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Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
Corrupt Practice Act.

The corrupt practice act pass
ed by the last Legislature is very
severe on a man who tries to
buy his way into office. No can
dldate for a city or county office
can spend or have his friend for
him more than $500, and each
candidate shall make oath as to
the amount spent. If it should
exceed $500, the candidate nomi-
mated shall forfeit his title to the
office, and be fined not less than
500 nor more than 81, 900. And
any corporation that contributes
to the campaign of any candi-
date is subject to a fine of 81, 90 Z.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
LoSt-A Boy.

Not kidnapped by bandits and
hidden in a cave to weep and
starve and rouse a nation to fren-
zied searching. We're that the
case, one hundred thousand men
would rise to the rescue if need
be. Unfortunately the losing of
the lad is without any dramatic
excitement, though very sac and
very real. The fact is, his faith
er lost him! Being to busy to
sit with him at the fireside and
answer his trivial questions dur
the years when fathers are the
only great heroes of the boys, he
let go his hold upon him. Yes,
his mother lost him. Being much
engrossed in her teas, dinner and
club programs, she let the maid
hear the boy say his prayers and
thus her grip slipped and the boy
was lost to his home. Aye, the
church lost him! Being so occu-
pied with sermons for the wise
and elderly who pay the bills,
and having good care for dignity,
the minister and elders were un-
mindful of the human feelings OF
the boy in the pew, and made no
provision in sermon or song OF
manly sport for his boyishne SIS,
and so the church and many sad.
hearted parents are now looking
earnestly for the lost boy. - Au.
thor unknown.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
The Kind We Need,

Our neighbor just came over
to tell US about some folks who
have just moved into the COM
whom we have not yet
seen. They are the kind we
need, | believe" he said, "for
the first things they spoke of
were good roads and good
schools" We have neither yet
to a satisfactory extent, but both
are on the way, and the kind of
newcomers that suit US best are
the ones who will take hold and
help us boost for them. We have
had our experience with knock.
ers, so to know our new residents
are ready to take "A part with us
in building up the neighborhood
removes a possible prejudice and
establishes a friendly feeling at
once, C, A. King, in Southern
AgricultUriSt.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
Give the Horse a Fair Show.

No work animal should hayA
been allowed to stand idle all win
ter. Wherever this has been
done, there has been some bad
management. There is not a
farm in all this section in which
some winter work for the teams
cannot be found, and whenever
it cam be found, it should be done.
The idle horse is just about the
most expensive animal going
except the scrub sire.
But if the horses have been do
ing nothing or very little, re-
member when the work season
opens up they caanot be put at
once to hard work. The horse or
mule that has rested all winter is
in no fix to do a days work the
first few days he is put to it.
The man who forgets this and
does not make allowance is not
giving his stock a fair show.
Harden the horse to his work
gradually. Better for him and
for you. Southern Agriculturist.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
Boosting for the United States.

Miss Annie S. Peck, mountain climb
er, lecturer, author and expert on
South America, has recently returned
from her sixth visit to that costinent.
Miss Peck's tour was of unique
character, as she is undoubtedly the
only person who has visited South
America for the purpose of promoting
friendship and trade by means of illus
trated lectures in Spanish and Portu-
guese on the United States and Ameri-
can industries.
The lectures given by Miss Peck
comprise series of three, covering
New York city, Washington, Niagara
Falls and our national parks of the
West-the Yosemite, the Yellowstone
and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado,
together with information as to some
of our leading industries, such as pc
troleum, coal, cottOnseed oil, with
views also of some Of our various i'm
portant manufactures, of pianos, evnp-
GRATED milk, sewing machines, kOdaks
, and typewrlters, as well as facts in
regard to cur great skyscrapers, docks
bridges, railway stations and our lead.
ing commercial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
York Telegram.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
Keep Fire Out Of the Fields.

The burning season is again
approaching. 1t may be useless,
so far as the habitual burners are
concerned, to repeat what has
been so many times said on this
subject; but maybe some young
farmer will be kept from getting
into the habit.
The great need of most South
ern soils is more organic matter
more humus, as we usually say.
A soil stuffed with decaying veg
citation is seldom a poor soil. A
soil lacking in humus is seldom a
productive soil. The man who
carefully returns to his land all
the organic waste of the farm is
travelling the shortest and easiest
road to a rich farm. The man
who wastes organic matter-sta-
BILE manure, crop residues, trash
of any kind that will rot-is trav-
cling toward poor land.
The man who burns the dead
grass off his fields, the corn or
cotton stalks, the leaves in the
woods or under the shade trees
is doing a foolish thing-a thing
as foolish as would be the dump.
ing of manure in the creek or the
pouring out Of fertilizer in the
road.
One rule of good farming is
Don't burn anything that will rot
and go back to the soil in a rea
sonable time. Southern Agricul
turist.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08

one of the most striking economic
changes in recent years has been the
loss by Brazil of its dominant position
In the rubber trade. Whereas, few
years back, the world looked to South
America for most of its crude rubber,
1t is now getting the larger share from
the fur East. The Brazilian product is
obtained from trees that grow wild,
md little has been done toward cult
walton of the trees. In Sumatra, Cey-
ION, Burma, and other countries mil
lions of trees have been set out and
are now coming into bearing. The do
nestle product is said to be slightly SUI
perior to that obtained from Brazil,
and the trees improve with age, The
financial loss to Brazil through its de-
crcasing exports has become serious
matter.-New York Times.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08

In the journal of the American Medi-
cal association of December 1G, 1916,
DIR. Walter Il. Swift offers Il number of
control exercises for the treatment of
shaking paralysis. Report is made that
he succeeded in bringing about i'm
provement in marked cases, treated
with slOw-mOving exercises taken for
IL minutes three times day. Doctor
Swift reports the case of u woman to
whom he gave an exercise in vowels
To be sounded In prolonged, steady
fashion, to improve the voice tremor
This exercise, II Is reported, not only
lessened the voice tremOr but the ire
NOR In the hands of the patient and
also her general health. The bodily eN-
ercises are simple. The patient is to
stand with all clothing constructions
removed. All motions should be exc
cuted slowly. All sudden movements
should be omitted. The patient should
practice from IL to 30 minutes three
times n day. OF course it is necessary
to have n physician indicate the proper
exercises to fit each individual case.
The important feature, however, seems
10 he, no matter what the form Of eX.
ercise may be, slOwness.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08

people. No farming community
which does not feed itself be-
comes a rich community. No
farmer who neglects the garden
gets the sort of living to which a
farmer is entitled. He may make
a lot Of money on other things,
but he will not have sufficient
money to buy as good vegetables
as he could have raised at home.
The hard-run farmer with a few
acres who cares well for his gar
den has better things to eat and
gets, or should get, more salts
faction out of life than the owner
of wide estates who buys vege-
tables in the market or does with
out.
The great fields of wheat and
corn, the broad acres of cotton or
tobacco, the ripping meadows
and the dewy pastures, the herds
and flocks and the bending Or
chard trees"-all these belong to
good farming and are things Of
JOY and beauty. Still a farm
may have them all and not be
complete. 1t cannot be complete
if it lacks the heart and center of
it ala real farm garden, rich,
well titled, well-filled, close to the
house, a source of good living
from the first shooting up of the
green things in the spring until
the winter SHOWS have drifted
over it all and buried the still
standing parsnips and satisfy
from sight.
The frost Drawing lettuce rad
ishes, the hardy and hurrying
rows of peas, the long lines of
beans and cabbages and tender
roasting-ears, the laden tomato
stalks, the tangled masses of the
cucumber vines, the golden
squashes and the green melons,
the well-enriched asparagus bed,
the faithful strawberry patch,
the current bushes by the fence
and the understanding herbs in
the corner-surely the farm thai
lacks these is not really a farm,
because it lacks the first anC
essential part, the heart thai
sends the thrills of anticipation
and satisfaction through the
whole. Southern AgricuIturist
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
TRAGEDY DUE TO TOOTHACHE
French Monarch Tormented by Agony
When He Signed Revocation of
Edict of Nantes.

That the failure of king to take
proper care of the teeth, with the re-
sulting tOothache, was the cause of
step that made torrents OF blood
drench the soil of France, seems to
be an historical fact.
Louis XIV. who on October II, 1853,
signed the revocation Of the Edict of
Nantes, which action took from the
Huguenots their right to freedom OF
worship, and provoked the uprising of
the Camisards, who for nearly two
decades withstood the armies of the
king, had teeth so unsound that before
middle age, all those in the upper jaw
had been lost or reduced to scragSy
stumps.
lie naturally became q victim to
severe dyspepsia, and during the me-
mOrable year of 1855 the royal dentist,
we learn, was sometimes with him for
a whole day. Inflammation once re-
suited from the removal Of a root be-
meath which an abscess had formed.
This was said to be during the very
time when he was apparently wavering
between his conscience and pressure
brought by the more radical Of his adj
visers as to compliance with the lat
ter's demand that the Huguenots be
suppressed.
The two COlberts, SeiGnelai and
Croissi, and even the young Dauphin,
urged delay, but the king answered
them in such tone of irritation that
they We're silenced, one of them saying
to the others: Ills majesty is tor
mented by toothache; we may not in
trude."
And so the edict Of Nantes, which
had been granted by Henry Of Navarro,
as Henry " of France, and had as
sured peace and calm throughout
France for more than two-thirds Of a
century, was abrOgated, religious strife
broke out again, and thousands of
Iluguenots were driven from their ma
tive land.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08

Index A. NJ O&
L. andC
Junction and due Lexington
makes connection Jackson with L. N train for Hazard
La N train No leaves Lexington
a n, Index
Returning, leaves Index D
makes connection at o. & X Junction Cat m
ming via an and Clay City due Lexington p m Passengers
should take this
I& train No leaves Lexington running
o. No
o arrive Camel City
This affords outbound connections Camel
for Index, Caney Val
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
$4,000 REWARD!

/ will pay the sum for any
watch or clock which | cannot
put in good running order.
| do all kind of jewelry work.
The Public is cordially invited
to call in and see me when in
need of expert watch or clock re-
pairing. All work guaranteed.
Send by insured Parcel Post.
$40 w. B. LARKIN,
At Bridge. Jaskson, Ky.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
EMPRESS Josephlne.

Josephine, wife of Napoleon l, and
empress of France, was born ut Mar
Unique, one Of the French West Indies,
in the year 1863. Her maiden name In
full was Marie Rose Josephine Tascher
de Ia pagerie. In 1910 she married Wis.
count Alexandra Benuharnais, who was
guillotincd during the reign of terror
In the French Revolution. She married
Napoleon in 170G, but was his wife only
thirteen years, when she was divorced
in order that Napoleon might marry
Marie Louise daughter of the emperor
of Austria. Josephine died ut Malmai'
sob In 1914.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08

accept a position as railway mail
clerk. He received an appoint
ment from the Civil Service Com
mission the 10th Inst. His wife
and two children, Olene and
Gerald, will leave today for Car
bondaIe, ILL.,, where she will visit
her brother, r. H. Lewis indef-
nitely before joining her husband
at Cincinnati. Mansfield Qll.)
Express.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
The Heart Of the Farm.

The first farm was a garden,
and the first farmer was a gar
dener. The other fields and the
other branches of agriculture
have grown out from this central
development. Ever since the
first garden was made, a good
garden has been the very heart
of every properly conducted
farm.
A farmers primary business
is to raise things to eat-for him.
self first, and then for other
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
Two Real Estate Bargains.

No. 51-HoUSE AND LoT-The
best location in West Liberty, g.
room house with hall, front ver-
anda and back porch; about two
acres of ground, barn, two never
failing wells of pure water, out
buildings, grape arbor and sever
al fruit trees.
The best bargain for a home
in a healthy location in West Lib
erty or Morgan county.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08

No. 7S-HoUSE AND LoT-A
big bargain if sold at once. An
8-room, two story dwelling in
West Liberty, two halls and two
porches. Large lot in two plots,
both fertile garden spots. Good
well and outbuildings. Modern
building and conveniences. The
property is owned by heirs of an
estate who want to convert it in
to money at once.
For terms and particulars fol
either of the above, apply to
CoTTLE & HovERMALE,
West Liberty, Ky.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08

Some Of the recalcitrant Con-
gressmen will hear from home if
they don't watch out.
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
Gets Position.

Tony H. Carter, formerly of
West Liberty, KY, left here re-
Gently for Cincinnati, Ohio. to
Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-03-08
Look Here For 1t.
Things we all ought to know
but which none of us can
remember, and often
don't know where to
look to find it.

(Of special interest to applicants for
school certificates who are not subscribers,
but who just drop in to get copy gratis')
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-10
Out OF TOwr Vfsitors.

M and Mrs. Bob owe have as their
guests Mr.. and Nj Otto Walters, Of
Berino, y. NJ
Miss Sallie Daugherty, of Daugherty.
Tex. is the guest Of Mrs. George Bent.
Of the Alexandria apartments.
Mrs Burt Hole. of Plainview. Tex.
has returned to her home after a Two
months stay with her sister. Mrs Nell
son Herman.
Mrs. ". d. White VIII leave in a few
days for her home il Big Springs. Tex.
She has been here Tor some time visit
ing her sister. Mrs. r B. May.
T ". de Yampert has returned TO
san Francisco He spent the Christ
mas holidays with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs c. H deFamperL of 500 East Rio
Grande street.
Mrs. L. z. Lockhart had as her guest
for a few days this week Miss Pauline
stephens, of Van Horn, Tex. who
stopped over on her way home from
California, where she has been visit
ing
Mrs. T. r. Hassam, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ".
II. Austin. for some time, left Tuesday
for san Antonio. where she viii join
Mr.. Hassam- From that city they will
return TO their home in Mexico City.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-10
Bill Writes .Stufy Another
Letter About Friend Colonel

, cohol and eau de cologne that waited
in with him. he could only gasp.
Merely say" the colonel naughtily
announced. that Col Charles Mon
tague Wheaton. of Virginia, sub, de
sires to converse with him"
They told me that the boss stood IN
establishment for moment. looked the
colonel over from head to foot. grunted
and stepped into his private office
some old guy wit a rainbow aroun'
his neck and wOt says he's a gen'ral or
something like that. wants ter see yer
outside" Peter informed me. I knew
Instantly who he meant 1 hustled out
to see him and our interview took
place before the interested eyes Of the
entire office force
I tried to steer the colonel into the
public hall outside, but ne wouldn't be
steered He insisted on making his
business known in whisky tinged
stage whisper
II appeared. according to the colonel.
that the presidents peace message had
affected his stock market Investments
10 the detriment Of his pOcketboOk, and
until he received his regular proceeds
from his plantation IN EurgInia. sun,
he would he "er-er-slightly embar-
raised financially. so to speak" He
knew, Of course. that he might call upon
his bankers. but he preferred not to let
his bank know that he had been hit so
hard in the market 1t might become
rumored in Wall street, and that would
De quite disastrous. he pointed out, as
undoubtedly 1 would readily under
stand.
I understood knew that the
coloneTs bar credit at the hotel had
become exhausted I wondered whether
the old gentleman expected to touch
me for a hundred or two hundred.
knowing as he did, that 1 have a lib
eraI allowances from uncle. He
leaned toward me and in q hoarse
whisper. said
Under the circumstances, sub, you
being a southern gentleman, sub, as
am myself Here / interrupted to
remind him that 1 was born in the
central west, but he only smiled ana
resumed.
As All remarked bfoah, request
this small loan, sub. If only as a token
Of our mutual regard for that great
land. sub. that lies south of Mason and
DiXOns line. sub, FUrthermOre"-
Bur I stopped him before ne got 10 II
by slipping a quarter into his palm. He
smiled. thanked ne prOfusely, drew
himself to his full height. adjusted his
scarf. bowed low. put on his hat and
swinging the walking stick disap-
peared through the door And then.
Stuffy. the office force turned loose
on me. and as a consequence Bat
Henderson and I are no longer on
speaking terms
think the colonel is a great old
skate, though. When I write YOU again
III tell you something more about him
and his esCapades Regards TO the
bunch and your folks.
BILL.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-10
LODGES and Clubs.

The annual business meeting Of the
First Baptist church VIII be neld to-
night at 1880 o'clock Following the
brief business session Rev W r
Tvnes. Of Houston, will deliver q ster-
eoptican lecture on the life Of Christ
There is no admission charge.
Mr. and Mrs. G. P Putnam enter
tanned the members Of the junior Blole
class Of the First Baptist church Iues-
day night at their home on North
Fl PasO street. Mrs J C Long, the
vice president, presided over a snort
business session of the class VIII
Graves conducted the devotional eXer-
cises. Mrs F. E. Maxwell gave the
secretary's report. Mrs J. g Long was
elected president of the class 10 III the
unexpired term Of Mrs L o. lines
Mrs. P. E Johnson was elected vice
president; Mrs. J. E Macon and Mrs
F. z. Maxwell were appointed the visit
ing committee for the month. and Mrs.
W R. Stevens was made the chairman
Of the flower committee for the month.
Following this business, games OF
various kinds were played A union
game provided lots of fun Cards bear
ing sketches of cooks. bricklayers, nu-
sicians, and other trades, were dis
tributed among the guests. There were
four of a kind Then those having
similar cards constituted the members
of that particular union and had to
perform some stunt to make the other
people guess the name of the union
they represented Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
NJ Evans sanga duet, The National
Guard" with Mr.. Evans playing the
accompaniment. Mr.. Evans played sew
eraI piano solos through the evening.
Mrs. L 0. Hines recited The Old Blue
Hen Chicken The supper was served
IN q unique way carrying out the union
labor idea Each guest was given a
little tin dinner pail with the supper
inside and a little milk bottle filled
with hot coffee Still carrying out the
work idea, the tin buckets were all
carried home by the members. Among
some Of those present were Mr. and
Mrs. VIII Graves, Mr.. and Mrs J z.
Macon, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph NJ Evans,
Mr. and Mrs Lee Merrill, Mr.. and Mrs.
E-W- Earl, Mr. and Mrs J. D. Humber,
Mr. and Mrs J. c. Long. Mr.. and Mrs.
Y TraylOr. Mr.. and Mrs P E John
son, Mr. and Mrs. J. o. Brown, Mr. and
Mrs ". r. Stevens. Mesdames A. NJ
NJ Carmichael. l. O. Hines.
Frank Lamb. D. A Wright. Misses Dove
Husbands. Nell Taylor, Verne Hi and
Nan Putnam.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-10
By RUTH MONRO AUGUR.

c L Baker. Donald B. Gnlies. J. F.
Williams James Graham McNary,
Charles R LOomis. F. c. Earle. J. II.
Nations. J. A Happier. Harry :. Potter.
A. : Naldespiuo. W. w. TUrney. kuno
Doerr. L G. Witherspoon. Robert L
Holiday, Walter D. Howe, A P. Coles.
p NJ Bell L s Stewart, B. L, Farrar,.
F. c. Se2rle. Charles Davis, F. L
Torres. D. F Palmer. of Albuquerque.
ii T.. SchusJer. f. VI. Hurd. W T. Hix-
son. George b. Squire, ". L Brown.
A NJ LOOMS. Eldridge H. Booth. J. r.
Harper George G. Sauer, James
HedGie. : 6. Humphreys. A. L Eaton.
F. s Plumb, w r. Brown. Clement
Jungk, V DeSmeth, c. G. Soobeu of
Chihuahua, Paul Terry. ". y Fink.
Frank Hughes Richard c. Wilder and
" !. Eustace.
Mrs Van Week was the guest of
honor at prettily appointed lunch
con given Tuesday afternoon by Mrs.
W J. Quigley at Hotel Paso del Norte.
Niolets decorated the table The honor
guest was presented with a coTsage
bouquet OF violets and hyacinths The
guests included Mesdames Louis Clyde
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-10
New York. Jan. 10.

New York. Jan. 10.
My Dear Stuffy;
,HLE. as I told you in my last
AA/ letter. found Col Charles
w Iontague Wheaton. the dis
tinguisEed appearing Professional
Southerner." who was never farther
south than the southernmost limits of
New York city. TO be a pleasant and
affable old man. he has at the same
time developed into something of a
pernicious old nuisance
Had ne been willing to await in
patience my arrival at the hotel every
evening where he made his headquar
rers. I should have been satisfied TO
content. but he became anxious one
afternoon and called at my office
Now. Stuffy. you know I am not the
general manager, or anything like that.
I'm assistant shipping clerk at eight
large bucks per When Col. Charles,
with his gOatee. lemon colOred gloves.
food despatched scarf, Kentucky bon
net. English walking stick (Which he
carries because he says in his younger
days he was accustomed to carry a rid
ing whip)-weu. il created a sensation.
10 say the least
heard all about It afterward. The
boss happened to come in just as Col.
Charles was asking for me. Pete. the
office boy, a hardened product Of the
Sums of a great city, was so overcome
by the various effects Of the cOlOneIs
attire and the combined doors Of al