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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11
Extracts and Thoughts Prom Gov
Bradley's Message.

On last Tuesday morning Gov.
Bradley's message was sent TO the
General assembly. We give some Of
tb most important matters con-
sidered:
States Bonded Dsbt $3,483, 800 Sc
Floating Debt past due 1862, 1875 33
Total Indebtedness 5,046, H6.l9
Sinking Fund Resources 5S6,6l2 u
Balance of Indebtedness 4,459, 503.47
The State has $500, 0c0 in pike stock
which is valued at 100000 because
of the spirit of lawlessness which pre-
walls and SO estimated in the resources
above. He laments the prevalence
of the mob spirit, and especially scores
the officials of Hancock county who
failed, to punish the lnychers of the
negro Bushrod who was hanged by
uBNjasked men in daylight at Halves
vile. He recommends more stringent
punishment for attempted rape giving
the jury the power to inflict the death
penalty where injury is inflicted upon
the victim.
He has much to say about toll-gate
raiders, and condemns the spirit of
lswlessuess. He again recommends the
passage of law giving damages 10
the relatives of the victim of mobe.
He says: II recommend that the Chief
Executive OF the State be empowered
to place troops at the gates with the
right to collect tolls and account to
the proper authority, TO be retained
IN duty by him as long as he thinks
necessary. 1t is unjust that counties
which are at peace should be COM
PEELED to assist in paving for State
troops SO employed. In every instance
where they have been or may be so
employed the county whore they have
acted should be compelled to bear the
burden. This may be said to be
severe and costly remedy, but it is
better by far than the prevalence of
anarchy"
He also bitterly arraigns peace off,
GERS, charging that they have been in
sympathy with raiders.
''If this spirit of lawlessness is not
stamped out the day is not far distant
when the State will be completely
under the CONTROL of swashbucklers
A.nd, hish..7Sy robbers, who will rob,
murder and steal at will"
He recommends the adjustment of
the Bureau of Agriculture and Regis
ter of Land Office and advises that
the Office of Jailer be consolidated
with that of Sheriff. and appointment
of non-partisan board to control
prisons aud charitable institutions is
also recommended. The Separate
Coach Law he declared unjust and
its repeal warmly advocated. lie
also calls for prohibition of sale of
cigaretts and cigsrett papers.
Recommends additional legislation
for Houses of Reform relief for Court
OF Appeals; more stingent regula-
tons for punishment of election frauds
and many minor matters.
1t recommends that the law be
changed SO that cases involving less
kshan $500 he not allowed to go before
!siys Court of Appeals. A tax Of one
half of cent is recommended to be
levied for the state guard.
Perhaps the most exhausting drain
on the Treasury is criminal expendi-
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

By shaking the eggs of the COM
mon pike double monsters may be
produced, and Mr.. J. A. Ryder has
given good reasons for concluding
that the double goldfish of the Jap
anese, some of which have two
heads, others two tails, were erig-
inally produced in this way and fix
cd by artificial selection.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

A German authority states that
from the mouth to the source of the
Rhine 735 castles, formerly the
homes of warlike chiefs, are to be
found overlooking it's waters.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

Joe r. Williams, for several years
editor of the Midway Clipper, sold
his paper to j. o. Cooper, recently
editor of the Henry County Local, and
w. E. Railey, ex-postmaster of Mid
way.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

Bellows are used as a burglar
alarm, the opening OF the door clos
ing the bellows and forcing air
through a pipe to a whistle.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

Rev. B. B. Bailey is holding a
meeting with the Baptist church.
Large crowds are in attendance
and the meeting begins with fiat
tering prospects of success.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

Pious Russians do not eat pigeons
because of the sanctity conferred on
the dove in the Scriptures.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

Take dinner next Monday Court
day. with the women Of the Christian
church.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

Wright's Celery Tea cures constipa,
ton. sick headaches. 25c at druggists
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

Go and get good dinner at the
opera House building next Monday.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

ties, strange events, wonderful occur
rences, heroic deeds and unparalleled
wars.-Church Advocate.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11
HOWARD,S MILL.

w. S. Henry spent Saturday and
Sunday with his son in Lexington.
Miss Emily Turner has gone to Lex
ington to attend the State College.
Miss Taylor Lane is very sick at
her mother's,n ear here.
1t is whispered there is to be we'd
ding in our village soon.
The Misses May entertained at their
home Friday night.
Mrs. Frank Brown entertained q
crowd of young people Thursday
night.
The Misses Stout entertained at
their home Thursday night. A pleas
ant time was had and an elegant sup
per was served.
Mics Martha Dennis spent Saturday
and Sunday with her sister and
brother at this place,
Miss Annie Wells has returned home
to spend the winter.
Mr.. r. @, Elliott, of Floyd county,
spent few days with his mother-in-
law, Mrs. N. III. Wells, at this place.
Brother Tinsley, of Owingsville,
preached at Union church Saturday
night and Sunday.
Rev. j w. Bowlin preached an
interesting sermon here Sunday.
GRASSY LICK.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Teagardner, of
Thompson, were visiting the family
of VIM. Dean last week.
Mrs. Jas. #. Mason and son, Paul,
are visiting relatives in Lexington.
Miss Mamie Donovan is visiting
the family OF r. A. Mason In Bourbon.
j. D. Gay, of Clark county, is Wis.,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

indiscriminafsuse of the knife. Read
lug of the 4 ay cures made by S. S.
s., ] determined to give that medicine
Aria1, and after had taken it few
US, the cancer became irritated and
, Sgan to discharge. This after awhile
ceased, leaving small scab, which
finally dropped off, and only healthy
little scar remained to mark the place
where the destroyer had held full sway.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11

size OF a small pea.
Itgrew rapidly,and
shooting pains ran
in every direction.
I became alarmed
and con $ ute d a
good doctor, who
pronounced it can
.cer, and said that il
'm.st be cut out.
This / would not
consent to, having
little faith in the
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-01-11
Too
Much Knife!

The use of the surgeons knife is be-
coming SO general, resulting fatally
in such large number of cases, as to
occasion general alarm.
Mr. William Walpole, of Wa1shtown,
south Dakota, writes; "a BIO II
three years ag o, there came under
my left eye little blotch about the
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

est literary flights are found. His enthu-
siasm finds expression thus: From the re-
pulsive and prescribed nuisance of antiquity,
tolerated but despised, under the ban of
many religions, descended through the saw
age, predatory hordes of old-world forests
and Jungles, the hog has become not only
amenable to civilization, but, under the mol
lifying influence of Indian corn and sur
roundings salubrious and peaceful, he is in
America debt payer, mortgage remover,
a promoter of progress, and buttress of
prosperity. Here is unquestionably the re-
gion of his highest development"
The writer does not forget the relation
between his State and this useful animal.
There is he says, probably no other ter
ritory of the same area as Kansas where
the conditions of climate, soil, food and care
are more congenial to the hogs health and
wholesome development, and he is nowhere
found so developed except among a high
order of people. High-class swine are un-
known and impossible among low-class peo-
ple"
After some formidable figures going to
show that Kansas has more and fatter hogs
than all New England and fifteen States
and Territories added Qndiana not in
cluded however), he concludes with this
burst Of eloquence: I'm Kansas he finds the
favored zone-his FL Dorado. Here he at
tains the qualities which make his flesh
delicacy sought of epicures in Occident and
Orient, no less than a fit and staple ration
for men of heroic undertakings, iron nerve,
and cool brain, like those who at Manila
and Santiago fired the unerring shots that
wrenched loose the props of a throne,
vised the worlds map, and replaced tyran-
nys flag with Old Glory -
The pamphlet seems to contain all the in
formation that any learner can possibly
need concerning this great American insti-
tuition the hog, and the heart of the prop
erly patriotic reader must swell with pride
in reading about him, but it is plainly evil
dent that in Kansas this pride is of an in
tensity beside which the Indiana feeling in
regard to its own hog crop is but feeble
and Intellectual. This tribute to the real and
the ideal is very affecting.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23
PRECAUTIONS ON THE MAINE.
Capt. Sigsbee Says that Every Care
Was Taken of the Vessel at Havana.

Was Taken of the Vessel at Havana.
Captain Sigsbee's Personal Narrative of
the Maine" begins in the November Cen
tury. Captain Sigsbee says of his efforts to
guard the vessel when she lay in Havana
harbor:
Every precaution that could be taken
against injury or treachery was taken on
board the Maine, so far as could be per-
mitted under the restrictions of my orders
requiring me to make friendly visit. If
one, when dining with friend at his home,
were to test the dishes for poison, he would
not be making a friendly visit. The harbor
could not be dragged without giving of
fense it could not be patrolled by our own
picket boats at night, nor could the search
lights be kept going; but every internal
precaution was exercised that the situation
suggested. There were sentries on the fore
castle and poop, quartermaSter and signal
boy on the bridge, and a second signal boy
on the poop, all of whom were charged with
the necessity for a careful lookout. The
corporal of the guard was specially in
structed as to the port gangway and the
officer of the deck and the quartermaSter
as to the starboard gangway.
Instead of the usual anchor watch, a
quarter watch was kept on deck at night.
The sentries were supplied with ammuni-
ton; a number of rounds of rapid-tire am
munition were kept in the pilot house and
in the spare captains pantry inside the
after-superStructure. An additional supply
of shells was kept at hand for the six-1nch
pletely to work the hydraulic mechanism Of
the turrets, steam was kept up on two boil
ers instead of one; special instructions were
given to watch all the details OF the n.y.
draulic gear and to report defects. The Off
Ger of the deck was charged by me to make
detailed reports, even in minor matters,
acting on the suspicion that we might be
in an unfriendly harbor. personally in
structed the master-at-arms and the order
ly sergeant to keep a careful eye on every
visitor that came on board, and to charge
their own subordinates to the same pur-
pose. / instructed them to follow visitors
about at a proper distance whenever the
ship was visited below; they were carefully
to watch for any packages that might be
laid down or left by visitors, on the suppo-
sition that dynamite or other high explo-
sve might be used. They were also required
to inspect the routes over which visitors
had passed. The officer in charge of the
marine guard was required to make at
least two visits during the night to the
various posts of the vessel. The purport OF
my own orders and instructions was that
we should consider the Maine in a position
demanding extreme vigilance. and requiring
a well-sustained routine both by day and
by night.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Miss Amy Hay, daughter of the secretary
of state, has for some years been her
fathers constant helper in his literary work.
rewriting and correcting proofs for him.
The ex-Regent of Holland objects serious
ly to the term queen dowager. Her daughter
has, therefore, issued a royal decree order
ing that she be henceforth known as Queen
Emma of the Netherlands.
On the cover of a prairie wagon which
passed through Manhattan. Kan. the other
day was painted this notice: mot bound
for Missouri. Not busted. Not going to
wife's folks. Just doing this to beat the rail-
roads.
Admiral Sampson owns farm near Pal
mMra, N. Y, on which Joseph Smith, the
founder of Mormonism. was said to have
dug up the golden plates on which the Book
of Mormon was inscribed. The Latter Day
Saints tried to buy the ground in 1893, but
the admiral refused to sell.
On the eve of Harvards triumph over
Yale there died at the former college a man
whose death cast a gloom over the whole
university. This was John Milton Kullmer,
1862 who worked by day and prepared him.
self for Harvard by night; worked his way
East from his home in Great Falls. Mont,
in 96. and secured a position in Boston
whereby he paid his college expenses.
A simple and often efficient remedy for a
throat cold is to cut a porous plaster into
three pieces, applying one piece lengthwise
TO the throat just below where the collar
fastens, and letting it extend down on to the
chest When the plaster roughens and
loosens a little after day two. put on a
fresh piece until the whole has been applied.
This is particularly useful in the case Of
children with hoarse colds that are not ac-
companied by fever. The application of the
plaster will frequently control the attack
and prevent further development.
When Mr.. Spurgeon first began his min
istry an anonymous critic used to write to
him constantly about his mistakes in gram
mar and pronunciation. Mr.. Spurgeon at
first resented these criticisms, but he soon
he said in telling the story, II looked for
his weekly memoranda with much interest.
If L repeated a sentence which / had used
two or three Sundays before he would
write: See the same expression in such
and such a sermon. Mr.. Spurgeon, like
everybody else, had his pet quotation, and
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23
A Kansas tribute to the Hoe.

The Kansas State Board of Agriculture
has issued brochure on the hog which has
a literary as well as a porcine attractive
ness. The cover bears portrait of a ma
tronly and aristocratic member of the swine
family, surrounded by numerous progeny,
which alone holds the fascinated gaze of the
expectant reader of the work. Also on the
cover and printed in red ink is this elo-
quent and poetic tribute to the charms of
the hog: ''Vegetarians have inveighed
against eating pork and theologians have
pointed TO the warnings of Moses and the
sad fate that befell the swine of Gadara
but he has hardihood indeed who can in
Weigh with sincerity and real earnestness
against the juicy ham or delicate side meat
of a well-bred hog reared on alfalfa, the
blossoms of clover. the sweet skim milk
from tho dairy. and finished on the product
of a Kansas cornfeld."
But It is in the introduction. contributed
by the secretary OF the board, that the high
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

Our fellow citizens of foreign birth some
times criticise American interference with
personal rights, but the authorities of no
American city ever went as far as those of
Vienna recently did. For some time past
the police of that city have been raiding
hotels and cafes where the American game
of poker was played. Having broken up
public games they turned their attention
to private ones, and few nights ago de-
tectives and patrolmen detailed throughout
the city arrested two hundred persons who
were playing poker in the parlors of private
residences. The next morning they were
fined and threatened with Imprisonment if
the offense were repeated. For those who
like that kind of government it is probably
just about what they like.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

General Longstreets advocacy of double
track railroad from Kansas City to San
Diego, Cal, to be constructed and operated
by the government, has an interesting phase.
The proposition is not likely to meet with
favor, as we are committed, whether wisely
or not is not certain, against the policy of
government control of railways but it is
remarkable coming from a man of Gen
eral Longstreet's age and one who, thirty
odd years ago, was one of the best fighters
in the army that was trying to destroy the
Union. General Longstreet is nearly sew
man of that age concerns himself with an
enterprise of such pith and moment as the
construction of transcontinental railroad
and offers in its support arguments of such
wide and patriotic sweep as those advanced
by General Longstreet. No person has seen
more clearly or presented more forcibly than
he does the enormous growth of our Eastern
trade that is likely to occur during the next
few years, and the Importance of bringing
the Mississippi valley in closer connection
with the Pacific coast. A government rail-
road such as he suggests might be a potent
factor not only in promoting commerce, but
in regulating transcontinental freights For
the reason stated above the project is not
likely to materialize, but General Long
streets broad and patriotic argument in
favor of 1t shows that he is a good deal of
4 Grand old man.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23
A Judges Mistake.
Washington Post.

v L
Whenever man has a cinch on a good
fat office worth $4,000 a year it seems to
me he is very foolish to let go of it on the
mere chance of getting something a little
higher up the scale" observed Mr.. T. Y.
Gregory, of New York. This is what Judge
Augustus Van Wyck did. and the chances
are that he has been sorry for it more than
once since the Sth of the current month
Had he declined to be a candidate for Gov
ernor he would have been elected to the
Supreme bench for fourteen years at $4,000
a year an Office that would have brought
him revenue enough to suffice for the bal
ance of his days. The Judge couldn't do as
did another wearer of the judicial title liv-
ing in Brooklyn, and presiding over a sort
of police court. He in for a long term.
and. though drawing only the modest per
annum of $500, absolutely refused to resign
his office on being nominated for a place on
the State Supreme bench.
I've got this one he said. and guess
I'll not let go till after the election. It'll be
time enough then to resign in case the ticket
wins out Well. he won the higher judge
ship. all right. but his shrewdness in put
ting himself in position not to lose what
ever happened was commemdable."
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

those who need the gift of Thanksgiving
dinner or of warm garment are inmates
of public institutions. Such persons may be
ones neighbors in very literal sense, liv-
ing in the nearest alley or an adjacent
street. The poor we have always with US.
even as in scriptural times, but, being self
poverty is not always put in evidence, and
it is worth while, in the season of festivity
when all should share the good cheer. to
keen a sharn lookout for il
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

After all that has been said regarding
General Skaters alleged relationship with
Secretary Alger as a Michigan man and his
supposed pull on that account it is some
what OF a surprise to learn that Shafter
was selected for the Santiago campaign on
the recommendation of General Miles and
that up to the time of his appointment the
secretary Of war had scarcely any per-
sonal acquaintance with him. When asked
&c recommend some one for the position
General Miles. after due deliberation, is said
to have named General Shafter, of whom he
said: He is fighter. He is a good man
for a short rough-and-tumble campaign as
this Santiago movement is likely to be. He
has seen hard service in the West. and IS
fitted for such kind of work" General
shafter certainly justified that recommended
tion The only defect in his management
of the Santiago campaign that has been
shown, If that was a defect, was his failure
70 land sufficient supplies, tentage and hos
pitGl stores and TO have done that might
have interfered with his plan of making a
rushing campaign 1t was the rush that
won, and nobody knows what might have
happened if the campaign had been con-
Quoted with strict regard for military
science. But the curious point in the case
IS that shafter was General Miles's selec-
ton. and not Secretary Algers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

There are crusades and crusades Some,
like the one in behalf of Cuba's freedom,
arouse enthusiasm and thrill the popular
heart. Some are of another sort-that seek
ing to do away with public splitting, for in
stance. 1t is a good cause, this latter, and
every one Of refined feeling will wish it
speedy success, but, alas success looks so
far and to be attained only through travel
over such an unpleasant road that one won
ders at the courage of those who undertake
to win 1t. They need the spirit of the re-
former in its strongest form.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

When Admiral Sampson appeared at a
fete given in Havana few days ago for the
benefit of the Cuban army. crowd of twen-
ty thousand people greeted him with pro-
longed cheers, Spanish bands played Ameri-
can airs and a number of beautiful Cuban
of flowers. Such incidents as this show a
steady improvement of feeling among our
late enemies
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23
A correspondent of the Journal writing in

A correspondent of the Journal writing in
favor Of reform in local government pre-
scented n new argument in the following:
Exorbitant allowances made for prosecu-
tiOn or defense of pauper criminals is one
OF the official abuses which should be
smltten with a strong hand. Allowances
made in the settlement of estates, assign
ments receivershps etc, are also frequent
~ disgraceful to courts and attorneys. A
man who feels that he has been legally or
officially robbed is generally ever after
bad citizen, if not an actual Anarchist.
The class of cases cited constitutes one
OF the official scandals of which people are
very tired. Legalized robbery is the worst
kind, for the very reason that it is done
under color of law. and therefore begets
hatred or contempt of law. The number of
those who can and do enjoy the emoluments
Of office is so small compared with the num-
Der who do not. that the great majority are
apt to conceive hatred of a system that
gives a small minority the right to feather
their nests at public expense. The remedy
for this is strictly honest and economical
government.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

When the Pennsylvania National Guard
enlisted almost as body in the volunteer
army new Provisional Guard was or
ganized to take their place as q state militia.
The war being ended the Governor has is
sued an order which virtually wipes out the
Provisional Guard as fast as the old Ma
tional Guard commands are mustered out
TO resume their former places. The effect
IS to reinstate the National Guard, which
was the best drilled and most soldierly-
locking militia of any State in the Union.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23
Funds OF the National Grange.

CONCORD. N. H.. Nov 22.-At the busl-
ness session OF the National Grange to-day
s. II Messick. of Delaware. was elected a
member of the executive committee for
three years. II was voted TO hold the next
annual meeting in ONO. the city to be se-
lected later. The statement of the finance
committee showed that invested funds OF
the order amount to $53134. The expendi-
lures for the year were $4,000.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-23

A man who lived in one of the poorer Sec
tons of a neighboring State once remarked
while standing on a high and barren hill
and looking at the surrounding country:
"Gosh How pore man'd be eff he had all
the lam he kin see!'' This sage remark is
respectfully laid before the enthusiastic adj
vocates of Philippine annexation for prayer
full thought.