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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
MarIa CnnNic kinns

What has happened is that out OF
the blacklist, most infe rnal experience
through which, as fa as we know
the race has ever pr sSed there has
seemed to come liter ally to millions
of men redeemlng c, ,nviuion, heal
Ing and transfgurlng assurance, that
brotherhood Is not n d elusiui that lie
has II meaning; that : reso9I tion ana
c"urage and discipline and simple fnith
IN fellowmen and 10y, Ity to ideals are
now, as they have al ways b cen, with
In that meaning; that these hiugs are
as they will be forev er. 'Sit hin man
heritage, to be dlspla yed In war until
the better way is four d. -E. I. Devine'
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
He Loved Marie.

A sailor at the Seamans Church in
stltute, just In from Cuba, came rat
ting down the stairs the other day
with a heavy scowl on his faee. He
approached the institute interpreter
and threw down this letter addressed
to young woman he had met during
the trip: Dear Marie: The more /
think of you the worse love you. i
seen my sister and she says she win
teach you English in two weeks If you
cum here. Marie, l love you awful
and send you $50 for you to cum here.
l seen your brother and he is wright.
ing to you this minute. When l send
girl $50 for anything I'm crazy. As
ever, Oscar" "Well," said the inter
prefer. "Make that just like 1t is, only
In Spanish" explained Oscar, "and
charge everything to me. I'll be right
upstairs until get married. New
York Correspondence In Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
BEGINNING OF NEW INDUSTRY
American Will Establish Plants In
Honduras to Make Alcohol
From Bananas.

An American has just secured con-
,Nssion from the government OF Hon
4, ,ras which is expected to be proft-
oh,, +. to him and the government. The
conceSSlen is for the manufacture Oh
oIcobo,' (which is a government monop-
olv Tben, have been great losses to
banana planters in the past because
monv of the punches did not contain
= srf3c,ont number of "hands" to be
morretohIa and have been thrown
- u is from this waste product
tbot tba Anne, lean. who has had expe-
.ionoa In tho n vIustry, intends TO make
lionHo uo bo deposited $4,000 with
,ho Government as an evidence Of good
roith and this Is TO be credited toward
Tho evnort duties pf three cents gal
Ion. He must ais, pay $1,000 year
for the salaries Of government inspec'
tors and must begin. operations within
n wear. His agreement provides that
he shall take all the, haranas offered
up to 100000 lunches monthly' ne
has also secured the right to build a
sugar and paper mill near the distil'
lery. His plan is to ald planters IN
restoring worn-out banuna lands tor
the raising of sugarcane, to make sug
mr.. distill alcohol from the refuse anC
make paper from the bagai'se, the noei
Of the cane.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Manie Few Wants.

Man wants but little here below"
He wants his meals cooked just right,
and composed of the particular things
he likes to eat. He wants his clothes
kept In perfect order, and the buttons
sewed on. He wants to get up when
he gets ready, and then he wants to
swear because he misses his car to the
Office. He wants to be cross when
he comes home and not have 1t men
toned. He wants to leave his coat and
hat and shoes just where he happens
70 take them off when he comes In.
He wants his slippers right In GER
tain place where he can find them
without effort He wants to put the
ashes from his cigar in the most con-
yenlent place while he smokes. He
wants to yawn and go to bed when
hts wife wants him to go out with her
nm d make call. He wants everything
ms he wants 1t, and he wants no tall
about it.-Judge.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Funny. for Sure.

Vice President Marshall tells this
story of some Indiana friends whD
boast the possession of a precOclous S
daughter:
"rhe family was assembled around
the evening lamp, the head of the
house with his head deep in his news
paper. Daughter, of course, had to
interrupt him.
Father, wouldn't 1t be funny she
began, If there were no people in the
world, and no animals and no trees or
flowers or anything like thatr
"'Why, yes, Gertrude, that would be
funny, the father answered, still hug
ging his paper.
"The daughter was quiet for mo-
ment and then, touching her father on
the knee, asked:
"'To whom would II be funny, fa-
therT"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22

All Guatemala celebrates the feast
Of Minerva, the most elaborate observ-
ance in its calendar. The revival Of
this feast, educational and patriotic
in its motives, is the idea Of the pres
ent president, Senior don Estrada Cab
rera. Like. its Roman precursor, ii
marks the close of the school year
and prizes are awarded for excellence
in scholarship. One oe the prizes
500 gold and q trip TO- Inc Unftet
States-was given by an American
company for the best essay written ir
English. Ceremonies intended to in
culcate love Of country and devotion
to duty form part of the celebration
There is also an exhibition of the prod
ucts of the republic held in connection
with the annual event. OF the ex
hibits this year, coffee, sugar and sugar
cane deserve special mention. Ameri
can-made plOws and disk plows spe
cially adapted to sugar-cane cultiva
ton were on display.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
JACK FROST PROVED POWER
Impressive spece=c'g When Fifty Tors
of Rock, Loosened by Cold, Fell
a Thousand Feet.

Delicate frost tracings on the win
dow-panes seem to be the work OF fan
clful and harmless ,sportixeness, but
the hand that forms them iscapable OF
greater deeds and other kinds.
An official of the geologieai survey
tells of an experience thatSmust have
been wonderfully impressive to the
spectator. He had been spending some
weeks in exploring the Yosemite Val
ley and the great 'rocks,rkiike "El
Captain" that wall II in.
Standing one day of late autumn
about the middle of the valley, he was
startled by report like cannon-shot,
which filed the whole valley with
echoes that roared and doomed, re-
piled and multiplied, in d long-con-
tinued, glorious tumult
AS the deafening sound died away
in sullen mutterlngs under the vlzor
of FL Captain, the spectator was able
to distinguish the point of attack by
the long, gathering descent OF a vast
quantity OF rock. Et
The night had been cold one in the
valley, and on the 1000 and 5000 foot
levels of the upper rim the tempera-
ture must have dropped almost to
zero. ~
Frost, working quietly with his
Archimedean lever, had just succeeded
in shifting from the. shoulder Of the
Sentinel a trifle of 30 tons or so of
granite. For near thousand feet the
bowlder fell sheer, swift and silent ;
then, striking the cliff, it burst like a
bomb, scattered into myriad flying
shards and spllnters, and dislodged a
smother of fragments that trlckled
down to the valley in a stream that
lasted for minutes. ia
Then from the spot where the bowl
der had struck, dust began to rise into
the sunny air, slowly building up like
a summer cloud and every bit IS
snowy. 1t was the flour Of granite,
powdered instantaneously by the ter
rife shock. ~
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
KNOW LITTLE CARE
SHANTY BoATMEN CERTAINLY
LIVE A HAPPY LIFE.
Will Sometimes Work, Though Pleas
ure Is the Real Business Of Exist
ence-Not Bothered About
Rent or Taxes.

If man were privileged to choose
his own manner of living, sorting over
the whole collection of life's various
forms Of existence, and choosing the
one he liked best, no matter what any
body or everybod., said, it is likely that
in all that strange collection he could
find nothing more charming than the
life of the shanty boatman, remarks
the Indianapolis News. The shanty
boatman lives anyy here, according to
his inclination and the season. He
lives, anyway, accO, riding to his de-.
sires. 1t sets you DIR canning of all the
faraway places to tn ink of him. de
mOOrs his little hom 'e OF the cool
northern streams in Il le summer, ana
drifts down the warm blue southern
rivers during the winter. lie Is not
averse to n bit of work now and then,
enough to keep him in coffee and ba-
con, but he can choose lis work as ne
goes, and leave it when h e grows tired
of it. Work is his avoca ton, and as
an avOcation, work is not an unple as
ant thing. His real bus mess Is nv
: ing, smoking, fishing, DIR fitting. he
pays neither rent nor taxes'. He owns
only bit of an old shack, somehow
made watertight and balan ced so that
lit will float. 1t is even possible, you
must understand, for him to enter Into
the life of city men, entering into it,
however, with no sense Of necessity or
restraint.
A shanty boatman was not so long
ago a resident of this very town. With
a proper sense Of the fitnes Of things
he tied his boat to a fence, in line
with the houses on the shore and even
painted a number over the front door.
It was jolly looking little home, with
the smoke coming out Of the pipe In
the roof and lamplight shining from
the edge Of the curtains, and, for al
we know, he may have u regular jot
and have taken to city life very con
tentedly for a while. The advantag
he had over the rest of us, of course
was that to get away to the farawa
places, he had only to un tie his boa
and drift, accepting now and then
bit Of lift from a friendly craft.
4 The thing that Is likely TO bother u
however, in choosing this sort Of e
istenee, is the question rls to whet
er we should really be a shanty boa
man, or just pretend to be one. Steve
son was sort Of shanty boatman.
least. he did drift about through Il
country in boat, and lived very co
/ tentedly and lazily on the way. Ii
Stevenson has written book about b
wanderings, and he was not really
shanty boatman at all. 1t is just q
difference you may say, between a
and vagrancy. Va agrancy has an Id
sound, and art is tempting thin
The very point in being shanty boz
man, however, is in not having to I
to be anything else and, perhaps {
best thing about II Is the tact TN
1t is so far removed from art as
be very nearly real.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
CUSTOMS IN WEST INDIES
Theodore Roosevelt Writes Entertain
inuIy of Life "Where the Steady
Trade-Winds Blow"

When the ship was cOaed the work.
ers were sometimes men, sometimes
strapping women as strong as the men,
who chartered and sang as they toilAG,
while their white teeth flashed in their
dark faces. Queer fishing craft, some.
times with russell sails. danced over
the fOaming cOmbers which broke the
azure of the deep. Rows of tall, slen-
der-stemmed palms stood back Of the
shining beaches, their frOnded tops
threshing endlessly in the trade-wind.
On the edge of the blue ocean, ut the
foot of brilliant green mountains half
hidden in the trOpic vegetation, stood
little towns, clusters of low white or
red houses. After nightfall the town
gallants sat at small tables on the side
walks outside the taverns or under the
trees in the open squares. Powerful,
finely built black women and 1.-THE,
c0mely brown women strobe along the
paths and highr0ads, erect and supple.
all their burdens, great or small poised
on their heads. Sometimes these bur
dens were extraordinary because of
their bulk or weight, Mt other times
they were comic because it seemed in
credible that such small or peculiar OBJ
jects should not be carried in the
hand: once, for instance, we saw Il
woman carrying on her head a soil
tary white shoe, and another time, of
all things, a single egg.
In all the islands legal and political
determinations based on color have
been done away. In some the social
determinations are giving way. I1
others sharp social lines are drawn
not only between white and colored-
as all shades of cross-blood are called
but between col0red and black. The
whites everywhere composed most ol
the upper class, although it also in
cluded many of the cOlOred; the col
ored folk made up most of the middle
class, and just as they extended int
the class above them so their clas!
was entered by the blacks below them
and the bulk Of the laborers, in tn,
towns and especially in the country
were blacks, although many wer'
brOwns.-FrOm "Where the Stead!
Trade-Winds Blow" by TheOdor,
Roosevelt, in the February Scribner.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
GOLDEN PERIOD COMES BACK
Prosperity Of New England rieet n"
! walls the Best Days Of the Ola
Square Riggers.

The war in Europe, which wroughl
such dreadful havoc in so many otner
directions, awakened these uro"sy
ports and called these waiting neets
TO hoist anchor, Ralph ID. Paine writes
in Scribner's. A few months anu III
most all the great five and SIX masc
ers had vanished from the COAST
Then the smaller schooners Were
snapped up for this golden offshore
! trade and those that remained at nome
! found a wonderful harvest because Oh
the scarcity of domestic tonnage.
# was like fairy tale of commerce,
and somehow more wholesomely grau'
fving than the fevered activity OF mu'
/ milton stocks in Wall street with their
imitation and jobbery. These fine ships
deserved to live, and those who owned
them had been steadfast in fair weath-
or q nd foul. For example, there was the
si~ master e. b. WinslOw, which had
hoen carrying coal from Norfolk TO
, Portland, and she is one OF scores
wbose good fortune has been as daz'
cling. Size was chartered for hlo WIN w
3 600 tons CS coal beneath her hatches
and came ho1f>e laden with manganese
ore after a voyage of seven NNa montns. sn'a,S.
Her owners received Sleo'ooo IL, ireisns en-
money, or considerably more ena tnah .s,e ,ne
cost of building her. md $lz'ooo u ans a,,'
was net profit to be d.sstributed as ui'-
idends. ...o.
It soon became commcHSlaee M. ~
nation to hear that sShNmet ssa,nuo ~
paid for herself in one voyage oh' =
Those who preferred to sell ihs'eaS ih"S,o y, ~
charter also enjoyed sort OF AVO'a .,
Nights come true. There was th.' - y
, tired skipper of Portland who reckie' '
ly bought an old vessel two years ag'
for $4,000, a tremendous speculation
A which absorbed all he had thrlftil
!, tucked away in lifetime at sea, ant
:. strained his credit besides. In tw
4. voyages this sturdy coaster put S3o'Oo
% in his pocket, after which he sold ne
# for 100000 and dared to indulge Il
n. the long-desired luxury of navigatn
a. his own cabin catboat.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Lord Bryce as a Walker.

A newspaper correspondent recently
returned from somewhere in France"
tells me story of visit paid by Lord
Bryce to the trenches. An officer was
sketchlng out a little trip along the
front which he proposed to make with
the distinguished visitor the next day
but, suddenly remembering that Lord
Bryce is seventy-eight, suggested that
perhaps the program involved too long
walk. Lord Bryce ut once answered
that as an old Alpinist he would un.
dertake to walk against his much
younger officer friend, himself, by the
way. an Alpinist Of some distinction
And when next day the two returned
to camp, after trudging through
trenches for many miles, the younger
man had to confess that he was very
much more done up than his compan
ion.--Westminster Gazette.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
New Year Custom In China.

The Chinese have custom Of cele-
brating the advent Of New Years,
either by paying Off old debts, or, II
they are creditors and the debtor is un-
able to pay. then by cancelling the debt.
Thus the new year begins with clean
slate. Communities are all alike In
many respects and the problem of our
city is the problem of a thousand 9th
ers. We have too many unpaid ac'
counts ON our books. Why not proh'
by the Chinese idea and have pay'uT
week the country over, when the slate
shall be wiped clean and the new yeal
started free of debt2-Argonaut.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
RAT MANKlND'S GREAT ENEMY
Rodents determination Would Be OF
Inestimable Benefit to the Whole
Human Race.

The bubonic plague of today is iden-
tical with the black death of the mid
die ages. Primarily a disease of ro-
dents. caused by short dumb-bell
shaped microscopic vegetable, the pest
bacillus, 1t occurs in man in three
forms, the pneumonia, which has
death rate of almost 100 per cent; the
septicaemic, which is nearly as 1atal'
and the bubOnic, in which even WIFI
the most modern methods OF treatment
the mortality is about 80 per cent. IL
is a disease of commerce, spreading
around the globe in the BODY OF the
sbip-borne rat. It is estimated that
every case of human plague COSTS the
municipality in which 1t occurs ut
least $500. This does not take INTO
account the enormous loss due to Gls-
astrous quarantnes and the CONNER
cial paralysis which the fear OF Inc
disease so frequently produces.
The disease is now treated with q
serum discovered through the genius
of Yersln. This is used in much the
game way as Is diphtheria anti-toxin.
Plague is transferred from the SICK
rodent to the well man by fieas. The
sick rat has enormous numbers OF
plague bacilli in its blood. The bl0oc
is taken by the flea, which, leaving the
sick rat. seeks refuge and sustenanc'
on the body of human being, Il
whom 1t transfers the infection.
Since plague is a disease OF rodents
and since it Is carried from sick ro
dents to well men by rodent fieas, safe
ty from the disease lies in the exclu
sion of rodents, not only exclusio
fl ON the habitation Of man but ais
fro ,m the ports and cities of the worl'
The 'se who dwell in rat-proof SURROUND
ings take no plague. Not only shouI
man dwell in rat-proof surrounding
but Ia, should also live In rat-free su
roundl ugs. The day is past when U
rodent served u useful purpose as q
unpaid city scavenger. Rats VIII n
come where there is no food for the
Municipal cleanliness may bs regai
ed as q partial insurance Nagaif
plague. The prayer that no pmg
come nigh our dwelling is besV
swered, however, by rat-prOOfng
habitatiOns Of man. Modern SAINT
science has evolved a simple and e,
' cient weapon against the pestilen
: which walketh in darkness and STR
n eth at monday, and the United Stat
public health service has put Il
9 knowledge into practical operation a
r, thus speedily eradfeated plag
h. wherever it has appeared in the Vi
+ ed States.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Remarkable Premonitlon,

A striking instance of premontion
is reported from Gritllthstown, Mon.
mouthshire, Great Britain. While II
maternity nurse was walking home,
she had n presentiment that her pa.
uenr and the child whom she had just
left were in danger. Hurrylng home
she prevailed upon her husband, u
member of the local fire brigade, to
20 to the post office, where he found
the bedroom occupied by the sub.post.
mistress and her baby to he on fire
lie removed the mother ana child and
extil ilguiShed the fire, which had orig,
lnnt,d In II wooden beam near the fire
place
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
He Had Two Suits

A little Columbus girl had never seen
her Uncle Sam, but she had heard of
him often. He came from Indlanapo.
lis to visit her the other day and she
was somewhat surprised.
"Don't you think Uncle Sam is u
nlce-lookng man2" her mother asked.
YES" she admitted, 'but where are
his red, white and blue sa"-In-
dianapolls News.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Zone hX Onen

Little Molhe was seated at the te,
table with n plate of cakes opposite
her. She was waiting impatlently fol
the meal to commence, and ventured
to touch one of the cakes with her fore
finger.
"You must ent that cake now, Mol
Her. said her mother, severely. "No
body will want 1t after you have
touched ltm
Mollie looked the cake and placed
II on her plate. A few minutes later
she said, plalntlvely:
"Oh, mummie, I've touched another
onem
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Wants Education to Be Practical.

Thomas w. Churchill. former presl
dent of the New York board of educa.
tion, said In n recent address that he
was opposed to any education that
harked back to cultural past" OF
allowed its "weather vane to be blown
by the breezes from antiquity" "This
old cultural stuff is not going to heir
any mothers son make living" he
said. II am not in sympathy with the
views of college professors intrenched
In the marble halls of colleges endowed
by some rich benefactor. Until re,
Gently they have paid too much at,
tention to the white shirt front an6
ignored the overalls, and they found
their graduates starved to death. Cul,
ture Is good thing, but II can be
picked up in spare moments where the
need may be. admire your pretty
vase, but my youngster needs sour
plate. The man who stands on the cor.
ner and spouts Latin may get repu,
tatlon for being erudite, hut he won't
bring much of salary home to his
wife on Saturday night"
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
The lcMe,st Office.

Grant Whistiar brings this one to
town:
Boss" said Ras Llghh'oot, the 9th
er day. 81 gotta git Off tomOrroh."
"Get off tomorrow"
"YesSlh."
''But | can't spare you very WELL"
''I gotta go. It's lodge bu siness."
"rhat new lodge you joined?"
"YeSSah-"
"Why are you so badly nee ded at
the mecting?"
"Ah IN de sublime king"
sublime king?"
"Yessllh."
"lou have been member OF that
lodge only two weeks and you tell me
you are sublime king already?"
"Yessah."
slow does that come? 2"
You see, s,lh, in ouah lodge de i'u
blime king am de lowe 8 Office wh III
dey is."-Youngstown Telegram.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22

For removing rust from iron or
steel Pascal Marino of London has
natented n method in which the metal
is made the cathode in a phosphoric
acid electrolyte. 1t is claimed that
this acid, unlike others, dissolves away
the rust without attacking the solid
metal and also tends to prevent subse'
uuent rusting. The electrolyte may be
A 10 per cent solution of phosphori'
acid in water or Il 10 per cent solu
ton OF sodium phosphate with 10 pc
! cent Of the acid added.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Explanation Of seaslekness

Recalling the fact that deaf and
dumb people do not become seasick.
Drs. Lewis Fisher and Isaac II. Jones,
in the New York Medical Journal,
draw the conclusion that seaslckness
is an ear phenomenon. The end organ
of equilibrium In the ear canal, the
static labyrinth, is disturbed by the
unaccustomed movement Of the boat.
The effects Of seaslckness can be du-
plicated in many cases merely by stim-
ulation of the ear canals by cold
douches.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
According to Rules ~ re Sea.

A sailor who had laa led nj ter Il long
voyage, and having been paid of,
called cab, threw lS lugg, Ige inside,
and jumped on top n .mself.
beg pardon, sir" said the aston
ished cabman but ,ou should get In
side and put your be ,xes ON top"
"Stecr the craft he,d. sonny. Pas
sengers always 20 on deck and lug
gage In the hold" vos the reply from
the top.-London r,t.plts
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
Woman Heads German Department.

According to the Berlin correspond.
ent of the Frankfurter Zeltung, II won.
nm has now been put in charge Of II
department in the war bureau of the
Prussinn ministry OF wur--a depart.
ment which will control the auxiliary
service" of women. The appointment
has been given to DR.. Marie Elizabeth
Luders, and her department will estab-
llsh connections with all the great
women's organizations In Germany.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22

AExcuse me-" said the waiter, ''but
this quarter you gave me for tip is
pewter"
"well, you brought me cold stor-
age egg and Jleomargarine."
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-02-22
No Rood.

He-lf, as they say, ladies' looks
are all our books, won't you let yours
be my teachers2
She-SorrN but they are already
! supplied with pupils.