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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Origin of the Plgtail.

Tie report that the Chinese depart
ment of state affairs cODtemplates
issuing an order directing officials, SOL
diers and police to give up the queue
and to wear their hair short recalls
that the queue was introduced into
China by the Manchu dynasty nearly
three centuries ago. 1t is said to
have been originally suggested to the
Manchus by their sense of gratitude
to the horse, that animal having
played a great part In the Tartar con-
guests. In short, the "pigtail' was
a method of establishing q relation
ship between human beings and
horses.-Japan Mail.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
To stop Nail sjtlno.

Nail biting is very common habit
among children and is often the result
OF an extremely nervous temperament
1t Is a good plan to take such child
to a doctor, who will probably give
him good tonic to brace up the ner-
vous system. The child should also
have pointed out to him how ugly his
nails and fingers are getting. Show
him how to keep his nails clean and
well trimmed and try and induce him
to take a pride in them. A good plan
is to interest him in kindergarten
work Of some kind that will keep both
his hands and brain employed; If this
is done the chances are that very soon
the habit will disappear.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13

Miss Edna Blanchard Lewis IL q
New York woman who has originated
and now directs the only insurance
department in the world run exclu-
sively for women. There is a splendid
field for women in this work, she says,
and II is comparatively easy to work
up from the ranks. The first step is
to become an agent She herself had
been school teacher, but found the
work uncongenial, SO became the
agent for an insurance company, with
most of her work in the colleges Of
Smith, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke and
Vassar.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Appropriate Action.

"Old Grabdollar. the eminent and re-
spected trustocrat-" Yes, he is
dead. But In his will be showed his
gratitude to the best friend he ever
had. He left large chunk OF his plum
der to erect a monument in grateful
remembrance of the man who in.
vented technicalities. Puck.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Growth of Farm Values.

Farms of the United States, with
their buildings, implements, and live
stock. are to-day worth almost 10000,
600 900. No such increase in agricul
tural values was ever before known in
the history of the world in any coun
try. The farm product of the year
inst closed was worth almost -four
times as much as the product of 1889
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Wauner's Popularity.

That Pittsburg is baseball craxy
every. one knows, and one wonders
how far the craze will go when one
finds for sale in an image shop on
Wylie avenue, among the figures OF
saints and martyrs, little plaster casts
of Hans Wagner in baseball regallia.
But the limit is reached, indeed. when,
as happened the other day, small
boy comes to the public library and
insists on taking out on his card
Fairy Tales, by Hans Wagner"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Guns with Double Tubes.

Henceforth all sea coast guns of six.
inch caliber or over, except mortars
will be provided with double tubes, SO
that, should the inner tube give way
the damage will not extend to the
outer tube and the envelopins Jacket
and hoops. This will permit the
restoration at small cost of guns
whose tubes give way and will facili.
tate the rehabilitation of guns whose
accuracy has been lost through ero
sion and wear of bore.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Beot Work AZ FiYtv,

In the industrial world it has be
come accepted that a man is too old
at 40, and the London county council
works department decided last year
not to engage men above 35. How IL
1t In the intellectual world? Despite
all the evidences Of precocity, Mr. Dor.
land arrives at a conclusion which
gives an average Of so for the master
work OF great men.-T. P.'s Weekly.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
AIiena Reacted.

There have been rejected at the
United States ports during the past
wear 1O,411 aliens, or about 100 per
cent. of the total number applying for
admission. During the year 2,124 war.
rants of deportation were executed
after the granting OF hearings to the
arrested aliens, compared with ZOOS
executed during the previous year
Chicago Examiner.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
New Stereo Invention.

Interest among printers has been
aroused over the daily use by the
Pittsburg Press Of dry matrix proc
ess by which steam tables are entirely
eliminated from the process and meth
DDS in the mechanical department
practically revolutionised.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
story Teller as Educator.

Miss Ethel Wood has been appoint
ed instructor in the art OF story tell
ing by the Massachusetts state board
of education. Miss Wood won fame
as an original story teller while teach
ing in Brookline.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Founder Of New York Ferry System

Cornelius Drcksen was the frst
Official ferrymsn ON the island Of Man
haitian. The mooring place on the
New York side WAS about where Wa
ter street crosses the present Peck
slip. He started the system in 1887.
Passengers who wanted to be rowed
over blew a horn for the skipper, II
he CHANGED to be absent when they
arrived. From Dircksen's skin grew
the present ferry system Of the city.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Years Addition to Worlds Gold.

South Africa contributed the great
est amount to the worlds stock of gold
in the last year, its share being little
over $l50000, 600 the United States
slightly less than s1OO,0OO,OOO Austria
liza about $50 200. 900, Russia about $685.
100000 and Mexico a little less than
$40, 100000.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
Starfish Qeflea CAPTURE.

The starfish, Melted, commits sui
eide. 1t dissoIves into many pieces.
which escape through the meshes of
the net. Then kind of resurrection
takes place, each piece growing into
. perfect starflsh.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13

To sum up in percentage the six
leading cereals show a yield of &c
per cent. greater than last year. and
only per cent. below the sum of rec.
ord years In each.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
The Real Reason

DE man dat complains dat de world
is agin him." said Uncle Eben, "usu-
ally spresses sech bad opinion OF de
world dat he ain got no right to look
fob its friendship"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13

An aching back is instantly
relieved by an application of
Sloan's Liniment.
This liniment takes the place
of massage and is better than
sticky plasters. 1t penetrates
without rubbing through
the skin and muscular tissue
right to the bone, quickens the
blood, relieves congestion, and
gives permanent as well as
temporary relief.
Here's the Proof.
Mr.. JAMES c. LEE, Of 100 9th ST.,
Be, Washington, DC, writes Thirty
years ago fell from ecaffold and eeri-
Ously injured my back. suffered terri
bly, at times from the email Of my back
all around my stomach WAS just as if i
had been beaten with a club. ! used
every plaster could get with no relief.
6loan's Liniment took the pain right
out, and / can now do as much ladder
work ae any man in the shop, thanks TO
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
House Fly One OF the Greatest
Farm Pests.

Typhoid fever and malaria
have come to be chiefly diseases
that affiict the farm andIthe rural
community" said Prof. S. Hun
ter, head of the department of en-
tOmolOgy at the University of
Kans as recently, continuing:
Both diseases are carried by in
sects, and the way to exterminate
them is to do away with the in
sects that spread them.
The common house fly is the
carrier of typhoid fever. In the
cities this pest has been largely
abolished by sewer systems and
other modern methods of santa
ton. The farm has still to deal
with the question, and the reason
for the prevalence of typhoid on
the farms is that the farmer has as
yet taken no adequate means to
stop the disease.
FLY BREEDS IN REFUSE.
THE fly breeds in refuse of all
kinds. The farmer should see
that his place is kept clean. He
should throw barn refuse into pits
or closed sheds, and n the open
paddocks he should allow chickens
to run continually. They eat the
eggs of the fly and the young in
sects before they fly away. If
people in small towns and on
farms will keep their surroundings
clean they can almost exterminate
the house fly. And when that in
sect goes typhoid fever will cease
to be such a common disease" tt
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13
INDIANA REPUBLICANS
Name TiCket--LOCaI Option Law
Not Touched.


Not Touched.
The Republicans of Indiana, in
their convention at indianapolis,
April 5, inaugurated the political
campaign of 1910 by the selection
of a State ticket. with the excep-
ton of Governor and Lieutenant
Cover or. and adopted platform
that indorses a protective tariff. a
tariff commission, conservation OF
natural resources, the Roosevelt
policies and the administration of
President Taft.
LITTLE FIGHT FOR OFFICE.
There were few contests for
places on the ticket and number
of the candidates were nominated
by reclamation. A second ballot
was necessary in but two instan-
ees-for Superintendent of Public
Instruction and Judge of the Su-
preme Court.
United States Senator Albert =.
Beverage, as temporary chairman,
made the principal speech. He
denounced the Payne-Aldrich tariff
law.
ATTITUDE ON TARIFF.
The attitude of the party on the
tariff question is expressed in the
platform:
I'VE believe in a protective
tariff, measured by the difference
between the cost of production
here and abroad. Less than this
Is unjust to American labOrers;
more is unjust 10 American CON
sumers. That difference should
be ascertained with the utmost
speed and the present law modified
accordingly"
LOCAL OPTION LAW OMITTED.
1t had been expected that in
dorsement Of the county option
law, passed by a Republican Leg
islature, would provoke contro-
eersy, but the platform contained
no mention of the option law.
The convention, called to order
at 10 o'clock, adjourned at e
O'Clock. No speeches were made
other than those of Beverage and
the permanent chairman.
Following is an abstract of Sen
ator Beveridge's speech:
The Republicans of Indiana are
for a protective tariff which COW
ers the difference in the cost of
production here and abroad. Less
than that is unjust to American
laborers: more than that is unjust
TO American consumers. Injustice
is the only foe that protection
needs to fear. 1t was to reduce
the Dingley tariff to meet changed
conditions and secure justice that
we undertook its revision.
Every economic policy, every
political system, almost every
Government. has been destroyed
because of excuses and injustice
that crept into it. The way to
keep a secure policy, a system or
a Government that in itself is
good is to administer it with JUS
tice and wisdom. The only way
to keep party solid and growing
is to keep it right and progressive.
Mckinley saw this when he de-
clared in his last speech that in
tariff matters the period of ex-
clasiveness has past"
Senator Morrill,, the father of
the war tariff of 1864, saw it when
he declared 1T is the mistake of
the friends of sound tariff to in
Sist on extreme rates proposed
during the war if less will raise
the necessary revenue.
Garfield saw it when he said:
THE wisest thing protectionsts
can do is to unite on moderate
reduction of duties"
Theodore Roosevelt saw it when
he said in 1902: What we really
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13

Not the Darkest Depths.
That grief is light which can take
ounsel.--Seneca.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13

ventiIating Machines.
Ozone ventilating machines are now
common In many large buildings.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-04-13

COUNTY AND CITY
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Congressman
JNO. W. LANGLEY, Pi estsnsbuag.
State Senator
CLAUDE Nj. THOMAS. Paris.
Representative
W. L. CRAIG, Menefee County
CIRCUIT COURT
Circuit CONT Judge
A. W. YOUNG, Morehead
Commonwealth Attorney,
W. p. WHITE. Mt. Sterling.
Master Com 'nissioner
JNO A.JUDY. Nj Sterling. !
Circuit Clerk
RICH HUNT. Mt. Sterling.
Commissioner Jury Fund
P. b. TURNER. Mt. Sterling
Receiver
q. e. COONS. Mt. Sterling
Official Printers
ADVOCATE PUB. CO.
TERMS
9rd )nday in January
2ud Monday in April
st Monday in September
COUNTY COURT.
Ord Monday in each mouth.
QUARTERLY COURT
Tuesday after Ord Monday.
FISCAL COURT
lst Tuesdays in April and October.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
OKLAHOMA CITY
IS TO Be CAPITAL
LEGISLATURE FINALLY AGREES
ON SITE NORTHEAST or
METROPOLIS.
ADJOURN SPECIAL SESSION
Governor Haskell Has Fifteen Days to
Sign or Veto the Bill-Residents
Must Make Good on Guaran-
tee Of Free State House.

Oklahoma City, Ok.-The unexpsct-
ed happened when the house and sem
ate passed a bill selecting a capital
site.
Following the action of the house
in passing the capital bill, forcing the
northeast site with the emergency
clause, making the bill Immediately
effective, it now remains for Cover
nor Haskell to sign the bill in order
to complete the work of the special
session of the legislature, which ad-
journed sine die.
Governor Haskell has Is days in
which to sign or veto the bill. He
has pledged in writing to the house
that Oklahoma City must make good
on a gilt-edge guarantee for a free
capitol or he will veto the bill.
Fear Of Party Injury Causes Action.
Satisfied that the senate would not
yield in favor of the Putnam City
capitol bill and fearing that the ad-
journment Of a costly session of the
Legislature without locating the capt.
toll would injure the Democratic par
ty, members of both houses in a con.
ference decided to accept the terms
of the senate locating the capitol
northeast of Oklahoma City.
Members Of the legislature were
guests of the business men at a ban.
uuet here after the session adjourned
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
Too Ardent a Lover,

Georgotto Fontano, an em%broiderer
who lives in the Rue Sevres in Paris.
has found herself condemned to a
months Imprisonment for what seems
to her a harmless act.
She was going home from a concert
q few evenings ago when she decided
she would like to see her flance. AS
he happens to be a fireman whose
station is in her own neighborhood 1t
occurred to her it would be very easy
to summon him to her side by break
ing the glass Of the fire alarm and
sounding a call.
She did so anr in a few moments
fire engines came from several direc-
tons, all laden with firemen, of course,
but alas! her iance was not among
them, and more than that all the fire.
men were angry, and before she knew
what had happened she was taken to
a magistrate, who proceeded to make
the course of true love run unsmoothly
by sending her to prison for a month
in spite of her tears and protests that
she thought it would be a simple way
of bringing her fiance to her side.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
Banker. and Bank Notes.

-Four men, three Of whom were con-
nected with brokerage concerns in the
Wall street district, were discussing
United States paper currency and the
disappearance Of counterfeits. I'VE
are 80 sure nowadays" said one of
the party, "as to the genuineness OF
bills that little attention is paid to
them in handling, except as to de-
nomination" To prove his assertion
he took a $40 yellowback from his
pocket, and. holding 1t up, asked who
could tell whose portrait it bore. No
one knew, and by way of coaching
the broker said 1t was the first treas
urer of the United States. Again no
one knew the name. why, It's
Michael Hillegas," said the mar
proudly. But in confidence, I'll tell
you, l didn't know 1t five minutes
ago."-New York Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
An Alaskan Luncheon.

Runners of woven Indian basketry,
with white drawnwork doilies at each
of the IL covers, were used on an oval
mahogany table. The doilies were
made at Sitka. In the middle of the
table a mirror held a tall central vase
Of frosted glass, surrounded by four
smaller vases, all filled with white
spring blossoms. The edge Of the
mirror was banked with the same
flowers. Four totem poles were placed
on doilies in the angles made by the
runners.
Place cards we're water colors of
Alaskan scenery. Abalone shells held
sailed nuts, and tiny Indian baskets
held bonbons. The soup spoons were
of horn, several Of the dishes used
were made by Alaskan Indians, and
the cakes were served on baskets.
The menu was as follows: Poisson
a la Boring Sea (halibut chowder),
Yukon climbers (broiled salmon, po-
tatoes Julienne), snowbirds avec
auroraborealis (roast duck with jelly,
%Shungnak river turnips, Tanana
beets, Skagway hash (salad), Fair
banks nuggets (ripe strawberries ar
ranged on individual dishes around a
central mound of powdered sugar.,
arctic slices (brick Ice cream), Circle
City delights (small cakes), Klondike
nuggets (yellow cheese in round balls
on crackers). Nome firewater (coffee).
-Woman's Home Companion.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
Planting Wedding Oaks.

Princess August Wilhelm. wife of
the kaiser's fourth son, has set herself
the task of reviving one of Germany's
Oldest customs, that according to which
newly welded couples Immediately af-
ter the marriage ceremony plant a cou-
pie Of oak saplings side by side in a
park or by the roadside of their ma
tive town.
The town of Mulchausen, In Thurin-
gia, is the first to respond to the prin-
cess appeal. A municipal official ap-
pears at the church door after every
wedding and invites the bride and
bridegroom to drive with him in a car
riage to a new road near the town and
there plant oak saplings.
The tree planting idea was started
by a former elector of Brandenburg
with the object Of repairing the raw
ages caused by the 80 years war. The
elector forbade young persons to mar.
ry until they had planted a number of
fruit trees.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22

hospital and at the risk of death be cut.
Plain common sense shows the better way
is to stop food that evidently has not been
~digested.
Then, when food is required, use an easily
digested food. Grape-Nuts or any other If
you know it to be predigested (partly digested
before taking).
We brought to Court analytical chemists
from New York, Chicago ana Mishawabr, Ind,
who swore to the analysis of Grape-Nuts and
that part of the starchy part of the wheat and
barley had been transformed into sugar, the
kind Of sugar produced in the human body by
d~igesting starch (the large part Of food).
Som Of the State chemists brought on by
the weekly" said Grape-Nuts could not be-
called a Stpredigested" food because not all Of
1t was digested outside the body.
The other chemists said any food which had
been partly or half digested outside the body
was commonly known as "predigested."
Splitting hairs about the meaning of a word.
1t is sufficient that If only one-half Of the
food is "predigested," it is easier on weakened
stomach and bowels than food In which no
part is predigested.
To show the facts we introduce DR.. Thos.
Darlington, former chief of the N. Y. Board
Of Health, DR.. Ralph w. Webster, chief Of the
Chicago Laboratories, and Dr.. b. Sachs, N. Y.
II we were a little severe In our d~enuncia-
tion Of q writer, self-confessed ignorant about
appendicitis and its cause, it is possible the
public will excuse US, in view Of the fact that
our head. MI. G. w. Post, has made a lifetime
study of food, food digestion and effects, and
the conclusions are Endorsed by many Of the
best medical authorities of the day.
Is 1t possible that we are at fault for
suggesting, as ? Father and Mother might. to
one Of the family who announced a pain in the
side: Stop using the food, greasy meats.
graves, mince pie, cheese, too much starchy
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
French Official EtIouet.

The wives of the new French minis
tiers share in the honors conferred on
their husbands, the degree of defer
ence due to them being infinitely es-
tablished by the "~protocole." When
the wife of a minister enters a room,
if any deputies or senator's wives are
present, they are supposed to rise
and remain standing until she 10 seat
ed. Other ministers wives may rest
in their chairs, but should the prime
minister's wife arise they also must
stand to attention. And even Nine.
BRAND (f there were such a PERSON.,
would have to show similar Difference
to the wife of the president of the
chamber. With her, according to the
protocole, "e'est la representation ma
tionale qui entire, lie suffrage univers
sci la France London Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
AM unneeessary confession.

A hearty laugh was occasioned at
the Birmingham police court by a pris-
oner who gave himself away in a very
delightful manner. The man was the
first on the list, and the charge against
him was merely one Of being drunk
and disorderly. He stepped into the
dock, however, just at the moment
when the dock officer vas reading out
a few of the cases which were to come
before the court that morning, and a
guilty conscience apparently led him
to mistake these items fer a list of his
previous convictions.
He stood passive enough while the
officer read out about a dozen drunk
and d~isorderlies, but when he came to
one "shopbreaking" the prisoner ex-
claimed excitedly, THAT was eight
years ago, your honor" Everyone be-
gan to laugh, and the prisoner, realiz-
ing the blunder he had made, at first
looked very black indeed, but finally
saw the humorous side of the matter,
and a broad smile spread over his face.
His blunder did not cost anything
Birmingham Mail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
TWO Very Old Ladies

We have heard a great deal lately
about long-lived people, but 1t is prob
able that the oldest two people in the
world today are Frau Dutkievitz and
another old lady named Babavaslika.
The former lives at Posem, in Prus-
sian Poland, and was born on Febru-
airy 81, 1885. She is therefore one
hundred and twenty-five years old.
The latter, however, is nine months
her senior, having been born in May,
1884.
She is still a fairly hale old woman,
and for nearly n hundred years
worked in the fields. Her descendants
number close on 100, and these now
make her a joint allowance. She lives
at the village of Bavelsko, whose
neighborhood she has never quilted
during the whole of her long life. She
remembers events which happened at
the beginning Of last century much
more clearly than those of the last
40 years.-Dundee Advertiser.