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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1913-12-23

Charles l.. Simon, Florist sue
cessor to John Corbitt. Phone 435
Io-tf.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
.lEZSEG!
Still in Business.

Just to let our friends know
that we are still in the tin bust
ness and make a speciality of
guttering, roofing, etc. Repair
ing receives prompt attention.
23-tf The Laughlin Co.
From now until the first of
January we are making Special
Prices on potatoes by the bag
oranges by the box, and apples
by the barrel.
23-3t Roberts & Ringo.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
Transfer and Carriage.

l have carriage and transfer
wagon to meet all trains. Phone
FL or 337.
37tf. WILL BEAN.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1913-12-23
County Court Days.

Following is a list of days
County Courts are held in coun-
ties near Mt. Sterling.
Bath, Owingsville. end Mon
day.
Bourbon, Paris, Ist Monday
Clark, Winchester, 4th Monday
Fayette, Lexington. end Mon
day.
Fleming. Flemingsburg -4th
\ Monday.
Harrison. Cynthiana, 4th Mon
day.
Madison, Richmond, Ist Mon
day.
Montgomery. Mt. Sterling. 3rd
Monday.
Nicholas, Carlisle. and Monday.
The Keota news., 1913-07-11

Mrs. N. E. Trumbo went to Barnes
vile Saturday for visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Roy Paine; and on Mon
day she went to Lovsland to visit her
sister.
Mrs. Curtis, Of Greeley, came on
Wednesday for 1 visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Bussing. Mrs. Bussing
drove to Briggsdale to meet her.
The Keota news., 1913-07-11
HIGHTOWER

George and Will Brown, Clyde and
Verne Stanley. and Misses Mabel An
drews. Fac and Melissa Stanley drove
to Pawnes Buttes last Sunday. They
climbed to the top Of the Cheese box, :"
highest point on the east butte, and had
lot of fun Kodaking different views
of the party and of the landscape. Miss
Andrews has been visiting at Hightower
Homestead since last Thursday.
Two new binders have been brought
to the neighborhood. Thomas G. Ewing
has Mccormick, bought in Stoneham,
and Brillhsrt & Savage have Desring,
bought in Keota. Harley Jobbins was
out Sunday to set up this machine, and
on Monday it was started cutting Mr..
Brillhart's field of splendid winter
wheat.
D. v. Stanley and family, Misses Ma
bel Andrews, Emily Kneebone, Mia and
Melissa Stanley, John Lewis and George
Brown were guests Of Thomas G. Ew-
ing and family Saturday evening. Two
freezers of ice cream with cake were
appreciated as refreshments after the
warm day.
Miss Rhea johnson returned to Den
yer Monday, after visiting for about
three weeks with her mother and bro
ther at Iona Ranch.
Hightower school opened Monday,
July 7. with six pupils in attendance.
The Keota news., 1913-07-11
Closed

During the summer Keota News
Office will usually be closed on Satur
days. Sundays and Mondays. Those
unable to call on other days may
leave orders with or make payments
to Mr.. Schoonover, 1T Keota post
office. News items and requests for
special appointments should be put
in the Newsbox, at the postoffice.
The Keota news., 1913-07-11

Karl Kler and family, Miss Pauline
Myers, sister Of Mrs. Klsr, and Julius
Klsr, returned last week from Gill.
Harry Owens, who is employed near
Gill, visited over the Fourth with his
father, John Owens, at Keota.
Mrs. O. N. Ernst returned Saturday
from visit with her sister at Fort
Morgan.
The Keota news., 1913-07-11
Teachers Appointed

A meeting of the board Of directors of
the Keota school district was held Sat
urday afternoon, and teachers appointed
as follows for the term beginning Sep
tember Q:
Keota school, Mrs. Arthur Rhoadar-
mer.
Benner school, C. H. Lee.
Murphy school, Miss Bertha Sutton.
Bucher school. Miss Virginia Bucher.
Dake school, Miss Julia A. Robinson.
Judd and Swanson school appoint
ments to be made.
In accordance with house bill No. 262,
establishing minimum wage Of $50 per
month for school teachers, the board
purposes to pay the teachers Of the
district at this rate the coming term.
The amount Of school funds which will
be available is not yet known, but it is
expected that full term of nine months
will be given.
D. E. Byrne and George w. Boyer.
members of the board of Buckingham
district, were called into the meeting
and the matter Of free exchange Of tut
ton presented to them. They favored
the proposition. and will bring it before
their board. The same matter will also
be brought before the school board Of
Sligo district.
The annual financial statement of the
district for the year ending June 80, will
not be ready until a report is received
from the county treasurer. 1t will be
published soon thereafter.
The Keota news., 1913-07-11
NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY
Items of Interest to the People of
keOta Community

Prof. and Mrs. o. X. Boring and little
daughter, Kathryn. of Dayton, Ohio.
are here for few weeks visit with Mr..
and Mrs. J. r. Craig and family. at
Runnymeds Ranch. Prof. Boring has
complete charge Of the instruction in
French and Spanish in the Dayton high
schools. Mrs. Boring. who is sister
of Mrs. Craig, is graduate of Miami
University, and is planning to meet
college friends in Denver. After that
they will make an extended tour of the
state. visiting Colorado Springs, Pixies
Peak. and other points Of interest.
They will then 60 to Chicago to visit .
few days before returning to their home.
Misses Mia and Melissa Stanley ar
rived last Friday from Des Moines,
Iowa, and are visiting with their bro
ther and uncle, D. V. Stanley. at High
tower. Miss Mia expects to make
homestead filing on land in that vicinity.
She has followed dressmaking in her
home city for q number of years, and
will do limited amount Of such work
here
w. r. Stewart returned home Sunday
from Denver, where he went Friday for
treatment of his eyes. which were in
jursd by tho explosion of defective
cartridge he was taking from .22 RI
fe. He had narrow escape, but has
fully recovered from the injury.
Mrs. Grant Davis and Mrs. NJ. L. Ha-
worth drove to Loveland Sunday, ex-
pecting to be busy for few days put
ting up fruit for winter use. The fruit
crop about Loveland IL said to be very
good this year.
Frank Hamilton, Clifford Davis, Hugh
Walker, and Misses Frances Jones,
Nora Knowles. Ethel Scott and Rose
Durbin expect to leave next Wednesday
for two weeks trip to the Estes Park
country.
Con Kechter drove to Fort Morgan
Sunday, and returned Tuesday with his
sons, Henry and Chris, and Chris Dorm.
On Wednesday Mrs. Kechter went via
BI1Rgsdale to Loveland Tor Visit.
Mrs. Elmer Lyon and children left
Keota Saturday, to make their home At
Silver Creek, Neb. Mr.. Lyon shipped
from Briggsdale Monday. going with
his car of household goods.
Some of the Sunshine Valley young
people are planning to attend the dance
and box supper to be held at the Model
Valley school house, north of Sligo, this
Friday evening.
The five Burlington carpenters en-
ployed on the new depot went to Dem
yer for the Fourth. returning Monday.
DR.. Bert Rowe and wife, Of Bucking-
ham, visited with Mrs. w. r. Stewart
at Keota Saturday night.
The Keota news., 1913-07-11

Nov this is pre1chnenf and this IS nor screed,
Nor does It poinf a moral thar all of should heed
But why "go0d fellows 1en rich In and fun.
Who give song and story and cheer every one.
Who In the realm of pleasure lifted a throne
Why IS It these "good telLovs must meet their death
0L0nef
The artist with his tancies. the minstrel svith his strains
The writer with his stories In all their carried veins
Big hearted. open handed. the idols of the crowd;
No praise friendly b0asting makes them whit too
proud:
All of Join their laughter hears their passing
Why is these good fellows" go down death alonef
Is all their fun hfck usl Is it n,asque of nrthf
Do they folly hoLIosv-0 thing of little tvorfhf
behind the laughter that rings true and clear
Is heart all gI0ony-the salt tang of a fearf
His life belongs others; but Is his death his o,pnf
Why IS these good felLovs take the dark 0onef
Now, this predck1enf,- why do they NOT
choose
To hear they go from, the last long laugh they
loser
Do they the story. the rolfck of the song
To echo down the pafhw0y-the pathway straight ana
Iongf
But no: forgetting stunning friendly grasp and
Why is it these good teo,vs must n,eet their death
aLonef,
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tional banks and that in order to get
the real benefit from the system Of re-
discount which has been proposed as
q remedy for many existing evils, it is
necessary to base such system upon
an actual control of reserves, provis&
ions has been made for re-castng the
present bank reserve system.
The bill would provide that within 10
days from the date of its. passage the
secretary of. the treasury shall designate
the federal reserve districts. the organ
ization of the federal reserve banks shall
begin and the ..transition beriod' during
which the reserves shall be adiustsds 10
the new plan must be complete at the
end Of IS months.
administration officials st art Q d.
Thursday, to smooth out differences
among Democrats, and the proposal to
act on the currency measure during the
present. session. s
President Wilson asked Democrats
members of the House committee on
banking and currency to meet him ut
the White House. Friday night
Senator owen invited the President 70
confer with the Democratic members
of his committee at the capitol. next
Wednesday, and he accepted.
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captain links INDICATED.

Great thing. this research lad. ism
.it9 Nothing seems to escape peins
researched these days, and SO were
learning a lot of things all over again.
some of them from new angles. he-
cent research work in London, for m
stance. proves that somewhat, some-
how important old song, Captain
Jinks of the Horse Marines, is not
wholly fiction nor founded on some
poets fiery imagination or banquet
for there actually existed in London
in 1902, a corps officially known as
The Royal Mounted Marines when
served in the Napoleonie wars. ms
discovery gives standing and repecta-
.biIity to some extent to the old sons,
now seldom heard in even the most
extraordinarily convivial gatherings OF
dispersals. Ii also, proves to us what
can he done in the way OF research
work when the master engine Mind Is
set at work. Almost it persuades us
to do a little personal research WORK
on the origin Of "Banbury Cross OF
some other aged ditty, doesn't IT
Detroit Free Press.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

In battle, Thursday, between Italian
troops and Tripolitan Arabs at Ettangi,
one italian officer and 10 soldiers were
killed and five officers and 217 men were
wounded. The Arab loss is not known.
Former Vice President Fairbanks left
Indianapolis, Friday to attend the sec.
lond Worlds Christian Citizenship Con.
ference at, Portland, Ore, commenc-
ing. June 20. He will fill number
1of speaking engagements while in the
Northwest.
Reports from all parts of Florida show
no additional loss of life as a result of
Wednesdays storm, which conferred near
Tallahassee. where the Negro was killed.
Wire communication which was partly
idemoralized. has been restored. rhe
damage done by the storm. 1t is estimat-
cd, will amount to about $2J0000, Reports
show that - persons. We're injured. There
was no storm near Tallahassee. Thursday
or Friday. as has been reported.
Instruction in matters of sex for
High school pupils = was authorized,
Thursday, by the Chicago Board of
Education, at Chicago, and Ella Flagg
Young. superintendent of schools and
number. of physicians well versed in
the problems of hygiene and physioI-
|ogy will be secured for lecture
course. The. superintendent stated that
/ the. elementary. schools need such in
struction, but did not believe that the
time is due, when that. phase of the
question should be taken up,
A bill which would authorize the
Tennessee State Funding. Board to Dor
row enough money on short term notes
TO pay. off the states Indebtedness was
introduced in the Tennessee Legisla
| tlres Thursday. AT least three days will
be required before the measure can
become a law, Expedition is desired
because large part of the states
debt of $1L500.00O will fall due, or
July 1. The board had failed twice to
float 4O-year 4 per cent. bonds t,
take up the debt.
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: s.G 4 A a
: II we hut step ami seonsitler foIsf b mo-.
mept- Instead of depicting the naeks OF
bluebirds, wrens and purple martins,
encourage them to inhabit your lawns.
gardens and orchards. 81 - ~
Erect homes for the birds. The little
common house wren that is always
busy either in winter or summer in
catching thousands of insects, or feed
ing on their larvae, will greatly appreci-
ate little effort ION our part to pre-
vide them shelter Tin cans, old coffee
pots, or small woo6enl. boxes fastened
on fences. out buildings. arbors or
trees and provided with entrances
about the size. of q half dollar, will
make coy homes for the wren, and the
number of young Matched and fed with
.ite pests. n the garden will insure "a
greater uual.,y and better quality of
fra ana esetables.
Tia b,uehirdis another enemy of the
dreas insects that get in their
wicked work in the early spring and
summer, when bloom and tender fruits
are exposed to their ravages They can
be induced to remain about our homes
if provided with suitable roosting and
nesting boxes. The type of home may
and more than one should be erected
about the home. especially IN the orch
ard. A box not more than twelve by
eighteen inches, divided into four
rooms, with an opening into each room
and a narrow ledge or alighting board
is the most easily provded,l 1t should
be placed onsa pole about twelve or iif-
teen feet high. 1t might he well to have
a. a1x, i
Some other mandy. place. by a hinge, so
the box can he lowered when 1t is nee
essary to clean, it out or remove the
English sparrows.l
The purple martin is one of our
greatest insectivorous birds. 1t is an
annual visitor arriving about the lst
Of April. 1t never nests IN. trees. 1t
prefers some well-sheltered nome, ana
one that is out of reach of the cats'i
Many years ago martin boxes were
quite common. and great colonies were
seen EACH year, but during the lasl
quarter of a. century the. smartin mas
been. neglected. and one, can travel for
miles without seeing "a blrdhouse- EN-
cry farmer, and, in fact, every owner
of a home, should assist III retaining
these birds Erect homes for them, A !.
great variety of houses. can De 'Duie
Any one can secure a box froma"tlie /
grocer, cut a couple of small holes In
it, and place it on a pole not far from
the house, Many of pretty designs can
be built that will not only serve a good
purpose, but make the home more at
tractive. The martin loves to- be not
iced and talked to-. and it will repay
one for his trouble in its. CHEEKY waroie'
and in time its presence will be SHOWN
in the quantity. and quality of the pro-
ducts injured by the insect pests
Harper's Weekly.
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Homes for Birds.


Few persons actually realize the
great good accomplished by many, of
the more common varieties of insect
destroying birds. Every bird that lives
on insect life is worth its weight in
gold to mankind. In most localities
these useful birds have BEEN so de-
stroyed as to he almost externiinated,
and the Increase of destructive insects
that frequent the field, orchard and
garden is appalling. Something will
have to, be done soon or mankind will
he confronted with very difficult pro-
blem. 4gw4e.i
The natural means of DISCRIMINATING
these pests are by far the best. The
birds are the natural enemies of the
life that destroys and Injuries the vari-
Gus crops. Why not assist the willing
virus in tiiisswork? We can easily do. 50
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Administration Currency Bill Is
Complete and Ready for Congress.

paramount lien on all the assets of these
banks and would be redeemable In gold
on demand at the treasury department of
the city of Washington or at any federal
reserve bank. ,s..-
Stringent provisions are made
against counting any of these notes
as part of bank reserves and the
system is guarded against imitation ,bx
lodging power with the federal reserve
board to exact an interest charge upon
treasury notes in order to insure their
prompt redemption. The notes are not
made legal tender but could be re-
deemable by the government and ey-
cry bank of the system at par. No
change would be made in tie protec'
ton of other existing notes. The fed
eral reserve board would require one
federal reserve bank to rc-discount the
paper of another and would cstaDliSh
rate Of discount not necessarily uni
form for all reserve banks but made
with view to accommodating the
commerce of the country and promote
ing stable price level.
For re-casting the present bank re-
serve system, the bill proposes to
transfer the reserves from national
banks in the present reserve and CEN
trail reserve cities to federal reserve
banks, carrying the process of transfer
over thirty eight months to AVOID
to market conditions.
The bill proposes, according to Mr..
Glass statement, ultimately the es-
Establishment of reserve system IN
which. country banks will have Is pei
cent. of reserve H. e., Is per cent. OF
total demand liabilities) such Is per
cent. to be held ,five per cent in the
banks vaults five per cent. with tbs
National Reserve bank and FIVE per
cent. either at home or with the re-
serve bank, while reserve and central
reserve city banks have reserves OF 10
per cent. of demand liabilities OF
which 10 per cent. will he at nome
! five per cent. with the bank OF thc
district and five per cent. either at
home or with the reserve bank
The statement says: "The pre-
sumed effect Of this plan will be to
end the placing of reserves with CEN
tral reserve city banks for use In stock
market operations, to keep reserve IN
some measure at home and to requlrs
SPECTATORS to. get the funds they need
,, in their operations either by directly
! borrowing them from persons whe
hold them and want to lend the casf
for that purpose. or else. by borrow
ing from the banks in the places wer2
the operations are to be carried on
In the belief that the present re-
! serve SYSTEM is antiquated and unsat-
! isfactory. that to the massing OF funus
| in New York and other financial GEM
ters. of which SO much has been said
in recent years. is largely due to the
nrcsent reserve requirements OF ma
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NOT A CRIMINAL LAW.
No Prosecutions Under Webb Law
Forbidding Shipments of Liquor.

Washington, June 20.-The Webb
law forbidding interstate shipments
of liquor into DRY. states is not
criminal statute and violations OF it
cannot be prosecuted in United states
courts. Attorney General McReynolds
SO declared in INSTRUCTION sent. Thurs.
day to every United States attorney in
the country. The law merely prohibits
such interstate traffic and contains no
penalty for infractions.
Its purpose said the attorney gen.
eral. lis to permit state laws to OPP
crate in respect to intoxicating liquors
moving in interstate commerce.
The. law simply deprives shippers OF
any privileges they might claim on the
ground OF. interstate commerce ana
permits the application of state pro-
hibition laws to interstate commerce
in liquors. ~. -
This is the first time the department.
of Justice has construed the Webb law
which was declared unconstitutional
by Former President Taft.
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Washington, June Gothic admins
tration currency bill was made pub
lie, Thursday night. by Rep. Glass,
chairman of the House committee on
banking and currency. 1t will be in
troduced in the House and Senate al
ter President Wilson has delivered in
person his address to Congress. Mon
day
An outline of the measure prepared
by Mr.. Glass describes it as a basis
for legislative action" states that 1t
will be gone over in detail for altera--
tons and sets out that its purpose is to
accomplish three principal objects:
Provision of a means for rc-dls-
tricting commercial paper of specified
types.
basis for elastic notes properly
safegnarded.
Machinery for doing foreign banking
business.
Tie measures essentially remain
as they have been outlined from time
Il, time since the President began a
study of the subject with, House and
Senate leaders. Sec McAdoo and other
advisers, providing Il or more federal
reserve banks which will sre-discouht
paper. dealing government securities
exchange, and conduct government MS
cal operations National banks anu
| such state. banks and trust companies
as conform to- standards would pe
stockholders of the reserve banks.
The government would hoid no
stock. t. ~
The government would control the
federal reserve banks entirely through
| a federal reserve board of. seven mem
bers in which the banks would have
| no representation. The board wouiu
be composed of the secretary OF the
Treasury, secretary of agriculture the
comptroller of the currency as mem
tbers ex-ofIicio; four otner meinpei
would be chosen by the President ana
CONFIRMED by. the. Senate
The national bank note circuia.ior
would remain undisturbed and no pro
lposal is made in the bill for retiring ap'
II proximately s7O0OO0.0O0 2 per cent. BONDS
| llpon which that note issue now rests
An amendment or separate bill to 'refui'e
those bonds into 3 per cent. bonds MAY
be introduced later. ,Ws
In. addition to the 500. 00O, 600 existing
national bank notes, not more than soVp
100000 in what are to be known as ted
| eral reserve treasury notes, might DC -
| sued at the discretion of the federai re
| serve board solely for the purpose o.
i making advances to the federal reserV'
banks, which would do no business witl
the public. deal only with their mempel
banks and receive deposits only from tne
United states. While the notes would ne
their faces ,purport to be the obligations
Of the United States, they would De re-
/ Quilted to be secured by "a gold reserve
of SO 1-S per cent, provided by the fedora
reserve bank and would be fire and
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The most interesting figure in Eng
fish socialism is Mr.. Hyndman, a
man, of property and university edu-
cation. who outdoes the vitriolic ora
tors of the soap box species IN oe-
nouncing the existing order. he Is
not. perhaps, a genial democrat, Tor IN
private life he is reserved and distant.
Lately he. has alienated many OF ms
friends in the ranks. of advocating a
government appropriation Of $1oo'poe :
900 for the navy The real BRUSH
Radical is often man OF personahis'
cultivation and strong .character--tts
type celebrated by Meredith ~
..Beauchamps Career" But thep il is
only Radicals of great personality. .M''o
are entitled to hearing. The Rao,ca'
without. brains is the most irri'a.'ns
species of shrimp that exists In NJ
man clothing. The true British Rad,-
cal is one. of the ornaments OF ms
country's civilization, just as the cur,
tivated Tory, the man of literary ph'
scholarly and often of antiquarian IN
terests, also celebrated inxthls Sam
novel. is another OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
field Republican. ne