The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-06-26

ale hath heavenly gift OF prophecy,
And sundry blessings hang about his throne
| Inat speak him null OF grace
Response byJ. LAWRENCE WHITE.
@'Tis very late;
The, sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;
And cold-black clouds, that shadow heavens
DO summons us to part and bid goodnight
Judge Howard r. French made a
Toast Master that filled to the utmost
the expectations of his most sanguine
friends. His happy little speeches
was each gem in itself. Filled with
wit or pathos as the subject demand
ed, he kept the table wondering II
there was any end to his seemingly
exhaustless variety. The responses
were, if possible, even more of a de-
lightfuly original variety than the hap
Ply hits of the gentleman who presided
at the festival board. Where all was
so very good and nothing even medio-
ere, it is not possible to particularize.
The character of the responses spoke
in most unmistakable language, the
good the club has accomplished dur
ing its single year of existence. Every
speech was pitched on a plane that
told its producer was living in world
of thought, that was away above the
common level. These too told that the
men who made them were men who
must, at no distant day, show to the
world that each had something in
store for its material advancement,
and when il should need his service
es he would be on hand ready equip
ped to offer gage of battle against the
common foe.
The Club has adjourned for the
heated term, and will next October
enter upon its second year of life with
a renewed vigor that win win for it a
still greater measure of growth among
those who compose its membership.
No young man, Of this community,
who can secure membership in the
Club, can afford to lose the opportuni-
ty offered him, for advancement, that
he will find in its ranks.
HISTORY OF THE CLUE.
Zone of the members has kindly furnished us
with the followingl
The Controversial Club was organ
lied in December of the past year, by
the following gentlemen: H. r.
Bright, f. E.. Fogg, E. r. Gay,
G. ID. Grubbs, j. c. Reid, Reid
Rogers and r. H. Winn. A perma-
nent organization was completed jan
uary 9th, with Reid Rogers, Presi-
dent; r. H. VIM, Vice President
F. E, Fogg, Secretary; @. d. Grubbs,
Treasurer; j. G. Reid, Marshal, and
j. G. Winn and b. r. Turner Man
aging Committee. The objects of
the association, as stated in the pre-
amble of the constitution, are the &C
quirement of greater familiarity
with the duties of citizenship, criti-
cal investigation into the social and |
political problems of the day and the
cultivation of a closer fellowship |
among those actuated by common
desire for self-improvement.
The method of investigation en-
ployed is, as the name implies, contro-
versial. Two members for each side |
are selected by the Managing Com
mittee, who likewise usually select the
question for discussion two weeks
beforehand These members are ex-
pected to inform themselves particu-
larly upon the subject, and to lay a
ground for general debate among the
body OF the society when the special
debate is closed. The discussion is
then summed up by the President and
put to the members, who are expected
to vote their actual sentiments.
While the field OF inquiry has been
so broad as to embrace questions of
purely scientific interest, such as the
doctrine of evolution on the one hand
and questions so farcial as as mar
rage failure" or the other, in the
main the effort has been to confine
debate to questions of political utility
and contemporary interest. The cur
rent issues of the day, whether social
or political, have absorbed the MOST
attention and led to the most eager
and instructive discussions. The Mu-
nicipal Ownership of the Water
Works, The Income Tax, The Pro-
posed Tariff of One Cent Pound
ypon Sugar with Trust Allowances,
The Annexation of Hawaii, the Mica