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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
FUR CLAD CHICKS.

That nature. although benefcent,
may also be shortsightcd is shown
clearly by an incident related by a
correspondent in Science Siftings.
4 friend of his set hen recently
on a sitting of cold storage eggs.
Everything went well, and in due
time /, lively little chicks rewarded
the old hens patience.
They grew rapidly. but as the
down of their adolescence disap-
pcared it was replaced not by the
customary feathers. but bv thick
and glossy fur of various colors.
The owners theory is that kindly
nature. which adapts all her crea-
lures TO their environment, thought
fully substituted the fur for the
feathers during tie cold storage
period.
80 t,eD'so good, but the eggs might
have been Matched in the tropics,
where the chickens would have
found the fur work of supereroga-
ton. Nature, if not shortsighted,
was at least too impatient to wait
until the destination of the eggs was
decided on.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Blue Laws to Be Invoked If
Saloons Are Closed on
the Sabbath

Chicago, Dec. 4.-The Tribune
today says: 4
A puritanical Sunday for Chic
ago, with idle street cars and ele-
waited railroads out of commission,
with no newspapers and no Sun
day theaters or even sacred con-
certs, is the retaliation threatened
by Alderman Michael Kenna if he
is forced to close his saloons on
Sunday.
This will be the last resort if
the Alderman and other saloon
keepers are compelled to close on
Sundays. 1t will be taken if May
or dunno is directed to obey the
State law under the mandamus
proceedings in Judge Frost's court.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
What flax free In Kentucky
Would Mean In Development
of BlgeGraSS State.

How the effect of the tax laws OF
Kentucky is viewed by a proml-
nent Philadelphia banker is ex-
pressed in the following extract
from a letter received by we'll
known Louisville banker who was
recently elected to the vice presi-
dency of one of the largest banks
of that city
IF you people can only get a
just tax law in your State then YOU
will assume a position you are en-
titled to and can maintain through
the inherent wealth you have. but
until YOU do, |, as a warm. and |
may say enthusiastic, friend of the
state, see nothing inviting in your
'uture. wonder whether your
aw-makers have ever thought of
what it would mean to the State
and the inhabitants thereof, if they
could print a prospectus offering
bonds issued Tax free in Ken
lucky Four words, but how
much they mean. They mean that
money owned by Kentuckians will
be kept within the borders of their
State and applied to the develop
ment of the States interests. The
State gets tax on the bonds by
assessing tax rate on the cOrpO-
ration that issues the bonds.
When | see the truly marvel
Gus development of Pennsylvania
and its interests, | stand in wonder
and amazement trying to find its
cause. say aside from the States
great natural resources, it is due to
the wise, just and equitable tax
laws it has on its statute books.
DO you know that Notwithstanding
the cost of our new State Capitol
building nearly $50, ZOO, 000-al
most equal tn the cost of the Con
gressional Library building at
Washington, the State paid for it
out of its revenues and the State
now has not debt of any kind.
but surplus in its treasury
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Legal Advertising.

The Kentucky Printing Com
mission has set the price for State
advertising. The type. tc he used
is six point. The price is fixed at
10 cents per line for the first in
sertion and . cents per line for
each additional insertion. which is
81. 20 per inch for the first inser-
ton and 80 cents per inch for sub
sequent insertions. This is the
same rate as fixed by law in Ohio
and Indiana.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Women

the relief SO much desired. 1t
taken on first indication of
pain or misery, they will allay
the irritable condition of the
nerves, and save you further
suffering. Those who use them
at regular intervals have ceas-
ed to dread these periods. They
contain no harmful drugs, and
leave no effect upon the heart
or stomach if taken as directed.|
They give prompt relief.
II have been an invalid for >
years. / have neuralgia. rheumatism
and pains around the heart. BY
using DIR. Miles Anti-Pain Pills am
relieved Of the pain. and get sleep
and rest / think had l known OF
the Pain Pills when was first taken
sick, they would have cured me. I
MRS. HENRY FUNK, E. Akron,O.
Or. Miles Anti.sain Pills are sold BY
your druggist, who will guarantee that
the fret package will benefit. n k
falls, he will return your money
rs doses, IS cents. Never sold In bulk.
Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
A KINDERGARTEN CASUALTY.

"Children," said the new kinder
garten teacher, 1--WE will now pla,
crossing the street. shall be a big
automobile, and you must show me
how careful YOU can be. and get out
Of my way. There! William, you
are run over!' And William, aged
five, began toyell with all his might.
The rest of the brood looked on with
scorn in their eyes, as teacher bound
up Williams head, and then the
first class in self-prescrvation re-
turned to plating mats.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Farm For Sale.

/ offer for sale my farm Of 119
acres, lying on the Levee pike )
miles from town: all in grass ex-
cept II acres. well improved, hav-
ing good dwelling house of 8
rooms: a new stock barn, and all
necessary out buildings, also
good store house, a large ware
room, stock scales and orchard.
An abundant supply of stock wa
ter and several never failing
springs, one of which is white
sulphur; enclosed with wire fence
with new locust posts. | will sell
cheap on liberal terms.
15-tfl j. G.. TRIMBLE.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Special H0meseskers' Rates /
the West and Southwest.

On the first and third Tuesdays
of each month from July Ord up to
and including December 18th, 1906,
the Southern Railway will have on
sale special round trip excursion
tickets to points in the West and
South west at greatly reduced rates.
For full information call on or
address
w. G. MORGAN, d. 7. A.,
H. c. KING, c. T. A., Ill East Main,
j. F. LOGAN, Ill East Main,
If Lexington, Ky.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Our Agriculture in 1906.

The Secretary of Agriculture es-
Inmates the products of the farm
for the current year at So, 800, OOO,-
600. This is an increase of $780,
900, 900 over that of 1905, and it is
gain of -, 200, 900, 900 since the
census of 1900 was taken.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Gave All to Missions.

At Warsaw, Indiana, Elijah
Hays has gone TO the Poorhouse
penniless, aged eighty-seven years.
During his whole life his ruling
passion was the support of the
foreign missionary cause of the
Methodist Church, and during his
life he is said to have given over
one hundred thousand dollars to
the
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
STOMACH'S IMPORTANCE.
How to Strengthen it so That it
viii Act As it Should.

To enjoy both health and happi-
ness. it is absolutely necessary that
the stomach and digestive organs
should he strong enough to prop
erly digest the food. If they ale
weak and inactive, the body will
soon be in state of semi-starva-
ton.
Nothing equals Mi-o-na stomach
tablets in giving strength and tone
to the whole digestive system. Use
this remedy for IA few days, and
you will find the appetite keen, the
digestion good, no nausea or dis
tress after eating, no sleeplessness,
no nervousness and the backaches
and headaches that are the direct
results of weakened stomach,
will soon be overcome.
Ask w. S. Lloyd to show you
the guarantee which he gives with
every so cent box of Mi-O-na. 1t
is the one remedy he has enough
faith in to guarantee. 1927
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
DIR. Caldweu's
(LaxafiOs)
Syrup PepSin

is the best preparation obtainable for
all the many Ills and ailments arising
from overworked or disordered diges-
tive organs.
1t acts quickly and surely on the cause
of the trouble and its beneficial effects
are instantly perceptible.
1t will cure the most obstinate cases.
DR.. CaldwelI's Laxative Syrup Pepsin
can be obtained in both dollar and half
dollar sizes from all druggists.
Your money will be refunded If 1t
does not benefit you.
Your postal card request will bring by return
mail our new booklet, DIR. CaldwelPs Book OF
Wonders" and free sample to those who have
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Piles! PiIiIeS! Pes!

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment will cure
Blind. Bleeding, liberated and Itching Piles
II absorbs the iunors. allays The itching at once
acts rs poultice. gives instant relief. =.
Villains Indian Pile 'intment Is prepared foi
piles and Itching of the private parts Every
for soc ana $780, 2O-l-yr.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
They Smoked.

The Yale physical director says
that of ~ freshmen who smoked
only one was eligible for ''philo-
sOphical oratiOn." We have heard
that some men get great comfort
from smoking.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
MEASURING DISTANCE IN RUSSIA

"How far off is the Hotel Gas
pipeski?'
"Not far, moujik."
'Well. how far"
about a bombs throw Louis
Vile Courier-JournaI.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Williams CdrbOIiC SaIye With Ar
MICA and Witch Hazel.

The best Salve in the world for cuts. bruises
sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum. letter. Chapped
lands, and ali skin eruptions. 1t is guaranteed
to give abstraction. or money refunded. Price
2jc by druggists. Sold by Thos. Kennedy.
20-lyr.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Hand Amputated.

Mary, little daughter of Martin
Wells at Paris, had her hand LAGER
ated so badly by cannon fire
cracker Christmas morning that
amputatiOn was necessary.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Wanted.

A farm of about 100 acres
within from one to three miles of
Mt. Sterling. For particulars
address Advocate Office.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Death Caused from a Corn.

Mrs. Martha Mcneil, of Scott
county. had a corn on her toe
which she trimmed too closely.
Blood poison set in and the foot
was amputated without avail and
she died. She leaves large
family.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
The Curfew Law.

Richmond has adopted a Curfew
Law and at nine clock each night
the Court House Bell is rung. The
Register says: 1T is amusing to
see the youngsters scattering at
the hour appointed. and scurrying
home rapidly. The measure is
meeting with emphatic approval"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02

Central Kentucky Traction Com
pany has discontinued its work on
the Frankfort Versailles line in
WoodfOrd county until Spring,
with the exception of blasting
rock in cuts.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
Great
Relief

During that trying period in
Which women so often suffer
from nervousness, backache,
sicl, headache, or other pains,
there is nothing that can equal
DR.. Miles Anti Pain Pills.
They stop the pains, soothe the
nerves, and give to
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02

Regulates the bowels, promotes
easy natural movements. cures
observation-disclosures Regulets.
Ask your druggist for them. 25C
a box. 25-5t.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-02
PEPS1N SYRUP CO.
Monticello, Illinois

SOLD BY w. S LLOYD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

colors that give such / move, art value to this
ware.
But where were the Prince Regents dealers
to get workmen to carry out the decoration:
The most famous were dead, dispersed. or
gulotined. After consultation with his royal
master. however. Beekford sent all the stock
down to the Staffordshire potteries, and had
the Sevres painted by inferior artists from
original examples. Even genuine decorated
specimens were improved upon, and here and
there the original enameed painting was re-
moved with emery powder and f1uoric acid.
Such specimens are the 'semispurious pieces
of Sevres that turn up in the best of the world S
galleries, and deceive even the abest dealers.
1t is amusing though deplorable to consider
the credulity of the average collector. Think
of Michel Chasles, the famous French geometer,
buying for two hundred thousand dollars a
collection of twenty-seven thousand auto
graphs, including letters from Jesus Christ
Cleopatra, Alexander the Great, Pontius Plate
Plato, and julius Caesar not to mention other
great names in history! The vender was one
Lucas, man of little or no education. yet
clever enough to forge and sell at immense
prices such preposterous Letters" as those
mentioned. He is supposed to have produced
four of them every day for some years. and
there was no century and parsonage at
which his daring pen paused. In this case the
forger was arrested, and got off with a fine of
one hundred dollars and two years imprison-
ment; for the court put upon Chasles himself
almost the whole onus of responsibility on
account of his amazing innocence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Eneland's Narrow Escape

THE famous Shapiro forgeries almost cost
the British Museum five million dollars, at
which price the authorities were about to
purchase supposed variants of the Old Tesla
ment: but they were saved by the ingenuity
of Frenchman less disposed perhaps than an
Anglo-Saxon to desire light upon Biblical
themes. Even the British Museums Hebrew
expert was entirely deceived. And this same
Shapiro had just previously sold for eighty
thousand dollars a collection of Moabite pot
terry to the German Emperor. These specimens,
once the boast of the Berlin Museum, swiftly
vanished from their showcases after Shapira's
unmasking.
The nineteenth century saw episode
stranger than the productions of Constantine
described as "unapproached in the art of cali
graphy or in knowledge of photography"
Some of the manuscripts he offered were genu
inc enough. The Greek himself said that if
he had forged all the twenty-five thousand
manuscripts which he had in his possession at
one time in London, he must have lived longer
than Methuselah. But the vast Majority were
spurious, and some at least had been dipped
in tobacco juice to give them the semblance
of age. Among these manuscripts, which were
the despair of scholars and collectors. were
the first three books of Homer's Had a thin
vellum roll, and also the poems of Anacreon
and Hesod. Simonides declared that he had
found these treasures In caves under the Greek
monasteries on Mount Athos. where he lived
for many months. Another singular thing
about this great imposture was that the forger
for years made no attempt to sell his manu-
scripts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
The Home of "Antiques"

ITALY, as every dealer knows, is the home of
faxed antiques and in Rome and Florence
treasure" from Pompeian vases to fifteenth
century busts are produced and planted "
with amazing skill. There is the notorious
case of the sculptor Bastianini. whose works
figured until quite lately both in the Paris
Louvre and the London South kensington
Museum. where they were put forward as
masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. And
they were paid for by both Governments at
prices far beyond their weight in gold.
And vet this Bastianini was only poor lad
of Fiesole. near Florence. who could neither
reac, nor write when he entered the studio of
a Florentine sculptor as assistant. His wages
were seventy cents a week. In his leisure he
began to turn out. with a rare instinct for
beauty, fifteenth century busts and has reliefs.
which antiquarans bought from him for a few
dollars and resold, unknown to the little genius,
for immense sums as genuine works of the
mighty past.
1t was in 1s4S that the Florentine antiquary,
Giovanni Freppa, beheld in young Bastianini
gold mine. He advanced to the boy the
needful funds to start a studio and get materi-
ais, and further encouraged him to study the
products of the Italian Renaissance and turn
out work upon those lines For time Freppa
reaped a rare harvest. Young Bastianini' s
requirements, since he loved his work. were
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Making Sevres China

SEVRES china brings enormous prices: as
much as twenty-five thousand dollars has
been paid for a specially fine vase at Christie's
famous auction rooms in London. But how
utterly impossible it is for the amateur to know
for certain what he is buying will be seen from
the following story
King George ", of England, when Prince
Regent, had passion for collecting Sevres as
we'll as Louis Quinze and Louis Seize furniture,
bronzes, snuff boxes. and miniatures. The
Prince employed French experts of his own,
who negotiated with the exiled French mobiles.
One of these experts, man named Beekford.
went to Paris shortly after the monarchy was
restored and bought up the entire stock of old
white Sevres then remaining in the ware rooms
of the State factory, where it lay as an art
monument for the glory of France and her
Bourbon Kings" This stock was all of pate
tendre which had ceased to be made for twenty
years at Sevres, having been superseded by
the comparatively valueless hard paste.
Beekford's purchase. then, was the old china
covered with its inimitabe soft and creamy
glaze, which received so well the glorious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08

THE American abroad with real taste for
L the beautiful in art too often finds, on
displaying his purchases to an expert,
that all his swans are geese, and that more
or less skful limitations have been pamed off
upon him. Those ancient" lamps that he
bought for their weight in gold at the Wednes-
day Market in the Campo d Fiori in Rome.
and which were said to have been found in the
Catacombs. turn out to have been nodded
the previous week from genuine models out of
the plastic clay of the Campagna,
Now, whether it consoles the amateur or
not, the fact remains that the fraudulent in
art is as old as art itself and there is not, nor
ever has been, expert so great that he has
not been deceived. Professor Flinders Petre,
the famous Psychologist, whose excavations
amid the tombs of age old Pharaohs read like
a romance of Rider Haggard, has shaken
thousands of spurious scarabs or seals, out of
the winding sheets of mummies in the old
temples of the Libyan Desert. They are of
Greek make. and are now known to have been
manufactured in enormous quantities for
funeral purposes and then put on the Egyptian
markets. As limitations they are exact copies
and beyond question are thousands of years old
at that. Such ancient frauds are sold as the
real thing at enormous prices by Arab dealers
to visitors to Cairo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
Great Artists as Takers

A ND it is we'll to remember that when Greek
art was at its zenith there were bogus pic
lures of ApelleS and spurious marbles of Phidias.
But the art lover will almost despair when.
coming down to modern times, he finds even
divine Michelangelo among sculptors.-the
greatest the world ever saw,-and Andrea del
Sarto among painters, producing fakes.
In Michelangelo's day, as in our own, only the
antique was priced, and the work of modern
artist held of small repute. For this reason the
young sculptor. with his feet not yet set on
the road to glory, decided to discolor, chip, and
bury his superb Child Hercules, and thus turn
it into an antique. In due time the statue was
unearthed. sent to Rome, and exhibited as
recently eXcavated treasure. As such Car
dinal Riario bought it, and when the fraud
was discovered Cesare Borgia, the Popes
acute son. thought to do little art dealing
on his own account: for the Child Hercules had
been ANONYMOUSLY returned to the young
sculptor To him went Cesare, and bought
the prize for mere song And when the
giants tame had grown, as Borgia toresaw, its
purchaser was able to resell it at an immense
profit to the Duke of Urbino, from whose col
lection after many adventures it wandered to
the Turin Museum, where it is safely housed
to-day.
In the Renaissance too there was a craze
for antiques. and their counterfeiting was by
no means confined to the unskilful. Great
artists were not above displaying their skill
and knowledge in this way, and turning a
more or less honest penny, as well as playing
off practical jokes to test the real connoisseur
ship of their friends.
Thus when Raphael's portrait of Leo Y.
was loaned to Cosmo de- Medici for few
days, he was so charmed with it that he openly
ordered Andrea del Sarto to make him copy,
which when finished deceived even Giulio
Romano into believing it was the original.
Remember, Giulio himself had had hand
in painting the original as well Raphael.
and to this day it is disputed point among
the worlds greatest critics as to whether
Cosno ever returned the original, and whether
the picture now in the Naples Museum is or
is not del Sarto's copy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-23
NEWS-NOTES FROM
NORTH WILDWOOD

Glass bottom row boats are d
novelty which will be seen ON Ottens
Canal the coming season. H. H.
Ottens has made arrangements to have
four of these unique affairs afloat as
an experiment. The glass bottom of
the boat permits the occupants to
examine the bed of the canal as we'll
as see the fish and crabs as they swim
about. The boats are used extensively
in Southern waters where the water is
very clear, but the project will be an
innovation here.
The North Wildwood Fire company,
No. 1, have placed tickets on sale for
their annual ball which will take place
on the evening of Friday, February
22d, Washington's birthday, in the
Anglesea borough hall. A Philadel-
phia orchestra will be in attendance
AS has been demonstrated by similar
balls given by the fire company in
former years, the affair will be great
success.
Billy Bounce, the Anglesea baby,
will visit US again this coming season.
The Ottens Dredge company is now
filling in forty lots on Spruce avenue
for P. g. Verga, of Camden
George Firth and family are expected
home from their extended trip to
England about February Goth.
Fancy valentines and post cards at
Ryan's japanese Bazaar and Stationery
store, Wild wood.
Charles Mace will soon begin MAX
ing extensive inn provements to his
pier and boat landing. The pavilions
thereon will also be re-modeled, en-
larged and two apartments added.
Mr.. Mace anticipates big season.
Complete stock Of val. laces at re-
duced prices to make room for 1907
patterns. Read Meech's ad page 81
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-23
WILDWOOD BUDGET
(Continued)
(Continued)

Fine assortment of fancy valentines
at Ryan's japanese Bazaar and Sta
tionery store.
Rev. VIM. P. Hill, of Perth Amboy,
is expected to preach next Sunday at
the Baptist church.
J. F. Tatem, of Haddonfield, was
among last weeks visitors.
Edward Kelley and Contractor A.
M. Conneen, of Philadelphia, were
visitors here this week in the interests
of the handsome cottage Mr.. Kelly is
having built in the North Wildwood
tract. They were guests of Hotel
Fenwick.
Among those who registered at Hotel
Fen wick this week were HI. l.. Hem
minger, Jos. D. Frambes and Robt. b.
Brown, all of Philadelphia.
Charles Page, foreman of the JOUR-
NAL composing room, has been on the
sick list this week.
Chas. E. Epler, representing Lucas
paints at Harbison's Wildwood Bazaar,
has been spending several days in
Philadelphia.
Bargains In Silkelines, beautiful pat
terms, good quality, worth 15c. I0cents
during January sale. Read our adv,
on page 8. Mech & Go.