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Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
o. A. r. Offers to Care For Flags.

susanna Hart Chapter D, A, r.,
which occupies quarters in the Old
Capitol, has offered to take charge
OF and preserve the Kentucky flags
now stored in the new Capitol base
meut The chapter also proposed to
the sinking fund commission that il
be allowed TO hang the photograph
OF George Washington. the property Of
the state, in its rooms. The commits
sion appointed Secretary of State Gre
celius and State Treasurer Thomas s.
Rhoa a committee to take up the mat
ter with the chapter,
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
France t4onors American Artist.

The French government has pur
chased for the Luxembourg gallery the
original painting by Arthur Rackham
Of Jack Spratt and His Wife, one OF
the series Rackham pictures now run
ming IL st Nicholas Magazine. This
is the highest honor that the French
government can confer upon a paint
ing by . living artist. Not until the
artist Is dead are his cauyases eligible
for the Louvre.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
New Com pany Formed.

Frank Fisher of Paducah, arrived
here With articles of incorporation Of
the Ohio Valley Fire and Marine II.
surance company, capitalized at $3.50.
600 The incorporators are: F. NJ
Fisher, W. +. Paxton, I'D, ID. Hannah,
J. A. Rudy. DIR, Frank Boyd, ]. &.
Speght, II. q. Reynolds, BraCk owen,
James NJ. Lang. Harry L, Meyers, J
l.. Wolf, s. IL. Winstead. f. G. Boone,
Abe Livingston, w. A. Berry, X. b.
Phillips, c. w. Emery, L. Brewer. c. II.
Davis, Auber Smith, Louis r. KOlb.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
MOONLIGHT" SCHOOLS IN Ky.

Frankfort. Ky.-That there are but
% illiterates in county where three
years ago there were more than 100
is due to the extraordinary work of
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, former SUI
perintendent of schools in Rowan
county, Kentucky. and founder of the
new mountain moonlight school.
In that rough mountain country
Mrs. Stewart began her work in 1911.
She was touched at first by the sad
condition of the uneducated people.
Three specific cases, she said. led her
10 think of the moonlight school plan.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
Butler Makes Demand For Salary.

J. f. Butler, of Pike county, has
demanded his salary for March as
Judge OF the Thirty-ftth district. The
commission was awarded him, but In
q contest suit instituted by his Demo.
cratic opponent, J VI, Robertson, the
circuit court and court of appeals held
the election invalid Buffers salary
allowance pending the appeal, bu. the
auditor has not decided whether t'
pay his salary Of $3.50 for March
is understood he claims the pay az &,
factO Judge.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
The Kentucky Blackberry.

Commissioner Newman, OF the state
department or agriculture, labor and
statistics, recently made the predic'
ton that Kentucky would some day be
famous as a producer of blackberries.
No place in the world" he said.
grows blackberries like Kentucky.
The blackberry is indigenous to Ken
lucky soil. Probably there is no place
where Il grows in greater confusion.
The plants spring up in unexpected
places and they multiply rapidly. The
native blackberry grows anywhere
and IL maryelously prolihe.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
Both Hands.

10 YOU know said the wearied
damsei that you play 4 C-eat deal
like Josef lofmann?"
Really, Aren't you joking? said
the sad specimen.
Not AT all. You both use your
hands g. Dartmouth Jack o Lantern.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
WILL RAISE PRAIRIE DOGS.

Danvllle, XXX. Poindexter
has returned from Oklahoma,
where he secured a consign.
ment of prairie dogs, which
have been turned loose in the
cliffs of Dix river. Mr.. Poin-
dexter owns a large tract of
land bordering on Dix river and
expects to raise prairie dogs for
their hides.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
RED TONI JURY is DISCHARGED.

Winchester, Ky.-The jury in the
case of Red Tom" Davidson, charged
with completely in the murder of
Edward Callahan, former sheriff OF
Breathitt county, could not agree and
was discharged at Winchester. Judge
Benton Immediately set the case for
trial again ON June 30.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
Bids Were Very Close.

Bids for supplying fuel for the state
prisons, about a $4,000 contract.
were so close that the state board Of
prison commissioners decided TO have
a test of the coal made for heat
units. The Cabin Greek, Carbon
Fuel, Kentucky Gem, Dayy's Run
and Clear Greek Coal companies
will all enter the contest. The bids
ranged from $202 to $205 the ton.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
DIR. scRuees RESIGNS AS PASTOR
Midway Pastor Accepts Call 10 a
Missouri Church.

Midway Ky.-The Rev, } p.
Scruggs, who has been pastor of the
First Baptist church of this place for
the past eight years. has rendered his
resignation. This is In order TO as
sumo charge OF the First Baptist
church at Fredericktown, Mo-. to
which he was recently called. lie win
70 70 bis new field the middle Of May.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
FEAR BAND OF NIGHT RIDERS.

Gr63nville, Ky.-Fear stalks at the
heels of men, women and children in
the coal-mining district of Muhlenberg
county. 1t is ever present, the menace
being a band of silent men who ride
at night, wreaking vengeance for real
or fancied grievances. The situation
has all but paralyzed business, and
work at the mines of the Gibraltar
Coal company has been entirely sus-
pended.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
WILL HAVE ALL-NioHT SERVICE

Louisville. Ky.-The "standardizing"
commission that inspected the Louis
vile postofIice will recommend among
other things that the finances be put
in charge OF the assistant postmaster
and that an all-night service be in.
stitu;ed in the money-order and reg
istry division.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
HOLDS DOWN EDITORS JOB.
Miss Emma Hays FuiHIs Duties Of s.
N. ssuHy Most Aeeeptably.

Stanford. Ky.--while Editor Shelton
VI. sauny OF the Interior Journal has
been az Frankfort in attendance upon
the legislature. of which he is tho
member from Lincoln county, the
work Of getting out this splendid
country semtweekly has been done by
young lady who has shown rare
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
L. & N. TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.

Frankfort, Ky.-The state railroad
commission notified the citizens Of
Lagrange that the Louisville d Nash
vile Railroad company had agreed
10 remodel the passenger depot there
at a cost OF 81 .295. The L. a n also
will remodel the depot at Petroleum
at a cost OF 1886, and at Hadensyille
to satisfy the citizens of that place,
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
LOSES $4,000 ON SURE THING"

Louisville. Ky.-H. C. Charles, of
Dixie. reported to detectives that he
lost $4,000 to two strangers who per
suaded him to bet on a sure thing"
horse race Charles said the strang-
ers left with the $4,000 to get the
winnings and never returned
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
Fair Association At Carlisle.

The Nicholas County Fair associa-
ton is TO be incorporated here at once
with a capital stock of $4,000, with
II. y. Rankin, w. II. Frey, +, r. Oar
nell, John NJ. Donnell b. 7. Henry,
of Carlisle; w. &. p. Ledford, OF Up
per Blue Lick Springs; J. NJ. Berry,
OF Moorefleld, and William ID. Mcln-
tire of Millersburg, as incorporators.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

talent in the newspaper game and is
the mainstay of the Interiol Journal
staff. Miss Emma Hays has been
with the Interior Journal for about
three years. and during that time she
has perfected herself in all depart.
ments, sometimes operating the limo.
type machine, as well as helping with
the makeup.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
County Assessments Fixed.

The state board of equalization in
creased the assessment OF Harlan
county five per cent on lands. The as
sessment of Knott and Knox counties
will remain the same as last year.
The board fixed the tentative assess
ment of Jefferson county at S2O4.ss0,-
500, the same as last year
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

My dear, ! told you that guest
brought home to dinner was a very
bashful man"
u know. but what of it?'
Nothing only you did go and put
your foot In It when you had sleeps
head hsh for dinner"
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
Puson Farm Lease is Approved.

AT meeting of the sinking fund
commission the lease of 400 acres on
the Glenn's Creek road from Mrs. Gil
bert Mastin to be used as a prison
farm in connection with the Frankfort
Reformatory was approved. The lease
is for two years at $4,000 year. with
an option TO purchase the land for
$50 the acre.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
NAMEsAkE is wILLEo FORTUNE

Maysville, Ky,-By the will OF Pres
ident M. C. Kirk. of the Germantown
Fair Co.. filed here for probate, he
leaves the major portion of his $4,000
estate. including 400 acres OF blue
grass land. to his cousin and name
sake, Morris G. Kirk. OF this city.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
Economy.

Don't you think it was extravagant
In Miss Noodles to buy an autOmO-
bile
No, indeed; she married a chaui-
seIr"
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Dr. Picrces Pleasant Pellets first put up
A. years ago. They regulate and inyigorate,
stomach. liver and bowels. Sugar-cUated
tiny granules. Adv.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Lexington, Ky.-The Elkhorn Coal
Co. organization at Mater, in the coal
fields of Letcher county, has been
completed by j. Henry Hall, S. l..
Basin and others. OF Lexington, with
capital OF $4,000. soon to be in
creased. the preliminary work on a
good-siEed coal mining plant having
been commenced on the Potter coal
land tract at Mater. The company will
give employment to 800 or 400 hands
per day and have an output of from
500 to 1000 cars per day. There will
be unusual activity throughout the
Letcher county coal field this spring
and summer
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17
BLUE GRASS NEWS NOTES

Louisville. Ky demanding so cents
an hour 100 Louisville painters quit
work.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Frankfort Ky.--The city council
passed an ordinance raising the saloon
license to $500. The ordinance pro
vides that the saloons shall close at
II p. m. and open at 6 a. N. After this
year the licenses will be limited to
one saloon for each 1000 population.
Jenkins, ky.-Representative John
w. Langley, of Kentucky, introduced
a bill appropriating $4,000 TO estab-
lish lat the mines. at or near Jenkins,
Ky, mine rescue station and la
ton for Analysing and testing Goals,
Ignite and other minerals and sub
stances"
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Lexington, Ky.--A jury found John
Bradley guilty under the Indictment
for involuntary manslaughter in re-
fusing to allow surgeons TO operate on
his wife. us a result Of which both his
wife and tborn child died, 1t fixed
his punishment at fine Of $50 and
costs and thirty days in Jail
Lexington, Ky,-Oscar Vest, of Car
rollton, whom nearly every public man
in Kentucky knows personally and
likes for his Seniality. having met him
at Frankfort, where for several years
past he has been one Of the officers
OF the Kentucky legislature, has as
sumed his duties as United States
deputy marshal for the Eastern Ken
lucky district Mr.. Vest has his head
quarters in the government building
in this city, and is feeling very much
at home in his new berth.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Hopkinsville, Ky.--The drys won by
a majority of II in the local option
election held at Pembroke.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Frankfort, Ky.-The Frankfort Gun
and Fish club has been organized with
a membership OF 40.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Bowling Green. Ky.--The Tri-Coun-
ty Medical society met here. 1t is com
posed Of physicians from Warren, Lo-
gan and Simpson counties
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Murray. Ky.-After a thorough in
yestigation it has been reported that
practically all the pears, peaches and
plums in this section were killed by
the recent cold wave.
Mountain advocate., 1914-04-17

Lexington. Ky.-William II. Settle,
formerly of Owen county. half-brother
Of the late Evan Z. Settle, former con
gresham from this district, was elect
ed city auditor by the city commits
sioners.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
PRESS OPINIONS
HOW NOT TO HAVE TYPHOID.
(Memphis Commercial-Appeal.)

(MemphlS Ommercial-Appeal.)
Typhoid is a filth disease and ought
to be eliminated.
People can become immunized from
typhoid by being vaccinted. There is
no doubt of the certainty of this pre-
ventive. But even if one is immuniZ-
tion that might bring about typhoid if
one were not proof against it.
The first thing to do is to see that
the water supply is pure. Those who
use Memphis artesian water need
have no fear on this account except
that they must watch to see that
there is no break in the plumbing IN
their house and no trash around
sinks.
If the water supply is pure the next
thing to do is to screen the house. A
fly can pick up typhoid germ or a
dozen of them in his feet and deposit
them on layer iced cake or molas-
ses.
A third thing to do is to watch the
milk supply. Vegetables should be
thoroughly washed and thoroughly
boiled. Vegetables such as lettuce
and radishes and those fruits which
are eaten without being cooked should
be very carefully washed.
! People do not eat as much canned
fruits or canned goods of any kind
in the summer, but it can be said for
canned stuff, when properly canned
by reliable and honest firms, that it is
sterilized and therefore free from:
germs. One must be careful, however
after opening can of vegetables OF
fruit, to see to it that no foreign sub
stance gets into the unused part.
If you have cistern water on you,
place in the city of Memphis, dom
drink it.
i If you 60 in swimming i'll Wolf riv.
] err or tank, don't swallow any
water.
! Keep your teeth clean and wasf
your hands thoroughly before eating
i Drink plenty of Memphis artesiar
J water, eat the simplest foods and yo'
} are not likely to have any sort o
trouble this summer.
You can drink half a gallon o
Memphis artesian water in an after
noon and it won't hurt you.
| IL yOu i've III TIC SouA1iy' "o'e'
the water supply. See to it that tn
J. spring has no vein running under tn
y stable lot.
See to it that the COWS are carefull
washed before they are MIXED. an
be mighty careful about WASHING
5 your own hands before milking.
81 Screen your house. You can screel
an ordinary country house for les
than SIS.
Don't overload your stomach wit
! an immense amount of food
II See to it that the flies are KEEP
away even from the OuthOuses.
Throw dust or lime over the ma
!, nure piles in the barnyards and stall
! and also be very careful about screen
4 ing lavatories.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
S,:;OO,0OO ILLITERATES.

1t is neither surprising nor especi-
ally discreditable that there are in
the United States 100000 persons
above ten years old who cannot read
or write. The great majority OF
these are native negroes. or Mexicans
past middle age, or recent imml
grants from backward countries and
provinces. They are not illiterate
fl ON choice.
Commissioner of Education ClaXton
ted the Industrial League Conference
iii New York that productive power
~culd be increased 800 each. OF
$40 100000 in all, if they could reat
and write. This might be an under,
estimate; who knows? supt. Maxwell
is right in saying that ignorance o.
English invites accident in factories
and great illiterate vote is intoler
able in republic.
There is little cause to worry abou
the second generation immigrant
These are actually fewer iiliterate'
among the children of immigrant'
than among the children of nativ'
whites, nor is there any lack o
capacity for culture among Greek
Russian, Italian and Southern Slav'
Children. But something ought to .
done for the adults.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30

OF wintergreen are added with the
required amount of sugar. 1t IS
then whipped into a dough and re-
moved to tables and kneaded IN
powdered sugar, rolled into sheets,
cut to desired sizes, wrapped by ma
chimes in attractive paper, packed in
to fancy boxes, and is then the chew
ing gum of commerce. 1t is estimate
ed that 300,0O0,O00 packages OF gum
are sold annually in the United States
each containing on an average .
pieces. These placed end to end
would extend distance Of ,7i,2o
miles, or nearly 2 IL times around
the world. If il their elastic state
they. were. stretched into t thread
onezsixteenth of an inch in diameter,
this thread, of gum would extendg,ta
distance Of 1859 miles, Or from
the. earth to the moon, wrap three
times around that satellite, and back
to Mother Earth again. If the physl-
cal energy used in chewing this
amount of gum could be reduced to
foot-pounds AID mechanically ap-
piled, it would furnish power be
side which that of Niagara Falls
would dwindle into insignificance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
INSURANCE X9izIIY5ZI3
|i||| ~ is 5

million poles may be said to hay'
st srcely commenced.
Real progress in the United states
dates from 1882, when the kyanlzlnt
process, using bichlorides of mercury
was developed. In 1897 two otne'
processes were introduced, the
burnett process using zinc chloride
and the Bethel process using coal tar
vreosote. These last processes are
very largely in uso today.
The idea of timber preservation al
first made very slow growth in TINS
country, on account of the large sup
ply of cheap and durable timbers and
the general disregard shown toward
&c onomy in the use of natural re-
sources. In 1885 there were only three
pressure plants in the United States;
and in 1895 only Is. Since then. how
ever, the industry has grown rapid
~: in 1918 there were 1T plants.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
.BIG BUSINESS" TACTICS MEAN
HOME.

lee manufacturers at Memphis
Saturday increased the price to the
the retail trade from 20 cents to 81
cents per hundred pounds. THIS
turning to trust tactics by the ice
men in the middle Of summer has
aroused storm Of protest in the
Tennessee city, the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal taking up n" battle
ior the people against the suspected
ccmbination. The Commercial Appeal
says:
:."If when there is a moderate de
mand for ice it can be manufactures
ard sold for a profit at 70 cents
hundred there is no reason why II
cannot be manufactured and sid fol
90 cents hundred when there Is /;
big demand, so long as til" output il
equal to the demand.
lice in the South is necessit!
eqhar almost to That OF water.
| rIt might be we'll to look into TIN
cost Of producing ice in Memr!i,s.
LIT can be produced and :csd a. y
cents a hundred with fai. degsce o
1 profit the companies should be com
PEELED to sell it at that.
Raising a commodity % .r cen
liz one sweep looks like nothing els
than Selling opportunity 10 gratii.
greed.
"The raising Of the price stimuli
taneously by more than one firm t
exactly the same figure very ncacl,
appros ehes an act Of conspiracy
which is forbidden under moder;
i anti trust law decisions.
i "The people might have Stood
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
100000 CHEW
GUM FROM MEXICO

How many people in the United
States chew gum? No accurate gov
crnmeatal statistics being available
q conservative estimate may place
the number at 1O,000,00O. dividing
them into two classes, the lnvetef-
ate or habitual chewers and the &C.
casional chewers. Under the latter
class may be placed school child
Zen, who are not permitted to che"
gam during study hours.
According to the census of 1910
ere were in the United States ~
1868 persons between the ages OF
6 and 20 years in the 4S states and
! the District of Columbia. Of this mum
| Der 17,300,Aot attended school, at
least occasionally, and may be class
| cd as potentially occasional cAeWers
leaving a balance of 10,450,395 as po'
tentially inveterate chewers of gum
/ ali under the age of 20 years. u
course, all of these may not have
Eeen gum-chewers; equally of course
ioveterate gum-chewers can not b'
confined to persons under the age o
20. These figures may be taken, how
ever, to show that the estimate o
| 10 900 600 inveterate cheWerS Is Ve.,
conservative.
The latest statistics published By
the department of commerce snow
that during the calendar year l9l
the United States imported l3,4Gl3l
hounds of chicle, valued at $o,1l9,3oC
pie in this country might be Creek
but it isn't. According to the pamph
lie. on Mexico recently issued by tn
,pan-American union at Washington
u. c., the word 'fchicle' is of Ate
origin, and is the name given to to
sap of the sapote tree. botannicall
known as the Sapota Iapotilla. |
this sap which is he basis of prac
tlcally all the chewing gum used II
the Ulited States.
The Aztecs of Mexico are said t
! have been the first gum-chewel
known on this, or for that matter
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
(BY A VETERAN.)

Then he proceeded to mount.
l have heard, though | will MOI
voach for it-for you can never be-
lieve any word that you hear in Mexi-
co-that he was seen some four
hours later staggering through the
northern suburbs, carrying the ex-
hausted chalere over his shoulder.
| personally took cab and told
the man to drive to the battlefield.
| After he had driven about two hours
we met the Mexican army.
It was resting under tree, and it
was smoking cigarette, and its rifle
was about twenty yards away from
ii resting against another tree, ana
if was very comfortable and quite
happy. l could have captured 1t anu
thereby ended the peaceful occupa-
ton" of Mexico, but | am d nol-com-
blatant, and the subject of neutral
power, so l only asked it where the
fighting was. 1t yawned and waved
its arm sleepily and said Qulen
sabe?" which is Mexican for How
the devil should l know" And tnen
it asked me if l had any news to
give it, or any cigars, or any money,
because it was very poor man.
gave it a ciga OF exceeding rank
ness, and it lighted it and became
very much more amiable, and ex-
planned to me, in so many words, tnat
it had not the vagues idea what al
the trouble was about, and had l.
Just then the cabman, who was
consumudly bored by the whole pro
ceedings and had just missed killing
a fly on the near end of the OIL
horse with his whip explained to me
that he would VANITY twenty pesos,
although he had originally agreed TO
take me for ten. l nate arguments.
Sc | gave the Mexican army fifty
cents Mexican, and asked him u
argue the matter for me, which lie
did to everybody's complete satislae
ton. Then he did his very best 10
explain to me where the man he hau
relieved had told him that passlhg
pcon had told him that his sister haa
a Young man friend who had every
reason to believe that the. flghtlhs.
was taking place. SO | drove on LOT
another hour or so, and ended in
marsh. and the cabman said that the
off horse was the son of an ahlln''i
that shall be nameless, so l dec!del
to let the fighting look after itself
end told him to drive back to the
military headquarters, at the corner
OF the Alameda. ~
AS to the owner of Margengo, ne
traded that worthy beast immedlate&
O., his return for sixteen little bags
Of Bull Durham tobacco, such as theE
nroyide in United States battlesAlpa
and is thoroughly satisfied VITA MS
bargain.