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THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
Q9ULD SCARCELY
WALK ABOUT
AbI Far Tkee Soreer Mrs. Via-
CMt Was Usable to Attend to
Aiy of Her Hotsework.
PJeasaat Hill, N. C "I suffered for
three" summers," writes Mrs. Walter
Vtacent, of this town, "and the third and
last time, was my worst
I had dreadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely able to
walk about Could not do any of my
housework. "
I also had dreadful pains in my back
and sides and when one of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me, 1
would have to give up and lie down,
until it wore off.
I was certainly in a dreadful state of
health, when I finally decided to try
Cardul the woman's tonic, and I firmly
believe I would have died if I hadn't
taken.it
After J began taking Cardui I was
greatly helped, and all three bottles re
lieved me entirely.
I fattened up, and grew so much
stronger in three months, I felt like an
other person, altogether."
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and Barbed Wire at 20 per cent. less than
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Rubber Roofing at less than Market. He is
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at less than wholesale price. Write for
prices. X
All Wheat Ground should be Rolled
Before Seeding.
Clod Crushers and Pulverizers at $25.00 and.up .
This $25 Crusher has always sold at $33.50 ' f
Plain Rollers 7 ft. $19.50.
Mason Fruit Jarsu Pints 40c Quarts 45c. &
Half Gallons 70c. $
International Harvester Company's 8 Disc
WheatDrill Complete, $60. Manure Spread-
ers at 25 per cent, off wholesale prices. I.
H. C. Prices. T
International Harvester Company's Disc
Harrows, sizes .on hands at 10 per cent, less
than I. H. C. Prices. Prices good while
stock lasts
We also sell the Superior Wheat Drills, the
Oliver Chilled Plows the farmers best friend,
Bellvue Disc Harrows and Walter A. Wood
Smoothing Harrows.
Yours For Your Good Will,
! Woodson Lewis,
QiREEZSTSBTDTRa, KY.
Surveying
Lwd'Owners Attention.
r C. Faulkner, is prepared to do
your Surveying correctly.
He Has thirty-three years
experience. Charges rea
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VETERINARY SURGEON
ML.;
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Fktulo, Poll-evil, Spavin or any sar
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due wbea work is done or stock
MaoTeil from stable. '
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MMtUYRLE STMET.
WE SHOULDN'T W0RRYAMINUTE
"I wish, my foresight was as good as
my hindsight," exclaimed the farmer
as he pushed his pass book through
the grating to the hanker.
"Hog market bothering you?" asked
the banker, sympathetically.
"No, it's the children this time."
"None of them sick, I hope?" con
tinued the banker.
"No, but they have all grown up
faster than I calculated they would.
Here's Mary, that was a baby only the
other day, seems to me, and now she's
through all the grades and ready for
High School. Say, why under the sun
haven't we got a High School in this
neighborhood?"
"Oh, I don't know. Seems to me
there's lots of reasons. First and fore-,
most, we haven't ever had one, and,
in the second place, taxes are just
about as high as folks will stand for.
Anyhow, ybu're' doing pretty well, and
so am I, so what's the use of worrying
about it?"
"Confound you and the way you look
at the "whole proposition," exclaimed,
the farmer as he brought his fist down
on the counter. "You say it will raise
the taxes. I know that just as well as
you or anybody'else, I reckon. I know,
too, that I myself have made that same
old, lame excuse for not having better
schools You say I'm making money on
the farm, and you're making money
here in the bank, so we shouldn't
worry a bit. Man alive, the trouble
with both of us and a lot of other folks
is, that we've let the dollar in our eye
get so big that we can't see around it
at all. We're self-satisfied and we're
willing to farm and to bank and make
money and let things kinder drift."
"Say, look- here," exclaimed the
banker, "you're doing a whole lot of
talking, but you haven't given me any
real idea of what started this big
spasm of yours."
"I'll tell you how it started. It start
ed with the kids at home getting big
and demanding things for themselves.
It all happened before I had any idea,
that they were anywhere near old
enough to do much thinking for them
selves. Let me tell you, kids ain't half
the fools grown folks think they are.
As I told you awhile ago, Mary's fin
ished at the little country school at the
cross roads and she says she's going to
High School. Of course, it wouldn't
be a hard matter for us to send Mary
off to school, hut by the time she'll be
ready to graduate from High School,
both of the other children would be
away from home, too, getting an edu
cation. "Of course, neither my wife nor I
want to ibe left on the farm by our
selves. To tell you the honest truth,
my wife is going to go withthe kids
when they go, and you can bet your
iottom dollar I'm not going to try to
hold down the farm by myself. All of
ihis simply means that I've got to pull
up stakes and move into town some
Tvhere when I'm just in my prime and
the farm paying better than ever
before. I don't knbw a blessed thing
I can do in town, so I'll .have to loaf
and potter around and worry a lotbe
cause I'll know the farm won't be kept
up like I've kept it."
t-' "But why do you say that you have
got to go?" asked the banker.
"Because' answered the farmer
slowly and thoughtfully, "because I
believe way down deep in my heart
that "every child in this country that
wants the advantages of a good educa
tion is entitled to itj if ifis possible to
give it to him. I wouldn't do anything
on top of this earth, to hinder any of
my children from getting all the edu
cation they want.
"What's bothering me now is that
every mother son of us has been
mighty short-sighted, to say the least.
Why haven't I, why haven't you had
gumption enough to see this thing com
ing toward us all the time? I've been
busy farming and you've been busy
watching your money grow as it goes
out over the counter and comes back
again. I'm a successful farmer and
everybody knows you are a dandy
banker, but I'm mighty sure and cer
tain that we ain't just what we ought
to be as parents."
"But you forget there's another side
to"
"Hold on a minute, Mr. Banker, holl
on. There ain't any other side to this
question; there never was and never
will be any other side to it. I want to
tell you that I've been running this
thing over in my mind a whole lot in
the past few weeks and there ain't any
other side to the question. The whole
thing is as plain as the nose on your
face. Here it is. The child has a
mind and it is the only thing that'll
save it from being a nobody and a
failure in life. So when the child says
it wants that mind trained neither you
nor I nor anybody else has got any
right to get in the child's way."
"Perhaps there is something in -what
you say. It might "
"P.erhaps, nothing," exclaimed the
farmer. "You and I and every other
man down in this part of the country
have hurt and crippled enough fine
children who simply couldn't get away
so they could be really educated. Be
sides we nave run lots and lots of tho
best of them away and they didn't ever
come back, either. Mine are going
away, and I don't know whether they
will ever come back, and I can't blame
them one l)it Perhaps, you say, per
haps, my goodness, man, here we are
living in an age when an education is
everything and we kill all chances in
life for our children before they really
get started in life. Perhaps, why we
ain't as good as painted savages, (be
cause they don't Tmow any better,
PROTECT THE FUTURE.
There is only one way in which Ken
tucky can protect herself in the future
from "possum-hunting," tobacco-bed
scrapings and other acts of lawlessness.
That jsafe and certain way lies through
the careful upbuilding of every rural
school in the state. Giving every child
an education is not. enough; make
every child take an education, and the
future prosperity of the state is abso
lutely secure. Allow even a small per
centage of the children of to-day to
grow Up in ignorance and they become
the law-breakers of the Common
wealths Protect the future welfare of every
community with better school houses,
with all the children in them, and
peace, happiness" arid prosperity""wfir
become a trinity of power in Ken
tucky; '
In this' good year 1915 a man with
out an education fs practically help
less. In. 1916 his position, will be
worse and with. each, succeeding year
it will grow even more difficult for
him to earn a good living. The child
that .will grow into a man in 1925 is
in school of out of school'today,. How
many will there "be, in this helpless
plight in 1925 will depend upon th
schools and the school system of Ike
state -now, . .
WHAT AILS THE BOY?
If the average father who wonders
why his boy hates to go to school,
would pay a, visit to that self same
school; he would understand perfectly.
Why should the boy care to go to a
small country school house that is un
comfortable? Why should the boy be
anxious to attend a school where the
teacher is underpaid and overworked?
Why should he be interested when his
parents are so little interested that
they never- darken the school house
door?
- Make the school attractive, arrange
matters so that the teacher is neither
underpaid nor overworked, show in
terest by visiting' the school occaslon
'ally; ,an.d the average boy will, not
Itrive To "stay away. " ""
If every small community in the
State of Kentucky is able to buy and
run halt a dozen autos, each one ot
them can afford a good school. The
money paid for the machines is spent,
but the money put into -the schools
would be invested in the future pros
perity of the children, and the state
itself.
No one objectsvto giving money -to
build a fine church. Why'shonld.the
buiidiBgr.of a- f aersckoel 'keuse,- a
dKerent .proposition'? " "r il
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