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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
State Insurance Commissioner
Asked to Decide Whether
Life Policy is Taxable.

A question of wide interest has
been presented to Attorney Gener
al Hays by Insurance Commission
er Henry Prewitt for an opinion
for the guidance of the latter. 1t
is whether policy of life insurance
is taxable in the hands of the
holder as is other property under
the tax laws of the Commonwealth.
The question was presented to
the Commissioner from an Eastern
Kentucky county by county oflic-
ial, who sought to assess a paid-up
policy for taxation. The question
will, of course, go into the courts
for final decision.
Attorney General has decided the
question giving it his opinion that
policies whether paid up or not are
subject to taxation and should be
estimated by its surrendered cash
value.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
Another Method.

Some one asks for a method of
canning corn so it will keep. Try
using tartaric acid. Dissolve an
ounce of the acid in half teacup
of water, add one tablespoonful of
this mixture to two quarts of corn
or green beans while cooking.
Druggists tell me there is no harm
in using so small amount of the
acid. Then the acid may be soak
ed out by pouring water over the
contents of the can when opened,
draining off water after standing a
few hours. The corn or beans
keeps perfectly canned in this way
and the flavor is fine.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
I UNCLE SAN
TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL
LABORATORY TO EX-
ANIME IMPORTED
FOOD STUFF.

A chemical laboratory for tie
examination of imported food pro-
ducts will be opened in the APP
praiser's Store Building of the
Treasury Department in New
York by the Department OF Agri.
culture September 5. Five expert
chemists will be installed. having
been selected through special ex-
aminations by the Civil Service
Commission. This is the first of a
number ofport laboratories to be
established to prevent impure food,
the product of foreign countries,
entering the United States. Con-
gress will be asked for appropria-
lions for such laboratories at Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, New Orleans,
San Francisco and Chicago. The
foreign pure food law has been in
force more than year, and is re-
garded as beyond the experiment
tai stage.
DR.. H. w. Wiley, Chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry of the De-
partment of Agriculture, declares
that it is the intention of the de-
partment to "put the screws ON"
Eighty per cent of the importa-
lions of food arrive at New York.
When the pure food law was first
put into operation it was found
that rs per cent of the imports of
foods and drinks we're admissible
under its provisions. Many car
goes have been reshipped out of
the country as impure, resulting in
raising the standard of imports
until now it is estimated that IS
per cent of the imports are admis-
sible under the law.
The Secretary of Agriculture
has just granted the first request
of an importer to destroy his cargo
instead Of reshipping it after it
had been condemned as impure.
the cargo being olive oil.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
TELL the Other Boys"

One of the most terrible warn
ings against cigarette smoking was
given not long ago by chorister
boy in one of the. Brooklyn
churches, who died in great agony
in st. Johns Hospital.
Almost his last words were I:
lei any boy who smokes cigarettes
look at me now and know how much
/ have suffered, and he will never
put another into his mouth
Here is his story as he told it to
his nurse, Sister Cornelia: TO me
he confessed that this trouble had
originated from cigarette smoking.
At first he kept his grandmother in
Ignorance of his indulgence. AS
he continued to smoke the appetite
grew upon him with such force that
he could not break off, and it began
to affect his constitution.
Why / asked him, did you
not stop when you saw what it was
bringing you TOP
"'Oh, could not he replied !;
If could not get to smoke / al
most went wild. could think of
nothing else.
Sister Cornelia continued the
story: During all his sufferings
be never forgot what had brought
him to this terrible condition. He
kept asking me to warn all boys
against their use. A few days be-
fore he died he called me to his
bedside and said that he thought
he had not lived in vain il only
those boys who are still alive would
profit by his suffering and death.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
nEMnGnAgs IN me- ..E
DARK CORNER
Enthusiastic for Parker and Davis
--TheY Stand Firmly for States
Rights and a White Mans
Government.

WHITEsBURG, Letcher Co., KY,
August 10, 1904.
EDITOR ADvocATE:-The nemc-
Gratis in this dark corner OF the
"dark and bloody Eleventh " are
thoroughly aroused and every one
of them is standing like Spartan
for Parker and Davis. The votes
will be cast but whether they will
be counted or not is entirely diff
ferent question, which, viewed in
the light of the history of Republi-
can rascality in the Eleventh, for
slime whereof the memory of man
runneth not TO the contrary" does
not inspire any one of them with
hope or belief that his vote will be
numbered among the many that will
go to make up the 5000 majority
which Kentucky will give the Dem
ocratic ticket in November.
Keeping in view the great and
fundamental principles of the Dem
ocratic party-States' rights, self
government, white mans govern
ment, military subordination to
civil authorities, etc., our Demo-
Gratis care very little about the alb
sence of a financial plank In the
Democratic platform or whether
Parker's telegram was . CT. and and
dried affair; they know that Dem
ocratic supremacy means safety
and security in their lives; liberty
and prosperity and wholesome re-
gard for law and order as against
mob-rule, murder and military dom
nations. Every Democrat knows,
who has kept posted in the trend of
affairs, that from the day that Brad
ley rang the riot bell when Jack
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
The Kentucky Apple Crop.

Prof. H. Garman, entomologist
and botanist, of the Kentucky Elk
pertinent Station, says: "The
prospect for a crop of apples in
Kentucky seems to me very poor,
the conditions at this time being
very much like those of last year.
| have just returned to the station
from trip into the southwestern
part of the State, where l found
lit a late snow and freeze de-
str6yed all prospects for a profit
able crop of apples this year. In
eastern Kentucky, where the freeze
was not so severe, many orchards
escaped and now bear nice crops of
fruir. but this is not within the
most productive fruit section of the
State, and the orchards that es-
capped in this section will make but
little difference in the general out
look for the State. A similar con
dition prevailed in Kentucky at
this time last year. Certain favored
spots produced good crops Of ex-
celIent apples, bur for the State as
awhole the apple crop was fail
Gre"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
c. T. FLANDERS, Judy, KY
what a small vice Cost.

"How can you afford these
books?' asked young man, call
ing upon friend; Il can't seem to
find spare change for even the lead
ing magazines
"Oh. that library is only my 'one
cigar day was the reply.
"What do you mean?' inquired
the visitor.
"Mean? just this: when you
advised me to indulge in an occa-
sional cigar several years ago, / had
been reading about a young fellow
who bought books with money that
Others would have burned in cigars,
lend, l thought would try to do the
Ae. You may remember that l
Sss,id / should allow myself one cigar
day?"
Eyes, l recall the conversation,
but don't quite see the connection"
"Well, l never smoked, but / put
by the price of a five cent cigar
every day, and as the money accu-
INFLATED bought books-the very
books you see.'
"You don't mean to say that your
books cost no more than thatl
Why. there are dollars worth of
them"
eyes, know there are. / had
six years more of my apprentice
ship to serve when you advised me
TO be a man" / put by the money,
which at five cents day amounted
to $l825 year, or $l0950 in six
years. / keep those books by them :
selves as result of my apprentice
IN cigar money and if you'd done
as \ did you would bv this time
have saved many more dollars than
| have, and would have been
better off in health and seli-respect
besides. Success.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
Jellico, Tennessee,

has a population of about $500
H. w. Elliott, of Kentucky, in
writing of it says:
"Part of the town is in Ken
tuckY-probably four hundred
people living on the Kentucky side,
In that part there are is saloons
and in Tennessee, there is not one.
The existing law in that State en-
ables towns of certain class to
knock out these dens of iniquity.
1t is sad commentary on our
State that such thing is possible
as exists at Jellico.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31

Chinn, Eph Lillard, Bob Franklin
and Jim Williams unwittingly
scared him, until fugitive Taylor
took refuge under the coat-tail of
Indiana's chief executive, it was
not safe for him to voice his honest
sentiments in a community of Re-
publicans in Kentucky. They be-
lieved and had reason and right to
believe that Republican Governor
would pardon any Republican who
chose to kill Democrat for politi-
cal reasons. Kentucky has had a
taste of Republican rule and Heaven
deliver us from like experience in
the future.
The old Republican party was
born in the red tide of battle, from
the lannon's mouth martial music
was its lullaby, the rattle of muske-
try was the amusement of its base
born infancy and the bloody
shirt" it's swaddling clothes. Hav-
ing such origin as this, it has all
along the line been a party of force
and fraud ready at all times to APP
peal to the military rather than the
civil authorities for redress of
wrongs real or imaginary.
Here in the Eleventh district
they have "fallen outp among them
selves. Hunter by some hook or
crook has secured the certificate of
nomination for Congress as re-
suit of the primary held on the
ninth inst. yet the returns show
Edwards a majority of more than
eleven hundred. This Hunter-Ed-
wards "rumpus" suggests an old
adage--something about honest
men getting their dues. The DEM
ocratic prayer is: May the Lord
increase their troubles" They are
bound to rob politically and in
district like the Eleventh where
there are practically no democrats
to rob, they are robbing ore another.
Let the good work go on
S. S. Classify.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
NUMBER 7
Poultry Notes.

A poultry breeder in New York
State is reported recently to have
sold 10 pure-bred chickens, three
cockerels and 16 hen, tor $4,000
for export to Berlin, Germany. 1t
is stated that this is the largest
price ever received for 10 chickens.
Allow the young turkeys free
range, anu 10 not attempt to raise
them if you cannot give them this
freedom. The rowing instinct of
their native parent is too strong to
be easily eradicated. They thrive
best in the field and meadow where
grasshoppers abound; and in sea-
sons when this insect becomes a
pest their value to the farmer is
two-fold.
1t is an exceptional case when it
can be considered advisable to
hatch any kind of fowls during
August. The hot, dry weather is
very hard on young fowls and they
will not thrive as they should. A
better plan if more fowls are desir-
ed to set the eggs the last week in
August. Usually by the time they
will hatch the weather will be some
what cooler and the chicks will
thrive better.
When given free range during
the the summer, two feeds day
are all the hens require. A good
morning meal of scraps from the
table soaked in milk until soft and
sufficient bran added to give them
a good meal. For a grain ration,
feed whole wheat in the morning
and whole corn in the evening.
Numerous are the remedies for
gapes. Some say incubator hatch
ed chicks are immune from this
disease. This is a mistake. Put
them on the ground occupied last
year, two, or even three years ago
by gaping chicks and they will
contract the disease. The worms
live in the soil from year to year.
The safe plan is TO give them a
new yard. The same plan is es-
sential in applying any of the pop
ular remedies, kerosene, turpentine
and camphor. So long as they oc-
cupy the same ground doctoring
only relieves, but does not cure.
1t is waste of food to keep
young roosters after they weigh
five pounds a pair, as they are sold
as "old ROSTERS" after their combs
grow. In the market old ROSTERS
bring from five to seven ceuts
pound, while young ones often sell
at from fifteen to twenty cents
pound. 1t is loss to keep them
longer than when they are old
enough to sell.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31
what Does Prohibition Seek

Prohibition has reference to the
distiller and saloon keeper rather
than the drinker. 1t seeks to de-
stroy the trade. The province of
the prohibitory law is tn deal with
the manufacture, the Importation
and sale Of liquid fire, and this the
state and nation has a moral and
legal right to do. The state has
a right to make it hard to do
wrong, and if possible, to make it
impossible to commit any act or
carry on any trade that leads to
lawlessness, disorder and crime.
This is the province of law as well
as to encourage right. Prohibi
ton means to destroy the liquor
trade or industry and for this rea-
son alone the various liquor organI-
cations and saloonkeepers prefer
any other system to that of mu-
nicipal, State and national Prohi-
bition and spends thousands of
dollars to defeat it. The worst
thing the people can do is to up
hold any system that tends to ciyi-
lie and clothe the liquor traffic in
the garments Of responsibility and
thereby greatly lengthen its life
and increase its power for farm.
Patriots beware of this course of
respectabilitY and oppose every
movement in that direction when
the trade relates to alcohol for
beverage purposes.
The more respectable the liquor
business is made by law, the more
restraint there is placed upon sa-
looms to dignity and civilize them,
the greater will become their pat
ronage from a fast increasing
national appetite for drink and the
longer will be the life of the trade.
whereas, the more disreputable the
Traffic is made, and the greater its
crimes and public atrocities, all the
sooner will the nation become
aroused and completely destroy the
internal license system. Again l
say, let all citizens beware of and
steadfastly oppose any system
which tends to make the license
saloon business more respectable
and therefore more inviting.
The liquor traffic is the crime of
the ages-the sum of all villainies
and no man, no political party or
institution can endorse it, support
it, submit to it, or quietly ignore it,
without sin. 1t is beyond ques-
tlon the most stupendous problem
in morals, finance, politics, educa-
tion or religion, that confronts the
American people and the people of
the whole world. 1t threatens to
engulf all that is pure and holy. 1t
exists without one redeeming feat
ure. Its history is history of
broken hearts and wasted treas
ure, bloodshed and crime, For
this gigantic evil there is but one
sensible and effective remedy.
That remedy is municipal, state
and national Prohibition of the
manufacture, the importation and
the sale of alcoholic beverages, and
the prohibitory law faithfully en-
forced by patriotic citizens
James w. Zachary in Christian
Reform Federation.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-08-31

Adyertisc--success tollows.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-08

In b city OF New York. Borough OF
Manhattan. who deposes and says:
I I'm a practical railroad man and
accountant Of many years standing.
and have had considerable experiences
In the building. operating and manage
ment OF railroads. My present occu-
patton is largely in connection with
railroad accounts.
1 have examined the annual report
OF the Atlantic and North Carolina
Railroad Company. for h year md
ing June Goth. 1900.
i find on page IL, thereof, the report
OF the finance committee which shows
a total Of receipts for the year %
$3Ss.12e.S4, and a statement is made
that such receipts" are $72 i07.67 more
thai for the preceding year
These were not receipts In the proper
sense OF the term. and they could not
have been. seeing that the gross earn
ings to only $304, l07. SO.
The amount stated as receipts doubt
less included proportions OF charges on
through traffic, such proportions being
the property OF the company on the
road OF which the traffic originated.
and, as such. these proportions have
no proper place in the accounts of this
company. The amount also included
an item which / will deal with next.
On page IA, there is shown a state
ment giving in detail the sum OF $685.
126.Sf already shown Is receipts"
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ton OF stock interest Of others of the
largest private stockholders, favored
a lease and would also join in the bill.
Affiant further states and expects to
prove that the market value of the
stock of this road Immediately advanc-
ed fifteen dollars per share. upon the
publication o. his appointment as re-
ceiver of the property.
Affiant further states and expects to
prove that in no wise was his conduct
or that Of his alleged co-conspirator.
re~prehensible or deceitfuly employed
to induce the approval of the bill in
equity, or his appointment as receiver
by his honor. Judge Purnell
List OF local attorneys for the years
1903 and 1904 as copied from the rec
ords of the Atlantic and North Caro-
lima Railroad Company is hereto at
tached. and made a part of this afh-
davit. v. E.. McBEE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 3ist day Of March. 1904.
PHILIP H. BUSBEE,
Notary Public.
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Robbed the Grave.

A startling incident. is narrated by
John Oliver of Philadelphia, az fol-
lows: 81 was in an awful condition.
My kin was almost yellow. eyes sunk
en-. tongue coated. pain continually in
back and sides. no appetite growing
weaker day by day. Three phys clans
had given me up. Then I was advised
to use Electric Bitters: to my great
joy. the first bottle made a decided i'm
provement. / continued their use Tor
three weeks. and am now a well man.
I know they robbed h grave Of anoth-
e. victim" No one should fan to try
them. Only 80 cents guaranteed at Z
R. Bellamy's drug store.
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In the Circuit Court of the United
States for the Eastern District OF
North Carolina. Sitting in Equity a.
Raleigh.
K. S. Finch in behalf Of himself and
all other stockholders Of the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad Com
pany. complainant.
Against
The Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
road Company. Defendant
J. S. Bishop being duly sworn says
that he is the cashier Of the Bank Of
Hamlet. has had experience as agent
In large agencies connected with rail-
road companies and for five years was
the travelling auditor of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad Company. Tha he
is familiar from experience with the
correct system OF accounting. That he
has made a sufficient inspection Of the
books and accounts Of the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad Company to
convince him that there have rot been
proper safeguards observed in the au-
diting of the receipts and vouchering
for disbursements to protect h com
pany from possible irregularities. GER
tain vouchers seen by affiant lacking
evidence to show the receipt Of the
goods called. That there appears to
be a lack of proper system Of account
ing observed between the various de-
partments. That in atlantis opinion
it would require a very thorough and
exhaustive examination OF h books
and accounts of said company to as
certain it's exact condition.
j. S. BISHOP.
Sworn to and subscribed before me.
this I4th day of March. 1904
WILLIAM H. OLIVE
Notary Public.
Before me personally appeared Chas.
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Total $685., 126 81
The last item OF miscellaneous" $40
70S.55 is not clear. The treasurer SAYS
he received that sum. but in no place
in this report does he account for
In the income account on page 81
miscellaneous earnings are shown as
only s156.65
There is no balance. sheet in this re-
port such as is called for and furnish
ed by all railroads. Neither the finance
committees report (page 12). the treas
urer's report. (pages IA and 16), nor the
income account, (page 800 is a balance
sheet.
1t is not possible to predicate nor
state the financial condition Of this
property from this report.
1t is abundantly clear that it does
not show all of the liabilities. Its con-
clusions purport to reach to Tune 30.
1908. On July l. 1903. the company
owed its officers n employees their
salaries and wages for the month of
June. 1903, and it also probably owed
for all store stock material and other
supplies purchased during the month
Of June. 1903.
The liabilities would all show in a
balance sheet, and his report is in
correct and misleading so far as the
company's financial condition is con-
cerned.
1 would further state that the ex-
penditure in the road bed would not
appear to be sufficient to keep it in
good order and repair
/ find that at the rate at which cross
ties were renewed during the last year
the average life of the ties is twelve
n one quarter years each, which
manifestly shows that cross-tie re-
newals are not kept up to the normal
1t is impossible from the report to
get at the status of the Atlantic hotel.
On page 10, treasurer's report. 1 find
cash paid account Atlantic hotel, s4,-
TAO. SO.
On pag 16, treasurer's report, I find
repair bills Atlantic hotel. 81, 900. 90.
Bills payable Atlantic hotel. S13 900 90.
On page q, auditors report. I find
Atlantic hotel, $25, S4S.4 AZ.
1t is impossible to say from this re-
port how much this hotel hHs cost or
is to cost. 1t is a most striking feat
ure, however that the sum of $35, $50. 81
shown on page Z. in the presidents
report includes $25. S43 for the Atlantic
hotel.
This hotel expenditure is not a per-
manent improvement. but. it is an in
vestment hat should be shown as such.
CHARLES OWSLEY. SHEPHERD.
Sworn to before me this 7th day Of
March, 1904.
WIN. T. QUINN,
Notary Public, Kings county, No. 5.
Certificates filed in New York county.
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A Cure for Hearache.

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