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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

God pity the man who is not
courageous enough to do what he
conscientiously believes to be
right. There are a great many
kinds of towards, but a moral
coward is the most dispicable of
them all.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

1ng / .ARGEST MAGAZlGE IN ng WoRLn
Tod ,y's Mogaa'n, is the largest and best
edited magazine published at soc per year
Five cents per copy at all newsdea'ers
Every lojy who appreciates a good naga-
zine should send lor ice samplctopy and
premium calalog. ADDRESS, ropAYS Mac
AzlNg, Canton, Ohio.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

The grand jury, in its reports
at the close of each session of
court, usually makes some recon-
mendations which if carried out
would be of benefit to the COM
munity. Wonder if it would not
help matters some to have it rec
olnend to the city dads that
they publish a financial state
ment of the town of West Liber-
ty?
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01
What Sustained the hens

A marooned family in the Ohio
valley took 80 hens into the house
when the waters rose and lived
for four days on the eggs the hens
laid. Big Sandy News.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01
They are Progressive.

The candidates of Morgan
county believe that 1T pays to
advertise" as "a have announc-
ed through their county paper. =
Kentucky Mountaineer.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

Slowly but steadily the straw
votes are coming in, 1t may be
that, as in other voting contests,
some one is holding back and
preparing to spring a surprise in
the wind-up.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

And yet no financial statement
of the towns affairs has been
published. TaX-collecting time
will soon be here and they'll be
after us for more money. Since
strikes are so popular now, let's
go on a strike and refuse to pay
any more taxes until they show
us what they do with it.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

Many sufferers from ileumal ism have
been surprised and delighted with the
prompt relief afforded by applying Cham.
berlain's liHiment, Not one case Of iheu.
ma'i'm in ten requires any internal rcat
men, whatever, This linilnCnt is for sale
by all desIers.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

Confucius might not have been
a greater philosopher than some
of our modern wise ones but he
was evidently of a more practical
turn of mind.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

the least. You have no room
in your Uranium for such an idea
as that. When you can't posi-
bly, let me alone any longer just
say so and into it we'll go.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01
Perhaps She'IIJoin Mrs. Pankhurst.

General Resale Jones announce
ment that she will go on a num-
Der of hikes" this summer, will
be comforting news to some, that
is if she will only 90 far enough
Lexington Herald.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

Don't be surprised II you have an attack
# rheumatism this sp'ing, Just 'ruh tie
affected parts freely with Chamherlains
I.niment and it will soon disappear Sid
by all dealers,
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

1t isn't just exactly summer
yet but there's something in the
air that's mighty close akin to
II
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

Troubles, like chickens, come
home to roost and sometimes
they don't have to travel far.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01
LICKING VALLEY COURIER.

Issued Thursday by
The Morgan County Publishing Co.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

Clean the streets and alleys
and incidently the vacant lots.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

rerms-one Dollar year in advence'
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

All communications should be ad
dressed to the Editor.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1913-05-01

Entered as second class matter
April 7, 1910, at the post-office at West
Liberty, KY, under the Act Of March
8, 1879.
H. G. coTTLE, Editor.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
REALLY FRIENDS OF FARMER
Sparrow. BY lts Consumption of Weed
Seeds, Saves Asriculturists I'm.
mense Sums Yearly.

One of the most useful groups of ma
tive birds is the sparrow family.
While some of the tribe wear gay
suits of many hues, most of the spar
rows are clad in modest brown tints,
and as they spend much of the time
IN grass and weeds are commonly
overlooked. Unobtrusive as they are,
they lay the farmer under heavy
debt of gratitude by their food habits,
since their chosen fare consists large
ly of the seeds of the weeds. Selecting
typical member of the group, the
tree sparrow for instance, one-fourth
ounce of weed seed per day is con-
sentative estimate of the food of an
adult. On this basis, in large agricul-
tural state like Iowa tree sparrows an
nually eat approximately S75 tons of
weed seed.
Some idea of the money value of
this group of birds to the country may
be gained from the statement that the.
total value of the farm products in the
United States in 1910 reached the
amazing sum of sS,926, 100000. If we
estimate that the total consumption of
weed seed by the combined members
of the sparrow family resulted in a
saving of only one per cent of the
crops-not violent assuinption-tfe
sum saved to farmers by these birds
in 1910 was $S9,260,000
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
IS ANDREW CARNEGIE
A BRITISH SUBJECT?
Finding of His Name On Dorm
och Parish Voters RegisterDe-
velops Interesting Question.

London. Special: An Interesting let
ter on the subject of the nationality OF
Andrew Carnegie. written by Home
Secretary Mckenna. has been received
by William Thorne. a labor member of
parliament, who had been persuaded
suffraget, to inquire why the IRON
masters name was on the parliament
t;try voters register of Dornoch parish,
Scotland.
AS the letter hints. Mr.. Carnegie
may be British subject, despite the
repeated declarations that he is an
American citizen, he even refusing q
dukedom from King Edward on that
account.
Miss Troy has brought the matter to
the attention of the Marquis of Tulli-
bardine son of the Duke of the Atholl,
and has received a promise that a pro-
test will he made in Dornoch parish
ting an inquiry.
Miss Troy intends to accompany the
unionist leader, file the protest and
then visit Skibo castle. where Mr.. Car.
negie has invited a large house party,
including Ambassador Page and Os-
car S. Straus. Mr.. McKenna's letter
reads:
My Dear Thorne You wrote me
the other day, asking whether Andrew
costing that the appearance OF his
name on the list of Dornoch voters is
sufficient evidence of his British ma
tionality. | am afraid am not in a
position to reply definitely. The APP
pearance of his name on a list Of
voters is not conclusive as to British
nationality as occasionally persons
who are not British subjects get on
the lists.
so far as know Mr. Carnegie was
born in the United Kingdom and by
virtue of this would be British sub
ject and unless he has done something
to divest himself of. British NATIONAL
ity, and have never heard that he has.
truly, r. McKenna."
list of Dornoch parish. County Suther-
land. in which he is described as
gentleman"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
The Laws Of Friend ship.

DR. Frank Crane. in Woman's World
The laws of friendship are we'll known
They have been codifed and Acknowledged
from Socrates down.
These are some of them To find perfect
friendship two persons should have SINH
lar tastes. e, they should be of the same
one religion 4) they should be of the
same position in society, of the same rank
class or condition of fortune, (5) they
should have the same or similar interests.
t6) their natures or dispositions should he
alike and CD their dispositions should be
unlike.
These laws are perfectly true, they are
drawn from human nature, they are con-
secrated by the authorities of the sages.
There is only one difficulty with them
every man and woman on earth is an ex-
ception.
In the case of each one of us these laws
are made for all others except ourself
For when the friend comes he oyerf1ows
the channel of the expected as the Mis-
sissippi in spring freshet: he enters our
preconceived magazine of notions as a bull
enters a china shop: he minds the fences
of our philosophy as giant might mind
the fences of our farm.
He comes as fever comes. as madness
or mood. He is bolt from the blue
He is snow in the summer He ia a mira
Gle. For he comes from that mystery Of
personality, which no man can fatlIom.
and speaks to our own inner plumbless
deep.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
LIGHT BREAKS IN
Thoughtful Farmer Learns About
Coffee,

Many people exist in a more or less
hay condition and it often takes years
before they realize that tea and cot
fee are often the cause of the cloudi-
ness, and that there is simple way
to let the light break in.
A worthy farmer had such an eXper-
fence and tells about it, in letter. He
says:
For about forty years, have had
indigestion and stomach trouble in
various forms. During the last 25
years would not more than get over
one spell of bilious collie until another
would be upon me.
The best doctors could get and
all the medicines | could buy, only
gave me temporary relief.
Change of climate was tried with
out results. could not sleep nights,
had rheumatism and my heart would
palpitate at times so that it seemed
it would jump out of my body.
Il came to the conclusion that there
was no RELIEF for me and that | was
about wound up, when. saw Postum
advertisement. had always been a
coffee drinker, and got an idea from
the ad. that maybe coffee was the
cause of my trouble.
II began to use Postum instead of
coffee and in less than three weeks l
felt like new man. The rheumatism
left me, and have never had a spell
of bilious collie since.
My appetite is good, my digestion
never was better and can do more
work than before for 40 years.
II haven't tasted coffee since be
gan with Postum. My wife makes il
according to directions and relish il
as we'll as ever did coffee, and was
certainly a slave to coffee"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek. Mich. Write for copy of the lit
tie book. The Road to Wellville"
Postum comes in two FORMS
Regular Postum must be well boiled
Instant Postum is soluble powder
A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in {
cup of hot water and, with the addi
ton of cream and sugar. makes de
licious beverage instantly.
There's reason" for Postum.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04

The lion is the deserts king: through his
domain SO vide
Right swiftly and right royalty this night
he means to ride,
BY the sedgy brink. where the wild herds
drink, close touches the grim chief;
The trembling sycamore above whispers
with every leaf
AT evening. ON the Table Mount, when Va
can see no more
The changcful play of signals gay; when
the gloom is specked DER
With kraal fires: when the CATER WendS
home through the lone karoo;
When the bushbok in the thickest sleeps,
and by the stream the gnu:
Then bend your gaze across the waste
what see We? The giraffe,
Majestic. stalks toward the lagoon the
tuibid lymph to quaff;
With outstretched neck and tongue adjust,
he kncelS him down to cool
His hot thirst with welcome draught
from the foul and brackish pool.
A rustling sound, a roar. a bound-the lion
sits astrioc
Upon his giants cor,rser's back. Did ever
king 50 ride,
Had ever king a stecd so rare. capariSons
of state
To match the 6appled skin whereon that
rider sits elatc?
In the muscles Of the neck his teeth are
plunged with ravcnous greed:
His tawny name is tossing round the
withcrs of the seed.
Up leaping with a hollow yell of anguish
and surprise,
Away away, in wild dismay the camelo-
pard flies.
His feet have wings: see how he springs
across the moonlt plain!
AS from their sockets they would burst,
his glarng eyeballs strain:
In thick black streams of purling blood,
full fast his life Is feeting.
The stiffness of the desert hears his
hearts tumultuous beating
Like the cloud that through the wilder
ness the path of Israel traced
Like an airy phantom. dull and wan a
spirit of the waste
From the sandy sea uprising az the
.waterspout from ocean.
A whrlnE cloud of dust keeps pace with
the courser's fiery motion.
Croalxing companion of their fight the
vulture whirls on high:
Below. the terror OF the fold, the panther
fierce and sly.
And hyenas foul. round graves that prowl,
Join in the horqid race:
BY the footprints wet with gore and
sweat their monarch's course they
trace.
They see him on his living throne, and
quake with fear the while
With claws of steel he tears piecemeal his
cushions painted pile
On. on. no pause. no rest, giraffe while
life and strength remain.
The steed by such rider backed may
madly plunge in vain.
Keeling upon the deserts verge, he falls,
and breathes his last
The courscr, stained with dust and foam
is the riders fell repast.
Der Madagascar. eastward far faint
flush is ds "icd-
Thus nightly. or his broad domain the
king of beasts doth ride
From the German of Ferdinand Freili.
grath.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04

expected that when the money bags
were frightened that this would be the
case The fact is that money could
not keep pace with the development
natural to demands of 100000 new peo-
pie year Towns and cities had to
be built to take care of the country
and capital had not made sufficient
preparation.
But the crop of 1918 will restore
conditions to normal state, and the
natural and reasonable development
will continue.
Owing to wet fall in 1912. and a
heavy snowfall during the past winter
there was large area which it was
difficult to seed at the usual time the
past spring. Therefore as general
thing seeding was later than usual A
trip through the country in the early
part of August showed that this was
no drawback. Wheat that had been
seeded in May was already ripening.
and had stand fully as good as any
country had ever produced; the heads
were large and the prospects were of
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
TESTING Hardness Of Steel.

A very simple device has recently
been invented for testing the hard
ness of steel by impact. 1t consists
of tubular standard fitted with .
hardened steel ball at the lower end.
which is placed upon the steel to be
tested. At the upper end of the stand
ard is spirit level by which the
standard may be brought to true YER
teal position. Mounted on the standard
is cylindrical drop weight. This tH
raised to the top of the standard ana
then dropped, striking weight-re-
ceiving block at the bottom of the
standard, which communicates the i'm
pact to the steel ball, and makes an
indentation in the steel that is being
tested. BY measuring the diameter
of the indentation with celluloid
scale the hardness of the steel may
be determined.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
ERUPTION ON ANKLE BURNED

Kingsville. Mo.-"My trouble began
eighteen years ago. Nearly half Of
the time there were running sores
around my ankle; sometimes it would
be two years at time before they
were healed There were many nights
did not sleep because of the great
suffering. The sores were deep rum
ming ones and SO sore that could not
bear for anything to touch them.
They would burn all the time and
sting like lot of bees were confined
around my ankle. could not bear to
scratch 1t, it was always so sensitive
to the touch. could not let my
clothes touch 1t. The skin was very
red. made what called a cap out
of white felt. plotting paper and soft
white cloth to hold 1t In shape. This
wore night and day.
Il tried many remedies for most Of
the eighteen years with no effect.
Last summer sent for some Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. The very first
time used Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment gained relief; they relieved the
pain right then. 1t was three months
from the time commenced using
Cuticura Soap and Ointment until the
cores were entirely healed. I have
not been troubled since and my ankle
seems perfectly we'll" (Signed) Mrs.
Charles p. Brooke, Oct. %, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. ADV.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
When He Answered.

Among the employees of an apart
ment house is dusky elevator con-
ductor, who would appear to have a
System" similar to that of the maid
who announced to the guest at the
door that she didn't hear her until
she had rung three times.
"If any one calls. Henry, while
am out, tell him to wait. l shall be
right back" said a woman to the
boy in question.
No answer from the boy.
Didn't you hear me? Why don't
you answer?" demanded the woman
angrily.
q never answers, ma'am," ex.
planned Henry, unless ! doesn't hear
and then l says What? Magazine
of Fun.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
Railway Expenses.
From the Springfield Republican

e
1T II well for the critics of the railroads
row ar3 then to be given some realizing
sense of how the demands for improve
a.ants mount up in the total Doing the
best that the management of any COM
i,aEy can do there will always lie ahead
expenditures that must be made and that
somehow must be financed. If there is a
road in the country whose physical con-
6itions would seem to be about right 1t
is the Pennsylvania company, but it faces
q grade crossing, problem of huge dimen-
sions. The company proposes to abolish
all it's crossings at grade, and the ensin-
GERS find that there are 1900 of them on
t..c 1900 miles of trackage. Assuming the
work on each crossing win cost on an ay-
erage of $50,0O0-which may be too small
sn estimate-the total expense would be
S65O. 900, OOo. II the rate of expenditure for
this grade crossing work should be call
culated to remove the last crossing in half
century, the process would entail an ex-
pendtture OF $13.000.000 a year.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
wheatfie!d in Stock, Western Canada.

the brightest. 1t was not only in
wheat but in fax, oats and barley, the
same splendid conditions obtained
Rains in all parts of the country came
at the right time and the best of
weather throughout the season pre-
vailed in all parts.
The hay crop was excellent. AL
falfa, clover and timothy grasses were
good, and many farmers are now Gull
tivating these splendid folders.
The homestead shack is giving place
to comfortable residences. Large
barns are being erected where the inn
provised log and mud stable gave shell
ter to the few head of cattle that the
early settler may have had in his pos
session. Fields are fenced, roads con-
structed and great fields Of grain and
pasture land are always in evidence.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04

was $1.O24.71 in 1910. as against
$51S.03 in 1900 being an increase Of
1918 per cent. in the decade.
Coming back to the crops of 1913, it
may safely be said that the yield Of
wheat in Saskatchewan will be about
l15,000000 bushels, with an average
yield of over % bushels per acre
Oats, which are but fair crop, will
yield an average equal to that of last
year. Barley is excellent, while flax.
of which the average is considerably
less than last year, will produce a
greater average than for years. What
is said of these crops will apply to all
districts.
Under date of August 18th, report
comes from Regina which says:
Unless some dire calamity occurs
in the next few days farmers of the
Regina district will reap the greatest
wheat crop ever recorded in the West
"a correspondent made an automo.
bile trip to the north and west of the
city, over twenty-seven miles being
covered. Several fields were seen
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
He Got From Under.

Some of the boys had arranged for
nice little poker party one night ana
had induced Jones to be one of thu
group around the table. He was twit
ted about his wife and called .
"wifey's boy" until he couldn't en-
dure it, and he bravely declared his
independence. He notified his wife by
phone that he wouldn't be home until
after midnight. "What'd she say?'
asked one of his friends. "Oh, ] dun
no" admitted Jones. 81 hung up the
telephone as soon as l told her."
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
Not Exactly.

lady teacher in South London
council school was recently giving
natural history lesson to junior class
In the course of it she gave some in
formation about the heron. and at the
end she asked the children, as sim.
pie home lesson, to write down what
they knew of the bird
Only one member of her class, she
says, was able apparently to set down
her ideas in writing, for next morning
only one essay was handed in.
And this one essay, written by
little girl, read: Dear Teacher: 4
heron is bloater.''
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04

maintenance of the high standard Of
excellence for which Calumet Baking
Powder is famed.
The Calumet Baking Powder Com
pany was organized quarter of a
century ago by Mr. VIM NJ Wright.
The company first began the manu-
facture of baking powder in a COM
paratively small way, with limited
capital Modern methods. combined
with high grade materials and an NM
wavering determination to produce
an article of superior quality have
created demand which necessitated
the erection of the new Calumet plant
have made the Calumet Company
substantial factor in the industrial
life of Chicago, and won for it pat
ronage which is a benefit and a cred
it to the city.-Adv
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
The CROPS IN
WESTERN CANADA
Optimism Throughout the Prov.
inces of Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta.

During the present summer num-
Der of important delegations have Wis
tied the Canadian West for the pur-
pose of occurring information as to
the crop conditions and the conditions
of business generally. For some
months the financial stress was fel.
throughout the Provinces of Manitoba,
saskatchewan, Alberta and British Co
lumbia as we'll as in other portions OF
the country. With a development talk
ing place there, such as has never
before been known. it was to be
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04
Sure. He Was Glad!

Boston father the past summer
sent his boy Reginald and his three
sisters to visit a relative in Maine.
Though it was understood the visit
was to consume three weeks, their
stay heightened to two months.
We'll" asked the father upon the
return of his offspring" was your
Uncle William glad to see you?'
Was he?" reiterated the eldest
boy as though surprised by the query.
why, dad. he asked me why We
didn't bring you, mother, the cook.
the maid and the dog! "-Harpers
Magazine
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-09-04

which were almost ripe enough for the
binder. Others require about week
more warm weather, but everywhere
was the indication Of phenomenal
yield. Oats do not average up with
the wheat. but several good fields were
seen. This time next week the hum
of the binder should be the prevalent
music around Regina.
zone farm was passed on which
there was one square mile of the finest
wheat imaginable. 1t is just turning
yellow and will run forty bushels to
the acre."
In Alberta there will be high
yield of all grains. Wheat will be a
heavier average than last year. Oats
about the same, fax heavier and bar.
ley about the same. Adv.