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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

The weekly reviews of trade are
not encouraging. The movement OF
merchandise is reported smaller in
volume and orders for the fall trade
are disappointing. An increasing
number of industrial concerns are
shutting down because deprived by
the strike of their supply of coal oil
coke. Prices are generally lower than
a week ago.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

Green Clay is fine rider and sits a
horse almost like he grew on its back
But he met his match on Friday, when
vicious animal spilled him on the
pike hard enough to knock the breath
out of him. A coon thought he could
ride the horse, aud he took fall
without ceremony.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

An innocent Washington Cit.
property owner, mistaking the us
ual vocation of the CoXyites, offer
ed a $500 job of work to tn
tramps, which they refused to ac
nant
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08
For Sale

A desirable home, with good improve
ments. Contains fifty acres, all in
bluegrass, and is one nile from Court
House, on good pike. Apply at this
office. 4l-7t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

We are authorized to announce D.
NE. Pierce as candidate for Corone
of Montgomery county, subject to IN
action of the Democratic party.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

We are authorizedto announce MAJ
G. Clay as a candidate for Copstabl
of the Mt. Sterling Magisterial Dis
trict, su bject to the action of the Dem
ocratic party.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

In reply to direct question, ex-
President Harrison said Friday in
New York that he had no idea of be-
coming candidate for the presidency
In 1896.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

The Worlds Exposition was opened
Saturday at Antwerpin the presence
of $4,000 persons.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

Highest market price paid for wool
39-3t. HOWE ~ JOHNSON
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

Col. Breckenridge, IN his speech
before his home people at Lexing-
ton last week, made himself out a
badly treated man by the press,
the clergy and others, and yet he
characterizes much of his utter
ances as a public confession to his
constituency and to his God, Mr..
Breckenridge is responsible for
every utterance. He told Of his
own disgraceful conduct; what
the press had to do with it was to
put it into print. 1t was black
type, but Mr., Breckenridge made il
so, and the ministers are pleading
with the people, and especially
their Gocks, to shun all appear
ances of evil.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

John Jay, eX-Minister to Austria,
died in New York Saturday, aged
saVpntV-seyen wears.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

The striking coal miners at Beatty
vile have returned to work at the
same scale of wages.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

John Dishman, the well Snown
Barboursville lawyer is dead.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

Some of the women of the Ashland
District, in which Mr.. Breckenridge is
a candidate for reelection to Con-
gress, have published plea to the
voters of that district, They call the
attention of the fathers to the fact that
they are examples to rising genera
lions and as they are and will in the
future be, so will be the young men OF
the future. Mr.. Breckenridge is "a
wicked, sinful man, one who should
not pose as leader,and vote for him
is An Endorsement of his wickedness ;
not only this, but the man or men who
vote for him audibly say to the nation,
our Breckenridge in his acknowledged
shame and disgrace is good enough foT
a Kentucky Congressman to represent
its Blue Grass capital The women are
correct and earnest and bold in their
plea, for honor integrity and virtue
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

The American Loan and Trust Co.,
of Boston, has applied for a receiver
for the Lexington Waterworks Co.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

Congressman Burrows has refused
the seat in the Senate made vacant by
the death of Senator Stockbridge :.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08
WILLIAM SLEDD.

We are TO be Mr.. Sledd's ONLY
Deputies, and earnestly request our
friends to aid us by supporting him.
HENRY JONES,
JAMES SToCKDALE.
Mr.. Sledd and Messrs. Jones and
Stockdale inform us that the two lat
ter named gentlemen have agreed
with Mr.. Sledd to serve as his ONLY
Deputies. This arrangement puts al
rest any question as to whether any
one else is to serve with Mr.. Sledd
The ticket is probably as strong as
any that could be named in the coun'
ty, each man on it being an excep'
tionally good one. Mr.. SIedd's ex'
tended service as Deputy has &C
quainted him with nearly every MAJ
in tic county. Mr.. Stockdale is :
very popular business man from the
Judy neighborhOod, while Mr., Jones
long service as clerk in the New
Farmers and Mt. Sterling Nationa
Banks, together with his position a
County Magistrate, has given him
wide and most favorable acquaint
ance. Taken all in all, it will be {
ticket hard to turn down.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08

The State derived profit of $233
from the labor of the convicts in the
penitentiary during April.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-05-08
TO the Democrats Of Montgomer!
County.

am a candidate for SHERIFF OF
this county, subject to the wishes OF
the Democratic party, to he expressed
atthe Primary election, on June 18th,
1894. If elected / shall appoint as my
ONLY Deputies, Henry JONES and
and JAMES STocKDALE. Your sup
port is solicited.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

Bakers of ye olden times worked
sixteen and eighteen hours per day
and received about SO per month and
board. Bakers to-day work ten hours
per diem and earn from $12 to $lS per
week. And yet it costs less to pro.
duce loaf Of bread now than then.
The reason lies in machinery and cen.
tralization of force.
Washingtonians eat 200, 900 loaves
of bread daily. A 196-pound barrel
of standard -four will make on au
average 260 loaves. Calculate this
for yourself and see how many acres
of wheat land, bread in the original
package, it takes to make the wheels
of local life go round.
Two of the banner bakeries of the
city each have a sworn to circulation
of Is, 900 loaves per day, and on Sat
urday they issue $4,000. One of the
bonanza bakers some time ago brought
through in fifty-eight hours from La
Crosse, Wis, special train of forty
cars in two sections, each car contain
ing 29, 900 pounds of tissue making
food. The principal local bakers carry
a stock of about 5000 barrels of flour,
and for one year the books of one
baker record the consumption of 16,
900 barrels of -four.
All the first-class bakeries use ONLY
northern-grown wheat, because 1t is
harder, grinds finer and yields better
bread. Southern grain, they say, won t
do. Nearby lard is said to be the best t,
and is the most generally used. One
baker used last year 32, 900 pounds of
the lubricant. The days of malt and
potato yeast are only memories, ana
compressed yeast is the feature of to-
day. Fourteen thousand five hun
dred pounds is the amount used last
year in single bakery.
The superiority of bakers bread lies
in the fact that the proper percentage
OF ingredients-salt, sugar, milk, yeast,
-four, lard and water-has been deter
mined by years of experiments and
experience. The ratio of ingredients
having been settled on is not allowed
to vary.
To the dear little wife who gets her
arms and manicured fingers all gummed
up with dough this mixture process is
largely matter of guess work. To-
day she hits it and blushing honors
fall thick upon her. Tomorrow she
misses it and the rolls have to be swal-
lowed gently to save fracture of the
ribs. Then the bakers -four is selected
by an expert, and unlike the parlor
angel he is not to be roped in by forid
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

rule bakers are fat and Jolly, but in
nine cases out Of ten are only moder-
ate caters. Bakers are clesnly. Mod
ern bakeries are provided with all
means 10 facilitate next-to- goodness.
There is dressing room where he
must doff his street attire and don his
sandals, cap and gown. He is robed
in fine linen. He must wash before
going on duty and must always wash
after having been excused from work.
Bakers know how good song counts
as muscle on dough batch, and sing
as they labor.
There are fashions in bread Just as
in bellies and bonnets. Vienna has the
call at present and experts say that IL
will continue to be the ruling bread
because of its excellence. 1t contains
a large percentage of milk. The book
keeper in one of the mightiest baker.
les in town told reporter for the
Star that during the year his food
factor had soaked up 25, $50 gallons OF
milk at a cost of over $4,000. Chicago
bread five or six years ago was all the
rage. Now it is a dead letter. AT
that time one bakery furnished the
trade with 5000 loaves. The same
concern now bakes but twenty-eight
loaves. 1t was loaf baked in large
sheets and had to be torn from its
partners a Ia postage stamp. Capitol
bread is enjoying a good deal of popu-
larity Just now. II comes in sheets of
sixteen and retails for four cents. Box
bread, which comes in square loaves is
fairly we'll received. Pullman bread,
which is baked in rectangular loaves
and by the yard, is having run with
the Connecticut avenue population.
Homemade bread, so-called, is on the
decline and the biscuit loaf is advanc-
ing in favor. Rye bread is very popu
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

and perhaps throwing occasional
pieces of dough out upon the floor
These sweepings are sold to farmers as
food for swine. In this way six bar
rels of -four may be thoroughly ground
in twelve minutes. This, in the days
of crude methods, was one of the
slowest and most lsborious processes
in baking. Stalwart men bent over,
punched and tugged at the dough, and
pei spired there, too.
The mechanical device is in the line
of speed and cleanliness. After the
necessary treatment in the hopper the
material is lifted into wooden troughs.
In professional parlance this bread
elect Is called "sponge" and the pro-
cess "rising." The apartment set
aside for the rising is apt to be
filed with an odor anything but per-
fumefui to the uninitiated scent. 1t
is allowed to remain in this condition
for two and one-half hours. Next it
is fired down through chutes to the
floor below and falls on polished hard
wood tables. The kneading process is
then gone through. This is best done
by hand and in this department of the
work the ways of our forefathers pre-
vail.
Next it is weighed out in patches of
thirteen and three-quarter pounds
and tossed into machine which cuts
it into twelve parts, all exactly equal.
Each chunk represents a loaf, and as
each of these should by law weigh one
pound, the overweight is to allow for
shrinkage. The machine which does
this work is German invention, but
it is stated that the patent was bought
by a Chicagoan, and the first instrument
OF the kind was put into practical
operation in this city. 1t apportions
the dough after the manner of bullet
mold. 1t is unvarying in its accuracy,
and renders it impossible for the jour
neymen to alter the weight of the loaf
either from negligence or violence.
With the present machine the jour
neyman has no authority in the pre-
misses. He simply pulls the lever and
the engine does the rest. The shaping
process is next in order. Thence it is
paooci w thC oNCucIb' IL
is treated with steam to Tighten it and
glaze the crust. After its Turkish
bath it is placed in the finishing oven
by means of pole handled wooden
shovels, allowed to remain thirty min
utes, and then removed by the same
means. Each paddle will bear six
loaves.
There are in Washington twenty
four modern high-classed ovens.
Those hot-air chambers have an aver
age area of 100 square feet, and ac-
commodate, as rule 200 leaves at
each sitting. They are absolutely free
of dust and obnoxious gases and are
brilliantly lighted, 80 that every loaf
is under the surveillance of an opera
tor. Before science and bakery got
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

her desk, selected her very prctticst
sheet of note paper, wrote on it SIM
ply the words:
'Dear John; Yes. Bertha"
Sealed il, kissed theenvelope and had
it in the post box at the corner, with
the special delivery stamp which John
had thoughtfully enclosed to facilitate
its journey, and went back to eat her
supper to the last mouthful and then
to enjoy good, comfortable, grace
ful cry berore she fell asleep with q
smile on her pretty lips. New York
Advertiser.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14
Memory.

"The science of memory" said
James W. Dodd to the corridor man
at the Lindell, sis very little under
stood and the more it is investigated
the farther one gets from the solution
of the difficulty. am acquainted with
man who could never learn to write
or to calculate although large sum of
money WAS spent by his wealthy par
ents in attempts to educate him. To
this day he can scarcely distinguish
one letter from another, but he can
read easily from sight in some man
ner neither physician no philosopher
can understand.
"He is fond of reading out loud,
and seldom stumbles over a hard word,
although he cannot spell out the
easiest ones. Strange to say, he has
a most wonderful memory of what he
reads and will repeat the plot of a
book with the exact quotations of
leading incidents and expressions,
after reading it once. His general
habits indicate mental weakness in
various ways, and the only memory he
seems to have is in regard to printed
matter. -[St Louis Globe Democrat.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14
The Crown Of Failure.

when you havc livcd your life.
When you have fought your last good fight
and won,
And he days work in finished and the sun
Sets on the darkening world aud all It's
strife
Ere the worn hands arc tired with all
they've done,
Ere the minds strength begins to droop and
wane
Ere the first touch of sleep has dulled the
brain,
Ere the hearts springs are slow and running
dry
when you have lived your life,
'Twere good to die.
II may not bo so,
II YOU but fight a fight you may not win
See the far goal hut may not enter in
'Twere better than 10 die and not to know
Defeat to die amidst the rush and din
Still striving, while the heart beats high and
with glorious life II you must fall at last.
Such end were bost, with all your hope and
oil
Your spirit in itq youth,
Then. when you fal
Far better 80 10 die.
Still toiling upward through the mists OBJ
scure
With all things possible aud nothing sure.
Than to bc touched by glory and passed
10y,
To win by chance, fame that may not en-
dure,
That dies and leaves you living, while you
strive
With wasted breath to keep its fame alive,
Aud fan, with empty boast and proud re-
grots,
Remembrance Of the past
The world forgcls
Chambers Journal
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

ancs and inspected. II not found
wanting il is hoisted to the top story
in the steam elevator. Here rs wanted
it is dumped into the mixer. This
machine bears the same relation to
bread that the hopper boy did when
you and we're young.
1t is circular bin about eight feet
in diameter and the mixing is accom-
plished by q harrow-like weapon that
swings around the circle. When occa-
sion suggests divers brands of -four are
blended, ~ tea and tobacco men would
say, to produce n desired result. As n
rule, though, only straight -four is
used. 1t is pleasing to watch the great
steel comb whirl round and it's teeth
plow up and rake down the bed Of
wheaton dust. ts
From the mixer it passes through
steel sieves. These are cylindrical IN
form and perform their task by revo-
luton. This was once tedious hand
process.
From the sitting cylinders the
powder passes into receivers and then
rolls through a shute into the dough
hoppers located on the floor below.
In the hopper is n metal revolving
machine, much like ships screw. As
the -four showers down from the upper
floor salt is sprinkled in and pure cold
water, pumped by steam power from a
sealed and concreted well directly be-
meath the bakery, pours in. The mass
is churned and torn, the blades tear
ing through it at high rate of speed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14
The Poor Cannot Eat Meat.

A high tax on butcher shops has
just been imposed in the State OF
Sinalos, Mexico. 1t is 80 exorbitant
that the butchers have been COM
PEELED to advance the price of their
meats correspondingly, and now it is
said that the prices are 30 high that
the poor are utterly unable to afford
the expensive luxury, and the use of
meat is practically restricted to the
rich. Meat is selling in Sinaloa ut
from fifty to seventy-fve cents a
pound. For thinly populated coun-
try, which raises good deal more
beef and mutton than it consumes,
this is most extraordinary state OF
affairs. New Orleans Picayune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

lar brand with the bakers themselves,
but very little is made. 1t is eaten
principally by the Germans. 1t has
no hold on the Washington heart.
More rye bread is baked in Baltimore
in one day than in Washington in one
year. In northern Europe simple
crushed rye is made into bread and
and the loaves sometimes weigh twen-
ty pounds. OF these family will live
an indefinite period. 1t is said to be
nutritious Bakers say that the gra-
ham is the king of breads In it is found
the grain with flavor of sun, wind
and shower. The bone, sinew, meat
and soul of the wheat are preserved.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14
Most GOrgeOns Sight in Asia.

A well-conducted Chinese funeral is
the most gorgeous sight in Asia. II
may seem to us little tinsclly, but
that is mere matter of taste. At the
front of the funeral procession walk
the noisy musicless musicians. Then
come men they may be friends, they
may be coolics) bearing the insignia OF
the dignity of the dead, if he had any.
Next walk more men carrying figures
of animals, idols. umbrellas, and blue
and white streamers. After them come
men carrying pans of perfume. Just
before the coffin walk BONES, Chin
ese priests. Over the coffin canopy.
is usually carried. The casket is
borne by about score of men. I'M
mediately behind the coffin walk the
children of the deceased. The eldest
son comes first. He is dressed in can
vas, and leans heavily upon n stout
stick. He is supposed to be too ex-
hausted by grief and fasting to walk
without the aid of this staff. The
other children and relatives follow this
chief mourner. They are clothed in
white linen garments White is the
mourning color of the Danes, of the
Burmese, and of the Chinese. The
women are carried in chairs in the
Chinese funeral procession. They sob
and wall at intervals and in unison.
When the buryin3 place is reached,
the BONES begin chanting mass for
the dead, and the coffin is put into the
tomb. When the coffin is laid in its
final position, n large oblong white
marble table is placed before the tomb.
On the middle of it is set censer and
two vases and two candlesticks, all of
as exquisite workmanship as possible.
Then they have "A paper cremation!
Paper figures of men, horses, gar
ments, and score of other things, are
burned. They are supposed to under
go a material resurrection, and to be
useful to the dead in the Chinese
heaven. The tomb is sealed up or
closed, and an entertainment concludes
the ceremony at the grave. The
forms of Chinese tombs vary some
what according to the province in
which they are built, and very much
according to the means of the relative
who undertakes the expense. With
the very poor the coffin is placed upon
the ground, earth and lime are packed
about it, and rude grave is formed.
With the rich vault is built in the
form of horseshoe. If the dead was
of note or position the decorations of
the grave and of the coffin are very
elaborate. There are a thousand inter-
esting things to be said about Chinese
mourning, about the ceremonies com
memorative of the dead, and about the
funerals of the Chinese royal family.
But they cannot be put into para
graph or into a column. II Pail Mall
Gazette.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

'fo eat" Latter day theologicans
agree that the passage of Genesis
which reads "In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat thy bread" refers not
solely to rolls and mullins, but en-
braces the entire dietary system from
little neck clans to cafe noir and
cheese.
The subject of bread is not popular
ly understood. II is an entertaining
process to watch the South American
aborigines steal the poison from the
cassaver pulp and roast the latter into
bread; to see the maiden of the
tropics rs she hammers parched maize
between two rocks and frys il into
fritters, and to spy on the Astrakhan-
haired housewife of darkest Africa as
she bakes the roots of manihat and
ianipha into daily bread.
Bread winning is most important
thing, and bread making is not the
least. Homemade bread is a back
number. Machine-made bread takes
the cake. The twentieth century
bakery is thing of beauty and the
up-to-date baker is Joy forever.
Baking on scientific principles and a
mammoth scale is high art. The
Washington baker will tell you that
his business is progressive one. II
is an evolution. A man must lay out
his capital, take time by the forelocb
and mark time to the music of prog
ress if he means to keep up with the
prOcessi IN
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

tangled up and interlaced the opera
tor, when he deemed it advisable to
look at his bread, would turn on the
rays of an oil lamp or ignite a bunch
of kindling wood so that the flames
would light the interior of the oven.
That is why in times that are history
now bakers bread would sometimes
taste of pine and resin. In one local bake
shop seven ovens are kept in almost
constant running order, at cost of
cne thousand tons of superior coal an
nually.
There are about three hundred
bakers in Washington, and q proper
tionste number OF apprentices TO be
graduated ~ baker q three years
course 10 required. Eighty per cent.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

OF the bread builders OF Washington
are Germans, either by birth, breed
ing or inheritance. A small percent
age are American, native and to the
manor born. The land of the lily
and merry England are also repre-
sented by small contingents. As q
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

Great Britain and her colonies have
27,906 ships Of all kinds; France has
15,279; Germany, 2. .635; Russia, 4. 4O6 |;
Italy,6,Sl0; United States, 20, ,623 the
world. 107.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14
Financial Activity.

"How is Cullen getting along?"
"Splendidly, for him"
"How do you know?"
"He has just succeeded in borrow
ing ten dollars from me. Chicago
Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

The average sum in savings bank
runs from sixty whine dollars year to
seventy dollars. This means the aver
age sum left for drawing interest.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

Texas is first in cattle and cotton,
second in sugar, sheep and mules,
seventh in cows. eighth In hogs.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14
STAFF OF LIFE.
HOW BREAD rs MADE IN A Big
BAKERY.
Processes Through which II Has to
Pass Before II Is Ready for De
livery-Improveme I'm
Machinery.

ONCERNING bread
and its making on a
large scale, the Wash
ington Star has this
to say:
To b g ancients
bread was the staff of
life, and it is just as
important an article
now as then. The
main difference is that
to the Hebrew and
Chaldean auth or s
of the staff of life
theory, bread meant
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-03-14

advertising, tinsel labels, specious
guarantees nor poetic names.
When consignment of -four reaches
the bread mill it is weighed ia the bal