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Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1911-03-10
w. w. BYRLEY
Former Republican Chairman
States That w. r. Black
fIeCfiOncered for Demo-
crot Against Republican
Nominee.
STATE or KENTUCKY,
CouETY or KNOX.

COUNTY or KNOX.
The afhant, W. w. Byrlcv, say,
that he has heretofore served as
Jailer Of Knox county and as Sheriff
Of Knox county and was for four
years Chairman OF the Republican
Committee OF the Eleventh Congress
sional District of Kentucky, and for
number Of years Chairman OF the
Knox County Republican Committee
and that while he was acting as
Chairman OF the Republican County
COMMITTEE in 1896, one W. K. Black,
who is now candidate ior Circuit
Judge, in the Republican primary,
made fight at the regular Novcm-
Der election for the Democratic can
didate for Congress, who was then
espousing free silver, and at a pre-
einct on Sinking Creek the said W.
K Black had large sum of money
on election day and used it and at
tempted to use it ia buying votes for
the Democratic candidates; that
when the polls were closed, very few
OF the persons that W. K. Black had
attempted to buy had voted as he
hal asked them TO vote; that aillaut
was there present at the time aud
came home with the said ". K
Back on horseback and that the
sad W. K. Black repeatedly said,
"G--- d them. they won't vote
the way they say they will, thereby
meaning that the persons he had at.
tempted to pay to vote the-Demo-
cratic ticket in that election had
voted the Republican ticket instead.
Affiant further states that on said
election grounds there was an at
tempt made to drive this aiiiant
away from the groundr because aii.
ant was making a fight for the
straight Republican ticket, and it is
atlantis belief that the said W..R. .
Black attempted to have this afiiant
drove of from said grounds 10y dcS.
Perate men who attempted to raise
a difficulty with afliant.
Adiant further states that after
said time, he went to the said W. r. |
Hack, and as Chairman of the Re
publican Committee, asked him if he /
would not make some speeches in
the interest of the party and the
said W. X. Black answered, in sub F.
stance, that he did not have the
time; that he was out of politics and |
that there was nothing in politics, .
aud refused to, and did not. make
any speeches for the party.
W. w. BYRLEY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
by W. W. Byrley Feb. Z, 1911.
LILA HAYES.
Notary Public Knox County.
My commission expires March /, .
1914.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1911-03-10
MORE AFFIDAVITS
daC Mckinney and James
Peterson Make AffdavitS
Concerning the Land Deals
Made by r D. Sampson.
STATE or KENTUCKY,
COUNTY or Knox.

! STATE or KENTUCKY,
/ County or Knox.
| The aiiiant. Isaac Mckinney, SAYS
that he is a resident and citizen oI
Sinking Creek, Knox county, Ken.
tucky, and the owner of farm on
SAID Creek. and that some years
back he sold ard conveyed TO +. u.
Sampson his mineral rights for an
agreed consideration which was
then satisfactory and is now salts.
factory, and aiiiant lives among
the people who sold their mineral
right 60 said F. d. Sampson on
Sinking Creek and afliant has never
heard any complaint about the
deeds for the mineral or about any
transactions had with said +. d.
sampson, on account oil said miner.
al until the last few DAYS and since
Il. Il, Golden, a lawyer, came up
through that part OF the county and
came to atliant and other men and
asked them 10 make ailidavits about
the lard trades to I've used in this
campaign Aiiinnt refused to make
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1911-03-10
For Sale.

One Six-room Cottage 0. College
Street, front 100 feet, ESQ feet dee,.
One vacant lot, 81 feet front, ESQ
feet deep, adjoining the residenss
property OF Alex SEWER.
125 acres coal and farm land. On
Stouey Fork OF Little Poplar Creek.
Asy one wishing a home in tow.,
% q lot on which To build, or q
Ars. will call on,
JOHN PARKER.
Barbourvills, Ky.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1911-03-10
w. r. Amis issues Statement
FARBouRVIILE, Ky.


March =, 1911.
|, W. +. AIMS, as Treasurer OF
the Rarhourville Baptist Institute,
barbourville. Ky, certify that the
records of the BarbourvilIe Baptist
Institute show that +. b. Sampson.
who is now a candidate for Circuit
Judge, gave the sum of Four Hun
dred ($+O0 00) Dollars tor the pur
pose OF helping to build the Barbour
vile Baptist Institute in this city.
W. T. ANS,
Treasurer OF Barhourville Baptist
Institute,
Rarhourville, Ky.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1911-03-10
J. n. SHARP AND
w. r. BLACK
Hold X rtidniabt Conference
at williamsburg
special TO Tho Advocate.

MS court mere until MONDAY
morning, Feb. ~ and announced
that court would go on, and told
a mum Der of his friends that he
would not be q candidate any
further. Thisaction followed an
effort of Judge Black and his
followers all the week in trying
to get out q man to run in Black S
place and let Black come off the
track. Messrs. A. L. Siler, J. N.
Sharp and l. N. Steeley were all
much sought after by Black and
some of his friends in an effort
TO get one of them to take the
track" and let Black out. In
fact, Black was willing for any
body or anything to take this
burden off his hands.
Black could not get anyone to
take the burden. Siler, Steeley
and Sharp and all the Others to
whom the offer was made turned
it down. 1t was the general be-
lief here among the friends of
Black as well as the friends of
Sampson that no one could defeat
Judge Sampson in this race now.
The voters have settled on him
and he is sure to win. Matters
were in this condition on last
Saturday when Judge Black told
a number Of his friends that he
was out of the race, and when he
adjourned his court. announced
that court would meet on Mon
day morning, and go on.
Judge Black. before and at
the time he left Williamsburg
last Saturday, did not shake
hands with the people and show
ed in every way that he was no
longer a candidate. He went to
Barbourville on Saturday, and on
last Sunday it was generally
talked in Williamsburg that
Black was out of the race. Black
returned Sunday to hold his
court as many believe, but Oh
Sunday night j. N. Sharp, the
attorney who filed that law suit
against Judge Sampson, got w.
X. Black up in his Office and
Black and one or two other fell
lows stayed in Sharp's Office until
about midnight, and Sharp told
Black that he could not afford to
come Off, that he must run
the race ont. Black told Sharp
that he did not believe that he
could win, and wanted Sharp to
run and promised Sharp that he
would be for him if he did run.
OF course Sharp would not run
and finally persuaded Black to
get on the track" once more
and Blacks friends were very
much surprised on Monday morn
ing to hear that Black was on
the track" again. The jurors,
litigants and witnesses were
equally surprised when Judge
Black called his court on Mon
day morning and adjourned it.
Judge Black will find out that
although Jim Sharp can set him
on the track again he can not de-
liver the votes of Whitley conn
ty to him.
The writer is very much anus
ed at the attitude of Judge Black
and his frier DIS. Here in Whit
ley county, Blacks friends ad-
NIT that Judge Sampson will
carry Whitley but say that Black
will carry Knox with enough
votes to overcome SIMPSONS
majority here; but while the
writer was in Knox recently,
Blacks friends there were con-
'ceding that Sampson would car
ry Knox county, but Black would
oil set this vote in Whitley.
We do not know much about
Knox county, but it is our honest
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1911-03-10
Bring Back to Me My Wandering Boy


4 Out in the cold world and far away from home,
Some mothers boy is wandering all alone,
No one to guide him, keep his footsteps right,
1 Some mothers boy is homeless tonight,
Search till you find him and bring him back to
Far far away, wherever he may be-
4 Tell him his mother with faded cheek and hair
At the old home is waiting for him there.
Z Chorus: Bring back to my wandering boy,
There is no other left to bring me joy,
Tell him his mother, with faded cheek and hair,
: AT the old home is waiting for him there Z
Oh, could see him and press him to my breast
Gladly I'D close my eyes aud be at rest;
1 There is no other left to bring me joy,
Bring back to my wandering boy.
= Well | remember the last words that he said;
We'll meet up there where farewell tears she'd
There'l he goodby in that bright world fair.
When done with earth I'll meet you there"
CHORUS:
I Out in the hall there stands a vacant chair.
Yonder the shoes that once he used to wear;
4 Empty the cradle that once he loved well,
Oh, how loved him, no one can ever tell
= Could forget him. cease to hold him dear?
Still he's my boy when he here.
Though he has wandered in darkness and sin.
Bring him TO me, will take him in.
CHORUS:
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

rules, making the committees elective
by the house; we passed a resolution
to admit Arizona and New Mexico to
the Union, and we have passed many
other bills of more or less Importance
to the country.
Figures which have just been COL
lated show that the recent session of
congress was run economically, more
economically than any congress in
many years. Congress appropriated
only 1901, ,O52.2O. 1t has repealed ap-
preparations aggregating $347,65O, a
saving of $46,597.59. In addition, it
has declined to appropriate $14O,795.59
as an extra compensation for employ
ees of congress, and a Democratic con-
gress has reduced its pay roll in the
sum of $11,443.2S, so that the total saw
ing in money as a result Of the en-
forcement of Democratic policies dur
ing the session of congress was $685.
S3667.
"Since congress met on the 4th of
April, we have honestly tried to relieve
the people of many Of the burdens of
taxation. But the president would not
cooperate with us in the good work.
On the contrary, he has thwarted the
will Of the people expressed in the
election last November. However,
there Is to be another election next
year, and everything presages Demo-
cratic victory far and wide."-News
and Courier.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

Hope to Regain PhiIippines.-After
having spent the greater part Of two
months in Spain, not only in the
cities, but in the smaller towns, j.
Hamilton Lewis, Of Chicago, returned
on the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm.
"In the outlying districts" said Mr..
Lewis, II found the people to be in
peculiar state Of mind on account Of
the raising of the Maine. The senti-
ment in Spain is that the Spanish
government is using the reports that
the Maine was blown up from the in
side as the basis for an alleged de-
mand upon the United States for an
indemnity.
1.-The government, Of course, does
not seriously consider this, but at the
same time the whole Spanish nation
is alive to the proposition that the
United States Is to return to Spain
the Philippines and possibly Porto
Rico. The revolutionary politicians
are stirring up the people with these
idle reports, and the country Is in a
turmoil. America is being used as
the basis for political advantage In
Spain, and it is pitiful to see the
masses implicitly believing that the
Philippines and Porto Rico will again
come under their rule. YORK
Herald.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01
humorous department.

One on Bill Nye.-Whenever a men,
ber of congress has a story to tell
about that famous humorist, Bill Nye,
he hunts up Representative Frank NJ.
Nye of Minnesota, his brother. Rep
resentative Gould of Maine cornered
Nye in the lobby of the Capitol the
other day and said that while most of
the stories that are told have been
Jokes which Bill Nye turned on the
other fellow, yet he remembered one
incident where the joke was on the hu-
morist.
Your brother was living in New
York at the time" said Gould, and
neighbor from Shirley, Me-, where you
both were born, dropped in to see him.
You know the old house is about
all that Is left of the town, remarked
the visitor.
"'Yes, 1 suppose that's so,' said
Nye.
"'They think a great deal of you
there. The old house stands on the
corner and they have put tablet in
front Of it.
Bill was all attention. He leaned
forward and inquired:
What was on the tablet"
Eight miles to Readville,' said
the visitor. or."-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

Tho Bridegroom Forgot.-In spicE
and span raiment, carrying each
new suit case and a timid expression
they entered the Hotel Narragansett
and inquired the way uneasily to the
desk.
Spying a kernel of rice on the
Youths hat brim, the clerk smiled COW
ertly, whirled the register with an en-
couraging flourish and placed the ink
ed pen in the nerveless hand.
John B, New Bedford, Mass
wrote the youth, pushed back his hat
upset the kernel of rice and wiped his
beaded brow.
But, ar-the-lady?" inquired the
clerk soothingly.
shes my wife," quoth the youth
Strengthening up, bristling.
"She ought to be registered" advised
the clerk thoughtfully.
Amt you put me DOWN." the lady
murmured, looking over the youths
shoulder.
20, sure, II forgot, gimme the
pen" said the youth, quickly.
Whereupon he smiled and wrote:
And my wife, Rosie. ie."-ProVidence
Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01
"MONA LISA"
Finest Bit of Prose Ever Written De-
scribes Worlds Masterpiece.


scribes Worlds MASTERPIECES.
La Gioconda," said Walter Pater in
passage that is regarded by many
persons as the finest piece Of prose
ever written in the English language,
just as the picture is believed by many
others to be the most beautiful ever
painted, "is, in the truest sense,
Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the
revealing instance of his mode Of
thought and work."
I'VE all know" Pater goes on to say,
'the face and hands Of the figure, set in
its marble chair, in that cirque Of fan
tastic rocks, as in some faint light un-
der sea. Perhaps of all ancient pict-
ures time has chilled 1t least"
And then, after speaking of the ques-
ton of the relationship Of an actual
Florentine woman to this creature of
the artists thought, Pater writes these
sentences, that have entranced lovers
of beauty of style ever since the Re-
naissance was first published thirty
eight years ago:
"The presence that thus rose so
strangely beside the waters is express
sive of what in the ways Of thousand
years men had come to desire. Hers
is the head upon which all the ends of
|, the world are come, and the eyelids are
little weary. 1t Is beauty wrought
out from within upon the flesh, the de-
posit, little cell by cell, Of strange
thoughts and fantastic reveries and
exquisite passions. Set it for a mo-
ment beside one of those white Greek
goddesses or beautiful women Of anti
quity, and how would they be troubled
by this beauty, into which the soul
with all it's maladies has passed! All
the thoughts and experience Of the
world have etched and nodded there, in
that which they have of power to re-
fine and make expressive the outward
form, the animalism Of Greece, the list
of Rome, the reverie of the Middle
Age, with it's spiritual ambition and
imaginative loves, the return of the
Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.
she Is older than the rocks among
which she sits; like the vampire, she
has been dead many times, and learned
the secrets of the grave; and has been
diver in deep seas, and keeps their
fallen day about her; and trafficked
for strange webs with eastern mer-
chants; and, as Leda, was the mother
of Helen of Troy, and, as st. Anne,
the mother of Mary; and all this has
been to her but as the sound of Tyres
and flutes, and lives only in the deli
cacy with which it has nodded the
changing lineaments, and tinged the
eyelids and the hands."-New York
Times
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

Latest lnformation.-The little malc
stood in the doorway, one hand on the
handle. For a moment she gaze'
thoughtfully at her father, who was
preparing to take his afternoon siesta
Papa" she said. do you know what
I'm going to give you for your birthday
when it comes?"
No, DEAR" answered her fond faith
er. But tell me-"
"A nice new china shaving mug, WITT
golden flowers on it all around" saiC
the little mai6
But my dear" explained her parent
papa has a nice one, just like that
already"
NO, he hasn't" his little daughter
answered thoughtfully, 'cos-'cos-IVt
lust dropped it!"-New York Mail.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01
FORTUNES UNDREAMED OF.
Billions to Be Added to the Value of
Southern Farm Lands.

1t is possible that within the neX
ten years the owners of farm land!
of the south, in addition to the an.
nual profit to be made by the cult.
walton Of these lands, will make $5,.
6OO.0OO,000 by the increase in theil
value. bringing the value up to near.
ly $1,000, 100000. These stipend.
Gus figures illustrate the pOssibiitie!
that may come to the owners OF
southern farm lands. Not every lanC
owner will share equally. Some viii
make more, and some will make less
but it is fair to say that ten years
hence the agricultural lands of the
south will have increased on the
whole to such an extent that they viii
be worth from IS, 100000 to &c.
000. 900. 900 more than they are worth
today. This unearned increasement
as il may be called, will add enor-
mOuSly to the wealth of the south.
Between 1900 and 1910 the average
value per acre of the agricultural
lands of the United States increased
from $15.64 to SEAS. During the
same period the average acreage
value of the sOuth's agricultural lands
increased from $6.SS to $15.S4, max
ing the average acre value Of the ag-
ricultural lands of the south some
thing more than the acre value of the
lands of the United States ten years
ago. 1t is safe to estimate that with
in the next ten years southern lands
will advance to at least the average
acre value of the agricultural lands
Of the United States at present. bring
ing the acre value to Seas, as COM
pared with $l5.S4, the average last
year.
As the south has at present about
34O. 100000 acres of lands i'm farms
an additional value Of $l6.64 in ten
years. bringing the average up TO the
present average of the United States,
would make a total of $5,657, 900, 900
as the gain for ten years.
When once wealth begins To accu-
mulate in a community rich i'm nat
ural resources, the momentum in
creaSeS on with tremendous power.
The increasing wealth of the south
is now proceeding at Il rate that will
make the momentum of the next ten
years carry its growth far beyond
anything that this section has yet
Manufacturers Record.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

Furnishing the Microbes.-"The germ
theory, thanks to the study of hygiene
in the schools, is familiar even to our
children" said DR.. Charles T. Aikens
president of Susquehanna university, in
an address at Sellingrove.
1.-TWO little Selingrove urchins play
ed in their mothers kitchen the other
day while the cook boiled some water
Hearing the sound of the boiling, they
drew near the gas range.
What is in that pot?' said the first
urchh.
Water, said the second. Just wa
ter
What is the sound l hear, then
brother?'
"'Sister, it is the microbes crying
Nashville Banner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

In Crowded Quarters. - Elliot
Woods, superintendent Of the Capitoi
recently told a story about a new
southern member of the house, whose
frugality he is commencing to his con-
sressional friends, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the New Yorf
World.
The new member arrived in towr
and hunted Superintendent Woods W
Immediately.
"I reckon I'd like TO look at my quar-
ters." said he to the superintendent.
He was taken to the house once
building and shown to one OF the SUD-
stantially furnished office rooms.
This is fine" said the new member
but where are my other rooms?"
"Oh, you can't have another room
for several years, not until you have
become chairman of a committee" re-
piled Woods.
MY Cod" exclaimed the southerner
how do you expect me to sleep COOK
eat and work in one room?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01
Natural History.-"I don't suppose

Natural History.-"I don't suppose
remarked Gregg Holloway, grinning
ruefully, that I'll ever have the nerve
to call my son down again"
What went wrong?" we asked him.
1T was this way. We were invited
out and the kid exhibited his worst
table manners. l leaned over to him
and whispered-in a stage whisper
You're little pig!'
The kid just grinned.
do you hear?' l hissed. You are
a little pig! DO you have sense enough
to know what little pig is"
Yes, papa answered the child
trying to look innocent.
well, then, what is it?'
"A pig is a hogs little boy" -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01
Lion Siqns In England.-In the mid

Lion signs In En9Iano'-lh Tic Aiiu-
die ages the country houses Of the
nobility in England when the owners
were absent were used as hotels for
travellers. The family arms always
hung in front of the house and gave
it a popular name among travellers
who called a lion "gules" or azure
simply red" or blue" AS these
were intimatiOns of good cheer and
entertainment innkeepers adopted the
idea Lions have always been and
are now very favorite signs in Eng
land-liOns white, black, red, brown,
golden, yellow-red being the most
common. Probably the Red Lion
originated with the badge of John Of
Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, who mar
ried the daughter of Don Pedro. king
of Leon and CASTLE, and who adopt
ed the lion rampant gules of Leon to
represent his claim to the throne. I'm
der Richard and John lions became
the settled arms of England and were
generally used by those who could
find any claim.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

them, not for myself alone, but for al
who voted as / did.
THE president rushed in to create
into our faces and the faces of the
consumers of the land. We gladly
accept his gage of battle. We conf
IDENTIFY believe that the people will en-
dorse our cause and give to us the
victory for we have right and truth
and justice on our side"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

He Needed 1t More.-A minister
meeting a neighbor's boy who had just
come out of a fight with a fearful
black eye, put his hand on the boys
head and said:
My boy, l pray you may never
fight again, and that you may never
receive another black eye"
That's all right" said the boy.
You go home and pray over your own
kid. l gave him two of EN-"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-01

LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME
IF YOU WANT. TO SELL
am now selling Land very rapidly.
If you are thinking of buying, il will
pay you and save you big money to
see my numerous bargains before you
close.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-09
Funeral Of Captain Brooks.

Mt. Pleasant, Sept, s.--Funeral
services over the body of Capt. Allen
T. Brooks, IS years old, a civil war
veteran and former mayor OF the city
for five years, were held this afternoon
at the home of his daughter. Mrs.
Howard Snider. Death was due to
old age He was member OF company
F, second Iowa infantry. For nine
teen years preceding the war, he
taught school In Van Buren, county.
being at one time county supertntend-
ent. He came to Mt. Pleasant In 1866.
which had been his home almost con-
tinuously until his death Wednesday.
During his residence here. he was in
ternal revenue assessor for six years
and served three terms as justice Of
the peace. He was born in Ohio IN
1926.
Surviving are the Ave children. Mrs.
Snider of this city, Mrs. Alice Briggs
Of Los Angeles, Mrs. Belle Lynch Of
Holton, Kan. Elmer Brooks Of Mime
apolis and Morris Brooks OF Elkhart
Indiana.