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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
CHRISTMAS
DANCE
will Be- Thursday, Dec
Cember 26, at Trim
bIe'S Hall.
SaxtOn & frost, of Lexington, 10
Furnish the Music.

The annual Christmas dance Il
the Sterling Dancing Club will be
held at Trimble's Hall Thursday
night and the Saxton & frost or
chestra, of Lexington, has been
engaged to furnish the music. The
hall has been splendidly decorated
and President Grubbs and Secre-
tary Gay are doing everything
possible to make their dance a hugh
success. Quite large number of
visitors will be present among
whom will be the following:
Misses Ruth Reynolds, Belle
Cromwell, Cynthiana; Anne B.
Cohen, Josephine Chenault, Rich
mond; Letitia Dye, Louisville;
Jennie Judy Ratliff, Winchester;
Mccullough, Greensboro;
Mary Brown, Danville; Eloise
cambridge, Isabel South, Frank
fort; Margaret Vanmeter, Sophia
Burgin, Mary Huls, Lucille Huls,
Louise McConathy, Lexington.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
WORTHY
CITIZEN
Mr.. J. NJ. Pierdtt Dies
After Long Sickness
of Blood Poison.
Was One of This Clty'S Most In
fluentiaI Business Men.

Mr.. j. Morton Pieratt, who has
been lowering between life ano
death for the past four, months,
died at his home in this city on
East Main street, Friday morning
at 1 o'clock. Mr.. Pieratt's death
was caused from blood poisoning
which developed after a rat bit
him on the finger last September.
| He was 70 years of age and was
native of Morgan county, but
had been a resident of this city for
the past six or seven years. He
was director in the Mt. Sterling
National Bank. a Knight Templar,
Odd Fellow, owned the telephone
line from this city to Eel and was
a devout member of the Christian
Church. For thirty years he con-
Quoted a mercantile store at Eel
and at one time was a member of
the Kentucky Senate, being
one of the most prominent and in
fuential men that ever lived in this
section.
Mr.. Pieratt was a gentleman at
all times, was true to his family,
his religion and associates. He
was ever ready to help the needy,
and by his many generous deeds
had endeared himself to wide cir
Gle of friends who mourn his loss.
He is survived by his wife, who
before marriage, was a Miss
Swango, and three children, Mr..
Berry Pieratt, of st. Louis; Mr..
Steve Pieratt and Mrs. Chas. Duff,
of this county, besides two broth
ers, Messrs. A. B. Pieratt, of this
county, and A. L. Pieratt, of Clark
county.
The funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Christian Church, conducted
by Rev. B. w. Trimble. Burial in
Machpelah cemetery.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
LARGE
CROWD
Attend Dedication EXer-
CiSGS at Public School
Building.
teachers and Students Give All
a Hearty Welcome.

The dedication exercises of the
new High School building we're
held in the auditorium last Tues
day afternoon and night and were
a t t n d d by large crowds.
The afternoon session was given
over chiefly to showing the visit
ors over the new building and ex-
planning the many conveniences
now enjoyed by the teachers and
pupils. Delicious refreshments
were served.
At the session at night splen-
did program had been prepared,
including addresses by Messrs.
L. T. Chiles, w. r. Thompson
and j. g. VIM, and musical
program by the High School stu
dents. The whole affair was most
enjoyable.
With Prof. Hopper in charge
and corps of competent teachers
under him, Mt. Sterling can now
boast of a school second to none
in the State.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
EXCELLENT
MARKET
Splendid Sales At Both
Farmers and Burnley
Loose Leaf Houses.
Farmers Are Pleased With Prices
They Are Receiving.

The sale at the Farmers Ware
house last Wednesday was most
satisfactory. The amount on the
floor owing to the short time the
farmers had had a season was not
as large as the first sale but the
quality was better and the prices
obtained were satisfactory an d
there were few reflections. The
management now has everything
in fine working shape and are pre-
pared to look after the tobacco
mems interest in a first-class man
ner. Manager Ratliff and Secre.
tary Pinney have an efficient force
under them and courteous treat
ment and fair deal is promised
and given every one. There will
be sales at both houses Monday,
December 23rd.
The warehouse of the Burley
Loose Leaf Co. was crowded to ca
pacity Friday and Manager Bean
and Secretary Blount are well
pleased with the progress their
house is making this year and as
this is the second year for this
house our readers know full well
they will be treated right at this
warehouse.
The holiday season being a very
busy one with us we are unable to
give a complete list of the sales
Friday but will list a few so the
farmers may see the general run
of prices being obtained.
Crop of Ben F. Mark averaged
134c.
Crop of j. B. Clark averaged
143c.
Crop of Will Carmichael aver
aged 154c.
Crop of Robert Lockridge aver
aged 124c.
Crop of Henry Judy averaged
$14.35.
Red crop of Cook & Wyatt av-
eraged 124c.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
James Ross Leaves Leader.

James NJ. Ross, for the last five
years, news editor of the Lexing-
ton Daily Leader, and one of the
best known and most capable
newspaper men in Kentucky, has
rendered his resignation and will
leave the Leader on January l to
become managing editor of the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Record,
the new turf journal, which re-
Gently took over the plant and
good will of the old Kentucky
Stock Farm. Mr.. Ross will be
succeeded on the Leader by Mr..
A. B. Cochran, formerly connect
ed with Cheyenne, Wyo., news
paper.
The new Trotting Horse Record
is understood to be backed finan-
cially by a syndicate of prominent
trotting horse people, among them
Ed. A. Upton, President of the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Associa-
ton; David NJ. Look, master of
Castleton, and others, and has
made extensive improvements in
the plant and the newspaper.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
BEAUTIFUL
WEDDING
Miss Katherine Spence
HerriOtt MdrrieS Mr..
John W. fdStin.
Quite a Number of Visitors We're
~ Here to Witness Ceremony.

y Wednesday afternoon at t h e
Ahome of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. B. F. Herriott, their
daughter, Miss Katherine Spence
was united in marriage to Mr..
John Withrow Eastin, of Mime
apolis, MINI. The wedding was a
very quiet affair, but exceedingly
beautiful in all details.
The colors, pink and white, were
carried out deliberately. Mrs.
Emilee Hibler Reid presided at the
piano and Masters William Cord
and Billy Reid were ribbon bear
ers. Miss Jennie Judy Ratliff, of
Winchester, and Miss Lucy Clay
Woodford were bridesmaids, and
Miss Mary Francis Brown, of
Shelbyvllle, maid of honor. The
bride was given in marriage by her
brother-in-law, Prof. r. l. Cord.
The best man was Mr.. Louis Alex
ander. The beautiful ring cere-
mony was performed by Rev. A.
H. Hibshman, after which the par
ty repaired to the dining room
where delicious refreshments were
served.
The bride is one of Mt, Ster-
rling's most beautiful and popular
young society girls, and by her
charming personality and many
graces of heart has won countless
friends in Central Kentucky soci-
ETY., where she is quite favorite.
The groom is a prominent bust
ness man of Minneapolis and is
said to be deserving of this charm
ing and beautiful young girl.
The couple left shortly after the
ceremony tor Eustis, Florida,
where they will spend the winter
and will then go to Minneapolis to
make their future home.
The ADVOCATE joins the many
friends of this popular couple in
wishing them the best that this life
affords.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
Wins SIPS Prize.

Miss Mary Trimble, daughter of
Mark Trimble and wife, of this
county, was the winner of the
prize of S125 awarded by the
Hagerty-Cook Co., of Warren, Pa.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
Sells Fine Horse.

Mr.. j. Gano johnson, proprietor
of Emerald Chief Stock Farm has
sold his fine stallion, Young Bill,
to the Army Commission accord
ing to a statement given out last
Thursday by Mr.. George M. Rom
nell, Chief Husbandman, of Wash
ington.
Young Bill is a four-year-old
and though bred in the lines that
have produced some of the most
popular saddle horses of the past
few years has never been gated,
but always used as II harness horse
at which form of showing he has
been accorded champion. Last
year, as a three-year-old, he was
the winner in his class and also the
junior championship at the Blue
Grass Fair and this year has prov
en- a successful winner wherever
shown. He is by Golden King,
premier stallion at Mr.. Johnson's
Emerald Chief Farm, and his dam
is Mary Wilks, by Bourbon Chief.
He was developed and shown by
Arlington Johnson.
The Army Commission also pur-
chased the famous Fairacre King,
two thoroughbreds, Gold Heels
and Charcot and the trotter Lord
Rion (5) 2:l7t.
SAnuln.l LNnnA Wn onknn
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
Lest.

On the streets of Mt. Sterling
black leather hand bag containing
two small pocket-books with about
ten dollars in money in same. Bag
also contained an Onyx pin and a
prescription issued by DR.. Smith.
Finder will return to ADVOCATE
office and receive liberal reward.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
PARCELS
POST LAW
Goes Into Effect Jdnu-
airy Twill Mean a
Great Saving.
Packages Not Exceeding Eleven
Pounds Gan be Sent by Mail.

Parcels not exceeding II pounds
in weight will be accepted for
mailing at all postoffices and by
rural and star route carriers after
January 1, 1913.
The law requires the use of dis
tinctive parcel post stamps on all
fourth-class matter mailed on or
after January 1, 1913. Under the
terms of the law ordinary stamps
will not pay postage on such mat
ter. ...
Each parcel must bear the name
and address of the sender; other
wise it will not be accepted for
mailing.
A mailable parcel on which the
postage is fully prepaid may be in
sured against loss in an amount
equivalent to its actual value, but
not to exceed $50, on payment of
a fee of ten cents in parcel post
stamps, such stamps to he affixed.
In view of the provision for the
insurance of fourth-class mail and
the furnishing of receipts for such
mail, when insured, the necessity
for registration is removed and
therefore fourth-class matter will
not be admitted to the registered
mail. .......
Butter, lard and perishable ar
ticles, such as fish, fresh meats,
dressed fowls, vegetables, fruits,
berries and articles of similar
nature, which decay quickly
when so packed or wrapped as to
prevent damage to other mail mat
ter, will be accepted for local de-
livery. When inclosed in an inner
cover and a strong outer cover of
wood, metal, heavy corrugated
pasteboard or other suitable mate
rial and wrapped so that nothing
can escape from the package, will
be accepted for mailing to all
offices within the first zone.
Eggs will be accepted for local
delivery when so packed in bas-
ket or other container as to pre-
vent damage to other mail matter.
Eggs will be accepted for mail
ing, regardless of distance, when
each egg is wrapped separately
and surrounded with excelsior,
cotton, or other suitable material
and packed in a container made of
double corrugated pasteboard,
metal, wood or other suitable ma
terial in such manner as to place
each egg on its end and to prevent
them from striking together or
against the side or top of the con-
tainer, with an outer cover of
double corrugated pasteboard,
metal, wood or other suitable ma
terial and wrapped so that moth
ing can escape from the package. |
All such parcels must be labeled
Eggs"
For further information see
next weeks page article on Par
cells Post"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
teachers to Entertain.

The teachers of the public school
have arranged with the manage
ment of the Tabb Opera House for
moving picture machine and the
children will be the guests of the
teachers Christmas afternoon.
Fresh shelied nuts, seeded raj.
sins and figs at Vanarsdell's.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
Former Mt. Sterling Man Dead.

Mr.. William Maher, aged 36
wears, died at his home in Carlisle
recently. He was a native of Mt.
Sterling and a brother of Mr..
Henry Maher, Mrs. Mike Gala
CHER and Mrs. Ruth McCracken,
of this city.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
Sells Mules.

James w. White recently sold
to X. n. Ratliff, of Winchester,
II yearllng mules at $4,000 per
head. This is one of the best mule
sales recorded in this county in a
long time.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23

Why busy yourself cooking
during the holidays when you can
get anything the market affords
in our dining room.
Fred q. Morris.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
Bold Theft.

Last Tuesday, Ernest Hare, a
negro boy, entered the headquart-
ers of the local fire department
and seeing no one present, stole
the brass couplings off of four sec
tions of new fire hose, cutting them
loose from the hose with a pocket
knife. The couplings were later
found by the police at the estab-
lishment of a local junk dealer
and the negro is now under arrest
The four sections of hose rendered
worthless were valued at about
5000.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23

Rooms for rent; furnished, in
BEAUMONT Hotel, with or without
meals. Apply to A. L. Laughlin.
23-4t.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23

Anything you want in the way
of job printing will receive our
prompt attention this week or any
other week
Advocate Pub. Co.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23
The Ideal Xmas Gift.

A box of our beautiful initial
stationery-the prettiest you ever
Advocate Pub. Go.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-12-23

Standard Foot Warmers, ashes.
tos covering, $l.75 at Conroy's.
233t
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-07-14

peevish when he was supplautod hy
Finn at Chicago. George ", Perkins
and Frank 4, MunseA, who have Car
nished mulh of the shows of wan
and w. A. Van NulhouburF. the ph.M.
lrIphiu editor, have been discusaiu.
thr situation with Roosevelt % WW
enough tu some people. win tn
kuuNlrdEr to conclude fhit thr paw
masters had grown ur,d of diggn0
down into their stores uf predatory
wealth, and were Inclined to uhW
don the light
Roosevelt dismissed the rumoIs ui
quitting hy SAYING that These mur
merely camy Co tu.k over Win him
the matter of the can for thr thuU
party convention ordinarily this
would have been matter of the mNr
est detail to the colonel which hD
would have shuutrd of to % secretary
Ills indculsion ls again evidenced
when he WAS asked what the proposed
new party was to bc named, and h,
replied, search me, Boy George
Among regular Republicans II d.
The growing belief that % search war
rant W.T. he necessary to ma th,
mira party hN the time of the No.
Ncmher election
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-07-14


The 0rst impressions formed of a
country are often deceptive for they
rise from superficial Views but thS
have some value IN as much as lhey
emphasize the peculiar characters
tics Of The country or people. the
difference between what we are USED
10 and what weNare unaccustomcd To
are never so great as at hrst sight'
And so the first impression one Htls
of the Japanese 10 one of smallness'
This applies 20 quantity rather lhhn
quality. Is not mental or moral so
much as physical on dimenslonal The
empire though called by It's people
Dai Noppon tGreat Japan - small,
ifs people short rs lanes and high
ways are narrow; the houses are low
and little, the farms are small gard
ems, dishes, toacups, pipes etc., are
Ike American toys, while everything
else connected with the life of the
people is equally small
That the japanese are great In IT.
lie things, ana little iu great things
certainly contains some truth bul
they are IN one respect outgroWing
this characteristic of smallnoss, as
many great modern improvements
carried on boy the government amply
demonstrates Between Nokoha ma
and Tokyo our attention was at
tracted TO a work prosecuted by tho
government In railroad improvement
which would do credit to any country
in the world. An old right-of-way
through hills and garden lands is now
made wide enough 10 meet an future
requirements. 10 AN American the
work appears costly and substantial
beyond All nece sity. Massive walls
Of rock and cement reaching far up
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-07-14
INSURGENTS ARE
some PERPLEXED
BRlSTOW AND CLAPP ONLY SEN
ArORS TO ENLIST WITH THE
BULL MOOSE.
FEW FOLLOW The Colonel
Recent Developments and the Hesi-
fancy of the Colonel is worrying
His Followers.

WASHINGTON, July 13.-Progress
i've republicans in congress art per
picked. They do not know what to
do. TO date amcng the senators only
ErstOw of Kansas and Clapp of Min
nesota seem inclined to follow Roose-
Welt IN his third party movement BO-
rah OF Idaho made his position plain
at Chicago, when he stood with Gov.
ernor Hadley of Missouri and others
against a bolt of the regular party
convention. Since the nomination Of
Gov. woodrow Wilson Of New Jersey
-pn the Democratic ticket Gov. Chase
Osborn OF Michigan, one Of the Seven
little governors" who called on Roose
Welt to get into the fight for the >Re-
publican nomination, has declared
himself for Wilson. Roosevelt dis
counts Osborn's desertion as he did
lIadleys refusal to go out of the party
with him. but the pedal extremeties OF
the 'pegressives' in Washington are
rather chilly these days, especially in
view of the action OF the adjourned
state convention of Ohio.
One of the most remarkable stories
yet heard is one to the effect that
Governor Hadley of Missouri is of the
belief that President Taft could be in
duced to retire as head of the Repub-
llcan ticket. The story is remarkable
in the first place. because of Hadley's
attitude at Chicago.
Progressivcs Up I'm Air.
While he was the floor leader for
Roosevelt, he, like Governor Deneen
and Senator Borah, would not go over
the ropes with Roosevelt and he saw
to IT that the delegation remaifled reg
ular on the party platform when ii
was adopted. 1t has been, said that
Hadley would try to win back what
ever recalcitrant Republicans there
were in Missouri to the support of
Taft and Sherman, hence the story
now In circulation is the more remark
able. Just what Hadley's proposal Is
in detail could not be learned and the
man who is so persistently circulating
1t puts the responsibility for II upon
"a prominent Republican whose iden-
tity he declines to reveal. Needless to
add the man circulating the story Is
thoroughly identified with the pres
ent movement with the Pinchot-Gar-
field crowd. and has been for some
time, to his pecunlary benefit.
Progressive senators have held con-
ferencts over the political situation
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-07-14
ON A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
URIITN ESPECIALLY FOR THE TULSA SUNDAY WORLD

LILY TOR THE Tulsa SUNDAY WORLD
tby Dan Ganey)

the hl slac8 protect the road from
poss hlc land slides, the streams aud
MARSHES are suannod hy wide steel
bridges, stations standing on opposite
sides Of The ripht-uf way are connect
ed by overhead passags ways CON
sirucitd of stone ana steel, IN incL
all traitlc crossing this territory must
go overhead, leaving trains IN unuh-
structcd right-of-Way between the two
cities. This work was Planned and "
approaching completion in the belief
that II viii last for ages, There rs
nothing ln America Ike the modern
harbor improvements Of Japan. All
docks ana Wharfs are hult Of stone.
with the masonry so massive and wei
constructed that you can not help but
associate il with the idea of eternity,
In the harbor of Yokohama the
largest cleauest and spredest steam
ships arriving from for ign ports ny
the Nag of Nippon and are entirely
manned hy japanese. The nation ~
now building the miyhtiest OF war
ships and manufacturing everything
else used boy an army ana navy which
have already ast0nished the world IN
the science OF war
but these things have been done by
the nation, directly or indirectly by
subsidies, us for instance, the rapidly
huilt-up steamship lines which are
heavily subsidized. The individual
Japanese has not advanced much be-
yOnd his small ways OF ufty years ago.
indeed II Is becoming mufe difficult
for him a. advance at all, for he is
taxed IlmOst beyond the point of IN
durance 10 pay interest on the money
borrowed for internal improvements.
for war purposes ana for the main
lenhnce of the army ana navy The
common people Of Japan are intense.
ly loyal 10 the government ana patri-
otic t0 the last drop of blood in their
brown bodies. They are by nature
courteous, brave, hospitable ana af-
foctionatc, living lives of unaffected
simplicity; but they are also abjecty
poor,
The intense loyalty 10 the country
has made il easy for the governing
class 10 lay taxes upon them which
no other people In the world would
stand. The result is, the government
Jas mortgGged the country until l.
people, willing as they are to make
sacrifices, can 30 no farther and i've
however miserab}. In this connec-
ton II should be bourne in mind that
railroads, telephone, telegraph and
street-car lines are government mon
opOlies In Japan, besides various 9TH
er lines of business. There are some
street-car lines that are not govern
ment property, yet because OF peculiar
circumstances. Some idea of now far
reaching and heavy are government
taxes may be gloanCS from the fact
that for every street-car fare sold for
five sen, one sen goes to the govern
ment and that, too, on the day of col
lection.
We who live IN America looking
only at the record of wonderful ad-
vancement made by Japan In thirty
years, have not the remotest idea Of
the awful distressing poverty under
which its people live and suffer, Gov
eminent records show that 65 per
cent of Japan's people are depend
ent upon agriculture for their food
Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1912-04-10
SOIL DOCTORS ARE
NOW in FASHION

WASHINGTON, April S.rWhile
the idea OF calling in doctor to
prescribe for the ailments of a sick
farm or garden would doubtless
never occur To the millions Of per
sons who are now preparing to plant
gardens or farms varying in size
from the plot of n few square yards
to the farm Of many thousand acres.
1t Is nevertheless true that soils
suffer from sickness similar to those
which occur in the case of human
being and tina, as result there has
come the soil doctor" whose nro-
iession 1t is to prescribe for sick
soils. Few farmers or gardeners
who wonder at mid summer or fall
why their yield has failed 10 come
up to expectations realize that their
soil may be suffering from prac,i-
ea''y the same troubles which every
parent has come to regard as Incl
dental to childhood Astonishing
analogies between the ills 10 which
human flesh is heir and those which
ahect the four hundred odd varieties
oil our crop growing soils have now
been established and a. rcs,,,
nave brought about a new orofes
SION that OF d. s. S. otherwise
doctor OF sick soils. The common,
est Ills which afflic, the soil are !,
digestion, auto intoxication. cireuIa-
Tory and lung troubles, together
WIN complications Of these diseases
winch sometimes tax the skill os
the men who have become soec;,i
lists in their diagnosis and trc,,
mcni.
ms new profession practicable
mad ITS beginning when il was die
covered that there was no truth :,
the established theory. which 70 49,
extent exists even today. tina, sol,
Is decomposed rock investigation.
showed that soils instead Of helm.
deeomposed rock were in r.,,;,,,
a.s'h'egrated OF unconsolidated rock
Inc vital point Of this discovery Law