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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-12-06
A Natural Fog Horn.

At the Farallones the erosive agents
have worked with queer caprice. This
rock, being granite, has been acted upon
by the sea at all levels and throughout
the long period when it has been rising
out Of the watery depths Through a
long narrow hole, slanting and oommu-
nicating with the ocean, there comes at
intervals terrific stream of air, forced
by the spasmodio heaving of the waves
against the lower orifoe The govern
meDt, which uRes this island for light
house purposes, inclosed the upper end
with the nozzle Of fog horn, and every
few seconds there was blown an ear
splitting brawl, which was heard far
out at sea and above the din of the
breaking rollers.
1t was allowed to roar only in foggy
weather, but it was eccentric in that it
would only sound at high tide. When
the tide was low, although the weather
might be very thick, the thing was ST.
lent. For lack of its warning a ship
went ashore upon the island rocks, and
then it was that the government aban-
doned its location on the wind hole and
erected steam siren or mechanical fog
horn, which has since very faithfully
performed the necessary service. Sour
Seaboard Islands on the Pacific" by
John e. Bennett, in Harper's Magazine.
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Pathetic Scene.

The minstrel man lay dying. He
called his eldest son to his bedside and
said:
my boy, l cannot leave You any
money; have spent that as fast as
made it. But you shall inherit the
heirloom that l received from my ia
ther 1t will make you a living; it
made his and it made mine"
Then, laying in the hand Of the
young man the worn and stained joke
book, he breathed his last.-mdian-
apolis Journal
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CAREFUL GREEK PARENTS.
Boys We're Escorted 90 school Just
nu Giris Arc Now.

| nn Girls Arc Vow.
The extraordinary care shat the Gre
clan boy received in bis formative years
made his moral training more effective
than that inoulcated by the most careful
Of modern parents. His general educa-
tion, coupled with skilful and continu-
GUS physical instruction, produced a
moral cultivation very similar and fully
as strict as that the Christian father
deems necessary for his daughters.
A pedagogue, generally an old and
trusted slave, led the boys to school and
called for them after 1t closed, carried
the books, looked out for the little boys,
kept the older ones from fighting and
falling into bad company and had
general oversight Of their conduct and
street form. He was by no means
sohoolmaster or even private tutor, not
even being allowed to enter the school
room. Oftentimes ignorant In the ex-
trenIe, he was chosen simply because of
his loyalty to the family and some
times, l fear, because he was unfit for
any other occupation. Though the butt
of the boys ridicule as well as that of
the comic poets and low wits of the day,
he did an incalculable service in prevent
ing vicious companionshipsa and keeping
pure the minds of those intrusted to his
charge.
The child was never sent Off to board.
ing school. but boys attended the day
school; town life prevailed. Besides,
thatsentiment that zealously guarded
the boys purity with a pedadogue from
his sixth TO his sixteenth year could
brook no intermission of personal over
sight Education was essentially pri-
vate, the state having jurisdiction SIM
ply over the moral and not the profess
sional standing Of the teacher. --Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
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Aluminium ~ Pnner.

Experiments with aluminium as O
substitute for paper are now under way
in France. 1t is well known that the
paper used today in the manufacture of
books is not durable.
1t is now possible to roll aluminium
into sheets four.thousandths Of an inch
in thickness, in which form it weighs
less than paper. BY the adoption of
suitable machinery these sheets can be
made even thinner still and can be used
for book and writing paper. The metal
will not oxidize, is practically fire and
water proof, and is indestructible by
the jaws of worms.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-12-06

The big concern, the American To.
bscco Company, through its agents
Chas. B. Stuart, last Friday, made its
first purchase in this county, when ii
bought the tobacco crop, about 25,-
600 pounds, of Ben H. Bramlett. The
price paid for fine grades, leaf, trash,
Jugs, long and short red, was $3.50
per cwt., and for flyings and tips,
which will amount to about one-sixth
of the crop, So per cwt.-Wincheste
Sun.
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TONS AND TONS OF GOLD.
Twelve Hundred Miles OF Hinormous-
IL Rich TERRITORY.

~ htch TerritOrys
II pin be placed at Denver on the
map, and another at Stockton. GAL,
and string be drawn from one TO the
other, an air line will be marked pass
ing through the heart Of wonderful
gold territory. Slightly 10 the north Of
Denve,s In Central City, and southwest
of that city Is Cripple Greek. About 80
miles to the north of the string Lead
Vile will be found. In the southwest
corner of Colorado will appear Tellu-
ride, Rico and other points where gold
is mined. MarysvaIe, in Utah, almost
due south of Salt Lake City, will ap-
pear to the south of the string. Fifty
miles to the north Of it, near the line
between Utah and Nevada, will appear
Osceola. Deep Creek lies north of Osoe-
ola and on the southern edge of the
great desert west Of Salt lake. Detroit
and several other rich gold camps are
almost due east of Osoeola. Phoebe lies
100 miles south of the string, and the
wonderfully rich gold territory of the
Monkey Wrench district lies southwest
of Phoebe.
Now, north and south of the string
will appear dotted on the map of Neva.
da the gold camps of Grant, Freiburg,
Reveille, Kawich Valley, San Antonio,
Gold Peak, Hot Springs, Belleville,
Candelara aud numerous others. AL
most under the string, in California, we
find Bodie, and to the north of 1t Mar.
kleville and other points--all on the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada
mountains On the western slope of the
great sierras the string will be almost
ON the Utica mine, which is located be-
tween San Andreas and Sonora North
and south of the Utica mine are hun
dreds of rich gold mines in profitable
operation.
The distance from Denver to Stock
ton is about /, 200 miles. On no portion
of the habitable globe is there region
so continuously and enormously rich in
gold as the territory described, and yet,
this fact, the progress
i've Yankee has scarcely made start in
opening and developing these riches,
which have been entombed for millions |
of years, and which will remain so
until we awaken to an ap-
probation of the fact that the states of |
Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California |
bear within their bosoms more wealth |
than ever was dreamed of by Croesus. -
Forum
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All night long the ceaseless, muified
beating Of the medicine tomtom had
come 10 as across the hos, barren,
alkali fats; all night long the dismal
wailing of the bereaved squaws and the
lonesome howl OF abe masterless dog,
crying like lost spirits. had come to US
out of the darkness, plaintive and weird I;
all night long we had rolled and tossed
on our blankets, spread upon the broad
breast OF mother earth, underneath the
client, watchful stars, aud now, as the
first pink blush Of breaking morn be-
gan to revolve out of infnity into a
newborn day, we rose, unrefreshed and
weary.
A blood red sun thrust his scorohing
rays across the rugged peaks Of the
Book plateau. All nature seemed adame,
and as our tired, aching eyes sought
what rest there could be found in the
dingy green of the few scrub cedars
that marked the single variation to the
otherwise unbroken glare of Wilderness
a strange, sad procession emerged from
them and wendell its way toward us.
AS it approached we could see the cor
tege plainly There were the patient,
sad eyed women, their faces blaokened
by charcoal, their hair disheveled, their
garments rent and covered with ashes.
There were the favorite dog and horse
of the dead warrior, the latter fully
equipped, as though ready for Jour
ney, and so he was. There was the
corpse itself, borne, all bedeoked and
enshrouded, to its last earthly resting
place. -Lippincott's.
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FAKE "FENcEs."
A Little Trick That Is Worked In
Baxter street.

A Little Trick That Is Worked In
Baxter street.
"There was time and that not so
very long ago, remarked an old time
puller in, when almost every other
store in Baxter street was fence, or
pretended TO be, in order to give custom.
ers the idea that they were getting good
bargains. The clerk who took hesitat.
ing customer aside and whispered
fence was generally sure of sale.
There are no genuine fences in Baxter
street now, because clothing, shoes and
hats are SO cheap, but some of the stores
still pretend to sell stolen goods.
"When customer in one of these
stores has looked every thing over in the
shop and hasn't made purchase, the
salesman tells him that he has little
fence down stairs and urges upon him
the necessity of keeping it quiet on &C.
count of the police. OF course the GUS
toner won't say word. So down stairs
they go to the alleged fence, which gen.
orally proves to be big trunk packed
with goods
"While showing the contents of the
trunk the salesman keeps up a running
yarn about the famous criminals who
brought the goods to the store.
"Finally, after showing lot of stuff
of the same quality and pattern the
customer refused to hay up stairs. the
salesman gets him to sry ON something,
and as quality, workmanship and per-
feet fit always go with fence goods,
there is sale made. This fake fence
answers sale purposes as well as the
genuine, " concluded the puiler in, "and
there is no risk attached to it. New
York Sun.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-12-06
DECAPITATION.
Life Said to Remain Long After the
Head Is Severed

Life Said to Remain Long After the
Head Is Severed.
"The executions in Paris during re-
cent years have revived the old question
whether death instantaneously follows
upon the severance of the head from
the body" says the Massachusetts Med
ical Journal. CDR. Cinel asserts that
decapitation does not Immediately affect
the brain. He says that the blood which
flows after decapitation comes from the
large vessels of the neck, and there is
hardly any call upon the circulation of
the Uranium. The brain remains intact,
nourishing itself with the blood retained
by the pressure of the air.
when the blood remaining in the
head at the moment of separation is ex-
hausted, there commences state, not
of death, but of inertia, which lasts up
to the moment when the organ, no
longer fed, ceases to exist DR.. Cinel
estimates that the brain finds nourish-
ment in the residuary blood for about
an hour after decapitation. The period
of inertia would last for about two
hours, he thinks and absolute death
would not ensue till after the space of
three hours altogether.
"If, he adds, bodiless head indicates
by no movement the horrors Of its stu
alton, it is because it is physically i'm
possible that it should do 80, all the
nerves-which serve for the transmits
sion of orders Eom the brain to the trunk
being severed; but there remains the
nerves of hearing, of smell and sight,
and he concludes that the guillotine does
not cause instant death. If this be true,
could any other form of death be more
meroiless?"
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No Rest.

A comedy scene followed the third
act of tragedy at theater in an Eng
lish provincial town. The villain had
met his death; and the curtain was low
cred, but hung suspended three feet
above the stage. All efforts to lower it
proved unavailing until the corpse arose
from the stage, and said, in sepulohraI
tones, as he dragged down the curtain,
"No rest, even in the g-r.r-r-avep'-
London Fun.
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EnectiYe nenectinr.

sit is so suddenp' exclaimed the fail
haired girl, who had just received Q
proposal to merge her identity in tina,
OF a would be protector. "You mus,
give me time to reflect.
"No, no." retorted the diplomatic
young man. "One whose dazzling
beauty makes mirror ashamed Of
itself should never 60 into the reflect
ing business. Let this solitaire diamond
do the rejecting"
And the records Of the license clerl,
show that "A was even so.--Chioago
News
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For ale.

Farm of so acres near Bethel KY,
on good turnpike road. This farm has
on it comfortable dwelling of five
rooms, good stable and outbuildings
tirst-class land, all in grass except
acres; plenty of good tobacco land.
This place will be sold at a bargain
for cash and on long time. For full
particulars address
W. e. CASSIDY, Agt.,
10 ct Lexington, Ky.
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duylHlUR ABOUT.
Why throw obstacles in the way of its de-
fence? Its own means are superior to all
the apparatus of your laboratories Medi-
clre IS collection of uncertain DresCTip-
tons, the results of which, taken collect
lively, have been harmful to mankind.
water, air and cleanliness are my chief
medicines"
AT the .ime when Napoleon said this he
was largely right. Physicians in those days
dealt out obnoxious and drastic drugs
that did violence to every fiber in the body.
Since that date medical science has made
wonderful strides. DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is medicine composed
of native medicinal roots that do no vio-
lence to nature. Its action is gentle and
natural. 1t simply promotes the natural
processes of secretion and excretion. It
restores the lost appetite, corrects all dis
orders of the digestion, makes the assimi-
lation of the food perfect, invigorates the
liver, purihes and enriChes the blood,
builds new and healthy flesh tissue, tones
the nerves and gives sweet and refreshing
sleep. 1t is the great blood-maker and
hesh-builder. It cures % per cent. of all
cases of all diseases of the air passages that
lead mp to consumption. 1t is wonderful
medicine for all diseases due to insufficient
or improper nourishment of body or nerves.
Do not deal with INSCRIPTIONS dealers who
urge you to take worthless substitutes for
the sake of few pennies added profit.
az have been using DR.. Pierce's Golden Ned
icai Discovery and pleasant Pellets for the
past three years and they have saved my life"
RocIbridge Co, Va. II now keep the 'Peilets
In my house all the time and use them every
time feel the need of laxative am fifty
three years old and was troubled with liver COM
piaint until I used your medicine. Now am
we'll"
Every sick man or woman should send
NJ one-cent stamps to DIR. r. v. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. T., to pay the cost of mailing
1000 page Common Sense Medical Adviser;
or 81 stamps for heavy cloth.bound copy.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at
home. Once we'll at home, how will
it radiate outwards, irrepressible, into
all that we touch and handle, speak
and work {; kindling every new light
by incalculable contagion, spreading
in geometric ratio, far and wide, do
ing good only wherever it spreads,
and not evil.-CarlVle.
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A bad HyeaIx.

"That florist is singularly inept."
"How so?'
when Pleader, the lawyer, died, his
friends ordered something appropriate
sent, and the dolt sent floral Tyre. -
Philadelphia North American.
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"Our whole neighborbood has been
stirred up" said the regular reader.
The editor of the country weekly
seized his pen. "Tell me all about it,"
he said. What we want is the
news. What stirred it up?"
"PloWing," said the farmer.-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
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Bamboo grows very thriftily in Cali.
fornia bottom lands, and is found to be
very useful plant. The seed of many
species resembles rice. and is almost as
valuable for feed. The stock may be
used in the building Of bridges, fences
and barns and in the manufacture of
water pipes. furniture and boxes.
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~ DIR. cALDWELL'S mn
>YRUP PEPSIN
~ CURES INDIGESTION. Nv

Reformation is a work of time. A
national taste, however wrong it may
be, cannot be totally changed at once.
Sir j. REYNOLDS.
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Christopher Columbus, who was an
admiral in the Spanish navy at the
time he discovered America. was paid
at the rate Of 1888 o rear.
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Stick to the right through thick and
sin. Be as true to principle as the
needle to the pole.
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w. B. Kidd has sold to Ed P. Bean
ten shares of Clark County National
Bank stock at $3.50 per share ..
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Tie Indiana Medical College, at
Indianapolis, department of tie
University Of Indianapolis, was de-
stroyed by fire one day last week.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-12-06

The waste of lite is greater than its
accumulations.- Hopkins.
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Connection made with Il. n g. G. Railway ct
Beattyvllle Junction for BeattYville.
j, X. BARR, CHAs SooTT,
Vice Pres. Gen. Man. G. PA.
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Napoleon, at
St. II lie n a,
said to Antono-
m hi, his
physician, "Be-
lieve me, we
h ad etter
lie ave off all
these remedies;
life is a fortress
which neither
you nor l know
anytbipnohO,,t
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l. 'ANDEN BERG CT. ATAfORE,
Traffic Manager, Genl Paaa A.
General Offices, Louisville Ky.
JACKSON SMITH, Asst. GENT Passo,r Ag,
o"ce' chamber Of Commerce Pld'g. Cinti.
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,,fsM SOUTHERN
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schedule ~ snsss ssay ,. 1898
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Louisville ( Nashville
r. r.
.(KENTUCkY CENTRAL DIY)
Schedule in effect Jan. 90. 1894.
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DRIFT OF PUBLIC OPINION.

Senator Jones, of Arkansas. saws that he
viii oppose vigorously any attempt te
make Hawaii Territory, and the con
tinuancc of any form of slavery in the
islands. He will also oppose the carri-
soning OF Cuba, Porto Rico and the PhiIip-
pines with United States troops.
Senator Harris, of Kansas. saws that
we do not need all the Philippines-
nothing more than the Island of Luzon.
Senator Mason, Illinois, saws that IL
was mistake to suspend warlike opera
tons until a treaty of peace was signed.
Col. VIM. p Hepburn, of Iowa. who is
Chairman of the House Committee on
Interstate Commerce, before which must
go all bills relating to the Nicaragua
Canal says that there is no doubt in the
world that the canal will be dug. for
the people are now thoroughly reused i'm
their demand for it. He anticipates that
everybody connected with it will be as
thoroughly damned, politically, as were
all those connected with the Pacific Rail
roads; but this must not interfere with
their doing their duty in the matter. He
believes that the United States should do
the work itself, instead of guaranteeing
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TOBACCO CURE.
How n Mother Banislled Cigar.
cites and TObaccO-a Harm
less Remedy that Can BE
Given ia Tea, Coffee
or Food.
Anyone Can Have Free Trial Pack.
age by Sending Name and Address.

Some time ago Unknown business man
whose stomach and nerves were ruined by the
tobacco habit was secretly given remedy by
his wife, and me- never knew what cured him OF
ti.e habit. He suddenly esinced such dislike
for tobacco that he concluded the weed had
finally fioored him, and that his own determine
ZION made him quit. She then treated her son, a
young man just q. He was cigarette fiend,
nhaling the deadiy fumes almost constantly,
and he toe made sick of the weed Ills
mother enjoys quiet ugh to herself. at the
manner Ill which the youag man tells of how
he came to the conc .usion that cigarettes We're
"drugged and poisoned nowadays and not fit
to smoke"
The remedy is odorless and tasteless, can be
mixed with coffee or food, and when taken into
the system a man cannot use tobacco in any
form. The remedy contains nothing that could
possibly do injury. Ii is simply an antidote for
the poiSons OF tooacco, and takes nicotine out of
the system. 1t will cure oven the confirmed
cigarette ficnd, and is Cd send to mothers who
have growing boys 2edicted to the smoking of
cigarettes. The remedy is called Tobac Spe-
clfic, and free trial package of the remedy will
BE males prepaid upon application to Rog rs
Drug Chemical Co., III Glenn Building, Gin
matt, o. I his will help any woman TO solve
the problem OF curing her husband, 8 n, or
brother OF IL habit that undernines tee health,
leaving the body susceptible to numerous
lingering and dangerous diseases.
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COPYRIGHT. 1898. hy The pnh
SYNOPSIS OF PREC DING CHAPTERS.

Cpon news of the fall of Fort Sumter
Walter Armitage and David Bronson,
Chicago newspaper compositOrs, an ex
Sergeant OF REGULARS. Patrick O'Neil, n
German, Karl Brentman. and one Stock,
phlegmatic young nan On iSt in al
infantry regiment. a set Of toughs,
among them one "Peory, also enlist ard
prove TO be towards al the first fight.
"Inby" an Office boy. becomes an artil-
leryman. Dick Morgan, compositor,
enters the rebel army. They soon smell
powder, and all get promotion. Karl has
an amusing romance with a fiery rebel
girl, Artemisia Simpl1ins, and is badly
smitten. The File participate in numer-
Gus dramatic events. They are at Mem
phis at the period of which the following
inStallnlent treats. They have captured a
Jew smuggler, who is forced TO lead them to
where his friends await him.
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formation The jew had evidently gone
out 10 meet an emiSsaTy from Forrest 5
Cavalry, for there was in the documents
that he bore a most careful exhibit of all
the troops in and about the city, their
stations, means of communication with
each other, and other information which
would be OF use in the event OF a raid
being made on the city, that was evil
IDENTIFY being contemplated by the rebel
cavalry chief.
well, old fellow, let me congratulate
YOU said o Neil, slapping Bronson on
the shoulder heartily. "Oi see a pair o.
shoulder straps sproutin here afore yere
wake older"
After turning their prisoners over to
| the ProvostAiarslal, they returned to
their old pest on the road.
When they came up the officer in charge
WAS having an animated discussion with
a party in carriage, who were evidently
trying TO pass outward, but were stopped
for some reason. Karl's heart began beat
ing violently, for he recognized in one ot
the voices raised in expostuIation that Of
Artemisia. He hurried forward 10 where
he could see. her, and then his eyes con
firmed the testimony OF his ears The
officer in command of the post, emulous
of the success of his predecessors, was