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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-06-14
EnOCh'S
Bargain House.
The Gold Fields of Alaska.

In order to accommodate the heavy
travel to the new Eldorado, which it is
expected will set in early and con-
tinue during the coming season, the
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
will inaugurate weekly tourist sleep
ing car service between St. Louis,
Portland and Seattle, first car west
bound to leave st. Louis Tuesday eve
ming, February %, and continue
weekly thereafter, making no change
between St. Louis and the Pacific
Coast. No other route can offer such
splendid through accommodations
matchless scenery and interesting
points on the way. This is the most
desirable route to Portland and Sc
attic, and special attention will be
given to parties en- route to Alaska.
Valuable printed matter on the gold
fields and the latest information in
regard to rates, routes, ETC., to that
territory will be cheerfully mailed on
application.
A. A. GALLAGHER, d. p. A.,
BIT Vine st. Cincinnati, o.
II. =. TOWNSEND, G. p. A.,
32-tt St. Louis, No.
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THE WONDERS
OF ScienCe-Lung Troubles and
Consumption Can be Cured.
An Eminent New York Chemist
and Sci mist Makes a Free
Offer to Our Readers.

The distinguished New York chem
let, 7. A. Slocum, demonstrating his
discovery of reliable and absolute
cure for Consumption pulmonary
Tuberculosis) and all bronchial, throat,
lung and chest diseases, stubborn
coughs, catarrhal affections, general
decline and weakness, loss OF flesh,
and all conditions of wasting away,
will send three free bottles (all differ
enD of his New Discoveries to any
afflicted reader OF the MT. STEERING
ADVOCATE writing for them.
His New Scientific Treatment"
has cured thousands permanently by
its timely US " he considers it a
simple profession. suffering
humanity to donate trial of his in
fallible cure.
Science daily develops new won
ders, and this great chemist, patiently
experimenting for years, has pro-
duced results as beneficial to human
ity as can be claimed by any modern
genius. His assertion that lung
troubles and consumption are cur.
able in any climate is proven by
"heartfelt letters of gratitude" filed
in his American and European labora-
tories in thousands from those cured
in all parts of the world.
Medical experts concede that. bron-
chial, chest and lung troubles lead to
consumption, which, uninterrupted
means speedy and certain death.
Simply write to T. A. Slocum, M.
c., SO Pine street, New York, giving
postoffice and express address, and
the free medicine will be promptly
sent. Sufferers should take instant
advantage of his generous PROPOSE
ton.
Please tell the Doctor that you saw
his offer in the ADVOCATE. 5J-tf
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likes, No End.

Up at New Haven, w. Va, there
are 80 many people named Isaac
Roush that to avoid confusion they
are thus designated:
Big Ike, Gentleman Ike, Spectacle
Ike, Ike-on-the-Hill, Ike-in-the- Hol-
low, Rosa's Ike, Little Ike, Soldier
Ike, Lazy Ike, Thirteenth Virginia
Ike, Fifer Ike, Aunt Cassy's Ike,
Drummer Ike, Fourth Virginia Ike,
Hartford Ike, Dam-It Ike, Sally's Ike,
Kanawha Ike, Helliky Ike, Trotter
Ike, Fidler Ike, Ten Mile Ike, Mart's
Ike and Aunt Betsy's Ike.
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THURSDAY NIGHT.
Education and Missions, Pres. r. Lin
Cave.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

~NSA9ASSS ~~sAANe 49, VIVA wv
by local applications, as they can not
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure deaf.
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets inflamed you have a
.rumblipg sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed deaf
ness is the result, and unless the in
flammation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed for
ever nine cases out of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an
iafiamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness Caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circu-
lars, free.
f. j. CHENEY s. Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, Toe. If
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-06-14
Hawaii an American Island.

Hawaii is practically now an Amer
lean dependency, as under the shad-
ow of the Monroe doctrine it has been
for the past fifty years. The question
before the country is, can the Presi-
dent wait on the House and Senate ?
Has the matter not gone beyond dis
cussion and the ftrmalities OF red
tape? For purposes of war with
Spain Hawaii has been adopted as a
base of operations, and thus war has
precipitated the solution of a problem
that has long been an issue over
which the country has been divided.
Galveston Daily News.
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Wheat and Plour.

Flour is lower again. May 16
spring patent was worth IS 500
7.25 per barrel. The same flour can
now be bought for $6.00@6.50.
The lower prices are due to the
slump 10 wheat. But it is obvious
that though wheat can fluctuate vio-
lently, flour is maintained at tteadier
prices.
May 10 wheat sold at $1.85 per
bushel. The price now is about
$l.10. showing a decline of 40 per
cent. Flour, on the other hand, has
only declined about 124 per cent.
This is explainsble in the fact that
millers hold goodly supply of wheat
on hand at all times. So when wheat
advances, as it did recently, rs cents
bushel, millers have plenty of wheat
on hand at lower prices to turn into
flour.
Competition is so keen that they
cannot afford to raise their prices in
proportion as when wheat rises, but
when their stock of wheat is ground
up and they are forced into the mar
ket to replace it at higher prices they
have to advance -four or make an as
signmeut. And when wheat declines
suddenly 40 per cent. they cannot fol-
low it with proportionately lower
prices for flour because their wheat
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-06-14
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 81.

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 81:
900 Social half an hour.
$3.50 Devotional services, Miss Liccie
Corbin.
9:40 Appointment of committees.
$3.50 Presidents address, Mrs. Ida
Harrison, Vice-President.
1910 Report of State Secretary, Miss
Sue Sublette.
1870 Report of Board Treasurer,
Mrp. o. l. Bradley.
10 40 Report of Organizer, Mrs. Nam
ME Rees.
1910 Report of Mountain Mission,
Prof. w. H. Cord.
III :35 Conference of State and Dis
trict officers.
IL 100 Adjournment.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
200 Devotional exercises, led by Mrs
w. Il. Rivers.
2:I5 Report of Superintendent of chill
dren's work, Mrs. M. o. Evans.
2.30 Children's exercises, Winchester
4 Junior Endeavor.
ZOO Report of District managers.
$3.50 Reports of committees.
3:45 Greeting our missionaries.
A 10 Miscellaneous business.
4:30 Benediction.
TUESDAY NIGHT.
5:30 Song service.
TAO Service in memory of Brother w.
S. Keene, led by Mrs. A. Bourne.
TAO Address, Mrs. j. S. Shouse.
$3.50 Address, Mrs. Louisa Kelley.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE ~.
900 Devotional exercises, led by G.
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The Tallest Volunteer.

The First Arkansas claims to have
the biggest man in the whole volun-
teer army at Chickamauga. He is
Frank Wynne, of Hillsboro, Ark,
private in Company NJ, and stands 6
feet inches in his stocking feet
Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
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maybe was bought at the top.

"That's the reason" said a flour
man on Change, Friday, "that your
50-cent fluctuations in wheat reflected
only to moderate extent in the
prices of -four, and, of course, the cost
of grinding is the same whether
wheat is high or not.-Cincinnsti
Post. ....... .m. ...
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-06-14

Mrs. James Hughes, of New Alba
ny, Ind, has filed suit against her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Sallie Hughes, OF
English, Ind :, for $4,000 for alienat-
ing the affections of her husband,
while he was on his desthbed.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-06-14

1t is great leap from the old-fssh-
toned doses of blue mass and nauseaus
physics to the pleasant little pills
known as DeWitt's Little Early Ris-
ers. They cure constipation, sick
headache and biliousness.
j. B. TIPToN.
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WALL
PAPER

We are headquarters in this line.
We haVSfaWer 1900 bolts on our
racks, and at prices that oar nOrsv
petitors don't try to compete with.
We have a beautiful line at 4, S
and SIC up that will do you good
to look at. Call and see our line
before you buy.
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NlOnlJ JUNE ~
(Led by Mrs. Mamie B. Rees)
z :45 Devotional exercises.
500 Words OF greeting to G. w. B.
NJ, Mrs. Leila Henry.
500 Words OF greeting X. G. M. c.,
II. ID. Clark.
S:15 Response, George Darsie.
$3.50 Our Failure, Miss Mary Cham
bers.
s :35 Our Kentucky Mission Field, P.
II. Duncan.
s AS Blessed are They Who Sow Be-
side Still Waters, Mrs. Howe.
s so Our Fellow ship, f. w. Allen.
800 Adjournment.
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STERLING. KENTUCKY, TUESDAY IL 1885,

A. Thomas.
9:15 Presidents address, v. w. Dor
ris.
8 80 Report of State Board, H. W.
Elliott.
1920 Report of Treasurer, W. G.
Conley.
10 rs Address, e. L. Powell.
IL 90 "General Missions,"C @. Smith
IL 40 "On to Chattanooga M. ID
Club.
IL go Appointment of committees
and announcements.
IL 100 Adjournment.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
2 100 Devotional exercises.
2:l0 Address, "Am I My Brolhera
Keeper" w. S. Irwin.
2:40 "The Orphans Home," r. T
Mathews.
8 20 Reports of committees, nomina-
tions, future work and special mis-
sions.
4 100 Adjournment.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
7:45 Devotional exercises.
z :55 sour Young Preachers and Ken
lucky Missions" r. G.. Frank.
500 "Christ Victorious" B. @. Dem
( ham.
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE q.

THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 20.
9 100 Devotional exercises led by F.
NJ. finder.
9:l5 Report of committees Mission
Schools, Ways and Means, Enroll.
ment and Press.
10 :l5 Returned Missionaries; G. N
Shishmanisn, Mrs. G. N. ShishmAn.
ian and Miss Oldham.
Ills "The Latent Possibilities Of
Christian Endesvor," j. q. Tyler.
IL :55 Announcements a.....
IL 100 Adjournment.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON - SUNDAY
SCHOOL SESSION.
2 100 Devotional exercises.
2 10 Unfinished business.
2: 80 Sunday School and the church
II. N. Reubelt.
2 :55 The Worth and the Wants of the
Modern Sunday School, j. u. Tyler
3 30 Sunday School and State ME,
sions, John S. Shouse.
3 As Miscellaneous.
4 :05 Report of Committee on Obitu.
aries:
4:15 Adjournment.
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Cook Stoves!

See our o. K. JEWELS. Every
back is guaranteed for years
With all other grades you will have
to buy to 2 backs year, Call
and see them; they are beauties.
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Carpets and
MattingS.

We have a few left and they go at
your own price,. Just call in and
take one at about your own price
Profits out OF the question.
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Hardware.

2lbs Nails SC. 4-qt Coffee Pots l Q.
Tin Cups lc each. Brooms 100.
Good Glasses 25c per dozen. Good
Door Lock lSc. Pen knives, four
blades, lOc. 2keQs of Tccks, SC.
boxes OF Carpet Tacks SC.
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Notions.

We have the largest Bath Towels In
the city at and l0c each. VIM
dow Blinds l0c. Lace Curtains 800
Socks and Hose SC q pair. Call and
see us before you buy.
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Kentucky Christian Missionary
Convention at the
CHRISTIAN CHURCH, THIS CITY.
Fifteenth Annual Convention c.
W. B. M.
NIGHT, JUNE 20.

FELLOWSHIP MEETING = MONDAY
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-11

forever. one would think she would De
embarrassed when her eX-husband met
her on the promenade on the arm or his
chum. but the woman who can calmly
listen with plenty OF powder on her
face while her escapades are told IN
court will blush at nothing In fact,
she whispered loud enough for one or
her friends to applaud little speech
as an epigram.
People point out the Vanderbilts,
who, after all, are quiet looking people.
but I think more admiration is given
To Mrs. John Jacob Astor, in her broad
cloth of the new blue, with velvet
toque to match, such as is worn by the
czarina of Russia. She looks very
picture. Her eyes are bright as dia-
monds. and she has that patrician air
which Is found i'm the old families OF
Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Del
aware and Massachusetts.
Then there are innumerable big,
handsome fellows dancing attendance
around pretty little girls and telling OF
the noble deeds that they performed
during the war. According to all ac-
counts, the girls should be walking
around with legless men and with arm
less men, but even If this condition
were reached the clever fellows would
still keep their eyes and so be able to
recognize beauty well dressed. out
come the different horses. Somebody
starts the applause as prize ribbon is
given TO a lovely bay A minute after
there is a handsome trap, driven by a
tall slender chap, who holds the reins
as If he controlled them here as well
as at home. Then come the ponies-the
dear little ponies-the children cheer.
and the pony that gets the prize is
made much Of while his proud owner,
still i'm velvet knickerbockers. feels that
the rest OF the world knows nothing
about training horses.
Now there is fun Here come the
four hands and on one sits the clev-
er but fat driver, whose enormous coat
is only equaled by the large, white
pearl buttons on it, Win? Naturally
he wins. Providence didn't give him
that jolly face not to allow him 10 win
wherever he goes i'm life or with horses.
And around the ring they go. these
beauties. Men and women laugh and
the horses neigh for very delight while
the women smile because they look
beautiful. and the prettiest girl Of all is
wondering what her gown shall be next
year at the horse show. And nobody
knows what IL will be next year. Maybe
the prettiest girl will be a matron and
won't come on for the horse show. but
will stay at her home in Kentucky and
wonder and wonder how IL was she had
such a good time last year
Foolish maiden Years after you will
tell Of this delight to your granddaugh-
ter and you will be describing the dress
YOU wore and you will end the story by
telling Of the beaux who dangled about
you. of the bright lights. Of the gay
dresses and beautiful drapeaux, and
when some golden haired little girl in
quires "Who was your chum?" you will
answer, Bah"
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Delightful Remedy Far worry.

4 famous actress once said. Worry Is
the foe to all beauty" and she might
have added, 1T is also the foe to all
health" Nothing will bring lines and
wrinkles so soon TO face as worry.
There are people who worry over
thing for years. III may be somethGg
they wish they had not done, or Ii may
be something that they long TO do. Toe
thought of IL Is with them the moment
they open their eyes in the morning.
and IL is the last thing they think of
before falling TO sleep. 1t may even
happen that they dream of IT, and very.
very often il will keep them awake for
Hours.
Now, what is the good OF it? VIII
worrying remedy what is past, or will
il bring the future one day nearer? Is
any good TO be obtained by IL at all?
No, IL is not, and you know IL is not.
"But," you say. "the thing is on my
mind. and / can't get rid of it however
try" II can be done, though, If you try
really hard enough. Here is one remedy,
and you must say Ii is a pleasant one.
The instant the worry takes possession
OF you think of some pleasure you have
had at one time of your life. The worry
will try and poke its way in between,
but you must take "A firm hold of IL and
put il out. Recall one pleasure after
another. and as il brings a smile to
your lips and a light to your eyes your
face will slowly but surely assume a
different and very much more pleasant
expression. =
Get into the habit of ponderng over
the pleasant things which happen to
you each day and forget all the nasty
ones. 1t is related of an old lady once
who kept what she called "a pleasure
book" and in it she made a point of
recording each day some pleasure she
had had. "No matter how dull or tire
some the day has been" she said. II
can always manage TO find something
to put in my book" Could you possibly
find better way TO forget your troubles
than by making a note OF all your
pleasures? We are always better for
having been happy, and recalling hap
piness that is over gives one taste Of
it once more.
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the oantons the peasantIy have
household wash oncf year, and once
year only.
The frugal housewife has goodly
coarse store OF linen and such. WherI
sheets and napery and unqervests, etc.
cannot be any longer used unwashedI
they aye thrown into big attic. which,
always tops the dwelling house or thd
barn. once year. i'm the busy summed
time usually. the contents of this soll1
ed linen garner room is eXhumedl
thrown out OF the window. and all thd
women OF the household fall to wash1
ing
: The brides OF Grisons wear gowns OF
black and are crowned with wreaths of
orange flowers, wreaths from which
long trails OF the blossoms must hang
below the brides girdle at least. The
guests. too, wear black, all those at
least who wish or can afford to pay
the bride great honor. Black is an ex-
travagance. because IL so soon shows
soil and rust and dust: hence. To wear
IL is to pay the greatest compliment one
Swiss can pay another. When q Swiss
is extravagant in your honor-well,
ftattery can no further so.
In some cantons the driving OF the
dowry cart from the brides old house
to her new is an important and conse-
nuential function. as ii or some analo-
gous custom is i'm so many. many parts
OF the world. A. N.
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ML
Don, snub the Lit,ic ones.

There are households i'm which the
children are scarcely permitted 10
speak above their breath. This Is not at
all right. In the home there should be
freedom Of speech. Children should be
encouraged Co express, i'm n modest
way, their opinions before their parents
and 60 come TO them for advice and
counsel I'm all their difficulties and di-
iemmas. III this course Is pursued, they
will not be likely Go take any serious
steps I'm after life without either con-
sulting the old folks at home or apply
ing the home standard OF propriety 10
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QUEER WOOINGS
N SWITZERLAND.

like work than is their industrious
wont. for both have been up even lit
tie earlier than is their habit. They
must part sharply now and each OF to
work. They will meet later at their
frugal IL o'clock dinner of apple brandy
and pulse soup.
Perhaps there are fewer love mar
rlages among the peasants of Valais
than i'm any other part of Europe. on
ly one brother or one sister of each
family is allowed To marry, that the
scant family patrimony may never be
diminished. family council. after
grave and long cold blooded considera-
ton. decides which brother or sister
shall wed--perpetuate the blood, ana
hand down the meager wealth. For
more than one 10 wed. for inclination 10
come flouncing in and take risks, would
be improvdent, and there is no improv-
idence i'm Canton Valais.
They even gamble as they wed and
woo, these dumb. numb Swiss stoics-
that is, without expense and when they
have nothing better q. e., more finan-
cially' profitable) 10 do, They are as
prudent-oh, sosprudent.-in their gam
ings as i'm their marryings. Card play
ing is both an amusement and an occu-
patton of their dull winters. chiefly so
perhaps at Zermatt, but TO no small ex-
tent all over the republic. They do not
play for money, nor for tangible goods
/ or chattels. That would be most un-
| Swiss They play for prayers. The day
] after the play all the losers must go TO
] their village church and pray earnestly
! for the souls of those who have won.
! All. there is a humorous side TO life as
| we queer humans live it, even in swift
! zerland
Wedding gifts are few and far be-
| tween in Switzerland, il almost goes
without saying. But in about half the
cantons the bridegroom is expected 10
! bestow largess To the eXtravagant ex-
/ tent OF one pair OF new shoes. In some
cantons il is the chief bridesmaid who
is overwhelmed with this great bounty,
in others it is the groomsman who is Sc
/, enriched And bridegrooms have been
known to give two pairs OF shoes-one
to the attendant maiden, one to the
| groomsman. In those cantons where
| marriages are not unattended 10y
function and merrymaking each guest
usually receives "A handkerchief Red
the oriental bridal red. is usually their
| color. Bride or groom provides the
| stuff, and the brides girl friends sew
| them.
The brides wedding dress-if she have
one, which happens about one time in
three-is somber garment. The Swiss
make but little use of color. especially
the women. The men sometimes paint
their houses gayly. The women are
rarely gayly dressed. except in the col
ored photographs which are sold tC
travellers. Swiss women. old and young
almost invariably in selecting garments
choose first those that will wear well
and secondly those that will least fire.
quently require washing. In many oi
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China's superauous Girls.

Consul $. l.. Gracey of Fuchau, Chi-
ma, went last summer on an official vis-
it in the interior. While at Kucheng he
looked into some of the missionary op-
erations, and in a letter he wrote:
I'VE attended several Sunday serv-
ices, of large congregations and very
interesting exercises. At Miss Hart
ford's womans school / spoke to about
20 of her women. who are preparing for
Bible work. All were married, although
many OF them were between the ages of
- and IL. and very many of these had
their babes with them. At the English
mission / saw a very interesting sight.
We were taken into a large room. and
while standing there so little girls came
in at different doors, and all came tod
ding up to us and chinchinned and
tried TO say 'Bingung,' which is n
Christian salutation, meaning Peace be
with you Many OF them were under 2
years old, and none OF them over 5.
Every one of them had been picked out
of the river or watts or tubs Of water, in
which they were being drowned by
their fathers and mothers. as so many
superhuous kittens might be drowned
in the United States. It made us very
sad as well as very glad-glad that so
many precious little waits had been
rescued. bat very sad when we thought
of the thousands who are every year
disposed of by cruel parents. simply be-
cause there Is no room for another girl
baby i'm the family circle