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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
student Of Child Tralnlnn.

Maria Montessori, lecturer in tn.
University OF Rome, is said to be the
most intellectual woman in Europe.
She is an eloquent and convincing
public speaker and has gained a wide
reputation for her ideas in the teach.
ing OF children. She advocates the
carrying OF instruction to the mind OF
the child by means OF toys She also
has built model house" for the
poor, and in II has a room set apart
and specially equipped for the chill
dren. In it are toys OF her own in
vention designed to teach the little
ones to read and write. Her ideas
have found such an appeal to the prac-
tical mind she has been invited to
build house exclusively for children
In Milan.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
Waterproof ShInuIes.

Shingles are now made under q pR
=a:sd process from asbestos fiber an
portland cement. Owing to the enc
nous pressure under which the
shingles are manufactured. it in saia
that they absorb, when fresh, only
about five per cent. Of their weight
OF water; and when exposed to the
atmosphere for a year or two that
hydration and subsequent crystalline
ton make them absolutely impermeA-
sls.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
EXPRESSIONS FROM PASTORS

At the meeting the following
expressions from the pastors in re
gard to the Laymen's Missionary
Movement were given utterance
to in Louisville.
w. B. Beauchamp, Methodist
Church: The Laymen's Mis-
sionary Movement and convention
in Louisville has extended the
sphere of missionary interest tre-
mendously."
Rev. Sigler, M. E. Church,
South: THE Laymen's Missionary
meeting had wonderfully unity
ing effect on our Christian people
in Louisville and surrounding
towns"
j. T. Rushing, Virginia avenue
NJ. E. Church, South: 1T has
been a manifest blessing to our
church. Some of our members
are doubling their contributions"
Rev. Roger I. Nooe. Crescent
Hill Christian Church: Il think
of it as a new life and new power"
Rev. T. 5. Tinsley, Christian
Church: 1T is the highest wave
of missionary influence known to
me thus far; it will be sure to lead
on to fortune"
Rev. Killing. Lutheran Church:
Zone man raised his gifts from
SO to 500 per year, one-half for
missions: another from Sl.50 to
$25 per year for missionary work.
E. L. Powell. Christian Church:
A new impulse followed by a
solid determination to do the
thing as far as one congregation is
concerned"
Rev. Hunt, Baptist Church: 1T
was the greatest thing in the in
terest of worldwide evangelical
ton that ever reached our city.
Its unifying effect upon the re-
ligious life of the city is glorious"
Rev. Atkinson, Rivers Memo
rial NJ. Z. Church, South: The
greatest movement of the ages to
carry great blessings to the une-
vangelized nations and will be no
less blessing to the home churches
that do the work"
Rev. Thad Mcdonald: The
thing that impressed me most was
the appeal of layman to layman,
business men looking at mission
work from standpoint of business
men,"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
New Holland Trsmwsy System.

The Dutch government has grant.
ed concession to the Amsterdam q
North Holland Tramway Company to
build and operate an electric railway
system In Holland. The route will b
nearly so kiloms, running from Am
sterdam north through Zaandam b
kromeminie, from Zaandyk to Wyh
aan-Zee, and Wormerveer to Purma
end The Holland Development Com.
pany Of Amsterdam will build the en-
tire system.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
Albania In Hard 1 unL

A man once asked Thackeray to
lend him i've shillings, which he would
convert into 100000. Asked how.
he explained that he knew a young
lady with 100000 who he knew
would marry him II he asked her. but
be had pawned his teeth, and wanted
eve shillings TO redeem them in order
to propose effectively. - T. Pc
Weekly.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16

While it is often impossible to
prevent all accident, it is never
impossible to be prepsred-it is
not beyond any ones purse. In
vest 25 cents in bottle of Cham
berlain's Liniment and you are
prepared for sprains, bruises and
like injuries. Sold by all dealers.
feb.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
East and West,

There is no longer any doubt, our
Shanghai correspondent tells us, that
the old order Of thought which has
guided the lives Of countless millions
In the Chinese empire through long
succession Of centuries is passing away
forever. The movement in favor Of
western education has become ire
sistibls.-London Times.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
cluewem.n Help Backward student.

The clubwomen Of st. Paul and this
district are much interested in some
OF the recent recommendation of SUI
perintendent Heeter, and the one
which they propose to work for is TO
establish ungraded rooms for back
ward children In the schools. This
is q step toward indiyidualism In edu-
cstional work, which is the ideal to-
ward which all the best educators are
tending. II is hoped ultimately TO es-
tablish these rooms In all the public
schools OF this city where a child
who is backward and slow of compre-
hension may be placed, and the teach
er may give him individual help. Not
only would this be an excellent thing
for the child, but a real assistance to
those other children now associated
with him who are not backward and
vet are naturally held back by his
slowness. The clubwomen of this city
are much interested in educational
work. and as most of them are moth.
ers they feel that they can do more
real good in this way than by efforts
on civic lines.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16

Torturing eczema spreads its
burning area every day. Doan's
Ointment quickly stops the spread
ing, instantly relieves the itching,
cures it permanently. At any
drug store. feb.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
ALWAYS Snow on pixies Peak.

There is never part of the year
when Pixies Peak is entirely without
snow. In the hottest July and Aug
ust weather snow is to be found even
at a considerable distance from the
TOD Of the mountain.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
The .pes Molnes Plan

Houston, Des MONIES, Boston anc
other cities that have adopted the
Commission Plan" has attracted
much notice. We quote from the
Lexington Leader:
within the last year we have
printed an extended summary OF
the ''Des Moines Plan," following
it up with interviews showing its
successful operation.
v"Des Moines is governed by a
Mayor and four councilmen, elect
ed from the city at large. Nomi-
nations are made in primary
election in which all citizens par
ticipate without regard to political
utilization, and any number of cam
didates may be nominated by petit
tons each signed by % voters.
The two candidates receiving the
highest number of votes for Mayor
in the primary shall be the candi-
dates in the general election, and
the eight high candidates for coun-
cilmen shall be the nominees. The
names of these ten men will 80 on
the ticket for the general election,
and from them the Mayor and four
councilmen will be elected.
The Mayor and four council
men constitute the council, and
have full authority oyer all de-
partments of the city government,
their powers being executive, leg
islative and Judicial. The Mayor
presides and votes as a member of
the council and he also has the
power to veto. The Mayors sal
airy is $500 a year and the coun-
cilmen $4,000 each.
The city government is divided
into FIVE departments, as follows ::
Department Of Public Affairs.
Department of Accounts and
Finance.
Department of Public Safety.
Department of Streets and
Public improvements.
Department of Parks and Pub
lie Property.
The Mayor is in charge of the
Department of Public Affairs and
each councilman is in charge of
one of the other departments, the
council as whole designating the
assignment Of its members to the
several posts.
The council elects all other Of
ticers as may be provided for by
ordinance, and may remove any of
them by a majority vote at any
time.
Any attempt at the exercise Of
political influence by one officer or
employe over another is punishable
by fine of $500 Or Imprisonment
of 80 days in Jail. A civil service
commission examines all applicants
for appointive positions in the city
government and provide an eligible
list from which the council shall
make selections. Political tests
are absolutely forbidden and ap-
pointments are made from the eli
gible list without regard to party
affiliatiOn.
The Mayor or any member OF
the council may be removed or re-
called at special election called by
% per cent of the qualified voters.
At such special election all who
desire may be candidates and the
one receiving the largest vote shall
serve out the remainder of the
term. The officer against whom
the recall is directed may be can
didate, and if he should receive the
highest vote the removal does not
become effective and he serves out
his term.
''Des Moines is a city of 10000
population and "a square miles OF
territory. 1t has so policemen and
100 tiremen, counting officers and
subOrdinates, and 22,500 school
children.
THE 'Des Moines Plan of city
government is immensely popular
at its own home"
TOrturing eczema spreads Its
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16

There's nothing so good for a
sore throat as DIR. Thomas Eclec-
trio Oil. Cures it in a few hours.
Relieves any pain in any part.
fob
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16

The One Certain Happy Action.
Doing good is the only certainly
happy action of q mans iife.-sis
Phillip Sidney.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
BE Yourself,

Be yourself-simple, honest and un
pretending-and you will enjoy
through life the respect and love OF
friends.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
ELLIS RESIGNS.
viii Manage the Coming Cam
b paign In Ohio.

After several conferences at the
White House, Wade IL. Ellis, Of
Ohio, resigned his position as as
sistant to the Attorney General in
the Department of Justice to ac-
cept the craftsmanship of the Re-
publican Executive Committee of
Ohio.
II TAFT WORRIED OVER OHIO.
The Ohio political situation has
been giving the President much
concern. With the expected NOM
matt IN of Gov. Harmon, the Re-
party faces u hard tight
this fall and the President has
been anxious t h at factional
should be eliminated as
much as possible.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
Paper Trust Pays fines.

Twenty-six manufacturing firms
of the Paper Board Association,
indicted by the Federal grand
jury in December last as mem
bers of an illegal combination in
restraint of trade, plead guilty in
the United States Circuit Court.
Fines of $4,000 each--$52, 900 in
all-were Immediately imposed
and were paid at New York.
Thus ends the second organiza-
ton of paper men formed by Jno.
III. Parks. The fiber and manila
combine met similar fate in the
Federal courts some time ago.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16

Maybe the fact that bad beef
was served to the Roosevelts ac-
counted for the fact that he deter
mined to 90 to East Africa and
oct a little meat of a new kind.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
POLICEh EN,

Howard Anderson
}. W. binson
j. :. Turner
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1910-02-16
DISTRICT, COUNTY AND CITY
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

Congressman
JNo. W. LANGLEY, PiestensbaGg.
State Senator
CLAUDE Nj. THOMAS. Paris.
Representative
W. L. CRAIG, Menefee County
CIRCUIT COURT
Circuit Count Judge
A. w. YOUNG, Morehead
Commonwealth Attorney,
W. B. WHITE. Mt. Sterling.
Master Com missioner
JNO A. JUDY, Mt Sterling.
Circuit Clerk
RICH HUNT. Mt. Sterling.
Commissioner Jury Fund
P. B. TURNER. Mt Sterling.
Receiver
6. E. CoONs, Mt. Sterling.
oncial Printers
ADVOCATE PUB. co.
TERMS
srd NJ onday in January
Add Monday in April
st Monday in September
COUNTY COURT. .t ;
Ord Monday in each month.
QUARTERLY COURT
Tuesday after ard Monday. ;"
FISCAL COURT.
Let Tuesdays in April and October.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
No Help for the Dying.

The extreme callousness of the old
English gamblers, or gentlemen, as
they were then called. is illustrated
by the following account which Hor'
ace Walpole, the celebrated letter
writer, gives of curious occurrence
at Whites coffee house in London.
In one of his epistles to Sir Horace
Mann, under date of September 1,
1850, he says: "They have put into
the papers good story, made at
Whites. A man dropped down dead
at the door, and was carried in. The
club Immediately made bets whether
he was dead or not; and when they
were going to bleed him, the wager
ers for his death inteRposed and said
it would affect the fairness of the bet
and they stopped their efforts. Tho
Sunday Magazine.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
FoR FLAT:aoTToMEp EELs.
Only Kind suitable for River, Accord
Ing to Humorlst.

James Montgomery Bailey, the Dan
bury News man. in whose employ the
writer had the good fortune to be. was
the possessor of fund of ready wit,
which had a way of cropping out at
the most unexpected times in his daily
life as we'll as In his writings.
One day he received call at his
ofrice in Danbury from a stranger who
vas contemplating buying some prop,
erty In Newtown, eight miles from
Danbury, and abutting on small
stream. This brook had been spoken
of by the owner of the property In
glowing terms to the prospective pur-
chaser, who asked Mr.. Bailey several
questions about it, particularly In re
gard to its size.
How. large a river is it?" asked the
stranger.
Well" said Mr.. Bailey, contempla-
lively, ito the best of my knowledge,
that river, from the comb factory to
the railroad bridge is easily navisable
for fiat-bottomed ,eels. Boston Her.
aid. a
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
Sees Rare Indian Rites.

Edward A. Curtis, the famous pho
tographer of Indians, to aid whose
work J. Pierpont Morgan gave $4,000,
and whom President Roosevelt select
ed to take pictures of Alice Roose
velt's wedding, has been initiated into
the Order of the Snake by the Hopi
Indians in the state of Washington.
He is the first white man to take
the vows of that mystic order. Fol
nine days and nights he was held in
AN lily ventilated underground cell
with much fasting and many ceremon
les, while the mysteries were ex
planned to him.
He says that 15D snakes were used
in the course of the initiation, none oi
which had the fangst removed. The
Indians handled them with perfect
immunity.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
TELL OF COMING DEATH.
omens Implicitly Believed in BY Old
English Families.

1t is not in superstitious Ireland or
Scotland only that omens are sup
posed to warn an old family of death.
Whenever two enormous owls perch
together on one OF the battlements OF
the house of Arundel and Wardour
death is at the door. The ancient
family of Clifton of Clifton Hall, in
Nottinghamshire is supposed to be
forewarned of death by sturgeon
forcing itself up the River Trent. The
apparition Of a Benedfctine nun is
said to warn the ancient Yorkshire
Catholic family Of Middleton of the
approach of death. Camden, in his
Magma Britannia in speaking of the
antiquity and dignity of the Brereton
family, says: This. wonderful thing
respecting them is commonly believed
and have heard it myself affirmed by
many, that for some days before the
death of the heir of the family the
trunk of a tree has always been seen
floating in the lake adjoining their
",ansion London T. P.'s Weekly.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
A Successful Disguise.

1t is safe to say that nobody but an
Irisbman could be the hero of the fol,
lowing story. Mr.. Murphy, says writ.
er in the Brooklyn Citizen, was ipquir-
ing Of his friend, Mr.. Doolan, bow his
wife was feeling, after the excitement
OF the recent wedding OF their daughter.
"She's well enough" "replied the other,
Excepting that she's grieving over a
pair of illigant new kid gloves that got
lost oh her that evening.
"She's feeling bad about thin, but
l've advertised in the paper, and I'm
thinging she'll get thin back again be-
foor long. They cost Mrs. Doolan two
dollars and forty.fve cints!"
"Ain't you afraid whoever got thin
will be slow to answer the advertise
mentY" inquired Mr.. Murphy.
"It's meself that knew how to fix
that" returned MIR. Doolau. ~ sdver-
tised thin iligant gloves as an ovid
cotton pair, bursting away at the seams
and wurrth nobody's keepine!'
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
His Pertinent Query.

"If you haven't got anything to do
and you don't pear to have
grimly said the Old Codger. address,
ing the most paltry citizen in the vii
lage, "and no sense-and you don't
evidence any symptoms of having
and no honesty-and you've never
been accused of being cursed with
any-and no self-respect-and there's
no indications of it-and no ability
to do anything but loaf and lop and
lally-gag around-and you are clear
up into the thirty-third degree at
that-w'yn'll don't you run for the
legislature? You are amply equipped
for the position; look at the fun
you'd have, with all the Toms. Dicks
and Harrys in the community hooraw-
ing for or against you, and If you
should happen to be elected the dis
honor wouldn't especially hurt you,
and you've got no family to be dis
graced. What say?"-Puck.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
Col. Beamer's Oil Well.

It's been so long since we've seen any
thing in print about Col. Beamer,s, FAM
GUS oil well up at Lamar that we eager.
ly pounce onto the following 10 a,recent
issue OF the Democrat:
There is more trouble out at the big
well, but as usual, the indomitable man
who owns it is by no means dismsyed.
A drill is fastened in the hole, between
sixteen aud seventeen hundred feet be-
low the surface. To get this out will be
killing task, but Col. Beames says it
will be gotten out just the same. What
the Colonel says has a way of coming
true.
No other local man ever showed the
pluck, and bull dog tenaoity of purpose
10 any undertaking that has marked the
conduct OF Mr.. Beamer since he conclud-
ed to prospect for oil. Difficulties tha
would have appalled, others have made
him all the more determined.
"But | have something that makes
me stick to it," he said, Wednesday
forenoon. "We went through two Kun.
dred feet of as fiue oil sand as was ever
seen. Usually from ten to fifteen feet is
considered good bed Of sand"
Dirpings drawn from this depth show
unmistakable and strong evidences
toil, 10 the first place every vial full Of
it bears the peculiar odor of raw oil, and
the settings always present have been
analyzed and show a strong psrceptage
of patroleum-over twenty per cent the
chemists say.
So Col. Beamer is persupded that
once he gets his well cased ana the wa.
ter drawn out, he probably, has as tine
an oil well as there is in the southwest
ern country.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20

"Crackerjack" Soap.
"Crackerjack" Laundry Soap 10 bars
for Poe at Crandall Bros. Try it.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20

have done this for the last two or three
years each spring. They take wagon.
and go to the woods along the streams
and take wild shrubs and trees OF any
kind and transpIan t them to to the
school grounds. Responsibility would
not end with the planting Of the trees
and shrubs. as they must have some
provision for being cultivated and even
watered il necessary during the first
season or two"
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
THE JASPER NEWS
Sub sCriptior Rates.
Take Your Home Paper First.
r. b. GRIFFITH Editor,

Then subscribe for the Kansas City
Star and Times.
The Star and Times, reporting the
full twenty four hours news each day
in thirteen issues If the paper each
week, are furnished to regular subscrib-
ers at the rate of 10 cents per week.
AS newspapers, The Star and The
Times have 10 rivals. No other pub
Usher furnishes his readers with the
full day and night Associated Press re-
ports, as does the Star and Times.
This should recommend the papers es.
pecially to the progressive merchant
and farmer.
l deliver both the Star and Times to
the subscribers door promptly on ar
rival of trains.
Give me trial.
H. G. BURCH, Distributor.
Phone 1873
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
Alphas Push Civic Improvement

The Alpha club is anxious to see civic
improvement work taken up by citizens,
Following is the text OF letter received
from the Missouri state horticultural
society by Miss Nora Fox, secretary Of
the club in reply to letter OF inquiry as
to state distribution OF trees.
II am much interested in your state
ment of the effort to beautify your
town. 1t has been my experience and
observation that it requires months and
sometimes years OF agitation on the part
OF someone who is interested enough to
take the lead, to educBte community
to point where it feels the necessity of
doing something. You are to be con-
graduated on what you have attained
as many labor longer and accomplish
less.
81 am sorry that the state has no
trees for distribution. However, feel
certain that Stark Bros. Nurseries and
| Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo-, will sup
ply you with the necessary trees and
shrubs for planting the grounds about
| your schools, churches, parks. etc, The
| nursery firm mentioned has supplied
thousands OF trees to the schools and no
charges are made except that parties re-
ceiving the trees must pay the freight.
They might require some evidence that
| the request for the plants came
from someone who had authority to
speak for them and to assure
them that they would be used for
public purposes. You can readily un-
derstand that they would have to do
this.
| "There are no grander trees for street
purposes than our native American elm.
Sugar maple makes fine tree, but is
of very slow growth. Many of the ma
i've oaks grow ns fast as the sugar
maple but usually not quite so rapidly
az the elm. theoretically it is good
idea to plant street trees twenty feet
apart, alternating with elm and soft
maple. When planting SO thickly it is
he intention that the maple shall be
removed as soon as the trees become
crowded. 10 practice, planting the
rees in this way is bad idea, as it is a
very rare thing for the least desirable
trees to be removed at the proper time,
Another good tree which is coming in.
to use is the Norway maple. This
makes tree as handsome as the sugar
maple, is stronger and hardy and a
rapid grower aud is altogether very So,
perior to the soft maple.
"If the nursery firm mentioned
should be willing to furnish your trees
you should ask for goodly number OF
the Norway maple. Properly handled
you will find the public schools an easy
channel through which to get trees
| planted. By interesting the teachers
particularly the principal and superin-
tendent, you mightget the boys to pro.
cure wagons and go to the country and
get the trees from parties who are will,
j ing to donate them. These same boys
will also do the planting il you have
someone to direct the work. The boys
] Of the upper grades OF Columbia schools
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20
Taking Life safer,

Everywhere life is being made more
safe through the work Of DR.. Kings
New Fife Pills in Constipation, Bilious.
ness, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Liver
troubles, Kidney diseases, and Bowel
disorders. They're easy, but sure, and
perfectly build up tho health. 25c at
Webb Bros.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1910-01-20

The Western Union men that have
been putting in new telegraph poles
here, have moved on down to Carthage,
taking. with them Alvin Wilson and
Grover RobinO two Of our Jasper young
men, as members Of the ''gang."