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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
Noble Th0UqhtS.

Deep down in the heart Of the
normal man is the desire to do
right. There is more good than
evil in the world. As man pro-
crosses he becomes better. There
is no total depravity. We are all
creatures OF heredity and environ
ment. We are as good as our en-
vironment will permit us to be.
We are no worse than our sur
roundings.
Men are but children of larger
build. Environment affects him
as readily as it does the child.
Character building ceases only at
death. The natural tendency of
every normal child is to do right.
There is natural reaching toward
the light. A seed planted bursts
through the soil and in favorable
conditions becomes a perfect plant.
If the conditions are unfavorable
1T does the best it can. A stone in
its way may deform it, but its ev-
cry struggle is to be perfect.
There are no freaks of nature"
Nature never makes mistakes.
Nothing is wrong without cause.
Surrounded by influences for
good child will follow the natural
instincts of it's nature and become
a good man or woman unless an
evil disposition is inherited. Per
feet surroundings will remedy that.
The mate desire to do right strug-
giles always in man. The majority
of the world are good in spite of
environment. The plant always
struggles toward the light.
Yes, this is a good, good world.
Humanity is struggling through
the rocks of sin toward the light.
Bad, bad men abound, but the
tendency on the whole is for good.
The great need is for us to go to
work and throw from the field of
life the stones that interfere with
the straight and perfect growth of
the little human plants that are
struggling upward toward h e
sunlight of good. Remove from
around them the influences for
evil. jackson Democrat.
Generally debilitated r
years. Had sick headaches, lacked
ambition, was WORKOUT and all
rundown. Burdock Blood Bit
tiers made me a well woman. y
Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moosup, Conn.
25-5t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
INSURANCE
Cancelled on Lexington Tobacco
and Tobacco Warehouses.
A GENERAL kAID IS FEARED.

At meeting between Gen.
Roger Williams. Brigadier Gen
eral of the State militia, Mayor
John Skain and Chief of Police
Reagan at Lexington it was de-
cided to make every preparation
for repulsing the night riders
should they come to that city.
Because of the fact that nearly
a half million pounds of tobacco is
being sold there daily it is feared
that general raid might be
planned with Lexington as the OBJ
jectlve point. The police force in
this case would be too small and
the civil authorities asked that
demand be made for State troops.
Immediately following h is
meeting there was general meet
ING at the courthouse at which
County Judge w. B. Brock. pres
ident Of the local board Of fire I'M
derwriters, and Silas Shelburne.
OF the Shelburne Warehouse Com
pany, were appointed committee
to go to Frankfort ut once and
confer with Gov. Wilson and Ad-
iutant General Johnston. A
meeting was arranged by General
Roger Williams over the tele-
phone.
The cause of the alarm is the
canceling Of the fire insurance by
the companies doing business
there. President Brock was or
dered to cancel the insurance of all
nonequity tobacco and tobacco
warehouses and ON $4,000 of the
100000 worth Of tobacco held by
the Equity Society.
GUARDS To BE PLACED AT FLEM-
INGSBURG.
On account Of the deprcdations
Of the night riders in Bath county,
the Fiscal Court of Fleming coun-
ty and the City Council of Flem-
ingsburg both held called sessions.
The Fiscal Court agreed to furnish
six guards for ten days 10 protect
the town, while the City Council
agreed to furnish as many more as
they deemed necessary.
A resolution was passed re-
questing that the tobacco buyers
cease buying any more tobacco
until definite adjustment of the
tobacco situation has been reached,
but that they shall receive all the
tobacco which they have pur-
chased up to this time. The to-
bacco buyers did not assent, but it
is believed they will accede to the
request.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15

Adjt. Gen. p. p. Johnstea or
dered lieutenant and ten no IF
the First regiment to Lebanoa t.
protect the factory of the AnH-
lean Tobacco Company at taHk
place. Lebanon has been threGA-
ened by the night riders fo~ scv-
eral days.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15

Assistant State Mine Inspector
Spillman has condemned t h e
Royal mine at jacksonville, KY.
He says it is death trap. The
coal miners strike situation in
Western Kentucky remains I'm
changed.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15

Bilious? Feel heavy after din
ner? Tongue coated9 Bit e +
taste9 Complexion sallow9 Liver
needs waking upl Doan's Reg
ulets cure bilious attOoks. 25
cents at any drug store. 25-5t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15
farm for Sale.

Farm of 1O5 acres on StepstOno.
Dwelling of 6 rooms: stock nud To-
bacco barns; convenient to school,
and church. Well watercd and
fenced. :. =. Estll.
22-tf K. K. g, Owingsville, XIV.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15

The first bill introduced in the
Kentucky Legislature was for the
repeal of the dog wax law.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-01-15

You'll be glad if you do and
sorry if you don't 90 to Guthrie's
Cut Price Sale.
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rha Arhitrators at Work.

He was a man Of peace, and, of
course, he had on more than one oc-
casion paid the penalty OF peacemaker.
He came upon two youths in an Irish
back street fighting. Accordingly he
pushed through the crowd and per-
suaded the combatants to desist.
Let me beg of you, my good fell
lows" earnestly besought the peace
maker, ito settle your dispute by ar
bitration.' Each Of you choose half a
dozen friends to arbitrate."
"Hurrah!" yelled the crowd. do
as the gentleman sez, bhoys."
Having seen the twelve arbitrators
selected to the satisfaction Of both
sides the man of peace went on his
way rejoicing in the thought Of having
once again prevailed upon brute force
to yield to peaceful argument.
Half an hour later he returned that
way and was Mortified to find the
whole street fighting, while In the dis
tance police whistles could be heard
blowing and constables seen rushing
to the spot from all quarters.
Good gracious! What is the matter
now?" asked the peacemaker.
"Shure, sor" was the reply, 1.-The ar
bitrators are at work. Bits.
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AN ALcHEMIsT lMPosToR.
Fate of Dubois, Who Duped Louis XIII.
and Richelieu.

and Richelieu.
There have been many alchemists
who claimed to be able to make gold
from the baser metals. A strange ad-
venture in this connection was that in
which the dupes were persons Of no
less Importance than Louis XIII, king
of France and Navarro, the Cardinal
Minister Richelieu and Francois du
Tremblay, Father Joseph, called "the
gray eminence" This was in the
seventeenth century. The "alchemist's
name was Dubois. He was an ex-
Capucin monk, a contemporary OF
Father Joseph, and he informed the
latter he had the secret of manufac-
turing gold. At that particular mo-
ment the cardinal was short Of funds
for his own personal use as we'll as
that Of the king. Father Joseph in
duced the cardinal to believe that
Providence had sent man, a maker
of gold, to help him. The cardinal,
who as a rule was pretty wide awake,
was on this occasion blinded by his
necessities. He consented that Dubois
should be allowed to experiment In
the presence of the king and queen
and the assembled courtiers.
In his record, "Tableau de Paris"
Mercier gives the sequel to the story
A. royal carriage was dispatched to
fetch Dubois, his powders and his fur
mace and bring them to the Louvre,
where in one of the galleries the high
ly interested witnes~ IS were awaiting
results Dubois lighted the furnace
and in loud voice said, May 1t
please his majesty to command his
soldiers to give me twelve musket bull
lets and I will turn them into gold"
The bullets were handed over to a
courtier, who cast them into a cupel,
Duboise added a few grains Of a GER
tain powder, covered the whole with
cinders and placed it over the lighted
furnace. In an anxious half hours
time Duboise exclaimed, "The gold Is
made! Louis XIII, permitted no one
but himself to blow away the burning
hot cinders. But he blew so hard that
the onlookers were smothered with
them. Every one cast a look at the
bottom of the cupel and exclaimed,
There is gold!"
Every one was joyfully astonished.
The king embraced Dubois and
knighted him off-hand, and the court
ier who handed over the bullets was
rewarded with gift. On the sugges-
ton of the queen the gold was assayed.
A goldsmith was sent for, who declar-
ed that it was IS carat gold, the mint
standard of the coin in circulation
But no one was much impressed by that
accusable fact. Dubois was at once
commanded to supply 100000 livres'
(s160O0O) worth of gold every week,
which he undertook to produce as soon
as an adequate installation had been
erected He obtained the funds re-
quired for the purpose, but delayed,
with vain excuses, its realization. The
cardinal lost patience, grew angry and
finally had the monk incarcerated in
the Chateau Of Vincennes. He was
convicted as an associate of the GRIM
inal Union de Saint-Sulpice." On July
25, 1887, Dubois was hanged.-Chicago
News.
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DoGWooD AND PERSIMMoN.
Once Common Woods, Have Now Al
most Disappeared.

Once Common Woods, Have Now Al
most Disappeared.
The supply of dogwood and persim-
mon shuttles in the southern states is
nearly exhausted. This statement will
not appear significant to the average
man when he first hears it. But when
he is told that the entire supply of
shuttles, bobbins, and spindles used In
the cotton and wooden mills in all parts
of the country is furnished by the
dogwood and persimmon grown in
the southern states, the seriousness OF
the situation is apparent. The textile
mills of the country represent capt.
talization of nearly a billion dollars
and bobbins, shuttles, and spindles
are just as necessary parts Of these
mills as the throttle is to the locomo-
tive.
ers have found another source Of sup
ply in the dogwood stands in the far
northwest part Of the country. Two
large companies manufacturing spin
dies, shuttles, and bobbins have
erected plants in the Cascades in Ore
gon, whose dogwood forests are the
greatest in the world, the tree often
attaining a height Of seventy-five feet
and a diameter of one or two feet. The
southern dogwood is rarely more than
stands Of dogwood are also found in
California and Washington. Up to the
present time, lumber users in the Pa
cific northwest have found dogwood
iZation for the manufacture Of shut
ties will bring about a considerable in
crease in stumpage values Of this tree.
These companies. at their Oregon
plants, will not only manufacture the
articles named but will utilize every
part of the tree, turning to account
the waste wood and producing such
byproducts as pyroligneous acid, acct
ic acid, protacetate Of iron, acetate OF
lime, methylated spirits, solvent naph-
tha, wood tar, wood pitch, and various
forms of charcoal. Dogwood is indis-
pensable in the manufacture of shut
ties, bobbins, and spindles because 1t
is the only wood which takes a high
polish and wears perfectly smooth by
friction under water
The discovery of the adaptability of
the Pacific dogwood, however, has not
aided the eastern manufacturers, and
they have been obliged to look for
substitutes nearer home. The most
promising of these are mesquite and
tupelo gum The wood Of the mesquite
is heavy and very hard, close grained,
and has a compact structure. 1t is
probable that it would be eminently
adapted for the manufacture of shut
tie blocks as it appears to have all
the requisite qualities of weight.
hardness, and susceptibility to high
smooth polish. Already it has proven
we'll fitted for the manufacture of
spools and bobbins for which white
birch is now so largely used The
tupelo gum is medium hard and
heavy, and has a compact fibrous
structure. 1t has not yet been utilized
to much extent in the textile indus
tries, though it is quite probable it
will play an important part in the fu-
ture, since it combines with several
necessary qualities the eXacting prop |
erty Of wearing smooth by friction.
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humorous department.
A Packed Jury.

"Theo Allen" said a New York poll
tician, took a cynical view Of man
kind. For one thing, he did not believe
In trial by jury. Humanity, he would
say, was too corrupt to admit Of your
getting twelve good men and true in
a jury box together. Then he would
tell his ham story.
"A chap, the story ran, was indicted
for stealing a multitude Of hams
some six or seven hundred.
The trial came. The evidence
against the chap was overwhelming.
His lawyer leaned to him and whis-
pered.
You are a gone goose. There is
nothing for me to do
Put the prisoner smiled and re-
piled:
"'Just you get up there, please, and
make a speech abusing all the wit
nesses. Considering the size Of your
fee, you lose heart pretty quickly
$50 the lawyer made most abusive
speech. But the judge summed up
powerfully against the ham stealer'
After an absence Of five minutes, how
ever, the jury brought in a verdict OF
not guilty
We'll, 1 can't understand it, said
the prisoners lawyer, as he left the
court arm in arm with his client.
az can,' said the other with his calm
smile. Every man on that jury had
one of the hams .'"-Washington Star.
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ABSOLUTE OBESITY.-There IS a
member of the faculty Of George
Washington university who, to use
the words of a colleague, us as ro-
tund physically as he is profound
metaphysically."
One day the professor CHANGED to
come upon his children, Of whom he
has number, all of whom were to
his establishment engaged in an ear
nest discussion of the meaning of
the word absolute"
Dad" queried one of the young
sters, "can a man be absolutely
good?"
NO" replied the father.
Dad" put in another youngster,
"can a man be absolutely bad?"
NO"
Papa" ventured the third child, a
girl, can a man be absolutely fat?"
Whereupon father fled incontinent-
ly.-Philadelphia Ledger.
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MRS VIxENHEAD.
The Story of Berlin shrew and Her
Likeness In Stone.

Likeness IN 0tone.
This quaint equivalent of the Ger
man term neidkopf is applied by trav-
elers to an effigy carved in stone and
fixed in a niche in the second story or
a house in the Heiligengeiststrasse In
Berlin not far from the emperor's pal
ace. The neidkopf represents hide
Gus, harpy faced woman with snake
like curls and tongue protruding in
mocking derision.
One day some 200 years ago, the
legend runs, Frederick William OF
Prussia, more familiarly known as
Old Fritz, was walking about the
streets of the city in the unconVen-
tional way he affected when he chanc-
ed to look through a window and OBJ
served hunchbacked goldsmith
hard at work. The king entered the
little shop for chat.
The result Of his interview was an
order for a gold table service for the
royal household, an order that made
the fortune of the hunchback. Later
his majesty made other visits to the
shop to see how the work was advanc-
ing. and on one Of these occasions he
observed a woman in the window of
the opposite house comforting her face
in the most hideous grimaces and
pointing with derisive finger at the
crippled workman.
To the kings query as to what allied
the old woman the goldsmith replied:
1T is envy, sire. She is the wife of
rival goldsmith, and ever since your
majesty so graciously gave me this
order she and her daughter have re-
viled me-"
Frederick William, paternal in pun
ishmcnt as we'll as in reward, at once
investigated as to the ownership of
the house in which the shreW lived.
He found that it belonged to her hus-
band and therefore reasoned that
there was little likelihood of the fam
lily moving, an idea that seemed great
ly to please his majesty. His next
move was to consult sculptor whom
he commanded to make the bust of
woman with the most shrewish, Kan
tippe-like face he could imagine. The
king then bought and renovated the
house in which the hunchback had his
workshop, presented it to him and
caused the bust to be placed conspicu-
ously above the workroom window.
Thus whenever the envious woman
across the street looked forth from
her easement the first object on which
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NEW LAWS For NEW CRIMEs.-"I
am fined for failure to provide good
drinking water on my passenger
trains" a Rhode Islander might say;
to which a fellow railroader in South
Carolina would add:
I'm this state a Jail sentence fol-
lows a neglect to provide spittoons for
every two seats in our cars"
A man in Virginia says: Il killed a
partridge on the second day Of Feb
ruary, for which I must serve time in
Jail"
In Tennessee a man must pay fine
or serve three years Imprisonment for
killing fish with dynamite.
In Wisconsin a baker must serve
three weeks in Jail for sleeping in his
bakery.
In California nurses are punished
by fine or Imprisonment should they
fall in the proper instances, to notify
the physician of certain phases of ILL
ness in their patients.
To water bicycle path in the state
of Ohio is an offense punishable by
heavy fine and sometimes imprison-
ment-Harper's Weekly.
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AN OVERPRICED PAINTING.-Frank
E. Elwell, the noted New York sculp-
tor, tells this: when Sir John Mill
ais was engaged in painting his Chill
October among the rushes on the
banks of the Tay, near Perth, a rail-
way porter from the station at Kin
fauns used to carry the canvas back
and forth for him.
"The porter was quaint chap; his
services were in requisition many
days he became quite friendly
with Sir John and seemed to take a
hearty interest in the progress Of the
painting.
well, Chill October was event.
ually finished, and sold a little while
afterward for a thousand pounds.
This fact somehow reached the por-
ter's ears. He met Sir Johns BROTH
er-in-law at Kingfauns one day and
said excitedly:
Mon, iS't true that Sir Johns
sold t picture and got a thousand
pound for't?"
Yes. certainly was the reply.
"a thousand pound!' repeated the
porter why. mon, I wadna gi'en
half Groom OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Record.
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her eyes fell was this intended por-

her eyes fell was this intended por-
trait Of her amiable self.
For more than hundred years the
niedkopf-spiteful vixen head, as
one would say in English-stood in
proud prominence, a reproach to the
envious woman and her descendants.
1t afterward mysteriously disappear
ed, but in 1S4O or thereabouts it was
found in a forgotten collection of brio
a-brac. Frederick William IV. bought
the bust for large price and had It
replaced in its original niche, where it
stands today.-New York Tribune.
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TWO HOLES IN ONE.-Postmaster
General Meyer at dinner in Wash
ington was advocating postal banks.
These banks" he said, have so
many good points and so few bad ones
that they who find fault with them
have to exaggerate and dwell on their
defects like an old librarian 1 used to
know.
This librarian was very strict and
censorious. Once, when l was boy,
l returned a volume of Scott to him.
He, as usual, looked closely into the
books condition before marking it off
on my card.
Page &c. said he, glaring at me
over his spectacles, "a hole Then he
turned the leaf Page 9O,' he added,
another hole. '"-Washington Post.
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AN ANTICIPATIvE BURIAL-The ship
doctor of an English liner notified
the death watch steward. an Irish
man, that a man had died in state
room As. The usual instructions to
bury the body were given. Some
hours later the doctor peeked into
the room and found that the body was
still there. He called the Irishman's
attention to the matter and the lat
ter replied:
Il thought you said room 40 l wint
to that room and noticed wan Of thin
in a bunk, Are ye dead?' says |. No
saws he, but I'm pretty near dead
$50 I buried him. Wasp.
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A GRBAT SENSATION
A $500 Harmony Talking
Machine for Every Fam
ily in This Section.

Come and see us about one Of these
unexcelled Harmony Talking and Sing
ina Machines. We want every family
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The Harmony is the finest toned
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AS a home entertainer, there is moth
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come and see US about a Harmony.
Yes, sir, it's a SQUARE DEAL prop
osition.
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UNNECESSARILY SCARED.-A young
man had been calling now and then
on a young lady when one night, as he
sat in the parlor waiting her to come
down. her mother entered the room
instead and asked him in a very grave,
stern way what his intentions were.
He turned very red and was about
to stammer some incoherent reply
when suddenly the young lady called
down from the head of the stairs:
Mamma, mamma, that is not the
one."-Ladies Home Journal.
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1t is the Unexpected
That Happens---

While it may be a fact that you
have never been laid up for several
days, weeks or months by reason Of
an accident or by sickness, 1t Is also a
fact that you have no guarantee that
the future will be equally as kind to
you. While 1 am not in position to
insure you against the possibility of
an accident or sickness, I am In posi-
ton to insure you against financial
loss on account of either. I represent
the Accident and Health departments
of the Aetna Life Insurance Co., OF
Hartford and no company in the
world issues more liberal health and
accident insurance or is more able
and willing to pay all legitimate
claims. Call and talk the matter over.
l am prepared to issue accident tick
cts for the same company for $4,000
for 25 cents for one day or $500 for
II days.
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III The public is quick to detect
sham, but quicker to forget it.
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8Y Cheerupathy is one Of the best
schools of medicine.
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IA Failure is often the result Of ef-
fort; victory always Is.
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SAM NJ. GRIST.
Soaps

No matter what kind Of Soap you
want, you can get it at JOHNSONS.
l have
TOILET SOAPS.
IVORY SOAP,
FAIRY SOAP,
TAR SOAP,
OCTAGON-wholesal If you want
it.
BON-AML,
SAPOLIO,
SECURING SOAP,
GOLD DUST.
I. w. JOHNSON.
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YORK FURNITURE CO.

- See US for a Hammock-we have
sold lots of them, but still have good
supply.