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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
KNOW THY COUNTRY
III--Teleerdph and Telephone

spring company than the fellowship
of the giant intellects that constructed
this marvellous industry and journey
along the pathway of its development.
Illuminated at every mile-post of its
progress by the lightning-fashes of
brilliant minds. will be taken at a very
early date.
A brief statistical review of the in
dustry brings out its growth and mag
nitude in a most convincing and un-
forgetable manner.
The telephone service of the United
States is the most popular and efficient
and its rates are the cheapest of the
telephone systems of the world.
We are the greatest takers on earth.
We send so per cent of our communi-
cations over the telephone The world
has about 100000 telephones and of
this number the United States has ap-
proximately $4,000, Europe 100000
and other countries 100000. Accord
ing to the latest world telephone GEN.
sus, the total telephone investment is
S1,906, 100000 and Of this amount ST.
095,000,000 was credited to the United
States, s636,0O0,0O0 in Europe and
s175,000,000 in other countries. The
annual telephone conversations total
24,6O0, 100000 divided as follows: Unit
ed States 15,6OO,O 100000; Europe $780,
100000, and other countries 100000
600. The total world wire telephone
mileage is 33,262,OOO miles divided as
follows: United States 2O,24S,0O0, Eu-
rope 1885, 900, and other countries
2,679,000. About six per cent of
the worlds population and sixty-one
per cent of the telephone wire mile
age is in the United States.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
A Girls Influence.

1 am one of those who believe
in boys and girls being friends
and companions. l think it an
excellent thing for them to grow
up together. But when they do
not meet in such a nice and
friendly way it puts a great deal
of responsibility upon each. A
girl has a great influence over a
boy, and every girl should real
ize that fact and she should al
ways try to use it in the best
way. She should never say or do
anything that will lessen a boys
respect for her. Not only should
girls treat their boy friends kind
ly, but they should be as thought
full of their brothers.
Just think one minute and ask
yourself, do you ever dispute
with them? Do you ever make
fun or criticise them? Are you
gentle and sweet in all your
ways with them? Are you think
ing of little things to do that will
please them?
If you do not you do not love
them enough, for it is in this way
that sisterly love is manifested.
You are responsible for your
brothers. morals, also for his
manners. If you laugh loudly
and use slang so will they. If
you are Indifferent and rude
they are apt to be the same,
If you do not lead a true and
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
A DIVINE COVENANT.

God Almighty gave Eve to Adam
with the pledge that she would be his
helpmeet and with this order of COM
partnership, civilization has lowered
to it's greatest heights. In this rela-
tionship, God has blessed woman and
man has honored her and after four
thousand years of progress, she now
proposes to provoke God to decoy
man by asking for suffrage, thereby
by amending an agreement to which
she was not party.
Woman, remember that the Israelite
scorned divine covenant, and as a
result wandered forty years in the
wilderness without God. Likewise
man should remember that it is a
dangerous thing to debase woman by
law. Rome tried lowering woman's
standard and an outraged civilization
tore the clothes off the backs IF the
human race and turned them out to
roam in the world naked and un-
ashamed.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
Ill. e. johnson
On Two-Cent Passenger Rates

both the State and the Railway Com
pany testified that the claims of the
railroad were sustained by the facts.
Two cents did not pay the cost of
carrying a passenger a mile. The
State, however, contended that the
railroad was earning enough surplus
on its state freight business to give
fair return upon the capital used in
its passenger as we'll rs its freight
business. For the purposes of the
case, the railroad did rot deny this,
but held to it's contention that the
State could not segregate its pas
senger business for rate fixing with
out allowing a rate that would be
sufficient to pay the cost Of doing
business and enough to give some
return upon the capital invested in
doing the business regulated. This
was the issue presented to the Su-
pseme Court. Its decision responds
to the judgment of the fair-minded
sentiment of the country. The Su-
preme Court says that, even though
a railroad earns surplus on a par
ticular commodity by charging rea-
sonable rates, that affords no reason
for compelling it to haul another's
person or property for less than cost.
The surplus from a reasonable rate
properly belongs to the railway COM
pany. If the surplus IS earned from
an unreasonable rate then that rate
should be reduced. The State may
not even up by requiring the railroad
to carry other traffic for nothing or
for less than cost.
The decision is q wholesome one
and demonstrates that the ordinary
rules of fair dealing apply to railway
companies. The fact that one makes
a surplus on his wheat crop would
never be urged as a reason for COM
polling him to sell his cotton at less
than cost. 1t would not satisfy the
man who wanted bread to be told
that its high price enabled the cotton
manufacturer to get his raw product
for less than cost. In this case the
court reaffirmed the homely maxim
that each tub must stand upon its
own bottom"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
DARIUS

The neigh of horse made Darius
King of Persia, the six contending
powers for the throne agreeing among
themselves that the one whose horse
should neigh first should possess the
kingdom. This ancient method Of
settling disputes among politicians
could be revived with profit today.
If our partisan factions and petty pol
iticians could only settle their dis
putes by the neigh of horse, the
bark of dog or the bray of a donkey,
it would be great blessing and would
give our citizens a better opportunity
to pursue the vocations of industry
free from political strife.
Let those who pick political plums
by raising rows and who flash swords
dripping in the blood of industry un-
derstand that they cannot turn the
public forum into political arena and
by a clash of personal aspirations
still the hammer and stop the pillow
and that their quarrels must be settled
in the back alleys Of civilization.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23

Our transportation facilities are the
most perfect product of this great COM
mercial age and the telegraph and tel
ephone systems of this nation crown
the industrial achievements of the
whole world. These twin messengers
of modern civilization, born in the
skies, stand today the most faithful and
efficient public servants that ever
toiled for the human race.
They are of American nativity and
while warm from the mind of the in
ventive genius have, under American
supervision, spun a network Of wires
across the earth and under the seas.
Telegraphy, in its early youth, mas
tered the known world and the tele-
phone has already conquered the
earth's surface, and now stands at the
seashore ready to leap across the
ocean.
No industry in the history of the
world has ever made such rapid strides
in development and usefulness, and
none has ever exerted a more powerful
influence upon the civilization of its
day than the Telegraph and Telephone.
Their achievement demonstrates the
supremacy of two distinct types of
American genius-invention and organ
ization.
The industry was peculiarly FORUM
ate in having powerful inventive intel
lect at its source and tremendous
minds to direct it's organization and
growth. 1t is the most perfect fruit
of the tree of American industry and
when compared with its European con-
temporaries, it thrills every patriotic
American with pride.
Ambitious youth can find no more in
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23

states have a two cent passenger rate
and whatever loss is incurred is recov-
cred through freight revenue. The JUS
tice Of such procedure was recently
passed upon by the Supreme Court
of West Virginia and the decision is
so far-reaching that we have asked
l.. E. Johnson, president of the Nor
folk and Western Railway whose road
contested the case to briefly review
the suit. Mr.. Johnson said in part:
Some ten years ago, passenger
fares were fixed by the legislatures
Of large number of states at two
cents a mile. AS a basis for such
economic legislation, no examination
was made of the cost of doing the
business so regulated, nor was any
attention given to the fact whether
such a rate would yield to the rail-
way companies an adequate or any
net return upon the capital invested
in conducting this class of business.
Such a law was passed in West
Virginia in 1907. The Norfolk and
Western Railway Company put the
rate into effect and maintained it for
two years. Its accounting during
these two years showed that two
cents a mile per passenger barely
paid the out-of-pocket cost and moth
ing was left to pay any return on
capital invested. 1t sought relief from
the courts. Expert accountants for
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23

the passions OF the people, but they
can't put brick and mortar together.
We need builders.
Let those who hunger and thirst for
power understand that the highest
glory of a statesman is to construct,
and that it is better for a man that he
should build a public highway than
that he should become Governor of a
state, and that he start plow than
that he become the author of a law
The true test of craftsmanship is the
pillow and the hammer, so let those
who would govern, first build.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23

noble christian life neither will
they be apt to. Ifyour standard
of morals is not high your broth
er will measure all other girls
by you, the girl he knows b est.
One of the worst things that
can befall a boy is for him to
lose his respect for women.
A girl must be thoughtful and
unselfsh to win her brothers
affections.
The girls who are true, kind
and lovely are more than repaid
for any sacrifice they may make,
for / think there is nothing
greater than lovely, manly BROTH
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23

Lula Leach &c Plff
George o. Hancock sc DIT.
By virtue of a Judgment and Order
of Sale of Adair Circuit Court, rem
dered at the May term, thereof, 1915,
in the above cause, l shall proceed to
offer for sale at the court house door
in Columbia, KY, to the highest bid
der, at public auction, on Monday, the
5th day of July, 1915, at one o'clock p.
%. or thereabout (being County
Court, upon a credit of six months,
the following described property, to-
wit: Three certain tracts of land sit
uated in Adair county, KY, on the
waters of Casey's Creek, and all ad-
joining each other.
The first tract contains 70 acres.
The second tract contains % acres
more or less.
The third tract contains 100 acres
more or less.
The Judgment and order of sale are
referred to for better description
which is of record in the Office of the
clerk of the Adair Circuit Court in
Order Book No. IA, Page 1853.
For the purchase price the pur-
chaser, with approved surety or secu-
rites, must execute bond, bearing le-
gal interest from the day of sale until
paid and having the force and effect
of a Judgment. Bidders will be pre-
pared to comply promptly with these
terms
W, A. Coffey, Master Commissioner
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
Truths Spoken in Jest.

The trouble with most of the
advice ia that it has generally
been offered at the wrong time.
A man can insist that wealth
is a burden and yet break his
back holding on to his share.
One charitable act will occa-
sionally cause a man to pat him
self on the back for many
months.
Some good people enjoy tell
ing bad news.
Gallons of trouble may come
out of a pint flask.
About the only satisfactory
substitute for wisdom is silence.
To err is human; to forgive
may be a brand of diplomacy.
There is a much better market
for good mules than there is for
bad men.
If a man could read his own
biography it would probably sur
prise him more than any one
else,
Our idea of a hustler is a man
who can work as fast all day as
he cnn dress in a cold room in
the morning.
When a fool hen takes a notion
to sit she doesn't care rap
whether there are. any eggs in
the nest or not. Lazy men are
built on the same plan.
Many a smart kid who has
ruled his mother found it a diff
ferent proposition to govern a
wife.
We always like to quote threat
ening Scripture when it applies
to the other chap.
In these days of enterprise it
is better to get room on the
ground floor than at the top,
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
THEMISTOCLES

When Themistocles was asked by
his host at a dinner party to enter
tain the guests by playing the lutte, he
replied that he could not play the
fiddle, but that he could make a small
town a great city. We have in this
nation many politicians who are good
"iddlers," but they cannot make q
small town a great city. We are over
run with orators who can play upon
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23

The farmers Of
this nation are
vitality interested
in railroad rates
and equity be-
tween passenger
and freight rates
is especially i'm
portant to the
man who follows
the pillow for the
farmer travels
very little but he
is a heavy con-
tributor to the
freight revenues.
S ON e of tn q
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
Greatly Benefited by ChamperIain's
LInImenf.

II have used Chamberlain's Lin
iment for sprains, bruises and rheu-
matte pains, and the great benefit 1
have received justifes my recommend
ng it in lhe highest terms" writes
Mrs Florence Slife, Wabash, Ind. If
you are troubled with rheumatic pains
you will certainly be pleased with ths3
prompt relief which Chamberlain'S
Liniment affords. Obtainable at
PAUL Drug Co. AID
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1915-06-23
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Will Relieve Your Indigestion
PAUL Drug Co.
COMMISSIONERS SALE.

ADAIR CIRCUIT COURT
OF KENTUCKY.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25

Some one advised me to take Lydia E.
Finkham's Vegetable Compound. l had
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al have always recommended your
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25
5000 Five Gored Petticoat,
"a to "a waist.

The petticoat has returned to its own
and is once more a fashionable gar.
ment as it is has always been a desirable
one. Here is quite new model designed
especially for wear with the latest skirts.
1t can be finished plain at the back or with
an inverted plat and can be made with
out the fiounce or with circular or gath
cred hounce and as result, it is suited to
silk as well as to cambric, lawn, batiste,
and the like. In one view, it is ahown
made of lingerie material with hounce OF
embroidery, in another, it is made of
taffeta with a circular hounce and a
little trimming of lace and the third view
Is designed to illustrate the inverted plat
at the back. AS a matter of course, the
gathered flounce could be made of ma
terial as we'll as of embroidery or could be
made of lace and the petticoat can be
utilized for all the materials that are
liked for such garments. Sateen is Q
good one for wear beneath thin skirts,
taffeta is being much used and the soft
satins are liked and the list of lingerie
fabrics is long. one. There are five
cores and the closing can be made at the
side Of the front or at the back.
For the medium size will be required
81 yds. of material 27 in. wide, 81
yds. SO, 2A yds. A 4,with 3yds. of ffouncing
IA in. wide, or, ~ yds. of material ~
in. wide, yd. SO, or A. for the gathered
hounce, yds. II in. wide, yds. 80, or A
In. wide, for the circular founee.
The pattern $500 is cut in sizes from ID
to "a in. waist measure. 1t will be mailed
to any address by the Fashion Depart
ment of this paper, on receipt Of ten
cents.
Bowmans sell May Manton Patterns
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25

( Helen was righteously angry at
Warren. He might have shaved long
ago and saved the time. Now they
would be late in arriving and she had
promised Louise that they would be
down early. 1t was after already.
Warren began to draw hot water,
and Helen knew that it would not do
any good to say anything more. So
she went back TO the living room, put
her bridge scores away and sat down
to read. 1t was nearly o'clock be-
fore they started, and it took fifteen
minutes to get to Bob's apartment
Louise opened the door and said gaiIy:
We thought you weren't coming"
Helen looked at ther closely and
thought she could discern tear-rimmed
lids.
She followed Louise into the pretty
bedroom, and turned to her impetu-
ously rs everything all right, dear?"
Louise laughed and Helen imagined
that it was Just little bit forced.
Helen looked at her anxiously. But
And think. dear, of the times you have
helped me-"
And think of the times you helped
me before l was married"
Louise Does Not Play as Well as Usual
Not nearly as much"
1eSr lnQeeQ, ana then Louise
opened her mouth as though she were
about to says something more. but she
changed her mind and turned away.
Helen was sure now that she was
keeping something back.
They went out into the living room
and Bob greeted Helen as boisterously
as usual. The table was all ready for
the game to begin and Helen sat down
opposite Bob.
Louise did not play as we'll as usual.
She seemed nervous, and once made a
foolish mistake and apologized nsr-
Vously for it. Bob looked at her
darkly, and Warren smiled. Helen
wondered If he would have been as
gentlemanly about 1t If she had been
playing with him.
The evening was not a success. al
though there was not any one thing
that Helen could find fault with. She
and Bob had the good cards and
walked away with the score. Louise
seemed out of sorts and although Bob
be lack of sincerity about his re-
marks.
Warren drew a long breath as they
stepped out into the street.
wonder what's wrong in that
camp" he remarked.
Louise was probably tired" de-
Tended Helen, mentally resolving to
try md find out about it the next day
when Louise was alone.
Looked like quarrel to me. Well.
they can't expect honey moon to
last forever"
(Another instaIment in this fasci-
mating series will appear soon on this
page.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25
M1oMen Esg!s.l &gs lnTeReS &
:" Their Married Life :"
oopyrtght By International News service.

Warren, don't forget and go to
bed" said Helen from her bedroom
why? What's going on to-night?'
Have you forgotten that we are
going down to play cards with Bob
and Louise?"
"Yes. are you so very tired?"
"Oh, ! suppose not; what time do
we have to start?"
Not before eight You'll have time
for a nice rest before then"
Helen was somewhat elated at War
ren's manner of taking the affair. She
had expected him to storm and ask
when she had made the date, and
here he was taking 1t philsophically.
She went back to her dresser and pro-
ceeded with her dressing. Helen was
really concerned about Louise. She
had not seen her since the day that
she had come down to tell her about
her quarrel with Bob.
OF course, Helen had called her up
on the telephone, but Louise had not
raved enthusiastically in spite of the
fact that she assured Helen that every
thing was all right. Helen had meant
to run down and see her, but she had
been busy and had relied upon
their card date to find out about every
thing.
There was something though about
the quarrel between Bob and Louise
that vaguely comforted Helen. She
had thought Louise possessed some
thing that she and Warren lacked in
their relations, and here was Louise
crying over a quarrel with Bob.
She was terribly sorry for Louise,
but somehow it placed the two women
on the same plane and made Helen
happier. 1t was a queer way of rea-
Eoning, but it satisfied Helen.
Warren Begs Her to Sit Still a Minute
Helen finished dressing and went
back to join Warren. Now that she
was ready to go, she hated waiting.
She must have fdgeted, for Warren
looked up in few minutes and said
disagreeably:
Cant you sit still five minutes?"
Instead of replying Helen laughed.
why, what was I doing?"
"Fidgeting around, of course"
well, I'll sit still, promise"
Helen sat still for some five min
utes. then she turned to look at the
clock Still ten minutes to wait. She
got UP as quietly as possible and tip
toed out to the dining room, where she
had left her new bridge scores. She
wanted to show them to Warren be-
fore they left.
Warren had left the living room and
was making a great noise from the
bathroom.
Where on earth did you put my
razor?" He shouted after a fruitless
rummaging around.
In the medicine chest" said Helen
penitently running to help him. Here
II is. Are you going to shave? It's
getting late
That's right, nag at a man, it's so
pleasant"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25
.POSLAM ENDS
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Poslam Soap. for toilet and bath. is
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25
DEATH OF MRS GEORGE WOODS
Special to The Telegraph

Shepherdstown, Pa, June 25.-Mrs.
George Woods died at her home in
Bowmansdale on Wednesday, aged SO
years. Mrs. Woods received injuries
when getting off the cars % years
ago which rendered her an invalid.
During all these years she was unable
to walk, ana was confined to her bed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25
Captain Of British Ship
Makes Germans Lose Aim
BY Associated Press

Montreal, June 25.-Captain I. OIL
sen, of the British steamship Tesspool
in to-day from Barry, England
brought with him a story of how he
employed simple seamanship to foil 9
German submarine that stopped his
ship and began firing shells at 1t from
the surface.
when the shells started falling
around the ship said Capt. Olsen, 81
turned her around so that her beam
was with the waves and then called
for full speed ahead. The submarine
followed but, as she rolled so heavily
in the trough of the seas, the German
gunners could not aim their guns
The maneuver was entirely success.
full"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-25

most of the time. She bore her af-
Fiction patiently. always cheerful and
a constant reader of literature and
Bible student. She was a member OF
the Shepherdstown United Brethren
Church for 81 years. She is survived
by her husband, George Woods, one
son, Edward. and three grandchildren;
also a brother and sister. Funeral
services tomorrow afternoon.