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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24

self, I babe him be silent, and stepped for
wards. Since that moan of agony, and ter
Iible laugh of triumph, there was no sound,
and l could almost hear my heart beating, as
| reached the door. Jacopo had nerved him
self to follow me, and stood pale and trem-
bling at my shoulder, his sword quivering in
his shaking hand. | was myself not free
from fear, for no man may combat with
spirits, but after moments hesitation, /
looked cautiously in. | saw before me room
of great size, dimly lighted by two tall can
dies, burning on each side of a massive bed
stead, on which lay man bound, and with
ing in the throes of death. The light, though
faint around the room, fell full on the face
oil the man, and horribly as the features were
changed, distorted as they were, | saw they
were those of Alexander, and that he was
in his last agony, alone and friendless in his
splendid palace. Yet not alone; there was
another figure in the room. AS looked, it
stepped out of the gloom of the rich curtains
at the window, and standing over the bed,
laughed again, that terrible laugh of devilish
joy. At the sound, the dying man moaned
through his black, foam-clothed lips, and
Corte, for it was he, bent over the body and
Knocked him.
'Roderigo Borgia, Vicar of Christ, hell
yawns for you; but few moments, Borgia,
but a few moments of life; think you, that
You suffer now? There is more coming
things l even cannot dream Of" In the face
of Alexander came so awful look of en-
treaty that | could bear it no longer.
stepped INTO the room, and putting my hand
on Corte's shoulder, said:
"Come, let him die in peace"
He turned on me with a snarl, but recog-
nizing me, laughed again.
"Ha! ha! Let him die in peace. Why,
man, you saw her die, and can say this?
But he is going too. 1t is week since his doc
tor, Matthew Corte, bled him for an ague,
and touched him with little knife. lust a
little pin prick. He began to die then; but
hell is not yet hot enough for him. He dies
in too much peace. Why, my dog ded in
more agony! But he has felt something.
See those torn curtains See this disordered
room! He tore those curtains in his mad
ness. He bit at the wood of the chairs, he
howled like a dog at the moon, and they
tied him here, and left him. | alone watch
| will let him die in peace. Ha! hal 1t is
good. | do not want him to die yet give
him food, and he lives. In little while per-
haps he will die But in peace! ha! ha! l
could almost die with laughter, when l hear
that 1t is too good Ha! hal"
1 saw it was hopeless to do anything with
Corte, and the pope was beyond repair. /
might have cut down the mailman, but it
would have served no purpose For mo-
ment l thought l would pass my sword
through the Borgia, and free him from pain.
1t would have been mercy, but luckily
had the sense to restrain myself. Again,
Alexander deserved his fate, and few min
utes more or less would make no difference.
So l left the wretch to die the death of i
dog, that beftted his life, and turning on my
heel. went back through the passage.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24
TWO AUDACIOUS KIDS.
Their Brazen But Ingenious Method
of Getting Free Rides on
Trolley Cars.

'There was funny little incident
happened on car l came down on this
morning." said the underwear clerk to
the madras shirt salesman across the
aisle. There was girl got on at Twen-
ty-sixth street with a couple of kids.
She was good looking girl, we'll
dressed and all that, and the kids were
in clean waists and looked as if they
were all right, too. After awhile the
conductor comes around and she hands
him a nickel. Then he tackled the
two kids.
"'Sister paid our fare says one of
them, looking up at him kind of sur
prised. The conductor looks at the girl,
and she looked at him as if she didn't
quite understand.
"'You didn't pay me for your
brothers, says the conductor to the
girl.
"'They're not my brothers, says the
girl. I never saw them before
Why, Grace!' says the kid.
"'Honest, 1 don't know them, says
the girl, and my name isn't Grace,
"'All right says the other kid.
wait until l tell ma
''Well, the girl kind of .snickered at
that, and the conductor, thinking she
was joshing him, told her she would
have to pay"
''Then she found that she hadn't an
other nickel, and you paid for her?"
''No; she paid all right, and the boys
gave her the laugh. 1t fooled me, and I
suppose every other person in the car
thought that she was their sister sure
enough"
wasn't she?" asked the shirt sales
man.
''Naw. The kids got off at Van Buren,
street, and she said to an old lady that
sat by her: 4 wonder what boys VII do
next Chicago Record.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24
COMPETITION TOO GREAT.
He Could Not Stand Cutting In
the Price of Divorces
and Quit.

"Yes, that's why quit the law; COM
petition was too great for me-"
The speaker, a young attorney,
fecked the ash from his cigar and sank
deeper into a comfortable chair in the
smoking compartment of west-bound
Pullman.
The listener, a younger man, drew his
chair closer.
Il had been out of college about eight
months and was located in 1.-THE lum-
Der town in northern Michigan. My
clientage consisted of three veterans of
the civil war, who used to come up to
my office to toast their shins and swap
stories. One day large woman, quite
out of breath, I,oked her head through
the partly opened door, looked about
the room and then walked in and sat
down in chair in remote corner of
the Office. My soldier friends, seeing
my rush of business, shutfied out. The
women, partly recovering her breath,
asked in a somewhat hesitating and
much confused manner:
"I-want to-know-are you-are
you-wall-aryway, are you lawyer"
Upon this direct questioning found
myself quite as confused as my new
client, but | managed to assure her that
1 made some pretensions of being such,
and then waited for her to proceed.
'Wall-my man an me-we hain't
ben ivin' together for more'n a year
now, an-wall, l don't want to git mar
RED agin, but don't want to be hav-
in his name an havin' everybody calm
me by it. I-wall-I want to git a di-
vorce.'
"'Yes,' 1 said.
"'Wall, 1 want to know how much
you'll tax me for gittin' one
Il grew very serious and informed
her that while 1 did not usually take
such cases-which, by the way,was per-
fectly true, for at that time / had not
taken any cases-stiIl, if her case was
meritOriOus, L would secure the desired
divorce FOR $40.
you should have seen that woman's
incredible stare as she gathered her
shawl closer about her neck with one
hand, while with the other she chung
tightly to a well-worn shopping bag,
where, [ presume, she had her money.
She rose to go, saying, in most dis
gusted tone:
'Humph, $40, Ell? Why, a lawyer
right here in this town stopped me on
the street t'other day and says: Say,
be We thinkin' O. getting divorce from
that man O yourn?" l says: Il dunno,
why?" "Wall, if We be-" he says, Il kin
get yer one fer SIS" Humph! dye
think I'm goin' t pay you $40? Wall.
1 should say not. 1 thought, maybe,
ye'd git me one fer ten
eyes; competition in that profession
was too intense for me."-Detroit Free
| Press.
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two who were living, and one who was going

two who were living, and one who was going
away.
/ bathed the forehead and drawn lips,
from which flowed thin stream of blood,
and as did so her eyes opened, but the film
of death was on them.
'Di Savelli-Ugo-," and she was gone.
Gone like fash, flung swiftly and fast
into eternity, struck down, perhaps unwit-
tingly, by the arm which should have been
a shield to her. l have often wondered if
D'Entrangues ever knew who fell to his
pistol shot. If he did, God pity him! In the
one glimpse 1 caught of his white face, as he
swung round and rode off, thought saw
a look of horror. But everything went so
quickly, that then l had no time to think,
and now can recall but the end.
To her dead lips Carlton pressed his cruel
FIX, into her dead ears he mumbled prayers.
knelt fearless, and prayerless, beside him,
thinking only of the great love that had laid
down life.
One by one my men stole up, and stood in
half circle, leaning on the cross-handles of
their swords, over which the grim, bearded
faces looked down on us in pity.
Suddenly Carlton raised his crucifx aloft.
My Father" he cried, receive her SOUL"
and some one said softly:
"Amen!"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24
Chicken OYSTER Pic.

To make a chicken oyster pie, melt a
little butter in a deep baking dish,
scatter over it cracker and bread
crumbs, then a layer of chicken meat,
picked up fine; then layer of oysters,
over which put salt and pepper and bits
of butter; then layer of cracker
crumbs; alternate with the oysters and
chicken till the dish is full, seasoning
each layer. Pour over the whole the
oyster liquor, to which add we'll
beaten egg and cupful of milk. Put
bits of butter on top and bake an hour
Detroit Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24
THE pEBuTANrE.

Here In her dainty chamber
On the snow-white bed it lies,
The dress that brought sech a sparkle
Of joy to her violet eyes
A wonder garment fashioned
In yards upon yards of lace,
With knots of siIvery ribbons
To faSten the folds in place.
Go lay 1t away forever
In the sweet, dead leaves of the rose,
With the fan and the fairy slippers,
The gloves and the silken hose,
The bodice, too, that was fitted
To her girAsh and graceful shape,
And, heavy with frosty fringes.
The long white opera cape.
For Madge she is done with dancing,
And the pleasures and pains of life;
No babe shall call her mother,
And no man call her wife.
For below in the darkened parlor,
With her slender feet unshod,
She lies on a couch of lilies,
All dressed for the Court of God.
-Minna Irving, in The Puritan.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24
SI,IndIed OYSTERS.

Dip oysters in lemon juice and dust
with pepper; string them on siende-
skewers (may be made of new, straight
wire or hairpins, lacking oyster
skewers), alternating each oyster with
wafer slices of bacon so placed as to
turn as a lap over each oyster. Lay
these skewers across a narrow dripping
pan and cook under gas or in a quick
oven for five minutes. When done pour
the dripping from the pan on slices OF
toast, lay a skewer on each slice and
send to the $abie.-Woman's Home
Companion.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24
ITO BE Continued
The Elaborate Chinese Novel.

1t is a proof of the high degree of
elaboration to which fiction literature
in China has been carried that most of
their novels are thickly interspersed
with poems of all orders of merit. No
stronger evidence could be afforded of
the fact that, whatever they lack, it is
not literary finish. If anything, they
have this in excess. These poems are
introduced in a variety of ways. The
hero sends one in billet doux to the
heroine, or he overhears her singing
one, or perhaps a poetic contest is
struck up, the fine on defeat being gen
orally the compulsory drinking of so
many extra fagons of wine. Wine
drinking and poetizing almost invsria-
bly, go together in Chinese novels,
though whether they do so in real life
we are unable to say. Above all things,
every man who sets up to be anything
in the way of hero in Chinese fiction
must be prepared to extemporize by the
ream in inimitable poetry.-Rev. G. F.
Candlin, in Open Court.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-24
Wonan's Wit.

The French ambassador of the day
complained to bright English woman
of high rank because her country failed
to intervene in the Franco-Prussian
war, ending his diatribe with the re-
mark: After all, it was to be expect
ed. We used to think you were a nation
of shopkeepers, and now we know you
are" "And we," said she, used to
think the French a nation of soldiers,
and now we know they are not."-N. Y.
Post.
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Two Prison Dinners

Prison Warden-The dinner ordered
from Delmonico's has come. Take it to
the prisoner who killed a man.
Assistant-All right. Who is this
bread and water for?
Warden-That's for the man who
stole q bam.-N. Y. Weekly.
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They Came from Brazil.

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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-10
MURDERER HANGED
George Horton Expatiates His Crime
on the Gallows

Washington, December Geo. w. Hor-
ton was hanged in the district Jail today
for the murder of Jane Nicholson. The
drop fell at 1912.
Horizons crime was the killing of Mrs.
Jane Nicholson and was one of the most
cold blooded murders ever committed in the
district. Horton was an ex-member OF the
police force and Mrs. Nicholson was d.
vorced woman. On the evening of June "a,
$685. he met the woman in Armory Park,
and in the conversation which he ensued
she announced her determination to break
off the relations which existed between
them. As she arose from the bench to leave
him, he drew. a pocket knife and slashed
her across the throat. In a frenzy of rage
he stabbed her again and again. almost
severing her head from her body Nearly
one hundred persons witnessed tho murder
but were too paralyzed with horror to in
terfere. He made no attempt to escape and
yielded quietly to arrest. His defense was
insanity and after his conviction repeated
attempts were made to secure executive
clemency. The president however, declined
to interfere with the defense.
Horton was a married man. Al
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-10

pensively watching the stars one evening
when some one asked her of what she was
thinking Her reply was, 81 am wondering
from which one of the stars my mamma
is watching me-"
She has alays been a little theologian,
startling her friends by asking questions
concerning things that long have troubled
philosophers and sages: but her auntie was
scarcely prepared for the shock she occa-
stoned once by coming in to ask her if she
would please inform her how the soul
was located In the body, as she wished to
know whether it was located horizontally
or vertically.
As people often do when perplexed her
auntie in her turn became dnestiQner.
"What do you think about it, Elizabeth"'
she said.
ooh, I reckon" she replied. "that as We
are longer than we are wide the soul must
be vertical"
And this auntie. who is the oracle Of so
many hundreds of boys and girls. could not
explain satisfactorily just how the soul
is located in the body. and had to let the
little girl think It ont for herself.
Elizabeth had listened eagerly to the
stories read aloud to her at school and at
home and was a very appreciative listener,
too.
Among the Camps" had been read to her
and she was much troubled over the alb
rupt ending of the story. She asked Miss
Mary and others what they supposed be-
came of Jake, but no one knew. Elizabeth
was not satisfied to let the matter pass
and finally. after much labor, the following
letter in a big, round hand was completed:
"Mr. Thomas Nelson Page.
''You did not finish your novel Among the
CAMPS" What became of Jake? IKE
your books very much. Please send me all
of them Your friend.
"ELIZABETH CATALAN"
This letter lay for year or more on
her adopted auntie's desk and received no
attention: but upon reading it ono day after
a cleaning out an impulse prompted her
auntie to mail it. In a short time the FOL
lowing answer came:
january s. 1898.
"Ny Dear Elizabeth.
''I am ever and eyer So much Obliged 10
YOU fer your letter. 7 rather feared at one
time that Jake might have been drowned:
hut I found out afterwards that he washed
down the river. and the soldiers who got
Jack out pulled him out also, and though
gle appeared for some time to be dead, that
he at last came to. and grew UP to be a
very good man and friend to Jack. wha
also grew uD. IT,
with best wishes and many thanks for
your nice letter, am your friend,
"THOMAS NELSON PAGE"
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LEOLA'S THANKSGIVING.

1t was one of those days that brings to
old age the memory of childhood, when the
home is bright with the joyous thoughts of
Thanksgiving.
Mrs Parker had been called to the sick
bed of her married daughter, and left Leola
and Grandma Mitts in charge of the house.
This former young lady. although she had
been raised wealthy, and had never at
tempted any cooking, was struck with the
idea that she must prepare the Thanks
giving dinner, as her mother was away and
Bette. the cook, had sent word that morn
ing that she had the rheumatic so had
she could not walk.
She had heard her sweetheart, Frank
Smith, say that he had no respect for
girl who could not prepare a nice, meal, so
she decided to have an excellent Thanks
giving dinner and invite him over.
She would fix everything herself, and
grandma must not come in the kitchen.
But then she thought it would be much
more fun If Susie and Margaret Gilbert,
who just lived across the street, could come
over and help me. Yes, they would enjoy
the novelty of cooking, too
Susie and Margaret knew as little about
cooking Leola, but off she went across
the street to see If the girls would come.
Why, certainly, they were delighted, and
in ten minutes every thing was hustle and
hurry in the kitchen.
Grandma had agreed that she was not
to be consulted about anything, not even
the seasoning.
Leola was to prepare the turkey as that
swas the most important dish.
She was soon ready. The dressing must
be made before the turkey was put in, and
this should be highly seasoned as it was
not to be stuffed with oysters.
Grandma Mtt had hung up on the back
gallery a string of herbs, which she used
for her many ailments for seasoning, etc.
Leola thought she must have plenty OF
sage so she selected quantity of what
she supposed to be this herb, to use in her
dressing.
The turkey was soon steaming away in
the oven.
At o'clock every thing was ready, the
other girls had cooked various vegetables
and sweetmeats, which go to make up
delicious meal.
They thought that even Mrs Parker or
Petite had never prepared dinner that
lookd more tempting.
One thing annoyed Leola. While the
turkey was cooking a peculiar, unpleasant
odor filled the ROOM but when it was taken
out of the oven it was beautiful brown
and she dismissed the idea that anything
could be wrong. The guests were sum-
moned and the meal began.
After the soup had been served. the beau
tifulIy Drowned turkey was brought forth.
I.eola was expecting every one to COM
pliment this part of the dinner especially.
To her great establishment, she noticed
that everybody. after tasting the fowl push
ed it aside on their plates. but nothing was
said.
After dinner Grandma Mitts asked Leola:
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TERRIBLE NEWS
Lieutenant Ledyard's Father Informed
of His Death in Negros

Detroit, Mich, December e.-The news of
the death of Lieutenant Augustus c. Led
yard, who was killed in Negros, was
broken today to his father, Henry B. Led
yard president of the Michigan Central
railroad, while the father was en- route
home from New York. 1t was decided to
send an intimate friend to meet him and
soften the blow. The lieutenant was Mr..
Ledyards second son. He was at Yale
at the outbreak of the Spanish war, and
had outlined for himself railroad career.
Joining the patriotic rush of the students,
the enlisted and spent most of his time as
a volunteer in camp life near Tampa. Aft
erwards at his own and his fathers de-
sire he entered the regular army as sec
ond lieutenant He was grandson of the
famous General Lewis Cass.