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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-12-08

services we, the patriotic citizens Of
this district, extent to them oul
sincere thanks and highest and best
regards, hoping that they may con-
tinue in the good work which they
have chosen and are so able and
capable to perform, and which viii
be a lasting monument to their
memory many year. after they
have crossed the Ri, II OF Time to
the Great Beyond. Now we also
want to thank our able and efficient
County Attorney, Mr.. E. w. Senf,
and Judge W, o. Chenault for their
untiring efforts and the kind and
careful consideration which they
have given this matter, also our
Fiscal Court. Every one of you
who voted for this pike we feel we
owe you a debt Of gratitude which
we can never pay, and we are not
mad at those who voted against it;
we hope that they now feel and real
ize that we needed it and are init
tied to it. We are poor indeed, bat
there is a cause. We are proud of
our large taxpayers OF this county,
and really don't want to saddle any
unnecessary tax on them for our
benefit, but we feel that this will
be a help to them, as most of them
are farmers and stock raisers and
the most of the cattle and other
stock that supply Mt. Sterling come
over this pike.
1--WE invite you to come out to
Jacksonville in your nice sutomo-
bile and meet the droves and pick
out the incest and the first Of the
hoeks as they stand IN the fields,
from here to above the Slate bridge,
and If you haven't an auto just get
in that little Ford and come. You
don't know how smooth they glide
over our new pike and we are al
ways glad to see you, and if pos
sible help you TO enjoy yourself.
We realize to some extent what joy
and satisfaction there is IN money.
II man has made money for him
self and family through his own in
dustry, he and his family have
the night TO be proud Of him, bat
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-12-08
ARE PLEASED
With Pike
Citizens of District in Which Pike
Is Constructed are Well Sat-
isfied.

We are in receipt Of the follow
ing letter regarding the new turn
pike which is nearing completion
near JeffersOnVille, this county.
This pike was constructed by the
county with state aid and as to
how well the people in the section
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-12-08
JOB WORK

Bring your job work to the Ad-
vocate office.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-12-08
and prosperous New Year, we are
Very respectfully yours,
C. M. Brown and others.
At Home

DIR. W. B. Tnplett, Osteopath, Of
fee in Jordan Building. Residence
phone $50. Office phone 2s7. 16-tf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29

reconstructed reactionists. We are Of
the opinion that his nomination would
fail to reunite the party. Progressive
republicans have not forgotten the fact
that Root trained with the "old guard
They have not forgotten that he more
than any other man forced the re-.
nomination Of Taft thereby showing
that, with ala his strength he was
either incapable of perceiving the de-
mands Of the people. or was Indifferent
as to what they desired and deter
mined to override it. He stood for the
things which the people repudiated at
the following election. and we have no
reason to think that he has in any re-
spect changed his attitude as to the is
sues then pending and which are still
the leading things under discussion.
Because of these facts it is a foregone
conclusion that thousands of republic
cans would refuse to vote for him.
while the number OF those who would
prefer that. the democratic blunder
regime should be continued rather than
that the risk of a reactionary republic
can administration should be taken is
uncertain.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
loWA's FIGHTING cHRhcE.

The Cherokee Times points out tina,
those who imagined the Cummins
candidacy for the presidency hadn't
sufficient vitality TO carry it thru the
preliminary campaign are awakening to
the fact that the senator is going to be
a factor in the race.
Iowa seems to be awakening 10 that
fact. The Iowa candidate is growing
in consideration Of the country every
day. The reports that come back into
Iowa OF the high consideration in
which Iowa's candidate is held from
coast 10 coast is beginning to stir
Iowa INTO action.
The little that has been done in favor
of che Iowa candidacy has already put
the Iowa candidate in prominent
position among those receiving the
most consideration for the nomination.
1t IS safe TO assume that when Iowa
analy takes of her coat and begins
active operations that the Cumra:ns
candidacy viii become formidable. Il,
IS the fighting chance that wins and
the courage TO fight such chance 10 a
finish.
That is what Iowa needs now. Iowans
behind an Iowa candidate, faithfully.
steadfastly and courageously. 1t is
loWa's fighting chance for the nominal
ton. Let's fight
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
THE CURL PAPER.

The curl paper is neat little de-
vice which is used to test the love OF
young husbands who have never seen
one. Its mission is to put a series Of
dainty kinks in hair which otherwise
would straighten out like a short man
In six-foot tub.
Some very wierd and horrifying eff
fects can be produced by the curl
paper, when applied with reckless
abandon and strung in thick clusters
from the back Of the neck to the eye
brows Many a confiding bridegroom
has had his trust in human nature
almost wrecked by the sight Of col
lection of bristling curl papers sprawl
ing upon the landscape with out
stretched antennae. ready to resent the
good night kiss with jab in the left
eye. If the truth were known, II would
probably be found that most Of our di-
vorces spring from this form of cruel
and inhunan treatment.
Some curl papers are made OF long
strips of sole leather. around which
the hair Is twisted in an enticfng
spiral effect. something like cucum :
Der vine after a hard frost. Women
Who have tried all kinds OF hair curl
ers say that this is the most satisfac-
tory. as it leaves the hair stin attached
to the head with a succession OF
sprightly bumps and natural water
falls. which will not wear off Until the
following afternoon in an altitude r.
0e0 feet above sea level
Despite the attractive properties OF
the curl paper. some women cling to
that deadly instrument known as the
curling iron. which Is usually left sus-
pended in helpless attitude from the
chimney of kerosene lamp. This
~ eapon Is responsible for more burns
hlis,ers and court plaster than the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
THOSE consusI1Y CHRIST Masses.

The community Christmas tree and
general celebration of Christmas time
as a community function is growing in
popularity. Marshalltown did it and
oid it well and other Iowa towns are
finding 1t good. A considerable mum.
Der of Iowa towns have decided IN doc
crate their streets, raise big community
trees and in other ways celebrate
CHRISTMAS week as communities and
many towns are urging the question
whether or not the community Christ
mas celebration is worth while.
IL Is worth while. No town in Iowa
has more successfully conduc-ad s,,cb
reservations than Marshalltown and if
has proved successful from different
angles 1t costs little money. bue i,
is worth while One noticeable fact
all thru life is that things that are
worth while cost time and effort and
money. And the Christmas celebration
is worth all it costs.
Il cuIuvates fine community spirit.
When some objector suggests that the
money thus spent might better be given
to the poor. little attention need he
given that objection; for the commun.
ity Christmas is one of the certain in
cenrves toward caring for the poor and
desolate. Where the community Christ.
mas exists the charity funds are all
ways larger and given more freely.
That has been true in Marshailtown
where the Good Fellows found quicker
appeal because Of the awakened com.
muniry spirit in the community Christ.
mas and where individual charity and
succor were stimulated by the general
revival OF Christmas feeling The
poor fare best always when the com
munity arouses TO it's existence as a
community. Don't listen to him. He is
| mistaken. And 1t is not uncommon that
the objector is Of those least inclined
! to individual or public charitableness
| The Christmas celebration makes a
man proud of his town, if it is done In
| llie IISuL spirit anu zone Well. i ne
average citizen Is intensely patriotic
| He loves TO see his town dressed up II
gives the town a festal appearance
| which matches the spirit of those who
come to town. They like the town bet
| ter for it. And it brings community
! of purpose and action among the citi-
zens of the town that is a prophecy Of
/ other and perhaps greater things to be
done by the community as commun.
ity.
The towns that make Christmas" a.
towns. that celebrate the week as {
beautiful holiday. that bring out tn,
Ischool children to sing Noel and trim
the streets with greenery, win hav,
nothing to regret when they have done
unless that they didn't do it even bet
ter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
ITS HAPPENING IN BUSINESS.

Nearly every prospect seems to
please the trade journals and year
that started under a cloud Of uncer-
tainty or depression is ending with
productive energies moving at high
speel. Last weeks reports, rejecting
as they do cumulative growth in trade
and industry, display marked degree
of snap, the situation in general be-
ing the best noted for long time
past. Misgivings as to the immediate
future are negligible, in the leading in
dustries operations are being pushed
to the utmost, labor is scarcer, pay
rolls are heavier, anu a. peii of coid
weather, plus the increased spending
power Of the masses. has wrought
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
CATCH THE ROGUES.
TAckIey World


Did you ever buy an all wool suit
Of clothes" that turned out to be all
cotton?
There is deception in every day life;
the biggest crooks seldom circulate as
such; men Of purpose as the saying
is, usually garb themselves in the soft
est and most "gentlemanly" habili-
ments-They're laying for suckers
and easy marks" Not SO long ago
financiers were selling tallow for pure
country butter" cheese was made with
filler; leather goods has been dis
covered as merely hard pressed paper
Some clever butchers will mix UP a
hundred pounds of water into 100
pound batch of bologna sausage and
sell it Gile water inciuded) at Is cents
a pound. Why discriminate? Catch
the rogues and rascals. The biggest
are those who claim piety. The Smooth
ducks" know their game.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
T1MEsREPUBIIcAN MARsHALLTowN. NOVEMBER

born and began az farm hand. The
only queer thing about 1t all in Iowa
where anybody can acquire wealth by
thrift and labor, is that man who
could make 100000 hadn't the inclina-
ton and pluck to learn to read news
paper and sign his own name.
Funny thing isn't it? Neither Jack
Dalton nor Tom Purcell with their
nineteen children seems to be overly
stuck on Roosevelt.
Billy Jameson, formerly congress-
man from the Eighth, has been APP
pointed postmaster at Shenandoah.
Thrifty Bill: if he can't be congress-
man he solaces himself with what he
can have. And that's as philosophical
as Socrates
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29

we'll and folks were Away, chasing. asking to
SELL They offered fancy prices and dogged every
place and slices Of in my face
.I keep my nifty charger" said He's not for sale.
though larger still and larger you make your rolls of
kale I'll put price him. nor value him In
bones treasure him. doggone him, far more than pre-
cious stones" At last persuaded to buy motor
cart in which have paraded around the busy mart
ead 'In pony, for steeds are out OF date ana
thought that m any buyer would hustle to my door
and bid the price up than eer before But
MT an eager duner came round put Ice. and no
one seemed to suffer for at price No person
wished to cop him bargain counter rates and 30
had IN swap him for rusty roller skates And In my
mind ha. aunted thought until it's stale: thing
:. .eldon, wanted, unless it's not for sale.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
THE HAZARDS OF FOOTBALL.
Iowa City Republican.


Every season at this time of year
one used TO read much about the
perils of football There was chorus
OK attack on the slaughter OF our cor
lege and high school innocents The
game was denounced as merely beefy
and brutal
One scarcely sees a line OF that this
fall. Yet there are always about the
usual number OF football accidents.
In spite OF attempts TO open up the
play, it Will always be game for
strong boys. capable of giving and
taking hard knocks.
Perhaps the European war has
made US Indifferent 10 the chances of
death and accident lying all around
US With thousands dying daily in
the trenches. the sacrifice of a few
tacslers and quarterbacks seems a
mere incident. The intimate circle
of friends may be indignant but no
popular feeling is aroused.
The long story of automobile acct
dents every day may be factor With
father and mother doing forty miles
an hour out on the motor road, they
can't say much about the son who
risks having his spine snapped by a
rough tackle.
Swimming causes hundred times
more fatalities than football But nc
one ever started crusade against
water sports.
The American people are a nation
of chance takers: They hate TO quit
on anything on which their heart be-
comes set, and only in their cooler
| moments do they weigh chances. They
dislike to admit in public that they are
afraid of anything.
/ They would live just as happily II
I, they formed the daily habit of taking
more careful precautions. Swimming
| by beginners at least, could be pro.
| tected by having regular provision Of
| life guards. The motor roads could
be made comparatively safe by q
drastic enforcement Of existing laws
; Football might be remodeled into the
game as played in England where &C.
| cidents are comparatively few.
But efforts for such precautions are
contrary to the national temperament
People who never had a serious &C.
tcident are sustained by the cheerful
optimism that nothing every will hap.
pen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
Topics of the Times

Whether or not Mr.. Ford gets the
ear of the kings and kaisers he can
afford it and il will be fine trip for
those who go along.
The publicity department OF the
Liquor Dealers Association publishes
that prohibition states face enormous
deficits Perhaps it refers to the
deficit Of drunkards and the like or the
shortage in the distillery receipts.
1t might be that Mr.. Ford could get
farther with that $1,000, 900 by build
ing good roads in America with it than
by using it in leading forlorn hope
across the water.
Mr.. Bryan's silence is ominous that
he is busy loading bombs for the VIII
son administration. And MI. B. has
considerable repute as a handler OF
high political explosives.
One British cavalryman proudly
claims a record for shooting Turks,
having "sniped" ninety-one up to date
during the open sea son at the Daroa-
nelles. He keeps the record by notches
on his telescroped rifle. And it's only
four weeks to Christmas.
The Rainsberger brothers, lately pa
rolled from prison. have lost an eighty
acre farm bequeathed TO them by theil
sister, in a lawsuit Just decided. How
ever, they had plenty to be thankful
for the other day whether there wasnt
a turkey or a foot Of land in sight
Those boys who won the trip to tn
Panama exposition with their acres d
corn may not have been IN the lime
| light as much as the fellow who made
| the touchdown but
| A Harlan man vino roS!a rAsthe
read nor write has recently. died leav
ing . 91otAo0 estate. He was foreigl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
WARNS THE FARMERS.
IHopkinton Leader.l

A cooperative retail company is
being organized at Monticello, to be
one OF e chain Of stores. Farmers are
solicited to become stockholders under
the representation that there is great
profit in the business and that they Will
be able. to buy their supplies at the
lowest possible figures and save money.
Farmers should make it point to in
vestigate such propositions with de-
Liberation There can be no great profit
and large savir gs in any business.
Those who can look back OF the era OF
the granger stores and elevators will
recall that many farmers went bank
rupt because of the obligations they
assumed in promoting those co-opera-
tive organizations. The farmer who
gets into friendly and cooperative re-
lations with his local merchant may
be certain that he will never be
mulcted Of an undue profit in any
transaction. and he will be relieved OF
the manifold hazards that accompany
every commercial enterprise. There Is
always a certain liability that goes
with the ownership Of every share Of
Autographed stock.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
The Hieksyv;iIs Clarion.

Ezra Hand has resigned the position
of town constitute after having three
nickel plated stars stolen DIN his coat
while asleep In front OF the livery
stable.
Squire stubbs set on case al las.
veei< said case being case Of dried
herring in front OF Tibbftt's grocery.
Grandma whipple, who is aging very
rapidly. is not able to do much heavy
work ut this writing, and has had 70
have some help in moving the strand
piano in the opry house where she 10
stage carpenter. Grandma expects to
celebrate her s3d birthday next week.
Elmer Sphinx says the trouble Win
white socks IS that felior has TO
change .em every week. Keeping up
the styles b expensive.
Grandma Bibbins IL 80 deaf that ne
can't hear . word that you want him
to.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29

with red-hot curling iron and guild
ing 1t swiftly around her right ear,
while conversing nonchalantly about
the price of pattern hats. There ought
to be law in this country prohibits
ing wives from branding themselves
ever and anon with this vindicttve de-
vice, and there would be II congress
were not SO busy collecting twenty
cent mileage both ways from the
union station.
However. II must be admitted that
the curl paper is a great beautifier,
after it has released its hold and
SUNK into the chiffonier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
BETTER FOR EVERYBODY"
Manchester PresS.J

a lot of sott-headed sentimentalists
are raYing over the death OF defec-
tive baby in a Chicago hospital The
child's life could have been saved by
an operation, but IL would have been a
hopeless idiot and the physicians in
charge recommended that It be allowed
TO die. In this they had the consent OF
the mother, who rightfuliy preferred
to lose the child rather than subject
it to such life as was in prospect for
it. And Yet bunch Of mawkish. pulp
Drained reformsrs are yapping with
flowing tear ducts over this judicial
murder" Far better for the child. far
better for the mother. far better for
society, but these vagarists prefer, we
presume, 10 populate the earth with
detectives
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
And her little freaks Of fancy
a Hint to Them.

A man whose beautiful grounds were
often visited by the public had an old
gardener who was in the habit OF
showing parties round the beds. At
such times he would, in hurried, CAB
bling voice. explain tie names to the
visitors.
When nearing the exit gate he would
however, suddenly pause and draw
special attention to pretty cluster OF
modest posies, and then, in a signifi-
cant tone of voice. exclaim:
These. ladies and gentlemen, are
for get me nots."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
Individual Respo visibility.

from Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem
Brand Translated by Ole o. Lien.
What will be our chance to pay?
Where must we take up our station
In the guilty generation
On the final judgment day.
Whist a court and what a trial
None to enter denial;
For no man a word can say.
All delinQuents-no defender;
For not one his guilt can hide:
None TO plead for mercy tender
All the verdict must abide.
VIII the judge accept the plea:
Fathers debt was left for me?
Mysteries beyond conceiving,
And no light the night relieving.
But the masses. wildly straying,
On distinctions brink are playing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
al. Erthu.;astie WsIeorns.

after an absence. OF nearly twenty
years" stated Merton Sanford Il VS.
tied the little town where was born
and grew to young manhood. On the
way thither I was hlled WITH pleas
urable anticipations Of the reception
that would greet me. AZ man OF the
world and q successful citizen OF this
great metropolis, come back to tread
once more the familiar paths his boy
hood had known. 3
.Well-er-h'm!-t cut It short.
MANY OF the boys Of other days had
gore to one bourne OF an0ttsF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
DESERVING JONAH.

tManCneSter PreSS.I
ORTHODOXY" said Bishop warbur-
ton. lis my doxy. Heterdoxy is some
other mans doxy.'
When we We're boy, and that was
some time ago, brethren, the story OF
Jonah and the whale was implicitly
accepted to its smallest details. The
clergy discounted the whales feat by
swallowing both Jonah and the whale.
Then up rose the higher critics. who
Billy Sunday says have no more re-
lision than snail. and proved by an
anatomical discretion that no whale
with which we have a speaking ac-
Quaintance has throat large enough
to accommodate an able-b bodied cit
izen. The orthodox insisted that the
monster referred to was in reality a
mammoth sea animal which was hol-
low to the tip of its tail, with seating
capacity for several Jonahs. This
was ingenious If not ingenious, and
satisfied public clamor for a time.
Now we notice that this Jonah mat
ter came before the Sunday schools of
the country again last Sabbath, and it
would be interesting to note the sun
CRY and divers explanations as to
Jonah's sleeping quarters during the
three days after he Owed from the deck
OF the ship. For instance. Mr. William
I. Ellis, an exposition for various daily
papers, forsakes the whole whale the
DRY in toto, but declares that Jonah
found refuge in a cavity of great
sea monster" Now, the word cavity"
IS trifie obscure in this connection.
Perhaps Mr.. Ellis means that Jonah
utilized the left ear of the monster as
a boarding house or fell asleep into its
mouth and snug gled into decayed
wisdom tooth. In his attempt to har-
monte the orthodox view with plain
horse sense. Brother Ellis becomes
somewhat cloudy and incoherent.
Jonah appears 10 have been deserted.
along with that pleasing picture of our
childhood bottom!ess and sizzling
he'll. Nobody breaches about the exist
ence OF literal fire. and brim- stone
hell any more, and we presume that
before long II will be discovered that
Jonah really fell into row boat and
crawled under a tarpaulin. If this
thing keeps up, some impudent critic
will stand up and deny that Eve was
made out of Adams rib.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
ROOT FOR PRESIDENT.
rTS-oa. Co.. 01S-vsAN

Ex-senator Root is conceded by all
as one OF the strongest II not the
strongest, intellectually of all the men
now in public life AZ a result of this
recognized fact there are many who
would like to zee him promoted to the
presidency. Among the ardent advo-
Gates of his nomination IL ex-Presi-
ient I ait, and * meta bic tact
that the only men who are zealousIy
espousing his cause are, like Taft, nm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-29
oueer Iaw ef heritaas.

In Argentina the laws provide thar
a father must leave his children four
fiftbs OF his fortune and husband, if
he has no children. mas 10 sssss:::ee g y hts
property to his wife. An unmarried