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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-26

are in great need of food. For over
three years they have been fighting
our battle Shall we let them fail
Shall the American soldiers be over
run by the armies of Germany's
War Lord? This decision, so
fraught with the veal or woe of all,
depends uopn the combined individ-
ual effort of each single person in
this country as well as cover there"
The War Garden Division is urg-
ing that local War Garden Com
mittee in each community will I'M
dertake to get idle lots cultivated
and made productive. List the
Available vacant property and get
the people to work who will under
take the patriotic duty of thus
helping to win the war.
1t is the aim of the War Garden
Division that every back yard, ev-
cry vacant lot, and every idle tract
of land should be turned into a
War Garden, producing food.
! Mr.. Hoover is authority for the
statement, that the food situation
Of the world must steadily degen-
crate as long as the war lasts; that
furthermore, our overt taxed rail
roads, which will continue to be ov-
ertaxed during the whole course of
the war, will be greatly relieved if
we have larger area of gardens
planted.
Every community large or small,
that makes itself self sustaining
and Independent of supplies that
have in the past been delivered by
the railroads, will be helping by just
that much to relieve the congestion
of traffic and clear the road to
rush supplies to the front.
1t cannot be too strongly urged
that unless the people of the cities
and towns raise more beans, pota-
toes and other winter crops that
will take the place of bread, the
shortage of food supplies next win
ter will bring about a very serious
situation.
Last year, by reason of the over
whelming amount of work that de-
volved upon the Food Administra-
ton, the War Garden Work was not
thoroughly organized, nor was the
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-26
TO THE PEOPLE OF EVERY
CITY AND TOWN IN KENTUCKY

Mr.. Herbert c. Hoover, the Unit
ed States Food Administrator, is
pleading for aid from the people of
the cities and towns. The need for
an increased production of food
stuffs is imperative, not only to help
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-26


from death.
To work, to save, to economic,
to give financial support to the Gov
eminent is a duty of the Nation
and to the world and it is especial
ly a duty to our fighting men who
on land and sea are offering their
lives for their country and their
countrymen.
W. S. s.
What doth it profit a man to plant
a garden and lose it via his neigh
boris chickens7
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-26

Take our advice and
buy NOW what you
are going to need in
the way of Oliver
Plows, Cultivators
and Pulverizers, Nc
Cormick Mowers and
Binders, Hamilton
Harrows or anything
you may need this
Spring in the Imple-
ment or Harness
Line, as it is almost
impossible for us to
get these goods any
more, and if you
wait too long you
may not be able to
get what you want.
So come in and
Ouy what you want
and we will hold it
for Fyou ntil you
need it.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-26

need for it given sufficiently wide
publicity. But, Notwithstanding
these serious handicaps, Mr.. Hoover
feels that the War Garden Move
ment of 1917 played an important
part in saving the country from
positive shortage.
1t must, therefore, stand clear
that your individual efforts and ac-
tivity in bringing about production
of food crops upon idle land, is in
deed most important factor di-
rectly affecting the welfare of our
military status, and, in so doing,
you are lending patriotic effort to
the cause as distinctively as are
the men under arms.
This is a real, and an urgent, call
to the colors-a challenge for you
to join the Army with the Hoe!
CHARLES G. STRATER,
Chairman, War Garden Division,
U. S. Food Administration of Ky.
W. S. S.
One congressman complains that
there is not enought to do in
Congress to keep him busy We sug-
gest that he resign his office and
help Hoover.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
SEES SOME GOOD IN QUEUES
London Physician Asserts That az
They Compel Women to Rise Early
They Are a Benefit.

A good word for the queues at last |
A high medical authority has just
given it as his opinion that the early
morning "queue habit" is having
quite beneficial effect on the health
of some classes of the community.
Women who used to spend half the
morning in bed, then sitindoorspour-
ing over the morning paper or the
latest novel, are now up with the
proverbial lark and out in the fresh
air before it has become heavily dust
laden. A wait in the queues may be
beneficial on a fine springlike morn
ing, but would it be so exhilarating
standing in a couple of inches of
snow to wait for half a pound of
margarine? In any case the pluck
OF woman on the London front is
amazing. To stand in a queue for
an hour or two, often with an infant
in arms, on the off chance of pro-
curing supplies, is a task quite be-
yond the patient endurance of the
average man. Yet many of our
brave women are doing it daily with
something more than stoicism. Out
side a South London butchers the
laughter and gossip of the waiting
crowd brought the proprietor from
his dugout. Opening the shop door
just wide enough to survey the merry
party, he exclaimed: "Now, then.
you ladies, not so much chinwag.
This amt a mothers meeting."-
London Chronicle.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
PAYS WELL TO STRAIN HONEY
Department of Agriculture Urges All
Bee Keepers to Practice
Conservation.

Bee keepers are urged by Kenneth
Hawkins, bee specialist of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
to produce more honey in the ex-
tracted or strained form, instead of
as comb honey. Investigations of
honey produced in Florida show that
too many bee keepers now market
honey in the comb, which lowers the
productive capacity of bees. The en-
ergy required in making 20 pounds
of honey is consumed in making one
pound of beeswax, and in selling
comb honey this beeswax is lost.
Where honey is extracted from the
comb by uncapping cells and whirl-
ing the comb in centrifugal ma
chine, the comb is left intact and
can be put back into the hive to be
reflled with honey by the bees, saw
ing them the labor of building new
comb. Beeswax itself has no food
value and is lost when sold in comb
honey, whereas with modern meth
ods it can be used again and again
by the bees. The department of ag-
riculture will send any bee keeper
instructions on changing cheaply
from the comb to the extracted
honey method.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
FRENCH "ESPRIT."

Opposite me is a man evidently
in poor health-an intelligent, kind
ly face, lined with premature old
age. He has two collapsed air cush-
ions, but breath only for one. 1
blow up the second cushion. We
fraternize. "You must know" says
he, "that I am Frenchman living
in Canada. l have come over to be
ready for my call, They have called
the class of forty-seven. Ny age is
fifty. Soon they will need me. Of
course" he adds, carefully adjusting
the air cushion to support his ailing
back, 81 cannot hope for the first
line, but perhaps I can slip in just
behind" 1t is the celebrated French
esprit.-From Porter's Shock at the
Front, Atlantic Monthly Press,
Boston.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
War Demand for shoddy.

The process of reclaiming wool from
all sorts of rags has become a task Of
increasing magnitude since the plac-
ing of the governments big orders for
army clothing, special machinery
being employed to reduce the rags to
shreds, wash them, separate the wool
from the cotton, etc. Cloth experts
claim this reworked wool, or shOddy,
is suitable for use in overcoats, be-
cause a warmer, more closely woven
fabric can be produced if used in the
right proportion with virgin wool, says
Popular Mechanics. For this reason
it is used in army overcoating, but
all other uniform cloth is now pure
wool, according to government OIL
cialS.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06

the Times itself is seldom referred to
as the "Thunderer," although it still
makes big noise in the world. New
ertheless certain sporting paper is
never called by its proper name, but
always referred to as "The Pink
'Un," while opposite schools of politi-
cal thought always refer to their ri
vaPs evening paper as "The Evening
Rag" The most famous Fleet street
nickname belonged to a paper no
longer in existence, the famous
Standard, once the chief cornerstone
in the press of the old Tory party.
This was often referred to as "The
Old Lady of Shoe Lane" and this
name grew out of the fact that the
Standard and the Morning Herald
were under the same directorate, and
yet strove to appear independent and
quoted each other with pretentious
solemnity. Thus they earned the
nicknames of 'Mrs. Camp" and
"Mrs. Harris to a generation of
Dickens readers, Mrs. Camp backing
up her statements by saying what
Mrs. Harris, who had no real exist
ence, had once commented on the
same subject in her hearing.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
GREAT POETS FOND OF PETS
Byron Formed Attachment for Goose.
While Others Exhibited Liking for
Hares-Foe's Famous Raven.

Byron once bought a goose and
fed it by hand for month, thinking
to get it into prime condition for the
table.
But the goose got so fond of the
poet and the poet of the goose that
when the time came for its execution
a reprieve was granted, and the SEN
tence reduced to 'petship for life"
Tennyson's pet was an owl. The
poet, when a boy at Somersby rec
tory, could initiate the cries of birds
and animals like nature, and one
night he heard the cry of a young
owl from the window of his bed
room, and answered it so well that
the bird actually came and nestled
up to him! From that moment it
was the household pet. Its fate was
a sad one, however, for it was
drowned in the well!
Edgar Allan Poe's raven was not
an imaginary bird, but real pet. A
big dog was the constant companion
of Byron as well as his goose; Scott,
too, was always followed by perfect
drove of dogs, of which MAZDA was
by far the most famous. Cowper
had his pet hares, whom he has i'm
mortalized in song; and the nearest
and dearest pet Burns ever had was
a sheep.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06

In the year before the war the
market value of graphite was about
$43O a ton, and in the latter part Of
1915 the price had risen to about
$1,000 ton. Its price has increased
since then. While the demand for
graphite has vastly Increased in this
country, England and France, the
production has been also very much
increased In 1915 there were pro-
duced in the United States about
5000 tons and in 1916 $4,000 tons.
It is believed that the production
this year stands at about 10000 tons.
This does not nearly meet the Amer
ican demand, for in 1916 the United
States imported more than $4,000
tons. Notwithstanding the great in
crease in the production of Ameri-
can-mined graphite and American
made artificial graphite, the amount
imported is steadily increasing.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
Why We Fight
Serie es-Nc. z.

of the time decided, but by iron and
| blood"
Then, with blood and iron, Prussia
went out and despoiled Denmark of
territory In 1864, beat and robbed Aus
tria In 1866, and finally, in 1870,
brought France to her knees and took
her richest provinces.
Here is what the present kaiser told
his troops when, in 1900, they were
about to depart for China to put down
the boxer uprising:
"USe your weapons in such a way
that for a thousand years no Chi
nese shall dare to look upon a German
askance. Be as terrible as Attilla's
Huns"
Coming on down to the present war
we find a German minister accredited
to q neutral state far across the sea-
one which one would think should be
free from the entanglements of world
pOlitics-writing home to his govern
ment, in a state paper, advising the
sinking of two ships from this neutral
nation, in such manner that no trace
be left. Dead men, he believed tell
no tales.
1t was Baron Luxburg, minister pleni-
pOtentiary to Argentina, who wrote
this amazing dispatch on May 10, 1917:
Il beg that the small steamers Oran
and GuaZO which are nearing
Bordeaux be spared If possi-
bic, or else sunk without a trace be-
ing left"
This telegram was intercepted in the
United States and published. 1t sent
a thrill of horror around the world.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-HOllweg is
a true disciple of Frederick the
Great, Bismarck and his royal master.
In u public speech on January 81, 1917,
he said:
"When the most ruthless methods
are calculated to lead us to victory,
swift victory, they must be employed"
SO they were used, and are being
used today. They include sinking of
hundreds of neutral ships, the burning
of cities, the deliberate devastating
of the fair lands of France, the ravish-
ing of women, the ensIavement of
workmen and the murder of little chill
dren.
Horrors such as these are told in de-
tail in 'The Prussian System" by f. G.
WalcOtt, who, for long time, was en-
gagged in behalf of America in trying to
get food to the Poles whom the Ger
mans were deliberately starving by
the hundreds of thousands so that they
might not cumber the land which the
Germans intended to occupy.
Knowing all this, can the American
people talk of any peace by negotia-
ton? Can they stop this war until
this mad dog of nations is freed from
the military rulers who teach frightfuI.
ness from the cradle, and will only
seize respite now to prepare them
selves for further conQuests2
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06

We are at war with Germany be
cause Prussia dominates Ger
many, and from the days of Fredcr-
ick the Great, Prussin's law has been
the law of the jungle, her doctrine
"Might is Right" and her policy, in
dealing with other nations, one of rob
bing the weak and terrorizing the
strong. Germany has grabbed terri
tory and exacted tribute from her
neighbors, and finally, her greed be-
coming greater, has looked out over
more distant lands, and has commit
ted herself to policy of world domi-
nation which menaces the continued
free existence of every nation which
will not submit to her will.
Germany's policy is not an acciden-
tai one. 1t has been carried out with
remarkable singleness of purpose
from generation to generation of
HOhenzOllern rule, from the time
of the Great Frederick until to-
day. Germany's atrocities are not
accidental. They are deliber-
ate, well thought out part of this
HOhenzollern policy, which was to
break down the resistance of her op-
ponents, not only by fighting and de-
feating their armies but by killing,
tOrturing and terrorizing the civil
populations.
The German rulers committed them
selves to the doctrine of the survival
OF the fittest. Through generations of
teaching they made the German peo-
pie believe that they, and they alone,
were the fit.
We have the words of the German
rulers and German warriors and Ger
man leaders of thought for all of this.
More than that we have the perform
ance of German officers and German
armies in conquered lands to prove it,
Let's start with Frederick the
Great In presenting the evidence.
This monarch, who earned his SOU
briquet through despoiling his neigh
bOrS, rather than through any real
qualities of mind which he showed,
said, in letter to his minister, Rad
twill:
"If there is anything to be gained
by 1t, we will be honest; if deception
Is necessary, let us be cheats. One
takes what one can, and one is wrong
only when obliged to give back"
This philosophy, applied to present
conditions, means that Germany was
right when she took Belgium, and will
be wrong only if she is not able to
hold it.
From Frederick the Great to Bis
marck is long jump in the matter
Of time; but we find the Prussian pol
acy unchanged. Speaking before the
military committee of the Prussian
Chamber of Deputies in 1862 Bis
marck said:
"Not by speeches and resolutions
OF majorities are the great questions
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
JUDGED BY THEIR WORKS,

Bobby-Didn't pop say the war
would be over this summerp
Ethel-Of course he did.
"Well, why can't you and mother
believe him when he tells you any
thing?"
"Why, we do believe him always" /"
"Well, what are you knitting
sweaters for the soldiers next win
ter for, then? ?"
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
LOCAL COLOR.

Bess-Heard the news? Jack has
been hit in the chest by shell.
Belle-Heavens and earthl I'll
bet that pink sweater I knit him is
entirely ruined.
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
HEAVY FOOD.

Flatbush - Your dinner table
doesn't groan as it used to, I sup
pose?
Bensonhurst-Oh, yes, it does.
"But haven't you had to cut out
the luxuries ?"
"Oh, yes; but wife's biscuit are
just as heavy as ever"
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
PERFECTLY PLEASED.

"My husband really likes this
Hoover program" commented Mrs.
Cumrox.
"Why?" =
"Ie says1ft gives him a chance to
eat the plain food he most enjoys
without exciting comment"
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06

eyes," said the bride of a week,
"Jack tells me everything he knsws,
and 1 tell him everything 1 know"
Indeed" rejoined her ex-rival,
who had been left at the post. '"The
silence when you are together must
be oppressive" ."-Tit-Bits
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
MECHANICS cTUCK TO PAPERS
London Journals Have Had Many Ap-
peIIations, Some Humorous and
Some Bestowed In Derision.

Unless the cocoa Press" and the
~Gramophone Press" can be regarded
as nicknames, these seem to have
gone out of the fashion of late years.
Nobody now refers to the Morning
Post as "Jeames" after the charac-
ter ThackeraY invented. and even
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
THEIR FAILURE.

E'I see where they have caught a
gang of thieves who have been loot
ing apartments"
evidently, they were not ahagT
enough for flat burglary"
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
WHAT SHE REsEMRLED.

Chubby, how do you like my cos
tumer"
"With your baggy skirts and white
spats you remind me of a zouave in
light marching order" "
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
AN ILLUSTRATION.

"Boats deserve to be called femi-
nine in one instance, at any rate"
"What is that?"
"They will trim their sails"
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06

"Do you know what Kamerad
means, Mr.. Huggins?" asked the
sweet Young things little brother.
ooh, yes. 1t means surrender"
'Righto! Well, you might as we'll
say it. Sisters decided to get you I"
Monroe City Democrat., 1918-09-06
BETTER ACTOR.

Caddie-Are you doing well on
the stage, Mr.. Wise?
Golfer-Yes; ! think so.
Caddie-Then | think you'd better
stick to it instead of golf.
, UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-04

ROCK AND WHITE mako
HIT AT THE ACADEMY

It's jolly show at the Academy this
week, the Rock and White aggregation
which was here briefly several weeks
ago and played to only moderate busi-
ness. Last night. thanks to their
earlier performance, they fairly filed
the Academy and the crowd enjoyed it,
self Immensely.
What's it all about? QUEEN sabeA-
as our Mexican neighbors would say.
Rock and White are the entire show,
barring a couple of interpretations by
an earnest youth who tells stories
and cracks a few small Jokes, Also.
barring about twenty minutes when
the negro orchestra has an inning all
its own. The coTored contingent Ia
entitled to more than a passing word.
BY Just being natural. or seeming 50.
playing banjos. slides and other favo-
rite instruments with n pecuiIa rly
African abandon. singing camp meet
ing melodies with every appearance OF
emotional up1ife they were a diversion
well worth while.
Mr.. Rock and Miss White generally
working as team sometimes singly
give songs, dances and various vaude-
vile stunts much better than most
vaudeville stars They must be seen
TO be appreciated. If last nights
crowd talks today as 1t laughed last
night. there should be packed houses
for the remaining performances, to-
night. and tomorrow matinee and
night.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-04
SUMNER SEASON BEGINS
AT LYRIC WITH STYLE

Trimmed in cretonne and kept cool
by hreezes from a score OF rapidly
running electric fans, the Lyric
inaugurated the summer season. with
a new schedule and a new scale of
Prices which includes the war tax.
yesterday
Nonsense epitomlzed into a fifteen
minute skit is provided by Joe White
head. assisted by Frank Moore. White
head is talented comedian and knows
how to bring laughs. his cnstter ia
both new and old. but is swung over
In good fashion and the two men are
given a healthy hand for their work.
The next number on the bill is a sing
ing act in which Joe Armstrong, who
sang a mother" song in pleasing
fasetto voice. and the Kiaiss sisters
take part. One OF the girls is the hit
of the bit. though. and nearly topped
over the house when she sang. The
Darktown Shutters Ball" In true.
darby style
Majoire Dunbar demonstrated that a
real vocalist need not resort to rag
time for applause when she sang sew
eral heart-touching ballards very salts
factorily. and Josie O'Meers opened
the program with a wire walking num-
her Taking a Chance one-act
melodrama. with a double climax that
almost spoils II, was faithfully enact
ed by Agnes Cappelen and company
Of three
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-04
THE ONE-HORSE MAN
tBy w. II. GoCHER.)

wagner did not look very much like
a. racing man or at least one that would
be successful In the sulky: hts square
frame, stolid face and full beard ap-
peartng very much out of place und er
a peaked cap. Still he made good not
because he was a clever reinsman, but
because he and Phyllis understood
"he wound her up
After spinning around the half-r1iie
tracks for six years, Phyllis appeared
in the Grand Circuit IN 1882 and came
back regularly for four seasons Her
best showing was in 1855 when after
winning in Texas, Wagner swooped
down on the talent with thud. That
season PHYLLIS won fourteen races out
of twenty-five starts and finished sec.
ond In seven. while she also gave Cleve-
land such a Jolt that the statue OF
Moses Cleveland In the public square
trembled for week
few days prior to the Cleveland
meeting Wagner and his trotter
dropped into town. After getting To-
Gated he hired boat and began Civ
ing Phyllis swimming lessons In Lake
Erie instead of working her on the
track. Those who saw the Aquatic
exhibitions off Gordon park took i,
for granted that the mares racing DAYS
, were about over and when she came
out 10 start against Clemmie G., who
had defeated her as Detroit, and Maud
Messenger. they bet accordingly. wag.
ner with his crokerlike face and wtis.
kers kept his own council. He made
a killing as after Clemmie G. gath
cred in the first heat in 2I7L, he
went on and won in 2:15Iz, ASK
2:l7A. At the close of 1885 after she
had been started in one hundred and
two races of which she won ifty-seven
and was second in twenty.thrAe, wsg-
ner sold Phyllis for export. she died
on the Atlantic.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-04
!: BACK HURTS
BEGIN ON SALTS
hush the Kidneys at Once When
BAclSochy or Bladder Bothers.
Meet Forms Uric Acid.

No man or woman who eats meat
lshing the kidneys occasionally. says
well-kncwn authority. Meat forms
&c acid which clogs the kidney pores
/. they sluggishly filter or strain only
Elrt o! the waste and poisons from
9se blood, then you get sick Nearly
~ rheumatism. hea6a ches. liver
sDubie, nervousness. constipation.
xxineAs, sleeplessness. bladder dis
adors come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel duh ache in
10 Kidneys or your back hurts, or
the urine is cloudy. offensive, full
u sediment. irregular of passage or
Istondsd by a sensation OF scalding.
III about four ounces of Jad Salts
ON any reliable pharmacy and take
N tablespoonful in a glass OF water
Sfore breakfast for few days and
our kidneys will then act fine This
|.nous salts is made from the acid OF
lAapes and lemon juice. combined
I'm hthia and has been used for
fnerAtions to hush clogged kidneys
M stimulate them to activity. also
& noutralize the acids In urine so 1t
Il longer causes irritation. thus end
n Bladder disorders.
sJAA Salts IL inexpensive and can
q in3ure; makes a delightful effer~
kucont lithia water drink which all
'xular meat eaters should take now
n then to, keep the kidneys clean
i h the blood pure. thereby avoiding
,loue kidney complications.--Adv.