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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-11
Notice of Sale Of tleC-
trio Light franchise.

In pursuanCeEof ttciafcrcuclas
resolution adopted blythe fls-
cal Court OF Montgomery Cous-
ty, at a regular meeting Of said
Court held on Dec. 3, 1912,
the undersigned Sheriff OF
Montgomery County, Will, lat
the hour Of ten o'clock A. NJ,
on Saturday, the 18th day OF
December, 1912, at the Court
House Door In Mt. Sterling,
n.y., offer at public outCry, to
the highest and best bidder,
the eleCtriCSlleht franchise
mentioned 10: the: following
resolution andssthe purchaser
of said franchise will be re-
CURED to deposit with ESald
Sheriff a certified check pay
able to the Treasurer of Mont
3: gOmery County for the amount
of his bid, same to be return
ed II said bid Is not accepted
by said Fiscal Court.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-11

VI MS Utu, SdlIiC " Nc ICtui u
ed II said bid Is not accepted
by said Fiscal Court.
Be IL RESOLVED by the Fiscal Court
of Montgomery County, a, fol.
lo,1s, to-tcit..
The County of Montgomery,
through it's Fiscal Court, hereby
offers to grant and sell1at public
auction, a franchise over the pub
lie roads of Montgomery County,
hereinafter named and designated
to the highest and best bidder, to
erect poles and to string wires
thereon, and to conduct, distribute
and carry on said wires, electric
current for light, heat and power,
and to erect on such roads, such
appliances as may be necessary for
such purposes and to make such
contracts for the use of such cleo
tricity as may be agreed on, on
the following terms and conditions,
to-wit;-
FIRST.-The purchaser thereof
or its assigns shall be granted q
franchise to erect poles, and to
string wires thereon, and to con
duct, distribute and carry on saic
wires electric current for light,
heat and power, and said purchas'
err or its assigns shall have the
right to erect such appliances as
may be necessary for such pur.
poses on said roads, and to make
such contracts for the use of such
electricity as may be agreed on.
SECOND.-The roads over
which this franchise shall be grant
ed shall be all roads and turnpiket
in the County of Montgomery
State of Kentucky.
withdrawing herein shall
require the purchaser or its assign.
to erect it poles or string its wire:
on all the pixies or public roads
hereinbefore mentioned, nor tt
erect its poles or string its wires
| for any particular distance on sale
pixies or roads. or any of them, il
being understood that the purchss
er or its assigns may exercise sucf
portion of the franchise hereir
granted, as it desires to exercise
at any time, and its failure t.
make use of any portion of tn,
franchise on any of the pixies OIL
public roads hereinbefore mention
ed shall not work as forfeitur,
of any portion of the franchise OF
any of the pixies or public roads
hereinbefore mentioned.
| FOURTH.-The purchaser Of
said franchise or its assigns may
furnish electricity for light, hea,
or power to any person owning
property or residing along or near
the above mentioned roads, anC
the purchaser or its assigns shall
have the right and privilege t.
establish all reasonable rules anC
regulations covering the furnish
ing of electricity for any purpose
or to discontinue such current a
any time.
FIFTH.-No poles erected I'm
der this franchise shall be erected
on the macadam of the publ,
roads nor between the macadan
and the ditch, nor in the ditch
where same would obstruct tn
flow of water, and where any por
ton of the road is disturbed b.
the erection of poles, such dis
turbed portion shall be replaces
| in as good condition as it was be
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-11

Many ills come from impure
blood. Can't have pure blood
with faulty digestion, lazy liver
and sluggish bowels. Burdock
Blood Bitters strengthens stomach,
bowels and liver, and purifies the
blood. I'm.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-11

Bring US your country produce.
We will treat you right. S. E.
Kelly & Co. 12tf
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-11

Fortunes other name is industry
despite the rainbow chaser and his
archaic quest. We receive what
we earn. and no more-Hetty
Green will hang onto hers, the
philanthropy of Jawn ID. and Andy
is confined to monuments and mu-
seums educational and otherwise,
and Captain Kidd's treasure was
located, dug up and spent for
booze and glad rags long ago.
And dear, there amt no Golconda.
Everybody's friend-Dr. Thorn
as Eclectic Oil. Cures toothache,
earache. sore throat. Heals cuts,
bruises, scalds. Stops any pain.
I'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-10
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tai poetry had to be written on thick
sheets of gilt edged paper. The first
page of the sheet was always adorned
with a gilt paper Cupid which had
been carefully pasted on. Such silly
verses as
1.-The Rose is red,
The Violet is blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you"
usually followed. Frequently these
valentines were delivered by servants.
Then came the age of printing and
the reduction of postage and Valen-
tines Day became a busy time for
the post Office employees and has re-
NAMED so over since, increasing each
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central figure hang upon the walls of
the different rooms The rotunda
where his body lay in state before IT
was sent to Springfield contains two
memorials, one a head and shoulders
of rather mammoth proportions,
which was given to the Government
by Mr.. Ernest Meyer. and is the
work of Gutzon Borglum. The other
is a beautiful lifelike. full length
statue of the dead President, by Winnie
Ream Hoxie. It was purchased by
the Government for S15,O00.0o to
commemorate him whose living life
like bow of peace spans and arches
all the clouds of war" In the north
lobby of the Senate gallery there is a
marble bust of President Lincoln, the
work of Sarah Fisher Ames, also pur-
chased by the Government, the sum
paid being $4,000.
New York City has honorcd Lincoln
by a bronze statue erected in 1859.
It stands il Union Square and was
designed by H K. Brown. It was
presented to the city by a number of
patriotic citizens. There is also a
monument to Lincoln in Brooklyn. in
Buffalo, and in Boston. The Boston
statue is similar to the Emancipation
Statue in Washington-in TACT, almost
identical. Philadelphia splendid
monument is on one of the broad
drives of beautiful Fairmount Park
and was modelled Randolph Rog-
ers in Rome and was cast in Munich.
It represents the martyred statesman
sitting in a chair with a quill in his
right hand and in his left the Emanci-
patton Proclamation. The figure IS
more than nine feet high and is won
derfully imposing. On each of the
four sides is inscribed a quotation
from one of his speeches. The money
was subscribed by n association
which was rormed for that purpose,
and the monument was unveiled in
1871, and cost about $4,000.
The Legislature of the State CT Ohio
in 1879 appropriated $4,000 for a
memorial to Lincoln to be erected in
the State House at Columbus, and Mr..
T. D. Jones was the sculptor of that
artistic work in marble. which stands
in the rotunda of the capitol near
the spot where the body of Lincoln
lay in state for a few hours when the
funeral train was on its way to Spring
field. Thousands on that occasion
came from all parts of Ohio to view
the body and pay their respects to the
man they loved so well. The memoir
ial represents the surrender at VicSs-
burg. and is surmounted by a life
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martyred President. There is even
the old cooking stove from the Lin
coin home. and the wooden Office
chair from Mr.. Lincoln's law office in
ngfield-the one in which he sat
when he drafted his first Inaugural
address before leaving for Washing
ton in 1850. There is also the old
Bible belonging to the Lincoln fam
lily, now more than a hundred years
old.
The means taken to perpetuate the
memory of Lincoln are numerous, and
a large number Of monuments have
been erected in different parts of the
country and with the exception of
monuments in honor of Washington
there have been more erected to the
memory of Lincoln than to any other
man in this country, and the cost of
these memorials, the gift of a CRATE
full people, have run into millions of
dollars.
On May 4th, 1865. President Lin
coins body was deposited in the re-
ceiving vault in Oak Ridge Cemetery
at Springfield, Illinois, and a few days
later the Lincoln Monument Associa-
ton was formed. it's object being to
build a memorial to him in the City
of Springfield. and as the result of
this movement there is a splendid
monument over his tomb in Oak
Ridge Cemetery near that City. 1t
contains the catacomb where his body
rests, together with that of his wife
and children and that of his grand
son, Abraham Lincoln. The Presi-
dents body rests in a plain marble
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Day such as parties where maidens
and bachelors would meet and each
write their names upon separate bill
lets. These billets were then rolled
up and drawn by way of lots, the
men taking the girls billets and vice
versa. After the drawing each girl
and man found themselves with two
valentines. However. there seems to
have been but little attention paid to
but one. for the man became the de-
voted cavalier of the girl whose name
he drew. It seems, after all, to have
been the mans privilege to choose
and the girls drawing amounted to
a mere form. There was dancing and
a supper where each bachelor appear
ed wearing a heart on his sleeve bear
ing the name of his valentine. Quite
frequently the couple became real
sweethearts and married In every
case the man remained bound to the
service of his valentine like some me-
diaeval knight of romance to his lady
love. The men were, of course, al
ways anxious to draw the names of
pretty girls. There was an equal num-
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a memorial. It is at present a sort
of museum of Lincoln relics, and ven
Grated shrine to the admirers of that
great statesman.
Washington City is filed with mem
cries of Lincoln and the places he
used to visit. The little New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church is one
of them. for there President Lincoln
attended divine service, and 1t was in
this modest little temple of worship
that one of the many funeral ser
mons was preached while his body
was on it's way to Springfield. Sew
eral years ago the one hundredth an
niversary of the Church was cele-
brated, and on this occasion Colonel
Roosevelt, who was at that time the
Chief Executive of the nation, de-
Hvered a stirring address while stand
ing in the Lincoln pew. The house
in which Lincoln died stands on
Tenth street. just opposite Fords
Theatre. At the time of the assassi-
nation it was owned and conducted
as a lodging house by William Peter
son. One of the dodgers who hap
pened to see the wounded President
carried from the theatre directed that
he be brought into the house where
he died early the next morning. The
house was purchased by the Govern
ment some years ago and contains
a private collection of Lincoln relics
which is owned by Mr.. Osborn H.
Olroyde, the custodian of the prop
erty.
The collection is replete with in
teresting things pertaining to the
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Der of both sexes. however, and even
the most unattractive girl found
valentine as well as her fairer sister
In Shakespeare's time the custom
of challenging a valentine anywhere
was an unWritten law. The cha1-
lenge consisted simply of saying
Good morrow, tits Saint Valentines
Day." and he or she who said it first
on meeting a person received pres
ent. Later the custom changed and
the gentleman alone gave the pres
ent if he was challenged by the wom-
an he loved. In the days of the quill
pens and high priced postage the
manufacture and transmission of
valentines through the post was an
expensive luxury. for the sentiment
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year.
The first printed valentines con-
sisted of gaudily colored pictures
representing loving couples seated in
bowers of flowers with a church in
the distance which served to convey
the idea that matrimony was the end
in view. A verse telling of the tender
passion of the sender was attached.
It is to be regretted that so few Of
these old valentines have bee-4 pre-
served for the designers of them
seemed to have such an extraordi-
nary idea about dressing the ladies
and gentlemen whose feelings they
sought to interpret. The man was
Usually attired in lavender trousers.
yellow waistcoat, blue coat and
green or red necktie. The stock cos
tune for the lady was a fiery red
gown, a vivid green shawl and a
bright yellow bonnet. For the past
twenty-five years the valentines have
been especially artistic. They are
manufactured all over the civilized
world and thousands Of people find
lucrative employment in their max
ing. The work is carried on two or
three months Of each year in fac
tories where paper ornaments are
manufactured. The home made val
entine. too. plays its part. for chill
dren frequently make their own love
tokens by cutting pictures from
fashion papers and pasting them on
cards decorated with fancy gilt pa
per and by writing some pretty 1T
tie love verse under the picture.
Hearts have always a part Of Val
entine's Day. and among the chill
dren, especially in the South. there /
is an exchange of red paper hearts |
on that occasion.
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valentine the comic monstrosity has .
grown up-a grotesque figure with an
insulting verse under 1t. This hideous
is offered for one cent and
finds a ready sale among peopl- who
ire maliciously inclined. and is used
more to wound the feelings of the re-
seiver of it than for any other pur-
pose.
The valentine post card with its
-upids and its flowers has made it's
appearance and now rivals the Christ
mas, New Year and Easter post
,ard. 1t had its origin in Germany
md the most beautiful ones are de-
signed and colored in that country.
The custom of sending flowers, candy
ind jewelry as Saint Valentine pres
,nts has rapidly gained ground, es-
oecially in our cities, and this prac-
ice is exceedingly popular with the
sentler sex. most of whom are fond
# flowers and sweets. Indeed, flow
RS have become so popular as valen-
ines that florists make a special fea-
ure Of the day and grow certain flow
RS, forcing them to bloom for this
.uspicious event. The language of !
lowers comes into play here and this {
ear the florists are making up com I
'inations according to the meaning 8
f the flowers. When a lady receives I
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The renowned antiquarian Francis
Douce suggests in one of his books
written in 1907, that Saint Valen-
tines Day is a Christianized form of
the Roman 1easts held during the
month of February in honor of Pan
and Juno. At that time it was Gus
tomary to put the names of young
women in a box and to have young
men draw out the slips bearing them.
1t was a barbarous, pagan feast for
many of the girls so won were carried
off into slavery. The Christian clergy
found it impossible to stop the Gus
tom during the feast of the god and
goddess, but they finally succeeded
in substituting the names of saints
for those of young girls when the
slips were ready for drawing. AS the
names came out the young men were
asked to pray to the saints whose
names were on the papers they re-
ceived. The result was that the lot
terry of girls at the Roman festival
ceased.
AS far back as 1898 history re-
cords incidents of Saint Valentines
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thieves. Since that time the tomb
has been carefully guarded.
Washington City has two me
MORALS to Lincoln. One of them is
a Doric column Of white marble
capped with a heroic figure of the
martyred President. The statue is
the work of Scott Flannery, and is
one of the few full figures in marble
the majority of the other memorials
being cast in bronze. 1t stands in
front of the Court House and was
paid for by public subscription by
the citizens of the District of Column
bia, and was unveiled in 1869. The
other mem oriaI is in Lincoln Park
not far from the Congressional Lii
brary. It is known as the Emanci-
patton Statue, and represents the
benefactor of the slaves holding the
Emancipation Proclamation in his
hand while a slave is kneeling I'M
shackled at his feet. The statue is
about twelve feet high and was cast
in bronze in Munich at the expense OF
100000, and was paid for by con-
tributions from the cOlored freemen
of the United States. The first five
dollars received came from an old
colored woman and was her first
earnings after the emancipation. The
monument was unveiled April 14th,
1876, on the eleventh anniversary of
the assassination of Lincoln, with
Frederick Douglass as the orator of
the occasion.
Lincoln is honored at the Capitol
in both painting and sculpture, for
several paintings in which he is the
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a bunch of lilies OF the valley mixed
with maiden hair fern she is expected
to understand that her unconscious
sweetness has fascinated the sender.
A bunch Of white hyacinths or gar
denias will tell her OF her loneliness
in the eyes Of the giver. Roses mean
true love, and as American Beauty
roses at Valentine season will bring
from one dollar to one dollar and
half each they prove a rather ex-
pensive way OF bearing a message Of
the tender p--ssion. Moss rosebuds.
now so difficult to obtain, when COM
bined with a spray of myrtle are
meant as a confession OF love.
The confectioner. too. reaps a har-
vest with his candy done up in ap-
propriate boxes. Heart shapes have
always been popular. but recently
many novelties have appeared in con-
nection with them heart-shaped
boxes with tiny cupids perched on the
top. round boxes with a procession Of
golden Cupids sending out arrows
from the quivers slung over their
shoulders. and heart-shaped boxes
with satin bags inside and hung by
white silk cords. These last named
may be used for powder pun boxes
after the sweets have vanished.
Valentine parties are in order and
select partners is played. This year
being leap year the ladies will do the
drawing and select their partners in
stead of the men being allowed to
make the choice. The table decora-
lions for these affairs to be strictly
correct must include ices and con-
fectionery In the shape of hearts
Cupids. too, must DE in evidence, for
after all Saint Valentines Day is really
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love, who is supposed to send his ar
rows home on that particular date.
Snap kisses" are used as we'll These
are merely bon bons wrapped In col
ored paper with fringed ends En-
closed with the bon bon is a verse ap-
propriate to the occasion, and a cap
with a string at each end. A young
girl takes one end OF the ''Ixiss'' ana
a man the other. and both pull at
the same time. The cap snaps with
the report Of a toy pistol and the
verse is read aloud BY the one who
hnds It in his or her part OF the
kiss" These verses are oftentirnee
passionate declarations Of love and
cause much merriment when they are
read by bashful young man. The
newest kiss" for this year is made
of crimped paper OF the most dem
cate shade Of pink and decorated win
pictures Of Cupid in various attitudes.
Always bearing a red heart
Even though the origin Of Sa,rrt
.alentine's Day may be rather vague.
all the world loves a lover and II
Vail never question the right OF this
over TO send out his missives OF ten
lerness to his sweetheart on this Dar-
ocular day. so the pretty custom 80
ending valentines is likely to continue
or all time.
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sarcophagus with the word LIN
COLIN on enc end surrounded by a
wreath of oak leaves. The famous
quotation from his second Inaugural
Address, with malice toward none,
with charity for ALL" is also carved
upon the tomb. In the rear of the
catacomb is a memorial hall in which
a number of interesting relics are
kept. Although many memorials to
the statesman have since been erect
ed the Springfield monument Is by
far the most imposing of any and
cost nearly 5000, 100000. The State of
Illinois contributed 100000 to the
fund, and 100000 was given by
the State of New York. The shaft
is built of granite in the shape of an
obelsk, and is ninety-eight feet in
height, and seventy-two and one-half
feet square at the base. A colossal
statue of Lincoln in bronze is the cen
trail figure, with the coat-of-arms of
the United States just below him
On each corner are striking groups
in bronze representing the infantry,
cavalry, artillery and army. The
statuary is the work of Larkin G.
Meade 1t was unveiled with great
ceremony, in 1874, the veil being
drawn aside by two Sisters of Charity,
who were invited to perform the duty
owing to the self-sacrificing devotion
of their Order in nursing the wound
ed soldiers during the Civil War. An
attempt was made to steal the body
Of Mr.. Lincoln on the night of No
vember 18th, 1875, and a corner was
broken from the sarcophagus by the
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IKE bust OF LINCOLN.

like bust of Lincoln.
Chicago has Augustus st. Caudens'
statue Of Lincoln, which is consider
ed the best specimen OF portrait sculp-
ture in the United States. 1t faces
the Dearborn street entrance OF Lin
coin Park and shows the Enamel
pator standing before the chair OF
state from which he has just arisen.
The figure is eleven and one-half feet
in height, and cost about $4,000. 1t
was presented to the City OF Chicago
by Eli Bates. and was unveiled in
1887, the stars and stripes which en-
veloped the figure being drawn aside
by the grandson nd namesake OF
Abraham Lincoln.
San Francisco. the City of the Gold
en- Gate, has also honored the memory
of this great man. In front OF the
Lincoln School on Fifth street, just
opposite the United States Mint, there
was a statue of Lincoln holding out
the Emancipation Proclamation. 1t
was erected in 1890. and was the work
of P. Mezzera. The statue was wreck
ed by the earthquake and the head.
which had been broken off by the
crash, was carried away by souvenir
hunters. 1t is said that a new statue
will soon replace the destroyed one.
Recently a memorial has been erect
ed at Lincoln's birthplace, Hodgen-
Vile, KY, the ceremony being attend
ed by President Taft.
Apart from these memorials, a
great honor was shown to Lincoln
when his face was selected to repre-
sent American Science in the great
painting of the Progress OF Civiliza-
ton in the collar of the dome Of the
Congressional Library at Washington.
The scientific genius of our own coun-
try is typihed by the figure OF an
electrical engineer with book and
dynamo. The man has the features
of Lincoln. We have Lincoln schools.
Lincoln tablets. Lincoln hotels and
Lincoln highways. Hundreds of
American boys bear his name and his
birthday is honored throughout the
land. Although 1t is not a legal holi-
day in every State IT is universally
observed. As time goes on, sectional
feelings will give way to admiration
for this splendid statesman. whose
greatest travail of soul was disunited
people. Other monuments will rise
in honor of the preserver of the Re-
public, for the memory of the man
who uttered the immortal words thar
the government of the people. by the
people, and for the people shall not
perish from the earth" will live forever
in the hearts of a grateful nation.