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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-04-29
Personal.

Hon. +. j. McDermott, of Louis
vile, was here this week.
Mr.. Cyrus T. Duvall, of Peaks Mill,
was in town Wednesday,
Mr.. Edgar Suter, of Louisville, was
visitor here this week.
Col. Thos. II. Corbett, of Bardwell,
was visitor here this week.
Mrs. A. Adams and children are
visiting friends in Louisville.
Mr.. ]. w. Peck, of Falmouth, was a
visitor in this city this week.
Col. w. J. Wilmore, of Camp Mel
son, was in the city Wednesday.
Mr.. Grant L. Roberts visited rela-
tives in Canton, Ohio, this week.
Rev. M. B. Adams, wife and son,
Marshall, visited relatives in Mason
county this week.
Mrs. Richard Morris and daughter
Mrs. Jno. W. Williams, were visitors
in Cincinnati this week.
Mr.. Harry A. Somers. of Elizabeth
town, was in the city this week and
made US a pleasant call.
Mr.. Leslie Banta, of Henry county,
late OF the First Kentucky Volunteers,
was a visitor here Saturday.
Mr.. Edison Bradley, of New York
City, was visitor at his brothers,
Maj. w. E. Bradley, this week.
) Ex-senator j. G. S. Blackburn, of
Versailles, appeared as an attorney
in the Circuit Court, on Wednesday.
Mr.. Ed. W. Hines, of this city. was
an attendant at the Stewart Carter
wedding, in Louisville, on Wednes-
day.
MIR. David Nicol, wife and daughter
attended the Carpenter Williamson
wedding In Lexington, Tuesday
evening.
Misses Susie and Annie Fleming, of
Louisville, were guests of their cou-
sins, the Misses Chinn, the first of
the week.
Mr.. Jno. H. Gray, of st. Charles.
hopkins county, was visiting his
father, Mr.. F. V. Gray, and family
this week.
Mr.. Henry Crittenden, of Green
vile, Miss, who has been the guest of
his mother and sister, in this city,
has returned home.
Miss Katherine Hukill. after a
weeks visit here, has returned to her
nome in Lexington, accompanied BY
her cousin, Miss ka .herine Miller.
Mrs. w. K. Wright and daughters
have gone to st. Louis, Mo-, to reside,
Capt. Wright has been ordered to
proceed to Manila with his regiment.
Master Allen Crittenden, who has
been living with his aunt, Mrs. Mary
Haycraft, in this city, left for his
home at Greenville, Miss. on Wednes.
day evening.
Mr.. Duncan Holmes, who served in
the Second Kentucky Volunteers,
and afterwards enlisted in the
regular Army, has been discharged
and returned home.
Mr.. w. l.. McClintock, of the
Auditors office, has been elected to
clerkship in the Agricultural Bank,
at Paris, has resigned his place in the
Auditors office, and entered upon
his new duties.
Mr.. Henry b. Grant, Grand Re-
corder OF the Grand Commandery of
Kentucky, was in the city Monday
and tuesday and inspected the work
of Frankfort Commandery, No. 4,
X. T., on Monday night.
Mr.. Thos. D. Clemmons, died sud-
denly, at his home In Covington, on
Tuesday night. He was a cousin OF
Mrs U. Keenon and Mrs. j. w.
johnson, and spent the greater por-
ton Of his boyhood days in this city.
Mr.. H. S. Howes, who has been
serving as u. s. Storekeeper at the |
Kentucky River Distillery, No. 2, for
the month of April, leaves for his
home in Paintsville, this evening.
Mr.. Howes made a capable officer and
is clever gentleman.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-04-29

New millinery establishment,
Main street, opposite the Capital
Hotel. Call and see our line of goods
and get prices.
35-2t. MRS. j. M. LONG.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-04-29
For Rent Cheap.

The Miss Mag. Exum property, on
Murray street. Apply to L.. f.
Johnson. 35.tf.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-04-29

--latest styles in millinery, low
prices and up to date.
Mrs. j. NJ. LONG,
Main street, opposite Capital Hotel,
35-2t. '
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-17

81 styles Of Leather Upholstered
Easy Chairs and Rockers; prices
from SIS to $40.
16S styles of Fancy Tabomrettes
and Stools; prices from 9Oc to SIC.
6S styles Of Parlor Dirans. rang
ing IN price from $3.50 to $55.
1913 styles of Odd and Fancy Par
Tor Chairs and Rockers. from $S.75
10 500.
e6 styles Of Gold-leaf Finished Re-
ception Chairs; prices from 1915
to $3.50.
5 styles Of Leather Upholstered
Library Sets. including sofas, rock
ers. armchairs. priced from $50 to
$50.
13e styles Of Hall Seats. Benches
and Chairs. ranging in price from
$e.75 to 500.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-17
|flh : Things You'll Find-.-
81 I'ek At:

IA ~. II Ch;ldrsn's and
|rem 0s;n and Rockers. from
h. IN spaplete Flemish Din
n6tts, each set containing
y ~ ~, chairs. china closet
l55. ~, ringing in price from
|f65. sd Wardrobes. ranging IN
|psap ni7.50 to 500.
y Of Extension Tables.
r., ariee from IS up to sos.
M Psrlor Suites. ranging
IN IN 1850 to $3.50.
hnsia ~ Of Fancy Cane Seat.
ksi and Polished Wood
= O. N; prices are from sI.g5
d = d Leather Couckes:
Ats0 to 500.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-17
FL Steek el
FURNITURE,
CARPETS, ETC.
! NoW On SHOW.

! *tnstood that every one is welcome at all
hti mt Always welcome, WE REQUEST
g. xant to look through and we assure you
" u pardon us if we are not able to give you
b }ry statesmen, there are times when all are
q ncome to look, you take the elevator to top
be- ndred and forty feet long. This space is
III knuntage by one hundred and ten feet deep.
b n Dining Room Furniture. The ladies' parlor
W. slight Of stairs On this floor you will find
ttu ETC. Down one fight Of stairs again and
" lnpery Room, Linoleums and Mattings.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-17

A new design Csbhier sat Rocker.
made OF solsa oak. hTacea ard rostase6.
shaDed seat. fancy carved bafx. str-
DO9ed leather nsetali!ou. trimmed
s@Sh brass Tea. liuz aFf1 = letcssE. 10
seat and trimmings correspond IN color.
there "a an assortment - several 9tf~
ferenf ~ AIDES Kt q very Ornamental
az vel 80 com sors . bio rocker a good
s. - value, price. whzie they last. g. IS.
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Great Age Of Birds.

1t is only possible at present to col
lect data from the duration of lives of
birds in captivity; evidence otherwise
must be very unreliable, and it is pure
ly matter of theory as to whether
the natural possible life is greater than
that under the unnatural condition of
captivity. There are records of
nightingale having lived 25 years, a
thrush II, blackbird that was still
alive at 201a, a goldfinch %, skylarks
Of "A and 20. Ravens, owls and cocka-
toos are popularity supposed to live to-
a very great age, and the following
records appear to be authentic: Ra-
ven, so; gray parrot, so and 40; blue
macaw. "a; eagle owls, SO, and one
still alive at 6S. Some aquatic birds
appear to live to a ripe old age, for
we hear of a heron Of 60, goose so.
mute swan 20. 1t is doubtful whether
any of the foregoing ages are any true
guide as to the longevity of the actual
families of the birds represented, or.
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be produced more rapidly than the first,
so that the end of the alphabet will be
reached in 1909. Commenting upon
this massive work, the London Spec
tator" pleasantly says: Many hun
dreds of Industrious persons have con-
tributed to it's perfection, and it is a
perfect record of our glorious speech.
But it is record of nothing else. You
cannot detect an old and curious
scholar smiling from its pages; and no
man that comes after US will ever de-
tect within it's boards anything besides
solid and magnificent history. There
are unfolded all the documents neces-
sary to the knowledge of the splendid
language which Shakespeare, Milton
and Dryden wrote. If you would know
who first used that obscure word don
key 1t is to the oxford dictionary
that you will rush for information. And
yet, for all your gratitude, you will turn
over its pages with regret. You cannot
forget that the pleasantries of Florio,
Cotgrave and Johnson are better to
read than the lofty omniscience of DR..
Murray and his colleagues. In the old
dictionaries you may find not only
words, but men; hidden away in the
Oxford dictionary you detect what is
far less amusing. if it be more valuable
the industry of the nation"
Notes and Queries: John Ruskin, in
his undergraduate days, was thus de-
scribed by Dean Liddell: "a very
strange fellow, always dressing in a
great coat with a brown velvet collar
and large neckcloth tied over his
mouth, and living quite in his own way
among the odd set of hunting and
sporting men that gentlemen common
ers usually are
Notes and Queries: The following is
from an article on Chestnut in the
Eerts and Essex Observer" October
s. 1898: Adjoining the vicarage (Ches-
hunt is the site Of the erstwhile resi-
dence of Richard Cromwell, Tumble
down Dick sometime Lord Protector
of England. This was called Pengelly
House, and stood till the early. part of
the present century when 1t was de-
stroyed by fire. He lived here for MANY
years under the name of Clarke, dying
in July, 1112. When he resigned the
dictatorship and bade farewell forever
to Whitehall, almost the only thing he
took away with him was a large trunk
filled with addresses which had been
sent to him from every part of the
kingdom, each Of which stated that the
salvation Of the nation depended upon
his acceptance of the Protectorship.
The anecdote is told of how he would
request new acquaintance to sit on
this chest. and sit lightly, as he was
sitting with the lives and fortunes of
all the good people of England under
him. He would then be asked to drink
prosperity to old England" And the
adulatory addresses would be exhibit
ed to his astonished gaze. Is the pl-
quaint story true? If SO, are these ad-
dresses extant? Have they or any por-
ton of them ever been printed?
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family exceeds that Of another, but
the records are interesting and form
step in the ladder of the investiga-
tion of this most. difficult question. The
coloring of bird in perfect health and
the texture of it's feathers are exactly
the same at so as at 5. and those signs
that are popularity put down to age,
such as bleached and faded plumage
and misshapen claws or beaks. are at
tributable to unna tural conditions Of
some kind. The great tenacity of life
some birds, possess when deprived of
food is marvellous. and the following
instances are given: Golden eagle, II
days; an elder duck, %; an albatross.
80, and a penguin (Apteno dytes), it is
stated, can live two months
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Chinese Factory Girls.

A lady who has resided several years
in China draws an attractive picture
of the girls in the Chinese silk fac
tories. She says they are the gayest
and brightest of the native women
workers. The factories are large, clean,
carefully ventilated and well regu-
lated. The girls are charmingly dressed
in blue with little decorated slippers,
and smooth hair, decked with flowers
and silver-gilt or enameled pins, and
each has two mirrors, her hair brush
and her toothbrush. How much these
are priced is shown by the fact that
their forfeiture is the punishment for
misconduct. Some of the workers pow
der their faces, though many of ths
country women have cheeks of rosy
pink. One factory, at Sing Chang, en-
ploys 800 native girls with European
foreman and a European General Man
ager. The work begins at $50 a. m
There is ten-minute rest for light
breakfast. which is taken by the hands
at their working places, the machinery
being stopped meanwhile. At IL o'clock
the work is laid aside an hour for
dinner, which is eaten in large room.
The girls make common stock of their
provisions. Each girl has at her side,
while at work, a little teapot in a pad
ded basket, and a tiny teacup. She
drinks tea frequently, without milk or
sugar, and in small quantities. ine
working day is trif1e under nine
hours. In one department where the
cocoons are stripped of their outer COW
ering and dropped into separate bas-
kets, according to their quality, lne
work is by the piece, and many wo-
men work only a few hours a day.
Wages average about II cents a day.
In the next department the sorting is
more precise, and here the wages aver
age IL cents a day throughout the
year. The spinning-room is a pretty
sight with it's row of blue-robed girls.
In preparing the cocoons for the spin
ner, each cocoon is brushed until the
end Of the thread appears. Six cocoon
threads go to make the final filament,
and each spinner works with thirty
six cocoons in pan before her. The
children here earn cents a day, work.
ing from a. m. to p. m., while the
women earn about cents a day. In
the finishing department there is the
same attention to neatness Of appear
ance as in the rest Of the factory, the
girls being scrupulously clean and
tastefully dressed. Neatness is taken
as an evidence of intelligence, and no
slovenly girl could find a place in the
filature The last department Of the
factory is the .packingroom. Here the
skeins are packed close, formed into
square bundles, marked as to quality,
and wrapped in white cotton for ship
ment to the mills of Europe to be
made into fabric.-Los Angeles Times-
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PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
COSBY LETTER ON THE NEW
FEATURES
The Greatest Novelty Ever Pre-
sented at Any National
Exposition.

BUFFALO On. W, July 15-It hasn't
taken many days for the young of the
nation to discover the wrong that was
done to them by the management of
the Pan-American Exposition in pass
ing a restrictive rule regarding peanuts.
.An peanuts sold on the grounds must
be hulled" was the wording of the
clause in the resolution on the all-db-
sorbing subject, and the management
knew not what it did when that reso-
luton was drawn and passed.
The coming Presidents, and other
great ones of the nation will take that
question up" muttered Director Taylor
of the Concession Department when he
learned of the action of the Executive
Committee 1.-The boys and girls will
hull their own peanuts or know the
reason why Well hear from them be-
fore long.
He knew whereof he spoke, for though
the excitement has but just begun, the
first protest has but just arrived. 1t
was among the letters which President
Milburn's Secretary opened Thursday
and it bore the name of Eddie knoWl-
ton and the postmark on the envelope
was Burlington, Vermont.
The letter was as follows: Il think
peanuts to be eat on the grounds of
your fair has to be shukked first. For
my part 1 wouldn't eat a peanut that
somebody else had husked and no
decent feller would either. Who knows
but what a niger or a Chinyman had
did it.
I'm the left baseman of the Thir-
teenth Juniors and there's 81 of us md
we are all going to the Pan-American
If we can save up enough money and
we've got a good bit in the club treas
ury now and my father read in the
paper from Boston what you had done
about the peanut question and l brunss
IT up at the meeting of the club. Our
Captain says that We'll do as we please
when we get to Buffalo and that We'll
get our peanuts down town and carry
,en, onto the grounds and shuk 'en
ourselves.
You won't make nothing by your
strange actions and you can bet that
the Teller that sells the peanuts will
lose a heap of money If he has to have
'em all shukked first.
EDDIE KNOwLTON"
President Milburn was boy himself
NOT so very very many years ago and
he saw the force of Eddie's arguments
hut an Executive Committee is usually
aaamantine and so he simply sighed
as he read the protest of the youth and
wondered if his placid brow would have
snace to carry the fufrows which the
cares of his high office seem destined
to chisel into it.
A strange affair has but recently come
70 light in connection with the letting
of concessions on the "Panoramble,
tbe midway" the Path of Dalliance,
"pan-American Promenade or what
ever the section of exposition grounds
usually given up to amusement viii be
called. This affair is in regard to the
letting of the Beauty Show privilege. n Q
arrangements had been made to herd
I'm q bunch OF the fair ones of the
earth for display. but the management
knew too we'll that some fond heart
would not let the chance slip.
The matter come to light yesterday
whom the Director of Concessions dis
covered in his mail large and bulky
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Literature and 4
Literary Workers.


D. Appleton & Co. have received the
following letter from the sister of the
late Edward Noyes Westcott, author
of David Harum,' which should set
at rest the various speculative opin-
ions which have been scattered abroad
concerning the supposed origin of the
characters contained in Mr. West
colts nove,. Mrs. Muzzey writes:
Having frequently been asked from
whom the various characters In David
Harum were drawn, and noticing that
several people in different parts of the
country assert themselves to be the
originals of the hero John LenoN or
heroine (Mary Blake) it seems worth
while to state, for the benefit of those
whom it may interest that to my GER
tain knowledge no character in my
brothers book was drawn from life.
David Harum' may be called q
composite photograph. All other peo-
of Mr. Westcott's fancy and imagina-
ton MARGARET MUZZEY.'
Among the many curious communi-
cations received by the Appletons with
regard to this same subject is one
from a young man who claims to be
the grandson of the original of David
Harum, and who offers to write an
other book, telling more interesting
facts about the already famous char
acter:
E. Kay Robinson, in his Kipling
"reminiscences contributed to "Litera-
ture," points out the relation between
Soldiers Three" and "Stalky & Co., .
and gives some quotations from
school Boy Lyrics" which was pri-
vately printed in 1881, when Kipling
was only H. "In a different rank of
life," says Mr.. Robinson, 'Stalky &
Co. are merely Mulvaney, Otheris and
Learoyd in their teens Here are
the opening verses of '"The Dusky
Crew." which Mr.. Robinson quotes:
Our heads were rough and our hands
With the inkstain's midnight hue,
We secuted all, both great and small;
We were a ducky crew;
And each, boys hand was against US
'Gainst me, and the other two.
We chased the hare from her secret
We roamed the woodlands through;
In parks and grounds far out OF bounds
Wandered our dusky crew;
And the keepers swore to see us pass
Me, and the other two
Our lettuces are dead and gone,
Our plans have fallen through;
We wander free in misery,
We are a wretched crew.
For a masters wrath has fallen on US
On me and the other two. ).
He found our cave in the cold, dark
earth:
He crept the branches through.
He caught us all in our council hall
Caught us, dusky crew.
To punishment he led us all
Led us and the other two.
THAT this represents the climax Of
the misfortunes of 'Stalky & Co.
there can be no doubt" says Mr.. Rob-
inson. "a triumvirate of schoolboys,
which included in their number one
who could thus versify their disasters,
must have had mirthful times when
fortune smiled upon them. There are
men who distinctly recollect Kipling
at school in the Beetle days but none
who anticipated the fame that awaited
their short-sighted, understood and
queerly gifted playmate" Mr.. Rob-
inson states that three has always
been Mr.. Kipling's favorite number in
his plan Of writing.
In "Studies in the Psychology of
Woman" Laura Marholm divides the
modern woman into three classes; the
grande amoureuse, the cerebrale and
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A Quiet Tip.

'.Even the worm will turn" it's said,
And if wise he'll say never a wordy
But will take another turn IN bed,
And thereby avoid the early bird.
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Again we inquire, why are COM
n1encements so called when they come
at the end rather than the, beginning
Of the school year?
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The great Oxford English dictionary
when completed, will consist Of from
twelve thousand to thirteen thousand
pages, contained in ten volumes Halt
of the dictionary will be completed in
190Q-that is to say, Vols. l. to Wand
the second half-Vols VI. to Xviii
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II a thing be good it should be known;
usefulness consists in publicity.-Dr.
J. Gregory. M
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In .Studies in the Psychology of
Woman" Laura Marholm divides the
modern woman into three classes; the
grande amoureuse, the cerebrale and
the detraquee. The first is an all
round woman. "the product Of culture.
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$ The little village of Yattenden, in
Berkshire, holds two literary lights
Robert Bridges, the poet, lives there
and its rector is H. c. Beeching, whose
writings are as admirable as is his work
as editor of charming anthology OF
English poetry.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-23
WAS FOR WILLIAMS ALONE.
Charges of Nominee Against the
 Massachusetts Convention.

Lynn, Mass, Sept. 22.-Former Mayor
 Ramsdel of this city, nominated for state auditor by the democratic con- vention Thursday in Boston, has de- clined to be candidate This after noon he sent a letter to Hon. w. s. | McNary secretary of the democratic state committee, giving his reason for such action. In his letter he says that had the opportunity been given him he would have declined the nomination in the convention, and that, while very grateful to those who selected his name for the nomination and to the conven- tion for accepting the same, he Is not sensible of any particular honor confer- red thereby.
 He further says: "On the contrary, as the nomination places me in more or less direct association with the authors of Thursdays wicked perversion of democratic principles, 1 am compelled to regard it as a disgrace. Evidence points to an increasing domination of party affairs by private interests as cending superior to party welfare. To the minds of many the purpose of build ing up a powerful organization for the party's sake has been subordinated to the purpose of erecting potent ma chine for George Fred Williams sake.
 "The most prominent fact history will record about the state convention just held was the open alliance of the state organization with certain elements of the Boston democracy. The point to be gained this year, in the state com mittees view, was the election of a del- egation to the next national convention which could be depended upon to sup port George Fred Williams in any plans that man might formulate to secure to himself national recognition. It was no question as to the fidelity of the dele gation to Bryan. It was for Williams, and Williams alone, that delegation was desired, and the state committee determined to have such a delegation by fair means or foul"