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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
WHEN A MAN IS IN THE GRAVE.

IF you have any flowers to give to friend
lust give them to him now;
Don't wait until he's beneath the sod,
When deaths upon his brow,
But speak kind word, twill help him
along
And teach him to be brave,
For flowers, you know, will do no good
When man is in his grave.
If you have a neighbor you know is all
right,
Speak up and tell him so,
For kind word spoken when we're on
earth
Is worth all that is said when we go.
Be friend to man is all that is asked
Many sorrows by this you may save;
It's better than all the good things you
may say
When man is in his grave.
If you have any money you think you
can spare,
Help some poor old soul in need,
For then you are building a home over
there
By doing that kind of deed.
Don't wait until you've come to die
To give away dollars you've labored to
save,
For remember that dollars will do no good
When a man is in his grave.
Don't look down OIL a man who's in hard
luck,
If he can't dress as fine as you,
For remember that CLOTHES don't make
the man"
Is ar adage you'll find to be true.
Though fortune has dealt kindly with
him,
And he had no chance to save,
For the rich and the poor will all be the
When man is in the grave.
There's home up there where sweet an
gels dwell,
Where man receives his reward,
And the good things you do while here
on earth
Are commeudable in the eyes of out
Lord.
50 think of the things you might have
done,
OF some poor soul you may save;
You'll find if you wait the time has
passed
When a man is in the grave.
-ALPHoNSE BoURLIER.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
MOOnShine Still DESTROYED.

United States Marshal Burnside,
accompanied by deputies, on May
31st raided moonshine still eight
miles east of Danville, in Garrard
county. The plant and liquor
were destroyed. The alleged OPP
orators were placed in Jail. This
is the first illicit distillery discov-
cred in this section since the Civil
War.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
fire Drill Saves Children.

The pupils of the St. Casimir's
School in Detroit, Michigan, es-
capped in safety when fire broke
out on the second floor. Nearly
900 pupils were in the school.
Fire drills had been frequent and
when the alarm was sounded the
teachers marshalled the little ones
and conducted them down the
stairs and fire escapes without in
jury to any of them.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
To Confer With Senator MCCrearV

Judge w. B. Matthews, of
Washington, ID. c., general coun-
sci of the Copper Mines Company,
of Arizona, and Shirley r. John
son, New York banker, register
ed at Lexington.
Judge Matthews said: I'VE
came especially to meet Senator
j. b. McCreary, who is president
of our company, and to discuss our
enterprise with some of the big
people in the State"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
Lid On Gambling.

Mayor Skain has issued an order
to the police that all forms of
gambling alleged to be ia opera
ton in Lexington must cease. This
action follows the order that all
saloons must be kept closed on
Sunday.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
THE WEARY WAY.
Daily Becoming Less MeariSOme
to Many in VT. Sterling.

With a back that aches all day,
With rest disturbed at night
Annoying urinary disorders,
lis a weary way, indeed.
Doans Kidney Pills drive WEAKNESS
away.
Are endorsed by Mt. Sterling citizens.
ii. &. Greenwade, % Queen
street, Mt. Sterling, Ky, says:
Il attribute my kidney trouble
to the constant strain required in
my work as a blacksmith. While
| was never in such a condition
that ! was not able to work, new
ertheless | was in misery. / fire.
quently had severe attacks of lum,
bago, which sometimes lasted for
days and weeks, and made my life
and work "A burden instead of a
pleasure. | am pleased to say
that Doan's Kidney Pills, procured
at f. g. Duerson's drug store,
gave me prompt relief from the
last attack and since using them |
have had no reoccurrence. am
/ pleased to recommend this remedy
to other sufferers from kidney
complaint"
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's -
and take no other, 47-3t
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
And PremierS Will Travel to
HOdgenyille to Dedicate Me-
mortal Hall and Accept Old
Lincoln Farm as National
Park.
Memorial Hall and Lincoln Farm
Will Be Dedicated in No.
yember.

On February - Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States, laid the corner stone of the
Memorial Hall in Larue county,
which, when completed, will be a
temple of marble to incase and
preserve for centuries to come the
little loo cabin in which Abraham
Lincoln was born. On Monday
of last week, May 81, in the pub
lie square at Hodgenville, the
county seat of Larue county, a
bronze statue, heroic in size, of
Lincoln was unveiled in the pres
ence of Robert Todd Lincoln, the
son of the war President; Mrs.
Ben Hardin Helm, Mrs. Abraham
Lincoln's sister; Henry Watterson,
Gov. Wilson, Judge +. G.
O'Rear, and many distinguished
men and women from all parts of
the State.
But the big celebration is yet to
come. The formal dedication of
the Memorial Hall on the Lincoln
Farm will take place in November,
and President w. H. Taft, prac-
tically every member of the Cab
met, many United States Senators
and members of the House of Rep
resentatives will be at Hodgen-
vile. Thousands will pour into
the little town to hear President
Taft and see him dedicate the old
Lincoln homestead as a national
park
1T will be the biggest event of
its kind ever given in America.
No such celebration was ever held
at Mt. Vernon as will be held at
Hodgenvile."
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
WHIRLW WIND CAMP AIGN
for Education In KentuCky--TO
Invade Every County.

The second 'Whirlwind Cam
paign" for better education in Ken
lucky has been planned for June
27-July 3, and will be bigger, bet
ter and more thorough than the
former campaign. 1t will cover
the entire State, both city and
county, with special reference to
the rural community. The cam
paign will open Sunday, June q,
when every minister in the State
will be asked to deliver an address
on Public Education in Ken
lucky" from his own pulpit The
regular speakers, one hundred
strong, will begin active work on
Monday, June 20. In nearly every
instance each speaker will cover
two counties.
One of the most important events
of the campaign in each county
will be the Rally Day." An all
day open-air meeting, with music
and marching and special enter
tainment, has been planned to take
place in each county seat. Many
noted men in political and official
life in Kentucky have been asked
to deliver addresses.
One important change in the
plan of the coming campaign will
be the shifting of the lombard
ment from the city to the rural
community.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
Fifty Years Experience.

Mrs. w. w. Ralston, Hopkinsville,
KY. says: 81 have been raising chickens
for nearly fifty years and Bourbon Poultry
Cure is the most satisfactory remedy
have ever used for chicken cholera and
gapes." Sold by w. S. Lloyd.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
Dies in CHICAGO.

DR.. Ryland d. Pratt, of Shell
byvilIe, KY, aged Al, died at a
hospital in Chicago after an opera
ton for internal abscess. He was
frequently called to Louisville in
consultation by physicians and
surgeons.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09

two months to complete the
work"
COST OF STATUE S13, 900.
The cost of the Lincoln statue
was $l3 900. A third Of the NOR
ey was appropriated by the Com
monwealth of Kentucky, a part
bv the United States Government,
and part was contributed by
Kentuckians, a number of them
residents of Larue county.
SIGHT AND SEERS COME AND GO.
People of the town say that men
and women from all parts of the
State are iourneying to the Lin
cola Farm. A day never passes
that there are not visitors at the
farm. A bic majority of them
come from the East, but there
have been many foreigners there.
The citizens say that when the
farm is dedicated as IA park and
the roads are converted into hand
some driveways the Lincoln Farm
will be a shrine for the people that
will eclipse Mt. Vernon in every
respect. The place is never to be
known as Lincoln Park" 1t is
ever to be known as the Lincoln
Farm" The words Lincoln
Farm have already been cut into
the granite over the gateways
leading into the place, and the
people have been instructed to
speak of it only as the Lincoln
Farm
We clip the following from
speeches made at the unwilling Of
the statue;
They feel that his little log
cabin will be second Mt. Vernon
and that the great heart of the ma
ton will turn to it with the same
fervor and fidelity they have Law
ished upon the magnificent home
by the Potomac. john NJ. Ath-
! ertOn.
Il now accept this noble memo
rial of our country's greatest man.
1t is eminently fitting that here, in
his native State and in the county
seat of his native county, such a
memorial should be established.
1t can add nothing to his fame.
1t is a tribute, rather. to the Just
pride and proper self-respect of
the State and city, George Du
Relic.
We pay homage to the memo
ry of the American Pioneer. He
was in every essential a man.
His was a spirit that would not en-
dare bonds; the independence that
seorned servility. Like him vino
was called, the voice crying in
the wilderness, much of his life
was isolated and obscure, his lot
hard, his course an Inspiration
Il K. g. O'Rcar.
AS our children see this statue
before us, they, let us hope, will
ponder the lessons of his life and
take new courage to bear, as he
did, their trials, joys and sorrows,
Here they will see the prize of in
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09

Helen-Ruth was afraid the
girls wouldn't notice her engage
ment ring.
Grace-Did they?
Helen-Did they? Six of them
recognized it at once.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
community

'Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil is
the best remedy for that often
fatal disease-croup. Has been
used with success in our family
for eight years. Mrs. l.. White
acre, Buffalo. n. Y. 47-5t.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
FOR Rent.

Two dwellings; one store room.
20-tf II. Clay Mckee.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09

men and women who knew Lin
coin well, as the most perfect like
ness of MIN. 1t required twenty
two months to complete the
work"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
Money to Loan

on improved real estate.
20-tf Fl. Clay Mckee.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09

Jonson's Tribute to Religion.
The strength Of empire Is In rail-
gion.-Ben JouSon.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
WALLS GO UP.

The solid granite walls of the
Memorial Hall are rapidly going
up. In the place of the roughly
hewn logs of the Lincoln cabin,
granite walls, twenty-seven inches
in thickness, are to be built sky
ward. The footpath from the old
spring to the cabin, trod by Tom
Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, has
vanished and a flight of granite
steps, almost fifteen feet wide,
lead the way up the hill! FROM the
lOwIands. Dwellings are being
built about the farm and flower
beds and grass plots are being
made. A part of the old farm is
to be preserved just as it was when
Lincoln left it, but the remainder
is to be made to blossom like a
rose.
In the Memorial Hall is to be
preserved the Lincoln cabin, and
the Lincoln relics. 1t is under
stood that Robert Lincoln is to
present a number Of interesting
heirlooms, books and other arti-
cles which belonged to his father
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1909-06-09
WEINMAN Is JOYOUS.

Adolph Weinman, the young
New York sculptor who nodded
the features of Lincoln into the
bronze statue, said:
People have been good enough
to tell me that the statue is the
best ever made of. Lincoln, OF
course, they may be fiattery, but |
am we'll pleased with my work. "
From what photograph or
painting did you workW
From over 100 photographs
and paintings" he replied, Il
used every one | could get my
hands on, but | would discard
them as 1 studied and worked,
and the face itself was made,
should say, from some three or
four photographs conceded by
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-22
WAS IT DONE TO SAVE HINES,

feature
satisfactorily might
to
Diminishing
the
the dealings railway
public mind But the
recognized formally
Legislature will be this the charges
Smith
did Smith his advisers
dealing
public
supporter
the
be political
decision
clusion.
president Tenni The
$1,000 placing the
decision Smiths
railway
his advs
delverer
Hines
Smith ieutenan suffers
The Brown its
scandals coming the
administration that preceded it.
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SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY.

She walked in beauty like the night
Of clOudless climes aud starry
skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one shade the
less,
Had half impair'd the nameless
grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens DER her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet eX
press
How pure, how dear, their dwelling
place.
And on that cheek and DER that brow
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that
glow
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.
Lord Byron.
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CURRENT COMMENT

every year, a great deal more than
they pay in.
No honest mind can possibly, justify
a tax system that makes such dis
elimination possible. No honest mind
can justify a system of voluntary
contributions to the support of the
state government.
While the Chronicle looks with fay-
or on almost every movement that
makes for the correction of this glar-
ing evil, it is, nevertheless, rather in
clined to the view that we will never
be able to secure a proper adjustment
of the trouble except through a con-
stitutional convention, where the state
may have the benefit of the counsel of
its very best and most thoroughly
representative men; that class of men
in fact, who, while being willing to
give up the time necessary to attend
a constitutional convention, could
not be induced to accept election to
the Georgia legislature
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getting his tax and tariff views even
partially represented in the pending
measure. The income tax amendment
is related to the tariff bill and design
ed to augment the Governments in
come beyond what the provisions Of
the pending bill are expected to sup
uly. The extra session is limited to
the consideration of the tariff, the
census and some cognate subjects.
There is no possibility of a constitu-
tional amendment on the subject of
electing senators receiving attention.
If Mr.. Bryan is looking to the next
session of Congress rather than the
present one, his recommendation is
equally futile. If there is one subject
on which Senators have convictions
of their own and on which they would
be disposed to resent executive inter
ference, it is the manner of electing
their own members On that subject
they are impervious to disinterested
advice. They are, however, much
alive to the public opinion in their
own States Where that is strong
and clamorous for the direct election
Iof Senators by the people the Senat-
ors from that State sooner or later
become converts to that view, or give
place to others who believe in the di-
rect vote.
In this way the United States Sena-
tors who favor the direct election are
lsteadily increasing, and may ultimate
lily reach the two-thirds majority nee
essary to pass such an amendment
which the House is always ready to
adopt. In the meantime the direct
vote for Senators is becoming more
and more general, in spite of the in
action of the Senate, and, so far as il
succeeds, makes the passage of a con-
stitutional amendment on the subject
that much less necessary.
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to reproduce $4,000 300 individuals.
Much good was expected from the
Introduction of the Guatemalan
ant, in its own country the, natural
enemy Of the weevil, but the importa-
ton succumbed to changed climate
conditions. A native ant, however,
known as Selenopsis geminata, and
which travels up and down the cotton
stalk, has taken issue with the weevil,
first fighting him as an interloper and
later hunting him out as an article of
diet. According to the bureau of
entomology, Solenopsis germinata is
responsible for the destruction of
more than half the weevils that fall
before their various natural enemies.
Good results have followed the intro
duction of new cultural methods, such
as burning the cotton stalk in the fall
as soon as possible after the last Of
the crop has been gathered, and by
inducing speedy maturity of the fol-
lowing seasons crop through early
planting and the use of fertilizers.
One beneficial effect of the weeyil
has been the increased attention Civ
en- to diversified farming in many sec
lions where this had been too much
neglected But cotton will ever re-
main king in the South, and a great
reward awaits the man who can de-
wise means for annihilating this fore
most enemy to it's successful produc-
ton.
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THE BOIL WEEVIL.
washington Post.)

That the recent marked rise in the
price of cotton should be followed by
a reactiOnary movement seems nat
ural enough, considering the long
period of growth and maturity that
lies ahead Of the crop, and the chances
for recovery in condition under fav-
orable weather influences. There is
one untoward factor that is persist
emily active, however, and in the con-
troll of which but little Roadway has
been made; namely, the boil weevil.
The boil weevil is undoubtedly the
most serious menace the cotton plant
er has ever faced. Until it arrive |
there was apparently nothing to pre-
vent steady increase in cotton pro-
duction answering to the enlarging
demands of the world, as it was gen
orally held that within the area now
devoted to cotton raising there could
be produced double the present crop.
This bright outlook faded before the
weevil, although the earlier appre-
tensions of a possible abandonment
of cotton raising as a result of it's
ravages have subsidized.
In 1895 the weevil was not known
In this country outside of few coun-
ties on the Texas coast BY 1903 il
had extended northward over much of
eastern Texas, and in October of that
year it established isolated colonies in
Louisiana. By 1906 the enemy had
entered nearly all of the cotton coun-
ties of Texas, had overspread Louis
lana, and was present in parts of Ok
lahoma and Arkansas, and it has since
invaded Mississippi.
Some idea of the damage wrought
may be obtained from a comparison
of yields in certain Texas counties
during 1899 and 1902, two years very
similar in character as to growing
conditions. OF ten counties free from
the pest in both years, 1902 gave an
increase in production of IL per cent.
as compared with 1899. In ten other
counties that were free from the
weevil in 1899, but badly infested in
1902, the yield in the latter year was
only AZ per cent. as great as in the
former
The pest is hard to exterminate, on
account of its habits and rapidity of
growth and multiplication. As it's
name indicates, the boil weevil passes
nearly all of it's life in the fruit of the
plant, and cannot be reached with
poisons. From egg to adult stage re-
quires but fourteen days, and single
pair will lay enough eggs in season
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-07-22
ONE DIVORCE IN FIVE DUE TO
DRINK
LITERARY DigeSt.l

Literary DlgeSt)
One of the most striking arguments
for temperance reform, says Mr.. L.
A. Brady, is to be found in certain
cold dispassionate statistics issued by
the United States Census Bureau
The figures show that intemper-
ance, as either direct or a contri-
buting cause, was responsible for
more than 10 per cent.-practically
one-fifth-of all divorces granted in
the United States during the twenty
years between 1887 and 1906 inclusive.
Since at the present rate at least ev-
cry twelfth marriage ends in divorce,
We get proportion Of one home in
every siXty-one wrecked by drink.
Moreover, the census authorities
themselves, according to Mr. Brady,
admit that these figures represent
only the most fragrant and palpable
instances of the part which intemper-
ance plays in divorce and that great
er percentages than those actually
given would be nearer the truth. The
detailed figures as set forth in the
census bulletin are as follows:
Drunkenness was the sole cause of
divorce in 36,516 cases, or SO per
cent. of the total number of divorces
0SS7 to 1900. 1t was a cause in
combination with some other cause in
17,765 cases, or 1.9 per cent. of the
total number. Therefore, it was a
direct cause, either alone or in COM
bination with other causes, in 54,281
cases, or 81 per cent of the total. Of
divorces granted to the wife the per-
centage for drunkenness either alone
or in combination with other causes
was 10; of those granted to the hus-
band, the corresponding percentage,
IA
"The attempt was made to ascertain
also the number of cases in which
drunkenness or intemperance, altho
not direct ground for the divorce, was
an indirect or contributory cause. The
number of such cases was returned as
130,2S7, representing 1873 per cent of
the total number of divorces. Prob
ably this number includes those cases
in which the fact of intemperance was
alleged in the bill of complaint or
established by the evidence, altho not
specified among the grounds for
which the divorce was granted.
THE remaining cases are those in
which there was no reference to in
temperance, or no evidence that in
temperance existed as a contributorv
cause. In some of these cases the
record was so meager that the alb
sence of any mention of intemperance
would justify no conclusion But in
the majority of instances it would
create a strong presumption that in
temperance did not exist or was moi
cOntributory cause"