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The broad ax., 1914-10-24

The City Federation of Colored Wo-
mems Clubs held reception Tuesday
afternoon at Johnson's Dreamland Hall,
1920 s. State street. 1t was largely at
tended and a very brilliant affair.
Many of the elegantly cOstumed ladies
riding to and from it IN autos.
The broad ax., 1914-10-24

TIE LADIES OF THE CITY Fedora
TON OF CoLoRED woMEN's
CLUBS HAVE FORWARDED THE
FOLLOWING LETTER TO THE
EXECUTIVE BOARD OF PRoVI-
DENT HOSPITAL.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
500 Reward, 500

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Sold by all Druggists 76c.
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
TALK BUSINESS AND BUSINESS
BEGINS TO TALK BACK

Don't talk war: talk business.
We are ovrrplaying the war. Big
and bad aS il has been to date; big
ger and worse as il may look III the
| future, We cannot make il better by
thinking of nothing else. Bank clear
ings are off 81 per cent--oif this big
jump from October of year ago,
when they were far below normal.
Things are not rs bad as that. It's
time to get our grip on the affairs Of
peace.
We have met the first shock of the
big surprise. We have passed through
it and found ourselves alive. Let's
act like live men.
Let's get our pride to work. Let :
sting into action that native enter
prise we used To boast 50 greatly.
Let's go ahead-war or no war.
"Don't talk war; talk businessw
The great battles in Europe need
no press agent. They're making
themselves heard all over the world
every morning and every evening,
The newspapers will keep folks in
formed about them, as they must be
informed.
And war is bad side line for any
travelling man TO carry.
It throws veil right over his
sample table, 1t keeps his goods
from being seen, because it blinds
the minds eye of his customer.
Don't talk war; talk peace"
This is not only a salesman's job
it's the customers job, too. No man
can buy goods intelGgcntly while he's
trying to figure out what Turkey
going to do OF how far the Heppeins
can sail.
He is doing himself an injustice
He is hurting his own interests. Cool
calm talk of how he can beat wars
attack on his business or how he may
meet the new conditions is one thing
empty war talk is another. That's
the kind of talk that is throwing
monkey wrenches into the machinery
OF everyday trade.-EXchange.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
COSTLY TO THE TAXPAYERS
European Monarchs Draw Immense
Sums From the Treasures iof
Their Respective Countries.

The allowance of the royal family
of England is agreed upon by parlia-
ment and is known as the "civil list"
The latest published figures for the
annual allotment to the royal family
are $4,000 to the king and queen
and their household and bounty, and
f1O6,O00 to other members of the
royal family, such as Queen Alex
andra and the royal princesses. A
pound is about $4.S6.
The kaiser of Germany receives
no allowance as such, or any income
from the treasury of the empire. He
has his private revenues, and those
granted him by the Kingdom of
Prussia as its king, and his only
Subsidy" is the small annual grant
known as the disposition fund"
The allowance for the expenses of
the imperial house of Russia in 1912
was 16,359,595 rubles. A ruble is
about fifty cents. The royal expenses
may not be discussed in the duma.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
GAY LIFE IN THE CITY

It's about time to put the kibosh
on all this talk about keeping the
boys on the farm. Why should a
boy or young man want to stay on
farm when he can go TO the city
and, after tramping through the
heat, or cold, or rain, or snow for
five or six weeks, land fine, fat,
easy, soft snap of a job as mo-
torman9 Then all he will have to
do will be to get up at five a. m.
winter and summer, swallow a
boarding house breakfast that Il
hog on his fathers farm would
spurn, dash merrily to the car
barn, take the abuse of a slave
driving r-starter, and go gaily
to work. All, what pleasure to
stand all day in a vestibule that
is perfumed with the smells of the
unwashed bodies of just-over immi-
grant laborers, on their way to work
in sewer. Think of the fragrance
of all grades of tobacco in cigar
cites, in cigars and in pipes of many
degrees of strength! 1t is simply
great to breathe this spicy air all
day. In the meanwhile one hears the
sweet compliments of the ladies and
gentlemen who do not happen to
think of signaling when they want
to get off, but who rightfully feel
that the motorman should have
known, if he was not such fat
header lob, and who do not hest
tate to tell him SO. Oh yes, its
great. Every farmer boy ought to
leave home at once and dash to
the city. Think of the wages he'll
get!
Why at the end of the month,
after paying for board, room, laun-
dry, clothes and uniform, union
dues and assessments, he will have
almost enough to go to the movie
show. But he probably won't go,
because he'll be 50 all up and full of
the poisonous reek that he inhaled
all day, that he will tumble into bed
to forget it until the alarm clock
calls him to begin all over again.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
EDUCATIONAL FUND.

President Yuap Shi Kai has is,
sued a mandate ordering the cstab-
liShment of AN educational fund
amounting to S1?.O0O,OOO, which
shall provide Loco scholarships for
Chinese students at home AMI
abroad, each yielding 800 annually
The fund will be created by deposit.
ing $3,O00,00O annually in the BanL
of China. Recent reactionary ten
denotes in China have caused consid-
cradle uncasiness regarding the fu-
ture of modern education. President
Yuan's mandate is taken as evidence
that he realizes the necessity of mod.
crn education.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
POOR OPINION OF RUSSIANS
Bureaucracy OF the Empire
Of the Cxar.

The small esteem in which, before
the great war began, the Germans
held the military machinery of Rus
STA is illustrated in the following ex-
tract from German comic paper
published, by the way, when the war
was actually ten days old. The Rus
sian minister of marine, it was said,
had discovered that manufacturers in
Finland were delivering large guam
titles of cardboard to the government
works. lie promptly sent for the
head of one of the imperial ship
yards. as it your plan," he said to
that functionary, 80 make the armor
plate of our new battleships of card
board?"
81 beg your high excellency's par
don," answered the official witt
dignity, 'but that was some time
ago. Nowadays the orders are to
make the armor plate of real iron"
"Why, then, all this cardboard
from Finland?" quoth the minister,
''That," was the reply, "is for the
army. You would not have our sol.
diers run around all the time bare.
foot, would ?"-New York Eve.
ming Post.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
APPRAISE PROPERTY

The Board of Appraisers, con-
sisting of w. d. Mcintyre, S. S. Ar
derry and John 7. Collins, appointed
by the court to appraise the real
and personal property OF k. K.
Hutchcraft, the wholesale commits
sion and seed merchant, of Paris,
who recently assigned to james Nc
Clure, cashier of the First National
Bank, filed on itemized statement il
the County Clerks Office, sum-
mary of which is as follows: Farm
ing lands, $Sl, 1880; city realty,
1913, $50; grain, seeds, ETC., S19,783;
tobacco crop, $4,650; cash, notes
and accounts, $18,S6l; bank stock,
$2,775; hay, straw, feed, livestock,
$4,745; Office furniture and fixtures,
$40; household effects, 1894; mis-
cellaneous property, $3.50; total,
$175,SS2.
Mr.. Hutchcraft's Indebtedness, ac-
cording to a statement filed by him
recently, is $145,30O. Suit is now
pending in Federal Court, filed by his
Lexington creditors, to force him in
to voluntary bankruptcy.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18

mate it will fertihze every hill of
corn and every field of wheat in the
State. Every dollar spent in this
righteous cause is like the water
that rises from the sea to fall again
on the land, bringing beauty and
abundance in its train.
1T DEBAUCHES THE ELEC-
TORATE-The very hope of our free
institutions lies in the virtue and in
telligence of the electorate. lgnor-
ance has ever been the greatest foe
to popular institutions. If Ken
lucky politics are ever to be inn
proved, the tens of thousands of
voters who cannot read the ballot
must be taught to read.
EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE H.
LITERACY-An heroic effort is now
being made to drive out Of our great
State the urse of illiteracy. Every
man man who loves humani-
ty should help this cause along. 1t
is patriotic movement. 1t is altru-
ism of a practical kind. 1t is good
business, it is craftsmanship. Let
everyone who can lend helping
hand. Let critics keep silent while
this battle with Kentucky's greatest
foe is being fought and won.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
ADULT ILLlTERACy
(By Barksdale Hamlet, Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction.

(By Barksdale Hamlet, Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction.)
Adult illiteracy is the GREATEST
single handicap under which Ken
lucky is staggering today. 1t keeps
blind the individual; it binders pub
lie and private education; it retards
the economic development of the
State, and it goes far toward fur
nishing a debauched electorate.
1T BLINDS THE INDIVIDUAL
Development and progress come to
peopleh and States largely through
contact. The illiterate is cut off
from this contact. He is limited in
his life to the now and the here.
His associates are as a rule of his
own class. From them he cannot
learn; the blind cannot lead the
blind. Hemmed in Us to his intellec-
utal life the illiterate goes to form a
class of people, narrow, suspicious
and nonprogressive.
1T HINDERS EDUCATION-The
upward movement of any people is
in direct ratio to popular education.
Ilitearcy is an cold man Of the sea"
upon the back of education. Like
begets like; illiteracy begets litter
acy. Blind to the advantages of ed
ucation, the illiterate parent often
is entirely indifferent and some
times actually opposed to education.
81 never had any larnin, and have
lived" is a common excuse among IL
hterate parents. The children of
such people form the problem of the
truant officer. No greater thing can
be done for the schools of this State,
than to stamp out once for all this
evil of adult iliteracy.
1T RETARDS ECONOMICAL DE-
VELOPMENT-As a rule, the illit-
crate is poor. Of course there are
exceptions to this rule, but such ex-
ceptions only emphasize the rule. A
great effort is now being made to
improve the agricultural conditions
in this State. Adult illiteracy stands
in the way. No farm journal, no
bulletin, no message except by word
of wouth can reach this unfortunate
class. Adult illiteracy bars the way
of agricultural progress, and to elm
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
PEACE HERO PASSES AWAY
Bishop Tucker, After Remarkable Ser
Vice In Uganda, 10 Gathered
10 His Fathers.

Another great name, worthy to
stand with those Of Harrington,
Pilkington and Mackay, has been
added to the roll of the heroes of
Uganda, in the death of Bishop
Tucker, who went out in 1890 as
bishop Of Eastern Equatorial Africa.
That vast territory has since been
divided into three dioceses, Of which
Uganda is one. Artist and athlete
before he decided to enter the
church, he brought an unusual COM
bination Of qualities to his chosen
lifework, and when, after several
years Of service in the home church,
he offered himself for the foreign
work he was recognized as a man of
exceptional power. After 81 years
of effective service he was retired
for reasons of health in 1911, and
since that time has been one of the
canons of Durham (England) ca
thedral. One of the most dramatic
episodes in his missionary career oc-
CURED in 1892, when Bishop Tucker
had the bones of the martyr Bishop
Harrington exhumed and given
Christian burial outside the great
matched church of st. Paul on Ma
mirembe hill, Uganda, and the slay-
er of Bishop Harrington, King
M'wanga, was present as a member
of the Christian congregation.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
Farm for Rent.

100 acres in Kentucky Colony
of Alabama. Right at a good
railway village, school, etc. SID
room wdelling, two barns, num-
erous out-buildings, farm all
fenced, sub-divided and in good
fix. Wood, water, and health ex-
cellent. Will lease to a reliable
man for $325 per year. Tenant
must show good reference. 1t is
more important that we get de-
sirable tenant than anything else
Apply at Advocate Office for
full particulars. I4-tf
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
ELECTRICITY TO FIGHT FLIES
Successful Way Found to Destroy
Pests That Attack and Ruin
Rose Trees.

The latest application of electric
ity, according to Popular Electricity
and Modern Mechanics, is that of
killing the green fly by means of an
electric spark. We read in this mag
azine:
''rhis fly is a species found on
rose trees and is exceedingly disas-
trous to the flowers. Heretofore con-
siderable difficulty has been expert
enced in Kidding rose trees of these
pests, but the electrical method re-
Gently devised is proving both prac-
teal and efficient. Briefly, the fly
killing apparatus consists of a small
spark coil, spark gap, high-frequency
transformer, switches and other ac-
cessories. A flexible conductor con-
veys the current from the high-fre-
quency transformer to a brass-ball
electrode fitted with an insulating
handle so that it may be held with
out danger of shock. To use the
apparatus the electrode is brought
near the flies on the rose bushes. \
spark then jumps from the electrod,
to the tree and kills the flies, the cur
rent passing through the tree TO the
ground without damage to the leaves
or flowers"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
GUESSED HE HAD ENOUGH.

Mr.. Naggs was late in arriving foT
his supper.
"Well, what kept you so late ~
demanded Mrs. Naggs, her war sig.
nal displayed.
~-I stopped to read the bulle.
tins" faltered Mr.. Naggs.
"The bulletins! What was on the
bulletins?"
"Why, all about the fighting
Fighting, fighting| with fine
scorn. "Don't you get enough fight
ing at homer"
"Why, yes, my dear, guess
do" he replied meekly.-Springfeld
Union.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
GUEST COULD NOT KICK,

"You look hungry"
eyes, l went out to dinner with
Jinx today"
"And did you not have a good din.
ner?"
"Fine, but Jinx wanted to give me
his idea of how the war was being
fought and he pulled every one Of
my dishes across the table and used
them to represent the different coun.
tries"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
HIS FAvoRITE STYLE.

"How will you have your eggs
cooked ?" asked the waiter.
make any difference in the cost of
'em?" inquired the cautious GUS
toner with the brimless hat and the
ragged beard.
"No."
"'rhen cook them on the top of a
slice of ham," said the customer,
greatly relieved.-Tit-B
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
NUMBER THREE SPEAKS.

80 you married a widow"
Eyes"
"Does she sing the praises of heI
first husband?"
"No, indeed"
"You ought to be glad of that"
"Umph! get no rest. She's
always singing the praises of her sec.
ond husband"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
WATcHFUL WAITING.

"Has your ladyship raised your
board yet ?"
NO. She seems to expect me to
raise il"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
JAMES E. MAGOWAN.

Real Estate, Loans and Collecting
Agent, Notary Public, Contractor and
Carpenter. Prompt attention given to
my business entrusted to me. Phone
III, Mt. Sterling, KY, No. 3 Wesley St.
Io-6mo
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
HER PRACTICAL PA.

Suitor-Your daughter, sir, is
willing to trust me; why can't you?
Her Father-She doesn't care how
much thing costs, and l do.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
ANYTHING TO PLEASE.

"No, do not care to meet your
guests. Those English are so cold"
"Then come and try our hot
Scotch"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
THOSE DEAR GIRLS.

Maud-At the seashore this sum
mer | had over dozen proposals.
Ethel-How persistent a summer
acquaintance can be.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
HER FAILURE.

Look out for that grill She's
fishing for compliments"
"Then she needn't think she can
use me for beau-line."
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
Pc RHAPS.

"Sir, came down from long line
of ancestors"
Indeed! Were many Of them
hanging on itr
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
A u CTlO N e z r

l offer my services to the people of
Montgomery and surrounding counties
and guarantee satisfaction. am grad
uate of the famous Missouri School. For
terms and dates apply at Advocate Office.
Phone "a, Mt. Sterling, KY.
I2-Iyr Allie w. Mccormick
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-11-18
For Sale

Runabout automobile, also rubber
tired buggy. Would trade for horse.
Phone S42. Ed. raul.
1S-tf.
The state herald., 1914-03-20
Republican Outlook BRIGHT.

Republicans have no reason to feel
dissatisfied with the outlook this year
or for 1916" remarked former Repre-
sentative Joseph II. Gaines OF Charles
ton. W. Va, at Washington.
The Democrats promised to do
great things. the most important OF
which, the one closest TO the people.
was the reduction OF the cost OF liv-
ing. They passed tariff bill and
proclaimed to the country that the
people would be benefited. What Is
the result7 There is not single per
son in the United States who Is buy
ing food any cheaper than he did be-
fore the enactment OF the tarin law.
The Democrats have always been long
on promises but short on perform
ances and results. Republicans and
Progressives will soon get together,
Down In my state the progressiver
are declaring that they are Repub'
licans. always were Republicans. and
always will be Republicans. but that
they got mad for the moment because
OF the Chicago convention. Now that
they have had time to cool on they
have put on their Republican clothes
again"
The state herald., 1914-03-20
SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS.
Ordered by Interstate Commerce
Board on sixty-two Commodities.

Washington.-The interstate COM
merce commission has issued an or
der granting substantial reductions in
rates on 62 important commodities
from Chicago and the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers to Denver. The re-
duced rates are to become effective
May /.
The petition on which these rate re-
ductions are based was filed by tine
Colorado Manufacturers association,
now the traffic bureau Of the Denver
Chamber Of Commerce, considerably
more than a year ago. Reductions
were asked originally In all class
rates between Chicago and the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers on the
one hand and the Colorado common
points on the other, and in rates on
15S groups OF commodities.
The commission ruled on the class
rates last June. but asked for a revi-
sion OF the petition as to commodity
rates before passing upon it.
The state herald., 1914-03-20
Colorado Wool Valued a. 100000

CHARACTERIZATION OF the value OF
the Colorado wool clip for 1914 place
the figure at 100000. and In some
instances even higher. A peculiarity
of the expected financial returns from
wool is the fact that gains In prices
have ben made under free wool. The
prices on which bids are being made
for this years clip range from | TO 2
cents per pound higher than year
ago. Eastern buyers have already con
tracted for fully $4,000 worth of Colo
RADIO wool. while some growers have
declined to contract their wool at 10
cents or II ceiss. believing the price
viii go higher Shortage In the sup
ply OF stored wool. due prinoaplly to
the fact that manufacturers used their
supplies In anticipation OF cheaper
wool under the new tariff law, is CIV
en- as the reason for the advance In
prices.
The state herald., 1914-03-20

nifty Its secondary schools should be
the pivot. 1t cannot be said that the
amount OF secondary education given
In Liverpool is in any way appropriate
to Liverpools resources. Pupils come
too late to the secondary schools and
leave too early; large numbers who
ought to come do not take advantage
of these schools at all. Yet the last
ten years has seen notable expan-
sion Of secondary school accommoda.
ton in Liverpool, and there is an In.
crcasing demand In the city for boys
OF seventeen years and upward who
have received a good general educa.
ton.
Secondary Schools Expand.
This raising Of the entrance age for
employment in the shipping Offices,
banks, and insurance offices is likely
to do much to help the extension and
advance of secondary education. The
free place entrance examinations from
the elementary schools are well man,
aged by committee of heads of sec.
ondary schools acting in cooperation
with the local authority's officials, and
there is continuous stream OF prom.
Using youths passing from the elemen.
tary TO the secondary system.
There is as much individuality and
freedom in the public secondary
schools as in the private schools. Each
has its own special aims, bias. and
line OF development, and there is no
suggestion of unwholesome uniform.
ity.
The administration OF the city
schools, both elementary and secon
dary. under J. G. Legge, is carried on
with sympathy and discrimination. and
any sincere attempt to promote EN-
thusiasm or freshness in school work
is likely to be encouraged. 1t has been
held that "fads" are officially recog
nized; but when these "fads" take the
form of better music, art, and handL
The state herald., 1914-03-20
causs Of unnnnularl,x.

An anccdote In "irluhman AL"
George A. Birmlngham's study OF Irish
life. recalls the days when the popular
excitement was not confined to threats
and Ulster. Mr., Birmingham Tin real
life Canon Hannay) when journcyins
through countryside unknown TO
him. asked his driver who owned a
particularly massive house they had
Just passed.
y disrcmembcr the rquire's name
this minute" was the reply. "but he's
tho gentleman they didn't shoot In
the bad times"
Was hc very popular with the pco
plot"
Popular. 10 ~ No. but tho boy,
that was In the league hated him
worpe than they hated the devil"
And yet they didn't shoot himi-
1T wasn't for trying. thon. II the,
blared n, him once they blared at hin
twenty times. but thcy couldn't hi,
him. II might have been that" IN,
driver added, though,fuily. that mad.
him no unpopular"