Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-16


l ''shook hands with friends here yesterday"
or that was "attending the quarterly con-
ference in town. and many other state
ments which would DO invaluable rs refer
ences In future years l also had much
larger book in which kept the adverse crit
icisms of tho press, paragraphs III which
l was alluded to MS "the intellectual
wart on tho editorial page Of Tho
Sassafras Commonwealth" and "tho
flea bitten fugitive from Justice who
edits the porous plaster across the street"
Whenever my feelings were wounded put
the iton In the large book and kept 1t whero
my children could see it when | should rest
from my labors forever. | thought it would
teach them humility and really do them
good. The other book used to keep on tho
center tablo for tho uso Of visitors. II had
visitor who had the habit OF putting in
day or two at time conversing with mo
about himself Igenerally nsked him to glancc
over this scrap book, and while he was doing
so would slip out and take train for some
other point 1t is good plan.
Just keep an egotistical scrap book, using
the sourest paste you can procure, and when
man insists Oh giving you large bales and
mowsful of information about himself when
you would rather converse about yourself,
hand him this book TO entertain himself with
and then you can gently ooze out tho side
door and go TO tho reuotest parts OF tho
earth.
Finally heard of n new patent scrap book
with ready gummed pages and Ibought one
Tho prico was big enough for n set Of
Dickens, but had heard that it was good
thing, and so got it. Then period of hu
midity came along and that book closed for
ever. 1t wouldn't open any moro than a
marble slab.
waited till autumn and then got another
one. My wife filed il full of autumn leaves
They were not fully dry. She then put
heavy weight on tho top. We still have the
scrap book and the leaves, but tho book opens
with time lock, and the time set for 1t to
open Is a profound secret between Gabriel
and his wife.
Lately have adopted the plan Of purchas
ing several thousand manila envelopes, put
ting each newspaper clipping into one Of
these envelopes, and then writing the titlc on
the outside. | then hiro house and, by u.s.
ing the gummed flaps of the envelopes, faston
them in rows tastefully on the inner walls of
the house, marking n general heading over
each row by means Of red chalk. This gives
tho room CHEEKY appearance, adds TO the
acoustics Of the house and is certainly very
convenient By means of n step ladder am
enabled to select anything desire readily,
and the space usually fooled away and COW
cred by expensive but non-romunerative pic
lures is made highly useful
Sometimes havo to hire an amanuensisto
do this work, and It is not dono the Same
way would do it myself. Last year went
away for u few months to givosomc readings
in aid of few poor children for whom
feel myself responsible, and, while absent,
had young man named Pulaski Murkley
attend to this He was very methodical and
wrote good hand, rs | afterwards learned
by comparing some Of my own signatures at
tho bank with some studies which he had
made of the same subject. They were better,
il anything, than my own, must admit,
and tho cashier at tho bank agreed with inc
about 1t.
But he was very methodical, indeed, and
kept my scrap book carefully, according to
his own ideas. He came from summer re-
sort called Chisel- l-'em-out-of-their-eye-t
hurst-by -the-sea. His father resided at Up
ix-nights-ofstairs-o Hudson, and usu
nlly spent his summers at About-two-miles
behind Burdicks- lnth -lumber-and shingle
mill cash paid for hides -undertakingem
Observation-Disclosures.
People who cemc from there always think
they know oil about everything, and so ]
allowed him 10 run my scrap book.
Last fall had occasion to look for an arti-
Gle on the English colliery. For week or
two could not find it and probably would
never have run across it it hadn't happened
to look ono day under tho heading of cpl
denies
How few people, even il well paid, can do
thing just exactly ns we would do it our
selvcS.-Bill Nye in New York World.