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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24
Three MOralitleS.

What is looked upon as moral
is always determined largely by
the general social system of the
community. Some time ago we
had a set of aristocratic virtues
and faults. If a man was called
liar it was necessary for him
either to stick somebody else with
a sword or commit an assault upon
him with his fists. He was sup
posed to have flattering manner
toward women, but was at perfett
liberty to win their confidence and
betray them. He had to be gen.
erous in giving away money, but
was under no obligation to earn
any and was perfectly free to
grind it out of peasants. Aristo-
cratic morals have been giving
way to bourgeois morals, which
are very much better, but by no
means complete. Especially in
public matters, but to a certain.
extent also in private affairs, the
note of bourgeois ethics Is secu-
rity. They are founded much
more on the fear that some harm
may be done than on the determi.
nation that the fullness of life
shall be increased. The great
supplementary changes in morals
in the future are going to come
from the increased influence of the
working majority. Their inter
ests lead them to be more con
cerned with the effect their con
duct has on the concrete welfare
of the many than on any stand
ards set up for the convenience Of
an aristocratic few or even for the
sense of security of those in the
middle way of life. Undoubtedly
the ultimate outcome will be {
combination, and the optimistic
mind may hope that it will be s
combination of everything that il
valuable in the three sets of NOR
ais, and in the elimination of ev
erything that is arbitrary and de
structive of more than it conserves
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24
The Double Cross.

Fewer newspapers are accepting
the advertising of promoters of
wildcat mines and gold-brick in
dustrial companies, although too
many still cling to the idea that
their advertising columns are
merely bulletin boards on which
any man can spread his offer when
he has paid the price. There has
come to us letter from a victim
of this theory: Il attribute my
misfortune to the confidence plac-
ed in this newspaper. l had been
reader of 1T for twenty-five
years; why shouldn't l confide in
it9 I did not believe it would adj
vertise swindlers, while, on the
editorial page, it was condemning
crookedness and swindling OF
every kind" Several years ago
this man bought stock in the trac-
ton company which served this
city, paying $50 a share for it.
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CONNEGTIONS.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24
Habits.

1t is a good plan to break into
habits occasionally, to see that it
can still be done. To follow even
the bests of habits too closely
tends to ossify existence. 1t makes
one stiff. 1t narrows his tastes.
The retired farmer who still gets
up before daylight every morning,
so as to get an early start, waiting
for bedtime, would be much better
off if during the stress of life he
had broken his habit occasionally
and slept until nine o'clock. The
city man who lets the street, the
fiat, the Office grind become an
unbearable habit, loses all his
elasticity. Recently a brother and
sister were found in an Eastern
State who had lived: on the same
farm for sixty years, and during
that time had not been ten miles
from home. For thirty years the
woman had not been to town, five
miles away, and for fifteen years,
although well and strong, she had
not been so far from the house as
the branch in their bottom field.
Habits of life like this become
prison chains. One must do some
things the same way or nearly the
same way to learn to do them well
but once having acquired the skill
of repetition, it is well to bre, b
away and do it some other way.
1t is better to make some blunderS
and get some knocks experiment
ing than to oscillate in a grove
until freedom ends.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24
INoPPoRTuNE.

He was arrested on the charge Of
robbing another of his watch and
chain. 1t was claimed that he had
thrown a bag over his victims head,
strangled and robbed him.
There was 80 little evidence. how
ever, that the judge quickly said
Discharged"
The prisoner stood still in the
dock, amazed at being given his lib
erty 80 soon.
you're discharged" repeated the
judge. "You can 60. You're free.
Still no move from the prisoner,
who stood staring at the judge.
"Dont you understand You
have been acquitted. Get out, /"
shouted tbs Judge.
"Well," stammered the man. "dc
l have 10 give him back his watch
and ohainS'
49, -
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24
BIG FLORAL PARADE

The Blue Grass Fair will, on Mon
day, August 18th. put on one of the
most unique and largest attractions
ever attempted by any association.
that of a decorated floral parade Of
automobiles, when 1t rs expected there
will be 100 or more cars beautifully
decorated with artificial flowers. Large
prizes In cash will be awarded, and,
as the competition is open to all. this
should prove one of the most beautiful
pageants ever witnessed. Don't forget
the date. Monday morning, August IL.
For information regarding designs,
cost of same. and prizes offered, adj
dress the Secretary, John w. Balm,
Lexington, Ky.
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II. r. PREWITT
ATTORNeY-AT- LAW.
Mt. Sterling, Kentucky.
Office: Court St., opposite Court
House, samuels Building, front room up
stairs.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24
A Strong List of Attractions.

A list of the attractions to be pre-
sented by the Greater Parker Shows.
which are contracted to furnish the
amusement features for the Blue
Grass Fair, may be of interest to the
public. so these intending to visit will
be in a position to know just what
they will see. There are no less than
eighteen separate and distinct attrac-
tions. In this long list there is not
one that could offend the most sensi-
tive.
To commence with the band Is one
of the very best ever organized with
any travelling company. Composed of
thirty-five solo artists, under the d.
rectorship of Victor Estlic, a con-
ductor of wide reputation, this band
is considered equal to any Of the noted
concert bands now touring the coun-
try. and the music loving people of
Lexington and the surrounding coun-
try are promised a treat of rare excel
lence, of both classical and popular
selections
Mice wilson, Sofolst-
Assisting the band is Miss Oorine
Wilson. the lady that sings to beat
the band" Miss Wilson has a beau
tifuL clear, high soprano voice that
she has no trouble In making heard
above this large musical organization,
and has been featured with Helen May
Butler, Brooks and others Of the lead
ing musical and concert organizations.
Trap Loop" is one of the most sensa-
tional, reckless and death-defying ex-
hibtions ever conceived as an amuse-
ment feature. Chefalo, starting from
the top of a hundred-foot runway,
mounted on a bicycle. dashes down a
steep and narrow pathway $50 feet in
length. entering and riding a complete
circle Of the interior of a loop 26 feet
in diameter. He enters the loop
through an opening on one side. AS
he circles the interior Of the loop and
hangs suspended from the extreme
top, head downward. with nothing, sup
porting him but the tremendous mo-
mentum which he has acquired, his
bicycle crosses spring Connected with
the "death-trap" below. which closes
the entrance and opens an exit on the
opposite side, through which Chefalo
concludes his exhibition by making a
flying leap through mid-air and land.
ing on platform 80 feet away. From
the time Chefalo starts his ride until
he finishes is exactly Ave seconds
From the time his wheel crosses the
spring that closes the "death-trap"
until the rider enters onto the trap is
just three-quarters of a second. An
exhibition of nerve and daring that is
conceded as being the limit of all hui
man recklessness.
"The Great Bertini." worlds great
est unicyclist, Is another meritorius
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24

exhibition OF nerve. science and skill.
Bertini mounts to the top Of lofty
spiral tower 30 feet in height, the run
way Of which is eighteen inches in
width, on one wheel of bicycle, and
again descends amid beautiful dis
play of fireworks. An exhibition Of
daring that defies all laws of gravita-
ton.
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LEXINGTON-Train No. l will make
connection at Lexington with the L. &
N. for Louisville, KY. No. will make
connection with the L. & N. at Winches-
ter for Cincinnati, o.
CAMPrON JUNCTION Trains Nos.
"a, and 4 will make connection with
Mountain Central Ry. to and from Camp
ton. KY.
BEATTYVILLE JUNCTION - Trains
Mos. 1, and will make connection
with the L. & A. Railway for Beattyvill,.
o. TX. JUNCTION Trains Nos. 2, /,
and 4 will make connection with Ohio &
Kentucky Ry. for Camel City, KY. and
o. & X. stations.
CHAS. SCOTT
Gen. Passenger Agent
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Toe company got into financial
trout lie, and the newspaper led q
persistent, bitter attack on its
management. One day il had an
editorial saying that the street
railway company's shares were
not worth the paper they were
printed on. Trusting the papers
judgment, the man sold his stock
at big loss, and trusting the
same papers advertising pages,
put his money into the stock of
United Wireless. Now the pro-
moters of the Wireless company
are in Jail, the property of the
traction company is in good shape,
and its stock, which is paying
dividends, is selling for SSS
share. The victim has changed
newspapers. Golfers.
A lot of Laird, Schober & Co.'s
slippers, former price $500 and
5000, now $3.48. This seasons
goods. Punch & Graves.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-07-24

The best that's made in carpets
furniture and rugs.
w, A. Sutton & Son.
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PARKERs Big SHOWS
INCLUDE NEW ATTRACTIONS AND
SURPRISES FOR THE PUBLIC.
Company to Appear at the Blue Grass
Fair Is the Best and Most Complete
That Have Visited ekntucky.

This year, as each year past, the
Parker Shows have added new attrac-
tons and surprises for the public,
founded and perfected only by great
labor, patience and skill, with no spare
Of time and money to make their or
ganization that which II now is, the
most complete and best equipped car
nival company touring the country to-
day. The repertoire of new ideas and
novelties advanced are far above the
old stereotyped carnivals of a few
years ago. Many new and startling
features will be presented for the first
time to the amusement loving public.
The new attractions, the new riding
devices, the new factories are the most
unique and far removed from all 9th
ers. The Parker Shows have been
made popular By their clean class and
character of everything undertaken.
Nothing of a questionable nature has
ever been tolerated. The usual catch
penny affairs, games of chance, ETC.,
have always been conspicuous by
IhCAA opoOhS0' Ing al hSl OhONo al .
entitled to most of the credit due to
elevating the carnival business to the
nigh plane which 1t has reached. Their
motto has ever been, Cleanliness and
Morality"
The company this season is the
largest. best and most complete ever
turned out of the Parker Factories.
Consisting of $50 people. travelling on
their own special train of thirty-five
double length cars. Three powerful
electric light plants that supply cur
rent To thousands of decorative lights
that gives the midway all the appear
ance of real fairy land. Three sensa-
tional free attractions and big thirty
five piece, all solo musicians. concert
band that give concerts twice daily.
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WAS he rich?"
mo; but when the signora, your
mother, married him she thought he
was"
1t was not till later years that For
tune grasped the true significance Of
this statement. 1t illumined many
pages. She dropped all Investigations.
concluding wisely that her mother, If
she were minded to speak at all, could
supply only the Incidents, the details.
1t was warm, balmy, like May in the
northern ATTITUDES. Women wore
white dresses and carried sunshadea
over their shoulders. A good band
played airs from the new ~light-operas,
and at one side Of the grand-stand
were tea-tables under dazzling linen.
Fashion was out. Not all her votaries
enjoyed polo, but it was absolutely
necessary to pretend that they did.
When they talked they discussed the
Spanish dancer who paraded back
and forth across the tea-lawn. They
discussed her jewels, her clothes, her
escort, and quite frankly her morals,
which of the four vas by all odds the
most popular theme. All agreed that
she was handsome in a bold way. This
modification invariably distinguishes
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the right sort Of women from the
wrong sort, from which there Is no ap-
peal to a higher court. They could
we'll afford to admit Of her beauty.
since the dancer was outside what 10
called the social pale, for all that her
newest escort was a prince tncognito.
They also discussed the play at bridge,
the dullness of this particular season,
the possibility of war between Eng
land and Germany. And some one
asked others who were the two we'll
gowned women down in front, sitting
on either side Of the young chap in
pearl.grey. No n knew. Mother and
daughter, probably. Anyhow, they
knew something about good clothes.
George was happy. He was proud,
too. He saw the glances, the mods Of
approval. He basked in a kind Of
sunshine that was new. What an ass
he had been all his. life! To have
been afraid of women just because
he was Percival Algernon! What he
should have done was to have gone
forth boldly, taken what pleasures he
found, and laughed with the rest of
them.
There weren't two other women in
all Cairo to compare with these two.
The mother, shapely. elegant. with
the dark beauty of a high-class Span.
lard, possessing hulnor. trenctIant COM
ment. keen deduction and application:
worldly, cynical. high-bred. The stu
dent of nations might have tried in
vain to place her. She spoke the
French of the Parisians, the italian
Of the Florentines, the German OF the
Hanoverians, and her English was the
envy Of Americans and the wonder OF
the Londoners. The daughter fell be-
hind her but little. but she was more
reserved.
AS Fortune sat beside the young COL
lector that afternoon. she 'naryeled
why they had given him Percival Al
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good-looking, a devil-may-care, edu-
Gated, witty, amusing; and In evening
dress he appeared to be what 1t was
quite evident he had once been, a
gentleman. At first she thought 1t
strange that he should make her, in
stead Of her mother, his confldante.
AS to what vocation he pursued, she
did not know, for he kept sedulous
guard over his tongue; but his past,
up to that fork in the road where man.
hood says good-by to youth, was hers.
And in this direction, clever and artful
as the mother was, she sought In vain
to wrest this past from her daughters
lips. To the mother, it was really nee
essary for her to know who this man
really was, had been, knowing thor
oughly as she did what he was now.
Persistent he u~ndeniably was, but
never coarse nor rude. Since that
time he had come back from the
casino at Monte Carlo, much the worse
for wine, she feared him; yet. In spite
of this fear, she had for him a vague
liking, a hazy admiration. Whatever
his faults might be, she stood witness
to his great physical strength and
courage. He was the only man, among
all those who appeared at the Villa
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step, a dread which, whenever she
strove to analyze it, ran from under
her investigating touch, as little balls
Of quicksilver run from under the
pressure of a thumb.
She was never without the comforts
Of life, well-fed, welldressed, we'll
housed, and often her mother flung
her some jeweled trinket which (again
that sense OF menace) she put away,
but never wore. The bright periods
were when they left her in the little
villa near Mentone, with no one but
her old and faithful nurse. There.
with her horse, her books and her
flowers, she was at peace. Week Into
week and month into month she was
let be. Never a letter came, save
from some former schoolmate who
was coming over and wanted letters
Of introduction to dukes and duchess
es. If she smiled over these letters
1t was with melancholy; for the dukes
and duchesses, who fell within her
singular orbit, were not the sort to
whom one gave letters Of Introduction.
Where her mother went she never
had the least idea. She might be In
any of the great ports Of the world,
anywhere between New York and
Port Said. The major generally dis
appeared at the same time. Then,
perhaps, she'd come back from a
pleasant tram-ride over to Nice and
find them both at the villa, maid and
luggage. Mayhap a night or two, and
of they'd go again; never a word
about their former journey, uncom-
municative, rather quiet. These abb
sences, together with the undemon-
strative Temperatures, used to hurt
Fortune d~readfully. 1t gave her q
clear proof Of where she stood, exactly
nowhere. The hurt had lessened with
the years, and 10Y she didn't care
much. Like as not, they would drag
her out Of Eden for a month or two,
for what true reason she lever could
quite fathom, unless 1t was that at
times her mother liked to have the
daughter near her as a foil.
At rare intervals she saw steel-eyed,
grim-mouthed men wandering up and
down before the gates Of the Villa
Fanny, but they nev rang the bell,
nor spoke to her when she passed
them on the street. If she talked of
these men, her mother and the major
would exchange amused glances, moth
ing more.
If, rightly or wrongly, she hated her
mother, she despised her uncle, who
was ever bringing to the villa men Of
money, but Of coarse fiber, ostensibly
with the view Of marrying her of.
But Fortune had her dreams, and she
was quite content to wait.
There was one man more persistent
than the others. Her mother called
him Horace. which the major mel
lowed into Hoddy. He was tall. blond,
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Fanny and Immediately vanished, who
returned again. And he, too, soon
grew to be a part of this unreal drama,
arriving mysteriously n day and de-
parting the next.
That a drama was being enacted un-
der her eyes she no longer doubted;
but it was as though she had taken
her seat among the audience In the
middle Of the second act. She could
make neither head nor tail to 1t.
Whenever she accompanied her
mother upon these impromptu Jour-
neys, her character, or rather her at
tttude, underwent a change. She
swept aside her dreams; she accepted
the world as 1t was, saw things as
they were; laughed, but without merri-
ment; TESTED, but with the venomed
point. It was the reverse Of her real
character to give hurt to any living
thing, but during these forced march
es. as the major ~humorously termed
them, and such they were In truth,
she could no more stand against CIV
ing the cruel stab than, when alone
in her garden, she could resist the
tender pleasure Of succoring a fallen
butterfly. She was especially happy
in finding weak spots in her mothers
armor, and she never denied herself
the thrust. Mrs. Chedsoye enjoyed
these sharp encounters, for 1t must
be added that she gave as good Us
she took, and more often than not her
thrusts bit deeper and did not always
heal.
Fortune never asked questions rela.
tive to the family finances. II she
harbored any doubts as to their origin,
to the source Of their comparative lux
ury, she never put these into speech.
She had never seen her father. but
she had often heard him referred to
as that brute or that fool" or that
drunken imbecile." If a portrait Of
him existed, Fortune had not yet seen
It. She visited his lonely grave once
q year, in the Protestant cemetery,
and dreamily tried to conjure up what
n of man he had been. One day
she piled her old italian nurse with
questions. ;
Handsome? Yes, but 1t "a all SO
long ago, cara mia, that l can not
describe him to you"
did he drink?" Behind this ques-
ton there was no n Of moral
obloquy as applying to the dead.
"Sainted Mary! didn't all men drink
their very souls into purgatory those
unreligious days?"
Had he any relatives?"
81 never heard of any"
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solved itself into a matter OF values
then. Had his surname been Mont
morency, Percival Algernon would
have fitted as a key to it's lock. She
smiled. No one but a fond mother
would be guilty Of such a crime. And
II she ever grew to know him well
enough, she was going to ask him all
about this mother.
What interest had her W mother
in this harmless young man? Oh,
some day she would burst through this
web, this Jungle; some day she would
see beyond the second act! What
then? she never troubled to ask her
self; time enough when the moment
arrived.
." had an interesting adventure
last night, a most interesting one,"
began George, who was no longer the
shy, laundering recluse. They were
on the way back to town.
Tell it me-. said Mrs. Chedsoye.
He leaned over from his seat beside
the chauffeur Of the hired automobile.
(Hang the expense on a day like
this!) "a fellow brought me a rug
last night, one Of the rarest outside
the museums. How and where he got
1t I'm not fully able to state. But
he had been in a violent struggle
somewhere, arms slashed, shins bat
tered. He admitted that he had gone
In where many shapes Of death
lurked. It was a bit irregular. I
bought the rug, however. Some one
else would have snatched It up II l
hadn't. l wanted him to recount the
adventure, but he smiled and refused.
I tell you what 1t is, these eastern
ports are great places"
How Interestingly" Mrs. Chedsoye's
color was not up to the mark. HE
was not seriously wounded?"
"Oh, no. He looks like a tough in
dividual. I mean, a chap strong and
hardy enough to pull himself put Of
pretty bad holes. He needed the
money"
did he give his manner" asked For
tune.
Yves; but no, doubt It was assumed.
Ryanne, and he spelt it with an me-
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Mistaken Sense of What Is Dlgnlf1ed
Ia a Common Fault Of the
Times.

This Is not an age In which clear dis
tinctions are made in the meaning or
terms. Grotesque errors arise through
~haphazard conclusions drawn from
this loose method Of reasoning. One
Of the popular misconceptions Is hat
the display Of emotion on the part OF
men is belittling and indicates a weak
ness of character, ~disgraceful and
shaming to the victim, says a writer
in the Pittsburg Gazette Times. 1t
is claimed by some that the natural
processes of materialism and the hard
ening of mems natures by the struggle
for success that the age demands has
brought about this contempt for any
thing like a display Of emotion on the
part of men. 1t may be questioned,
however, whether this explains the as
sumed respect for callousness that Is
so marked a feature Of the times.
There is a false idea around as to
what emotion Is, and a mistaken con-
ception as to it's proper expression.
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Young Man Accidentally Shot.

Saluda.-Ben Coleman, the young
son of J. Sumter Coleman of the Den
ny section Of this county, was acct
dentally shot several days ago by his
brother, Fred, while they were bird
hunting. The shot took effect in the
young mans face and chest. The left
eye the doctors think will be lost and
probably the right one also. The
young mans face and chest are filed
with No. s shot. A shot penetrated
the pupil of the left eye. He is suf' -
ing very much from the wour'