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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23
English Popular in Japan,


A prominent japanese public
man visiting this country recently
remarked that English was rapid
ly becoming the most popular Ian
guage in Japan. He predicts that
it will very soon become the ma
tiOnal language of his country and
ultimately the language of the
whole world. The japanese is
wise in his generation. The mar
VelOus progress made by Japan
in the last so years has been
achieved by the ability of its PEG
pie to seize and appropriate what
ever is most efficient in western
civilization. This attitude is now
again demonstrated in their
shrewdness in moving to apprO-
pirate the most efficient language
of modern times, and in the fore
sight of their public men in per
ceiving that English is likely to
become the universal language.
AN Iceman's Retort.
In her daily alteration with
the iceman over the short meas
ure he delivered, Mrs. Jones one
morning rallied him, in half
angry good nature. IL don't sec
what makes you so stingy with
your ice! You know you can't
take any of it with you to the next
worldw
The man paused with his hand
on the dOOr-knOb. eyes, Mrs.
JONES'" he said, "but you must re-
member that if you was to see me
coming with a block of ice to you
in the next world you'd be so glad
to get it that you wouldn't have
a word to say about short weight"
-IIippincott's.
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Poultry NOtsa.

spider il 10 SOmetime callad does
much damage to the poultry in
dustry everywhere. There small
tormentors decrease the egg yield,
retard growth of little chicks. and
the hens while sitting are liteaally
driven from the nest, And some
times the poor faithful hens die
on the nest as result of mite
infestatiOn.
They live and breed about in
crevices is the hen house andlay
in wait for the fowls when they
90 upon the nest or roosts. l have
been told they will die If all fowls
are shut out of infested buildings
so they have nothing to feed upon.
But we believe IN kiIIing them by
a quicker method than starvation,
and the sooner they are destroyed
the better if we want thrifty,
healthy fowls.
was surprised to hud few
million in one of our poultry houses
when the boy and we're cleaning
up a few days ago. We had not
been troubled with the pests for
years was the reason 1 was surpris'
ed to fad so many of the moving
specks. They are so very small 1t
taxes sharp eyes to discover them,
but you soon find out they are
around when they start to moving
around on your bands, arms OF
neck.
said to myself I'm fix them
with sulphur" but they seemed so
lively and about as numerous as
ever aiterI had burned quite a
quantity of sulphur with all doors
and windows shut tight and kept
closed for half a dav. Perhaps
the sulphur had lost it's strength.
/ next resorted to fire applied with
= torch. l tied rags saturated
with coal oil on an old long han
died broom and went over the whole
interior Of the hen house three
times. Was careful not to hold |
torch too long in one place to avoid
setting fife TO the building. l
th0ught Que application of the
blaze woulu be enough, but it only |
warmed them up. They came
Swarming out from between the
boards, and l gave them a warm
reception the second and third
round. When l got through there
were no mite to be seen and the
rag sack and coal oil can were
empty. If one is careful there is
no danger of setting fire to the
or clothing and this
quick, cheap, handy way of getting
rid of these b.oOd-thirsty little
animals, the worst enimies of our
Ieathered friends.
We have been laying IN a supply
If chicken feed, My, it takes
some feed for few hundred chick
ms. The feed for three weeks old
,hic like the best is corn bread
made with milk and tested eggs.
We mix it so it's sloppy, put in a
little salt and red pepper and bake
n big pan. After it is well bak-
ID. 1T is dry and will crumble nicely
The meal is ground coarse and the
baking softeus the coarse pieces OF
,orn. 1t is little trouble to bake
.his bread for them, but the corn
meal goes further in this way, and
inc eggs and milk help to give
them the balanced ration they need
Inland-Farmer.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23
The Bogs of ireland.

1t is estimated that the bOgs of
Ireland contain the equivalent OF
100000 tons of coal, ten tons Of
peat being worth a ton of ordinary
coal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23

With my endeavor and your as
sistance" will have the most up
to-date Shoe Store in Eastern KY.
/ have a lady to wait on you and |
will see that you get the proper fit.
j. H. Drummer,
AZ ct The Shoe Man.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23
No Presents Back

If it were bad form to re turn
presents when an engageme It is
broken, there would be Fl weF
brokenor less presents give 4.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23
Buy your coal and feed
from Moore & Scott, Corner
of Bank and Locust.
Home Phone 81, E. X. "a.

repair furniture. put old fur
niture in condition to demand 8
good price. buy any old furniture
At it's cash value, make jumb
spring mattresses. Call and SCI
me on Court street. c. B. Fizer.
25Jl
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23
Lean Before You look.

When an automobile is coming
lesp first and look afterward-to
get the number. -Watchman.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23

Terrible plaques, those Itching,
Fostering diseases of the skin.
put an end to misery. Doan's
Ointment cures. AT any drug
store. 42,9t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23

See r. F. Greene for White Sew
ing machines and repairing, next
door to Chenault & Orear, SO If.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23
Or. Gums Improved Liver Pills.

A lady wrote us from Winchester, Va.
she had been under a doctors care for 4
years for dyspepsia. The pain appeared
to center under the left shoulder blade
was so severe she could not sleep. She
asked us to seud her sample Of DR.. Gums
improved Liver Pills. We sent her two
pills, in few days she sent for boz.
Now she writes the pain under her shou.-
der is gone. she enjoys her meals and
never sleeps less than hours, used The
pills four week and cost her 90 cents for
two boxes. Sold by druggist for dyspep-
STA, sick headache or bilious attacks, use
these pills. One for a dose. Made by DR.
BosankO., Philadelphia, Pc. "a. 81
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23

John D. Rockefeller gave one Of
his grandchildren 81 ,OOO and al
talking doll for birthday gift
the doll because John is ons Of the
men who doesn't let his money!
talk. 4
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23

Frost has done $4,000 damage,
to the strawberry crop in Indiana.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1906-05-23

What think your A 1rboxin9,
contest for the benefit 81 Aehurch
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+" Sire says he.

goes I am gin'rous to a fault, especially
il it's me own. 1 am revered in Scotland,
worshiped in New York behind me back,
an In Homestead he says, they can't
speak iv me without tears.
".But alas. am not happy. This care
less exteeryor, this winnin' smile, this chest
which extends beyond tn buildin' line, con-
ceal gray an achin' heart he says. "A
secret grief is gnawin' at me vitals. FIR,
oh sir. cannot SPELL, he says. If We only
knew tn agonies I endure whin me brain
is burnn' with thought, whin thought is
thryin' to burst out like. lava from Mount
What 's-the-name-iv-it an rush to tn point
Nv me pen, to have to STOP he says, AN
dig he says, down into me pocket an
pull out he says. a little spellin book
he says, AN find whether thought is spelled
with a or an r. he says.
:" Me heart bleeds a good deal already
says tn Prisidint. I've been givin tn
subject a great deal iv attintion f'r q
long time since We came in he says. I
don't like to make up me mind hurriedly,'
he says. AS ivrybody knows, I'm reluc-
tant to act on me impulses. Make haste
slowly if we must is me motto. But make
haste. TIL race is not often to tn slow.
TIL shortest way acrost is tn shortest
way acrost if we know it. I've heard Nv
tn fable iv tn tortoise an tn rabbit. It's
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these good fellows tn franchise be to-
morrah's mall. Ye needn't wait rr tn
formal announcement, boys. Go on an
vote just as We ARE he says. An so an
other star was added to tn bright dydem
on Columbyas fair brow
An now he's home again. an glad am
to see him. Thin Cabinet Numbers iv his
have had tn aisy time ~ it while he was
gone. Divvle sthroke iv wurruk did they
do but slept with their heels on tn mantle
piece. They'll be arnin' their money firm
now on It's no snap bein' Cabinet Of
hcer undher Tiddy Rosenfelt. He'll sind
them back to their wurrulroons where
they sleep with their clothes on an have q
messenger call. a fire gong an a tillv-
phone at tn head iv tn bed Hello. hello.
say. Is that we Elihoo? Jump down an
take tn midnight express FIR New York an
tell thin how to vote. Oh. nivir mind a
bag Shaw, 1 expect We to be In Saint
Joe michigan, to-morrah avenin' at eight.
L have message to deliver to tn Mtchi-
gan Free Stone Peach ASSOCIATION. Wire
Metcalfe TO meet Cortlloo in Salt Lake an
look afther tn Mormon situation Dhrop
In on Tama Jim, an tell him to carry out
that bag iv sunfiower seeds with me COM
pliments to me old frind an felow-cam-
palgner scorpion sam In Tucson. Hello.
hello. Is that ye. Taft? Oh. wake up. It's
me- What ARE ye dom in bed at this
hour? Sleep is roonin' ye'er timper /
want we to look up a time table an see
whin We can get tn first train 70 Idaho
oh. why shud young fellow like you mind
a little journey Nv three thousand miles?
It'll be good FIR ye Take a buffay car. IL
he want to rayjooce ye'er weight. I have
a message FIR ye to carry to Bill Biggs at
Boise. 1 want ye to tell him he's a good
fellow. Ye can go as far as ye like Don't
hesitate to say anything that comes into
ye'er head I've just issued an edick
sayin' that hinceforth TIL Prisidint will
not be responsible fr anything Thaydoor
Rosenfelt is reported to have said onless
he heard him say 1t himself
AN there We ARE. He's tn great
man"
HE is that" said Mr.. Hennessy I'VE
needn't make fun iv him. I'm with him
an so ARE nearly all tn Dtmmycrats up
this way"
Eye ought to be-" said Mr.. Dooley. He
spells like a Dimmycrat. he acts like
Republican. an he is-Tiddy Rosenfelt-
a combination tbs no good dhrawin' again."
Hes very popular" said Mr.. Hennessy.
Very said Mr.. Dooley. IF l was as
popular as he is I'd always keep me fingers
crossed"
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little breaker boy in tn mines to tn coal
baron in his private car. firm tff plain wur
rukin' man in his comfortable fat to tn
millyonaire in his uncomfortable yacht, all
have suffered fr' m this tyranny. None have
escaped tn age-old injustice he says. iv
spellin' through with an aitch,' he says. I
will issue an edick at wanst. An, he says,
all tn wurruld will know l done it firm
pure motive, for he says, L know iv no
way Nv simplifying TIL wurrud l., he says
"An SO he done it. Today tn simplest
American citizen is tn peer Nv tn man
that wrote tn ditchnry. No more will amy
wan have to bow his head in shame be-
cause he don't know how nanny ms there
ARE in Cipcinatty or how nanny SIS in
Mississippi He puts In as nanny as his
means will allow an lets it go at that
seen wan fv Tiddy's addresses tn other
day What does 1t look like? It's beauti-
full. I haven't read anything like it since
tn Sweet Singer Nv Michigan died.
What else has he done? Well, he whit
down to Pannyma. There was no ostenta-
ton about tn departure On battleship,
accompanied on'y be a sicrity an tn United
States navy, he stole away FIR q surprise
visit. AS he left his departure was an
nounced be tn cust'mry salute Nv four
hundherd an eight guns. to which tn forts
responded with tn usual eleven hundherd
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thry, we love it, an why shudden't we, Fr
isn't it now or soon to be entirely composed
iv mud thrown out iv an American canal?
he says. Welcome, thrice welcome. Serene
Brother. brother in arms salutes ye.
he says. An wild We mind movin' tn left
fut forard a little. We don't want amy
complications with our neighborin' ray
public Nv Costa Rica,' he says.
9TH Prisidint made short speech in
reply. Sir says he, I am proud to be in
ye'er grand damp raypublc. Ye have
welcomed me in appropriate language, but
We have harly said too much in tn circum-
stances. Considhren that I made this here
little raypublic mesilf with scroll saw in
me barn, we ought to be proud to see me.
If you amt proud don't show it, or I'll
give We wan. I'm INTERESTED in SEEM .his
handywork iv mine. 1t looks betther in
TIL maps thin it does to tn naked eye, but
It's all right. Certainly It's tn wan coun-
thry in tn wurruld that was made FIR
canal. In fact ye'er happy raypublic is
canal already. If I'd only known 1t
wud've put in a few locks an invited TIL
navies iv tn wurruld to slip through. Whin
came ashore thought I'd stepped off tn
gangplank four miles out Does tn sky
always sob this way on top " We? L had
no idee it rained so down here. I'm wet
through. Since I've been talkin' I've had
an idee. We've got tn canal. What shall
we do with tn bye-product? I'll tell We
what We'll do. Wen pipe ye'er impeeryul
raypublic to fertilize TIL arid deserts Nv tn
great West he says. An sindin' a wire
less message FIR a mustard bath, he dashed
FIR tn man-iv-war.
cit was thin four o'clock. TIL next day
he was in Porther Ricky. L haven't heerd
much Nv that lie Nv tn blessed since tn
bold Miles conkered 1t with his new clothes.
But it seems to be goin' on as merrily as
liver. TIL popylace turned out to meet tn
Prisidint. They didn't have to turn far.
When tn popylace iv Porther Ricky wants
to turn out FIR a popular demonstration
all 1t has to do is TO roll over. He was met
be gr-reat crowds ~ our fellow-citizens in
ivrything but tn name an tn fact. They
prisnted him with a bunch iv roses, an
he prisinted thin with tn franchise.
They're American citizens now. like you an
me.
fHonored Sir says tn Chairman iv tn
comfy, If it's not too much throuble wud
we mind givin' us a vote? Not at ALL says
Tiddy Rosenfelt. No throuble in tn least
Why didn't We mintion it before? Jawn,
wire Loeb at wanst an tell him to sind
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stockin's, whn he raymimbers TO put thin
on, he is tn ideel figure iv a marshal hero.
Layin' his hand imprissively on tn Prisi-
dint's knee-cap he addressed him as fol-
lows:
"Great an good brother he says. 1T
is a proud an happy privilege to have We
in our mist. 1t seems like rain to We, but
We niver see wan iv our reg'lar old fashion
ed thunder showers. I make no boasts
about me 1mpeeryal domain. We have no
fertile fields, no mines iv ontold wealth. no
railways, no eddycation, no food, no clothes,
nawthin' much, but I'd like to bet We all
tn money Bunny Vanilla says he has that
1t rains here more than it does in amy
other raypublic in the wurruld, white or
black, give or take ten buckets. WHATEVER
else we can promise We, we're sure Nv this.
that ye'er canal will always be full Nv
wather. If tn Passyf1c an tn Atlantic
both dhried up, Pannyma's blessed rain
will always be wet.
But he says, 4 digress,' he says. We
welcome you to our impeeryal domain he
says. AS far as tn hand can reach it
stretches out on both sides Nv We firm where
tn stately Passyf1c washes tn feet iv old
Pannyma with little effect he says, to
where TIL tumulchuse Atlantic oozes up to
Colon he says. 1t is eight miles long as
tn crow flies afther tn engineerin' gangs
an thirty yards wide he says. Our coun-
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sthrong an they stay sthrong. All tn
Prisidint has to do is to keep Fairbanks
out iv the kitchin iv tn White House. No,
Tiddy amt sick. He's like mesilf. He's
settled down to broad an comprehensive
view iv life, dye mind. He takes no action
onless tbs demanded be TIL needs iv tn
whole people. Now. there's spellin' reform
No Prisidint befure him liver tackled that
Andrew Jackson might have done it, but
he wud've been accused iv selfish motives
That gr-reat man spelled like broken type
writer.
I'D always thought that if I liver was
ilicted Prisdint-an' 1 might've been If I'd
stuck in pollyticks an been more prudent
about where 1 was bor-rn-th first thing I
wud do wud be to make bad spellin' more
respectable. 'Twud be me ambition to take
tn poorest speller in this broad land Nv
ours an lift him UP to place where he
cud look in TIL eye tn most powerful
speller in tn University iv Injyanny. Akel
opportunities to spell amy way ye like is
me motto. SPECIAL privileges to none. Too
long have we been oppressed be those that
know more thin we do. TIL great liberty
| lovin' ign'rant masses have been spelled
| down into tn very earth be bloated mo-
| nopolists iv spellin' like Dock Eliot iv
| per cent iv all tn correctly spelled wurruds
| in tn United States was ownded be three
| hundherd men. Thaydoor Rosenfelt pro-
| posed to shtrike off tn shackles firm TIL
| hands iv tn sufferin' illiterate an make
| him tn peer iv amy man. He demanded
| tn free coinage iv wurruds. He freed
great people. Ye needn't sind Packy to
| school army more. He's larned enough
whn he's mastered tn alphabet. All he
has to do to make a wurrud now that will
be officially correct Is to throw lot Nv
letters into his hat an shake thin out.
But 1 don't want to give all tn credit
FIR tn measure that has made us tn akels
iv tn most uninlightened nations in tn
wurruld to me frind Tiddy. Twas Andrew
Carnaygie that put 1t up to him. There's
a man yed think ought to iniye life. He
has ivrything that ought to make a man
happy He has money. he has fame, he
has Andrew Carnaygie,- an he's a little
deef.' But he isn't happy. Or he wasn't.
With all his great wealth, this man who
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son, wife Of President Benjamin Harrison
cast a shadow over the President during
the remainder of his administration, and
the happy Christmases he had known came
to him no more.
Under the direction of that good and kind
ly man. William Mckinley, Christmas at
the White House during four years of
his administration was all that could be
wished for. With Mrs. Mckinley il was
seen that no one connected with the great
building or that no friends was neglected
in the distribution of gifts: rich and poor
Were remembered alike. There was no
Christmas at the White House in 1901, when
Vice President Roosevelt became the chief
executive. The following Christmas, how
ever. and each succeeding Christmas has
found President Roosevelt taking a most
active and joyous interest in promoting the
happiness not only of his own children, but
of hundreds. No President has ever Joined
in the sports and games of children with
a livelier interest than has Roosevelt. In
all these he becomes boy again. He is
the king bee at the Christmas tree for the
White House.
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fable. Anyhow, if thrue, it was a
shockin' reversal iv public form. If they
iver get up return match all me money
goes on tn rabbit So,' he says 'havin
thurly studied tn question out he says.
its me determination to tnthrajooce this
rayform at wanst,' he says.
1--we been thryin to do something that
wud benefit all classes iv me counthry-
men. I niver found anything that was
satisfactorily to all hands. What I dono
FIR tn poor seemed unpopular among tn
rich, an what I done FIR TIL rich seemed
bad FIR tn poor. 1 don't know why. But
spellin' rayform is good FIR all. Firm tn
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- UNSHINE and shadows. happiness
and misery. have mingled together
in the celebration of Christmas at
~ the White House since the days of
President Adams to the present.
Not by any means were all the Christmas
holidays a season of joyous gladness Tor
the inmates. nor could they sing:
Without the door let sorrow lie;
And IL for cold 1t hap to die
Well bury't in Christmas pie,
And eyermore be merry"
Mrs. John Adams. the first mistress OF
the White House, had an unpleasant ex-
perience Her husband had taken the oath
of office in Independence Hall, Phliadel-
phla. on the 4th of March, 1897, and on
the 10th of November. 1900. came to wash
ington the White House being announced
as ready for occupancy. But the good lady
found the building anything but ready, and
in letter to a friend she said that not a
single apartment was finished; no fence no
yard no convenience whatever without,
land the great unfinished audience room 1
make drying room of to hang up the
clothes in - Two articles we are
much distressed for: one is bells, but the
more important one Is wood. Yet you can
not see for trees. We have used about
nine cords trying to dry the walls of the
house. Congress poured in, but Shiver,
SILVER! 1 have no looking glasses but
dwarfs for this house; nor a twentieth part
of lamps enough to light it,"
With such conditions can the reader won
der that Mrs. Adams first Christmas at
the White House was anything but pleas
ant? 1t was bad enough to be without fuel
for heating but without looking glasses,
horrors Fortunately, the children of the
White House were boys-four-and there
were no girls to add their protests and la
mentations about the absence of looking
glasses. With the families of the Presi-
dents cabinet and few invited guests from
Georgetown, Mrs. Adams celebrated the
first Christmas at the White House, but
her letters clearly show that she was not
entirely happy in the unfinished great
house in the wilderness" and after four
months she returned to the family estate
at Quincy, Mass, and during her husbands
administration did not return save on visits
Thomas Jeffersons White House Christ
simplicity" style. Mr.. JEFFERSON was q