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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
4, AaI'iO i,sslyA CANE.
MISSOURI FARMERS BELIEVE 1T WILL
THRIVE IN THEIR STATE.

A big Convention Considers the Subject.
Sugar Mills and Reaneries 20 he Erect
ed - Plans Yor Experimental Stations
and Tests.
The sugar convention held recently at
Hughesville, Mo-, was a pronounced
success. The farmers who reside in
Hughesville district, which is the gar
den spot of central Missouri, have de-
cideti to tnrn their attention from tho
growing OF corn and wheat to that Of
cane raising, and the convention was
held for the purpose of effecting an or
ganization to secure the location OF q
sugar mill and refinery at Hughesville.
The permanent organization was com
pleted by the selection of officers and
o board of managers The proposed
Hughesville sugar mill and refinery will
cost $3.50, 900, and the capital for estab-
fishing the plant is assured. The mill
will require two diffusion batteries apth
have capacity of 500 tons of cane each
"a hours, and 5000 acres of cane will
be necessary to keep the mill in opera
ton during the l0D days Of the manu-
featuring season. 1t is believed thar
when the mill is in operation kettle
sugar houses will be established at nu
merous points in central Missouri, and
their output Of brown sugar will be suf.
sficient to keep the refine:y In operation
every month of the year. .
1t is estimated that the rich soil of
this part of the state will produce from
10 to 90 tons Of green cane per acre,
while the seed, more valuable for stock
feeding than corn, will equal 80 to 40
bushels per acre. The lowest estimate
of the farmers profit in raising cane is
$50, while the 8, 900 acres of cane would
make profit Of s136. 900 per annum to
the mill owners, or 80 per cent on the
money invested. Each of the farmers
who have become members Of the asso.
citation will this year plant from one
fourth to one-eighth Of an acre of i'm
proved or pedigreed sorghum cane seed,
and the crops of cane will be subjected
to such tests as may be required by the
capitalists who are to provide the mill
and refinery. The experimental station
and expense Of tests will cost $1,000,
and that sum was quickly subscribed at
the convention. Probably no better To-
cality in the state than the vicinity of
Hughesville could be selected for cane
raising. The soil is deep and exceedingly
rich and the surface rolling prairie.
The large plant can also be operated at
littIa axDauS 90 for fual 90 tho host IF soft
coal is found in inexhaustible quantities
at a few feet from the surface. St
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
McKinley,s Close Friend.

Colonel Otis, who but for geographic
al considerations would have been APP
pointed assistant secretary Of war, is q
personal friend of the president They
served together in the Twenty third
Ohio regiment in the civil war and in
later years became fast friends. Several
times within the past few years Colonel
Otis has visited President Mckinley at
his Canton home. When the fight for
delegates was being made in California,
Colonel Otis succeeded in capturing
several delegates for Mckinley, and
later in the campaign, after the St.
Louis convention, he ''whooped it up"
for Mckinley and the Republican ticket.
Mckinley, when elected, extended an
invitation to Colonel Otis to call at
Canton, which he did some weeks be-
fore the president went to Washington
At that time Colonel Otis indicated a
desire to be assistant secretary of war,
saying that the place would be aocepta-
BILE to him and that he thought he
would prove good assistant in view
of his previous military training.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
THEY WANT TO DUCK HER.
NeiEhbors Of Mrs. Anselm Would Revive
an Ancient Custom.

NeiBhbOrs OF MRS. AnBelm would Revive
an Ancient Custom.
Under the old "blue laws" of New
Jersey a common scold, If adjudged
guilty, may be dncked in mill pond
The law hasn't been enforced for many
years. The tenants of an apartment
house in Hoboken, however, believe it
should be IN the case Of Mrs Matilda
Anselm. She has lived ON the first floor
for nearly two years. The other tenants,
Mrs. Peter Half, Mrs. Henry Brusse
and Mrs. John Heinz, say she has made
things exceedingly lively during that
time. From interfering in their affairs
to creating a racket in her own apart
ments they say she has no equal, and
her tongue, they say, never stops wag-
ging.
With Mrs. Caroline Seigfried, who
owns the house and lives in one of the
apartments, she went too far. The re-
marks made by her reflected on Mrs.
Seigfried's character. So, with Frank
Ludwig, her son-in- law, Mrs. Seigfried
called on Recorder McDonough. The
latter could not see his way clear to en-
terrain a charge against Mrs. Anselm
for her aspersions upon her landlady's
character, but he could hold her under
the common scold act. This he promised
to do if Mrs. Seigfried produced wit
nesses to prove Mrs. Anselm a common
scold.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
The Court Of Appeals Holds That
Banks Should be Taxed. f"

Frankfort KY, March 24.-The
Court OF Appeals this morning de,
cided the bank tax cases, affirming
some and reversing others, deciding
that they were subject to county and
municipal taxation.
This 9yerrules the decision of last
June.
The decision of the court effects
every bank in the State. 1t reverses
the previous decision, which held that
banks should be taved under the Hew.
lit law, and subjects all banks to the
ad valorem tax.
The facts in the case In brief are
that in 1885 the Legislature passed
what is known as the Hewitt bill. &C.
cording to which the banks were to
pay to the State rs cents on every
500, and were not 10 be subject 10
any other taxation.
This was accepted by the banks, and
q contract entered into. But tin 1893
the Legislature did away with the
Hewitt law, and passed bill taxing
the banks according to the sd valo-
rem system without deducting debts.
The banks contested this, and they
were sustained In their objection by
the Court of Appeals, which held that
the Hewitt law should hold.
But number of banks ha been
formed since 1885, when the Hewitt
law was passed, and these were sub
jected to the sd valorem tax. They
sued, holding that they should not be
taxed on other conditions than the
old banks. These are the cases that
were decided to-day.
The Court Of Appeals has been
changed since 1893, and the decision
to-day not only holds that the new
banks shall be taxed on the ad valorem
system, but also reverses the previous
decision, holding that the Hewitt law
is unconstitutional and that all banks
shsll pay an ad valorem tax.
Whether the banks can be made to
pay back taxes will have to be decid-
cd by further litigation. In all
probability the cases will be futher
contested and will be taken to the
Udited States Supreme Court.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
April Fool.


Many times, ere waned the winter,
Did he strive in vain TO tell
How his heart was but . splinter
Meath the magic Of her spell.
After weeks of aggravation,
Forced to keep young love from sight
He declared In desperation.
81 will writei"
30 he bravely set to burning
Gallons Of the midnight oil,
Passed through many q tortuous turning
In epistolary toll;
Begged that he might forge the fetter
That hut death Tor law unlocks,
And at last he dropped the letter
In the boz.
Dreaming she'd be "his devoted"
How his soul was stirred TO song
As the postman, sober coated,
Trod the drowsy street alongl
Then one morn TINT wQrthy's whistle
Shrilled more sharply than before.
And there fell small epistie
At his door. M
Oh, he doubted not the lUnder,
For her crest the wax5revealedl
With what trepidation tnder
He the envelope unsealedl
But the feryor Of his passion
Grow upon sudden cool.
For q she, answered nav, =. in thir fashion,
-dNatsa ksellsrd = Nsw York
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
NEW BOOK ON CERAMICS.
A Rich and Costly Work That VIII Give
Joy to Collectors.


A Rich and Costly Work That VIII Give
JOY TO Collectors. - =
The first part of a remarkable book
on oriental ceramic art has just appear.
ed. The publication is the result Of II
years Of labor and Is said to be one OF
the most costly books ever printed Only
500 copies of it are to be- issued: The
estimated cost of the publication is
$500, 00O The plan of the book is to
give complete and exhaustive history
of the ceramic art in the far east and
to illustrate it by examples drawn Who'll
ly from the collection of the late Will.
liam T. Walters of Baltimore. ,rn. .
Mr. Walters was the first American
TO make an extensive collection of orien-
al ceramics, and the specimens of orr.
entail potterS' art which he selected for
40 years and which now number more
than 1000 are considered to be9more
typical of every epoch and variety of
decoration of the porcelains of China,
Korea and Japan than any other colleo-
tion in the world. The chief feature of
the book to an art lover will be the 1l6
full page plates, Autographed and
printed in many colors
For eight years artists aud ithogra-
pliers have worked upun the set of
plates at Louis Prang's establishment
at Roxbury, Mass. Mr., Prang regards
the set as the chief monument of his
life Some of the reproductions of the
book require no less than 90 different
Autograph stones, each supplying its
bit of color and design, to make the
print exact ~. ......
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
SAT Ut AL NIGHT.
Bride and Groom FaI TO Solve tho sscrss
OF the Eoi eng FurnIturs. s,,,,,s,s ]

Bride and Groom Fail 70 Solve the Sscres
of the Eoi eng Furniture. ~ ,e, !.
"A new y married couple were piloted
in here the other night by some of their
friends, who called in loud voice for
the bridal chamber" said the clerk Of
q hotel in one of the large cities. "The
groom was evidently from much
smaller place and was so nervous he
could hardly write his name
"Well, got this pair in their room
all safe and thought I'D never hear an
other word out Of the couple. Along to-
ward O'Clock in the morning the
Office was deserted, and the Waterman
came down stairs. holding his haiid over
his mouth and trying to keep o straight
face. The coople i'll noomber would
loike to see you, sorr, lie said. I ran up
the stlirs as quickly as possible and
knocked ON the door Twas told to come
in and saw TIVE lady sitting stiffiy in q
chair at one end of fhe room and the
gentleman IN the same apositionsat the
opposite end. why, what's the m9tter?'
asked. $50.
We'll, me and Annie would jest
like to know it you expect to keep us in
this parlor all night aud not let us go to
bed at ALP
''Now, you see, all that could be
avoided if they wouldn't put every
bridal couple, whether they are from a
farm or palace, in parlor fitted up
with folding. beds, patent combination
washstands and plane bureaus and
bathtubs and all trash like that and
come down to the good old furniture,
like we have at home. It would be a
great benefit to all parties concerned"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
An RnterprI.ine Consul.

The new consul general at London,
W. NICK. Osborne, was the first of the
foreign appointees of the administration
to enter upon his work. He took the
oath of office at the state department
and Immediately began to accumulate
knowledge of his new office in order
to be able to relieve Consul General
Collins at the earliest possible moment.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
A Good Cure For Tramps.

Officials now announce that since
Winnebago county, Wis, adopted the
workhouse cure for tramps the number
to be cared for has fallen from about
1900 q month in the winter season to
rs, and a saving to the county of about
81 200 a month has been effected.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
Thumb In . Tomato Can.

Mrs. Adolph Martin of Passaic, N.
j., drew curious prize in can Of to-
matoes. 1t was a mans thumb, perfectly
preserved 1t is supposed that a work
man in the canning factory had thumb
cut off in the canning machine and that
the severed member dropped into the
tomatoes
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
Danger In Phy.lcian. Boards.

Some people in Chicago want to have
a law enacted to compel physicians
either to cut off their boards or have
them disinfeoted Oh the ground that
when physician is listening to the
heart or lungs of patient his beard is
brought into direct contact with the pa
TENTS body, which in cold or damp
weather is source of danger.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

Impure blood isthe natural result OF
close confinement in ths house, school.
room or shop.
Blood 10 purified by Hoods Sarsa-
psrilla, and all of the disagreesble
results of impure blood disappear
with the use Of this medicine.
II you wish to feel well, keep your
blood pure with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

soon pronounced
her incurable. A
celebrated New York
specialist then treat
ed her, but she con-
tinued to grow worse
and when informed
that both her aunt
and grandmother had
, died from cancer he
gave the case up as
hopeless.
Someone then re-
commended SIS.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

The Belgian legislature has just pass
ed law which places bilingual stamp
upon the political, judicial and execu-
tive administration of the country
Henceforth no French speaking Belgian
will be admitted to any public Office un-
less he is able to read, write and con-
verse in Flemish. 1t is needless to point
out the extent to which legal and par
liamentary procedure will be needlessly
complicated and incumbered by this
new statute.
The king has not yet signed the bill,
and there is faint hope that he may
veto a measure which, while it gives
great satisfaction to two-fifths of his
subjects, is vehemently opposed and dis
approved of by the remaining three
fifths, who neither speak Flemish nor
care in any way to become acquainted
with the language.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
Cancer
OF the Breast.

Mr.. A. II. crausby, Of 1873 Kerr St.,
Memphis, Tenn, says, that his wife
paid no attention to small lump which
appeared in her breast, but 1t soon de-
veloped into cancer Of the worst type,
and notwithstanding the treatment OF
the best physicians, it continued to
spread and grow rapidly, eating two
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
InpoverI.hed Yale students.

The vesX large number of Yale stu
dents wb, are reported to have lost
money ON uorbett looks as If the depart
ments Of ct iics and political economy
needed sire igthening down there. BIOS
ton Herald.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

Mr.. Smith Hansford, who was so
successful, last year, with his incubs
z tor aud broader, has, this Spring, met
with bad luck. He put one hundred
eggs, fine Wyandott, in the incubator
sndtook out seventy chickens. These
he placed in the brooder and getting
tito hot lost all but about half q
dozen. Many . man has had his
"goose cooked" but few have had
the same misfortune to happen to lot
OF fine young chickens. - Hsrrodsburg
Sayings. +
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

and though little hope remained, she
begun it, and an improvement was mo-
ticed. The cancer commenced to heal and
when she had taken several bottles il
disappeared entirely, and although sew
era1 years have elapsed, not sign Of
the disease has ever returned.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

To the Right Rev. Alphonse Joosten,
vicar apostolic and bishop of the Dutch
West Indies, belongs the distinction of
having been the first clergyman of Epis-
copal rank to succumb to leprosy, with
which he became infected while admin
istering religious instruction and conso-
lation to leprous adults and children at
Curacao. His name deserves to figure
beside that of Father Damien ON the
table of honor Of those who have sacri-
feed their lives in behalf of leper out
casts.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

Hoods Pills are the best family ca
thsrtic and liver medicine. Gentle
reliable, sure.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
ODDS AND ENDS.

Tolstoi's manuscript is full of inter
lineations and erasures, and the hand
writing is small, fine and hard to read.
The countess transcribes itfor the print
err, and it is said that she made 10 copies
Of one of her husband 8 books
The midnight music of cats so annoyed
Jerome Summers of Weaverville, N, Y,
that he hurried out barefooted with his
pistol to shoot them. In the yard he
stepped on rusty nail, which caused
lockjaw, and in ten days he died.
Beatrice Harraden has not been bene-
flied in health by her return to England.
She is now at Bournemouth, and what
energy she possesses she has put into the,
revision of her book, rHilda STAFFORD. y
Bishop Qaintard Of Tennessee was in
the Confederate army, and his first work
after the WIN was to plant GROSS on
Sewanee mountain, where the Univer-
sisy q tie " Aftsrwsrd rose through
RIn nu1H1.>~r. a n
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

Although they are arrayed in bitter
conflict with one another, yet there is a
good deal of analogy between Emperor
William and the Socialist party in Ger
many, for they each consider that they
are at liberty to discipline and tyrannize
the individual citizen as they like. They
only differ on the point 70 where the
control of the regula paratus is
to be situated.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

The inventor of the jinrikisha, Izumi
Yosuka, has fallen on evil days and is
in such a state Of restitution that q
movement is in progress to secure q
pension for him from the mikado. jim
rikishas are now the ordinary means Of
conveyance throughout the orient. When
the patent laws were enacted in Japan,
Izumi applied for patent for his popu-
lar gocart. But he was informed that
the laws in question were not retro
active; consequently he has derived no
benefit whatsoever from his invention.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
. Eive U.,e,th n 81 one sAll.

u 4aworth Seine. q 6-year-old Ohio
lad, ltripIf fell ON doorstep aud
) ~ Of his upper teeth. -
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

Emperor William has just given a
further indication of his unfriendly SEN
timents toward England by comforting
his order of the crown upon M. VOL
marans, the member Of the executive of
the Transvaal republic who has render
ed himself the most conspicuous by his
pronounced and undisguised hatred of
everything British. New York Trib-
une.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

Lord Salisbury has made an announce
ment which is Of considerable impor-
tanee not only to British industry and
commerce. hut also to those of America.
After no end of negotiation and delay
the numerous official distractions TO the
opening up 70 foreign trade of the great
West river, which drains southern China
from the frontier of Yunnan, have been
removed, and customs stations are now
being organized by Sir Robert Hart at
various points along the mighty stream.
The opening of this river to steam navi-
cation entails the final execution Of
those treaty rights which permit foreign
merchants to convey goods into the in
terror ON the payment of "a cents
transit duty-rights which the Canton
authorities have succeeded in defying
Or nearly 40 years.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

Plp Y harness Of b9st selected mat
= factory prIsd
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

The Duke of Connaught, third son of
the queen, has been officially appointed
by the British government to take COM
mand of all the troops assembled in
London on the occasion of the ceIeb
ton of the queen record reign. 1t is
understood that every branch of the Brit
ish army--home, Indian and colonial
IL TO- be represented in the great pageant,
and under the circumstances the task Of
the royal general will be no easy one.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30

macy and applied chemistry, but also
the questions of hygiene, public health,
drinking waters and sanitary legisls-
ton. ... -,
In view of the preparations now be-
ing made at Lisbon to celebrate with
fitting ceremony the discovery of the
Cape of Good Hope route from Europe
to India, it is of interest to recall the
fact that it was through a king of that
Benin which has just been conquered
by the English that the Portuguese first
obtained their knowledge of India. The
king of Benin in question, who visited
Lisbon, was in direct and transconti-
mental intercourse with Prester John,
the negus of Abyssinia, who. in turn,
was in communication with East India.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1897-03-30
4 - N
STORIES OF THl
R~ssresting Notes ON Matter
Talked Of In LY,a,.l

FEEf67tfnB NUt6s ON WHtTVI1
Talked Of In I~,al,,.
Edhem Pasba, the gene s.
supreme command Of tis
forces on the Greek frontier
talks Of putting the dominion
George to the fire and to IT,,
laying waste the entire count. ="
the border line to Athens, is u, 20
pasha who won for himself so b uni-
yersal execration by his condu ,,hIle
at the head of the Turkish so..l,ry in
Asia Minor in 1895. Indeed he owes
his rank as field marshal TO the part
which he played in the shocking lei
tun massacre, and he is regarded at
Constantinople as primarily responsible
for most of the Armenian outrages.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1897-05-19
Mortgage Sale.

Default having been made III the paw
ment OF eleven hundred and $500 dollars
lSl ,lOO56) which is due at the date hereof
and delivered by II W. Dirksmeyer to
David kohntop, bearing date the seventh
day of September A. d. 1894 and df11y re-
corded in the office of the register Of deeds
IN IN ana fer Stevens county, Minnesota, on
10 O'Clock A. NJ, in book M Of rnortra pes on
page 80, and no.action or proceeding at
law or otherwise having been Instituted
70 recover the debt secured by said mort
gage, or any part thereof:
Now therefore, notice is hereby given
that Dy virtue of power of sale Contained
III said mortgage, and pursuant to the
statute, the said mortgage will be fore
closed and the premises described in and
covered by said mortgage, viz: The east
half of the east half of section thirty-two
% township one hundred twenty-four
llzD range forty-two az, containing one
hundred sixty q60) acres. Being the east
one half OF the north east one quarter and
east half OF south east one quarter of sec
ton thiTty-two 1921 township one hundred
twenty-four l124l range forty two AL stu
ate IN Stevens county, and state of Mime
sofa, will be sold at public auction, to pay
SAD debt and interest, and fifty 1901 dollars
attorney s fee, as stipulated in said mort
gage to be paid in case Of foreclosure, and
the disbursements allowed by law; which
sale Will be made by the sheriff of said
stevens county. at the front door of the
court house, in the village of Morris, in
said, county and state, on Thursday the
3rd day OF June, A. ID. 1897, at 10 O'clock "A.
n, OF that day. subject to redemption as
provided by law.
Dated April 18th A. d. 1897
DAVID KOHNTOP,
Mortgage.
Attorney for Mortgagee,
Morris, Mimi.