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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
Freaks of Lightning

Nothing in the history of electrical
phenomena parallels an occurrence of
some five years ago at Bou1 ges. France
Eighteen men of the Tbirty-seventh
regiment of artillery were marching
just outside of the town when a sud
den shower of rain made them run for
shelter. While in the act a flash of
lightning moved the whole party down
with the exception of the commanding
officer. The first ranks were not badly
injured, but four men remained irsen-
sible and were carried to the hospital.
where one named Bouveau. who, curl
ously enough, had been walking a little
apart from the rest. died. Bouveau had
been struck on the head, and his kept
and head were burned. the current
passing down by his right ear to the
shoulder. whence it passed to his left
side. The whole 10 men were more or
less Observation-Disclosures Chronicle,
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13

Not to give sober second thought a
chance to counsel better things, he
pocketed the forged deed and went
straight to the dingy little office next
door TO Catron's store. The old notary
was sitting at his desk, and the lines of
reticencc in his sallow face deepened
into wrinkles when he looked up and
saw who had opened the door. Thorn
dyke wasted no time in Introductory
phrases.
II wo or three months ago, Mr.. Prag-
more, asked you some questions about
a deed purporting to have been given by
John Kilgrow to James Gates. The
record shows that you attested it, but
you denied any recollection of the cir
cumstances. Will you tell me now that
you did not antedate your certificate six
years or more? that you did not ac-
knowledge the signature of a man
whom you believed to be dead?''
Pragmore stiffened himself in his
chair and made no sign, though he had
to moisten his thin lips to say: "You
cayn't prove anything"
The sullen defiance overdrew what
ever amount of prudence the discovery
of the deed had left Thorndyke. Lean
ing over the desk, he held the paper out
spread before the eyes of the old man.
do you pretend to say that this is not
your signature? Will you tell me that
you don't know Fench's handwriting
when you see it? Did the printers make
mistake of five years when they put
their imprint on this blank?"
The mask of inscrutability slipped
aside for a moment, and Pragmore's
face became gray and furred with
terror. Then he relapsed into sullen-
ness again, but there was an angry snarl
III his voice when he spoke.
81 don't know nothin' about it. mr.
what-all ye're amin at, but I'll tell We.
| first an last, We cayn't bulldoze me.
This here's my Office, an since We found
the way in, 1 reckon We can find the way
out"
Philip started off in a white heat Of
wrath. Halfway to the door he turned
on Pragmore.
Il came down here to give you one
more chance to save yourself" he said !;
''you don't deserve any more consider
! alton than any common criminal, but
you're an old man and you've let these
fellows make tool of you. Once for all,
will you turn states evidence? or shall I
send the sheriff after you?''
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
The Same COfOrs.

They were talking Of their absent
SONS, and the fact that each of the
gentlemen had boy III different col
lege did not prevent them from AMIGA
bly, discussing their various prospects.
We'll" said one of them, cit won't be
long before the athletic season; and
then L guess We'll hear something from
the orange and blue"
YES" was the reply, and thereI!
be some shouting done by the blue and
gray"
'Of course" rejoined the third man,
land as my boy has gone to Princeton,
I'll have to put in a word for the black
and orange; but it doesn't make such d
great deal of difference. The boys are
bound to come out under the same col
Ors in the end"
NO" said one.
Cant be arranged" exclaimed the
other.
''Oh yes, it can
ITO what colors do you refer?"
'Black and blue."-Golden Days.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13

about TO deny its ownership, when
his eye caught the name xii
grow" on the back of one of
the folds. He took the paper
with what nonchalance he could mus
ter, gave the old negro a quarter, and
did not dare to look at the thing until he
had put a hundred yards of the forest
on, Johns mountain between himself
and the possibility of prying eyes.
Then he examined the square of grimy
paper with a singing in his ears and
the blood jumping from heart to brain.
There was no room for doubt or uncer-
tainty; he held in his hand the forged
deed. The document which had so long
eluded him had come to him at last by
the merest accident; and if anything
were needed to make his triumph COM
plete, it was added by the discovery that
the written text of the deed was in the
unmistakable handwriting of Mr.. Jen-
kins Fench. That was enough; but
there was another and still more con-
elusive evidence of the forgery. The
stationers' imprint in the corner of the
blank fixed its making five years later
than the certified date of the document
itself.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
LESSON TO A TRUckMAN.
One Who Stood His Ground and Yet
Was Not Run Over.

His general appearance was that of
doctor of divinity, but his shoulders
and chest were those of prize fighter.
He had snow-white hair and beard and
must have been about 70 years old. AS
he stood in the roadway at the Junction
of Montague and Court streets, Brook
Ign, waiting for trolley car, people
gazed at him, because he was q very no.
ticeable specimen of mankind. If he
noticed the notice he gave no sign of
it, but leaned on his cane, waiting pa
tiently.
Down Montague street came a truck
driver of the pestiferous variety. AS
soon as he saw the old gentleman he
howled opprobriously at him in the
language of his species, which is gen.
orally unintelligible; a very good thing.
The old man didn't move. He didn't
even look around. Now, there was
plenty of room for the truck to pass
in front of him. In fact, if the driver
had kept in straight line he would
have cleared the waiting man by ten
feet, but he didn't keep to the straight
line. In order to assert the superiority
of him who goes on wheels over him
who goes on foot the truckman headed
directly for the old man, yawping:
"Giddout d way! What's de matter
wit yer?"
Still the threatened one made no
move. When the horse was almost upon
him, however, he pohed his stick gently
into it's neck. Naturally the animal
swerved aside. The truckman pulled
up, leaned over and poured out flood
of vile language, addressed to and re-
garding the old gentleman. That
worthy looked up and inquired, mildly:
''Are you talking to me?"
The driver had got fairly started in
another TRADE when the other, with a
back-handed sweep of his cane, cut him
full across the face. With a yell of
rage the truck rufian dropped the reins
and seized his heavy whip. There was
crack like a pistol shot as the cane
fell across his wrist and the whip
| dropped. Again the cane swung, and
this time the trlckman went over back.
ward in his seat with a red welt across
his forehead. A smart cut across the
horses TANKS from the same weapon
sent the animal forward with a leap
and the truck was clear over at Fulton
street when the driver sat UP, rubbing
his head in bewilderment. The ole
gentlernan's car arrived and lie boarded
it, leaving about so witnesses in a con
dition of gleeful and ecstatic satisfac
| tion.-N. Y. Sun.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

-Denman Thompson is living on bis
farm in New Hampshire and says he
has no notion of acting any more.
Daniel Webster was extraordinar-
lily fond of oxen, and all those on his
farm knew him by sight and would fol-
low him like dogs.
George Eliot wrote for eight years
with the same pen, and when she lost
it bewailed her misfortune as almost
too hard to bear.
Patti has a weakness for Mexican
spaniels, and wherever she goes carries
two or more with her, usually wrapped
up in silk shawls.
Hon. Winston Churchill, eldest son
of the late Lord Randolph Churchill,
will stand for parliament in the con-
sentative interest at the next oppor-
tunity. Lord Randolph's younger son,
John Henry Churchill, now II years of
age, will study for the bar.
-Ex-Dean Allen, who has just died
in his 95th year, was the oldest clergy
man of the church in Wales. He re-
stored ST. David's cathedral He was
graduated at Trinity college, Cam
bridge, no less than ~ years ago, and
ten years later was ordained priest.
Daniel O'Conne1, youngest and last
surviving son of the Liberator, has just
died at Bedford, England, aged 81
years. He accepted the Office of income
tax commissioner from Palmerston 40
years ago, and subscribed regularly &c
the unionist fund to fight home rule.
President Mckinley dotted his
black silk tile to the Washington sum-
mer and appeared in a remarkably high
white "stove-pipe." Nothing like it
could be found in the Washington hat
stores, and there are apprehensions
that, like the Inauguration suit, it is of
Canton manufacture
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13

trimmings, had risen rapidly upon the
square of land, well within the limits
of the new Allacoochce, which had
been donated by the town company.
Tt was characteristic of the time and
place that the county officers were NOV
ing into the new building while the
painters and decorators were still at
work, and Philip crossed the street to
get out of the way of a van-load of fur
niture which the driver was vainly at
tempting to back over pile of debris
IN front of the entrance. Farther down
the street, Philip met another load, and
at the foot of the cascade of steps flow
ing down from the porch of the old
courthouse he found third van into
which gang of negro workmen were
loading the furniture of Judge Wilkin-
sons Office.
During many of the days spent in
canvassing the town for possible
clews, Philip had haunted the court
house; and more from force of habit
than for any other reason he climbed
the steps and strolled into the room
which had been the Office of the judge
of probate. The place was bare and va
cant; the counter where he had so often
pored over the books of record was
gone; and the floor was covered with
litter of waste paper which rustled
under his feet like the autumn leaves in
forest. When he entered the negroes
were moving an ancient case of pigeon
holes from the place against the wall,
and Philip smiled at the prompt ce-
lerity with which they put it down at
the sound of the noon whistles. Before
the echoes of the blasts had died away
they were all gone save one, grizzled
cid uncle who had brought his dinner,
and who sat down'on the floor in a cor
ner of the room to eat it.
Philip gazed abstractedly. at the
heavy piece of furniture, which was all
that remained of the office fittings, I'M
til he suddenly remembered that it had
been the receptacle for recorded deeds;
then it occurred to him that here was
the last traceable point in the history of
the missing document. Each pigeon
hole contained drawer on which was
painted letter of the alphabet, and
Philip mechanically drew out the one
marked ''K." It was empty, as he knew
it would be, and, pushing it back, ne
left the room and the building. Al the
foot of the steps the old negro overlook
him.
"Yaas sab, please sab, you-all done
drap dishyer when you's lookin' in dat
| OF chist''
Philip glanced carelessly at the
folded paper in the mans hand, and was
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
Egyptians EmbaImed Alive.

Prof. Maspero, the renowned EgyptOl-
Ogist, is authority for the statement
that among the royal mummies IN
bandaged in 1866 was one of a young
man who had evidently been embalmed
alive. The body had been tightly
bound in three places and then coated
with bitumen, lime and pounded resin,
and then wound from head to foot with
bandages which had been soaked in
some glutinous preparation. The ag-
onized expression of the face and other
evidences gave the scientists their
clew. His age was probably about %,
The gold ornaments on his body midi
Gated that he was one of high rank and
likely the victim of some terrible trag-
edy.-N. Y. Sun.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
XIV
DRAWING THE SWORD.

When the first burst of exultant ex
citment had spent itself, Thorndyke sat
down upon a fat-topped stone and
mapped out plan of attack. He would
begin on Pragmore, terrifying the old
nortary into submission and confession
by sight OF the forgery which he had
made possible. Then he would push
Eench and Sharpless to the wall by in
s1ituting proceedings against them in
both the civil and the criminal courts.
He would apply for an injunction re-
straining them from disposing of any
of the property IN dispute. He would
stop the wheels of business and seal uD
tie fountain of Allacoochee's prosperi-
~ until Kilgrow's rights were recog-
nized. He would show these unscrupr-
lous robbers that though Justice might
be blind, she never sleeps.
This was the outline of the temerari-
Gus plan which ingeniousiy combined
all the elements of defeat and failure
The impetuous zeal which had carried
Thorndyke triumphantly over the dis
Couragements of the long search for
evidence became at once a source OF
weakness and stumbling-blocki in the
way of final success; and he was never
less match for the crafty and con.
scienceless corporation attorney than
at the moment when he believed that
victory was to be had for the taking.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
A NEW NEW ENGLAND.
The Effect of the Network of Trolley
Roads.

The trolley roads are rapidly cover
ing Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut with a network that is
slowly and surely redistrib1Iting the
population; it seems almost inevitable
that a great part of the present rural
area of these three states will ultimate
ly be included in the suburbs of their
numerous and widely scattered indus
trial centers and of their dozen or more
larger cities. When this condition ar
rives, if it, does arrive, rural life will
have become suburban and farming,
aside from market gardening, will have
practically disappeared. The bicycle
and good roads are exerting a minor
but considerable influence in the same
direction.
Equally important is the fAct that
large areas in all sections of New Eng
land are in process of transformation
from farms to sites of country seats.
Residents of the cities are coming more
and more to make their real homes in
the country. They are building their
country houses with more comfort and
more solld1ty, and are living IN them
muck larger part of the year than
formerly. The country season extends
already from the 1st of May to the 1st
of November, and is still lengthening.
Improved railway and steamboat trans
portation, the. multiplication of large
fortunes, greater leisure, above all a
growing appreciation of the sports and
resources of country life, have contrib
uted to this result. 1t looks very much
as if our urban society were attaching
itself primarily to the 1and-living on
the land and leaving it for the city only
in the festive season. Whether this ten
dency will produce again a landed aris-
tocracy instead of an aristocracy OF
other forms of wealth, who can say?
One thing only is sure-it would pre-
duce thereby new New England
Atlantic
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
ITO BE Continued
THE MoMENToUs QUESTION.
1t Was Brief and Simple But Full of
Meaning.

She is charming young woman, the
more attractive because of her confid-
ing credulity. Her mother, as BELTS a
woman of her responsibilities, is a
model of cautiousness. The girl was
talking of a. man whose acquaintance
with the family was still young, but
whose qualities were such as to render
him a very agreeable companion. The
mother tolerated him and the daughter
encouraged him.
my DEAR" said the former, sit seems
to me that you are allowing Mr.. Glider
son to monopolize a great deal of your
time
81 hadn't noticed it, mamma"
Il hope that you realize that the years
of your life between 10 and 81 are very
precious and should not be wasted
''But Mr.. Gilderson is a very bright
and energetic young man. And he
seems exceedingly well bred"
Yes
And he knows so many fine people.
He knows dukes and duchesses and one
or two of the crowned heads. He has
been abroad, you know"
$50 1 gathered from his conversa-
ton"
''And he knows nabobs and heiresses
in this country"
Eyes, my dear. haven't the slightest
doubt of it. There is only one question
that arises in my mind"
What is that. mamma 2"
''Do they know Washington
Star.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
ALASKAN NATIVES.
They Are Proud and Intelligent, in
Spite of Raggedness and SquaIOr

they Are Proud and Intelligent, in
Spite of RagSedness and SquaIOr.
John Muir, the California naturalist
and discoverer of the great Muir
glacier, writes of ''The Alaska Trip"
On the arrival of the steamer most
of the passengers make haste to go
ashore to see the curious totem-poles in
front of the massive timber houses of
the Indians, and to buy curiosities,
chiefly silver bracelets hammered from
dollars and half-dollars and tastefully
engraved by Indian workmen; blankets
better than those of civilization, woven
from the wool of wild goats and sheep;
carved spoons from the horns of these
animals; Shaman rattles, miniature
totem-poles, canoes, paddles, stone
hatchets, pipes, baskets, etc. The
traders in these curious wares are
mostly women and children, who gather
on the front platforms of the half
dozen stores, sitting on their blankets,
seemingly careless whether they sell
anything or not, every other face
blackened hideously, naked circle
about the eyes and on the tip of the
nose, where the smut has been wealth
cred off. The larger girls and the
young women are brilliantly arrayed
in ribbons and calico, and shine among
the blackened and blanketed old crones
like scarlet tanagers in a flock of
blackbirds. Besides curiosities, most
of them have berries to sell, red, yell
low and blue, fresh and dewy, and look
IL l.
the people. These Indians are proud
and intelligent, nevertheless, and main
tain an air of self-respect which no
amount of raggedness and squalor can
wholly subdue.
Many conoes may be seen along the
shore, all fashioned alike, with long
and beak-like sterns and prowS, the
largest carrying 20 or 80 people. What
the mustang is to the Mexican vaouero
the canoe is to the Indian of the Alaska
coast. They skim over the CLASSY, shell
tered waters far and near to fish and
hunt and trade, or merely to visit their
neighbOrs. YOnder goes a whole FAM
lily, grandparents and all. the PROV OF
their canoe blitheIy decorated with
udHu1u4S VI pulp cpIIODIuuI. 1ItE
are going to gather berries, as tho
baskets show. Nowhere else in my
travels, north OF south, have l seen
so many berries. The woods and
meadows and open spaces along the
shores are full of them-huckleberr
of many species, salmon-berries, rasp-
berries, blacl1berries, currants and
gooseberries, with fragrant strawber-
ries and service-berries on the drier
grounds, and cra1lberries in the boys.
sufficient for every worm, bird and
human being in the territory, and
thousands of tons to spare. The In
dams at certain seasons, rowing in
merry bands, gather large quantities.
beat them into paste, and then press
the paste into square cakes and dry
them for winter use, to be eaten as IL
kind of bread with their oily salmon
Berries alone, with the lavish bloom
that belongs to them, are enough to
show how fine and rich this northern
wilderness must be.-Century.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
AFTERGLOW.

pray that time full many years may bring
And round about us heap his flowers and
snow
That we a-down the western slope may
go,
Clasped hand in hand. as in that joyous
spring
When first, together, we did learn to
sing
The songs of youth beside the rivers flow;
The songs our hearts unto the end shall
know,
If now no more the woodlands with them
ring.
And we shall sit on many golden eve
Beside the fire and dream of other days
When we were young, and laugh "a
wrinkled laugh,
Nor mourn, nor sigh that loud the winds do
grieve,
For thou shalt more than multiply the
Mays,
And the long DEFENDERS count but half
-Joris Won Linden, in Chicago Record.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
Able to Risk 1t.

''My stars!" CALCULATED a traveller who
had, while journeying through the Ar
kansas backwoods, stopped at cabin
to get his dinner You should not let
that child play with that loaded re-
volver; it is a terrible risk"
Jaw, L dunno" replied the host, non.
chalantly. I've got about fourteen
more children around the place some
whufS IN Y World
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
A Game Fighter.

John" called his wife, ARE you put
ting the baby to Sleep"
The pugilist laughed bitterly in the
darkness.
1--WE got him against the ropes" he
answered, for there was yet aope.-Be
troit Tribune.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
SurfcitCd.

Sentimental Individual (at the sea-
side)-Don't you enjoy watching the
breakers?
Burly Individual-Naw, I'm tired O.
that sort O. thing. I've had charge of
workhouse gang fer two years.-N. Y.
Journal.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13
JustifabIc Homicide.

Good day for the race" said Able,
What race?" said Cain.
Human race" said Abel.
"Darned if haven't bitten at tAat
thing again." said Cain, and then +.
used his club to prove that Abel was 4.
liar.-N. Y. Truth.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-13

Thorndyke put the note into bis
pocket and went out to think about IT.
He had been reasonably certain for
some time that Fench and Sharpless
were quite we'll informed as to his
movements and their object, and he
had been expecting some attempt at
bribery or intimidation. That il had
not come sooner he attributed to their
knowledge of his lack of evidence.
They know we'll enough that have no
case" he said, turning out of the busy
street and walking aimlessly toward
the old town. And, yet, that reason is
as good as it ever was. Curse his impu-
dence. He knows l can't get hold Of
a shred of proof, and he means to bully
me. If 1 could only find that deed!"
He left the sidewalk and picked his
way around heap of Instructions left
by the builders in front of the new
courthouse. Chilmath county, aug
mented by the thriving city, had voted
to abandon the weather-worn building
in the old town, and a new court@ .ouse,
imposing in pressed brick and stucco