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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
DEMOCRATIC TICKET,


FOR STATE SENATOR.
&. B. ECTOE,
Representatiye-eOth District
J. WILL CLAY
OF Montgomery.
County Judge,
A. A. HAZELRIGG
County Attorney,
CLARENCE +. THOMAS.
County Clerk.
JOHN +. KING
sheriff,
CLIFTON r.. PREWIrT
Assessor,
c. A. MCCORMICK.
Jsiler,
superintendent of.schools,
NJ. j. GOODWIN
Coroner,
GEORGE c. EAsTIN.
BIagistrate-lst District,
W. T. FITZPATRICK
Magistrate-2d District,
j. W. HENRY.
Magistrate-3d District,
CT. DEAN.
Magistrate-4th District
J. II. SHULTZ,
Magistrate-5th District,
7. \. PERRY.
Constable-lst District,
ALBERT REED.
Constable-2d District,
RUFUS sTOCKDALE.
Constable-3d District,
II. KIMBRELL
CoAstable-4th District,
J. NJ. OLDFIELD.
Constable-5th District
MARCUS JUDGE
Councilmen-lst.W
4. Ri. BOURNE,
G. ID. SULLIVAN.
Couneilmen-2 % Ward,
T. b. RODMAN,
j. W. WADE.
Councilmen-ith.W Ward,
M. o. COCKRELIA
WILLIAM Bolts.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
T. a r ID
We have about

and distinguished citizens, at $40
to $50 each. Ours is a voluntary
and free contribution.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

We are authorized TO announce JAMES l..
ROBERTSON a. a candidate for Jailer of Mont
gomery County, subject 10 the action Of the Re
publican party.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
BANKS.

The Bank Josephine was organ
lied about IA years ago. The
Fist National on June began its
second year.
On June 30 their books showed !:
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12

Dr. Richard Strauss is considered
the richest composer in Europe. He
has a sharp business sense.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
POPULATION .

In 1903 there were here 1889
people. The present estimate is
between 400 and 1900; voters in
town about 220.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
BUSINESS.

There are SO mercantile estab-
lishments including two restau-
rants and two refreshment stalA
Physical infrmities are assailed
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We DO not take in the whole
earth for trade, nor do we contine
ourselves to Mt. Sterling and Mont
gomery, waiting for something to
happen; our business as well as
our sympathies and good wishes
are broadening. In other years
we made trip in buggy from Mt.
Sterling through Bath, Rowan,
Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin,
Morgan, Wolfe and Menefee. Last
year we combined methods of trav-
ell to West Liberty, then took it
horseback as did the pioneers.
On Monday, July 3. We had dim
ner at home, took train at 1925,
stopped for nearly hour in Ash
land, thence to Prestonsburg via
Big Sandy division extended from
Whitehouse, arriving here at 7:40
p. m. Off train is on time } total 16S
miles 900 to Ashland, thence 49,.
On train to Ashland we met
Mrs. Smith, of Harrodsburg, can
wasting for her college, and Rev.
G. w. Young, the noted temper
ance worker, en- route to Ohio and
SEINE eastern points.
AS train passed below Paints
Vile we noticed partially COM
pleted iron bridge leading from
town across the creek to depot out
in the country. We learn that on
Sunday night high water for the
third time washed away the false
work for this bridge.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12

We called on Prof. Ed. NJ.
Kennison, one of the professors.
President Byington was not at
home. This institution has Ii
teachers; an enrolment during
past year in all departments 377,
with IL counties represented. The
college building is a twO-story
brick with s spacious rooms, and
hall ways. The frame dormitory
has over 20 rooms. The large
chapel is seated with chairs.
We judge that the institution is
accomplishing much for education
and is profitable. Success to it.
The writer left Prestonsburg on
Thursday morning for Pikeville.
On train we met Prof. F. C. Button
who is to spend some days in Pike
in the interest of the Morehead
Normal. These lines are furnished
at Pikeville.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
PREsToNsBURG.

The population is about $50.
Did not get the ancient history of
the town. 1t shows considerable
evidences of an awakening. The
powers that be have decreed that
concrete walks shall be put down
on certain streets and work has be-
gun. The Hon. Frank Hopkins,
our Congressman, is taking a va
cation. He is Superintendent of
Construction on Highways and
General Advisor Tor Boss). Some
people should be kept busy to keep
them out of mischief. He is TAX
ing outdoor life. His health is
much improved as compared with
last year. A robust constitution
is a valuable asset for long and
efficient public service in Wash
ington.
Circuit court is in session. Did
not get the proceedings in crimi-
nal docket. d. w. (Dud) Gard
ner, of Salyersville, is presiding
Judge. He appears to be at ease
anywhere in the court room while
court is in session-walking, sit
ting, standing, reclining-usually
without coat, is sociable, agreea BILE
and approachable, with inclination
to "get up in the world, and at
tentive to testimony offered in
murder trials. Between rains and
with sunshine hot in court room
there was nvrI of comfortable sur.
roundings.
A stranger, of fine physique,
tall and symmetrical, of command
ing personality, attracted our at
tention. We asked who he was
A friend introduced him as A. b.
Stephens the Commonwealth At
torney.
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FACTS and OBSERVATION
The Writer Sees Some Things al
Prestonsburg, PikevilIe and
PaintsvlIe.
BUT NO GLORIOUS FOURTH CELEBRATION
BESTOWMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL HONORS.

n
met last year at West Liberty is
now here. He is general manager
of the Winton Lumber and manu-
featuring Co. Has been here since
Feb. II. The company now OPP
crate saw mills. On July 5 he
closed deal for a acre tract on
railroad several miles above town
and will build manufacturing
plant.
The Harris Stanley Coal and
Land Co. are establishing a plant
near depot across river from town
The members are Hiram Harris,
County Judge, r. E. Stanley and
J. j. G. Mayo. They will push the
sale of business and residence
lots.
We met Mr.. G.. II. Dimick who
for several years has been prospect
ing for oil in this and adjoining
counties. His company and he
individually have drilled 100 wells,
of which so have been dry (dust
ers). The yield of oil from the 20
has not been encouraging consid-
ering the great expense in handling
machinery AID supplies for IS &c
So miles and boring to depth of
900 to 400 fit.
The oil found is high grade but
the quantity has been so small
that it has sold as low grade when
pumped into the main line. He is
disposed to abandon the field if
returns do not soon increase. We
recall these oil items from memory,
as our notes are misplaced.
CAUTION.
We advise strangers and ladies
travelling alone to reach this town
N day time instead of at night as
the depot is more than one hslf
mile from postoffice or center of
town the town is on opposite eide
of river, there is no hack to meet
passengers, no bridge, no light to
guide you along the railroad and
down the embankment where a
skiff awaits foot passengers The
travel by day light is safer. Bet
ter things will come. Smile and
make the most of present sur
roundings.
WILL HE BE A CANDIDATE FOR CON-
GREssI
1t is yet too early for formal
announcement by prospective can
didates for Congressional honors
and pay, Some men are feeling
around-and, might De prevailed
upon to sacrifice their personal
interests upon the altar of public
service and duty. 1t is to be pre-
sumed that the present incumbent
the Hon. Frank A Hopkins, of this
town, will be candidate for re
election, until he pubilically or
formally declares that he will not
make the race. AS the matter
now stands the writer does not
hesitate to express his willingness
and desire for Mr.. Hopkins to sue
coed himself. We regard him as a
clean, pure, energetic, capable,
public-spirited man, capable whose
experience in Congress puts him
in position to know how to ac-
cOmplish things. Until our esti
mate of him is changed, we advo-
cate his candidacy. If from any
source the impression has gone out
that Mr.. Hopkins expects to retire
from office at the close of this
term, we by announcing that he
now expects to be candidate
would change that impression. To
the Democrats of this the Tenth
Congressional District or any
ee0eessssasses zee
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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12

Star tin cans 40c per dozen at
s,~ Greenw4de's.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12
JOSEPHINE.

Work has begun on the founda-
ton of fine brick residence for
W. S Harkins. Other residences
are being enlarged.
Robt. f. McQuay whom we had
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12

other district we are constrained
to say that we do not deem it wise
to have frequent changes in our
national representatives unle s
those representa- tive show by their
lives (their words, their morals,
their purposes, their efforts etc.
that they are incompetent, and
unworthy the confidence and sup
port of intelligent, patriotic, God
fearing people. 1t pays and is
prudent and patriotic to get rid of
one who is unworthy and to pre-
vent the nomination of such as
piring.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1905-07-12

KENTUCKY NORMAL COLLEGE.
New-York tribune., 1905-07-30

place in the country miles from civilization.
found it, without then knowing whose it was,
quiet rambling house, many-cOrnered, many
gabled covered warmly with ivy-in which, it
appeared to me, all the sparrOws in those parts
had chosen to make their neSts-fOur miles from
village the name of which do not to give you.
There was an atmosphere of rest and content
about the place that seemed to float over the
terraces, over the well-clipped lawns, over the
heads of the ancient oaks and beeches. over the
four-foot wall of faded brick-fron all the cracks
of which the heads of open-eyed green weeds peeped
curiously out-into the very road which | stood.
Inside those walls it seemed to me, the leaves
were greener and rustle1 less uneaSly than in other
places. The trees, although older. AMI with limbs
lust as twisted as the limbs of other trees seemed
less weather-worn, optimistic. The crows
living in their branches cawed less raucously. and
appeared less quarrelsome, less given to saying
nasty things about each other, than other crows.
The rabbits bobbed in and out among the bracken
erect ear the half-turned head, of other rabbits.
Even the COWS, chewing in the paddocks. seemed
to lash their tails at the persistent flies less reStlesSy
less unavainglv than other cows and their chewing
was leisurely, less ravenous, less competitive
i mean in the sense that they appeared to know
they not eating 10 provide market with milk,
but simply in order give milk to people who kept
them a hobby.
The kissing of cheerful grooms in the distant
stables, the sudden musical clang of pals upon
cobbes, the occasional merry cry of some boy
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the crows the cows the rabbits for there 1,hng
so catching as love.
| can't tell YOU how excited felt at the prospect
of seeing these people again l hadn't seen them
since they were married. | was Arthur best man.
you know and had not forgotten the odd pathetic
and yet strongly optimistic picture they made
standing at the altar of the little quiet church in
which alone except for the old cer- vrlan
and his verger.
y CLINT of sun slanted from the window down mon
the face of handsome Arthur Toller His once don't
open and cold; but there was an infinitely eet
smile on his lips he chung tenderly. with a.ost
childlike trust and faith, the hand of the
at his side-''the most beautiful woman the
world, Mary Street, the nurse. How did II gos
"A hdeOus woman" they said, didn't .tev,
What it? "A hideous woman of low tn
a woman from nowhere, without an aitch her
name; as good as that kind of woman general IS.
good gadl"
That was the description they gave you q Sc
people who had never seen her No truth IN
1t. of course. Mary Street was not a beau III
woman, as beautiful women go She was no r re
indeed than plain woman Her face was gray
irregular. and even commonplace; but she look L
at one with a pair of eyes in which ShOne devotio.
constancy, truth, 1ove-those things which do no,
always go with beauty, but which there when
beauty has shed its last petal and winter has with
cred up its bloom.
| crossed the paddock, made my hurried
Continued rage Is)
New-York tribune., 1905-07-30

girl mingled as the voices Of alto and tenor mingle
with those of bass and baritone in unacCom-
panied quartet with the tender pipings of the
birds the deep minor note of the sheep-bell, the
almost imperceptible rustling of leaves, the just
discernble buzz of insects.
There was something about it all that filled me
with a desire climb the wall find some mound
of moss for my head, fling away my cares with my
hat-f | could be said to have any other than
those following upon a happy marriage of three
years standing go to sleep for week,
month, year ten years
\ yolel came along, with bent back and wizened
face dried like apple and slashed with deep cuts
who told in answer to my question with that
air of ineabe surprise which is the one great char
acteristic of yokels that Muster Tollr" lived
there.
Mr.. Arthur Toler?"
He tilted his mud-cOlored hat and passed his
crinkled hand his upper lip paving attention
to the eager way in which shot my second question
at him. Muster Toll'r's the name e goes by
Oh ave eeard suthin o Arthur, though
Mabbe-'
But had vaulted the wall and was almost run
ming toward the house. This where the To1lers
hved This the place in which they had been
content to remain for nine whole yearsl This was
the place from which Toler had dictated letters to
me- perhaps twice a year, to tell me what an ex-
quisite thing life when love was in it; how
beautiful his wife was; how little he cared for all
the things he had lost, except his sight | might
have guessed it from the appearance of the trees,
New-York tribune., 1905-07-30

F one is disposed to study art or the art :
sense of decoration, no better beginning
could be made than in the ancient bury
ing grounds kitchen-niddens and old town-sites
of the Pacific Coast, here we have a people
who up to I545, as far as known, had no inter
course with the whites in anyway. They never
had piece of modern jewelry gold or
silver or pearl They knew nothing of the
vanities of life as found among the whites of
Europe; hence all their ideas were evolved at
first hand and We're the results of purely natural
desires. Hence the jewelry, which we may take
as an illustration, is pure expression of a
crude art-sense, base or foundation upon
which all modern art, the production of
beautiful objects, was founded.
The writer has been fortunate in finding from
time to time in the shell mounds and kitchen
middens of the coast many articles of personal
adornment that particularly interesting as
illustrating the art-sense of the natives. On
the islands of the Santa Catalina Channel the
aborigines had literally nothing with which
to beautify themselves, except red blue white
and black colors. the pearly shells of various
kinds, particularly the haliotis. They also
made wampum from shell and bone not espe-
cally attractive, after the fashion of the Indians
of the interior, The accompanying illustration
shows a native of Zuni boring wampum with
the peculiar instrument that has been known
to man in some form for a long time and whose
real history is lost in the past.
The haliots the most important animal
for these jewelry makers. 1t is found in large
quantities alOngshore rocks down from one
to ten feet or more and is pried off with specially
made tools Its meat is excellent food, its
shell the ancient drinking cups, while its
rich pearly interior formed the most of the
material for countless Conceits in the way of iewe
Everywhere on the islands of the Catalina Chan
the writer has found this shell, and taken do
carefully packed one in the other, selected to
by some native, from the side of a wash twenty
feet below the surface on the slopes of the inte
mountains four miles from the water How Il
it must have taken for these shells to become bun
twenty-five feet on comparatively level gro,
the reader may imagine.
After a careful examination of the surroundir
the writer convinced that some child
packed these shells into nest" ages ago, as
earth above them was carefully stratitied "
repeated layers of vegetation, showing that
deposit had been of the slowest possible kind
growth of sofia natural deposit of dead vegetat
in locality where vegetation was not particul;
abundant. In walking along the bed of an anci
wash the writer picked out from the sides m
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love of the beautiful These beads v e
buried with the owner, and in taking ur II
old skull from a trench the writer four it
was third full of beads. I he strings had
placed on the face over it. and in time had n
into the Uranium They were of all kinds 4
shapes. but mostly OF shell. perforated do
less, in the manner shown in the cut of ne
Zuni worker, only the Catalinian prob
worked the drill by rubbing the hands lu "
back and forth, holding it between the 2. rs.
Some of the beads We're especially attra, e.
One especially was half an inch IN dian r.
yet so thin that fifty would not have mad
inch, each selected for its irideSCence. d
the haliotiS been rare. these perfect sphere 1f
marvellous tenJity would have rivaled pc IS,
and when it is remembered that the arts
possessed no tools but wood and she'll surprise
is succeeded by admiration
The women used earrings of real N"c--E
bearing resemblance to some gold
the Cesnola collection; but the type was a r-r
resembling hsh-hool with the barb absent
upon the inside The writer has found thcea
earrings from the initial movement of the
maker to the finished architect The halioti=
shell was chipped away until it formed q cir
about an inch or a little more in dlaue-.~
This was perforated in the manner DESERT B.
then larger tool, numbers of which W~rr
found with the rings was used 20 enlar-e
the orlhce until IL had the appearance of
ring; section of this then Skilfuly broken
out and the development of the ring proceedcL
FiSh-hookS were made in the same way, only
larger and having a pronounced barb bur
curiously enough upon the outer side. Among
these beads were some which the ancient
ISLANDERS of San Nicolas. sixty miles from
Santa Catalina, considered extremely choicc
i these We're concealed in what for a better name
called 'jewel-caSes" They were merely two
iotS shells face to face, one a trife smaller than
other, and fastened together sealed tightly
h asPhaltum. When taken from the grave
contents would sound like seeds in rattle.
the last discovered We're supposed to contain
assure of some kind but when broken open N
It was found were few beautifully colOred beads
haliotis shell, or some curiouSly marked pebble
choice trinketS of some maiden, who treasured
I'M so tondly that she had them sealed up. as she
'ught, for all time and buried with her
The old sultans of Egypt thought they were
ure in their pyramids their caves skfully cut and
lcealed in solid rock; and So the natives of the
talina Islands probably never dreamed that
sir graves would be despoiled by strange white
ed people and their household gods distributed
er the face of the globe
New-York tribune., 1905-07-30

shells pieces Of cut haliotis and from end to end
Santa Catalina has kitchen-middens San Nicolas
has mile in length and ten feet high and San
Clemente is strewn with them, scattered with the
shells of the haliotis often of great size
This shell the gold mine of the ancients.
They recognized it's many beauties and cut out
the most perfect and lustrous portions inlaving
their OHdS and vessels, fastening on the pieces
with asphaltu.n. If man had a mortar or seed
grinder which he valued highly, he proceeded to
inlay it with motherof- earl-crudely, it is true
but the worker animated by the same love of
the beautiful as the mosaic worker of Rome or
Venice of to-day, He had the same idea-the
birth of the idea, it We're. These people five
hundred or more years ago decorated their flutes
with mosaic and many of their large beads were
dotted with mother-of-pearl
In other beads they displayed the most ella 5orate
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-23

10 pieces Cotton Vol, different
color3. 15c quality at Zoe.
Lace collars $1.5O and So grades
to sell for $1.23. Also 81 to 81 40
grade to go at SOC.
Just received full line mems
straw hats at prices that will
astonish.
Suits just what you want for
Easter, made by the well known
Stiff & Bros. High grade tailor,
n. Y. perfect fit guaranteed.
Ladies Silk Parasols in colors to
match the dress.
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AMERICUs. as. APRIL %. 1895.
EASTER REFLECTIONS.

Holy weeks bring to mind a
thought of how much human ma
ture can be comprised in a small
space of time. The philosopher
begins with Palm Sunday and sees
the fickleness of the pe0ple-wor-
Shipping the rising sun and crying
"Hosanna. Then the supper at
Bethany; Simon had invited the
Lord to break bread with him, yet
when this guest entered the house
he did not offer him the common
courtesy usual among the Jews.
When Magdalene Amounted the
sacred feet Simon complained with
in his heart. but the Saviorrebuked
him for his spirit of criticism and
his parsimony.
Then Judas! the incarnation OF
treachery, ingratitude and malice.
The character has a sort of fasci-
nation in it. "He that dippeth
his hand into the dish with me-
even in that day friends broke
bread together and one betrayed
Then the cowardice of Peter, the
hypocrisy of the High Priest and
the brutality of the Jews. But
there is another phase of human
nature--the fidelity of John, the
penitence of Magdalene and the
love of Mary, the mother. Centu-
ries have elapsed, but human ma,
ture is the same today, the same as
then. Still are there Peters, still
Marys, and still, alas! many Ju
das, who yesterday kissed his
friend and today betrayed him
The last is the most pitiful of all
because there is forgiveness fOl
cowardice, for cruelty, for ayarice
but Judas is Judas, and shall be t.
The end of the world.
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RED AND GRAY SQUIRRELS
The Males of Both Species Are Ia.
cOrrigibIe Fighters.

4 very quarrelSome disposition has
the chickarec, or American red squir-
rel, and there are continual fights be
tween it and its cousin the gray SOUR
rel. These fights seldom end i'll a de
cided victory for either side. The males
of both species are incorrigible fight
ers. 1t is no unusual sight to see Il
couple of red or gray squirrels come
tumbling from some lofty limb so lock-
ed in each others embrace as to appear
almost like one animal.
Though the shock of striking the
ground separates them, it is for a mo
ment only. They Immediately clinch
again and continue to roll over and
over fighting tiercely until one breaks
away, only to be followed by the other,
who keeps up running fight for some
distance until he feels certain that he
has so punished the conquered one that
he will not dare return
Red squirrels by their greater agil-
ity and quicknesS can worst a gray
squirrel every time in a running fight
but let them once come to clinch and
the superior size and weight Of the
gray squirrel are bound to telI.-Chica-
go News.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-04-23

Mems elastic seam drawers,
regular 6Oc quality at SOC.
Good quality check muslin 49c.
10c quality check muslin Sc.
All the best brands Percale and
Madras at SC.
Laces striped Misses Tan, White
and Black hose, 25cquality at Ice.
All Silk Taffeta ribbon in all
colors, 25c grade for 15c.
Call and inspect my stock spring
bargains and you will 60 away de
lighted.