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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-12-18
MULES
BOARD APPOINTS CLERKS

The local exemption board last
week appointed. Mrs. Mary w.
Lockridge Chief Clerk and Miss
Anise Hunt, Assistant Clerk. Both
are well qualified for their duties.
The positions are only temporary
and will last from sixty to ninety
days.
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SMALL RUN
OF CATTLE
Here Court Day Owing to Extreme
Weather-Pnices were Exceed
ingIy High.

There was q small run of stock
Courtday, not more than 1900 head.
The extreme weather kept a good
many cattle from selling here.
Trade was only fair, not as many
buyers as usual. Prices were high,
pair of 2200-fb cattle selling at
$1,000 per hundred, a record price
as far as / can remember, and that
is more than a year or two. Very
few heavy feeders were offered, light
stuff being predominant. Yearling
steers sold at 8 cents; heifers at
7 to cents; cows at 6 to 712
cents; bulls at cents; Gamers
at Az to 5 cents. Small crowd at
the pens and trade was slow as
compared to last Court Day. We
caught a few sales:
SALES
Sam Wheeler sold Is 600-lb steers
to Simon We'll, Lexington, at 9
cents; Sam Keeton sold yoke of
2500-fb steers to John Vice, Bath
county, at 10 cents; Mike Wilson
sold Z 750-lb COWS to J. II. Day.
Clark county, at 6 cents; ThOs. De
Bore sold yoke of 22OO-lb steers to
w. NJ. Kissick at $10.50; Geo.
Halsey sold s 5OO-lb hefiers to
Felix Vice, Bath county, at s cents /;
Sam Keeton sold 2 6OO-lb heifers
to Mr.. Vice at $3.50; VIM. Davis
sold "a 100O-lb heifers to Jesse
Thomas, Clark county, at 7 cents (;
Sam Keeton sold % about 5OO-lb
steers to Mr.. Ledford, of Fayette
county, at $500 per head; Le-
master Bros. sold p S50-ib. steers
to Welch & Clark at $3.50; same
party bought 8 9OO-lb steers at
cents, of Thos. Cooper and - 875-
ID steers to Pear Trimble at $500.
MULES
Not Il great many null" on the
market but prices were good, Chas,
7. Faulkner, of Winchester, bought
mules for Southern trade at $3.50
to 5000; Fletcher Mann, of Lex
ington, bought 10 mules at from
5000 to $3.50. A few horses for
Army service sold at $115 to $40.
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STERLING KENTUCKY, TUESDAY,
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

AS the next regular issue of the Advocate
would come Christmas day, and in order that
employees may spend that day with their fami-
lies, this paper will go to press Friday afternoon of
this week and be distributed to all parts of the city
and county Saturday morning Advertisers will
please take notice advertising copy will be
accepted after IL o'clock Friday
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Stray Cow Steer.

There is stray steer at my
place. Owner may have property
by proving ownership, paying feed
bill and cost of this advertisement.
n Frank Shrout,
25-3t Mt. Sterling, Ky, II. d. 2
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NanAtta, please mail same to j. d.
VanAtta, Administrator, Mt. Ster-
ling, KY. 25-3t
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MISS WALKER ROGERS
VICTIM OF ACCIDENT

Miss Walker Rogers, who is teach
ing the school for the deaf and
dumb at Flint, Mich, fell this week
on an icy pavement and broke her
arm, from which she is suffering
very much. Miss Rogers is q niece
of Mrs. Leila Gillaspie and w. T.
Tyler, and formerly lived here, where
she has many friends who will regret
to learn of her accident.
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Toys Of all kinds and at the right
prices. THE FAIR
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Phone 81, W. O. MaCkie & Co.

For your Xmas goods, candies, nuts,
figs, raisins, dates, oranges, ban
anas, apples, all new
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-12-18

For Sale-Two medium size old
Country Hams. Phone 606-R.
G. C. Anderson.
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Music BY Prot. Reynolds Orchestra
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1917-12-18
MONDAY, DECEMBER 24th.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18th.

A Paramount Star Series Feature
DAINTY LITTLE MARGUERITE CLARK in "eAe's
Aso-Hearst Pathe Film. News
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Matinee every day at 1900 Saturday at 900 and $3.50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
More Democratic 'FUplft"

Mr.. John n. Carlisle, who has had long
experience with various brands Of Democ-
racy in this state, insists that the new
group of upstate Democrats. which is
attempting 10 organize itself. is not "anti-
Tsmmany or anti-anything else" 1t is,
he gays, merely an association Of intelli-
gent upstaterS formed 10 command at
future party gatherings "a respectful
hearing for our views with regard to poll
les and candidates"
IL all these intelligent upstaters want
IS a respectful hearing for their views,
their organization will not need TO be anti
Tarmnany. Mr. Murphy and his associates
in tho clique which runs Democracy are
always willing to hear anybody say any
hing. In fact, Mr.. Murphy has some
times put himself On record for 1.-THE up
lit, IL uplift is the word" But if these
uogtsters want some attention paid 10
their views, and hope 10 enforce that de-
sire through their organizations action,
they will have 10 be anti-Tammany
Slight confederation Of the history Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25

the Democratic League and other en-
deavors to group independent" Demo-
Gratis into associations TO enforce their
views against the Organization" ought to
prove that. The fiction that Tammany is
merely "the local organization of the Dem
ocratic voters of New York City," as Mr..
Gaynor once put it, may please these up
state independents, but nobody really pre-
tends to believe it any more. Tammany
dominates and controls the action of the
Democratic party in this state. If MIR.
Carlisle, Mr.. Osborn and Mr.. Osborne,
Mr.. Murphy of Troy and the others impli-
Gated in this newest Democratic uplift
want to change conditions, they will have
to be anti-Tammany without any fooling
or beating about the BUSH They might
as well accept and act on that notion, or
be prepared to peter out as the Democratic
League did when it tried to be more or
less regular"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
By Order of Germany
tFrorn The World

Tbrec weeks ago to-day President Wilson
went before Congress to announce that he
had severed diplomatic relations with Ger
many because of the imperial governments
proclamation of ruthless submarine warfare,
and that il american ships and American
lives" should be sacrificed by German naval
commanders he would again appear before
Congress "to ask that authority be given me
to use any means that may be necessary for
the protection Of our seamen and our people
in the prosecution of their peaceful and le-
Ultimate errands on the high seas
Thus far no American ships have been
sunk without warning and no American lives
have been sacrificed by the destruction Of an
American ship. but this good fortune is not
due TO German forbearance or German re-
spect for law.
What has happened is that the Atlantic
ports Of the United States are blockaded by
Germany and our ship owners are afraid TO
assert their legal rights. Even the American
Line ships, which carry the United States
mail. are all held in port by order OF the
German government.
We are doing precisely what Germany COM
manded us to do. Our merchant shipping Is
no longer under the sovereignty OF the United
States, but under the sovereignty OF the I'M
perial German government Germany says
we must not sail the seas, under penalty OF
death, and we do not sail the seas. 1t could
hardly make its orders more effective so far
as American ships are concerned If its sub
marines had taken physical possession Of our
harbors and the regulation of our merchant
shipping had been formally turned over TO
the German Admiralty.
This situation cannot continue indefinitely
while waiting for Germany to commit an
covert act" The policy Of ruthless sub
marine warfare is in itself an overt act, and
The World believes that it is the immediate
duty of President Wilson TO ask Congress for
authority to use any means that may be
necessary for the protection OF our sesmen
and our people In the prosecution OF their
peaceful errsnds on the high seas" We must
either assert our rights or surrender them,
and if we are 10 surrender them IL was not
worth while to 90 20 the trouble OF seyerng
diplomatic relations with Germany.
Every day that American ships are afraid
to put 70 sea because OF aerman defiance OF
law and civilization our rights are invaded,
our honor s sullied and our power as a
great nation Is challenged before the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
Air.CasHes ,
IRON Punch

from Punch
When | grow up to be man and wear
whste'er please,
Black-coth and serge and Hsrris-tweed--l
will have none of these;
For shaggy men wear Harris-tweed, so Har-
ris-tweed won't do.
And fat commercial travellers are dressed in
dingy blue;
Lack-lustre black to lawyers leave and sad
souls in the City,
But I'll wear Linsey-Woolsey because 1T
sounds so pretty.
| don't know what it looks like,
| don't know how it feels,
But Linsey-W oolsoy to my fancy
Prettily appeals.
And when find lovely maid to settle all
my cash on,
She will be much too beautiful to need the
gauds Of fashion.
No tinted tulle or tafets, no silk or crepe-de-
chine
viii the maiden of my fancy wear-no
chiffon, no sateen,
No muslin. no embroidery, no lace Of costly
price,
But she'll be clad in Dimity because il sounds
so nice.
| don't know what it looks like,
do not know its feel,
But dimpled maid in Dimity
Was ever my ideal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
GLORIOUS FRANCE
By CLEVELAND MOFFEIr
France. .
Loved and honored land.

France. ~
Loved and honored land.
Tenderly loved! Supremacy honOr.s,
We Americans thrill for you with
pride, brother to brother. sister to si,,.,
we behold your valance in thi. vo,ls
guish, this world peril.
France!
lndomitable France.
Weakest OF three defenders, ,eorned \.
invader who thought 10 crush you oui,v.
Yet il was you alone who hurled the irv,a
back. II was you alone in that Seu,er1.
he'll who saved a continent from seryitua.
Liberty! Equality. Fraternity!
For these three you have battled /, =
glorious spirit OF Lafayette, the spin, 4
Joan OF Arc, the Bastille spirit. 70, n,
three you have rallied the ultimate stre,r
and great-souledness OF the nation, the e.s.
ness of every man and woman to So,
France, the readiness Of every man a.
woman 70 die for France. and STANDING a,
the Marine, standing on the Somme. stanS,.
at Yerdun, you have cried out: "rhey 81,
not pass"
Liberty Equality. Fraternity.
For these three you have shed your so,,
and poured out your treasure, giving er,r
thing. suffering everything, TO the end IA,
tyranny shall be driven from the earth, % a,
end that the rights Of man. the rights ei u,
weak. shall hcnceforth and forever h -
spectcd.
Oh. my brother Americans, why nave VI
not battled side b. side With the heroe. 4
France for the rights Of man, the securit, ,
the weak. the overthrow Of the despoilGi
Hark! The whisper OF a name! ws,hs,
ton, And another nsmel Lincoln, b
these names mean anything? Is the spirit .
'7s dead in us? Is the Declaration Of Ind,
pendence forgotten? And the speech q. G,t
tysburg? Does it no longer matter TO q.
Americans that tyranny stalks over the ri
dsned earth Under the REDEEMED sea- Tbs
nations are enslsved?
February the third, 1917!
Thank God, we have remembered, We tr
heard the call We have drawn the wsrt
Our children's children will not stand, WITH
Tipped and dumb, when those tauntins, scar
ing words are spoken;
Belgium! Lusitsuia! Poland! Arusrh!
History will tell them that VIC, too, d1 or
part when the Temple Of Peace was tsss.-
erously d.fled; that when the world Va
writing in iucopce.vablo agony the VEsi
States Of America refused to exploit Ia
agony. but came forward in the bitters.sm
and stood a. the side of France, giving h
treasure, It's resources, its sons and t'ssi
tiers. battling in the cd spirit for the rshh
Of man. for the security Of tho weak, for D.
overthrow of the dcspoiler' to the END n'
liberty shall not perish from the earth
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
Putting Our Flag Back on the Seas

No one can question the fact that Ger
many has effectually scared the American
flag off the high seas. There seems, how
ever, to be a question in certain quarters
as to Just who is to blame. American
ship owners, argued "The World re-
Gently. For Secretary Lansing assured
them they could arm to protect themselves
if they wished TO, and why didn't they
do so and sail? Were they waiting for
Mr. Lansing to set his permission "to rag
time and sing it to them?
The only trouble with this glib theory
lay in the statement by President Frank
lin of the American Line, quoted in an
other column of "The World:
We have made every effort to purchase
guns for them in this country. Guns can
not be bought that's all there is to it. We
could get some gunners, but we would have
no guarantee they we're capable of man
ming guns. As the whole matter stands we
are simply waiting upon the Navy Depart
ment for its action.
The episode is typical of the whole i'm
possible, anomalous situation in which this
country stands to-day. Germany made
her threat and has lived up to it day by
day. Yet our government is still in the
position of refusing to believe that Ger
many intended anything as terrible as
she said. Sail out, unattended and un-
protected, and if you are sunk and enough
of your passengers are drowned under
sufficiently horrible circumstances your
country will do something" was what this
government said in effect to American
shipping. The sacrifcial ship could arm
itself-oh, certainly! But guns could not
be provided by the government, for that
would be war. And no other guns were
available.
So runs the vicious circle. And the
wonder grows as to just how much longer
the American government will pretend to
be waiting for an American ship to be
sunk, when it knows as well as every
citizen of the country that its refusal to
protect the American flag is keeping every
American ship safely tied to a dock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
Germany at Costa RIGA

To the Editor Of The Tribune. 5s.
Sir: With reference to the reeen' "a q
ton in Costa RIGA, of which the eH' u.s. =,
travel made me an eye-witness) J n''t -,
important statement to make. a i'' 4.
before the revolution visited the Ia,E :,
fs,.r, barracks. about a mile outside u. ',s
Of San Jose. or the north SIDE ,as
a very large number Of machine gun. ,l5;,n
,.i,ich werc Of German make. Inc -
,.oro .r,,cd with German rifles, and 'ns -
FIRE field guns which ! saw were a'' ~ ,seo,l
IN the coloners billiard room on w Vi.
soor If the barracks there were wv
Iows commanding the road, whlen ''s "a
straight. line to the city Of San 'O'S an W
oscb window A German machine gus A.s
,,onnted. pointing its Teutonie muse y,
-. ro.d IN The direction Of the cry; y
- r,nch e,ruck with this that ! N'sss,ss
Young soldier VINO was eonduet'nsc 10 Ria
,bev '".yer had revolutions N VS."
He. of course, said NO -, svdd.s,
4 few days later the re'oiu''On or,r
hrols out, and the entire army N'"'.~.aise
!. hodv 10 the revolutionary parry CO
"a controlled by the Miaister OF nsr,Ss
81 T,noco. I afterward met se'efSs .ssf
-, ,ook mart in the revolution 81. 10
VIZ hat Il had been arranged a IOcs )
w - ds.nce As for the revolution IN .,s,!
49, undoubtedly been planned oy rap'
:" order 20 find occupation Tor '"r ss,s'
states army and navy outs,ee susI.pwErL
war zone. nen ~ W. ,e,7
Hot Springs, Ark, Feb. 20 isi''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
A Colossal Target

British imports last year were much the
largest in the history OF the United King
dom. They exceeded the record for 1915 by
about sfs5,000,000 and surpassed the biggest
figures ever scored In times Of peace by
s900,00OO00. The exports exceeded the rec
ord Of every other year, except 1918, and
made a gain of about sSO5, 100000 over 1915
The high-water mark Of 1918 was left about
sos 900 ahead OF the latest war year. The
total for imports and exports together made
gain OF ssOb 100000 over 1918. the year
which held the previous record.
Such commerce is a colossal target TO aim
at, and the task set the German submarines
is about the hardest job the war has put up
20 any branch Of the naval or military ser
vice Of any country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
hmericanism in the West

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: I have read with considerable indlgi
,ion in your issue Of January 8, 1917, al
anonymous communication, dated at Aedtsr
Ore. December 80, 1916, entitled The u
manly West"
When il comes to Americanism there IS %
serious difference between any one .eti'i
of the United States and any other sector
There are Invertebrates" "mollyeoddis
and "sissies" in New York City, 10 New ING
land and in any other section OF the ccuh''!
hut they are not in sufficient number any
where to be justly used to stgnatIIe AZ
great section Of our common county u
would be Just as ungracious and as unu''
70 stigmatize the entire population Of W
England or New York in the Language
YOUR anonymous correspondent, because .
the presence OF invertebrates" "mol!e''
dies" and "sissies" in those communities y
TO seek 10 stigmatize the great home'io'ns
country-loving and lberty-loying "es5 vi
cause we, perchance, have in our midst son1
specimens Of invertebrates, "mollyeoa0a'
and "sissies.'
A sufficient answer to your anonymous COZ
tributor as to his allegations against u
state, for instance, is that in the recent %
tional campaign, which was wsged nero Y
elsewhere by the Democracy unoef "|
slogan "Hc kept Us out Of war" we VOC
alone among the states in the West sssn'
that slogan.
The country need never fear an appear Y
the West-whether TO that portion o. |"
West, like Oregon, which refused 70 i0"s.
the slogan "He kept Us out Of wal
whether to other portions, which io' ~,
considerations voted in favor oil TIE ~
ponent of that doctrine upon any u"
triotic demand.
Il is true that the West is sbsorO'd "'
new country is, in the up6uilding o. " ~
terial resources, but it is not 50 soso'Des 80
il will turn a deaf car for single mOr'-.
the call of patriotism when that eau -,
come. May remind The New rorA ~. =,
and its anonymous correspondent '1N =.
Oregon volunteers ware the first wi'nIa -.
Spanish lines at the fall Of Manila anu
the Oregon troops were the frs' OF sA
the first, to entrain for the Mexican ~ ~,
in the present unpleasantness! AZ e.. y
on every flagstaff of this greet Guy n'.' -,
American flag, as a silent symbol 70 wy
nimity of our people in the present III - al
any call that may be made upon Us "
President of the United States.
ROBERT TREAT PLAIh
Portland. Ore, Feb. II, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
Nightmare After Talking with Womanly
Women
IRON Others ,

FROM Odorsl
On the four posts of my bed,
At the foot and at the head
Phantom birds. in silence deep,
Grimly watch my troubled sleep,
Parrot sits on one head post
Like a controversial ghost,
Giving insult and offence
Challenging to cloquence.
Pigeon. on the other side.
Preens the coo she is denied.
Sticky coils OF ssccharine
Snare my rage that might have been.
Stork, the timo-worn humorist,
Threatens jokes that have not missed
Poignant antiseptic bite
Since Ewes first-born saw the light.
Last, the Carbon Crowi she keeps
Patient watch while her meal sleeps,
Gloomy, hungry Carbon Prov.
Dawn appears at !ast-they go
Flap. flap, flap, on heavy wing
Through the twilight vanishing.
elijah HAY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
The Little House

iron, The Poetry Journal
Tell me, little house.
House with white windows,
Low doorways and gentle roof
Little house that makes sunshine
SO mellow where it falls across your
threshold;
That makes the lamplght cast such quiet
shadows:
Benignsnt rooms
Tell me:
In all the years that you have been built.
Were you ever so co.ey as now with Us?
Did you ever hold so great content as ours ?
We're you ever SO happy?
Were you ever so loved?
HELEN HOYT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
The High Cost of War

tGlrard. 90 The Philadelphia LedOorl
A few years ago French military critic
said it cost twenty thousand dollars 10 Kill
one soldier in war.
II has cost the Allies about twenty-three
thousand dollars to kill one of their foes In
the present war
These estimates take no account Of tie
wounded and prisoners, who 60 into the
bloody scales for excess measure
II cost England nearly forty thousand dol
lars to kill an American soldier during the
Revolution.
Catching Mexican who is still uncaught
has cost the United States tens OF millions.
which IL undoubtedly the most expensive
man hunt on record
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-25
Purpose

,Froas The Pootry RorieU. Lo,don)
Some day I'll die, but how, or when, or where,
do not greatly care
Because / know that with the flowers and
weeds
My life proceeds
If so ! will-inside u gracious law.
No flaw
Ny death will be, nor mischevous accident,
Howe'er besprent
Ny blood upon the battlefeld's black turf
Or in the surf
OF thunderous combers on the ungathered sea
But it will be
An obvious hint of Supreme Design,
A little clew of mine
Left huddled by the trench or beach to tell
"Pass, friend, all's WE'LL
ISOBEL W. HUTCHINSON.