittsburg Gazette Times. 1t
ID claimed by some that the natural
processes Of materlalism and the hard
ening of mems natures by, the struggle
for success that the age demands has
brought about this contempt for any
thing like a display of emotion on the
part Of men. It may be questioned.
however, whether this explains the as
sumed respect for callousness that Ia
80 marked feature OF the times.
There Is a false idea around as to
what emotion Is, and a mistaken con.
ception as to Its proper expression.
Hysteria Is one Of our national dis.
eases. The excuses into which It leads
men and women have become the sub
ject Of widespread contempt, sensible
people. feeling an instructive aversion
for this sort Of exaggerated feeling
have fallen into the error of mistakins
sane, human emotion for hysteria and
have gone to the extreme In their ef
fort to avoid any expression Of feel
ing as "womanish," puerile and I'm
manly.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
$780,.
MARKET AFFECTED BY STRIKE
Scarcity Of Drugs In New York Re-
suit Of Cessation Of Work In Eng
llsh Coal Mines.
Now cuss

An aftermath of the recent coal
strike in Great Britain has been that
the New York market for crude drugs
has become almost bare OF many bot
anlcal products usually brought to this
port from the sources OF supply in
British ships.
The scarcity Of supplies has stiffen-
ed the crude drug market in many
spots, despite the meager character OF
the buying within the last few weeks,
and the approaching total exhaustion
Of the stock Of several commodities
is strongly suggested.
The demands of the city trade are
still relatively greater than from the
west and south, but 1t is believed that
purchasing Of quinine and other drugs
will soon be greatly augmented in the
southwest by the disastrous floods
which have inundated that section oil
the country.
Among the most important advances
in prices noted have been sharp up
lifts in menthol, short and long buchu
leaves, Cartagena ipecac, celery seed
cloves, cascara sagrada, gum candrac
matlco, kava kava, decorticated carda
mons. balsam tolu and Para balsan
copaiba.-oil. Paint and Drug Re
porter.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
Towns Without Taxes.

It was recently reported from Ger
many that there was a little town
within the empire In which there were
no taxes. The town possessed bene.
factions, the revenues from which en-
abled 1t 10 pay It's way without the In
tervention of the tax gatherer
France never likes to be outdone by
anything German, so q Paris contem-
porary has set itself the task Of find
Ing q parallel. Something more than
q parallel has been discovered, for not
only are there no taxes, but the tim
bers on the communal lands are sufil-
Client to grant each person a small an
nulty. This happy land is Montmar.
ion. In the Midi. There are seven cleo
tors in the hamlet, 80 to avoid any
thing like rivalry the seven return
themselves to the local council.
Cutting down the trees and selling
them Is sufficient to provide a liveli-
hood for these simple people, whose
tastes are so modest that they may
be termed by some unclvillzed.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
.cornelI's Seven Wonders.

The physical department Of Cornell
university was asked some time ago
to name seven wonders Of the modern
world selected from list Of 81 out
standing inventions and structures.
The faculty. graduates and seniors in
the Physics seminary balloted.. the
award OF the voting going to wireless
telegraphy, synthetic chemistry, radi-
um. antitoxins, aviation. the Panama
canal and the telephone.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
TlckIed buffaloes,

How a Yankee railroad man once
tried to protect telegraph poles in
western Kansas from the buffalo and
signally failed is related by H. ]. Bar
Der, a pioneer OF pawnee county:
EARLY settlers remember that for
miles you could see white polished
belt on every telegraph pole where
buffalo had scratched their shaggy
hide when tormented by buffalo
gnats. | was told that many poles
were broken by the vast army OF
scratching animals. A certain rail-
road official who lived in Boston,
where the shoes were made, bought
all the pegglng avis on the market
and had the section men drive them
into the posts until they look like
giant cactl.
"The herds came and saw and con.
quered. They fought for first place
at the poles and tickled their NANCY
hides with tho avis, which were
broken by the joyful bulls that still
scratched on the remnants, until the
poles fell. Needless to say. the re.
naming avis were withdrawn from
service at once"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
Speaking Of Names.

Just before retiring the other night
We threw up our front window for
view of the heavenly armament. Out
of the soft silence stole sweet voice
calling Gladstone! Gladstone!" In
endearing tones. We went to bed in
considerable wonderment. BY eve
ming OF the following day our wife had
discovered that our new next-door
neighbor has cat by that nams.--Joe
Chapple's Newsletter.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
nep.ndsnt on Wood pulp.

Mr.. Frank Lloyd, at the annual din.
ner Of the British Wood Pulp associa-
ton, spoke of the serious effect upon
the industry OF the drought in Scan
dinavia, and, referring to the rapid
development Of the industry, pointed
out how dependent paper makers now
were upon wood pulp. II they had to
rely on straw, ETC., as was the case
only about twenty-five. years ago, his
mill at slttlngbourne would alone re-
qulre a string Of carts over four miles
long, and at least 100000 gallons
OF water every twenty.four horre"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
Odd Case of Friendship.

At the present time most unusual
case of affection between domiciled
and a comparatively wild animal is to
be witnessed at the little English ham.
let OF Spoonley, near Market Drayton.
On the farm Of Mr.. William Woodburn
for week or two past. a small rough,
somewhat vicious terrier from the
farmstead has been noticed gambolling
in the fields with a large well-devel.
oped hare Such an attachment is
most uncommon.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
Contrasts in Domestic Service

Americans who can keep only one
servant, and who often cannot keep
that one very long, sometimes sigh for
the supposedly domestic tranquility of
the old world-and yet here is para
graph in the London Times saying
that a certain marquis was summoned
to a London police court for keeping
four male servants without having IL
censes," and fined forty shillings with
costs. Life is not without its trou-
bles even for marquises with several
servants.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
Elr,. Rsllalou. hook 10 America,

The first religious book published on
the American continent was printed
in the City of Mexico by order Of the
Roman Catholic bishop there. This
was the first work Of any kind from
movable type issued in the new world
and bears date 1916. In point of col
laborators the most pretentious work
published on this continent is "The
Catholic Church in the United States,
which has six thousand different CO
authors, all but a dozen Of whom are
actively identified in some way with
the American hierarchy.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
What They Both Lacked.

An old farmer went to a cattle show
to exhibit a favorite COW, with which
he had high hopes Of winning the first
prize. On learning the result, and
that his COW had been placed fifth, his
anger knew no bounds, and, rushing
into the ring, lie attacked the judges.
why is my COW not first? What are
her faults, I'd like to know?" At this
point one Of the judges approached
him and answered: Her faults, my
good man, are somewhat akin to your
own. She lacks good breeding"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
More by Shakespeare.

The broad. back OF Shakespeare has
still another load to bear; It seems
that he wrote the Psalms. The word
Shakespeare" contains four vowels
and six consonants; and 6 placed to-
gether signify 46; in the 46th psalm
the 4Gth word is shake" and the 46th
word from the end its spear"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

An observing little miss of five was
visiting one afternoon at house
where there was player piano, and
she was much interested. On her re-
turn home she described 1t to her
mother as machine into which they
poked porous plaster and ground II
up into music
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

Who IS Your Choice for the
Various County Offices?

Believing that the COURIER subscription list contains
most OF the representative, thoughtful and progress
sve citizens OF Morgan county, and further believing that
the weight OF their opinion will have much to do in de-
temlnng who will be the nominees of the primary of
next August, the COURIER has decided to conduct
Straw Election" to obtain the concesus of opinion of
our subscribers as to whom should be nominated
The COURIER has no choice between the asprants for
county nominations. twill be absolutely neutral in these
races treating each with absolute fairness But in COM
mon with all good citizens it hopes that the best men will
be selected for all the offices.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

charge the duties of the Office
will get my support. May | ex-
pect volunteers to join me in an
effort to secure good officers?
There are quite a number of
Utlanders here, who have adopt
ed Morgan as their home, and
who seriously desire to see the
county prosper and have the best
possible government, people who
are unfettered by any clan con-
nections and if some Of them will
start a movement to form a
league pledged to the support Of
the best men regardless of fami-
ly ties or previous conditions of
servitude" it will be heartily en-
dorsed by yours truly. Morgan
needs to start marching to the
front, and it can never do so UNI
til the people learn that it is vi
tally necessary tie elect the very
best qualified, most high souled
and most public spirited men to
manage the county affairs. How
many of the men who are now
asking for your suffrage would
you, as an individual, employ tc
manage a mercantile business, a
bank or a railaoad? Yet the bus
mess affairs of a county are fan
more complex and difficult thar
these. The qualifications of our
next officers should be the watch
word of this coming primary.
y y
l may be treading on corns ir
this, but if I am | do not know
whose corns, and in that event
trust to tread heavily. If some
one flinches then I'll know. W.
need better business men ant
better business methods in the
administration of county affairs
We need good roads, good schoo
houses, public Improvements o.
all kinds and a less tax rate il
proportion to the improvement:
now received. We want more
than mere salary drawers. W.
can have them if we use judg
ment in voting. Will YOU d.
this?
Now cussl
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

We are authorized to announce
ALEX WHITAKER,
OF Caney, as candidate for the nomi
nation for County Judge of Morgan
county, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized to announce
II. {, COMES,

of West Liberty, as candidate Jor the
nomination for Jailer Of Morgan county
subject to the action Of the Democratic
party
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized to announce

3 NJ. K. fUKI,
Il Wet Liberty, as candidate for the
nomination for County Attorney subject 10
the action Of the Dtmucralic voters at the
primary election to be held Aug end, 1913
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
RULES OF VOTING.

l. The Straw Election" will be completed July s.
1913 at which time all the ballots will be counted and
the result published the following week.
Any paid-n-advance yearly subscriber, residing in
Morgan county, may cast ballot for each of the offices
to be commended for at the next August primary.
B. Only one vote will be allowed to each subscriber for
each yearly subscription and no ballot will be counted
unless signed by the subscriber but the signature will be
by us before putting the ballot box and in no
event will the name Of the person voting or for whom he
voted be divulged. It's strictly secret ballot.
A. Only subscribers living in Morgan county may vote
but the paper may be sent to any person anywhere
Ballots may be sent in at any time and as soon as
sufficient number have been received the status of the
vote will be published and each week thereafter the num-
Der OF votes cast for each candidate will be published
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We ere authorized to announce.

EDWARD +. CECIL,
OF Hazel Green, as a candidate for the nom-
inaiiun for Representative from the 9Ist dis
trict, subject to the action OF the Democratic
party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized 10 announce

We are authorized 10 announce
JAMES w. DAVIS,
of Ezel, as candidate for the nomi
nation for Superintendent of Schools
of Morgan county, subject to the ac-
ton of the Democratic party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized to announce

G. V. LYKINS,
o. Grassy Creek, as candidate for
the Democratic nomination for the of.
flee of County Judge Of Morgan
County.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

We are authorized to ANNOUNCE.
{. L. MAY,
Of Henry, as a candidate for the nomina-
ton for Represenlive from the 9Ist Legisla-
tive Distrci. subject TO the action of the
democratic party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized. to announce.

we arc auIHUT7ZVIF 70 d11IU 7uI1Oo'
JAS. H SEBASTIAN,
Of West Liberty, as candidate Tor the
nomination for Represenlive from the 91st
Legislative District, subject TO the action
of the Demo ratio party
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized to announce

G. Il. CLARK,
Of Maytown, as candidate for the
nomination for Superintendent OF
Schools Of Morgan county, subject to
the action of the Democratic party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized to announce
JOHN PATRICK

Assessor john, OF Grassy Creek, as
a candidate for the nomination for
Assessor of Morgan county, subject to
the action of the Democratic party
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized to announce
FRANK KENNAJRn

Of Logville, as a candidate for the
nomination for County Attorney of
Morgan county, subject to the action
Of the Democratic party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
GUMPTION |
.eosesss sssssssSsssssst'"es
Which is Common Sense with
ont Educational FurbelowS. !
By It. HovERMALE. :
"PoIitics is He'll. "
:H;.:I;.:II01TI001100

The nation owes Judge Jewell
a monument for coming the
phraze: Politics is He'll"
Every four years that roll by
in Kentucky demonstrates that
fact. 1t is most forcibly illustra-
ted at the time we select county
officers, 1t is brought closer
home to US. In the officer fur
Their removed from us we rarely
find how badly mistaken we were,
for we don't learn, except in a
general way, how incompetent
are the men we elect. But at
home the incompetency Of our
selections stand out as boldly to
our view as the half-section res
ervation on the quarterback OF
the trousers of the the poor la.
boring devil who votes for a pro.
tective tariff.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

There are anumber Of announc-
ed candidates for Morgan county
Offices. and more to announce:
This will be my first vote in
the county and | have made W
my mind that the only thing that
shall influence me in casting my
vote will be the moral worth and
the ability of the candidates.
may be in a class by myself now,
but there is a sentiment of that
kind growing everywhere and
hope that it will sweep Morgan
county before the primary.
am personally acquainted with
but few of the candidates, but
before | vote l will find out about
them, a ID in every instance the
man wnom l think will best dis.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
We are authorized to announce.

llENK1 =. KOSE,
OF West Liberty, as a candidate for the
n mutation ior County Attorney of Nor.
gan coenty, subject TO the action Of the
democ attic party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are authorized to announce
srssfs

IF West Liberty, AS candidate Tor I'll,
nomination for State Senator from the 34th
Senatorial District, subject to the action OF
The Democratic party.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

We are authorized to announce
GEO. w. STACY,
of Grassy Creek, as candidate for the
nomination for Jaller of Morgan coun.
ty, subject to the action OF the Demo.
cratic party,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

And it seems that experience
doesn't teach us to do any better.
We, as voters, are to blame for
the situation, yet we quadrien-
nially do the same thing over
again, and as regularly wish for
some big, lusty fellow to take us
out IN the rear and dust where
we sit down with his foot. In
Kentucky, and especially the
mountains, there are more mis-
fits and incompetents in county
offices than in any other half a
dozen states of the Union. This
is not due to party politics, but
to clan-politics. 1t prevails in
the benighted Eleventh district
where ignorance in groaning
travail brought forth Caleb Pow
ers and in the sun-kissed First
where brainy United States Sen
ators spring up spontaneously
Qualification has almost ceased
to be a matter Of consideration
in the selection of county officers.
1t certainly does not weigh much
against the clan pull 3"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

The time has arrived when the
people will have to rise above
the "log-rolling" method of Sc
lecting county officers and go to
the sane methvd or electing men
because of their moral worth and
intellectual attainments. A lit
tie infusion of backbone stiffen-
er into our systems would help.
Then we could look over the field
of offering candidates and pick
the best, regardless of any out
side influence. If your relative
would make an ass of himself by
his pitiable inability to creditably
discharge the dnties of an office,
you will be doing him a kindness
by voting against him and thus
save him the humiliation of max
ing a failure. And you will be
discharging a duty you owe tt
yourself and your community by
voting for the best qualified men,
This should be the first consider.
ton.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-02-13

Because a man has a large re-
lationship in county (who vote
for him on account of that rela-
tionship solely he becomes a
candidate for Office. Some other
family of like numerical strength
has a candidate for some other
county Office, and so on ad infni-
tum. And because some of the
+ clan have helped some Of the
other clans in times past the sys-
TEN of "log-rolling" is kept up,
and about the only thing a can
didate for office need possess to
be successful is a bunch of rela-
tives that he can place" when
the slate is finally made. Ergo,
our mountain counties have in
competent officers, high taxes,
big debts, bad roads, poor school
houses, a large percentage of il
literacy and a very small per cap.
ita wealth.