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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17
Philippine Islands.

There are 400 or more islands in
the Philippine group. They are
some 900 miles Southeast of China.
Their area is 100000 square miles,
and they have population of 5000
600, mostly Malay natives. There
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17
Strawberry Supper.

There will be strawberry supper
on Friday evening, May 81, on the
lawn at the home of Miss Iss O'Rear
given by the Epworth League.
Go and enjoy tho feast, refresh
ment and social converse.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17
From An Old Soldier,

Knox. Ind. January Ia, 1897.
Gents Il have every confidence in
recommending your Syrup of Pepsin.
1 am ~ years old and am broken
dewn, the trouble having been
brought on by my experience in the
war. Your medicine has done me
more good than . hundred doctors
and I am just about well of stomach
troubles. ...~. e.. g.,
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II viii Do You Good.

Are you constipated2 Do you have
sick headachesa Is your nervous
system. liver or kidneys out Of order ?
II so, cure yourself by using Wrighps
Celery Tea. 1t improves the COM
plexion. Price 25c, sold by w. S.
LLOYD, Druggist. tt
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17

We have an unusually large stock
of coffee on hand and are in position
to make you close prices on any grade
you may desire.
42.3t A. BAUM g. Son.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17
WALL
PAPER :!
NO.44.

We are headquarters in this line.
We have over 1900 bolts on our
racks, and at prices that our COM
petitors don't try to compete with.
We have beautiful line at 4, 5
and &c up thst will do you good
to look at. Call and see our line
before you buy.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17
Cook Stoves!

See our o. X. JEWELS. Every
back is guaranteed for year s
With all other grades you win have
to buy l to 2 backs a year, Call
and see them: they are beauties.
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arpetS and
Mattings.

We have few left and they go at
your own prices. Just call in and
take one at about your own price
Profits out of the question.
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Notions.

We have the largest Bath Towels in
the city at and l0c each. VIM
dow Blinds lOc. Lace Curtains $50
Socks and Hose SC a pair. Call and
see us before you buy.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17
Hardware.

2lbs Nails &c. 4-qt Coffee Pots l0c.
Tin Cups 1c each. Brooms 10c.
Good Glasses 25c per dozen. Good
Door Lock 1Sc. Pen knives, four
blades, lOc. 2kegs of Tccks, SC. 8
boxes of Carpet Tacks sc.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1898-05-17
Yours truly,

JEFFERSON WILHELM
For sale by w. S. Lloyd. If.
The herald., 1898-06-19

of Chiapas. 1t starts at the station on the
Ferrocarril Nacional de Tehauntepec at the
city of Tehuantepec; and in its course passes
by or near the following towns or ports:
Up Lake Tilema, Laguna Inferior, Laguna
del Paredon de Arista and south of To-
nala and about twenty kilometers from
Tapachula. The right is also granted to
dredge the channels Of the different rivers
on the route. Near the southeast end of the
canal is the thriving Japanese colony of Es-
cuinta, which at present numbers about 600
hard-working members of that nation. The
canal will pass by Suchiate on the Guate-
malan frontier, and it is the intention to
continue 1t to Puerto de Ocos, which is a
fine harbor, twelve leagues from the city
of Guatemala, with which 1t has rail connec-
ton. There will be no locks, as all the land
is as level as a billiard table. There will
propelled by electric motors. These boats
will tow the freight barges, of which there
will be about 100 of from fifty to 100 tons
freight capacity apiece.
Work will be commenced on this work
within six months, and will be concluded
long before the two years limit. Ten thou
sand dollars forfeit money has been depos-
ited in the Banco Naclonal In accordance
with the terms of the concession The con-
tractors for the work are the well known
firm of Cheesewright. De la Barra & Furbar
of London. Mr.. Pablo lie Royal, M. E.. one
The herald., 1898-06-19

abandoned as unremunerative undertake
ings. 1t is these facts that have encour-
aged the concessionaires in the belief that
their canal will fill long felt want.
BY the terms of'the concession the con-
cessionaires are granted rs meters on each
side of the canal. and they have the right,
with the customary legal formalites to
condemn, appraise, and appropriate to their
uses the right of way through all lands that
the canal may pass. They also have ten
years time in which to build the canal and,
ninety-nine years privilege to free use of
all game, fish, salt, ETC., on all the Islands
and public lands on the route of their canal.
They have also the free right to cut all
lumber for construction purposes and are
relieved from the payment of all duties on
all machinery and provisions and all kinds
of supplies. They have also the preferen-
tial right to exploit all mineral wealth in
the lands through which they may pass.
They can establish all the ports necessary
for their purpose. There are some valuable
lime deposits near the southeast end of
their canal which they have great hopes of
being able to fully develop.
The canal will be two meters deep, twelve
meters wide at the bottom and fifteen me-
ters on the surface of the water. It will
be 440 kilometers long in that section which
passes through Mexican territory, of which
about one-fourth will be in the state Of
Oaxaca and three-fourths through the state
The herald., 1898-06-19
MEx1co's GREAT CANAL
Waterway to Be Built From Tehuan-
tepec Into Guatemala

The "Gran Canal Mexicano del Sur" is
now an assured fact. The entire route has
been surveyed from Tehauntepec to the
Suchiate, on the Guatemalan border, and
work will commence at once on this i'm
portant undertaking.
The concession for the canal was granted
in last December to Messrs. B. Bolanos and
p. Leroy, and carries with 1t subvention
of $4,000 per kilometer, which is to be taken
out in public lands at the rate of about 81
per acre. The course of the canal is gener-
ally parallel with the Pacific coast at dis
tance of from one to twenty kilometers and
from twenty to thirty klometers distant
from the coast range of the Sierra Madre.
The ports along the route are really unfit
to admit but the most shallow draught
boats The first port entitled to the name
southeast Of Acapulco is Puerto de Ocos, in
Guatemala. The general height Of the
mountain range opposite the course Of the
canal is from 1000 to- $500 meters, although
there are few peaks which run consider
ably over this. The rise is very abrupt
from the sea level to the mountains going
landward, and for this reason makes all
kinds Of railroad engineering In that section
most difficult, and even the, small pieces
of road which have been built have been
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to see. He hadn't waited to analyze the
attraction; he simply went because he was
attracted.
| He had been ranching for fourteen years
in Australia and had been recalled in most
unexpected fashion to step into his dead
uncle's shoes. The family history was TO
him a scaled book. His uncle had had
children who had died, and that was all
| he knew.
| Queen Cam was later than usual that
night, and many watches had been i'm
patiently consulted before she came. The
dress" seats remained empty, and the
ringmaster had a frown on his brow
His ruse had failed, and he was % cents
poorer for having tried it.
The master cracked his whip sharply
and the horse began his accustomed am
ble but even as it started on its tread
mill pace the ringmaster's eye caught the
futter of a loose strap, and he stopped to
Ieadjust it. Quick as thought the girl
raised her head and looked straight at
Ronald King. She was pale that night.
There were dark rings around her brilliant
eyes, and as she met his glance graveiy
and steadily for one moment, she slowly
shook her head. 1t seemed to him there
she mean?
Then the buckle was secured, the whip
cracked again and the round began.
A flaming placard on the boardings next
day announced a specially attractive pro-
gram for the last night at Braxton. But
before night came the circus tent was
struck. the caravans were packed and the
travelling company had fed in sudden panic.
Old Meg had been ailing for two or three
days. No amount of warm gin had sue
ceeded in banishlug. the shiver!ng which
took possession of her, and that morning
she was seriously Ill, and no doctor was
needed to pronounce the terrible word
smallpox"
Old Meg was left deserted in the small
caravan where she lay. The wardrobes,
fortunately were not in the same caravan,
aud Leo Salterne's circus company took
rapid fight 10 the nearest town.
Queen Cam had begged hard to stay be-
hind, but the manager wouldn't hear of It;
so, weeping ard reluctant, she took her
pace. An old woman more or less didn't
matter, and secretly the manager rejo:ceti
that a sure and certain means was at hand
of si,encirg Meg's tongue forever. She
was the only one who knew the dreaded
secret.
1t was eighteen years now since Jack For
rest, the handsome young riding master,
had run away with the only daughter of the
squire Of Braxton. The squire had never
The herald., 1898-06-19
CAMILLH"
"Houp-la!"

"Houp-la!'
Crack went the circus masters whip as
the girls flying figure went through the
last tinsel-colored circle, higher even than
the preceding ones, and alighted safely in
the saddle amid rounds of rough applause.
One solitary figure occupied the dress"
seats--a tall dark man, with bronzed face
and. keen eyes: and to this one upper-class
patron was the cream of the entertainment
directed.
AS the girl rode round before her exit
she made the usual feint of blowing kiss
to the stranger, but the circus masters
Jealous eye noted that a deep flush dyed
her forehead.
Hes a fish out o. water" muttered the
man to himself "Whats he doin here, I
wonder? If he's got an eye upon Camilla,
he'll soon find as how other has got an eye
upon him.
And that night, after a frugal but some
what noisy supper the ringmaster sought
out fat, elderly woman, always strongly
redolent of gin, but who, in spite of that
and, other little delinquencies, was called
by courtesy the wardrobe mistress. The
manager came upon this lady as she was
folding away, Camlla's S gittering robes.
you heard anythin' about the gent that's
been haingin around?"
"Course 1 have'' muttered the woman,
sulkily. "Who asn't? He's the new squire,
1ust come here from Australy."
"You amt been splittin'?" he hssed. "If
you have, Meg Hudson, it'll be the worse
for you."
"D'ye think want to get rid of the girl?
Dye think I don't know that the show
would soon go to the dogs If it warn't for
Queen Cam? Dye think don't know. that
she keeps things goin' both before and be-
hind scenes. Why, there isn't one O. the
whole company but loves her and'-with
q scowling glance-"hates you"
well, It's dangerous neighborhood
anyway said the man, shifting uneasily
beneath the glance, IAN it's time we was
movin on"
When Ronald King laid his half dollar
on the grimy sill of the little pay office
next night, he was informed that "the re-
served seats were all took by party"
But instead of turning away in disgust, as
the manager hoped, he merely exchanged
the coin for quarter and passed in among
the crowd.
Queen Camilla was to do her high flight
tonight. and 1t was Queen ce-r'l'a he went
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noticed his daughter since, and when Jack
broke his neck over a gigantic hurdle in
view of crowd the shock killed his young
wife, who left behind her in old Meg S
charge few valuable jewels, her marriage
lines and tiny baby girl.
Ihere was hue and cry in the camp mex [
morning, for the queen was missing o.
course they knew where she had gene for
cam knew no such thing as fear; and the
manager swore loudly that some one must
go at once and fetch her. But there was the
smallpoX-that was a greater terror than
the managers wrath.
Ronald King went home, haunted by the
supplication of those beautiful eyes. He
hurried over an important engagement next
day to go to the last performance, but
reached the place only to find that the
Arabs had folded their tents and silently
stolen away One solitary caravan alone
marked the spot, and, lighting a cigarette,
he strolled up to where it stood.
The sound of moaning came from within.
and, after knocking vainly, he opened the
door. A miserable sight met his eyes. An
old woman-il, dying, lying on a rough
straw pallet-turned a haggard face to the
intruder.
Out in the bush any one helped dying
comrade, and soon he had moistened the
parched lips, arranged a pillow under the
aching head lighted the swing lamp and
sat down in the miserable howell while with
eager hands the woman gave a packet into
his keeping, and told him a story which
seemed to the young man only the raw
ings Of delirium.
With morning light he was back again.
but paused on the rickety steps of the
caravan at the sight that met his. eyes; and
in that moment his heart went out from
his keeping.
Seated on the floor in Cinderella garb of
brown rags, the woman's head in her lap,
was the girl he loved. What matter that
she was a circus rider-a girl of the people
--tha.tshe was shorn of her pomp and gilt
ter? She was his queen queen in rags
One glance told him old Meg was dead,
and gently he relieved the girl of her bur-
den.
80 you really are my cousin. 1t is you
who must reign here, and not IT,
"And what shall you do?"
'I?" He met her gaze steadily Never
now must this girl know that he worship
ped her. II shall go back to Australia, -
he said huskily.
''There is room enough for us both here,
Ron. But If you must go''-shyly-"you
will take me with you?" 'r.
Then she was in his arms.-London An
swers.
The herald., 1898-06-19
OUR SPELLING SCHOOL

Nobody is too old to go to school,
but many lack both the time and the
opportunity. The Herald has ar
ranged partially to supply the lack
by conducting spelling school. Read
the advertisement elsewhere in this
mornings paper headed, "The Her
AIDS Spelling School," A gold-flled
hunting-case watch is offered as prize
this week.
The herald., 1898-06-19


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of the concessionaires, in person made all
the surveys and reconnaissance in the field,
and has compiled very full plan showing
cross sections of the entire route of the
canal. One of these plans, which is a most
artistic piece of work, he will present to
President Diaz.-New York Times. /
The herald., 1898-06-19
Attention.!

All members of Court Morris Vineyard,
No. 532, /. o. o. F., are requested to meet
at Foresters' temple, First and Spring
streets, at 1:30 p. m. today to attend the
anniversary services at Simpson taberna.
Gle. j. FERRIS, G. r.
The herald., 1898-06-19

Horace Ewing, prominent N. T. acton
will give lessons in elocution, oratory and
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
On San Juan Hill.

All is now still on San Juan hill,
And over Ell Caneys ground
Soft shadows float and the wood doves
note
Is the only living sound.
The palm trees stand in dreamlike land.
And the no. winds faint and die
On the tasseled mass of the guinea grass
And the coffee bushes dry.
The tufted mirth of the patient earth
And the mystery of the trees
Are ever the same. and the wars red
flame
Disturbs not the dream of these.
The trenches. ablaze through the dread
full days,
Lie bleached in the tropic sun.
And the smell of death with the sitting
breath
OF the battle is passed and done.
But memory stands with outstretched
hands
Alone on that alien shore.
Where the graves are made. her feet are
staid-
Staid never to wander more.
Forever she stands with outstretched
hands,
Her white brow bound with yew.
And over the walls of the hills she calls
And over the seas wide blue.
Her cry is the cry of the Bonded sky
And the cry of the voiceless clay.
And the soundless deeps where nature
keeps
The mystery of her sway.
Not a breeze but brings on its rushing
wings
Her message again and again
''They carried the height in as brave
fight
AS was ever fought by men,"
Robert Burns Wilson in New York Sun.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
Some Gamers by the War.

The vice president says he is direct
gamer financially by the late war, and
the reason he gives is decidedly novel
one. From his coming to Washington
up to the outbreak of the war an aver
age of 100 babies a month were named
after him, or at least their fond parents
so informed him by letter. Other rich
officials and senators have been through
the same experience, and, as rule,
rather enjoyed sharing their names and
bestowing small checks until the aggre-
gate sum of the latter obliged them to
halt. In this particular direction his
value has fallen off considerably, for
the youngsters nowadays whose parents
want to start them off under the halo
of somebody else's name are christened
Dewey, Schley, Roosevelt, Hobson and
all the rest of the recent heroes. -Chi-
cago Record.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
HANDKERCHIEF WANTS.

Pure linen Handkerchiefs at 5, 10,
II, Is up to SOC.
125 dozen of linen and fine Cam
brio embroidered Handkerchief
(sgents' samples, no two alike) which
we are selling at wholesale prices.
Handkerchiefs at 10, II, Is, Is and SOC
Don't fail to see them before buying.
You cannot begin to match them in
town at the prices.
Elegant hand embroidered linen
Handkerchiefs at SO, Is, 81. 90, 81. 25,
81 35, 81 SO, $500 and 50 %.
Real Duchesse lace Handkerchiefs
at from 50 Is to Sc. 90 each.
Mems soft finish pure linen hem
stitched Handkerchiefs at II, Is, 20,
25 to so cents.
Mems soft finish, pure linen, hand
embroidered, initial Handkerchiefs
at Is and SOC, best in the city.
Mems China silk. initial at 35, so,
75c and 81 90.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
Refuses Trepha Prison Fare.

Joseph Cohen, Russian Hebrew of
Hamilton, O., indicted by the last grand
jury for the alleged theft Of S15 from
Michael Shelf of Middletown, O., is
puzzling his jailers as to how he SUBJ
sists on his slender diet He refuses to
eat anything but bread and onions, dis
carding the usual prison fare He says
that his religion will not allow him to
eat anything not cooked according to
it's custom, and that rather than sacri-
flee his religion he will continue on
with the bread and onions. Cincinnati
EnOuirer
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
Hobson Waltz Now.

1t is now the Hobson waltz The At
Santa girls were the ones to start the
Hobson waltz, and they came very near
'waltzing the nations hero to FRAGILE.
sat was at the Capital City club, and
Hobson was the lion of the occasion.
Like all army and navy men,. he is a
perfect Walter. When the dancing be-
garland Ho6son asked one of the girls
TO dance, he came very near sealing his
doom. The word went round that So.
aand-so had danced with Hobson. Before
he had had breathing spell he was
whirling around with another fair
young woman. Painting for breath, he
continued to dance until almost ex.
A1austed. Special New York World.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
OYSTER HAD A QUEER CHUM
Live Fish Found Between It's Shells
by O Cook.

The cook in the cafe in the New York
Times building in New York was open
ing Rockaway oysters the other night.
He gave yell, dropped his knife and
jumped away from the bar. AS he had
pried apart the shell of an exceptionally
large specimen the oyster apparently
jumped three feet from the shell and
began Topping about the bar.
"Oh, Lord - groaned one of the
loungers. MY wife told me I'd see
things if didn't stop drinking. This
is my finish.
''Shut upn' snapped more observing
one. "That's no oyster. It's fish,.
1t was sea bass, little over two
inches long and beautifully marked. 1t
lay gasping on the bar. Somebody put
it in tumbler of water. 1t is supposed
that while the oyster was feeding the
bass swooped down on it, to be caught
when the bivalve closed it's shell. There
upon it ate up the oyster.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
FAN TO KEEP WARM WITH.
Ordinary Motor Fan Guard With an
Electric Heater Attached.

Ordinary Motor Fan Guard With an
Electric Heater Attached.
Every one is familiar with the use of
electric fans for cooling purposes
hardly restaurant, business office or
place of amusement being without
them in hot weather. A writer in The
Electrical Review suggests their use for
heating purposes as we'll in places
where the usual methods are incon-
venient or inadequate. explaining the
process thus:
"If an electric heater were construct
ed of the form and size of the face Of
the guard usually attached to electric
fans and fas ened to the guard, and if
it were fed with current from the same
source of supply as that which operates
the fan, it should follow that the fan
propeller would force out and distribute
the warm air generated by the electric
heater"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23
SANTA CLAUS COMES EARLY.

Over 200 scholars and over leo visi-
tors crowded Hope Mission chapel
last evening at the Christmas exer-
cises. A Christmas tree and fish pond
provided gift for each of the schol-
airs, besides candy and popcorn.
Some Christmas exercises were had.
Hope Mission Sunday school has
grown to large proportions, and the
chapel is hardly large enough to
accommodate all.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1898-12-23

Two remarkable surgical operations
for the purpose of stopping internal
hemorrhage have been performed by
DR.. Habart of Vienna. In the case of
young man who had fired four slugs
into himself the surgeon cut into the
thoracic cavity, removing one Of the
ribs, and stuffed yard and half of
iodoform gauze between the heart and
the lungs. The other case, that of
man stabbed through the armpit, was
treated in the same way. Both patients
recovered and are now perfectly we'll.