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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

The County Agent Is now making an
effort 10 enroll every boy and girl In
the county between the ages of and
IS In the Junior Agricultural Club. The
work this year will be as follows: The
Corn Club. Pig Club. and Poultry Club.
Any boy between the above mentioned
ages can grow pig or any boy or girl
san grow a flock Of poultry. Any boy
or girl may belong 20 all three activi-
ties II they desire. I am asking the
mothers and fathers In behalf of these
boys and girls 10 give them chance.
Your boys and girls can be Interested
| in better methods Of farming and IL is
the Christian duty Of the parent 10 see
that they get II. They can be kept on
the farm. II you Will not stand In their
way. Why not give them the advan-
tage Of all the training possible When
they are Young for they will be young
only once and the time will soon come
around when they win not have this
chance now offered them This work II
highly worth while and l Challenge
any parent to find anything wrong will
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

n mile OF the Busey well for $1,000 an
acre. Five hundred dollars an acre Tor
n lease l. considered a nominal price
II the property IL within two miles OF
the gusher. and lenses situated a. much
as six miles distant bring as high as
500 an acre.
The Little Rock Chamber Of Com
merce has established a branch Office
there The Hot Springs Chamber OF
Commerce has sent representatives VINO
are scattering handbillS declaring HOT
Springs 10 be the headquarters for OIL
interests Big wholesale and retail
houses of the state are opening up
branch houses there. and one company
has shipped in more than score o'
portable houses 10 he erected for new
/ Corners
An enterprising farmer j. adding u
his income by sfntioning himself ana Z
team OF mules az mudhole between =
Dorado and the Taisey well and offerini
his services 10 futoists To pull them Ou
OF the hole He l. kept busy.
Possibly the calmesf man In town J.
DIR. Busey. an oil man Of Il years ex
perience In Colombia. Bolivia. Mexic'
and most Of the fields Of the Unite'
States. who made his first real strik'
when the gtisher blew I'm Monday.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20
1YEU5 NOTES OF
" OUR NEIGHBORJ

A 81. Louis stove plant burned WITH
Si5o.Ooo loss.
Carthage. No Is 90 have new
theatre seating 1000
Stotesbury gets thc lnr-rst gns wril
yet brought la an Missouri
The Kenneft. No. light end wafer
rates have been advanced 30 ier CENT
81 louis stock yards report r.
cord sale ~ young rtf.e which "ro'i-"'
SaG25 a hundred pounds.
A northeast oklahoma raiiro q
started the orerr zion N rn t.,c.if
line 10 the oil fields from Joplin. NO.
Uncle Jonnthnn Reeves. '1riiSe r"ln
tvs oldest pioneer. died last Wedne-i
night OF the infirmitlcs ~ oee III.
was born 90 years ago in Carlisle coun
".
Homer Brummet. formerly ~ CIR
Isle county. was Instantly killed Mon
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20
CUSHER BROUGHT In
AT Ell DORADO
Like Regular 40 Days-Estimated High
A. 10000 Barrels Daily

A di-rntch from Fl Dorado Ark
saws fhnf ~rrue~ 81 California ~ -
III Criurle creek and the klondike
were being re-cnacfed thcre-moderniz-
"a 10 "a great extent huf typical ~ the
craving IN man for great wealth quick
d. attained coil is the answer.
ID Dorado "a week ago was quiet,
a,,n...rrrffrc town ~ 3OnO inhabitants
mrrifcsfing some interest in the pros
Meeting Tor oil in the vicinity. but pri-
mariiy intent on pursuing the even ten
or az IFS way as "a farming community
Today its population Is increased by
D brokers. scouts and investors. has treb-
led. and every man and woman. and
even the children Of the town are. IN
their opinion. potential millionnires
/ Monday afternoon a well drilled by
\ Dr. sam r. Busey blew I'm a. gIisher-
/ oil mud and water spouted from The
month with roar that could be heard
for several miles and attained height
az - feet above the top Of the derrick
i Tho word spread like wildlire ard the
| next day the rush TO the new oil field
| hccnue 80 great that special trains were
necessary 10 care for the traffic from al
directions.
II OH men Of many years experience
and Of undoubted vcracity estimate
that the wells capacity Is several th"'i
sand barrels day and some estimate
have gone as high as 10000 barrels
The hig idea I'm the minds of every on
is that the gusher has proven the pres
j ence Of a new oil field, and the mrs
4 field discovered in Arkansas
The hotels are jammed ana ever
available room and bed IN the town
( occupied Hotel Hobbies have been COZ
8 verted into curb markets. where lease
& are bought and sold AT fabulous price
When n seat is vacated dozen me
scramble for IT, Restaurants came
provide meals for all the visitors. an
hungry men form lines extending on
side the doors waiting for seat an
an opportunity to be served turion
ly hotel and restaurant prices have III
u been raised
One man sold a lease locassS WIN
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

DIS might 90 Padncrh when tho auto
mobile DE- was driving co.idei with %
street car.
The -rrfc appropriation may ne with
drawn from the West Kentucky Indus
tri.l college. ara Institution Tor negro
education which occupies its own build
inrs m p.drcah. The reason T. that
a raeenf inspection ~ the school s
i..ats revealed inaccurate and extrnv-
anna expenditures. o. i- claimed.
USING fle pistol ~ Dos brother Rich
ara .nrIu- Gillian G- yr'rs oid. end.
ed hi- ufa Thur-iay morning iy shoot
He h.fa Through hI- head 20 fadu
. r.h. while -frudius uerr the hark porri
|.f BIS Irnfher's hume. iie died Instant
I Isl Tfe pistol used was "a - calhr'
smith special and WIS carried by hi.
brother. Introiman =. eiliiam. in 20
If.e WORK. The cuuse of suicide D
Thought to BE- insanity. brought oi
through worry because he was not mar
rirl
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

H. ] am only asking for chance 10
help make your boy and girl better
and more useful man or woman. Are
you interested enough in your boys or
girls future welfare 20 cooperate with
me In thiss-O. l.. Cunningham, coun-
" Agent.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Noah Rudicil died Mt their home IN
West Hickman on "Wednesday night OF
last week after short illness Burial
was had on Thursday afternoon
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

Tsk. LAXATIVE PROMO QulN'NE 0ahlets, Ia
49, ~. d r.l.t nrf IffnIarEr url wurks OF tbs
Goa. En. LIOtLS l..lltlrc O. cacl box PC
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

Lunches at the Busy Bee.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1921-01-20

CLASS e.A-rlrst wcek sfn0 second wre'
uerre $50 e.ch ve..'y laE..at = cents 4nd
-n m...-
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Between This Life
and the One Beyond

DEATH: ITS CAUSES AND PHENOM-
ENA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO IMMORTALITY BY Hereward
Darlington. Dodd Mead & Co.
ca1r.ss,oa asS'ss' Of death =. as says n'''. ps
l. studied as it is fascinating
and all but insoluble. For, on its
psychological side it presents the great
problems of Immortality. And
on its physiological side it presents
also phenomena of the greatest inter-
est" The field is one wherein modern
metaphysicians and psychologists have
been but little busy, partly because
of the scientific disposition to 'let
knowledge stop at the threshold of
the unknowable" as Chinese sage
phrased it many centuries ago. This
attitude is in sharp contrast to that
Of the long age preceding the dawn
of science in the eighteenth and nine
teenth centuries. Medieval man,
from st. Augustine's- day onward, was
perhaps more concerned with death
and the hereafter than with his own
day, but modern man is generally too
busy living to devote much specula-
ton to the beyond" Thus DR.. Car
rington's study has the interest that
attaches to the unusual.
In this treatise, which is an abridg-
ment and remodelling of the larger
book printed in England decade ago
by DIR. Darlington and the late j. II.
Meader the author approaches the
subject first from the material, physi-
illogical side. Even here there are
many unsettled puzzles. He goes over
the ground rapidly but lucidly, deal
ing with such problems as the exact
moment of death, its causes, signs and
attendant phenomena; trance, cataIep-
sy, sleep, suspended animation, prema-
ture burial, old age and scientific the
cries as to the real nature of death.
His general deduction tends to a pos
tulate of continued existence, of some
sort, after death. Might not life" he
asks, "be developed out of death?'
The second section of the book deals
with the psychological aspects of the.
problem: various theories of immor-
tality, theological and purely rational
concepts, and. especially the scientific
contributions of psychical research
This last has earned a rather bad
name for itself, but, as DIR. Caring
ton argues, it is scarcely to be pooh
poohed or uncritically thrust aside He
summarizes: While. to many minds,
the evidence - is insufficient to
warrant a belief in the existence of
spirits, it is at least sufficiently strong
to show us that here is case for in
vestigation; one, moreover, that pre-
sents great possibilities"
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
Messages From the Invisible

The verses are too long to quote en-
tire, but they start as follows;
Oh don't forget it, mothers son.
They're soldiers soldiers every one.
"Now the other message" Feda con-
tinued, "for his mother is in another
book, the fourth book in the shelf
above. Look on page Sc" The quo
tation was as follows.
l think mans great capacity for pain
Proves his immortal birthright. be
ye sure
No merely human mind could bear the
strain
OF the tremendous sorrow we endure.
Unless our souls had root In soil divine
We could not bear Earth's overwhelm-
ing strife;
The fiercest pain that wracks this heart
of mine
Convinces me of Everlasting Life.
Interesting as are these book
tests there is in the appendix to the
beck a record of a test still more no.
table, one designed to eliminate the
possibility of any subliminal memory
on the part of the receiver since the
message sent was to be spelled out Of
the Times newspaper for the toHototng
ddy.
Up to the present these communica-
tions, dealing almost in futures, pre-
sent a most battling and inexplicable
problem, and one quite unsolved by
any theories now in vogue as to the
subliminal memory.
"The Verdict" is anonymous, al
though the authors complete good
faith and competence alike in giving
and Weighing testimony are vouched
for by Miss II. A. Dallas, an English
woman who has devoted years to
psychic research her book called
Across the Barrier" is perhaps best
known.
The writer of "The Verdict" who
calls himself "Tertium Quid,' is a
lawyer who, though over legal age for
military service, was active in the
British army during the war, with the
rank Of captain-naturally In the ca
pacity for which he was best fitted,
in the courts martial In 'foreword"
he asks the public to believe that his
reasons for anonymity ARE not en-
tirely personal and therefore not en-
tirely selfish" His record is of a con-
siderable number of extraordinary
| manifestations" in psychic research.
Like many intelligent men he be-
gan with utter disbelief in "A sort
of unWllolesome" nonsense but also
passed through the usual phase of
almost complete persuasion of the con-
vincne nature of the evidence pre-
sented Of communications to him from
the "discarnate," in the terminology
used first by Mr.. Myers to signify the
company of those who have died. and
who yet have not perished in in
dividuality or spirit, but are in another
state of existence from which they
look back with natural affection and
interest to those whom they have
known in this life.
His point of view is this: Either
the discarnate do. actually send back
communications. or the definite and
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
THE PROBLEMS OF MEDIUMsHiP.

THE PROBLEMS OF MEDIUMSHIP
BY Allesandro Zymonidas. e. p. Dut-
ton & Co.
Whatever is is a go-between. Fo'
instance, this is an age of transition.
You can call any age an age of transit
ton, as it necessarily exists between
the age that preceded it, and the age
that follows. Everything thus exists
as a medium. Before and After are
sandwich in which the Present is the
mustard
This universal doctrine of go-be-
tween and mediumship has lately been
applied to man. There is a perfect
craze to prove that man is neither a
beginning nor an end, nor even a sta
tionary pump of pure intellection ana
emotion. He Is a kind of buffer state
or buffer body between little rowing
Eementals and big astral bodies.
Victor Hugo said man was an exela.
nation point. Voltaire said he was o
query. But the neo-spiritist has re-
duced him to a hyphen, or, at most,
colon. When an Elemental wants to
know the score in the worlds series
between the Astral Bodies and the
Etheric Sacs he uses Man as tele-
phone. It is rather humiliating. Our
egotism has gone blooey. We who
were once the centre of the universe
rave finally found that we have nell
ther centres nor egos.
The man who wrote the above book
is said to havel been a Venetian Jew.
He had travelled widely, loved music,
practised medicine and did not hold to
any particular point Of view. When he
died he LEFT great mass of papers on
etheric sacs. astral bodies Elementals
and spiritual fleas. The little that this
book gives on the subject of his life.
and activity leaves me very much H.
doubt about the existence OF zymoni-
das. Maybe he is Conan Doyle. Andre
Tridon. Daisy Ashford or II. l..
Mencken.
Now. the abracadabra of Zymonidas
comes to it's crescendo in vibration
How do you vibrate? Like a donkey
engine or DR.. Cooks compass? If you
are coarse you will scintillate thickly.
III YOU are refined you will catch
rhythms and overtones on your spine
that none but the denizens of the
inner Seal ever corral. There isn't
much vibration in the Occidental coun.
lrles. because we are too much con-
cerned with material things. The Ori-
ont vibrates much more easily. Being
quite content with bad sanitation,
plaques and the kindly syllable ON,
the people Of the East can give more
time TO their spiritual oscillations.
They spend days and nights vibrating,
although since opium has gone into
the Eighteenth Amendment stage out
there the vibrations have become
slower and slower ana earthly bumps
are on the increase.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
PSYCHIC BOOKS

clearly marked phenomena in which
mediums sittings have resulted are
the result of telepathy, conscious or
subconscious, or direct fraud of vari-
Gus kinds and degrees. AS he says:
1.-TWO rivals dispute, with serious pre-
tensions, to have originated these phe-
nomena. The one is the World of
Departed Spirits; the other is the
World of Living Minds. A third makes
voluple and not entirely unsupported
claims" He wishes the public, "as
fair and impartial men," to consider
the verdict in the case of 'Telepathy
and Others as. The Discarnate.''
NThe authors conclusions on the sub
ject of fraudulent mediums (apart
from the obvious frauds who can de-
ceive only the vulgar by commonplace
means) are that it is harder to ascribe
the results to fraud than to something
else and something not understood. In
a long chapter he goes into the sub
ject of teepathy with much shrewd-
ness, yet always his method is OF
scientific fairness; his whole book is
perfectly satisfactory in this respect.
His most remarkable sitting was
made with Mrs. Leonard as medium,
and resulted in receiving a message
from some person whom he first
thought TO be his uncle. but afterward
became convinced Through special cir
cumstances) was his father. The mes
sage told him he would be going to a
certain house within a short time
where he would find a room with book
shelves in it-a room unfamiliar to
him, but one "where he had a right
to be-" and described the relation Of
the shelves, windows, &c, with the
furniture; to take a certain book from
a certain shelf and read a certain page.
Two more books We're specified by
place on shelf and by page, The Sig
nificant parts of certain passages were
quoted Within a short time he called,
quite fortuitously, at the house of an
old friend of the days when he had
been in active service in the army;
this friend had told him that he
(Tertium Quid) must make it his
home whenever he was in the neigh
borhood--so it was "a place where he
had the right TO be-"
though he had never seen it with the
furniture and bookshelves as it was
arranged at this time; he found the
three separate books as described on
the shelves. and the passages on the
named pages were exactly as quoted
by the medium. one of the books he
had never heard of--didn't know OF its
existence, But 1t was upon a subject
of Italian politics which had greatly
interested the person who sent the
message. All these things are formally
presented and variously attested by
several different persons. There is a
case" says Capt ---, where telep-
athy could have had no standing.
Altogether an interesting contribu-
ton to a subject whose actual impor-
tance is scarcely open to question and
in which investigation is proceeding
among many different kinds of peo-
pie, with their different minds.
HELEN AyERIL.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
BeWareOfC fCrOSsed AStralWires

| have long been a member of the
Psychic Poison Squad. Ghost addicts,
venders of astral bodies. vampire
nends and inner Plane inverts
have bagged a-plenty, and showed
many an Unseen Presence off the
corners of my consciousness. Spiritistic
bootleggers whqs palm off their moon
shine as 100-proof astral swigs are
swarming all over the planet. sThat
there are more things in heaven and
earth than were ever dreamed of in
the philosophy of these Horatios of the
supra-normal have never doubted
But / agree with Zymonidas-tha
way lies the BOBBY thatch II YOU are
not careful.
There is nothing harmful in this
book There is nothing new in It.
There isn't an ounce of inspiration
in its word -decoctions. The author
runs to the conventional jargon-and
thereby hangs no new tale. 1t merely
proves that since the close of the war
the human intelligence has receded
some miles and the subconscious Is
again climbing to 'high- tide in the
brain.
The author warns us against the
dangers of mediumship. You may
listen i'm on things that it were not
we'll to hear. Crossed astral wires
may o'ertopple your coco. When you
look into an astral mirror keep your
grip on the bureau If it ever hap
pens of an evening that you break
through the astral envelope see that
your brain doesn't skid into the
Abyss.
The first things you draw to you
when YOU become medium are the
thought emanations. gelatinous as
pirations, colossal pipe dreams and
globular complexes which may repre-
sent our suppressed desires or our
cellular yearnings. Beware Of how
you secretly yeafn. You are fashion
ing an astral body.
only experienced and well meaning
trance tootsies can communicate with
the Little Evas. AS man naturally
hath evil i'm his heart since Eve
handed one of those Northern Spies
to Adam he draws the Alberichs and
/ the Huck Firms of the elemental
world down to earth.
Most trance tootsies are to be looked
on askance. They draw vamps, iinns.
/ fiibbertigbbets. urchins, leprechawns,
4 plgwidgeons and the souls of rum
mics.
Take the astral world. II is rep
resented in the PREDATORY plate as a
kind of Easter egg 1t contains all
bunnies of instinct and tomcats of the
1 higher planes In embryo.
Give your compexes a daily airing
If you Just keep them for occasional
trips to Paris you are In for bad
time. You will never be able to give
them the gate unless you give them
the air first.
BENJAMIN DE CASSERES
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
WORKING
NORTH
FROM
PATAGONIA
By HARRY A. FRANCK

NHR. FRANCK'S travel
Nl books are in a class
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ether living author that we
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a country on paper with the
fidelity and the feel Of reality
which he achieves.
This new book covers east
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terror sections as well as the
coast. 1t is not only au-
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1t is rich in adventure from
cover to cover. The book has
$50 pages and l76 illustra-
lions from photographs taken
on the scene by the author.
CAT all bookstores. Price
$500 Published by The
Century Co., 353 Fourth Ave.,
New York City,
The New York herald., 1921-10-09

DEATH: IT'S CAUSES AND PHENOM-
ENA. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO IMMORTALITY. BY Hereward
Darlington. Dodd, Mead & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-10-09
The Only Grand Prize

scifc Exposition was
to Webstcrs international the Merr,a,,,
scrie for superiority OF educational merit.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-10-23
ATTACK
ON GREEK c. \. 0.
CAUSED ANXIETY
Turks Succeed in Annoying
Enemy in Rear of Its
Front Line.

With the Greek Army in the Field
Sept. Correspondence of the As
ISOLATED Press. l-AIustapha kemars
daring cavalrymen and irregulars who
are scattered about Anatolia have given
the Greek army great deal of anxi-
ETY. by their attacks upon Greek supply
columns and their bold attempts to
capture the Greek general staff.
Crown Prince George of Greece had
these Turkish surprise attacks and was
hurriedly taken to a place of safety.
1t was the firstt real danger he had
experienced since he came to the front.
While the Greek army was advancing
toward Angora. thousands of these
Turks in the rear of the Greek line
were constant menace to the Greek
communications. They turned up when
least expected They advanced quietly
to their positions at night and began
their attacks at daybreak.
Uzumbek Attacked
When the Associated Press CORE
spondent was at Izumbek. south of
the Sakaria river. several hundred of
these Turkish horsemen descended
UPON tue village anu dttempteu ~ carry
off the general staff. including General
Papoulas. Communicated chief. and
Prince George. They shelled the bar
racks and tents of the Greeks and kept
up steady rifle and machine gun fire.
One of their shells fell within 40
yards of Crown Prince George. but for
tunateiy it did not explode.
= The general staff was preparing to
move % miles nearer the front. and
the Turkish assault from the rear took
them completely by surprise. Only the
fact that headquarters had 300 infan-
trymen available saved the whole Greek
executive organization from capture.
Had the Turks come the day before
they would have found only handful
of men to oppose them, and it is prob
able at least part of the Greek staff
would have fallen into their hands.
Greeks Advanced Slowly
The Turkish cayalrymen galloped
across the low lying hills at dayhreak
and took up positions about mile
from the village in which Greek general
headquarters were located. At the
sound of the alarm from Greek sem
tries on the crests. General Papoulas
ordered every available man. even
clerks, typists and orderlies, to take
up rifles. The Turkish shells and bull
lets were humming overhead
Within few minutes the Greeks had
several hundred men ready to answer
he Turkish attack. The enemy's fire
was so hot and close that the Greeks
we're able to advance only slowly. They
were soon Joined by other forces. how
ever. and after two hours of sustained
rifle and machine gun fire the KEN
slists were obliged to fall back.
They then took refuge in the distant
ravines and valleys. and the Greeks re-
turned to their work of transferring
general headquarters to another spot.