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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-26
The Old SILVER TRAIL.
BY MARY E. STiCKNEY.
copyright 1896. by J. B. Lippincott Col
CHAPTER XII.-CoNr1NUED.


The doctor had come to Windy
Gulch, renouncing his profession in
favor of mining ventures, which had
resulted disastrously so far, but to
which he was sticking in a forlorn hope
of some day recouping himself for his
losses, meanwhile keeping the wolf
from the door by falling back upon his
legitimate calling. He had nothing of
worldly advantage to commend him,
but he was good fellow, and good
looking one. Any woman might fall
in love with such a man; and Dorothy
Meredith Neil laughed, a strange,
hysterical outburst, turning away his
head. "And 1 did not even know that
you knew herr" he said again. lyon
never spoke of it before"
''Oh, l met her when she was here,
the physician nonchalantly explained.
hut eying the sick man with furtive
intentness 81 did not mention it, I
suppose, because you naturally hated
the whole outfit so. felt could choose
more agreeable subjects to talk about"
Yes, hated the whole outfit so.2
And Neil laughed again, that odd,
1nirthless laugh. ''You were so con-
siderate''
!. "But you are talking too much now.
old man." the other observed, repress-
ingly. ''Pll be over in the morning and
answer your letters; meanwhile you
must not let yourself think about bust
ness at all. Here comes Mrs. Bowen
to turn your pillows and make you COM
Portable, and you must compose your
self and go to sleep. Good night"
There was a low-voiced conference III
the hall between nurse and physician,
and then Mrs. Bowen came to the bed
side, looking somewhat anxious.
about them oysters, she began, 1.-The
doctor says" -
''Oh, hang the oysters!" Neil peev-
ishly calculated. 81 wish you would go
downstairs and get one of the boys to
come up and help me dress. I'm going
east in a few days, and it's time.I was
sitting up. 1t is weakening lying here:
never shall get strong if don't get a
move on me. Go after Murphy, please;
he's the man I want"
''But the doctor" began Mrs. Bow
en-, looking frightened.
"Oh, 1 talked it over with the doc
tor. told him was going" Neil
laughed, eXcitedly. "And am. Moth
ing on earth shall stop me. VIII you &c
after Murphy now, or must l go my
self?'
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you told me that you hated me. TWAS
not true?"
II Think think more of you-than
1 thought 1 did," she murmured, bend
ing toward him like a wind-blown rose
in the shy confession, her eyes down
cast, her cheeks atiame.
''Ah, the happy thought! God bless
you for it, my sweetheart-mine!" I'm
possible to convey the gladness, the
rapture, of that impassioned whisper.
punctuated with soft kisses upon a
small pink palm. But he was laughing
too for gay amusement at her pretty
embarrassment, in such lightness of
heart as he had thought he could never
know again; and with characteristic
impetuosity he would follow up his tri-
umph with the swift demand, merrily
mocking her shy hesitancy: "And dc
you think-do you think enough of me
to marry me-soon, darling? Oh!"-
and now the laughter had left his voice,
while CLINT of sudden tears enforced
the impassioned earnestness of the low
cry: 81 have so hungered, so starved for
you, Dorothy"
But, though he laid bare his heart in
that brief pleading, he was for the mo-
ment stunned by the swift granting of
ever you like, DEAR" she whispered back,
her eyes, alight with glory of bound
less tenderness, resolutely bent to meet
the dazed wonder, the rapturous ques-
tioning, of his.
1t was his look more than his voice
that presently spoke in his worshipful
"My darling" And then he was silent
for awhile, covering impulsively with
her dear hands his eyes, from which
the glad tears were yelling over. eff
you were my wife now" he tentatively
muttered after a moment. IF [ could
have you with me all day long" He
broke off with little sigh, his glance
ranging about the small, bare bed
room. But 1 could not ask it, sweet
| heart; of course l could not"
''But if you do not ask it, l don't know
how L can say yesto it, Dorothy MUIR
| INJURED, dropping toward him in sweet
confusion until it needed but the yield
ing of an inch to answer the pleading
of his eyes and lay her hot cheeks
against his in soft caressing-A
Dorothy" 1t was al he could say,
but all his doubt, his eager questioning,
his tremulous joy, found expression in
the one word.
"You see" and the girl drew back
from him little, striving to assume a
more matter-of-fact air for the eXplana-
ton which size could hardly yet put
into coherent phrase" auntie-I made
her come with. me; [ could not come
alone, you know; and she hates the
west so much; it is so hard for her to
become reconciled to my staying here
so hard for her to Understand that
must stay here to be happy" Harvey
had not been a lover if lie had not in
terrupted her with a murmur of new
love words ard more kisses for the lit
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The only Way.

''No," said the ~business-like young
woman, II don't read anything ths'
author writes"
perhaps if you were to get better
acquainted with him he would interest,"
you"
81 don't think so. There is only one
way that 1 can imagine his interesting
me in what he wrote"
"You mean he'd have to change his
STYLE"
mo. He'd have to become secretary
of company in which held stock and
declare a d."-Washington Star.
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THE BOURBON NEWS TUESDAY. OCTOBER 2e. 1897.

the way be hadscoolly faced the chances
of death by going down into the mine
alone, when of all those he would succor
not one was bound to him by tie or kin,
not one but had been his enemy; the
way he had afterward come to the re-
lief of the families left in want by the
taking of their d-winners-these
things, for which enthusiasm grew
with every reiteration, suggesting :
hundred other little happenings which
the people were now glad to recall in
his favor, all augmented by the sympa-
thy and concern for his long and seri-
Gus illness, had lifted him to a point in
popular favor well-nigh equivalent to
canonization. 1t might have been diff
cult at just this time for any woman 20
rise to the camps ideal of what Harvey
Neips wife should be; and Dorothy
Meredith was regretfuuy regarded as
falling long way short of it.
Everybody was sure she could not be
half good enough for him, mainly be-
cause she was her fathers daughter.
the evil that the colonel had done now
living after him in the merciless gossip
of many tongues. But the camp, through
much buffeting of fate, had grown phil
osophical; and, although it could not
altogether approve, it was presently
ready to admit that possibly this might
be the best way to settle the trouble be-
tween the mines, while as 10 the rest.
Mrs. Bowen hut summed up the general
conclusion when she was inspired to
ask: whats the odds, as long as
they're happy?"
| THE END
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He COT the Position.

Small boy dashed breathlessly into
q merchants Office. as the guv'nor
IMP"
yes; what do you want?"
"Must see him myself; most par
tickler."
But you can't; he's engaged"
''Must see him immejit; most par
ticker"
The boys Importantly got him III.
"Well, boy, what do you want?"
oyer want orffice boy, sir?"
"You impudent young rascal! No!
We've got one."
mo, you amt, sir; he's just bin run
over in Cheapside."
Boy engaged.-Tt-Bits.
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Her Comment.

81 have noticed" said Willie Wishing
ton, "that woman always puts the
most important part of her letter in the
postscript"
"You never do that" said Miss Cay
enne.
"Never"
WELL" she went on, thoughtfully,
isn't it better to put the important
part of a letter in the postscript than to
leave it out Observation-Disclosures
Star.
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Youthful FacetiOusness

when you have sore tooth you go
to the dentist and he pulls it, don't
hep"
eyes, my son."
'Now that you've got sore leg if you
go to the doctor will he pull it?''
with deep feeling) "Yes, my son."
Brooklyn Life.
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Restitution.

Miss Keedick-I read about a lady
suing man for $500 for kiss he had
stolen from her.
Miss Kittish-But 1 suppose she
would have been willing to withdraw
the suit if he would return the kiss
IIn-tO-Date.
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RandicaDDeN.

THAT man." remarked an admiring
friend, ''has the faculty of saying clear
Iy in a few words what others would
require pages to express"
TOO bad!" said Senator Sorghum.
Hell never get along in politics; not
unless he learns to filibuster better
than that. "-Washington Star.
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An Eve to Economy.

Mr.. Trivvet-Why did your wife get
a wheel; she was so much opposed to
bicycling last year?
Mr.. Dicer-She found a bicycle belt
on the street, and her economical in
stinct would not permit her to let il
go to waste-N. Y. Journal.
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Merely a. FeeIer.

The Baron-Did her father acquire
his money honestly?
Penelope-Oh, yes. (Sarcastically)
If he did not L suppose you would not
marry her.
The Baron-NOt at all. If he acquired
it dishonesty he would probably be too
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What He Wanted,

els there anything in my house you
would like to have?" asked the man, as
he frowned over the back fence at his
next-door neighbor.
eyes," came from the other side of
the fence; "Pd like to have you send
the insides of that piano your daughter
bangs on, out to my barn."-Yonkers
Statesman
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They Would Kick.

He-I am opposed to women being al
lowed to vote.
She-What is your objection?
He-If they are allowed to vote they
will all Cbe practically ballot girls, and
what few there are of them now make
trouble enough in the world as it is
TammanY Times.
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Such Is Fame.

do you consider Meeker self-made
man?"
mo; 1 think he was made to order"
"Why SOP"
"Well, judging from the way his wife
orders him around he must have b cen
made for that purpose."-Chicago
News.
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Ht. Excentionnl Luck.

"I have read repeatedly" said the sad
eyed young man, never to ask young
lady's permission when you wished to
kiss her."
well, L hope you didn't" said his
friend.
mo, 1 didn't; but the young lady,
think, does not read the papers. =
Puck
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Thnse Dear GfrIs.

Madge-When We were driving in the
park to-day we were the cynosure of all
eyes.
Marjorie-Oh, so you had that pretty
southern girl with you--N. Y. Journal.
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a Roland.

The Editor regret that your manu-
script, though good, is not available at
the present time.
Scribbler-Ah, then may presume to
hope that your esteemed periodical will
some day improve 10 such a degree as
to be worthy of my contributions
Yellow Book
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Ready Made.

"Bilger says no woman could make
fool of him.
well, then. he's right"
''Right?"
Eyes, she'd be too late = Chicago
Journal.
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or Course She Would Suffer.

eff you don't like to hear me talk,
she demanded, why didn't you marry
a mute?"
"a woman who is physically unable
to talk at ALI" he exclaimed. why,
I'm too tender-hearted. L can't endure
the sight of ffering.''-Chicag Post.
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Well balanced

Yes, Miss Howjames is a wonderful
ly intellectual young woman, but she
has developed her brain at the expense
of her poor little body. To me she
seems top-heavy."
''Top-heavy? Then you have never
seen her feet."-Chicago Tribune.
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Her Opinion.

"One of the greatest evils in Iife,''
said the elderly. woman, lis procrasti-
nation"
Il think so, too" replied the young
married woman. Il don't see the sense
Of putting off your golden wedding an
niversary till you are 60 or 70 years DID,
Washington Star.
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An OmcinI,s Wrnth

First Citizen-What's the alderman
80 mad about?
Second CitiZen-A Doodle scheme was
pushed through while he was absent.
81 see. Mad because the taxpayers
are going to be robbed"
mo. Mad because he missed a divvy."
N. Y. Weekly.
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a nnuhIR Rnhharv

Midnight Burglar-Fork out every
farthing you've got or I'll
Jones (half awake)-Look here, Ma
ria, this is coming it too strong. Didn't
/ give you all had when came home?
Judy.
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Height of ImDrODrietv,

do you know" said the girl in blue,
while we were sitting in the hammock,
and just as 1 thought. he was about tc
propose, a garter snake suddenly ap-
peared."
How indelicate!" returned the girl
in pink.-Chicago Post.
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A Critical Opinion.

Jinks-That young lady may be Iine
pianist, as you say, but there is no
warmth to her touch.
Blinks-I guess you didn't hear her
play the Moonlight symphony
Jinks-No; but squeezed her hand,
N. Y. Weekly.
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A Deduction.

Teacher-What is a rumor?
Pupil-A ship.
Teacher-What makes you say that2
Pupil-Because | always hear of ru-
mCrs being afloat.-Judy.
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Doubtful.

Charlie Bragg-Yes, Miss Brightly,
is costs me $4,000 year to live.
Miss Brightly-Or. Mr.. BraggI do you
think it's worth it?-N. Y. Truth.
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Good Advice

LIES troubles are many, its joys are few.
Yet will we not train with the doleluL
crew;
To double each pleasure and rout each
pang,
Just pluck every rose and let thorns go
hang.
Detroit Free Press
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just the Girl He Wantea

He-Can you cook?
She--Tm sorry to say shat can't
He-Will you be my wife?.>N. \.
journal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-03
4 TIN WEDDING.

The beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs.
Aft. Diechmann on Prospect hill was
the scene of one of the most pleasant
gatherings of the season on Monday
night, it being their tenth wedding
anniversary.
After the marriage ceremony, which
was performed by the Rev. Joe G.
Booth, the guests sat down to sumpt-
uOus banquet; champagne flowed
freely and all went as merry as a mar
riage bell. with many tOasts to the
bride and groom and wishes for their
happiness.
The host and hostess ably sustained
their reputation for hospitality and
were the recipients of many presents
both costly and useful. The home was
beautifully decorated with ferns,
palms. simlaX and most exquisite cut
flowers.
Among those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. ALT. Diechmann, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. Z. Fowler. of Cuero; DR.. and Mrs.
Du Puy, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Slack. Mr..
and Mrs. A. +. Dechmann, Mr.. and
Mrs. f. A. Piper. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
BARTHOLOMEW. Mrs. f. Weld. Miss
Gussie Bartholomew. Miss Mamie
Schieffer. of GeOrgetOwn; Mr.. Carl
Burkhardt. Mr.. Geo. Costing. Rev. Joe
G. Booth
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-03

left is the president. Mr.. Lesser's in
vention was the result of necessity.
So popular was suicide among the club
members that members who were called
on to pay for the funerals of other sui
cidal members objected, and President
Lesser felt called upon to devise some
means of solving the financial problem.
If it hadn't been for his determination
10 find some way to die and at the same
time be buried cheaply Lesser would
have taken a short cut to eternity some
time ago.
But now success has crowned his eff
forts and he has a working model that
guarantees no expense after death.
Suicides have way of going to some
big city to cut the knot. Bringing
back the remains has always been eX-
pensive. Mr.. Lesser provides for sui
eide and burial on the spot.
When Mr.. Lesser revives the Suicide
club and votes to admit lot of peo-
pie who are now on the waiting list of
the late club, the club will at once buy n
piece of ground, an acre, more or less,
in which large graves will be dug at
stated intervals to meet the allotted sui
cides of club members. Over each open
grave will be a platform. The earth
taken from the grave will be laid on the
platform. Quicklime in very fragile
bottles will be mixed with the earth.
The quiclIlime is last resort that does
it's work without the victims consent.
The platform is so balanced and ad-
iusted that it is tipped over by a spring
attached to an electric wire that runs
down to the bottom of the grave. Here
there is an electrocution arrangement.
The suicide, when ready to quit this
world, steps down into the grave and
lies calmly down on the board at the
bottom of the grave. His head presses
one electric button connected with
live wire. His feet touch another, COM
pleting the circuit. The platform over
head upsets and drops the earth upon
him, and all is over or ought to be.
The rash occupant of the hole in the
ground has three chances at death. If
the electric shock is inefficient, the
weight of dirt on him will complete the
job, while the quicklime will consume
him if everything else fails.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-03

animals, all about us, lift up pleading
eyes for help.
But, enough! Men have died and
worms have eaten them, but not for
love. and so have women, and what
matter that the sun of life's Joy sets
forever, for a human being. especial
ly if that human being happens to be
woman? And why sadder if the
one is multiplied by thousands? The
sun still shines on, rising in the east
it sets in the west; the stars come out
one by one and coquette and peep and
twinkle with the witching white
clouds of night; and the moon sails
calmly on, not taking note of either
the trysting places of lovers, the
graves where tears are falling. or the
hiding of the midnight assassin: and
the great God guides all with his in
different hand, not needing the tears
of women. the grOans of men or the
starving little children: unmindful of
the patient hearts, and the dropping
flowers.
Wonderful world. is it not? But
what rebellion it is to long for better
things. Away on the mountain top the
tall pines point like spires to still
greater heights. In the valleys mod
est violets and meadow lilies look up.
so why not we? The calm of clear
sky, the beauty and silence of the
starlight nights all proclaim peace.
Nineteen hundred years ago the Ma
zarene walked amid the same misery.
the same want, the same aspirations
of the lowly and the same saddened
CIT lf II
and holy peace of mind.
Did he know with his God-like in
buttons and perfect truth that some
times we should wake. remember
and understand" and that suffering
is needed to develop the highest good?
But here, again. we come to stone
wall, against which we may beat our
wings in vain, for unmerited sadness
and pain do not develop our best. on
~ in few saints, and most of us are
sinners Each day 1 feel more and
more dependent and less certain of my
self, but help docs not come through
| cry aloud and cease not. My own
burdens. and especially the burdens
of the dumb helplessness all around us
is almost glnater than can bear. Thus
I'VE pass on, like the lover and Psyche,
to the end of the vista, but are stopped
by the door of q tomb
1t is not for the cOarser voice of the
Light preacher break the spell of
the silence that falls upon his hearers
afteE this passioh hate heart burst of
~wofnaR, and SIZE would bear all the
burdens OF he poor and the suffering
and the helpless and the sOrrOwful
upon her own strong and strangely
lonely heart. There is food for the
reflection of those in high places as
well as those in low, in these voic-
ings of a heart Beloved! Let them
this morning, the first Sabbath morn
ing of the New Year. sink down into
your spirits. Let them be as good
seed cast upon fertile soil. bringing
forth abundant fruits. The fruits or
peace. and assistance. and sympathy
with all the wants and disabilities OF
the human brotherhood and sister
hood. So shall come nearer that day
of deliverance from hunger. suffering
and woe so devOutly prayed for in the
hearts of all tender men and loving
women.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-03
JUDGE WILLIAM D. M'HUGH.

early spring of 1888 he came to Omaha,
and in 1889 united with Gen. Gown in
the firm of Gown & McHugh, which re-
latbonship he has since maintained.
He has been counsel for Omaha's job
bers and shippers In their controversies
with the railroads and conducted on
behalf of the Commercial club the liti-
cation with respect to Texas rates
and with respect to the bridge toll
charged by the roads on shipments be-
tween Omaha and Iowa points. Mr..
McHugh has been a stanch Sound
money" democrat and Is a warm per-
soral friend of Secretary ]. Sterling
Morton.
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Big Block of Granite.

Much Inconvenience is experienced
in finding a rail route to New Orleans,
having bridges high enough for the
largest block of granite ever quarried
in Vermont. The block is Is feet square
and 3 feet thick. 1t is intended for
the noted Moriarity monument in that
city. 1t was quarried in Barre, and
has been moved 10 the dressing sheds
A special car is being built by the local
roads, on which it is intended to set
the block on the edge, letting the lower
sides swing through the bottom, ex.
tending to within eight inches of the
rail. The weight of the block exceeds
80 tons. Investigation shows that most
routes have bridges too low for the
block 10 pass through.
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at-arn1ss of tn

lowing year he removed to Fort Atkin-
son. Through his efforts the jefferson
County Dairy Association .as organ
lied and also the State Dairy associa-
ton, of which he was secretary, for
three years. After time, he established
dairy department. in his paper and
later began the publication of distinct
dairy paper, calling it Hoard's Dairy
man. Mr.. Hoard is one of the leading
dairy lecturers of the country. In two
seasons he has delivered more than 300
addresses, advocating the adoption of
improved methods. Ee is clean tallSer
and debater, with peculiar knack of
putting things. In 1888 he was nomi-
mated for governor of Wiscon-
sin and in the fall of the
same year was elected. He proved
an able chief executive, conscientious
and thoroughly business-lile. He was
renominated in 1890, but was defeated.
Since his retirement from the capital
he has continued to give attention to
his newspaper and to dairy interests.
There are few men in the United
States entitled TO so large a share of
the confidence and esteem of the farm
ing population, or who would have done
more to advance our dairy interests.
Gov. Hoard is now mentioned for sec
rotary of agriculture in McKinley's cab
ipat
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used by the society in its initiation.
Proceeding in the direction of the
groans, Alfred lit a match, and there,
right in front of him, sat skeleton.
1t was apparently laughing at him.
Alfred did not see anything to laugh at,
however. He screamed.
as he ran out he fell over pile OF
bones, and when he returned to his
room he told his friends who were as
sembled there that murder was be-
ing committed. Investigation revealed
tramp, who had bad attack of stom-
ach-ache. 1t was ne who had been do
ing the groaning.