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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-05-29

Mrs. John o. Hughes, OF Dallas,
came in this week for visit with home
folks.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-05-29

Miss Olga Caldwell, who has been at
tending the Sillimau College, at Clinton
has returned home.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-05-29

Miss Laura Broussard. who is stopping
at the Palms left Monday for New
Orlaens.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-05-29

Mrs. s. p. Watts was on the sick list
few days this week.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-05-29

FOR SALF--Two fine Plymouth Rock
Cocks, year old for quick sale 81 each.
Apply to ]. w. O'Bryan, or phone 1872.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-05-29

DIR. r. o. Young was a visitor to kaplan
and Gueydan Sunday.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-05-29

FOR SALE--A few young Belgian Hares
at 81 and up. Apply to J. w. O'Bryan,
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
PROGRAM
teachers Association TO be
Held at S. B. Rees School
House Sept. IL, 1915.

/. Welcome Address
by Aubrey K. Chestnut,
2. Response +. A. Knuckles,
3. How to decorate the School
Room, Winnie Mitchell,
4. How to manage the Bad
Boy? p. l.. Senters.
). Hrw teach primary reading?
Clara Campbell, +. Cooper,
{. How secure regular attend
ance? John Campbell,
Z. Some Qualities of a Progress
sive Teacher. A Chestnut
NOON
8. How to teach primary Arith-
metic. Stella Bryant,
8. What should be the teachers
attitude during playtime?
Betha Fore,
10. How manage boys and girls
in Ado!esent Age? o. N.
Prichard.
II. How alternate PhicOlogy
and Geography? W. c.
Elliott,
IL. How Alternate History and
Civics? Morton Burnett,
IL. How improve and Keep the
playground in good cOndi-
ton? Maggie Steele,
Cora Logan.
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10

at l, O'Clock. All teachers and
stu tents of our school are re-
quested to attend this service in
a body, and all other schools Of
the city, churches, and entire
citizenship are envited to assist
us by their presence and coop
Grafton to make that day a red
letter day in the school history
of Barbourville. Judge james ID.
Black, will deliver the principal
address.
Old coins, data of any special
nature or kind, names of all
school boards and faculties of the
town. as well as church, secret
order, and public officials are
priviledged to deposit same in
corner stone. Use small printed
type and see officers of the board
or Prof. Oldfeld not later than
Sept. II mt 6 p. M. as roster of
contents will be made hour of
ceremonial sevice.
w. G. Black, Chairman.
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
Sheriff's Sale

BY virture of execution No.
53lS to me directed, which issu-
ed from the Office of the clerk OF
the Bell Circuit Court in favor of
r. p. Smith and Son Company
and against the Black Mountain :
Supply Co., II. b. Jones and N.
b. Jones | will, on the 9th day
of September 1919, it being
County Court day, at the court
house, in the city of Barbouryille
expose to public sale, to the high
est and best bidder, n tract Of
land lying on the waters of Little
Richland Creek, Knox County,
levied upon as the property of
N. Il. Jones, which land is bound
ed as follows:
Being the property Of N. h,
Jones, situated on Little RichIand
Creek and bounded ON the north
by the lands of Mrs. M. f.. Cole
on the east by the lands Of f.
Caldwell. G. H. Bays and Sam
Fisher, on the south by the land
of G.. II. Bays and on the west
by the land of j. II. Jackson, ii.
l.. Cannon. Supposed TO be 100
acres more or less.
will proceed to sell the above
described land, or so much of it,
as will be necessary to satisfy
said execution, which is $164. 81
with interest thereon from Mar.
2, 1914 and 81. 40 cost thereon, to
the highest and best bidder, on
a credit of six months from the
day of sale. the purchaser giving
bond with approved security, to
have force and effect of Judg-
ment, on which execution may
issue if the same is not paid at
maturity, when and where due
attendance will be given by me.
$. l.. Lewis,
Sheriff Knox County
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10

A full line of Birth Stone rings
now on display at ID, c. Payne's
Jewellery store. Our increased
sales have proven that our Gus
toners certainly appreciate good
goods at nominal prices, and the
way our reconstructed stone rings
and cameoes have sold during
the past year proves the correct
ness of our judgement as 70 the
style of rings which are going to
sell best.
During the coming year mems
rings especially are going to be
in big demand, these will be set
with ''Hellers" reconstructed
rub es, genuine amethysts, gem
uine topaz, and in the ladies
rings, Pink shell cameOes and
Coral canoes will be worne a
great deal. All these are shown
in the birth stone rings at our
store. Don't fail TO ~ them, |
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
The Proper Course L.
Information of Priceless Value to
Every BarbOurville Citizen.

How to act in an emergency is
knowledge of inestimable worth,
and this is particularly true of the
diseases and ills of the hnman
body. If you suffer with kidney
backache, urinary disorders. or
any form of kidney trouble, the
advice contained in the followin:
statement should add a valuable
asset to your store of knowledge.
What could be more concniving
proof of the efficiency of Doan's
Kidney Pills than the statement
of a nearby resident who has used
them and publicly tells of the
benefit derived?
Mrs. S. f. Gibson, Second St.,
Corbin, KY, says: 81 had back
aches and pains through my kid
neys. My kidneys were weak and
at times | was nervous. Doan's
Kidney Pills gave me relief. My
kidneys are normal and my back
is strong"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
got DOan's Kidney Pills-the
same that Mrs. Gibson had.
Foster-Milburn Co., Props, Buff
fslQ, N. Y. adv.
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
Public School Notice

The City Graded and High
School, will open for its l9l5-l9l6
session on Monday morning Sept.
20, with Prof. Oldfeld as Prin-
cipal and same corps of teachers
as last year. Will occupy new
building about Dec. LIST.
Corner stone of New High
School Bldg. will be laid by the
Grand Master of Kentucky under
auspices of local masonic lodge
on Saturday afternoon Sept. Is,
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
COMMISSIONERS SALE

By virtue of a judgment from
the Knox Quarterly court in ia
vor of the Carbonic | liquid Co.
against William Abner.
! will on the 25th day of Sept.
1915, at the court house door in
BarbOurville. sell one Soda Foun-
tain and fixtures thereto in order
TO raise the sum of STOPS and
about SIG. cost, sell on a credit
Of three months, purchaser to
give bond with approved surety.
w, s. Edwards
Special Commissioner
BIO St. - n,
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
Wealth of the
United States

In tbe.a da,s whom sn much is
said If tho dast,r,ction If waalth
in tho World il i aorsaahIa 70
bovo fo,,,.as ,bat rive ,,ma idea
of tho r.,ta at ubirb weaItb i in
,,.,osi,,a, il, rho United ctates A
t,IIatin racantIr is.,,ad NV tho
Cansus R,rean 81 Waebinoton
o,;,.,, % .,I.pI,,-,, IF ,ba With
~ tbis c,,,rn,. l,,vr r. tba latest
,aar FOR ,,b;cb ioq,,os can ha
,,ado u,;,b +, lo1a S;n,iIa,
caIcrr,,i,,s have baan made q flor
oach ,o,,Ior cersns oince 1o50
and an ov,ro vob,n,a uas issued
on weaI,b JaLt and taxation in
1904 II is with the figures Of
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10

prepared in 1903, has estimated
the total wealth of that country
at 300. OOO, 900, 900 to 800, 900. 600, d
900 marks, or about $75. 600. 600. Il
900 to $50, 900, 900, 600. Sir George
Paish in 1904 estimated the
wealth Of Unitel Kingdom AZ
$50. 900, 900, 600. The Census Blu
rea estimates that the wealth OF
the United States increased from
1904 to 1912 in the sum OF $50. =
600, 900. 900. The estimates for
Germany and the United King
don include investments by their
people in other countries, while
the census figures of the United
States deal only with tangible
property in this country. The
. United States owes more
than it owns abroad, which Is
not true of the two other coun'
tries. but in that respect the po'
sition in this country has probab'
/ ly improved during the eight
years under review, SO that the
conclusion as TO gains in that
time is not altered.
The total wealth of the country
and the total real estate values,
as shown by the last three esti'
mates of the Census Bureau have
been as follows:
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
TO VOTERS OF
KNOX COUNTY
Alette" iron 1. NJ Ne. han,
Justice Ut tn. PetJe

To the editor of The Advocate:
beg space in your paper to
say few things to the people 'f
Knox County in regard to the
bond issue and building of Pike
roads. While there should have
been less said and more honest
work done.
Seeing the people have voted
a$2OO. 600. 90 bond issue for the
purpose of building roads and
permitted the Fiscal Court of this
county to sell bonds, as a mort
gage. on their homes and trust
ing the Fiscal court with their
money; | deem it my whole duty
as a member of this said court as
have been for nine years, to OBJ
tain the very best results for the
people and in order to do this |
know that should be governed
and have been solely by the law.
1t has seemed to me all this time
that if some of that court would
leave out what looks to me, to be
selfish motives that We could
reach the peoples needs.
am sorry to know that stand
confused as they now do and
have, and always will, until a
portion of this court leaves out
what seems to be a self motive
purpose. and comes down to the
exact meaning of the law.
My hopes for the people are
better now since tn assistance of
the State Engineer met with that
court on the 80 day of Aug. and
showed such a great willingness
to help drive out this seemingly
self motive proposition and it is
now my opinion if he will stand
by the people as he did that day
that we will progress this work
and be able to kill the poison
germ that is creating the trouble.
| am sorry for the people that
they have suffered bonds to be
sold as mortgages against their
homes ard trusted the Fiscal
Court of Knox County TO build
these roads and that the majcri-
ty of that court has in the past
refused to abide by the law.
| saw on the 10th day of Aug.
when | was overpowered and Q
committee of three Of that court
was appointed to hire a man tG
do a portion of this work and
hire him secretly and refused
over my protest to bring HIM in
open court before the public and
hire him, was the most suspicious
feature | ever saw anywhere for
knew the man from Louisville
they did hire, he has been stay
ing around Barbourville waiting
for this pie for long time.
then marked it that if the state
did not help the people that they
were lost in their efforts to get
roads, and | hope how soon it
will be that Right" will step
aside of competitor and say we
are going to build Knox County
some roads. Leaving aside that
secret contract made by that
committee since the state has re-
jected it ! am now ready and
have always been to meet this
court in spirit of honesty and
cooperation with the law, and
do things publicly and make every
dollar of this money build one
hundred cents worth of roads.
| speak the above with malice
toward no man, but to make my
stand in this matter clear to the
public.
Your friend,
II AZ az nokoa
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
Self Reliance in
School Work


much. We do things for them
that they should do for them
selves, and consequently form the
wrong habits. The habit of de
pending upon others God helps I
those who helps themselves. 1t
is the wrong idea for independ-
ent beings to cling to one anoth-
err like the ivy to the oak for
support.
We are born with powers and
faculties capable of almost any
thing, but it is the exercise of
these powers and faculties that
gives us ability and skill to do
things. One of the greatest
curses that can befall a young
person is to learn, while their
character is forming, upon others
for support. James A. Garfield
once said; The man who dares
not follow his own independent
judgment, but runs perpetually
to others for advice becomes at
last a moral weakling and an
educational dwarf. Those who
are trained to self reliance are
ready to 90 out and contend in
the sternest battles of life, while
those who have already leaned
| for support upon those around
them are never prepared to breast
the storms of life that arise"
We as Americans are tending
to much toward the Briton's aev-
erence of pedigree. We reverence
achievement and yet we are tend
ing towards the opposite. Society
is responsible for much of these
conditions for it will bow with a
smile and honor to the ten-dOllar
clerk. while frOwning on the
twenty dollar labOier. Work is
work. and all work is honorable.
A man is a man for what he does
and not for what his ancestors
may have done. The person who
is above labor or frowns upon the
laborer is a very despisab.e
creature. He not only displays
dull intelligence of those nobler
inspirations with which God has
endowed him but even shows a
lack of plain common sense. The
education, moral or intellectual
must be chiefly our own work. !
do not wish to be understood as
depreciating the usefulness of
colleges. But a mere college
diploma will avail but little.
Study like that of Webster and
Greedy by New Hampshire pine
knots is just as valuable when
once obtained as if it had the
sanction of some college presi
dent. The world only asks What
can you do?" The point is if the
pupil be not endowed by self-re-
lance and a firm determination
the college education will avail
/ him nothing. Along with this
self reliance we need to develop
originality and cultivate a think
ing mind.
1t is a poor kind of an enter
prise which thus depends upon
the judgment of others. What
can be more absurd than for a
man to hope to rank as a thun-
dering Jupiter and borrow all his
thunder. Remember that the
work only crowns him truly
great who has won for himself
THAT greatness.
A man with a hoe at its source
might change the course of the
great river so we teachers in the
primary schools to a great meas
ure are responsible for the lives
of our pupils and think that we
could do the State no greater in
jury than to fail to develop with
in our pupils self-reliance, Origi-
nality and thinking mind.
Let us hear from some other
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
Total Wealth

The value of real estate was
sixty per cent of the total wealth
in 1900. and slightly less than
that in 1904 and 1912.
Including real estate. the
wealth of the country increased
at the rate of 81, 646, 600. 600 per
year from 1900 TO 1904. and at the
rate of $40, 600. 0O0,0 600 per year
from 1904 to 1912. Including all
real estate values, the increase
was at the rate of 81, 1876, 600, 600
from 1900 to 1904 and $4, 600, 600
900 from 1904 to 1908. Thus the
gains during the last period, out
side of all increment to land
values and all fixed land i'm
provementS upon the land, were
practically the same as the gains
including real estate values from
1900 to 1904.
They make a satisfactory
answer also 10 the peSsimiStic
theories of those who think there
is no Improvement in the genera
condition of the masses of the
people. If the capital invest
ment has doubled in eight years,
it must have more than doubled
IN productive capacity, for new
equipment is equally more effec-
tive than the old. and how are
all these goods distributed unless
the masses of the people are con-
suming them? The thirteenth
census showed that from 1899 to
1909 the amount of capital in
vested in all manufactures in this
country increased 1858 per cent.
the number of wage earners en-
ployed increased 40.4 per cent and
the amount of wages paid in
creased 7O.6 per cent. In line
with all his are the facts that
the production of coal prac-
tically doubled from. 1910, and
the Tonnage of the railways in
creased in nearly the same pro-
portion, All of this going on
while the population of the coun-
try increased PA per cent.
If with all this multiplication
of things the average man is not
getting more of them than he
did ten years ago. what becomes
of them?
Mountain advocate., 1915-09-10
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-02
Fighting the Billboard Nuisance.

In q decision delivered not long ago
the supreme court Of Illinois upholds
the principle underlying C~hicago'S pres
ent billboard ordinance. Not only is
the measure declared valid, but the
reasoning of the court indicates that
even a stronger ordinance dealing with
the billboard would be sustained.
AS the contest over this nuisance is
going to the supreme court Of the Unit
ed States, where the frontage consent
feature Of the existing ordinance may
be the special object of attack, oppo-
nents of biilboards are seeking to i'm
prove the measure. Instead Of provid-
ing, as does the ordinance as it stands,
that billbOarus may be permitted in
certain conditions only with the ap-
proval of the majority of the property
holders in the neighborhood, the city
council is now asked to prohibit abso-
lutely billboards within go feet Of any
hospital, church or school, in blocks
in which one-half or more of the build
ings are used exclusively for residence
purposes and in vacant blocks adjoin-
ing residence blocks.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-02
W. w. BUTLER.

and that his plants i'll Canada would
begin manufacturing the shells at once.
While the possession Of this order
was a source of iuhilation to Nh. But
Ter, he said he felt aggrieved that Unit
ed States interests had been practical
ly placed at the head of the business
of supplying munitions to the British
government.
There are many plants idle in Can
ada" Mr.. Butler said, (which could
make vast quantities of munitions. I
myself have eight which can produce
highly efficient shells. What the Brit
ish need at the front is not %shrapnel,
but high powered shells to smash the
REINFORCED concrete and steel trenches
the Germans have been building all
winter. Shrapnel is ineffective for such
work.
England cannot manufacture any
thing like the quantity of high power
missiles necessary to assure victory for
the allies. Canada can do the work
swiftly"
ALL. butiSt SuiO lis COMPANIES WOulu
rush work ON the Petrograd shell con-
tract, which he called the most stupen-
dous of its kind ever undertaken. Red
tape had sadly hampered the British
war Office in the work OF obtaining
munitions, he asserted, and Lloyd
George would have the problem Of hts
career in strengthening things out.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-02
Glazed EYES.

Snakes may almost be said to have
glass eyes, inasmuch as their eyes never
close. They are without lids, and each
is covered with a transparent scale re-
semblinG glass. When the reptile casts
its outer skin the eye scales come off
with the rest of the transparent envel-
ope out Of Which the snake slips.
This CLASSY eye scale is so tough that
it e~1fectually protects the true eye from
the tWl2s, sharp grass and other OBJ
structlons which the snake encounters
in its travels, yet it is transparent
enough to allow the most perfect vi
sion. Thus if the snake has not a glass
eye it may, at any rate, be said to wear
eyeglasses.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-02
To Protect City Trees.

Small boys who tear "sWitcheS' from
trees planted along the parkWayS Of
streets and delivery wagon drivers who
allow their horses 10 make Il meal of
the long hanging leaves Of those same
trees are henceforth to be the object of
vigilance of the streets and tree plant
ing committee OF the Municipal Art
league OF Chicago.
Mrs. II. S. Newton. chairman OF the
committee, spent Il day inspecting the
newly planted Carolina poplars which
have recently been placed by the
league along Warren venue
I'VE want the streets of our city to
look like some of those beautiful ave
nues in large cities Of Europe. where
the trees have become famous" she
said. This we can accomplish if the
trees are not moleSted. The greatest
menac to the life of the trees is the
mischievous boy and the driver of the
nibbling horse. When we secure the
cooperation Of these two classes Of in
dividuals our object is assured
To plant trees along the structure of
the Metropolitan elevated railroad is
the plan of the committee.
Zone of the hidcous things of the
city, the great iron structure, will then
become al asset" said Mrs. Newton.
About 300 trees have been planted
thus far by the committee in the vi
entity of Warren enu and Wes'
Monroe and West Congress streets.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-02
Prize Plan For Street Intersection

John Floyd Yewell Of Peekskill,
n. Y, won out over 200 competitors
and was awarded first prize by the
jury Of awards Of the Municipal Art
society of New York city in it's compe-
tition for the best architectural solu-
ton Of the intersection of an avenue
and a street. His plan provided for a
tower in the center Of the intersection.
with the angles Of the buildings on the
four corners cut off so as to allow
rotary circulation. The car tracks on
the cross streets We're depressed so as
to pass under the avenue. and vehicu-
lar traffic, leaving the street at another
point, also passed under the avenue on
the lower level. This plan involved q
very slight amount Of condemnation of
property.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-09-02
FOLLOWING THE CLEANUP.

New Orleans Sends Printed Reminders
to Its Citizens.
Keeping the city in order from day
to day, after the annual cleanup, is a
problem which requires some ingenui-
ty. To ward off a relapse into care
lessness on the part Of its spring clean
ed citizens the department of public
property Of New Orleans has recently
issued Il set Of small folders called the
city Beautiful Series" which it is eX-
pected will be effective in producing
results. These are printed in a style
to make them attractive and interest
ing and are unique rs to contents. In
each case, as q practical part of the
argument, it is stated that the depart
ment is determined to put an end TO
the throwing of papers and rubbish
upon the streets and that stringent
measures will be adopted to punish all
violators of the city ordinances upon
this subject.
These warnings are distributed by the
SIllLcllS SollllLllllSS, NIliNh SolioiSto VI
representatives of the board of trade,
New Orleans Association of Commerce
and other commercial organizations.
Each ward i'll the city also has Il rep
r%esentative on the committee, and the
Women's club has rendered valuable
assistance in circulating the folders.
1t is interesting to note that each OF
the seventeen wards of New Orleans
has Il club devoted to the identifying
of its surroundings and that a repre-
sentative from each precinct reports
progress at the ward meetings.