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spoil the fun by telling more OF it.
Boys must rend it for themselves.
Mr.. Stratemeyer, the author, lives in
Newark.
"A Little Prospeetor. BY Edith NJ. H.
Baylor. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Boston.
If I we're going to hunt gold in Nevada 1
would want no better company than the lit
the prospector, Harry Baldwin. He would be
good for any one, young or old, although
he was only a small boy, for he had no
end of spunk and always tried to make
the best of things. He and his parents
had at times very disagreeable experiences.
the kind hat would terrify a good many
ordinary people. For instance, they were
lost in the desert-think of that-and their
water gave out. Those are things even
very strong men find hard to bear with
patience and courage. But the prospector
was a brave little fellow, and tried to make
the best of it, even when his father handed
a lemon to quench his thirst instead
of the water he wanted. Thu book has n
lot of nice pictures in 1t, so that one gets
a fine idea of the country Harry travelled
through and pictures of Harry and his
burro, Jenny. Harry was Il very patriotic
little boy. He used to have battles with a
make-belleve army.
One day he thought he must have a flag,
but where was he going to get It? He
could not go across the desert and get one,
so he thought, and finally he said: I'll
make one" So he got some red and white
cloth and cut out the stripes. sewed them
together. Then his father asked him II
he didn't lave some blue for the corner.
Harry said that there was nothing in camp
blue except his mothers skirt, so they
made that shorter, and after about an
hour the flag was done.
The best advice I can give the boys is to
read "a Little Prospector." TOM.
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s.Empire BuiIders.,

Empire Builders" BY Francis Lynde.
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, indianapolis.
This is the story of the adventures of a
young engineer who, against heavy OBJ
~stacles, succeeds in effecting a combination
of big railroad interests in the West. This
he does in spite of the opposition of pow
erful rival roads and serious internal dis
sension. The book may be described as
timely In its discussion OF Wal Street and
railroad inanciering methods. The hero
is a remarkably brilliant and resourceful
young man, of course, a veritable captain
OF industry, in fact, who accompanies
prodigies Of heroic labor before he Wins
the hand Of the gloriously beautiful hero
Inc. There is nothing in them or their
romance that is really worth the time 1t
takes to read 1t. to say nothing of the
time and toll Mr.. Lynde probably pat into
the writing. The book is one Of those in
sipid romances of today that will always
readily find a public among those who dis
like anything that approaches a serious
study Of life and character.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28

''The Children's Hour Selected and ar
ranged by Eva March Tappan. Houghton,
Miflin & Co., Boston
Among the most important of H%oughton,
Mihiin & Co.'S publishing ventures for the
year is the issue of a set of books called
s'The ChiIdren's Hour" Eva March Tap
pan has selected and arranged the stories
in ten volumes. 4.
First come ~everybody's favorites, like
RED Riding Hood" Wilmington and His
Cat ETC.; also folk stories from many
lands, and fables. Volume II. contains
myths from many landss and Volume III.
stories from the classics. Stories OF
legendary heroes follow in Volume w,
and. in Volume ". will be found stories
from seven old favorites. such as Pill
aRrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe. :"
Volume vi. will contain old-fashioned
stories and poems, Maria Edgeworth, Mary
Hewitt, Jane Taylor, Wordsworth and
their contemporaries being represented.
Volume VII. WIN be the "out-of-Door
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28

to place a mortgage on her P~ittsburg
home, Lyndhurst.
At one time Mr.. Rockefeller and Will
lam Thaw, father of Harry x. Thaw.
were close friends, and an offer of
financial help was made some days ago
in the course of a conversation between
Rockefeller and Roger O'Mara, the
Thaw detective, of P%ittsburg, who is
also very close to the oil king.
The kindness of Mr.. Rockefeller has
been communicated to the Thaws, but
1t is understood they have sen word
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A New Jersey magazine.

The New Jersey Magazine, a new ten
cent monthly of sixty-four pages, will
be issued in its first number Monday,
September 80, from the publication
office at Newark. The magazine will
be specially devoted to the interest of
New Jersey readers. There will be a
frontispiece illustration by Homer
Davenport, with a finely illustrated
article of the artists home and home
surroundings in this State. A story by
Amanda Douglass will supply the ele-
ment of fiction. A sketch and full
page portrait of the late Cortlandt
Parker. the nestor of the New Jersey
bar, will be of peculiar interest. Other
features of the magazine make 1t a val
liable addition to the literature of the
home circle.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28
CATHOLIC LYCEUM
STARTS NEW SEASON.
Bloomfield Organization Holds Open
House, with Games, Music
and Dancing.

Last night marked the opening of the
season at the Catholic Lyceum of
Bloomfield, when the members enter
tanned their friends with open house.
The clubhouse in Bloomfield avenue
was p~rofusely decorated for the occa-
sion, and ariou amusements were
provided. These Included a promenade
concert. dancing, prize bowling and a
basketball game between the Sacred
Hearts of Bloomfield and the Alert
Five of Kearny.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28

The books most in demand at the New
ark Free Public Library this week have
been:
F~iction-"'The Helpmate,' by May Sin
clair; THE Younger Set by Robert W
Chambers; 'Barbary Sheep" by Hobert
Hichens; The Lost Lender by f
Phillips Oppenheim; A"Bud," by Mel
Munro; Aunt lane of Kentucky" by E
c.. Hall.
Non-Fiction-r''The Gate of Death" by
Arthur c. Benson; "Prag matism," by
William James: Sesame and Lilies by
John Ruskin; Modern Turbine Practise
by John w. Thurso; Christian Science,
by Samuel l.. Clemens mark Twain;
charleston. the Place and the People,
by Mrs. St. John Ravenel.
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1.-THE Best Man. BY Harold MacGrath.
The Robbs-Merrill Co., indianapolis.
.'The Bible as Good Reading" BY United
States Senator Albert J. Beverage. Henry
Aitemus Co., Philadelphia.
THE Car of Destiny" BY c. n and a..
NJ. Williamson. The Mcclure Co, New
York;
'tHelena's Path" BY Anthony Hope
The Mcclure Co, New York.
Songs of the Average Man." By Sam
Walter Foss. TIL Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Co., Boston.
= Juveniles.
-Four Boys in the Land of Cotton" BY
e. T.. Tomlinson.
Long Knives" BY George Cary Eggle-
ston.
1.-THE Boys of Pigeon Camp" BY Martha
James.
Defending His Flag" BY Edward
Stratemeyer.
ruth Erkine's Son." BY "Plnsy." All
published by the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Co., Boston.
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ROCKEFELLER SAID TO BE
READY TO AID THAW.
Story Given Out in Pittsburg That
Standard Oil Millionaire Has offered
Financial Aid.

information given out here, John d.
Rockefeller has promised to assist
financially in the coming trial of Harry
K. Thaw for the murder of Stanford
White, should~t the Thaw family be in
need of funds.
The oil king was led to make this
statement through his knowledge that
Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the
young man, had recently been forced
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and prospect. in relation especially to the
production Of gold. He finds a sound basis
for. continued prosperity in the enormous
output of all forms of natural wealth. but
n disturbance of prices in the readjust-
ment which this output makes inevitable,
and a certain strain due to the limitation
OF circulation in the United States-a
limitation increased by the unnecessary
boarding Of gold in the Treasury, and con-
cealed by the misleading statement issued
of Money in Circulation"
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New Technical Books at Library.
New technical books at the Free Public
Library ready for distribution, are:
''Tunpeling," by Charles Prelini. The
third edition. revised, of his practical
treatise. 81 pages. Van Nostrand; ~.
Repair" Edited by p. N. Hasluck. l6O
Iages. Cassell. so cents.
"Agglutinants of All Kinds for All Pur-
poses by II. {. S~tandage. 261 pages.
"Refrigeratlng Machinery; It's Principles
and Management by A. Richie Leask.
POS pages. Smlthkin, Marshall & Co. Lon
don. $50.
A textbook Of electrical engineering for
second year students. 4O pages. Long
mans. s..
"A Manual of Mechanical Drawing by
Philip ID. Johnston, superintendent and
mechanical engineer, Vest Point Foundry.
149 pages. Diagrams. Williams. $1.50.
Descriptive Ge 1,ral Chemistry, by s.
E. Tillman. WILEY. 50.
Mathematics for Engineering Students
Algebra and TrigonometEy,," by Professor
s. S. Keller, Carnegie Technical Schools.
200 pages. Van Nostrand. $1.50.
Sewing Machin es," their construction,
adjustment and repair, edited by Z. w.
Hasluck. 100 pages. Cassell. 80 cents.
1.-THE Art of Papermaking," by Alex
ander Watt. A practical handbook of the
manufacture OF paper from rags, esparto.
straw and other hbrous materials, includ-
ing the manufacture Of pulp from wood
FIBRE; to which is added details Of processes
for recovering soda from waste liquors.
ECO pages. Lockwood. $3.50.
'"Terra-Cotta Work, Modelling, MoldiuR
and Firing edited by p. N. Hasluck. 1850
pages. Cnssell. 50 cents.
Notes on Building Construction" ar
ranged to meet the requirements Of the
syllabus Of the Board of Education, South
Kensington> 4 volumes. Contents: Part l.
elementary stage: part II. advanced stage
part III, materials. part w, calculations
for building structures. Longmans. SIS.
Concrete Steel Buildings by w. Noble
Twelvetrees. A compaign volume to the
authors treatise on Concrete Steel" 40a
pages. Whitaker. So 80.
painting and Decorating" by Walter
Pearce. Second edition. 800 pages. Griffin.
81. rs,
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Literary notes.

Literary NOteHs
The Harpers are publishing this week a
new novel by Gertrude Atherton, entitled
Ancestors" 1t is primarily a novel of
America and of American life. but is a
story with English scenes as well. The
heroine is a high-bred California girl. The
hero is a brilliant Englishman with every
promise of a great c~areer-but sudden and
unexpected tragedy results in making him
4 political nonentity. Restive under this
situation, he goes to America, there to
carve out a new career; the heroine re-
turns to her native land, and the story
goes Accordingly on in California. Its final
scene is in San Francisco at the time Of
the earthquake and fire, the scenes Of
which. with great buildings plunglng.
dancing and topping, and the fire sweep
ing onward, are described with vividness
and force. for Mrs. Atherton was in San
Francisco at the time Of the great dis
aster.
Before this month is out a new book will
have appeared by Miss Myrtle Reed, an
author with a large audience always eager
to give a warm reception to whatever
comes from her pen. This latest of Miss
Reeds books Is entitled "Love Affairs Of
Literary Men,
Sir Gilbert Parker, whose new novel
THE Viewers" has just been published, Is
still only forty-ive years of age, having
been born Ia Canada in 1862. He is In its
best sense d cosmopolitan, a man of the
world. for he is familiar with America
and Europe and Egypt, the South Sea
Islands and Australia. He first attracted
attention in the early nineties by some
short stories located in the Canadian
Northwest. a region with which he was
personally familiar. A novel followed;
then another, and then came the tremen-
dous success Of The Right Of Way" Sir
Gilbert is not only prominent in iitera-
ture, but in English social life. and is a
power in Parliament, of which he has
been a member for seven years. He lives
in a beautiful home in Carlton Terrace,
the most exclusive social quarter of Lon
don.
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Book" composed mostly of material pro-
duced in the last three or four decades.
Adventures INK achievements constitute
Volume VIII, and poems and rhymes in
great variety are found In Volume TX.
Volume x. includes modern stories like
9Th King of the Golden River The
Man Without a Country" 'The Cratchit' $
Christmas Dinner" and similar stories.
f. These books form a valuable little
library for the child, and will be useful for
reference in later years. Through them
will be fostered a love for the best in
literature.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-28

Chinese authorities have decided that all
railroads built by Chinese shall revert to
the. government twenty-five years after
they are opened.
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The Engineering Magazine for October is
a special mining and machinery number
DIR. Douglass article on the copper situa-
ton has the leading posltion-fittingly, ON
account of the timeliness Of the contribu-
ton and the authority Of the author, but
abreast Of 1t in Importance, and second
only in position, is Alexander Del Mars
study of the present industrial situation
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would spoil the fun by telling more OF it.
Boys must read it for themselves.
Mr.. Stratemeyer, the author, lives In
Newark.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
A ClednSed City.

If the gamblers. the crap shoot
ers, the vicious idlers of this city
do not know by this time that
Louisville is IA bad place for them
as long as Il. W. Bingham remains
Mayor and j. II. Hanger Chief of
Police, they certainly are dull of
perception.
As soon as he was sworn in as
Chief of Police Mr.. Haager, by
authority of the Mayor, issued an
order that the crap games. lottery
dens and the criminal saloons must
close, and that all criminals must
leave the city.
In twenty-four hours the police
men and detectives raided 300
crap games, arrested the operators,
destroyed the paraphernalia, and
presented Il number of the offend
inc saloonkeepers before the Iii
cense Board, where their licenses
were promptly taken away by
Judge Randolph Blain.
This ended the crap games, but
the lottery dealers could not be
made to believe that they were to
be touched, and so, after a slight
recess, they resumed their opera
tions. At s o'clock Saturday even
ing. under the express direction of
Mayor Bingham, Chief Haager
assembled every policeman and
detective and proceeded to clean
up Louisville as the city has never
been cleaned up before. Every
crap game and poker game was
raided, every salOonkeeper suffer
ing a gambling game on his prem
les was arrested, every loiterer
and suspected crook was taken to
Jail.
The blow was sudden, and the
criminals are paralyzed, but the
citizens of Louisville rejoice.
Evening Post, August s.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Never Had Tasted Medicine.

Mrs. Catherine Gilligan, at the
age Of l07 years and four months,
is dead at her home, 1906 Union
avenue, the Bronz. She had lived
in New York thirty-live years,
coming from Ireland at the age of
seventy-nine to Join her eight chill
dren. Mrs. Gilligan had twenty
four grandchildren, five great
grandchildren, and two great-great
grandchildren. She married at
seventeen. Mrs. Gilligan ascribed
her longevity to her habit of eat.
inc onions at every meal and hel
refusal to worry about anything
She never tasted medicine. New
York Herald.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
BEST FISH STORY.
Deep Sea Battle Between Man.
EatinQ Sharks and Whales.

Captain Jameson, of New York,
with the fruit steamer, Amelia,
tells the best fish story so far told
this season. When two days out
from Port Antonio the Lookout re-
ported strange disturbance dead
ahead. Captain jameson, ap-
preaching cautiously, found a fight
raging between four whales and
two man-eating sharks. There
was terrific lashine of water and
the marine fight spread hundreds
of feet across the path of the fruit
er. Six times Captain Jameson
was forced to bring his ship to a
stop to avoid striking the mon
sters, who paid no heed to the
steamer. He turned so he could
proceed.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
REVOKED.
SaIOOniStS Appear Before Mayor
Combs and Confess.

Linville Bros, proprietors of a
saloon charged with conducting a
disorderly house, Tuesday morn
ing, August 6, pleaded guilty and
the saloon was ordered CLOSED up
for keeps" by Mayor Combs.
The Mayor Immediately revoked
their saloon licenses and declared
their bond forfeited and ordered
their place closed.
This firm was recently arraigned
before Mayor Combs who then
cancelled licenses and forfeited
bond. Now they are put out OF
business. No doubt they have
gotten what they deserve.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
NEWSPAPERS ONLY
Will be Used by Newcastle, In
diana, Business Men in the
Future For Their Advertising.

The Retail Merchants Associa-
ton of Newcastle, Ind, has placed
the ban on all advertising schemes,
and will have nothing to do with
programs, socalled business direc-
tories or other schemes devised to
separate a merchant from his cash.
Newspaper advertising is recog-
nized as the only profitable pub
licity method and will be strictly
adhered to in the future. This
decision was reached after one
years investigation of results OBJ
tanned from various forms of ad-
yertising.
A committee was appointed by
the Merchants League who kept
actual figures on the business done
by the merchants and traced to va
rious forms of advertising. The
only form OF advertising showing
actual benefits was traced to le-
gltlmate newspapers. Special
boom editions were condemned by
the committee and merchants were
urged to refrain from using them.
They are usually the products Of
solicitors travelling from city to
city interesting a certain class Of
newspapers in their schemes and
taking a per cent. of the profits
for their share in the work, spend
inc no money with the merchants
who advertised. The Newcastle
Merchants League recommend
that their merchants use only the
bona iide newspapers published
regularly either daily, Sunday or
weekly. If
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
ctyAfour Years Old.

Raymond Spearer died Wednes-
day afternoon at his home near
Brookstown, Clark county, aged
ninety-four years. His wife, aged
eighty six, and to whom he had
been married sixty-one years, sur
wives him. He was the oldest
man in Madison county, and had
been a member of the Christian
Church nearly eighty years.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Economy Now Necessary.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is sending out to the men
who furnish railroad ties this
warning: Husband your timber.
Saw your ties. Don't hew."
1t is explained that by hewing
from a stick of timber sixteen feet
long and fifteen inches wide only
two ties can be made. BY saving
the stick four ties can be made and
ffty-seven feet of marketable lum-
ber had.
1t was not so long ago that such
a warning would have been con-
sidered useless. 1t is now neces-
Sary.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
POOL ROOMS
STRIPPED OF PARAPHERNALIA.
Sheriff Headed Deputies ---His
Orders We're Executed.
WILL NOT RUN WHILE
HE IS IN OFFICE.

Sheriff Scott Bullitt, of Louis
vile, heading a large force of dep
uty sheriffs, raided the two pool
rooms at Seventh and p streets,
arrested the principal operators,
stripped the blackboards from the
walls, confiscated the paraphernalia
and put an end to pool-rOOms in
the county as long as he remains in
the Sheriff's office.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
EnormouS Profits.

Herbert Smith, Commissioner
of Corporations, reports to Presi-
dent Roosevelt an elaborate inves-
tigation of prices and profits of
the oil industry. Mr.. Smith COM
putes that in twenty four years
the Standard Oil Company has
made $3.50, 600, 900 on an invest
ment of $75, 900, 900. He charges
that the company has resorted to
unfair means of competion to force
prices up. He asserts that under
free competition the price would
be much lower.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Rich Forests In Texas.

Texas is a large timber State.
Its forests are one of it's greatest
resources. Much lumber has been
wasted by clearing simply for cul-
tivation. The Texas people are
now beginning to realize the i'm
portance of conserving this wealth.
Some parts of the State are tree
less and tree planting has to be
done. In the Panhandle region,
in the spring of 1906, over 500, 900
trees were set out.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
RENEWALS OF
SALOON LICENSE
will No Longer Be Granted Sa-
looms.
Mayor Combs Makes New Ruling
and at Once Puts It Into
Effect.

On the charge of violating the
Sunday closing law, Chapman and
Downing, prOprietors of the Bis
mark saloon, appeared before
Mayor Combs Tuesday, August g.,
and pleaded guilty. AS a result
their license was revoked by the
Mayor, their bond declared for
feited, and they were furthermore
denied the privilege of renewing
their license in the city of Lexing-
ton.
Their place of business was al
lowed to run until Saturday at
which time it closed. The case
was the outcome of work by de-
tectives.
Mayor Combs advised a new rul-
ING which is one Of the severest
penalties in connection with the
Sunday closing law. This new
ruling went into effect on the two
cases which were called at that
time and will be the ruling in
every case of the same nature
which may come up before him.
This new ruling is that when sa-
loon license is revoked no renew
ais will be granted.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Sugar Trust May be Pit Ont Of
Business.

A bill in equity calling upon the
American Sugar Refining Com
pany to give an accounting of its
Business for the last four years
was fled at Trenton, N. j., on be-
half of H. Earle, Jr., receiver OF
the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining
COMPANY. The suit is separate
from $50, ,000, 900 damages, which
he instituted against the American
Sugar Refining Company of New
York.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Ateptlns Cash System.

All over the State business men
generally are doing away with the
extensive credit system, the down
fall of many merchants. Business
conditions of today do not war
rant the granting of credit on six
and twelve months time. Expen-
ses of conducting business have
largely increased, and the close
margin on goods does not warrant
the continuance of the old pay
me when you can credit system. -
Winchester Democrat.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Police Ceurt Session.

In Police Court at Lexington on
Tuesday, August 9Th, we're twen-
ty-six cases, ranging from a plain,
unruf1ed drunk, to violating the
Sunday closing law, which in these
days of reformation and puri6ca-
ton is considered about the worst
Offense in tie ,.endar.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Church and School furulture
Combine Given Its QuletuS.

Judge Landis in the u. S. Dis
trict Court at Chicago ordered the
dissolution of the church and
school furniture trust recently
punished by fines amounting to
$43, 600 for admitted violation of
the antitrust laws.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
SETTLES SHORTAGE.
Square With the State and COur-
ty.---Pdid S45,455.

At Louisville W. j. Semonin,
former county clerk, settled his in
debtedness with the state and
county, amounting to S45, 455.
Payment was made of SIS, ,Sl9 in
settlement with the county and
S29,646 in settlement with the
state.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1907-08-14
Cured Ms neqS.

j. A. Scott, Avon, KY, says;
Bourbon Hog Cholera Remedy
cured some hogs for me that / did
not think could poss bly, be saved. y
Sold and .uaran eed by w. S.
Lloyd.