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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
FOLLOWED HER INSTRUCTIONS.
a Servants Obedience to Her Mas
ter's Orders Proves Embarrassing.

a Servants Obedience to Her Mas
ter's Orders Proves Embarrassing.
Some people are so careful about in
stTucting their servants TO beware of
confidence men that they have trouble
getting into their own houses after dark
when they have forgotten their keys.
One south side resident regrets that he
ever aroused the caution of the faithful
housemaid who runs things at his home.
He has often instructed her not to
give any coats or grips or other valu-
uble things to the willy stranger who
comes around with a glib story about
Mr.. Smith sending him up from the
office to get his overcoat. But one of
the chilly days last week he went forth
with a light overcoat on and stopped at
the corner barber shop. While waiting
his turn he decided the day was too
chilly for SO light coat and, giving
it TO the colored porter, asked him to
run to the house and exchange it for his
ulster. The boy FASTENED away with
the coat and few minutes later rang
the door bell of the residence.
MIR. Smith is down to de bahbah
shop, ma'am, an he lows its too cold
foh dis coat. an he wants me to get his
heavy coat" he said to Hannah, the
housemaid, when she looked out sus-
piciously through crack in the door
way. She regarded him silently a few
moments and recognized the garment
on his arm as that of her employer.
''Give me that coat!" she demanded
suddenly, reaching for it. The boy
turned it over without word. Closing
the door to the original crack she
shouted triumphantly:
you'll get no coats here with your
confidence games, me bould bucko!"
And she slammed the door on the
porter. Five minutes later the SILVER
ing citizen, left thus with 10 overcoat
hurried home with coat collar turned III
to his ears and climbed into his ulster
! But he had no instructions to give the
| housemaid.- Chronicle.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
Fresh and Salt Water.

4 striking illustration of the different
effect of fresh and salt water on the
huils of ships was recently afforded
by the steamers which ply on Loeb Lon
mond when undergoing their annual
overhaul The woodwork of the YES
sells, as usual, showed signs of active
deterioration, but so well does the fresh
water of the loch preserve both iron
bulls and boilers from corrosion and
pitting that the makers name upom the
material of one of the vessels built 80
years ago was found intact and per-
fectly clean and sharp. The inside OF
the boilers was also found extremely
free from the deleterious coating OF
any kind. The effect of the sea water
upon iron and steel is exactly the re
verse of this, but the saline properties
Of the ocean tend TO improve woodwork.
Chicago Tribune.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
DIFFERENCE IN METHODS.
The Way That Won and the Way
That Didn't.

The young contractor had his choice
TO secure the right of way for railroad
in Texas or help construct monstrous
iron bridge in Mexico. He chose the
former undertaking because it kept him
in his own country Successful negotia--
tors are born, and he is not one of them.
He lacks adaptability. In the wild and
woolly districts of the Lone Star state
he was like cat in Il strange garnet.
With the big ranch owners he would
have had no difficulty, for they appre-
ciated the advantages of the proposed
road. But these cattle kings were in a
hopeless minority and were not in touch
with local public sentiment.
The grim old moonshiner was among
the first to call on the young pioneer.
81 don't keer to have no railroad run
MIN inter this deestrict.' was his blunt
ultimatum 81 kim in here an opened
up a still an kin sell all tn stuff / kin
make. 1t sells fur good price, an I'm
not goin' ter have any competition.
I'm runnin' what yer might call sin
gle-handed monoperly.'
But your little one-horse business
can't stand in the way of great rail
road enterprise
Eyes, it kin, young Teller. You can't
run no train through here so fast that
can't pick the engineer off, an with him
closed out / reckon yer rOllin' stock an
passengers wouldn't be much account
put injunction on tn road an when
a man puts himself inter contemp' with
me he's huntin' trouble
Then came trappers who didn't want
game interfered with, cattle thieves
who didn't want to be run down with
trains and telegraphs, and the keeper
| of little frontier tavern who fondle(
two guns while arguing against Dew
railroad.
Finally the novice received notice Il
leave and he wisely obeyed. Then :
smooth little Yankee went to the scene
talked like candidate, put none!
wherever it would do the most good
passed mountain dew around as if i
were water, and inside of three week
had every objector. on his paid stat
ready to shoot in defense of the railroat
preject.-Detroit Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
Practice Walking.

An easy way to practice walking well
is to start out right. just before you
leave the house walk up to the wall and
see that your toes, chest and nose touch
it at once; then in that attitude walk
away. Keep your head up and your
chest out and your shoulders and back
will take care of themselves. A south
err school-teacher used to instruct her
girls to walk always as if trying to look
over the top of an imaginary carriage
just in front of them. 1t was good adj
vice, for it kept the head raised. Don't
think these things are OF 10 value. They
add to your health and your attractive
ness, two things to which everybody
should pay heed ST. Louis Republic
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
THE TOWNS OF CRETE.
Vow Notable on Account of War
RumOrs.

Vow Notable on Account of War
RumOrs.
A writer In the St. Petersburg We'd
omosti gives the following account of
the towns of Crete: Gambia, Retimo
Canea, are of the Crete of the hundred
towns the only three cities existing,
and in using the word city every at
tenuation must Be understood. Gambia,
situated at the mouth Of little river,
the Geofiro. was built in the ninth CEN
tl1ry by the Saracens ON the site Of
Heral0iion, one of the ports of Cnossus.
The distance between Cnossus and Can
dia is under an hours walking, and in
antiquity the two places were connect
cd by walls, which recalled those be-
tween Piraeus and Athens In the time
OF Venetian sovereignty Gambia en-
joyed great prosperity. To-day its as
pect is essentially Turkish on account
of its houses, its mosques, its minarets
and its bazars, in which are exposed all
the products of the east. It is sur
rounded by q Fashioned wall, almost
triangular in shape. Within there is
another wall separating the old town
from the new, the latter being nearer
the river. The Notifications date from
the Venetians, but war and earthquakes
have left little or nothing of the city s
ancient splendor. Tournefort has
called it only the carcass of a city. It's
chief monuments are the remains of
the church of ST. Francis and the old
Latin cathedral to st. Titus. It's popu-
lation is between $4,000 and $4,000,
mostly Mussulmans. The port is pro-
| tected by two moles, but the sand has
been allowed to silt up SO much that
| only very small vessels can enter. Its
chief trade is with Trieste, which takes
| from it raisins and oil in return for
J soap. Canea comes next to Gambia
with a population of 1000, equally di-
vided between Christians and Moham-
medans. Canea is the ancient Cydonia,
The modern town dates from 1852, and
is the principal port of the island, the
commercial capital, and the residence
of the foreign cOnsuls. Not far from
Canea is the admirable anchorage oil
| Suda bay. Retino, the third town, is
So miles southwest of Gambia. It's popu-
lation is not far above 3,000."-N. Y
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
The GLORY OF GREECE.
Soul Stirring Memories OF the For
mer COnquests.


With what burning words did Byron
at the beginning of this century call
upon Greece to cast off the. shackies
with which the Turk had bound her
and resume more her rightful
place among the nations of the earth.
They were needed. With the soul-stir-
ring memories of Marathon and Their
nsopylae, of Salamis, Platea and Arbela
in mind, the Greeks commanded by
Marco Bozzaris and Lord Byron him
self, succeeded in overwhelming the
Turks and achieving a hard-earned in
dependence.
It is a well-defined axiom that in war
the morale engendered by the business
of the principle commended for frequent
ly nullifies the preponderating forces of
an adversary. Nowhere is this more
evident than in the history of the Greeks
themselves When in the fifth century,
Z. c., the hordes of Darius and XerXes
successfully burst upon southeastern
Europe it was not alone the existence
of Greece that was threatened, but the
whole progress of human civilization as
well. This truth is pertinently ex-
pressed by Sir Edward Greasy, who says
that had the battle of Marathon result
| ed differently the Persian would be the
prevailing language of England to-day
| Of course, the Greeks could not foresee
| the vast consequences which at that
time depended upon their heroism, but
they knew that they were fighting for
their liberties, and that was enough.
At Marathon over 100000 Persians were
put to fight by 1000 men. At the
naval battle of Salamis the Greek fleet,
although outnumbered seven to one,
achieved an overwhelming victory, and
at Thermopylae 300 Spartans and zoe
Thespians, under Leonidas, held the
pass for three days against the assaults
of 100000 Persians.
Napoleon, ''the coarse-minded sa-
breur," as the perfdious Talleyrand
termed him, once remarked that Goo
was always on the side of the strongest
artillery, but ne lived to realize his mis-
take. Had any such doctrine as that
been universally believed the round
heads of Cromwell, the minute men o.
Lexington and Concord and the pa
triots of Maceo and Gomez would never
have been heard of, and this it is that
with her glorious past in mind, encour
ages Greece to hope for victory in hel
strugglewith Turkey.-Syracuse Stand
ard
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
CHAPTER XXNU.
CIT Is NOT ANGUS BRUCE, THE PIL3f,
WHO SPEAKS TO YOU NOW"

CIT Is NOT ANGUS BRUCE, THE PIL3f,
WHO SPEAKS TO YOU NOW"
The shock of the revelations of i9le
night of October 10 was severe one to
Fannie and Clara Hill.
Fannie had been completely PROS
trated ever since. and the wedding trip
had been abandoned. Clara had borne
up much better, for with her there was
Il sense of thankfuIness that the cers-
mony had not been performed whi.:h
would have made her the wife of
Lathrop; and far greater one, that Au-
gus Bruce was neither Black Beard nor
the murderer of John Lloyd.
As to Lathrop; there was an uncex-
tainty as to what had become of him.
Carr and Briggs had stated that
Hendricks, before he left Bullion ct
the fioodgate, had said "that if Black
Beard got that fellow. Lathrop, he would
leave the coast" Thus they thought
that for some reason he was after hlla,
but what that reason could be thsy
could not conceive. as it was now known
to a certainty that Angus was not tie
| dreaded Black Beard
Bullion, be it remembered. was not
aware that Lathrop had fallen into TIE
hands of his captain, and consequently
without any certain information. tAe
| search for him was kept up for n
month. At the end of which time. 81
came to the conclusion that he had
either committed suicide, in some ua,
! known locality, or that he had eSa-
countered the pirates when he fled
from the chapel, and had been carried
! away by them.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20

been too late to prevent it. Let Us
place her IN the carriage, that she may
be carried to Kendall"
The next morning the officers conveyed
Bullion to Wilmington, where he was
informed that only by leading the way
to the rendezvous of Black Beard could
he save his life, and in that event he
was promised pardon for past o1fenses
and Il goodly share of the plumber cap
tured.
Life is dear to all men: it was dear TO
Bullion. Besides, he argued: ''If / lead
them there, Black Beard and the crew
will vanquish them, and l will strike
hard blows to pay them back for max,
ing me turn traitor"
To save his life he yielded, and prom
Used TO lead them to the pirates strong
| hold.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
FRO BE CONTINUED
Proof.

"Jinkles is in love, remarked youRg
man.
How do you know?"
.T've seen him on, bicycle riding four
times with the same girl"
THAT doesn't prove tina; he is in lore
with her.
.'No. But they were on a tandem,
and she weighs at least1sO pounds.
Washington Star.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
Her ExpInnation.

MIR. Grayson-You say that this Mrs
Sappington is a bad woman, and yet
Iou invite her TO your house. I'd like
tc know how you justify yourself:
Mrs. Grayson-0h, but society hasn't
found her out.-Cieyeland Leader.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
historic Forest.

When the duke of Monmouth was ex-
ccuted, in the reign of James H., for
treason, the duchess ordered every OAK
in the park to be cut on the fateful
morning. The new growth, belonging
to Lord Ebury. is one of the finest for
ests in Britain.-San Francisco Chron'
iclp
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
Thanks to the oyster.

She oh, Jack, here's pearl in this
oyster.
He (excitedly) Ethel, may--may
have it set in an engagement ring , :
pick-Me-Up.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-04-20
A SerfouzError.

Giazzam-Do you know what the
greatest mistake of my life WAS?
Misunderstanding born. suppose
Harlem Life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02
THE GAZETTE.

On Friday the ALEXANDRIA GA
zErTE entered upon its 9Stb year. Like
a fine old Virginia ham the GAZETTE
gets better with age, but its age is the
only evidence of antiquity found about
the GAZETTE. 1t is live, active, W
to date newspaper, we'll conducted
we'll edited and welcome visitor tC
the desk of any editor hard up fol
news items. May it have happy and
prosperous new year in 1897 and many
returns thereafter is our sincere wish
Fredericksburg Star.
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE on New
Years day entered its 9Sth year, ar
age rarely attained by newspaper. II
is as young in pointed and sensible edi
torials, news matter and racy and in
structive correspondence, as it ever
was. An old reliable family paper
Long may it prosper.-Leesburg Wash
in0tOniQn,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02

SWORD CoMBAT.-The crowd Of
sports who went to Brightwood yes
terday to witness broadsword contest,
a bicycle race, horse race and other
performances returned to Washington
disappointed. Prosecuting Attorney
Pugh declared that the sword combats
must be stopped on account of cruelty
to animals, and the other events, ex-
cept the horse race, were then post.
poned. The trotting was won in two
mile heats by Nominee.
The combat was between Lieutenant
Barber, on foot and armed with gun
and bayonet, and Sergeant Davis, of
Fort Myer, armed with broadsword
and mounted on fiery steed. 1t was
for purse of $500. The horse received
a cut over the eye and it made him so
unruly that his rider dismounted and
was easily vanquished by Lieutenant
Barber. Mr.. Pugh ordered the exhibi
ton to be stopped on account of the
cut which the horse received. Lieut..
Barber was arrested on the charge Of
cruelty to animals.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02
SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 2, 1897.

A WARRANT was recently issued IN
this CITY for the arrest of man charged
with conducting rattle, but before the
date of trial it was withdrawn. Inc
rattle was for turkeys, such as has been
carried on here from time immemoriai,
and was entirely innoxious. But, new
ertheless, the Legislature has enacted
q law which makes it a misdemeanor,
and subjects those conducting 1t to line
and imprisonment, and as the best way
to secure the repeal of bad law, &C
cording to General Grant, is to enforce
it vigorously, the warrant having been
issued, its withdrawal should not have
been allowed, but the offender have
been prosecuted to the extreme limit OF
the law, which is confinement IN jail
not exceeding one year and q fine not
exceeding five hundred dollars. 1t Is
more than probable that the first In
Fiction of such unjust and unreasonable
punishment would be sufficient to etiec,
the repeal of the foolish aid absurd
law r referred to.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02
Juan Fernandez Not DESTROYED.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.-Captain Slo-
cum, the American skipper who is voy-
aging around the world alone in q
yawl, tells of his visit to Juan Fernan-
dez (Robinson Cruso Islaud) off the
coast of Chill, on his way across the
Pacific He had heard the reports cha:
the islands had disappeared, but he
found them all right. He said there
were thirty-fve families on the island,
prosperous and happy. Captain Slo-
cum said that the reports originated
with Chilean skipper, who had been
sent to the island with cargo of sup
plies. among which was an assortment
of spirits, and the skipper freely helped
himself. The result was that from the
moment the vessel left Valparaiso he
was not sober long enough to determine
the position of the ship. After sailing
about for several days in the spot
where he thought the islands should
be, he turned the bow of his vessel to-
wards the East and found mis- way back
In mort
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02

Correspondence OF she h1eA"ioii"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.
AS all the race courses and pool
rooms in and near this city, on this
side of the river, have suspended oper-
atoms. all the "sports" here now so
to st. Asaph, near Alexandra, Wnere
they say they stand chance OF earn
ing an honest dollar" as 1t Is utterly
impossible for them to find employment
anywhere.
Congress will reassemble on Tuesday
next. The prevalent idea with respect
to The Cuban resolution is that it will
not pass the Senate, but that even If 1t
should, and ehall succeed in reaching
the House, it will never get out OF the
committee on foreign affairs OF that
body.
Mr.. F. M. Gideon, retired lawyer
from Missouri, and friend of ex-Sena-
tor Henderson of the same State, who
is now a resident of Alexandria county,
has purchased house and six acres OF
land at Ballston in that county tor
$4,000. People from Alexandria coun-
ty here day say the county authorl-
ties are making fine avenue from the
residence of the late Anthony Frazier
10 the electric railroad. They also say
that Mr.. A. B. Grunwell, chairman OF
the board of supervisors of the county,
will retire next May and be succeeded
by Mr.. G. N. Saegmuller, an accom-
pIished civil engineer, and that the
citizens of Jefferson district of that
county will at that time elect MIR
Frank Hume as their member OF the
board.
Increased vigilance in the filibustel
patrol along the Florida coast il tassS r.
exhibited by the yer0m,nt and nc
effort is to 49, o, 'eihnent, anu ~
encrst7~cv e spared to prevent the vic
4 latlon of neutrality.
To-day was the fifth day of the tariff
hearings before the House committee
on ways and means-the subject of dis
cusson being "tlax, hemp and theil
manufactures" There was quite 8
large attendance of persons interested
in those industries. Monday has been
set for tobacco hearings.
1t is rumored here that the first State
democratic convention that will be
| n6lQ Will COu1e OuI udIlOolSu lOI iC'
silver, as it is already known that thu
gold boilers in that State will not only
come back to the party, but b'
glad to do so, as they say the expert
ment has been tried, and that as the
party is in favor of silver, they will
fight it no longer. The same thing, i
is said, will be done in all the othe
States.
bIr. Polk Miller, the famous Virgins
lecturer, will lecture here on the 12ll
inst. On the 9th Mr.. Little, the man
ager of the Metropolitan Hotel, will en-
terrain him and some the newspape
men of this city.
The highwayman who knocked dowl
and robbed Mr.. Merrill, of this city
but who is we'll known in Alexandria
short time ago, has been convicted
and is now in the penitentiary, but Mr.
Merrill has not recovered his valuable
gold watch.
Maddox and Waller are in the leat
in the six-day bicycle race at the Ice
Palace.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02
FAILURE IN DANv1LLE.-In Dan

FAILURE IN DANvILLE.-In Dan
vile yesterday John w. Holland filed
deed of assignment to Bergman
Green, trustee, to secure notes and
debts on which he was Endorsed for his
brother, the late G. G. Holland, to an
amount aggregating S14S,100. The as.
sets consist principally of valuable
real estate in the business portion of
the city, an interest in the tobacco bus
mess and bank stock and personality of
every description. The creditors are
principally banks in Dauville, Lynch
burg, Richmond, Roanoke, Norfolk,
Baltimore, Chattanooga, Stuart and
other points, which hold notes of c. G..
Holland, Endorsed by J. W. Holland.
The assessed valuation by the latest
assessment of the property conveyed is
100000, and the conservative business
men are of the opinion that it will pay
every dollar Of the debt. 1t is notable
that the assigner himself owes not q
dollar of debt, all the Indebtedness be-
ing incurred as indorsor security of the
late G. G. Holland.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02
A NEW YEARS DREAM.

To the Editor Of the alexandria Gd-ctte:
think it must have been dream, for in
the spirit if not in the body, was reporting
meeting of the Virginia State Executive
Commttee-present: Agnew, Brady, Wad-
dill and Walker. Absent: Chairman Lamb,
on account of indisposition "The Soldier
was in the chair, presiding with his usual
dignity and decorum, Brady moved, and it
was resolved, that we, the managers of the
republican party i'll the State of Virginia
regularly constituted and duly recognized do
counsel and instruct the voters of Virginia,
that the following ticket is to be voted for in
the fall of 1897:
For Governor, General James Alexander
Walker, of Wythe county.
For Lieutenant Governor, Hon. Park Ag-
now, of Alexandria city.
For Attorney General, Hon. Edmund
Waddill jr. of Richmond city.
Hon. Waddill then moved:
That the Hon. James D. Brady, of Washing.
ton D. c.. Excuse mo, twas slip OF the pen,
and should have read, of Petersburg, Va, in
fact of the Fourth District generally, no one
locality being sufficient to contain so big and
active man) be declared the unanimous
choice of this meeting for next Senator from
Virginia.
This was also unanimously carried.
After these arduous labors, the committee
decided that they were incapable Of further
exertion and adjoircd sine die.
1t was intensely real, but must have been
dream, based on Christmas festivities, for
"Brutus and Cassius are honorable men."
'PHILALEThEA."
Washington D. c., January LIST, 1897.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-02
The PENNSYLVANIA senatorship.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. q Many
members of the legislature arrived to-
day, and the political atmosphere is
clearing somewhat. At the Penrose
headquarters the claim is made that the
Wannamaker people will have less than
So votes, but the managers of the
ex-postmaster generals campaign
declare such statement to be absurd.
Senator Quay declares that Senator
Penrose will have q large ma
ority and that nothing the other
can do will change the result.
Rudolph Blankenburg issued state
ment this morning saying "Mr. Quay's
desperation is best shown by his state
ment that 100000 have been offered
for two votes"