The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-29

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equality, niger schools, adjustment
of the Jim Grow cars, niger blood
in our candidate for president,
preached by petty Democratic poll
ticians, so excited our female voters
that they swept the state for Cox,
which had the year before gone Re-
publican by more than 10000 ma.
jority, giving the electorate vote Of
the state TO the Democrats but elect
ing Republican senator. We some
times hear of blessings which come
in disguise, so I count this one as
an addition to many others, with no
regret for the money and time spent;
the time was mine and the money
really belonged to my creditors. I
had a good outing and needed some
play to prevent Jack from being
dull boy.
We have been handed around in
great shape by my wife's folks and
friends, and when called on by the
Chamber of Commerce and asked to
tell them something about Mt. Ster-
ling, and its Chamber of Commerce.
I said we once had bigger city
than we now have, in some respects
we formerly had big distillery
where they made 100 barrels old
Old McBrayer and it was commonly
conceded that most Of it was con-
sumed in our city, and if by chance
a Congressional convention or fra
ternal order Of any kind was to meet
there the word had to be passed
along with the request that the boys
drink less in order that our visitors
might get a nip of the famous
brand, bat that institution has nov
passed into the "silence of the
dreamless dust and Solomon who
makes the moonshine and not he
who commanded the sun to stand
still is a near inhatitant of the city;
that Mt. Sterling is one of the larg-
est stock markets in the world, and |
on each third Monday in every
month, which is called court day,
we have on the market from 5000 |
to $4,000 head of cattle; they come
from anywhere and everywhere,
with buyers from like places, and
that one of our rich and far-seeing
land owners by using the manure
from the stock pens had converted
a poor farm into one Of the most
fertile pieces of land this side of the
valley of the Nile. Mt. Sterling was
once the home of the Mound Build
ers, subsequently the home of the
pale faced Indians, and while there
are vet some beautiful mounds the
Indian trails have long been de-
stroyed and the toot of the rail
road engine and honk of the auto
mobile had awakened new echoes
within the limits.
Not long since one of our college
graduates was making a speech and
eloquently and fluently proclaimed,
"Less than go years ago the wild
Indian, buffalo and bear ran up and
down this valley" when an old resi-
dent arose and said, "Hold Jon,
young man; I have lived here more
than 60 years and not an Indian,
buffalo or bear have I seed" II was
a historical fact, but historians have
left it out of the books, that Queen
Victoria at the beginning of her
reign sent out Al delegation with in
structions to go into every access
ible country on the globe and report
to her, in their judgment, the most
fertile spot; that which would grow
the greatest variety of serials, veg
etables, fruits, grasses, grains,
greens and greenhorns; that they
found the spot and reported to her
it was four miles northeast Of Mt.
Sterling, near Longwood, the for
mer home Of the hero Of the Mexi-
can and Civil Wars, General Cerro
Gordo Williams, who was after
wards United States Senator from