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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
WHISKY THAT FIRED HIM.
A Taste of It Led One Man to For
give Booth.


"a man named Ferguson kept a
saloon next door to Ford's theater,"
said Frank Drew to the Kansas City
Star, "and the actors used to congre-
gate there. After the assassination
Ford's theater was closed and business
at Ferguson's was very dull. Fergu-
son testified at the cOroner's inquest
held after the assassination that Booth
had drunk three glasses of whisky at
his bar Just before he entered the the
alter to kill Lincoln. After Ford's
was closed, the actors there we're out of
work and they used to sit in Fergu-
sons place and wait for an angel to
come in and buy drinks. A day or two
after the inquest tall, fine looking
gentleman came in the saloon and
said to Ferguson:
"1 beg your pardon, is this Mr.
FergusonY
"'Yes, sir
"T see by the papers, Mr.. Fergu-
son, that you gave evidence before the
coroner's jury that Booth had three
drinks of whisky here just before the
assassination Of the PRESIDENT
"'Yes, sir
"'Be kind enough to let me have a
drink, will your
Ferguson went behind the bar and
placed a tumbler before the stranger.
"I wouldn't swear said Fergu-
son, that that is not the very tumbler
Booth drank from. But / will swear
that this is the identical bottle from
which he poured the whisky
"The stranger poured out drink
and took it, and then asked very So
berly:
"'Was it the same kind of whiskyp
"Tt was
"'Then I forgive Booth. III were
to drink three glasses of that / would
go home and kill my grandmother
"The stranger walked out and Fer
guson called up all hands and treated
them and begged them never to tell
| the story"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
No More Beer For Privates.

Havana, March 1.-The American
military authorities in Cuba are stop
ping the sale of beer at post exchanges
and closing the bars in Havana and
Narianao for selling beer or wine to
Drivates or non-commissIoned officers
che proprietors of such places are
med $500 but are allowed to reopen
fter three days on giving bond.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07

appearances. !"

Thar qDhich setsmS hard to
bear may be a great blessing.
Let as take a lesson tr,wa the
roagh Sueather of Spring. II
s doing good despite appear
ances. Cleanse the system
thoroughly; rout out all
Impurities from the blood
yofth that greatest specific.
Hoods SarsaparilLa.
Instead of sleepless nights. with con-
sequent irritableness and an undope
tired feeling, you viii have a tone and a
Dracing air that win enable you to enter
INTO every days work with pleasure.
hsnsDher, Hoods :rerey disappoints.
Scrofula lunches An operation
helped my son temporarily for scroiula
punches on his neck, but Hoods sarsapa-
rilla caused them to disappear entirely
MRS. LEWIS A. CARPENTER, 81 WadswoTth
Street, Hartford, Conn.
CataFFn ~ have had no return OF the
catarrh which troubled me for years, since
Hoods Sarsaparilla cured me-" MRS. JOE
AARIH, Washington ST., 0gdensburg, n. Y.
Dyspepsia =" Nothing relieved me OF
my dyspepsia until i took Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla- 1t cured me and 1 can eat three good
meals every day. / give it to my children
every spring" FRED PoEHLER, 437 South
Penna Street, indianapolis, Ind,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
Ovington POstOffiCe Robbed OF
$1,000 in Stamps.

The postoffice at Covington was
bbed on Tuesday night of $1,000 in
amps. About $4,000 worth are
ually kept, but the burglars over
,ked the $4,000 worth. Entrance
- effected through the carriers
or--open night and day. A watch
10 was supposed to be on guard.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
Self Winding Clock.

Brussels has tower clock which
has never been wound up by human
hands. By an ingenious arrangement
the wind keeps it wound up.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
Firetlies for Garden Parties.

Firefies are caught and Gagged by
the japanese. At night, when a stylish
party is in progress the flies are re-
leased in the garden, and the effect is
quite artistic.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07

Connection made with b. q q. G. Railway at
Beattyvllle junction for BeattYyille
j. X. BARR, CHAs. SCOTT,
Vice Pres. Gen. Man. G.P.A.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
HoN SaadqbaM
Eka2I;2E:ss I;J1syryrf

Hoods Pills cure liver MS, the non.irritating and
only eathaItLe 70 take with Hoods saIsaParilIa:
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
DON'T LOOK A GIFT HORSE
IN THE MOUTH.

We don't pretend to give away
our elegant stock of up-to-date
vehicles. But we do say that we
will sell you the most stylish and
well-made trap, buggy, runabout,
phaeton, surrey or blackboard at
lower prices, quality considered
han yon can buy at any place in
the city.
r. Senieur.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
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BRIDGEPORT
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
Kentucky Midland Railroad
Only direct line between
CINCINNATI AND FRANKFORT.
Shortest aud quickest
Frankfort, Georgetown, and Paris
Carlisle, MaysvilIe, Cynthiana,
Falmouth and C0vingtOu.

Trains Run by Central Standard Time.
Lsk for tickets via Kentucky
Midland Schedule Of trains.
-
IN EFFECT NOV %. 1896.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27
Killed the Goose.

The western ranges over which for
ages the buffalo ranged were never in
any degree impaired by over pasturing
until the greedy and improvident white
man killed off the buffalo and turned
his herds loose. In the old buffalo days
the scanty heritage Of these lands had a
chance to grow. This the white man
has denied it with the result that over
vast ranges the native grasses have been
killed out and the land has become
worthless for pasture. The bright side
to this thing lies in the fact that the
feeder in the corn belt will have less OF
the unequal competition of the range
fed stock, and the fat steer fed on blue
grass and clover and fattened on corn
will hereafter be money maker on the
northwestern farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27
The Blight of Bogus Better.

S7,400,0OO pounds of oleomargarine
were manufactured and sold in this
country during the past year. This rep
resents the butter product of 437, 1000
mich cows making 200 pounds of butter
each, or, illustrated in another way, it
represents the butter product of all the
creameries of Iowa, one of the best dairy
states of the union. The worst feature
of this business is that the manufacture
and sale Of oleomargarine is increasing
by leaps and bounds each year. 1t is
one of the most costly frauds permitted
and encouraged by the American people.
1t looks like butter, tastes like butter,
can be made from five to eight cents less
per pound than butter, and ever appeal
ing to the cupidity of dealers and the
ignorance of the buyer, is growing
menace to the future of the dairy
interests, of sufficient Importance to
demand radical and heroic measures for
it's suppression. One of two things
should be done: either the tax upon the
product should he increased to point
which will make pound of it cost as
much as pound of butter, or, makers
and vendors of the stuff should be CON-
PEELED to color it that it shall not be
possible for it to mask as a dairy pro-
duct. II the people want the stuff let
them have IL. but let them buv IL for
Just what it is.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27
The Way of the World.

Ore of life's petty tragedies was on
acted right by our window lately. A
sparrow flew down into little recess by
the window to get fat spider which
had spread web there; the sparrow got
the spider all right, but as it started to
fly off, black cat which had been
watching the bird, stole up and caught
the bird and killed it in jiffy, and as
the cat turned to leave with the bird in
its mouth, big dog which had been
watching the cat made dive at her and
would have killed her had not the cal
been too quick for the dog. The whole
thing was over in minute. We might
add that the dog should have been killed
on general principles sit was utterly
worthless.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27
Wasted Meats.

Americans are the most wasteful and
extravaganza people on earth in their use
of meats. Long accustomed to cheap
meats, but little care and economy has
been and is used in the cooking and
ser~'~g of them. 1t is not far out of the
way 70 say that not to exceed one hall
of the meat ordered and served to the
guest at our hotels is ever eaten, and
this unused portion of the very choicest
cuts at best but furnishes material for
soup stock. Higher priced meats viii
have the effect to stop some Of this
waste and draw attention to the economic
and nutritive value Of the less expensive
cuts of meat. We might learn much
from Foreigners, especially the French.
in this matter of economizing on the
family meat bill.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27
Prolificness Of Weeds.

A single plant Of pigweed has been
found to produce 100000 seeds. A
single plant of wild buckwheat located
in favorable spot for development up
on our own grounds, spread and covered
spot of ground five feet in diameter,
making tangled mass OF vine which
more than filled bushel basket when it
was pulled up. The Squirrel-tail grass,
an unknown or at least an unnoticed
weed in Iowa three years ago, has so
spread that there is hardly lawn in the
state which is not cursed by it. Bushels
and bushels of foxtail seed are raised
every year by the average western
farmer and hundreds OF other men plant
corn each year seemingly for the sole
purpose Of furnishing support for the
morning glories. Conditions have been
favorable in 1899 for an extraordinary
growth Of weeds all over the west and
clean field or clean farm can hardly be
anywhere found. On many farm the
weeds are exhausting the fertility of the
soil to far greater extent than do the
crops raised. Weeds in the corn-flelds
weeds by the roadside; weeds in the
stubble fields; weeds in tho pasture lot;
weeds in the garded; weeds in the
orchard; weeds everywhere The keep
Ing of 100 sheep on each 160 acre farm
would do more to remedy this evil than
ny other thing which can be done.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

A friend said to US lately ut 10 almost
a crime to kill calf for veal these days
with cattle as scarce as they arc" In
one sense our friend was right, but
when we consider that the tender and
toothsoms veal of today may be worked
of on US ten years hence as tough old
beef, we are still inclined to favor the
Herod business and eat our share Of the
old farrow COW in the days of her infancy
as soon as she is weaned.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

o government estimate Of the
. in four of the principal corn
states as follows: Iowa, 49,
bushels; Kansas, 346,0O0,0O0
Nebraska, 3OO,OOO,OOO bushels;
100000 bushels; or over one
ushels for the four states.
IN is king in the west this
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

S0Ii.viiV W eiinply osoaA = A.oioii or Two,
viii deliberately plug thewhole crop and
stack the vines. IL it was made fifteen
years we would not kick. Then there
is that other vandal who will come
around some Sunday when you are gone
to church and shoot the red squirrel
pets which have their home on your
lawn. Come to think of it there's just
a whole lot of fellows who are not fit to
live in decent communities.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

100 pounds Of the 225 pound
be made with grass-clover
m milk and oats, or other
|, foods. He would then have
B. more muscle, a larger per
!, meat in his makeup and
rless liable to disease. Corn
ID with which to finish off a
cor stuff on which to raise
clover-made pork is made at
cost than it can be made in
way. Still, not one hog
utilities clover for this pur-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

One road in the west should be called
the golden rod route, for it has not had
its right of way moved this year and for
a hundred miles of the road as we trav-
eled over it last week the train passed
through a veritable flower garden
golden rod, aster and sunfower in rank
est profusion.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

A Georgia cotton mill has recently
paid to its stockholders Al per cent
dividend, this enormous profit made on
governing five cent cotton into three
cent calico. Cheap colored labor largely
explains it. The negro in the south is
permitted to earn just enough to keep
body and soul together and that is all.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

lers In a small western town
by Us lately how much the
them cost them on foot.
,nts and one said 314 cents.
reretailing this meat at 1915
nd porterhouse steak, 10
nd, 8 cents for rib cuts and
mex meats. Asked further
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

that one prosperous western
, commenced the work Of
lown the land on its right Of
Or side of its tracks-this for
of getting the land seeded
moving it with a machine.
I'd over which we passed
a. begun a systematic
q the depot grounds along
the traveller is greeted by a
1t and tasty lawn and WELL
,eds instead Of running into
pot loafers and picking his
. lot OF empty beer kegs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

The best COW at the Kansas Agricult-
ural college is scrub. Her record the
past year was 9,116 pounds of milk, pro-
ducing 1913 pounds of butter fat. This
is in line with theory which we have
heretofore advanced the milking
function is largely an individual one, re-
CARELESS of breed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

Wisconsin grown tobacco is bringing
the growers twelve cents pound, a
price which gives return Of about $500
per acre for the land employed in raising
fhsc orop
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

what price they would have to sell at il
they had to pay $3.50 per cwt. for the
beef on foot they both agreed that the
prices would have to be- more than
doubled, or 80 cents for sirloin steak. 20
cents for round, 10 cents for rib cuts and
10 cents for chuck meats. This proves
that the man who raises the beef critter
is getting his share of the profits of the
advance, while it is doubtful il the
butcher gets any at all.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

there were $50 head of cattle
1000 people in this country.
!. there are but 1865 head for
} people. Improved business
cause the 1000 people to
st twice as much beef as they
)and right here you have the
for the advance in the price
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

A lot Of calves from eastern dairy
herds are being sold in the west for
feeders. As this stock has been bred on
exclusively dairy lines, being largely
grade Jerseys, Guernseys and Holsteins,
the man who buys them for feeders gets
pretty poor lot of truck.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

Timely rains have put the ground in
the best condition for fall blowing
through most of the northwest that it
has been in for several years.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

We saw, this week, forty acres OF corn
all nicely cut, bound and shocked, in
one field. This marks distinct ad-
vance in Iowa agricultural methods.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

The south Is coming to the grand crop
roundup with about 100000 bales OF
cotton. mostly produced by labor which
is content to work for less than fifty
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

A Missouri man has sent consign-
ment of 100000 chickens to Honolulu
Our new territories are making new
markets for the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

1900 pound horse shipped on the
cars a distance of five hundred miles Will
often lose from 100 to 200 pounds in
WEIGHT
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

The proper place for the two year old
hen is in pot pie. Hens should never
be kept as grandmothers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

The October calf at yeas old will
beat the May calf at the same age, pro-
vided it is as well cared for.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27
FARM, ORCHARD,
AND GARDEN.
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
EDITED FOR PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRIGG, Rockford, Iowa.

Poor pastures, flies and hot weather
have worried dairymen the past six
weeks.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

The netprofit to the state Of Minnesota
on the binding Irvine made by the
convicts at the Saltwater penitentiary
during the past year was $68, 1853. This
pretty conclusively provee that it is
more profitable for the state to put a
to work making rope than it is
erope wherewith to hang him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

A lot Of 1900 pound steers driven
overland to Dawson City brought S4OO
per head.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

the Interesting fact that there
cd from the port Of New York
ght steamer whose cargo con-
,rty Baldwin locomotives and
nifty of steel bridge material
lroads in China. The toot Of
an locomotive reverberating
hills of that exclusive nation
IRE to wake them up than
riels horn.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

igranger thought to beat the
" and save the cabbages, so
the heads with Paris green,
the worms and like to have
lie threshing crew to kingdom
members of which he fed on
ef and cabbage when they
resh his grain. The foregoing
own moral with it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-09-27

cOMPL ETE FILE OF ORIGINAL
cONTACT THE STATE HISTORICAL
81 is KNOWN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-20
Dogs and Muzzles.
e Editor Of The Evening Star:

To the Editor of The Evening Star:
Kindly allow me space in your valuable
paper 10 protest against this ridiculous and
unjust order OF the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, namely, that Of muz-
zing of all dogs for a period Of six months.
No resident will object to the killing of all
stray and unlicensed ours which receive no
care and little food ] will venture to say
that there will be more mad dogs result
from this order than ever, If such thing
as rabies exists Lock Il dog up or keep
him tied or confined that he gets no ex
ercise and he will become very cross and
ferocious. But give him good food and
plenty of exercise, and there is no danger
whatever. Catch the stray mongrels run
ming at large and destroy them. but we'll
bred dog. supplied with tag and accom-
panied by master or mistress, should be
allowed some show In Washington.
Two-thirds of the dogs which drop in the
street froth at the mouth and are i'm
mediately pronounced mad by some indi-
vidual, are only suffering from Indigestion,
or fright, or one of the other diseases COM
mon to CANNES. The result of this order
will be the combining of many dogs and con-
sequently many cross and ugly dogs will
exist. If this thing must be- why not make
it for one month and not the best part Of
q year? w. M. MOONEY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-20
PRACTICE OF PHARMACY.
Act Regulating Profession Not APP
niicahic to WashinEtOn Asylum.

The attorney for the District, to whom
the question was recently referred by the
Commissioners. has rendered an opinion to
the effect that the act of Congress regu-
latng the practice of pharmacy has no APP
plication to a graduate physician engaged
in compromising prescriptions for use at the
Washington Asylum.
THE act is in terms restricted" the at
torney explains. ito persons engaged in the
conduct of any pharmacy or store for the
purpose of retailing. compromising. &c. 1t
becomes important therefore. to determine
the meaning of the words pharmacy or
store. as used in said act.
"A physician. compromising his own pre-
scriptionS and supplying his patients with
such drugs or medicines as they may need,
IS certainly not engaged in the conduct of
any pharmacy or store, and yet he Is com
pounding and dispensing medicines for med
zeal use. A physician would not have the
right, however, to enter a drug store and
compound and sell drugs or poisons to per-
sons not his patients.
In my opinion, the language used in the
act, construed literally. has no application
to graduate physician in compromising
prescriptions at hospital for use at such
hospital. Moreover, In my opinion. 1t IS
quite apparent from a reading of the act
that IL was not intended to apply to any
one not engaged in the conduct of a store
or pharmacy or in the employ of one con-
Quoting such store or pharmacy where
drugs are sold and dispensed. The act was
intended to be restricted in its scope to per-
sons making business of selling medicines
or poisons. and at stores or pharmacies.
In constituting a statute the mischief de-
signed to be remedied is to be considered.
The dispensing of drugs and the compound
ing of prescriptions by a graduate physi-
clan al hospital for use Of such hospital
was certainly not within the mischief to be
rerneded by the act to regulate the prac-
tiCe of pharmacy in the District Of Colurn-
HIa.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-20
AFFECTED BY RABIES.
Result of Test of Bureau of Animal
Industry.

Mr.. H. c. Mclean, the acting health Of
ficer, informed the District Commissioners
today that an examination OF the brain of
COW owned q farm on the Conduit
road, within the limits Of the District, has
developed the fact that the animal was
affected with rabies Mr.. Mclean explained
to the Commissioners that the inspector of
live stock connected with the local health
department was called upon the Sd in
slant to hold a post-mortem examination
on the animal, which had been suspected of
having been affected with the disease The
brain was removed by the inspector and
was taken to the bureau of animal indus
try a branch OF the Department of Agri-
culture where the necessary test was made
to confirm the suspicion Of the existence Of
the disease.
A number Of rabbits were inoculated
with virus taken from the brain of the
COW, and these little animals. Mr.. Mclean
states, now have the rabies, thus proving
conclusively in his opinion that the COW
was affected The live stock inspector has
reported, Mr.. Mclean says, that on or
about the Sd instant boy on the farm in
question was bitten by a rabid dog. The
matter is being further Investigated by the
health department.