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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-02-09
Spirituality.

In dealing with sin every follower
of Christ should keep forgiveness
which lie the essence of the gospel
prominent in his thoughts and words.
We are prone to consider the sins of
others from various other standpoints,
rather than from this best one. We
remember that our late friend Mr.. A.
has been publicly disgraced, not for
the purpose of clarifying the good
ness of God, which by forgiveness,
can reinstate him into all good fellow
ship, but rather that we may with
draw our fellowship from him. We
bring to mind the odious conduct of
Mr.. B :, not that we may praise that
inexhaustible mercy which gives
through forgiveness beauty for ashes,
but that we may despise the sinner
for his sin. But forgiveness Is the
gospel. Have we much of II In our
thoughts or In our hearts ?-The
Lookout.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-02-09
Heart Disease Cured
BY DR.. Miles, Heart Cure.

FAinting, Weak or Hungry Spells, Irregu-
zaro< lntermittent Pulse. Fluttering or Pal
citation, Choking Sensation. shortness OF
Breath Swelling Of Feet and Ankles, are
symptoms OF q diseased or Weak Heart
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-02-09
Did Grief Kill That Dou2

Mrs. Susan Brown died at Ta
Haute, Ind. She had dog and "a
the woman's corpse was bcinN0 u
to the grave the faithful canine
During Mrs. Browns illness
made frantic efforts to enter
room, but war Seg;e4 ad
Between th@ Sg g -
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-02-09
TRINGBLE BROS,
GRoCERS&
MT. STELIN9. KY.
Just Obey.

An Eastern king was once in need
of faithful servant and friend. He
gave notice that he wanted man to
do days work, and two men came
and asked to be employed. He en-
gagged them both for certain fixed
wages, and set them to work to fill a
basket from neighboring well, say
ing that he would come in the even
ing and see how they got along with
their work. He then left them and
went away. After putting in one or
two buckets full, one of the men said ::
"Whst lie the good of doing this use
less work? AS soon as we put the
water in one side it runs out on the
other - !
The other man answered.: "But
we have our days wages, haven't we
The use of the work is the masters
business, not ours"
~ am not going to do such FOOLS
work." replied the other; aud, throw
ing down his bucket, he went away .
The other man continued his work
ill about sunset, he exhausted the
well. Looking down into II, he saw
something 60 the bottom. He
es/,t his b,6 hce more. and
Sw n I2ond ring.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-02-09
BATH COUNTY NEWS.
ORION ow1NesvILLE ourLooK1

NfhOM OWlNdsNlLbE OuILOOhJ
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John W
Shrout, on the Preston pike, son.
Some of the old boys favor the our
few law because the young boys tell
tales at home.
Mondays sleet did the fruit more
q damage if the local pomologists are
to be relied upon.
John L. Vice, of Bethel, bought of
ID. L. S. Rogeres of Sharpsburg, thirty
S50.lb., heifers at &c.
Cell Hstton bought of James T..
Peters twelve acres of land on Flat
Greek for 5000 cash.
81 l.. Vice and f. p. Hendrix bought
Of Neri Swetnam, of White Oak, and
shipped, ninety zone hogs at 50 90 per
ugvfs
George Thomas died at his home,
near Preston, Of pneumonia. De-
ceased was son OF George Thomas
and was aged about 81 years.
Stephen Clayton, aged 70 years.
died of kidney trouble at 10: 10 o'clock
Friday moning 30, at the home of his
dauihcr, Mrs. Reuben Piersall, on the
Preston pike.
Marriage licenses were issued the
\ a .
~ asst week az follows: George Crouch
land Miss Edith Donaldson; Grant
Mannin and Miss Nellie Ingram !;
Reese Duff and Miss Annie Roberts
Rev. r. A. Walton left Tuesday to
hold a protracied meeting at Mem
phis, Tenn, in the Peoples Congre-
gstional Church. Prot. Ed. S. Fogg
will conduct the music for the meet
ing.
The total assessed valuation of prop
@ty in Rath couatY as returned by
ne Assessor was $2,593,090. The
snty Supervisors raised certain as
Vents $66,5l5, making the total
Jas Lyons, OF Forge Hill
Serhood, died Sunday morning
at seven O'Clock. She was q
daughter Of Mrs. Elizabeth Good
paster and was about thirty -four
years old.
The private stock OF about seven
miles Of the Owiugsville and Mt
S5telling turnpike In Bath county has
been offered to the county for $780,
300 This stock is very valuable,
= 4 from Six 10 eight per cent. div
yearly.
70 home OF Elder Zimmerman,
Town George Crouch and
18th Donaldson were united in
'ssrte. The bridesmaid was Miss
n & IRE, and tho sbest man" was
RI merfeld AN are Of the
y neighborhoad
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-02-09
COURT DIRECTORY.

CIRCUIT COURT.
JUICE JoHH e. COOPER presiding Third Monda
in January and the Second Monday in Apri
and First Monday in September
MONTGOMERY QUARTERLY COURT.
JUDGE ED c. o'REAR presiding, Tuesday af-
Ter Third Monday in January, April, July
October.
COUNTY COURT.
Third Monday Of each month.
Mt. sTERLINa CITY ooURT.-OIvIL BRANCH.
JUDGE BEN r: TURNER, presiding, First Sat-
urday in each month. - = =
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PROFESSIONAL.

7 M. ELLIOTT,
v Attorn e y-at-Law, ..
Mt. Sterling, Ky.
Office. front room up stairs Fizer block,
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
THE kLONDIKE GOLD.
lProln Nature.l

An interesting point in connection with
the question of age is that the ground re-
mains perennially frozen, only the sur
face being thawed in Summer to the depth
of two or three feet. 1t would appear
therefore that like the placers of Siberia,
these deposits have remained undis-
turbed and unaltered ever since the glac-
ial period, and perhaps some such evil
dence of this will in course of time be
discovered, as was afforded by the re-
mains of mammoths and other animals
in the Siberian frozen mud.
1t is worthy Of note that the compare
tive lowness of standard of the gold is,
un0er the existing conditions, in favor
of the view that the placer gold is derived
from the erosion of auriferous quartz
lodes formerly existing at higher level,
being deposited from soluMon. For, &C
cording TO those who support the former
view, placer gold becomes of higher
standard than reef gold after it has found
its way into the drifts, the base metals
being gradually removed by the solvent
action Of running water, in which gold
isnot readily soluble. Since, however,
the Klondike gold has been frozen vi
during large part OF the time since it
was deposited in the gravel, it is obvious
that it cannot have altered in composition
so much as the gold in river sands fur
Their south, and might be expected to re
semble the gold in the parent lodes,
which is not usually more than 500 fine
The low standard of the gold is not SO
readily accounted for by the accretion
theory of formation of placer gold.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
Ar sARGENT's ORosoIAG.

Seth NJ. Carter. Esl., OF Lewiston, rep
resenting the Maine Central Railroad
Co, held a consultation Tuesday fore
noon with the selectmen of Waldo in re-
lation to the proposed changes in the
highway near Waldo station. There are
now three grade crossings south of Waldo
station, for which it is proposed to SUBJ
stitute one underpass. The County Com
missioners granted the prayer OF the Pc
titioners and located the highway SO as
to make the change. The Railroad Com
missioners decided that the town should
bear the expense of building the new
highway except SO much as Is on the
property of the Railroad Co., which Is to
be built by the company. This includes
the underpass and will necessltate the
grading up of the road-bed some four
feet at the point of crossing. 1t is I'M
derstood that both the town and the rail
road company wish to have the former
action reversed and the road remain as at
present
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
DANGER OF oIPHTHERla,
see that Your Servants Do Not Subject
You 1t.

A gentleman called the attention Of
Secretary Dyer of the Board of Health
yesterday to state of affairs which might
result in serious consequences. The gem
tleman employed a servant girl who has
been in the habit Of visiting the home of
her married sister in the city. The feel
ings of the gentleman may be imagined
when he discovered that in the family
which the servant has been visiting,
there have sbeen two children i'll with
diphtheria, one of whom died the other
day. The cases had been reported to the
Board OF. Health and notices posted on
the house as the law requires warning
people from the premises but the girl had
paid no attention to the placards and had
continued her visits to the house during
the illness of the children there. 1t
would be wise precaution for people to
endeavor to learn where those they en-
ploy in their homes pay visits especially
when cases of contagious diseases are
being reported to the authorities.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
HE KISSED THE BRIDE.
The Peculiar Iucident in Wedding at
Biddeford,

There was ludicrous and fairly start
ling incident at a recent Biddeford
church wedding.
There are people who delight in follow
eng up weddings in which they have no
particular interest the same as there are
those who never allow themselves to miss
public funeral but they usually manage
to restrain themselves until the services
are over, though it was not SO in this
case.
The officiating clergyman had got pretty
well along in the marriage ceremony but
had not yet reached the finale by pro-
nouncing the couple man and wife when
the unlocked for incident occurred
The clergyman was within the altar
rail and the bridal couple just without
wnen suddenly a man sprang from his
seat in the front of the church, with a
bound reached the unsuspecting bride,
seized her from behind and bent her
backward until her head rested upon his
breast and pressed a kiss upon her start
led face with resounding smack, and
quickly returned to his seat.
The BRIDES hat was knocked askew,
she was falrly overcome with surprise,
tue groom and the Clergyman were dumb
founded and the other witnesses of the
wedding did mot know what to think.
The Clergyman was the first to recover
from the surprise and he proceeded to
tell the man who had interrupted the
ceremony what he thought of him and
his conduct.and he did not express him
self very mildly either. He told tho man
that-he had Il good mind to have him ar.
rested and that he would if he ever in
truded in the church again.
Then the puptial knot was completed.
The man whose Impotence to kiss the
bride led him TO interrupt the ceremony
is married and there was no particular
reason why he should have shown such
an extreme affection
1t is mistrusted .thatia wager was at the
hottom Of the episode, and those who 60
peileVe think that he earned it. whatever
It was --biddeford Record
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
IN THE POLICE COURT.
Judge Robinson Tells the Officers What
Is Necessary Evidence.

In the municipal court, yesterday morn
ing, BARLEY Mulkern, who was accused
of having assaulted Thomas 7. Cannon,
was discharged owing to the fact that the
government. did not presentsany Eeyidence
to corroborAte the story of the affair as
related by Cannon. In announcing his
decision, Judge Robinson.said that he
had before stated that he could not IND
man guilty when the accused was con-
fronted by only one witness and denied
the statements made against him, one
ofsetting the other and there being no
evidence to throw the doubt of the issue
one way or the other Neither. said
Judge Robinson, would he continue a
case when it was disclosed in theiprogress
OF the hearing that the government S
case was weak and poorly prepared. Such
a course would be an injustice to the re-
spondent
Deputy Sterling said that in this case
it was fact that men were afraid to ap-
pear to, testify against the respondent.
Judge Robinson said that the author1-
ties had power to summons witnesses and
repeated that he could not convict on
such case as that before him.
MIR. Cannon when called to the stand
had: said that Mulkern came up behind
him, took him by the collar and struck
him three times. Mr.. Cannon also told
how Mulkern had assaulted him twice be-
ore. On one occasion, Cannon said that
he had hit Mulkern in self defense. Null
kern when in liquor pursued him SO that
Cannon made it a practice ito take the
opposite side Of the street when he saw
Mulkern approaching. Mulkern was
"beastly drunk when this assault was
committed
Officer Frank told how he found Null
kern in bed at his house and arrested
him. This was five or six hours after the
alleged assault. 1t was then evident that
Mulkern had been drinking.
Mulkern denied that he committed the
assault. He claimed that he merely
pushed Cannon out Of his way.
John O'Connor, who went to sleep in a
closet on the second floor of the United
States hotel and remained there until his
slumbers were broken by the arrival of
Officer Pillsbury admitted that he was
drunk, so drunk that he could not re-
member what happened to him. He
promised TO do better in future and ex-
pressed satisfaction at the action of the
court in suspending sentence of 50 days,
the sentence to be imposed if he appeared
in the dock again at any time within a
year.
Festus McDonough, who was found
drunk in the Grand Trunk yard, was
fined So and costs.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
IVY REBEKAH FAIR.

The Ivy Rebekah fair will be continued
through today and evening at the Odd
Fellows hall in Baxter block. Yester-
day the ladies had fine day and good
patronage, the members Of the order turn
ing out in goodly numbers to the supper
and evening entertainment. These are
the young ladies who took part in the
Mother Goose drill: Miss E. Ethel Dyer,
Miss Bertha WEIGH, Mise Alice Cushin G,
Miss Bernioe Linsoott, Miss Lizzie
Soholes, Miss Ella Scholes, Miss E. Maud
Ball, Miss Carrie Brown, Miss Hattie
Cannon, Miss Edith Berry, Miss Ada
Fiokett. Miss Marion Cram, Miss Hattie
Pickett, Miss Ethel Hodgdon, Miss Lena
Foss.
By special request Miss Bertha WEIGH
sang solo.
Among the firms who contributed to
make the fair a success are the following
Owen, Moore Sc Co., Hooper, Son Z,
Leighton, A. A. Lane, T. j. Briggs, W.
e. Plummer and John E. Gould.
There is no admission to the fair. The
fair will close with dance this evening
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
THE DOG AND THE PoRCUPINE.

A bull dog owned in Monroe had a sad
experience last week. He went into the
woods and encountered a porcupine, and
came home with his head resembling a
well-filled pin cushion. One eye was
closed and there were quilts that had gone
through his tongue. Most dogs would
have been satisfied .withsthe first taste of
porcupine, but dogs OF this breed never
let go their grip and somewhere in the
Monroe woods there may be found, no
doubt, the remains of his foe. The FAM
lily were much distressed by the dogs
condition, and called the doctor to his
aid. Chloroform was administered and
the quilts removed Thesdog slept most
Of the following day, the effects of the
was able to eat bread and milk. 1t is
thought he will recover, but it is feared
he will lose the sight of one-eye.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
FUNERAL OF GEORGE H. BLANCH-
ARD.

The body of George II. Blanchard, who
died week ago Wednesday in New York
was claimed at the morgue by his cousin,
Frank B. Blanchard of Portland, and the
funeral service was held Tuesday by Rev.
DR.. Brown at the Churohiof ST. Mary the
Virgin on Forty -sixth street near Sixth
avenue. The body win be buried in st.
Michael's cemetery, Astoria.
Mr. Blanchard was in the firm of Swift
& Blanchard, ship chambers, in Maiden
lane, during the sixties. He was worth
over $50. 600 at that time, but invested in
Pacific Mail Steamship stocks, and was
hard hit by their fall about 1865. About
fourteen years ago he started in for him
self in the furniture business. He was
burned out after a couple of years. He
recovered SO, 600 insurance, and on this he
is believed to have lived ever since.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
pYTHIAN SUNDAY.

Members Of these lodges: Bralnhall
lodge, No. 8, Portland; Presumpscot
lodge, No. 4, Cumberland Mills; Munjoy
lodge, No. 6, Pine Tree lodge, No. II,
Iyanhoe lodge, No. %, Portland; West
brook lodge, No. 81. Westbrook; Longfel-
low lodge, No. 4s, Portland; Bayard
lodge, No. a, South Portland; Rocky
Hill lodge, No. 81, Deering; Nonesuch
lodge, No. 81, Scarborough; Trinity
lodge, No. "a. Portland; Cumberland
lodge, No. &c, Knightville, will report at
Pythian hall, 400 1.2 Congress Street, Sun
day, December 5th, at 2 p. m. to attend
divine service at City hall at p. m.
Members of the committee, invited
guests, and members of the Supreme and
Grand lodges will assemble at Reception
hall at 2.50 p N.
The line will be formed in the follow
ing order: No. 8, 4, 6, Il, 20, 81, 45, A.
81, 81, "a, 66.
Each lodge will be under command of
it's Chancellor Commander. Officers of
the different lodges will take position on
the right of their respective lodges.
The line of march will g taken up
from Castle Hall down Congress Street to
City Hall
bach Chancellor Commander after bis
lodge has been assigned seats in City
hall will Immediately report to the mar
shall the number of members of his lodge
present.
After the members have been seated the
Marshal and the Chancellor Commanders
will report to the committee of arrange
nents in Reception hall.
o~-uittee, guests. Supreme and Grand
lodge O ticers and Chancellor Commanders
w. .4.Ke seats on the platform.
A M SAWYER Marshal
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
HUNTING SEASON ABOUT OVER.

Lewiston, December "A Kineo spec
ial to the Journal says that the hunting
season in that region practically closed
Wednesday with the passing down the
lake of the last steamer. until winter
shall have released its hold on Moosehead
next May.
1t has been good season, second to
none. According to Mr.. Judkins of the
Mount Kineo house, $50 deer, 80 moose
heads and six caribou heads have passed
through there this fall, figures which so
far as moose and caribou are concerned,
include only animals brought down tho
lake on steamers. 4a
Tho number Of deer exceeds that of the
year previous, and caribou fell behind a
little. Moose remain about the same
The moose were killed along the Allie
cash route, some of them as far north as
Long lake.
-Four of the caribou fell on Caucomgo-
moe stream, one at Chesuncook and in
Cham berlain lake waters.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
AND WHAT IS FOUND IN
1T
(From Harper's Round Table.

(From Harper Round Table
The main source of the amber supply
is the seacoast of the Baltic 1t Is fossil
gum, originally the emulation of a species
of confer now extinct. This grew in
luxuriant profusion hundreds of thous-
ands Of years ago on the marshy coasts of
Northern Europe, when the climate was
much warmer than it is today The
natural history of amber is thus ex-
planned. The immense forests of amber
pine underwent their natural downfall
and decay. The resin of the wood accu-
mulated in large quantities in boys and
ponds and in the soil of the forest Where
the coast was slowly sinking, the sea by
and by covered the land, and the amber,
which had been gradually hardening, was
at last deposited at the ocean bottom. But
in higher regions the pine continued to
flourish, and so amber still continued TO
be washed down to the shore, and deposit
ed in the later formed reen sand, and
the still later formed ST ..tum of Ignite
or brown coal.
The gum became fossilized by its long
burial underground. More than 200 speci-
mems of extinct life, animal and vegeta-
bic, have been found imbedded in amber
specimens, including insects. reptiles,
plants, leaves, shells, fruit, etc., which
had been caught in the liquid gum and
entombed there for all time. Some of
hese specimens.are so ouriously beautiful
as tossbe almost priceless, gandg ones English
collector has cabinet of them which is
valued at 100, 600 pounds. One piece en-
balIns lizard about eight inches long, u
little jeweled monster perfect in it's form
and coloring, which has no like in any
thing existing now. Indeed, in many
this medium to study details OF animal
life which persisted from the earth many
redfthousand years ago. There are
flies preserved with wings poised as if for
flight, where the .prisnatic, sheen glowing
through the yellow sepulchre is as bril-
liant as if they were floating alive in the
sunshine.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
C. D. B. FISK & CO.'S PIANO CON
TEST.

The piano contest at G. ID. B. Fisk &
Co. continues to interest and draw, as
will be seen from the list published be
low of the leading ones. There have been
so far over $50 persons voted for.
Here is the six leading ones up to the
present time:
Mary Lucas. 1928 Brighton street, Wood
fords, 1l9 votes.
Jennie nj. Gardiner, 46 E. Broadway,
South Portland, so votes.
j. g. Tyler, ia Grant street, SO votes
e. A. Butterfield, 512 12 Congress
street, 76 votes.
Capt NJ. E. Conley, corner of Middle
and Temple street, 63 votes
George M. Akerly, 1856 Washington
street, so votes.
There are over $50 other candidates
with anywhere from 10 to ~ votes.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
passage of the resolutions, but after some
discussion the resolutions were adopted

passage OF the resolutions, but after some
discussion the resolutions were adopted
On motion OF Mr.. Fobes, the president
and secretary were instructed to send to
the Maine delegation personal letter, to-
gether with copies of the resolution. The
president was then authorized to appoint
a committee of seven to still further con-
slider the question and report as soon as
possible to the board. He was also au-
thorized to appoint committee of three
to make inquiry into the cause of delay
in the dredging operations.
Mr.. Daniels G. Prescott, the new gen.
eral freight agent of the Maine Central
railroad, was elected to membership.
A letter from the government light
acknowledged receipt of the Board of
Trades petition for the maintenance of
lightship off Portland harbor.
The secretary was instructed to make
upon the records an entry of the board 8
cognizance Of the death of Col. John M.
Adams. In the afternoon President
Boothby announced the appointment of
these committees:
70 determine On the best location avail
able and the cost of the United States
government of naval dry dock-Mayor
Charles H. Randall Hon. Henry B.
Cleayes, Hon. John W. Deerino.s Hon.
Charles T. Libby, Hon. j. w. Symonds,
Hon. James p. Baxter, Hon. Seth L.
Larrabee.
70 ascertain and report the progress of
dredging the harbor-Hon. James P Bax-
ter, Charles S. E'obes, Captain James
Keazer
70 investigate and report on the pro-
posed exhibition of historical and trades
carniyal-J Joseph FL. Short, Lewis A
Goudy; Adam P. Leighton.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
FAST RAILROADING.

Fort Wayne, Ind, December "A spec
ial train of private cars was run at an
unprecedented rate of speed between
Plttsburg and Chicago, over the Penn
syivanla road, for the purpose of ascer-
taini1g the possibility of reducing the
time of the limited express to 20 hours
between New York and Chicago.
The train left Pittsburg at 6.1S a. m.
and arrived in Chicago at D. M, max,
ing the GAS miles in 603 minutes. The
same train left Chicago at 9 a. m, reach
ing Pittsburg at 5.25 p. M, in 565 min
utes. making tbs eastward run 81 min.
utes faster than the westward run, which
breaks all previous records.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-03
KLONDIKERS THIRSTY TOO

Portland, Oregon, December 2-In the
United States District court Justice
Bellinger decided the case of the United
States involving fifty cases of whiskey
seized by the customs officers here and
held for forfeiture for all attempted un-
lawful importation into the territory of
Alaska. He sustained the exceptions to
the libel and made an order directing the
United States marshal to turn the liquor
over to the claimant, William Sitter. The
whlskey was packed in cases marked
Cum berland Home Made Tomato
Catsup."