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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
OLD HATS ON MANY HEADS.

Where the Discarded Headgear OF
the Average Citizen Finds Its Fate.
What becomes of the old hats? The
"stove pipes" derbies, fedoras, soft hats
and straw hats of various kinds-where
DO they go to when discarded by their
owners? Every time man buys new
hat he has the old one wrapped up, and
either slowed away in the hat store for
safe keeping or sent to him at his office
Or residence. AS rule, he says: "Wrap
it up and I'll call for it in a day or
two"
The halter wraps it up, marks it with
the customers name, puts it away and
waits On the largest mirror in the
hat store is banner with a strange de-
vice on it, informing the public that ''we
are not responsible for hats left with us
over 80 days." In the store they keep
h book, and when Smith, Jones, Brown
or Robinson leaves his old lid" a note
is made of it and duly entered on this
book.
After so or 60 days have elapsed
general clearing out of the old hats is
made, and they go to the secondhand
, stores along South Clark street. In the
costumers' palaces, to the country
stores, sometimes, all to be cleaned, re-
, lined and furnished up the best way
possible. 1t is thus possible for man
TO be stopped on some chilly evening
and asked to assist some unfortunate
who is wearing one of his old hats.
/ These old hats are sometimes Sent to
f, the theaters to be used as headgear for
"the rabble" or san angry mob" or "a
group of Roman citizens" Drivers Of
coal wagons and teamsters generally
who want a hat for outdoor use buy Il
J great many of these castaways. The
soft hats can be made over most effec-
tually, for stiff hat remodeled and
dyed has an ancient luster that does not
deceive the intelligent.
Country stores sometimes take an in
voice of these veterans, and the result
is a weird exhibition of head gear by
the sapes of the cracker barrels and
hitching blocks.
| A stiff hat once broken can with dltlr
Guilty be patched up acceptably, but d
soft hat may be worked over many
times and still be marketable. Laborert
generally wear soft hats, although fe"
sport derbies, and many once proud
stylish hat may be seen during the
usual street cleaning days, perched ON
the Uranium of some stalwart wlelder Of
the shovel and pick.
The peddlers buy the old hats; tbs
nlilkmen, the sailors, rivermen, labor
ers, and that most shifting army oil
human odds and ends which form such
an item in the city's population. These
are the men to whom the vast bulk oil
the old hats go. Hats that once glis'
tened with newness and glossy nap
once started on the downward path 90
lower and lower, till the ash heap in
the alley or the oblivion of an empty
lot marks their final degradation.-Chi
| ca0o Chronicle.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14

session of him. A dog would have been
welcome as companion, but there was
rot even stray dog. For moment
Lambert thought of arousing the negro,
but after one glance at the wide, red
cavern Of his mouth and the emptied
flask lying close to the frowzy head, he
decided IN favor of the mule.
A short walk brought him to the side
of the PROSTATE creature, and long
pull induced his muleship to stagger to
his feet. but in his struggles he snapped
the old headstall, and the remnant of
the bit and bride dropped into the dust.
1t was not until the vagrant stood erect
shat Lambert discovered from the U.
6 brand that he was, or had been, gov
eminent property. The saddle. too,
turned out to be one of the old-fash-
toned, black-skirted. pigsllin McClel-
lans, so familiar during the war days.
As the mule seemed only l.alf awake and
unaware as yet of his freedom Lambert
first essaved to reset the saddle. to which
he submitted without objection, and
then to replace the bride, to which he
would not submit at all. but with low
cred front and menacing hoof turned
| him about and logged over to where
some wisps of hay lay scattered in
| front of shanty labeled Post Office"
For ten minutes Lambert exercised his
arts in vain effort to recapture that
| mule. and then, in sheer disgust, threw
the bride On the sidewalk, picked up an
abandoned half brick, and let the mule
Al al txxrif fob ri
! his scraggy hide, raised one instant the
nearmost hoof, but never lifted his
head. The brute was hungry from long
tasting, and did not mean to be dis
turbed. and Lambert, who had eaten
nothing since the previous day, was
presently in full sympathy. Once more
he looked around in search of some
human being, and found himself con-
fronting citizen in shirt sleeves and a
tangled head of hair, who, leaning out
Ct a second-story window wasneverthe-
less not 20 feet away. For a moment
each reg lrded the other without word.
Then the native spoke:
'What We tryin' to do?"
81 was trying to catch that mule"
want him FIR anythiIg?"
''No; only l found him tangled in his
reins, and he got away after l loosed
KIM"
The native regarded the newcomer
curiously. Lambert had slung his
blue cape over the hitching rail during
his brief pursuit of the ungratefuI
least and his neat-fttin@ suit of tweed
was something new to Tugaloo eyes
So was the jaunty drab derby.
"You DON'T b'long roun' yere, do you?'
queried Tugaloo next.
II don't; and the Lord knows don
want to; and I'd be glad to find som'
way of getting myself and my trunl
yonder, out to camp. Can you :;ugges
any?"
''We-ell, you might walk. Don't reck
on your trunk kin, Though. Knew tn
way?"
NO"
"FolIer the track down thar a piece
an you'll come to a path along tn
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
Handled Vast Sums of Money, But Kept

Several municipal councillors of Paris
have tabled a motion to give grant of
500 francs to the widow of a former
councillor and her daughter. The moth
er and child are utterly penniless and
this temporary grant is to save them
from starvation.
The lady IS the widow of Francois
Jourde, elected in March, 1871, member
of the Paris commune. He was minis
ter of finance Of this short-lived and i'll
fated revolutionary government. In
this capacity he levied 640,000 on the
Bank of France on the old argument OF
Your money or your life and few
weeks later, the commune being again
low in it's finances, he borrowed from
the same bank loan of 6 10000. All
this money was applied to government
or misgovernment purposes While he
was minister more than 10000 ,000
passed through his hands and the Bit
terest opponents of the commune al
low that Jourde's integrity was stain
less.
After the commune was crushed he
was court-martialed at Versailles, be-
ing sentenced to transportation for life.
He escaped from New Caledonia on
March 10, 1874, and in the same boat
with N. Rochefort and NJ. Pascha Circus
set, who afterward became moderate,
this being one of the most romantic es-
capes that ever took place from the
island. He returned to France after the
amnesty, being turned a municipal
councillor for Paris. He died two years
ago and we now see that he left public
life with clean hands.-London News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Some Suggestions About Certain Gu
Iinary Matters.


Mrs Rorer, in Ladies' Home Jour
nal, says: "a mixture of dripping and
lard makes a better frying material
for fish than lard alone. A pure vege-
table oil like olive OILY is freer from
disease germs than either. Never use
butter for frying fish; it boils ut 2 low
temperature, consequently burns
quickly; the butyric acid softens the
fiber of the fish, destroys the favor and
causes it to soften as soon as taken from
the pam"
An exchange suggests the following
mode of cleaning or freshening the wall
paper: make several bags of canton
hannel--fieecc side out, of the proper
size to cover the brush of your broom.
Sweep down the walls with these,
changing as they are soiled. After re-
moving all of the soil possible in this
way, take fresh bag, dust it with flour
and wipe the walls with it, shaking out
and renewing the flour when neces-
sary." If you have nice paper on your
rooms you will find it will pay you to
secure the services of professional
cleaner, who puts it through process
which renewS and freshens it better far
than anything you can do for it your
self.
Notwithstanding the almost uni
versal substitution of baking powder
for soda and cream tartar the house
keeper finds she cannot get on without
both III stock. She needs to use them
separately many times. angel cake re-
qJlires the addition of cream tartar to
tougher the whites of eggs which are
the foundation, and hold up the spongy
mass till it is stiffened by heat. Soda
is needed to correct the acidity of mo-
lasses in gingerbread and all brown
breads and buildings that contain it.
Butter contains so much buttermilll
that a little soda is essential in all rich
cakes and cookies that are to be kept
! for any length OF time. Soda and sour
milk are cheaper than baking powder,
and an even teaspOOnful of soda with
each pint of such milk is safe and salts
factory. If milk is scaided with a speck
Of soda it is not apt to curdle in max
ing SoupS-Detroit Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
Laug liable Use OF IA gain"

The little word again" once threw a
large assembly into fits of laughter. 1t
Vas ut a public meeting in New York
Ore of the speakers, Rev. Mr.. R, had
the misfortune. when he tried to take
u seat. to miss his chair and come down
at full length on the platform. The ac-
cident occasioned not a little subdued
mirth. When at last it came his turn
to speak, the presiding officer intro
duced him in these words: THE Rev
Mr.. R will again take the floor" The
reverend gentleman never met with sc
enthusiastic a reception as greeted this
announcement. - San Francisco Ar
ronaut.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
The Fair SEI.

Women are not so foId of the express
sion: I'VE are old friends"
Most women consider that it's easier
to take some mans name than to make
a name for oneself
Many Il sweet young thing with
soft face has hard elbows i'll Il bargain
day crowd.
Woman knows that the more exasper-
;;ting she is the more she is loved. That
she acts on the knowledge only 90 per
cent. of the time proves her IN angel.
Most women are good economists. but
the masculine idea that they enjoy ac-
curing the reputation Isl mistake.-N.
Y. Recorder.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14

the gateway farther along. A path of
red brick led 30 the fight OF steps,
broad and borfered by rnpretcntious
balustrades. Dingy white columns
supported the roof of a wide piazza
Smoke was drifting from a battered
pipe projecting from the red brick
chimney at the north end. and the
morning air was family scented with
most appetizing fragrance of broiling
ham. 1t made Lambert ravenous.
Somewhere around the next bend in
the road, beyond the northward extrem
ity of the old fence, he could hear the
soxnd of voices and splashing of water.
fastening on. he found himself over
looking a level bench" surrounded
on three sides by deep bend of the
stream and partially separated from
the red roadway by fringe of stunted
trees ana thick. stubborn bushes; and
here. in an irregular square. Lambert
came face to face with the encampment
of the first company, outside of West
Point, it was ever his luck to join. At
that particular moment he was just
about ready to resolve it should be the
last.
On two sides of the square. facing
each other and perhaps 20 yards
apart, were the ga" tents of the som-
pany. ten on side. At the flank farth-
est from the road and pitched so as to
face the center of the inclosure was a
wall tent, backed by one or two of the
smaller pattern. Nearest the road was
second wall tent, used. possibly, by
| the guard-though no guards were Wis
| ible-the white canvas cover of an army
wagon. and a few more scattered "a
| tents. Cookfires had been ablaZe and
were now smouldering about the wag-
on. Several men in gray wooden shirts
were washing their faces at the stream;
others, in light-blue overcoats. were
| sauntering about the tents, some OF
whose occupants, as could be easily
seen, were still asleep.
Standing at the edge of the winding
road, and thinking how easy a matter
it would be to toss hand-grenade into
the midst of the camp, Lambert paused
n moment and studied the scene. Rest
ing on his sword, still in its chamoi:
case, with his cloak and satche
thrown over his shoulder, the young
officer became suddenly aware of mar
wearing the chevrons Of corporal who
fshing-rod in hand, was standing jus
beyond 9. clump of bushes below ant
looking up at him with an expression
on his shrewd. "Bowery-boy" face il
which impudence and interest wer'
about equally mingled. So soon as h
found that he was observed. the cor
poral cooked his head on one side. and
with arms alimbo and quizZical gril
on his frecllled phiz, patronizingly in
quired:
"Well, young teller, who made then
clothes?"
Lambert considered moment befor
making reply. One of his favorite in
structors at the academy had spoken t
the graduating class about the splendi
timber to be found among the rank an
file of the army. 'They are like 8
many old oaks said he, and some G
Lambert's chums had never forgottc
it. Neither had Lambert.
| Trio RE CONTINUED
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
ORPHAN BILLY.
my hasn't any ma

Young Billy hasn't any ma
To tell him w at to do:
To make him mind, an comb his hair,
An keep him in a stew.
He doesn't hat to wash his self,
Ner mind about his clothes
tell ye Bill has mostest fun
Of any boy knows.
IN Bill kin go a-ffshin', too,
Whenever he's inclined.
N he kin stay away all day.
N no one ever mind.
] tell you orfuns has snap;
most wish l was one.
My ma an pa watch me SO clost
/ can't have any fun.
IN Bill kin stay out late o. nights
Till nine o'clock, or ten:
But let me stay till half-past eight
N sompthin' happens, them
N you list ought to see Bills clothes,
All tored up into bits:
But If mines tared a little mite
My ma list gives me fits.
Yis, orfuns hav snap, fer sure
Still, when | come to think
About not havin' any ma.
l kind O. haf to wink.
TO keep the tears from comm out
Fer ma is awful kind.
N treats me nice an lovin' too,
Ist 'cept when don't mind
She gives me pie and cake tween meals
N helps me make my kites;
N sets fer hours beside my bed
When | am sick o. nights,
N softly, gently strokes my head,
n calls me her dear SON
think I'd rather keep my ma
y let Bill have the fun.
Arthur j. Burdick, in Chicago Record.
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| |

1t was sun-up and swapping cold when
the brakeman shouted "rugaloo' ana
gratefully Lambert stepped from the
train and felt free air. Mr.. Potts was
sleeping soundly. doubled up in one OF
the seats. The only wakeful bipeds IN
sight were the conductor and his tram
man. Unseen hands forward had
showed the trunk out upon the frosty
boards. The sun was just peeplng over
a low wooded ridge before them. nc
track woand away among some desoia'e
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
SeIf-SuppOrting.

Mrs De Sense Ito benevolent friend
Il presume those idiot asylums d,
some good, but / can't see how they car
hope to make idiots self-supporting.
Small Son (gloomily)-I guess the.
set 'em to writin' children books.-N
Y. Weekly.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
Figuring 1t Out.

Day-Why do you claim that tina
headlight of yours is jewel? Ever
one knows it is paste.
Weels-I can prove it-paste ha
consistency and consistency is jewe-
Chelsea Free Lance.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-05-14
AN HONEST MAN.

ITo BE Continued
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-02
THE BOOMING OF MINES.

A Seventh Century Prospectus-The
Importance Of the First Step.
1t Is an old. saying that "Good wine
needs no BUSH" but maxim none the
less, in these degenerate days of gene
raj advertising, more ehonored in the
breach than the observance, remarks
the London Standard. Particularly so
is this the case as regards what our
forefathers would have denominated
ventures" or as we have 1t company
aotation." In such affairs no man can
deny that 1T is the first step that
counts" from the promoters point of
view, subsequent proceedings being
more the business of the general pub
lie. Many a bubble company has been
started on its checkered career by the
fundamentally of the metaphorical
flourish of trumpets of picturesque
prospectus. In spite of all that politi-
cal economists may write to the contra
ry, a large section of the community
has persisted in regarding the precious
metals as the embodiment of wealth,
and as this opinion was equally popu-
lar alike in almost prehistoric times
with the ancient Greeks, with the
mighty men of the Elizabethan age,
when the Inflated Sir Walter Raleigh
(the beauideal Of a buccaneer) sailed
his last sad voyage to Eldorado, as
with the specializing plunger OF the
mining market of to-day-there is no
reason for supposing that, so long as
earth holds treasure, the demoralizing
desire for metal will diminish
Towards the latter end of the seven
teenth century there existed certain
mines in Wales worked by joint propri-
etors. The partners in this undertake
ing numbered, among others, duke
four peers, a Lord Mayor of London,
and baronets and knights galore. Such
a venture, with such board, should
succeed but iii the opinion at least of
the steward of the said mines, one Will
liam Waller, gentleman, the capital was
insufficient to meet working expenses
Possibly the remuneration of the stew
ard or manager was not as regular as
might be wished, but Be- the, reason
what it may, this enterprising gentle
man issued a prospectus to procure adj
ditional capital; no vulgar production
such as those Of the present time, but
an Essay on the Value Of the Mines
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F. M. BROWN, & co.

they adjourned to Mr.. Dibble's cottage.
Many thanks are due Mr.. Dibble and
the cottagers who subscribed for the
entertainment Of the choir.
The New Haven guests left early In
the evening for the city.
Rev. DR., w. w. McI4ane, pastor of
the Plymouth church. will conduct the
services next Sunday at p. M.
The Whitneyville Tidings, the little
church paper published by the Whit
NEVILLE Congregational church, says:
Surely this church is leading a return
to some Of the ways of original Congre-
gationalism. For three Sabbaths of
the pastors vacation laymen have con-
Quoted the services and preached their
own sermons. July IL Deacon James
M. Payne preached from the text Psalm
94:19, SIN the multitude of my thoughts
within me thy comforts delight my
SOUL" July Is DR.. o. F. Treadwell
preached from the text Acts 1881: BE
lieve ON the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved, and thy house." July
rs DR.. III. H. Smith preached from the
texts Genesis SO: "And the Lord God
called unto Adam and said unto him,
Where are thou?'" and Genesis 40:
ANU IiAC Lulu Setlt1 ulltO AdlIl, w mere
is Abel thy brother?'" the subject be-
ing Responsibility The popular YER
dict seems to be, that these preachers
gave very good satisfaction" We
commend this plan to other churches
when their pastors are absent
1t is expected that the pastor will be
in his place as usual on, Sunday. August
s, and that he will speak that morning
on Vacation Impressions. He reports
that he is having thus far a delightful
vacation. The first part of it was spent
with his family at the seashore near
Machias, Me-, and the latter part is be-
ing spent on a bicycle tour somewhere
along the New England coast. On Sum-
day, July IS, he preached to his former
people in Machias, and July rs in Phil
lips church, South Boston. Mrs. Clarke
and the children are already greatly
| improved in health and vigor in the
| Maine atmosphere and are enjoying
| themselves greatly among old friends.
They will remain through the month of
| August.
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ships sailing into theSport of Aberdo-
vey. to bring them ready money for
their commodities" Whereas Potozi is
seventy leagues from the sea- Lord
Darwenwater, the reader is informed,
made of his duty (Which is a fifth part
of the work. $4,000 year; another
eminent lord in the north $4,000
wear" With the same number of
workrnen as employed in the north, a
clear profit of 975,S72 l9s. Sd. per an
mum might be expected. The greatness
of the thing made 1t seem improbable,
but, says Mr. Waller, The general and
penny-post office were at first esteemed
as meer projects, and sighted at the
beginning" for the very same reason.
But besides copper and lead there was
silver in great quantities awaiting the
adventurer in certain oars to the extent
of $50 pounds per ton; and in >corrobo-
ration 1t Is mentioned that Sir Hugh
Middleton, In similar case, paying
G400 per ann. rent to the Society of
Royal Mines, cleared monthly the sum
of $4,000" But this gentleman, having
too many irons in the fire, unfortunate
ly failed, "for great wits and purses
seldom know how to give bounds to
their assignments, and, by undertaking
too many things, fail in all" The wri-
ter, after quoting from the classics,
and comparing the mines of Wales with
those. Of Athens and Hungary, wakes
poetical:
1.-THE fortunate have hours, and those
they choose.
The unfortunate have minutes, and
those they loose"
Finally the fortunate proprietors are
exhorted that in their prosperity they
should look that the poor may have
some share with them in SO rich a
treasure, especially the poor miners
and laborers." Then might they be
truly called the Friendly Society Of
Miners and fear no combination to
destroy their works" With the prayer
of the steward that his patrons might
obtain treasure eternal as well as tenn
poral the prospectus comes to an end
| 1t is to be hoped that the worthy gen
tleman received enough to cover the
costs of publication.
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INCREASE Surplus to
Policy holders ............... Sc, 355, 7S6
Or 763 per cent.
INCREASE Insurance in
f'orce .............-..... $41 ,9S2, 259
INCREASE Premium In
INCREASE in Assets to each. ...
$1,000 of Liabilities. ...$13S
INCREASE Ratio of Man
agement Expenses ......7 6-100 per ct.
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Stock and Mutual Management
For a, Quarter Century
COMPARED.
AETNA LIFE And CONNECTICUT MUTUAL.

"A COMPARATIVE HISTORY showing the
results of the twenty-five years administration Of
the present conservative management of the leading Mutual
life insurance company in New England in contrast with the
Progress made in the period by the greatest exponent
of Stock management in the United States
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-02

The announcement is made of the
engagement of Miss Gertrude Sanford
to- Mr.. Clarence Buckmaster Bolnler,
manager of the New Haven branch Of
Prince & Whitley, the New York
bankers and brokers.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-02
81 financial.

Following are the closing prices re-
ported by Prince & Whitley, bankers
and brokers, 16 Broadway, New York,
and Is Center street, New Haven:
Bid. Asked
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New York Cotton Exchange.
Norwich Gas & Electric Co.
First Mortgage 5 per cent. Thirty
Year Gold Bonds.
DATED JULY LIST, 1897.

DUE JULY 1st 1927.
COUPONS payable January and July OF
each wear at the New York Security Il
Trust Co., New York, Trustee for the Bond
The NORWICH GAS & ELECTRIC co.
is n consolidation of the Norwich Gas and
the Norwich Electric Cos. and controls all
the Gas and Electric lighting of Norwich.
Gam with a population of about 25 900
and the net earnings for 1896 were nearly
double the interest charges
The ofiieers Of the Company are:
90 n Terry of Waterbury Pros
Morris f. Tyler of New Haven. Treas.
Sam'i Hurlbnrt of Norwich, Gent Man'r.
bonds subject to sale at par and interest.
and shall be pleased to give full informa
ton regarding them.
II. G.. WARREN & co.