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The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19
WOLFE COUNTY.
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Monroe Rose had fencing one
day last week, and had good
crowd of hands and got good
days work done
Floyd Clark and wife and son,
of Russell county, Va, are visiting
relatives in this section.
W. T. Swango, of Millersburg,
engaged of Charley Cecil five 2
year-old steers for September de-
livery at IL 10.
Our better seven-eighths folds
the papers and does mailing for
150 postoffices, and but for this as
sistance we will be swamped.
On receipt of an invitation Rush
Swango and his sister Molly en-
ioyed themselves immensely at an
apple cutting given at the home OF
Charlie Fallen, of Gilmore, Friday
night.
In an alteration at this place
Bud Maple cut Curt Lacy across
the left wrist, severipg the super
ficiallis vole artery, from which he
would have bled to death but for
the prompt action of Drs. Nickel
and Waldeck.
Mrs. Matte Perkins, consort of
the late w. c. Perkins, notice of
of whose funeral see elsewhere, has
the thanks of the editor and his
better seven-eights for an extra
large, fine, fat frying chicken and a
sack of nice eating apples.
Neola is postoffice only five
miles from Hazel Green, and yet to
reach it by letter the missive must
go to Torrent, 90 miles; thence
over the L. q. E to Jackson, some
40 miles; thence over the o. d X.
to its destination, some 25 miles
more.
The funeral of our late friend
and fellow citizen, Wiley G. Perk-
ins, will be preached by DR.. Center
of this place, and Rev. John Adam
of West Liberty, at the grove near
the johnson school-house on Lacy
creek, on the fourth Sunday in this
month. And there will be dinner
on the ground for all who attend,
and everybody is invited.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19
HEREFORD BULLS.

/ have for sale three pure bred
Hereford Bulls ready for service.
For information apply to
H. L. GREENE,
5 At Grassy, Ky.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19
Killed.

At Elkton, KY, Miss Lou Bailey,
aged l6 years, accidentally killed
herself by the discharge of pistol
concealed under pillow.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19
Wanted

To buy life policies lapsed and un-
lapsed--any kind. Will pay cash.
Call on me at my Office. Traders
Deposit Bank building.
HENRY WATSON,
"a If Mt. Sterling, KY.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19

VIM. Finn, of Lima, o., obtained
excellent results from the use of
Foley's Kidney Cure. "It relieved
my backache and severe pain
over the hips. 1t toned my system
and gave me new vim and energy.
1t is an honest and reliable remedy,
sure cure for all kidney diseases. F"
r. g Gusf Sun, aaT:sS:s. as SSS:s..
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19
EverSley


We will continue the above school
which has been conducted by Rev. G. c.
Abbitt Tor four years, the first term open
ing
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19
Organized.

A company with $4,000 capital
stock has been organized TO mine
coal at Morganfeld, KY.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19

c. f. Day, of Morehead, sold a
horse for $3.50.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19
Monday, September I, 1902,

q Competent corps OF teachers has been
engaged and every effort will be made to
make the school second TO no educational
institution in the State.
To this eud we pledge Our best endeav-
ors and ask the cooperation Of the par
ents of Montgomery and adjoining couu-
ties
Further particulars given later.
MRS. MAMIE X. HIBLER,
MISS MARY Z. TURNER.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1902-08-19

Langdon's fresh cakes at the
Market Store.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
Decline of Poetry.

One hunderd and fifty years ago the novel was unknown. It now slops over all literature. It is riotous, filling in the minds of many the entire field. History, science, philosophy, and, alas, poetry, go down before 1t. This is not n fanciful statement. It's fact, and nine readers out of ten are parties to the transaction.
 Does not this hunger for fiction ac- count for the sad fact that the writing pf poetry is no longer remuneratiye? Volumes of poetry are not salable in considerable numbers. Publishers shun them unless the writer is will Ing and able to pay the freight. Even he occasional poem no longer com mands from the press price, it is so numerous, and no one reads maga- zine poetry.
 True, we have no Burns on tap at
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT AFFAIRS IN
 AUGUSTA AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

dent Roosevelt has finally closed ~ths book of the .sampson-schley controversy. There are those who may not be pleased with ali the expressions of the President in the matter. but he evidently did that which he conceived to be his duty. and he did 1t without fear or apparent flavor. It was a cold blooded expression of the ideas the evidence impressed upon bis mind. The captains get the glory they deserved and schley gets his full share of approval
 It will be wisdom on the part of all parties to let the matter drop now. Ths people have judged for themselves and the matter has been set aside.
 3i
 The business people of this section of Georgia, who are likewise the politicians. are already discussing national politics. and if Augusta talk n cans anything the Georgia delegation to the next national democratic convention will be for either Senator German or William c. Whitney. The latter spends much time in the winter at Aiken, s. C., twenty minutes ride from Augusta, and he is very popuiar here. Mr Whitney Is in Aiken now. While he will not publicly discuss poll tics. he tells his friends that he does not deserve any political office and win not be a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
Editors to be Examined.

General Oates is said to desire the examination and licensing of editorial writers, or at least is said to have pre- dicted such an ordeal When a man predicts a thing of that sort he plainly anticipates it and probably desires it's coming.
 But what Is General Oates to gain from the course mentioned? How far would he go towards compelling Ala bama readers to. read after" and live up to the wisdom of his corps of licensed editors? Would an unlicensed editor or reporter be prohibited from printing his views upon public ques- tions? aa
 But admitting the feasibility of the Oates programme. who would consti- ute the board of examiners? A book trust Legislature selecting from the body of average politicians an exam ming board for such purpose would promote merriment in the State at any rate. The < board might know what they would like to have edited and exactly how they would like to have that editing done, but the result might increase the gayety of even out side nations.
 General Oates should elaborate his scheme so that all may know where they, are at. If this is to be an issue in the coming November election, the editors should be permitted to know their fate, in order that they may get in little work before they are led up for slaughter before an examining board. We are inclined to favor the plan, provided General Oates Will ac- cept a simple amendment. Insert the words t.'and statesmen" and we will givsf 1t spontaneous and warm sup port for the good of the State.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
Wireless Telegraphy.

Mhrcotrs apparatus Is simplicity itself. Away up in the air at the top of tower, or attached to a kite he has vertical wire Down below he has an apparatus for creating an cleo tric spark. The spark jumps to the vertical wire. No one knows just how that spark on the vertical wire does the business, but it does do it, and that is practically all we know. It Is supposed that 1t disturbs in some way the electricity of the wire. of the sur rounding air, of the earth itself. No one knows how or where or why. There is much in this world we do not know, including the method of producing a blade of grass. The spark surges along the wire, and there our accurate, definite knowledge ends. It is supposed to disturb the etheric world very much as pebble starts nipples in pool of water.
 The receiving apparatus is equally simple. It is another tall vertical wire, but this tall wire has little tube at it's base, and in this tube are fine metal filings to which battery is attached. The sparks from the send ing apparatus creates sparks among the metallic filings of the receiving ap- paratus. It is the message from the other ship or the other side.
 1.-e spark coils employed in creat- ing electrical discharges are no larger than those used generation ago. It is certain that the spark coil can be immensely increased. In fact Mar conf is but at the beginning of his life work. He is young man, and he may yet develop wireless telegraphy to its full commercial value. The first locomotives were used in fair weather only, and the Marconi apparatus of today is but the rudiment of what is Co be.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
HOME BUYING NEGROES.

the conference at Tukegee their purses Beyond better their condition property behavior He good becomes voter
 family wishes citizen in the accomplish the task in this coonandcon lands five of dairy couple of bags of cotton on vegetables butter is under disquah wha He all
 Now what negro in good purchase Alabama oheapf There is not acre or Jefferson lands be $1o
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derived from 1t and I can well under stand after a trial how enthusiastic the people of the east have become over it.
 The way the people of Augusta run their town strikes me as admirable. The professio nal politician is not in 1t here The business people and the people who own property run this town. The present mayor is likewise the president of the most powerful bank in eastern Georgia. His name is Phinizy. He is worth a mill lion himself and he Is president of the Georgia Railroad Bank. This bank is by far the largest in Augusta. It carries nearly two million of deposits and does a tremendous business.
 Mayor Phinizy succeeded a banker as mayor, and his opponent in the contest for the mayoralty was a banker. He conducts the affairs of the city on strict business principles. As consequence several hundred thousand dollars of city bonds have recently been fioated at a premium. though they only bear sJk per cent interest. The aldermen are likewise yers. In other words, Augusta will have no man transacting it's affairs Of gov ernment who has not been successful in his own affairs. When we consider the matter seriously we of other sections must admit that such governmental ar- chitecture is wise to adopt.
 
 All the world is delighted that Presi-
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
Presidential Candidates.

''rJo candidate for the Presidency in re- cent years has had the press bureau or the general organization that marked Samuel J. Tilden's canvas leading up to 1876" said an old politician.
 MT. Bayard had an organization in 1884 and D. B. Hill was pretty well organ ized for 1892, but these organizations were weak compared with Tilden's. The sage of Grammercy Park and Greystone em- ployed dozen secretaries for fully two years prior to 1876 and when the con- vention met everything was in shape for a walkover for the illnstrious Democrat.
 Grants friends organized In 1880 for a third term effort, and Blaine always had an organization, but most of the nominations were made outside of any organized movement.
 Senator Hanna had been working up an organization for 1904, but he is now supposed to be out of the race himself. Senator Charles W. Fairbanks is develop ing strength and 1t is believed that Han ma is ready to help him. Republicans tell me that Fairbanks will have an organi- zation in the South when the time comes.
 Organizations costs money and the men who have landed in the White House have always been those who kept their money in their pockets and went in on their merits or on their luck, or on their general popularity, or by reason of the business conditions and business support of the country.
 By the way no man has ever become President since the civil war unless Wall street happened to be for him.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
New Novels in Public Libraries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson'st rule as to the use of new books did d'not-apply to fiction alone. He would buy no book until one year had elapsed from the date of plblication-certainly good rule. Its extreme conservatism rec. ommends it. Some think teneyears a better limit, and there are a few who think a century still better, and they are not so far in error as one might at first think them to be.
 Two practical library men now pro. pose to endorse Emerson's rule so far as fiction is concerned. These two bookmen, so to speak, are MT. Putnam, librarian of Congress, and MT. Car negie, founder in chief of libraries for the multitude. Of the making of books of fiction there is no end, and the muddy and confusing avalanche is gaining instead of the reverse. Is 1t to be turned into every public library2 It's cost is great, and in years time it becomes rubbish, as all avalanches become in the end. No one at any rate wants any of 1t. The library that purchased 1t does not want it--no one wants it. And it flows on.
 It has been suggested that there should be discrimination in purchases of new fiction, but this would involve the reading of all new novels by libra- rians, and this would be cruelty, not to animals, but to librarians. Few could sustain mind at all under the pressure.s Most men would prefer to become mules at once, and take the benefit of the cruelty-to-animals act.
 The truth is, there is no remedy, un- less indeed it is to be found in Elmer sons rule, which MT. Putnam is in- clined to approve, and MT. Carnegie to recommend. The patrons of public libraries forget that the object of free books is to direct the mind-to create or rather develop the public taste-not to amuse any one, not to induce tears among young women. Nor is it a proper function of public library to accumulate junk, as it must do in- evitably if it buy fiction as it is rolled from the press in these days. MT. Carnegie begins to think that books of acknowledged value are better than junk. So they are, but no one seems to be able just now to bring present demand and the avoidance of junk to- gether. Even Emerson's rule will not do that.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23

present, as they who were living one hundred years ago had, but if we had A Burns or a Sir Walter Scott today he would not command the attention or the money that was freely offered one hundred years ago for poetic prod uct. Fiction is holding the popular fort. It wins the dollars, and its finer companion is out in the cold.
 Is this to continue? Are we to have no more great poets? Is the century to give us no Emerson, no Bryant, no Poe, no Lowell, no Longfellow, no whitman? Here are six of the nine teenth century that wrote at least good verse. At times they rose to heights far above the commonplace. We have many today who are singers of merit, as "The Recessional' and s'The Man With a Hoe" testify, but the poet of today cannot sing to empty benches. The market for poetry is lacking. And herein is the trouble, If the century gives us no poets equal to the six we have mentioned, it will be because song has gone down in the market place, and fiction Is filling the field;
 the poets are simply starved out. The
 law of supply and demand applies, in other words, to poetry as well as to pork, although the former is beyond
 doubt the truest and best mark of an age's proeress and culture.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
SONG FROM "EpIrH.

By Felicia Hemans Thourt passing from the lakes green
 side
 And the hunters heath away. For the time of flowers. for the sum-
 mer's pride. sf Daughter, thou canst not stay. rzi Thourt journeying to thy spirits home; Where the skies are ever clear. The corn-month's golden hours will
 come,
 But they shall not find thee there. And we shall miss thy voice. my birdi Under our whispering pine; r Music shall midst the leaves be heard, But not a song like thine breeze that rovers OCT stream and hili Telling of winter gone,
 Hath such sweet falls-yet caught we
 still sr -.l A farewell in it's tone. But thou my bright one! thou shalt be Where farewell sounds are o'er Thou, In the eyes thou lov'st, shall see No fear of parting more. The messy grave thy tears have wet, And the winds wild meanings by. ts Thou with thy kindred shalt forget. Midst fowers-not such as die.s The shadow from thy brow shalt melt The sorrow from thy strain, But where thine earthly smile hath
 dwelt, .4i Our hearts shall thirst in vain. Dim will our cabin be, and lone, g-: When thou, its light art fled; Yet hath thy step the pathway ahown Unto the happy dead And we will follow thee. our Guide, And join that shining band; Thou'rt passing from the lakes grsen
 side Go to the better landl
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
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THE r1URr1UR OF THE WORLD.

and pretty. Though her eyes are raxher close to her lips, therein resembling her father. her expression is most charming. when they laugh outright which ttvy often do. Her brow Is prominent, but above 1t is a mass of wavy. fuffy nut brown hair. Her voice Is not we'll trained. but youthfulness and good heaTtedness make 1t sweet. Her childish figure be- ing rather slender seems rather tall and absolutely no art is employed to round it's angularities. This Is as much as to say her figure is not perfect; alas, to say this is to be rude. But what Is a poor Murmurer of the truth to do? Every- body is demanding to be told just how this fair maiden, pride of the nation. ap- pears in evening raiment. Here you have the truth from one who adores all maidenhood, one who holds every good woman sacred, and this Is most likely the first time. you have read the actual facts about the real debutante of the White House.
 At the last of the seasons receptions at the White house there stood just be. hind one of the, most sweetly gracious women in the world a little boy. This woman stood by the President and smiled a good angel to the representatives, of the world of war, diplomacy and society. giving the benediction of good womanss, grace to every one who passed. Re- peatedly the little boy pulled at the wo- mans siken skirts and cried mamma" and turning her head every time she answered ''Yes, dear" It was mamma" and ives, dear" while the great and the beautiful and the commonplace passed by. The woman was the Presidents wife. the little boy his son and her son, About it all was the glory of mother hood and childhood and greatness-a glory not to be forgot. : Womanhood, motherhood, amaidenhood-< hail to the blessed trinityl He is low fal- len who canont cry I love you, love you, love you!
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23

q 1 . e0 of the south4 Ie is the best place in the world to come for bit of midwinter vacation. It is full of finances and fun. Everybody is prosperous. Smiles are natural ornaments to all faces. The town is, in a measure based upon cotton. The farmer raises this cotton hereabouts and ships it to Augusta. The men of Augusta buy 1t, trade in it. manufacture 1t and get rich and fat because of it. Augusta gets quarter of a million bales of cotton from the farmers each and every year. It manufactures about 10000 bales into clothes and the balance is exported or shipped to the New England mills. The exporter, as well as the mill man and the factor, is in much evidence here, and all of them wear the air of plenty. Each gets his share of profit from the handling and manufacture of cotton.
 They work in the morning and play golf in the afternoon. If it happens to be raining they play Ping Pong. And, by the way, I have gotten into the Ping Pong habit. It strikes you all in a heap I have just finished three hours strug-, gle with 1t. It is, no more nor less than an abbreviated game of tennis. It is a game of skill, requiring delicacy of touch. You must exercise a given amount of strength-no more, nor less-to achieve perfect skill. There is lots of fun to be
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
IN HOTEL LOBBTES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Reformed EpIsoopaI Church.

'sThe death of Bishop James 4. Latane, which occurred in Baltimore yesterday, removes from this worlds activities one of the godiiest of men and recalls the separation of several notable clerygy- men from the Episcopal church quarter of century or more ago." said promi- nent Episcopal layman yesterday
 Those who left the Episcopal church to organize the Reformed Episcopal church were all men of deep piety and strong convictions of the low church party, but their work of reform was not called for by any abuses or extreme tendencies away from American land- marks, and as result the new church never grew.
 "The Reformed Episcopal church today has less than 10000 members. It is only a question of time when it will dwindle to nothing.
The age-herald., 1902-02-23
Summer School for Teachers.

"One of the visible results of the work of the Southern educational board, the discussion of the plans of which created so much comment when the board met last fall in New York, is a great summer school to be held at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, beginning June 1s and extending to July 91,'' said well-known educator of Birmingham.
 'sThe list of teachers who have agreed to participate includes so many of the great men and women in education in the country that it looks almost formidable. It is announced that the only money con sideration will be a fee of s5 for registra- tion, which will keep out people not in earnest None of the teachers will have any financial interest in the success of the school, but it is intended to give the teachers of the South an opportunity to attend summer school of high grade in pleasant and healthful place. The courses proposed to be given Include common school subjects and methods, psychology and pedagogy, high school and college subjects and general lectures.
 President Alderman of Tulane will be one the instructors, and Prof. c. Al- phonsus Smith of the Louisiana State University will be another.
 "It is announced that the school will be under the direction of President c. w. Dabney of the University of Tennessee, and that Prof. P. P. Claxton of the Southern Education Board, will be super intendent.
 Attractive and valuable, features for teachers in common schools will be the work in manual training, vocal music, drawing, nature study. elementary agri- culture, horticulture and school garden ing.
 For the department of psychology and pedagogy, which will include educational psychology and the history, science and of Ohio. the welI-known author, teacher and lecturer; Dr. E. A. Alderman, for merly professor of pedagogy and prest- dent of the University of f'North Carolina. and now president Of Tulane University, and Prof. P. P CIaxton, formerly profess sor of pedagogy in the North Carolina State Normal School, have been engaged.
 Systematic courses running through the entire six weeks will be offered in all the principal high school and college subjects. Besides the actual courses in Greek. Latin, German and French, special courses will be offered in the literature of these languages through English translations. This will be unique and valuable feature of this department. Another unique feature of the school will be. convention of the county super- intendents and institute conductors for the purpose of instructing and assisting them in preparing for the duties of their offices. These sessions will be held daily during the first three weeks of the school. At the close of this convention a large convention of campaigners will be held to which all persons who are actively in- terested or engaged in the improvement of the educational conditions in the South will be invited.''