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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07
ooinq From Dan,

Mark Twain's best friend in his
Nevada days was another young
journalist called Dan de guile. One
day Mark and he had been for a
walk from Gold Hill down to Vir-
ginia City. All of a sudden Mark
said 'S'long," with a wave of mis-
hand, and started to leave his friend
"Where ye goin'. Sam?" asked
Dan. '.'
"Waal," remarked Mark in his
famous drawl, 81 guess I'll take a
run down to Beersheba. That's the
correct place to 60 when you leave
DAN"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

If you are feeling peeved and out
Of sorts, take a brisk walk. You
will feel better. If your brain is
overburdened and your mind is
sluggish, get in motion again, for
your legs are good doctors. A brisk
walk exercises the dormant muscles,
stimulates the circulation Of blood
and brightens the mind. 1t is good
for good people and better for the
bad ones. It is all to the good.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

There is only one place in this
community where the investment of
a dollar will bring you hundred
per cent. on your money. A dollar
invested in a subscription to this
paper will open the gate to so many
opportunities that the returns will
multiply until your income is many
times the outlay. Take whirl at
a hundred per.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07
HIS ADVANTAGE

lawyer say, doctor, why are
you always running us lawyers
down."
Doctor (dryly)-Well, your pro-
fession doesn't make angels OF
men, does it?
Lawyer-Why no; you certainly
have the advantage of us there,
Observation-Disclosures Record.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

would your mother be angry If
l stole kiss ?" said the young man
on the sofa.
"why don't you look her up and
try itf" said the sweet young thing
coyly.--Yonkers Statesman.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

Stop a minute. Go to a glass.
Smile; and you are a better mando
Smile! And you are a better and
happier man than you were before.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

AS incontrovertible evidence of
the strict neutrality of this paper,
well take your dollar and never ask
you if you be English, German,
French, Austrian, Russian, Italian,
Belgian, Jap, Turk or the devil.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

This war will be a godsend to
American heiresses. The crop of
impoverished noblemen will be quite
sufficient to go round.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

In this country we make strenu-
GUS efforts to grow two blades Of
grass where but one has grown be-
fore, while in Germany they are
growing hills Of potatoes where none
have ever been before. Let's swap.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

We never kick at the fellow who
does not measure up to our stand
ard. Not all people can be expected
to attain our high degree of wisdom.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

Conventional love is easily led
passion requires bride and sure
seat in the saddle if one would have
possession.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07
AN EPITAPH

To let the world say Of you:
''He never did deceive,
And when / told him I was tru,
He struggled to believe me-"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

We told pestiferous idler to go
to the devil the other day, and the
addle pated shrimp had the nerve
to plank himself right down by our
side.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

Prosperity makes you pay for it
just like you pay for trouble; so
watch out, and keep on Prosperity's
good side.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

No, the pot is not simmering in
Mexico. The darned thing has melt
ed. ..........
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

Do not overeat. 1t is distressing
to the stomach and the pocket
book.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

A tight shoe is better than /;
eight" head.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-07-07

When you speak good word for
your town you speak two for your
self.
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GERMAN LOSS GREAT
FRENCH CLAIM KAISER LOST. 3d.
600 MEN DURING PAST 20
DAYS BATTLE.
IN THE CHAMPAGNE COUNTRY
Their Repeated Attacks to Regain Lost
Ground Caused Heaviest Loss
Germans Bringing Up New
Troops to Front.

Chalons-Sur-Marne, France March
28.-Eleven thousand German dead
have been taken from the trenches
won by the French during 20 days of
fighting in the Champagne country.
The German losses in killed, pris-
oners and wounded are estimated by
the French military authorities as So
900. The German wastage, they say,
has been two to one compared with
the French losses, because the Ger
mans would try to regain lost ground
by counter attacks repeated again and
again with obstinate courage.
1t was in these counter assaults, sup.
ported by relatively inadequate artil
lery and what the French officers as.
sert was inadequate morale, against
the allied troops that so many German
soldiers have fallen. The graves in
which they are buried by fifties and by
hundreds are thick upon a narrow
front of Is miles.
For nearly a month now the French
their officers declare, by the superb
GRITTY Of their artillery of both large
and small calibre and by a certain if
resistible spirit have day by day
gained ground sometimes a few hun
dred yards of trenches; on other days
a mile of frontage and from 300 to 900
yads deep.
The Germans are bringing up new
contingents steadily. They have hat
in action on this segment of the fight
ing lines during March five army
corps, or about 200, 900 men. Yet, OF
the evening of every day, the French
officers assert that the French have
held somewhat more of the field thar
they did the evening before.
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General Trade Conditions.

Dun's says: From every part OF
the country the reports are of trade
improvement, which, though slow and
conservative, serves to reduce the
margin of deficiency in production and
demand and to bring the volume OF
transactions close to normal. Pros
poets of an early spring promote re
tail distribution and stimulate the
movement of lumber and other build
ing materials, with promising indica-
lions of more general construction
work. Activity in shipyards continues
The iron and steel trade fairly main
tains its recent rate of gain.
Business conditions in this country
are remarkably good, considering the
fact that the whole world is in a tur'
MOL, and the war in Europe is in
~creasing in violence.
Bank clearings for the week aggre
gate 3d. ,726, 731, a loss Of SIS pei
cent from the same week last year
and 6.3 per cent from the correspond
ing week in 1913.
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N. ". M|NED WDENDS
FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THIS
YEAR SHOWS CONSIDER
ABLE INCREASE.
PRODUCERSIN INLAND EMPIRE
The Hercules Mine at Burke, Idaho,
Leads the List With 100000 to
The Good-only One 3. C. Prop
erty on Paying List.

Inland Empire mining companies
during the first three months of 1915
have paid stockholders $~1,392,386 in
produced not less than $~5,569,544 of
dividends, according to official reports.
This is not to exceed 25 per cent of
gross profits, which means they have
new wealth, the other rs per cent hav-
ing been expended for labor, material
and supplies.
The Hercules heads the list with
$500, 900, having been producing at the
rate of 100000 a month net, accord
ing to estimates of men closely in
touch with its operations, and the Bun
ker Hill and Sullivan is second with
$245, 250, having paid three monthly
dividends of 25 cents the share, or
$81,750 each. Caledonia has contrib.
uted three monthly payments of $751;.
100 each, making $156,300 for the quar-.
ter, and Stewart has disbursed its reg
ular quarterly dividend Of 10 cents
a share, or $123, 836. The Federal com.
pany has paid a quarterly declaration
of 81 a share, or $4,000, on outstand'
ing preferred stock, and Hecla has
paid three monthly instalments OF
$4,000 each.
The only British Columbia mine to
pay profits to it's owners for the cur
rem quarter is the Canadian Consoli
dated, which distributed So per share
or SILT ,000.
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days warriors used to cross the Tigris
even in heavy armor, by swimming
on inflated goat skins; but ! had nc
idea that the practice still survived
So was astonished on arriving at the
river bank to see ar old man walk
calmly down to the waters edge, blow
UP a goat skin which had hung over
his shoulder, wade out into the river
waist deep and then lie down on the
inflated skin and begin to paddle leis-
urely across. While | still watched
him, two women came down, carrying
skins, already blown up, and followed
the old mans course across the Tigris;
somehow they seemed to keep the
bobbing skins easily balanced under
their bodies, and thus supported swan
slowly, without firing.
MosuI Washerwomen.
And all up and down the river banks
were hundreds of round-limbed Kurd-
ish women washing clothes. There
must have been half a thousand, all
shouting, plunging and wringing a null
titude of garments. With skirts tucked
mgr ABOVE tuSlT hu6eS anu uO sign Vi
yashmak or veil, they were a noisy,
easy-going set, dispelling the illusion
that in the East all women are Sc
cluded OF eternally draped from head
to foot.
Long strings Of pack donkeys,
driven by noisy, swearing Kurdish
muleteers, came down to the river to
drink, and fusillades of j~ocular abuse
passed between these ruffians and the
washerwomen. Higher up the river
bank, and all along the waterfront
ran a long row of coffee shops, dance
halls and other resorts. Till late a
night these places are running full
blast, the din of tomtoms, native fd
dies and the harsh voices of the paint
ed women who dance and sing, makini
amusement for the men of Mosul. The.
like excitement, these Kurds an
Arabs, and crude and amateurish a
their methods seem to US, they hav,
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SPORTING ITEMS

The Coast league started Tuesday
of this week.
Bert Fisher has been elected mana
ger Of the Standpoint baseball team.
Washington State college won the
trophy in Glass A of the i~ntercollegi-
ate rifle competition.
Gunboat Smith took an easy victory
in a 1O-round bout with Jack Reed of
Akron, Ohio, Saturday.
w. S. c. came from behind Saturday
and won the hard-fought wrestling
meet from o. A. G. by 10 to 8 points.
Francis Ouimet and Jerome D. Ira
vers are rated at scratch in the United
States Golf association handicap list
1t is planned to have a big attend
ance of o~ut-of-town fans at the open.
ing of the ball season at Spokane
June 20.
Havana is engrossed in discussion
of the big fight to be staged there or
Monday, April 3, when Jack johnson
will defend his title as heavyweight
champion against Jess Willard.
Vincent C"Nig') Borleske, formel
star Whitman athlete, now coach al
Lincoln high school of Portland, has
been jointly selected by the collegt
trustees and associated students as
athletic director, coach and graduate
manager of athletics at Whitman col
lege.
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BREVITIES S.

Immediately following the decision
of the federal district court at Boston
that the governments suit to dissolve
the United Shoe Machinery Co. as an
unlawful monopoly under the Sherman
antitrust act was not sustained Uni
ted States District Attorney George w.
Anderson started preparations for an
appeal in case the department of jus
tice decides to take such a step.
Appointment of a trade committee
to promote cooperation between bust
ness and the new federal trade com
mission has been announced by the di,
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States. The personnel
or the committee follows: Harry E.
Wheeler, chairman, banker, Chicago;
Alfred B. Koch, merchant, Toledo,
Ohio; Rush G. Butler, lawyer, Chi
cago; w. l.. Saunders, manufacturer,
New York; Harry R. Seager, professor
of political economy, Columbia uni
versity; Alexander w. Smith, lawyer.
Atlanta, Ca; Joseph P. Cotton, lawyer,
New York; w. G. White, mining ex-
pert, University of West Virginia.
Joseph e. Davies, retiring commits
sioner of the U. S. bureau of corpora
tions, elected chairman of the new fed.
eral trade commission. Edward N,
Hurley of Chicago will be vice chair
man for the first year. The commits
sion has under consideration the plan
of the interstate commerce commits
sion to elect from it's membership by
rotation a new chairman for each
year, that friction might be avoided.
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STOCK AND CROP NOTES.

William T. Hooker of Charleston,
Wash, will this spring plant five
acres to English walnuts, he having
become interested in the raising Of
the nuts by his observation of some
trees planted for shade on his Clarks-
ton property. He found they needed
little if any attention after planting,
were not infested with pests, as is the
case with fruit trees, and at the age of
seven to nine years were in full bear
ing.
A permanent organization of the
Oregon Hop Growers association was
effected at a meeting attended by 300
growers at Salem. More than 500
growers, or approximately 60 per cent
of the persons engaged in the hop
producing business in the state, were
represented. 1t was announced that
$4,000 of the 100000 capital stock OF
the association had been subscribed
and the acreage represented as about
IL, coo. The estimated total acreage is
10000.
E. l.. dwell, who operates a grain
warehouse at Coulee City, Wash, and
is an extensive wheat grower, in the
city, this week, speaking of crop con
ditions, said: "The wheat acreage il
the Big Bend country will be fully q
per cent greater this year than last
and spring seeding is now under way
About 40 per cent of the acreage is il
winter wheat, which never looked bet
ter at this seaso of the year. Farm
ers are optimistic, as with good prices
and a promising outlook for a larg'
crop they feel that prospects are bet
ter for them. We are sowing blue
stem wheat"
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animals, and around the edge of this
platform run a mud manger. from
which the beasts are fed
These historic caravanserais form
one of the most picturesque features
of middle eastern life. No traveller,
from Marco Polo down to date, has
crossed Mesopotamia without record
ing his impression of the u~nspeakably
filthy and noisy "khans."
Naomi and His Sisters.
Next morning early Naomi and left
the pesthouse that had sheltered us,
and started out afoot to do Mosul. Ma
omi hunted up his Telkafi relatives,
whom he had not seen for many years,
and of course the master then became
the servants guest, for a few hours
at least. We ate preserved sweets,
pistachio nuts, mama, nougat, and
many such delicacies for which Mosul
is noted; we drank sweetened rose
water and smoked countless cigarettes,
and l gave away to these curious, pry-
ing, but polite people all the secrets
of my family for three generations
back.
Naomi's numerous sisters, unveiled
and good to look at. came shyly out
and sat cross-legged on the rug ne
placed for them at a proper distance
from me. Being native Christians,
they could show their faces without
being disgraced. They wore baggy
blue trousers long Mother Hubbard
gowns of some dark color, yellow
stockings and fancy slippers all GOV
cred with beads. Their big brown
eyes gazed steadily at me with thai
luster that is bought in western worlds
at the price of ~belladonna, and theil
white teeth glistened in beautiful per
fection-in a land where no dentifrict
was aver e
From the main bazaar ] wandered
ON through the town, followed by thu
usual crowd of curious Arabs ant
Kurds, and then continued on my wall
toward the river. And here behel'
an odd spectacle.
/ had read that in early Assyrial
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1915-04-02
MINING NEWS

On April 1 one of the Oldest mining
shafts in Butte, the ]. l. c., belonging
to the Anaconda Copper Mining com
pany, closed down permanently.
As a result of the success of the
new process in recovering the great
per cent of values, the United Copper
Co., of Chewelah, Wash, has decided
to increase the capacity of the mill
sufficient to handle the mines output.
Negotiations are now being made for
an additional 50-stamp plant, which
will more than treble the capacity and
daily output.
Reports received from Wallace,
Idaho, state that an important strike
has been made in the Reindeer-C Copper
Queen mine, in the Mullan copper belt,
the announcement having been made
by e. B. Crawford, president and gen.
eral manager of the Reindeer-C Copper
Queen Co. President Crawford is
credited with saying that the vein at
the point of exposure is IA feet wide,
of which three feet is shipping ore,
running from 20 to "a per cent copper,
and the remainder a good grade OF
millfeed. The strike was made at 90C
feet depth, in a %1000-foot drift from
the main tunnel.
The CRANKY Mining & Smelling
Co., with mines at Phoenix and Hid
den Creek, B. c., and in Alaska, and
shelters at Grand Forks and Anyox
B. c., earned $4,000 net in January
according to reports from New York
The total output was 2,170,139 pounds
of blister copper, 31,276 ounces OF sill
yer and 1925 ounces of gold. The cop
per production in December was 1915,
$50 pounds. The segregated report
shows that the Anyox plant produced
1,304,353 pounds of blister copper, 10,
O53 ounces of silver and SOC ounces o.
gold, and the output of the Crane
Forks smelter was 775,786 pounds O.
blister copper, 1929 ounces OF silver
and 2O19 ounces of gold.
New York Metal Market.
Lead-Steady; $4.1O@4.2o; speltel
nominal.
Copper-Firm; electrolytic, $15.50@
1875; casting, $15@15.50, nominal.
Iron steady; No. 1 northern, $14.25Q
1850; No. 2, $14@14.50; No. ! south
ern, $13.75@14.25.
Tin-Dull and nominal; fve-tol
lots, $42@48.
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"A knocker,

When the Creator had made all the
good things, there was still some dirty
work to do, SO He made the beasts
and reptiles and poisonous insects, and
when he finished He had some scraps
that were too bad to put into the Rat
tlesnake, and Hyena, the Scorpion and
the Skunk, so He put all these to.
gether, covered it with suspicion,
wrapped it with jealousy, marked il
with a yellow streak, and called it a
KNOCKER.
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A Booster.

This product was so fearful to con
template that He had to make some
thing to counteract it, SO He took a
sunbeam and put in it the heart of a
child, the brain of a man, wrapped
these in civic pride, covered it with
brotherly love, gave it a mask of vel.
vet and a grasp of steel, and called ii
a BOOSTER; made him a lover OF
fields and flowers and manly sports, q
believer in equality and justice, and
ever since these two were, morta
man has had the privilege of CHOOSING
his MISUNDERSTANDING Ad Club Bull
letin.
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u "a to stand al Jonah's tomb and
see Arabs worship him as a
saint, writes Frederick Sisupich in the
Los Angeles Times.
The famous old prophet who rode in
the fish is buried at Mosul, in far-off
Mesopotamia. Mosul itself, from which
our word muslin" came, stands on the
foaming Tigris opposite old Nineveh.
And acre is a sketch of what life is
like today in the town where Jonah
rests.
1t is a dirty, crowded town, is Mosul,
With $4,000 people jammed inside It's
medieval walls It's narrow, warped
streets are no more than crooked al
leys that wander aimlessly through
the t~own-dusty in summer and seas
of mud in winter. So narrow are these
passages that two loaded donkeys, if
they chance to meet, cannot pass till
one donkey has been backed into a
doorway.
Mosul's houses are Moorish style
two stories, few windows, an open
court inside and fiat roofs with para
pets-so that the family may sleep on
the roof in summer. The main door to
each house is a huge affair, studded
with great bolts and barred at night
like the gate to a fortress-suggesting
The old days of Mongol invasions.
To accommodate its important cara
van trade, Mosul has built up many
caravanserais, or ''resthouses." With
Naomi, my Bagdad boy, l spent my frs
night at Mosul in n of these singu
lar khans, as the natives call them
The khan is a sort of compound OF
stockade of mud walls, without a roof
Around the inside of the walls runs
row of little cells, to which travellers
are assigned.
In the middle Of the Enclosure is {
great platform, on which are piled thu
bales of freight taken from the pacl
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IN A r1oSuL COFFEE House.

never seen anything better and hence
are pleased.
Over Odd Bridge to Jonah's Tomb.
A unique bridge spans the Tigris at
Mosul for which a parallel cannot
be found anywhere in the world. 1t
is built partly of masonry, partly Of
wood, and for some distance is of the
pontoon type. First comes a 100-foot
stretch of masonry pier, then a bridge
of boats 400 feet long and crossing the
main channel; then comes another
! stone pier of $50 feet, leading to an
800-foot stretch of brick arches, fol-
lowed at last by another stone pier
nearly 200 feet long. 1t seems as II
the builders changed their minds sev.
eral times before finishing the odd
structure.
, 1t is across this bridge that one
goes to explore Nineveh, where Botta
and Layard made their sensational
discoveries so years ago The whole
dry, brown plain about <Mosul Is o
vast forest of ancient mounds, thick
with signs of long-forgotten inhabi.
tants.
Ninevah is not eve a memory with
the wild, ignorant tribes who roam the
desert of old Assyria. At n edge OF
it's ruins stands the little village OF
"Nebi Yunus," and the reputed tomb
of Jonah. The identity of Jonah
seems alone preserved-and he was
one of the least in his day.
At night l walked back to Mosul.
l looked back once, and the setting
sun was reflected from the dome OF
Jonah's tomb. What fame this man
won, by riding in a fish! S~ennacherit
is forgotten, but all the natives know
"Yunus" and the tale of the big fish
On the morning of the Great Day, 10
nah may be put in the dock with Doc
tor Cook. But for the present, .h'
people are with him and he wears hil
medals unchallenged.
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Denies War Pact With Italy.

Rome.-The Osservatore Romano,
the Vatican organ, published an off
cial statement Monday denying that
any negotiations had taken place or
that an accord existed between the
holy see and the Italian government
regarding the position in case of war
OF the diplomatic body accredited to
the Vatican.
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Epidemic in Serbia.

Serbia is in the grip of an cpl
demic of typhus more virulent and at
tended by greater fatality than the
world in modern times has ever been
called on to combat, according to
Henry James, Jr., of the war relief
commission of the Rockefeller founda
ton, who has just arrived in New
York on the steamer Lusitania from
Liverpool.