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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-12-14

Mr.. C. C. Master, the logger, is in the
city on business.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-12-14

The choicest candies and nuts can be
found at the Parior.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-12-14

Ask for sample Of Chase 4 ssneOrn's
famous teas. at Ross, HIsvins \ Co.'S.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-12-14
NEW THEATRE DEAL.

5ss Commercial Street.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-12-14

Captain DOIg returned yesterday from
San Francisco.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
-
urIRrOna nhnOna

y species of baboon fnhabiting the
colony of the Cape of Good Hope has be-
come pest to the farmers by destroy
ing their lambs. The balloons haunt
the clumps of cactus scattered through
the fields and exhibit much cunning in
keeping out ofthe reach of their human
enemies. 1t is asserted that they have
taken note of the fact that women do
not carry firearms, and therefore need
not be feared. But when man appears
the balloons instantly take to their
heels. On this account the farmers have
lately devised the plan of dressing in
women's apparel when they set out to
shoot baboons.-Youth's Companion.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31

sons. In the first place, [ bought my
stock and paid for it, so L missed the
help of the deputy sheriffs and the
creditors; they made the move easy for
most of 'em, tell you. Then, again,
it costs money to move stock of hard
ware, even if you know where to take
it, and 1 DON'T
81 think you're more to be pitied than
the Others" ventured Philip.
You're right about that. It's ter
rible thing to be anchored in dead
town, and that's what I am-both an
chors down and stuck in the mud, with
the windlass broken, at that" The man
smiled at his own joke and went back
to his seat on the spool of wire when
Philip told the driver to turn down into
the manufacturing district.
In the space between the railway and
the river the air of desolation was even
more oppressive than in Broadway.
Tall chimneys standing guard over
many-windowed factories whose walls
had never vibrated with the jar of the
expensive machinery left to rust and
lumber warping and twisting in the
weather; rows of cottages built for the
operatives, tenantless now, save for an
occasional family of negroes living
rent-free in the industrial desert. 1t
seemed like a dissertation to break the
silence. and neither of them spoke until
the carriage had reached the bisecting
street of the old town.
''This is Allacoochee the original
said Philip, ''and I fancy it has gone
back to just what it was in the antedi-
luvian days. There's the Mountain
house; fine old southern mansion, they
told me it used to be. That's the old
courthouse at the head of the street.
where 1 found the deed, you know.
This is Catron's store, and the place
next door-well, if that isn't nerve!"
The exclamation pointed at a slim
figure standing before doorway over
which swung a faded sign bearing the
inscription ''Simon Pragmore, Notary
Public" The figure lifted it's SLOUGH hat
at sight of the carriage and its occu-
pants, and out of its sallow and immo-
bile face came the courteous saluta-
ton: Good mawnin, Misteh Thorn
dyke; glad to see you lookin' so well,
seh"
Il suppose that is Mr.. Pragmore? 2"
said Helen, a little later.
Philip was wrestling with ghost of
indignation. "Of course it is; and to
think that he has the assurance to come
back here and go on with his business
as though nothing had happened! Ive
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
A CASE IN EQUITY.
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
copyright. 1895. by J. B. Lippincott Col
XIX.-CONTINUED.
BY FRANCIS LYNDE

Kilgrow was hardly out of the room
when Protheroe tapped at the door and
entered without waiting to be asked.
Il beg your pardon if I intrude," he
said, bluntly, ''but I've got to have q
word with you before you go down.
L suppose you'll think I'm a cursed cad,
after all, but can't help it if you do.
I've asked Elsie to marry me, and she
says she will"
He thought he had prepared himself
for anything that Thorndyke could pos
sibly say or do, but the forearming
had been altogether on the side of resis-
tance, and Philips enthusiastic out
burst of hilarious approval left him
quite helpless.
by Jove, old man, that was the only
thing that was needed to make this the
happiest day of my life!"-Thorn-
dyke was wringing his hand till it
ached. God bless you-God bless you
both! And you're a lucky dog, too: the
old mans just authorized me to put the
whole $4,000 in her name" He jerked
out his watch, breaking the chain in
his haste. ''Great Caesar! it's half-past
three, and that train goes at 4:35! Pro-
theroe, if you love me help me catch it;
I've got TO start for New York to-day if
have to walk!"
1t was hurried farewell at the farm
house and sharp gallop to town, with
a breathless scramble for scattered be-
longings at the hotel; but Philip
caught the train, and there was still
time for him to scribble a telegram
which he thrust out of the car window
to Protheroe as the wheels began to
turn. 1t was to Helen, and it read:
please disregard my letter, and for
give me if you can. 1 am on my way
home''
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
THE END.
The Camp of the Great Khan.

The tent in which he holds his court is
large enough to give cover easily to
1000 souls. 1t is pitched with its doors
to the south, and the baronG and knights
remain in waiting in it, whilst the khan
abides in another close to it on the
west side. When he wishes to speak
with anyone ne causes the person to
be summoned 10 that other tent. I'm
mediately behind the great tent there
is fine large chamber where the khan
sleeps; and there are also many other
tents and chambers, but they are not
in contact with the great tent as Sc
are. The two audience tents an, he
sleeping chamber are constructe in
this way. Each of the audience tt is
has three poles, which are of spi e.
wood, and are most artfully covered
with lions skins, striped with black
and white and red, so that they do not
suffer from any weather. All three
apartments are also covered outside
with similar skins of striped lions, q
substance that lasts forever. And in
side they are all lined with ermine and
sable, these two being the finest and
most costly furs in existence. For a
robe Of sable, large enough to line "a
mantle, is worth 1000 bezants of gold,
or 1000 at least, and this kind of skin
is called by the Tartars 1.-The King of
Furs." The beast itself is about the
size of a marten. These two furs of
which l speak are applied and inlaid
IL
thing worth seeing. All the tent ropes
are Of silk. And, iii short, l may say
that those tents, to wit. the two audi
ence halls and the sleeping chamber.
are so costly that it is not every king
could pay for them.-Noah Brooks, in
st. Nicholas.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
CUBA'S FRIENDS.
The Unexpected Place I'm Which Two
of Them Were Found


81 never realized how widespread was
insurgents until last week." said
New York man recently. Twas under
the impression that sympathy witk
them was confined to the large cities,
where the matter has been agitated by
the newspapers and the people are in
position to know something about the
merits of the cause. But last week
while in Binghamton, n. Y, had oc-
casion to drive out to a small summer
settlement known as Quaker Lake. 1t
Is about Is miles from Binghamton,
and the road is through a desolate and
mountainous country. One doesn't
strike many houses on the way, and to
make the trip more cherries the road
passes through the deserted village of
Brackney, once aprosperous settlement,
whose inhabitants worked in the tam
neries. About mile beyond Brack-
ney 1 came across a little mite of a
house, almost hidden among the trees
and about a dozen yards from the road.
I would have passed by without MOTTO
ing it at all, but for a small flag pole
which stood in front of it, from which
waved the flag of Cuba. Under it was
the American flag. A man sat on the
ground in front of the house, and, as
he didn't look particularly formidable,
L got out of my carriage and opened
conversation with him on the plea that
wanted drink of water. worked
the talk around to the flag, and finally
asked him who put it there.
"'Me N my woman he answered.
"'Any interest in Cuba?' ventured.
"'None, 'cept the interest of a free
man in a struggling race he said.
It's this way; me n Sue, that's my
woman, have ben reading about this
here war fer long time, an we al
lowed we was agin' oppressors and fer
them that was trying to throw off the
yoke, every time. We can't see but
what this here war is jest American
history over agin, an as we thank
the Lord fer our blessings we pray for
them as is trying ter get the same for
themselves
"EBut the flag said, where did you
folks ever get Cuban fiag?'
THAT said my new acquaintance,
SIS Sues work. Some fellow down in
New York was advertising something
with card which had that Cuban flag
printed on it in colors. Sue jest lowed
she could make one of the flags, and
she's done it. Sue made the American
flag there Is years ago, and L put that
pole up. We love it, we do, but jest
now we think it's fair ter put Cuba On
tor. The eagle amt miDding what
me n Sue do, because we're patriots
and love him first, anyway
''Tbe old fellow wasn't around when
L drove past again by moonlight on my
way back to Binghamton, but the two
flags were there, waving in the breeze"
Detroit Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-"Black Beauty" that celebrated
story of a horse, is used as a reading
book in the public schools of Minneap-
oils.
Mr.. H n. Higginbotham, of Chi
cago, has offered $500 in prizes for the
best essays on 1.-The Field Museum"
by pupils of the public schools Of that
city.
Bishop Thoburn now, suffers from
broken arm. While riding from Naini-
Tai, Northwest provinces, India, to in
spect the missions in Eastern Kumaon,
he was thrown from his pony.
Uganda has advanced enough in
civilization to have a hospital estab-
lished by the governmental Mengo, the
capital. 1t will have mems ward with
six beds, a woman's ward with four
beds, an operating room and a store
room. A missionary doctor will be in
charge.
-Ex-Ambassador Bayard, before re-
turning home from England, procured
a reproduction of the chair used by
John Bunyan in Bedford Jail, as also
copy of the charges under which he was
committed to prison, and proposes to
present them to the Baptists at Will
mington, Del.
DIR. Cheyne, of Oxford, the we'll
known student of the Old Testament,
will deliver a course of lectures at the
Union theological seminary, New York,
in the autumn. or "Israel After the Ex-
odus." He is also to lecture in Brook
Ign, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and per.
haPs at other points.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
THE BUMBCEBEE.
The Big Queen Searches for a Home
in the Early Spring.


In early spring, when the meadows
first take on q tinge of green, and the
apple trees put forth their rosy buds, we
may often see a single large bumblebee
dying low and swiftly back and forth
across the lawns or pastures.
These great bees are the queens who
have just awakened from their long
winters sleep, and are now seeking
some favored spot wherein to COM
mence housekeeping and found a col
cny; for these insects, like their cousin,
the honeybees, live in colonies consist
!ngof three classes, or castles 'drones,"
Or ''males," Queens" or females" and
workers" When our big queen has
at last discovered a satisfactory build
ing site, usually a deserted mouse hole,
she cleans it of all rubbish and litter,
and places within a ball of pollen, i'll
which she lays her eggs. The young
grubs hatch out possessed with enOr-
nous appetites, and, feeding on the pol
.en, eat into it in all directions. At last,
when fully grown and their craving for
food is satisfied, they spin cocoOns of
silk in the remains of the pollen, and
change to pupa. While her family is
thus sleeping quietly within their silkeD
cells, the old queen is constantly at
work, building up and strengthening
The cocoons with wax.
Finally, their sleep being over, the
pupa cases burst, and the young bees
come forth in all their glory of black
and golden livery and gauzy wings.
The first brood consists entirely of
workers, who Immediately fall to and
relieve their tired mother queen of all
work and duties, with the exception of
laying eggs. They fly hither and
thither, always busy and industrious,
now plunging into the center of gor-
geous hollyhocl1 or sunny dandeljon,
or buzzing about among the modest
daisies, or diving head first into some
sweet-scented, aristocratic lily or rose,
always emerging from their quest for
honey covered with the golden dust Of
pollen. The honey and the pollen thus
gathered are stored away, and the eggs
laid in the waXen cells from which the
workers issued; and the next brood,
composed of drones and young queens,
feed upon this store of nectar.-St.
Nicholas
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
INDIAN INK.
Consul Fraser Reports on How 1t Is
Manufactured.

consul fraser REPORTS on How LIT Is
Manufactured.
An interesting account of the manu-
facture of the so-called Indian ink,
which is made only in the Anhui prov
ince of China, is given by Mr.. Fraser.
our consul at Wuku, on the Yang-tsze,
in his last trade report. 1t is more cor
rectly called China ink-encre de Chine
and from Anhui it goes to every part
of China and all over the world. In
1895 about two tons of it, valued at
e 564, were exported from Shanghai to
foreign countries. The materials with
which this beautiful black ink is made
are sesamum or COLA oil, or the oil ex-
pressed from the poisonous seeds of a
tree extensively cultivated in the Yang
tsze valley, and also well known in
Japan. To this varnish and pork fat
are added. The lamp-black made by
the combustion of these substances is
classed according to the materials and
the grade of fineness, and also accord
ing to the time taken over the process
of combustion. The paste made of this
lampblack has some glue added, and Is
beaten on wooden anvils with steel
hammers. Two good hammers can pre-
pare in a day so pieces, each weighing
half pound. A certain quantity OF
musk of the muskdeer, or of BarooS
camphor, for seeming, and gold leaves,
varying from 20 to 100 to the pound, are
added to give a metallic luster. The
materials thus prepared are nodded in
molds of carved wood, dried, which
takes about 20 days in fine weather,
and adorned with Chinese characters in
gliding. About 80 average-sized sticks
of ink 60 to the pound. The price
! varies from two shilliDgs or less per
pound to as much as seven pounds,
| there being over dozen different
grades. Nearly all writing is done by
the natives throughout China, Japan,
Corea, TOngking and Anam with this
China ink, rubbed down on a stone ink
slab, and applied with a paint brush
of sable, fox or rabbit hair, set in a
bamboo holder, and when not in usa
carefully covered with a protecting
brass cap. The superior kinds of this
ink appear to be used in China, and nos
| exported Observation-Disclosures.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
Reasons for Divorce.

A North German spouse sought re-
lease from q brute of a husband be-
cause he advertised her to go to the
masquerade as captive balloon. with
a string tied around her ankle. In Ida
no of late a wife of that region sought
bill of enforcement, one count in her
indictment being that her husband
smoked a pipe in their bedroom. In.
his demurrer he declared that he
smoked only the best tobacco; that his.
wife knew he smoked when he married
her, and might nationally have expected
the occasional fumi gation of their
dormitOry. He declared also that he
habitually smoked ON the doorstep, ex-
cept when it rained, and that his wife
objected to his going to the saloon
when it did; as to his smoking in the.
parlor, he averred that he tried it once
in his early conjugal days, and had no
inclination to repeat the experiment.
He was therefore forced to take occa-
sional refuge in the bedroom, bnt gen
orally smoked out of the window, as A.
loving and considerate husband should
do. No statute was found in the Idaho
codeX covering the case, which the
judge advised them to settle out Of
court on a basis of mutual tolerance
and concihation.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31

horses hoofs and muffled the jingling
accompaniment of loose bolts in the
worn-out hackney-coach.
"Protheroe didn't stretch it much,
said Philip, unconsciously lowering his
voice in Difference to the sepulchral
quiet of the street. You'd hardly be-
lieve that / have stood on the sidewalk
just here, waiting my chance to dodge
across through the endless stream of
carriages and wagons and electric
cars"
1T doesn't seem possible"
"No, it doesn't. And in that last
afternoon, when 1 was breaking my
heart to catch the New York train,
the Johannisberg omnibus was actually
stopped in jam of vehicles somewhere
along in this square, and I was afraid
we'd miss it."
On either side of the grass-grOwn
streets were the costly monuments of
the sham city's brief day of activity and
life. Lofty buildings, empty from eel
lar to roof; rows of vacant stOre-rooms.
lined with dusty shelving and Uttered
with the forlorn debris of hasty re-
movals; shattered glass on the side
walk; withered grass festooning the
cornices; and, in front of the disman-
tied Bank of Allacoochee, the skeleton
of an electric car left to dissolve peace
fully on the rusty tracks in the road
way. Here and there the desolation
was emphasized rather than relieved
by scanty and shop-worn display in
the windows of some merchant who
| had been unwilling or unable to join
his neighbors in the general exodus
following the crash; pitiable fiotsam
ard jetsam left by the high tide of
commerce to bleach and molder on the
rocks of an uncharted island in the
ocean of traffic. Of these stranded
wrecks, the most notable was the store
of a dealer in hardware just across
from the Chiwassee national bank.
|'That is where I bought my pistol
on the night of the garroting," said
Philip, telling the driver to pull up at
the curbstone.
The proprietor of the place was sit
ting on a spool of barbed wire in from;
of his own door, and he rose and crossed
the sidewalk in response to Philips
salutation. ooh, it's you, is it, Mr..
Thorndyke? 1 didn't know you at
first. Come back to take a look at the
corpse?'
'It amounts to that, I'm afraid" said
Philip, alphabetically.
cit does, for a fact-just that. All
we need now is a good, old-fashioned
earthquake: not the fever-and-ague
kind you read about nowadays, but the
sort they used to put in the biographies
when we went to school-a shake with
e big crack in the middle of it to bury
the wreck decently out of sight"
Its dreadful" said Philip, not
knowing what else to say. "Why didn't
you get away with the rest of them?"
The man made pathetic gesture OF
helplesspess. "There were two rea-
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
GREASE STOPPED ENGINE.
Exciting Incident Responsible for
Niclxnaming of an Eastern Road.

Nicknaming of an Eastern Road.
"When the road was first built" the
storytelling railroad man continued,
(which now runs from Harrisburg to
Canandaigua, N. Y, it was nicknamed
the 'Davy Crockett and for many years
thereafter the name chung. 1t was
brought about in this way:
Zone dark night, when the conductor
was taking three passenger cars
through to Sunbury, he noticed the
headlight of locomotive in the rear.
He instantly informed the engineer of
the fact and both began specializing
what it meant. The train was running
at high rate of speed, but the head
light in the rear was gaining steadily
on them. AS there was no lights in
| the rear of the headlight, they con-
Guided it must be an empty engine.
That road twists in and out among the
mountains and skirts the banks of the
| Susquehanna river in such way as
to permit anyone looking back to OBJ
serve what is going on in the rear for
considerable distance.
'The conductor ordered the engineer
to pat on more steam, and the latter
pulled the throttle wide open. Then
followed a wild chase through the
night. Pursuer and pursued tore along
at the highest speed. Everybody on the
cars believed that the engineer of the
pursuing engine was either drunk or
crazy.
cat last bright idea struck the en-.
gineer. He recalled the fact that a
locomotive can make little progress on
greasy rails. The contents of two
large cans of lard oil were poured on
the tracks from the rear of the last
passenger coach. The idea proved a
great one. Soon the headlight of the
pursuing engine grew dim in the dis
tance. When it was safe to do so the
train stopped and backed up to solve
the mystery. A very funny sight was
revealed.
Zone of the finest engines on the road,
called the 'Davy Crockett'-they gave
the locomotives names in those days
| instead of numbers-had broken away
from hostler up in Williamsport and
started down the track on a voyage Of
destruction. The oil poured on the
track had baff1ed all the destructive
abilities that locomotive possessed.
There stood the Davy Crockett putting
and snorting like Texas steer, the
driving wheels buzzing around on the
CREASED track like a flywheel in a ma
chine shop, but hardly moving an inch"
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-31
Xxx.
THE END OF ALL THINGS.


Like a few other sensible people
Philip and Helen deferred their we'd
ding journey to a time when it came
as welcome relief from the round OF
domestic and social duties for the wife,
and a needed rest from the drudgery
of business for the husband. Philip
had said summer and Europe, bu5
Helen had pleaded for autumn and the
south, and she had her way.
eve can go ON to New Orleans if you
like, but want to see Allacoochee," she
said.
You're too late for that; Allacoo-
chez is dead and buried-so Protheroe
writes
NO matter; we can see the place
where it was. 1 shall always love it,
alive or dead, for what it did for you"
And so it came about that on a GER
tain golden October day, when the rug
ged outlines of Jubal mountain were
melting in the soft autumn haze, and
the fragrance of summer blossoms had
given place to the spicy sweetness of
withered leaves and ripened fruit, a
thinly-peopled train on the Chiwassee
Valley Extension debarked two OF it's
passengers at the ornate station which
aforetime had been too small to ac-
commodate the throngs besieging it
at train-hourS. There was no lack of
room now, however, and when Philip
lifted Helen to the platform the empty
train-shed echoed their steps as if pro-
testing against the invasion of its soil
tude. At the arched entrance, where
the crowd of vociferous hackmen used
to fight for patronage, they were met
by single decrepit negro.
''Hotel, sah?" he asked, doffing his
battered hat and bowling with touch
of unspoiled courtesy.
eyes; you may take us to the Joha-l-
nisberg."
"Cayn't do dat, sah-no, sab; 'caze
hit amt runnin' no mo-. Dee amt no
hotel in de new town now, sab. lab
to take you-all to de Mountain house"
Philip put his wife into the shackly
vehicle. us your horse good for a Six
mile drive, uncle?"
ooh, yass, sah-he suttinly am dat;
eff hits anywhars on de plain dirt
road"
"Al right. Put the top down so we
can see, and drive us around town a
bit; then I'll tell you where to 60"
Three hundred yards from the sta
ton the carriage turned into Broad
way Nature reasserts herself speed
ily in semi-tropical climate, and the
rank grass sprouting between the paw
ing-stones deadened the sound of the