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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
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mention the prizes in some of them. "
o. he said, 'Ncodemus, count up
how much the boy ought to have and
give it to him.
"The negro opened his box and gave
me "a, and again went away with the
empty basket, while the passengers
laughed.
Next l brought in some morning
papers, and nobody bought these either
Somehow the passengers had caught the
spirit of the thing, and, as it cost them
nothing, they apparently did not wish
to deprive these Southernsrs of their
fun. was watchiul when l came to
the young bloods this time, and l car
ried the papers so they could grab them
easily. Sure enough the nearest one
threw them out of the window after the
other things. Nlcodemus settled up.
"Then had an idea, went into the
baggage Car and got every paper l could
find. had lot OF that days stock and
over 100 returns OF the day before, which
l was g ling TO turn in at the end Of the
run. The whole lot was 80 heavy that
l could Just mansgs to carry it on my
shoulder.
"When l staggered into the ladies' car
and called Paper in the usual drawl-
ing way the PasseDg,Ts fairly shTisked
with laughter. thought the Southsr
asr would back down, but he never
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08

fiuched. He just grabbed those papers
and hurled them out of the window by
the armful. got oyer $40 for all my
papers.
"That dandy was game. Look here,
boy, he said, when the passengers had
seen the last of those papers shoat around
a curve; have you anything else on
board p
"'Nothing except the basket and my
box | replied.
"'Well, bring in those, too
"You remember the big 3xl boxes
they used to give us to keep our goods
in ? Well, put the basket in the box
and turned it over and oyer down the
aisle OF the car to where the fellow sat
He threw the basket out OF the window
but the box was too big to go that way,
80 he ordered Nicodemus to throw it OFF
the rear platfIr charged him So for
that box. When it had gone he turned
to me and said;
"'How much money have you made
todayF
81 counted up over S25 NicOdemus had
given me.
"'Now,' he said, are you sure you
have nothing more 10 ssllT
81 would have brought in the smoking
car stove II il had not been hot. But
was compelled 10 say there was really
nothing more.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08

when l stopped. Some OF the passengers
laughed, others we're indignant and some
who had not seen his action simply
looked at me in amsz ment.
"'Look here, boy" said the young
man, how much are they WORTH
$50, about a dollar, guess" said l,
"He turned TO the negro on the next
seat. Nicodemus, said he, give this
boy a dollar.
"The negro grinned and turning to the
box beside him he opened it, 1t was
full of money and valuabies. He took
out dollar aud gave it to me. l took
il and walked up the car, l was still sur
prised. At the door l looked back at
them-And everybody laughed at me for
some reason-Ih except the young men;
they never even smiled at me during the
whole performance.
"Well, | filled up my basket with priza
packages AMI come back through the
tram. Nobody bought any Of them.
When l reached the SoutheTner, how
ever, he said Excuse me, sir, and grab
bling the basket again he sent the prize
packages after the peanuts. l did not
yell this time. l simply said; Look
here, mister, do you know how much
those are worth ?"
"'No, said he, how much ?
"' Well. there were three dozen and
four at 10 cents for each one, not "a
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
No Right to Ugliness.

The woman who is lovely in face form
aud temper will always have friends, but
one who would be attractive unjust keep
her health. II she is weak, sicky and
all run down, she wiz be nervous and
irritable. II she has constipation or kid
ney trouble, her impure blood will cause
pinples, blotches, skin eruptions and a
wretched complexion. Electric Bitters
is the best medicine in the world to reg
ulate stomach, liver and kidneys and 10
purify the blood. 1t gives strong nerves,
bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin. rich
complexion. 1t will make a cookbook
ing, charming woman OF rundown in
valid. Only so cents at Short a Haynes
Drug Store.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08

the old three-car trains In my day, YOU
know, they used to run trains made up
OF three coaches-a baPg &c car, smok-
ing car and what we used to call ladies
car The ladies' Car was always last in
the string.
"Well, one day was carrying my bas.
ket of nuts and app es through the ladies
csr-hadn't sold a thing so far-when l
noticed two young fellows sitting near
the rear end OF the car They were
handles, what might be called dudes now
but we cOlled them STILES in those days.
They were you & Southerners up North
on a lark, as found out aiterward. Be-
hind Thorn sat a negro valet, who had a
large iron bound box beside him on the
seat
"The young men were complaining OF
the dizziness OF things. When reached
the Southerners l asked them II they
wanted some. moi replied the fellow
nearest to me, we do not, and further
more We are not gling to have any"
whereupon he grabbed the basket out OF
my hands and dumped the nuts and APP
pies out Of the window.
"For a moment was too surprised to
speak. Then l yelled at him in way
that made everybody jump around. 1
did not cay anything, just yelled at
him on general principles.
"'What's the matter, boy2' he said
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
THOMAS EDISON'S STORY OF
HIS LIFE AS A TRAIN BOY.

measure which the boys used were long
and narrow. They tapered gradually,
being slightly smaller at the top than at
the bottom. In filling a measure the
boy would push it rapidly through the
peanuts in the open basket. A few nuts
would rattle inside, but almost immedi.
ately doz IN or two would jam or wedge
10 the narrow mouth of the measure.
When lifted up the measure would APP
pear to be full, and, as the trick would
be performed in full view of the pur-
chaser, the latter would suspect nothing
and allow the boy TO dump the contents
OF the half-empty can into his pockets,
when. OF course, all trace of the de-
ception would be lost.
The two men, for the time, became
train boys again. They forgot the
triumphs and cares OF their after lives,
and the rest Of the company present
listened to the "reminiscences Of the days
when the greatest inventor Of the world
sold newspapers and peanuts
"Curious how these things Gene back
to you" said Mr. Edison. II remember
funny thing that occurred on one Of
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
FARM AND STOCK.


Lon CONVEY, Irvington, sold to George
Anderson ewes for $lG.
Some good mules sold in Garrard coun-
ty last week at from 500 to $50
Five million dollars worth of hogs are
said to have died of cholera in Indiana.
Many Mercer county farmers are re-
fusing to eng .ge their lambs at sc. a
pound
There is wheat field in California
that contains $4,000 acres or is forty
miles square.
An observant farmer says that the
price of wheat will go to ST. before the
new crop is harvested.
Joe Fackler, OF Irvington, sold to Dick
Hardaway, of the same place, 8 steers,
averaging 1900 pounds at $4 %.
TIE price of Montana cattle has aver
aged 8 per cent higher than any season
previously in the history of the State
Live Stock Commission.
J. T Stewart, of Perryville, Ky started
for Montgomery, Ala, Wednesday with
a car load of twenty-five 10 hand mules
at an average cost of SIS
Jesse Clarkson, the noted stock raiser
Of Big Spring, sold to Mansfield & Jeffers,
Louisville, 800 head of shippers at 8
cents. This is the top price.
The Harrodsburg Democrat notes the
sales of several fat COWS at &c and bunch
OF good feeders at 4c; corn at 81 40 and
a car load of hogs at 81 SO to So.
1t is estimated by the officials of the
Department OF Agriculture that the hay
crop of the United States produced in
1898 reached value OF about 100000
600.
Captain J. Z Baker, of Pellville, and
Matthias Miller, of Hardinsburg, have
& me to Ballard county for the purpose OF
trading Ohio county lands for tract Of
realty in Ballard, Williams & Little, oil
Greensboro, are negotiating the deal.
rne returns of the number of live
stock on farms on January l, 1899, in the
United States show there to have been
1865 1907 horses, 2,l34,2 l3 mules, 10, 800,
lis milch COWS, II 094, 255 oxen and 9th
er cattle, 30,ll4,453 sheep, 3S,65l, G3
swine. These figures show decrease o
| 2g5 6O4 in the number of horses. SO 06l
in that of mules, ,269, 072 in that of OK
en- and other cattle, and los, 1862 in tina
of swine. On the other hand, there il
an increase of 149, 229 in milch cows anC
1,457 1893 in sheep. The average farm
value OF every description of live stool
is higher than on the lst of January
1898
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
Women Should Know II.

Many women suffer untold agony and
misery because the nature of their dis
ease is not correctly understood. They
have been led to believe that womb trou-
bic or female weakness of some sort is
responsible for the many ills that beset
woman kind.
Neuralgia nervousness, headache, puffy
or dark circles under the eyes, rheuma-
tism, dragging pain or dull ache in the
back, weakness or bearing-down sensa-
ton, proiuse or scanty supply of urine
with strong odor, frequent desire to pass
it with scading or burning sensation,
sediment in it after standing in bottle or
common glass for twenty-four hours, are
signs of kidney and bladder trouble.
The above symptoms are often attri-
buted by the patient herself or by her
physician to female weakness or womb
trouble. Hence, so many fail to obtain
relief, because they are treating not the
disease ITSELF but ref .ction of the pri-
mary cause, which is kidney trouble.
In fact, women as well as men are
made miserable with kidney and bladder
trouble and both need the same remedy.
DR., Kimer's Swamp-Root is the great
discovery of the eminent kidney and
bladder specialist, and is easy to get at
any drug store for fifty cents or one dol
lar.
To prove its wonderful merits you may
have a sample bottle and book telling all
about it, both sent absolutely free by
mail, Kindly mention the BRECHEN-
RIDGE News and send your address 10 Dr..
Kilmer q Co., Bing lamton, n. Y.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
hkkAAARAAA AkAkRAAAA
Oddities of The Year, :
Month, Week and Day. '
THE familiar rule that leap year is

THE familiar rule that leap year is
i every calendar year with a mum.
Der divisble by four will be brok-
en- in 1900, which fact need not be re-
garded as an indication that even then it
will be time for change. There is no
leap year for eight years. February, 1900
will have but % days, the extra day not
appearing from 1896 to 1904 Centenary
years are not leap years. That year will
ne broken in the leap year 1000, when
the interruption may be regarded as an
indication that it is time for change.
Centenary years divisible by 400 are leap
years, consequently there were 20 days
in February, 1900, and the same number
Of days will be given to February, 1000,
and again in 2l00. The object of this
rule is to make the calendar coincide
with the solar year.
Sunday was the day devoted to the
worship of the sun by our iorefathers
Monday, the day devoted to the worship
OF the moon Tuesday, the day devoted
to the worship of lieu, or Tyw, the god
of war; Wednesday, the day devoted to
the worship of Wodin, or Olin, the god
of wind Thursday, the day devoted to
the worship of Thor, the god of thunder;
Friday, the dav devoted to the worship
Of Freva, or Frig,, the Venus of the
north; Saturday, the day devoted to the
worship of Saturn, the god of agriculture,
or SatvT, the god of the forest.
The calendar for 1899 contains these
facts: Washington's birthday comes on
Wednesday, and Memorial day and July
4 will be celebrated on Tuesdays, Christ
mas will come on Monday, Ash Wednes-
day on February Is, Shrove Sunday on
March ~, Good Friday on March 81, and
Easter April The new Congressman
assume their ogltives on saturday,
March May day is to be Monday.
The year ends with Sunday.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08

NNE day recently Thomas A. Edison
~ was sitting in his little office on
Mount Musconetcory. He was
talking to several business acquaintance,
and in the course OF the conversation
one Of the men present stated that he
had once been train boy.
"Were you ?" said Mr.. Edison. 81
was one, you know. What road did you
run on2" q ~
"Grand Trunk, Dat ofPQ Fagop'
"Did your Why 70 ga ]. But was
before your time. say, do you Temem-
Der the peanut trick ?"
"Indsed do. Wasn't 1t the very first
thing they taught us before thew turned
us loose Everybody knew that. Why,
II doubled the output. remember once
didn't jam them tight enough and
they fell through just az ! was about to
turn them into the pocket Of country
man. o, wasn't he mad Wouldn't
buy the nuts. and cautlC ned every one
on the Car against me. Said was a
sharper and aroused things generally"
The peanut trick Of the old-time train
boy was executed as follows; The tin
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
TONS OF
SWEETNESS.
American Honey Demanded BY
European Consumers.
Breckenridge County a Splendid Field
For the Aplarlst.

The exports of American honey to
foreign countries, which were Of the
value Of S22 900 for the fiscal year ending
July l, 1897, amounted to 100000, or
four times as much for the fiscal year
ending July l, 1898, and there is steady
increase in the business done in this ar.
ticle OF com merce, which heretofore has
been generally in the form OF imports
into the United States of honey from for
eigu countries. In the fiscal year OF 1897
the amount Of honey imported into this
country was twice as great as the amount
exported, but from present indications
the disparity will hereafter be on the
other side.
From a report recently published in
the Westminster Gazette in England, it
app ears that the present home supply OF
English honey is inadequate. Every
year the English have to import $3.50,
600 pounds, OF which the declared value
is $4,000. Among the countries en-
gagged in supplying their markets with
this product the principal ones are the
United States, Chill and Peru. No
statistics of the quantity Of honey pro-
duced in the United Kingdom are OBJ.
tainable, though every other country OF
Europe has figures ON these points.
France produces in a year 1000 tons of
honey, which is equivalent to 100000
pounds, and considerable amount of
the honey used in England is imported
from Ireland, but how much is not
known, as it does not enter into the item
Of foreign commerce. The American
facilities for furnishing not only Eng and
but other countries as we'll with honey
are great and increasing. Thirty years
ago the product OF American honey was
100000 for all the States. Twenty
years ago the product was 100000
pounds, and ten years ago it had risen to
65,OOO,OO0 pounds.
There has been a wonderful advance
ment in the honey produced during the
past ten years. In 1897 only twelve
States produced more than a million
pounds OF honey each, and only two
more than 100000. No Iowa produces
nearly 100000 pounds, and Illinois,
California, Missouri and New York, in
the order named, produces above 1000,
600 pounds. The agricultural reports
show the increase in honey product to
be steadily continuing, and the product
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08

to be sufficient for home con sumption
and to leave balance for export One
State in which the honey supply is rap.
idly increasing, which is geographically
we'll placed for the expectation OF honey
is California. 1t is estimated that a hive
Of 1000 bees produces about fifty pounds
OF honey yearly and multiplies tenfold
in FIVE years. All the Western States
have been seeking in recent years to lie
velop their honey product, but they ap.
pear to have no monopoly of it, for
strong competitor, well situated for pur-
poses of foreign expectation, is Texas,
and still another is Oregon The honey
product of N9w York is considerable in
amount and increasing and the facilities
for its shipment are, of course, excellent.
One difficulty with which American
dealers in honey have had in the past to
maet has been the inferior knowledg
which many OF them have had of apiary
culture as separate science in farm
matters. They have taken to bee rails
ing as an incident of agriculture, with
the result that until few years ago the
average production of honey to the hive
was about one-half as much in the
u nited States as in those countries in
which bee culture is carried on scientific
ally. With greater familiarity with the
mltter, larger fund of general knowl-
edge and the use of new appliances and
progressive methods, the American bee
culturists have been going ahead rapidly
Of late years, until they now rank with
those Of other countries in which the
care of bees has been almost a matter OF
tradition, and their excellence in this
particular is shown by the very marked
Increase which there has been in the
American product of honey.
Breckenridge county, by reason of its
h)ra and the climatic conditions that
prevail is an ideal field for the apiarist.
General d. L. Adair, of HawesVille, is
undoubtedly the best posted man on bee
culture and honey production in the
United States and he is warm advocate
of bee raising in this section.
He has met with fine success and be.
lieves that an apiary, properly managed,
would help to lift the mortgage off the
farm quicker than anything else.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
About What Your Farm Garden
Should Be.
A FEW WORDS

The garden should never contain less
than half an acre, and better be two
acres. A garden of this size can be
easily worked with horse, saving much
hand labor. which is required in smaller
plots. II more is grown than required
for home use it can usually be disposed
of at some nearby market, or to some
neighbor who will not have a garden.
Or the area can be devoted to potatoe +,
or roots for stock cap be increased. Be-
ing near the house, it is OF easy access,
and the farmer can spend many half
hours working his garden, when he
would not think of going to the field for
that length of time.
The garden should contained all the
small fruits, such as berries, currants,
etc. Plant these in single rows, and far
enough apart 80 that they can be easily
cultivated The space between can be
de 'oted to some vegetable, which will
compel working around the shrub If
the market gardner, upon lands ranging
in price from $500 to $1,000 per acre, can
upon half doz IN acres sell more dollars
worth of produce than are sold off many
large farms, why may not the farmer
grow in his own garden articles for food
that will take the place of much of the
more expensive commodities bought in
town? The garden cannot be had with
out labor, but with less considering the
amount produced, than is required for
general farm crops. Two and sometimes
three crops can be grown upon the same
ground in one season. With the addi-
ton of a few hotbed sash the garden can
be made to produce fresh vegetables for
the table all the year round.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
Dangers Of the Grip.

The greatest danger from La Grippe is
of its resulting in pneumonia. Treason
able care is used, however, and Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy taken, all dan
GER will be avoided. Among the tens OF
thousands who have used this remedy
for la grippe we have yet to learn OF a
single case having resulted in pneuno-
mia which shows conclusiYely that this
remedy is certain preventive OF that
dangerous disease. 1t will cure la grippe
in less time than any other treatment,
1t is pleasant and safe to take For sale
by A. R. Fisher, Cloverport; R. A She'll
man, Stephensport.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
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HOW BOYS MAY
BE GENTLEMEN.
DoYs who want to be known as little

DOYS who want to be known as little
ID gentlemen should remember that
the following things are TO be done:
Hat lifted in saying ",iood.by" or
How do you do2"
Hat lifted when Offering seat in car
or acknowledging favor.
Keep step with any one you walk with
Always precede a lady upstairs and
ask her il You may pr cede her in pass
1ng through crowd or public place
Hat off the moment you enter street
door and when you step into a private
hall or office.
Let lady pass frst unless she asks
you TO pre- cede her.
In the parlor stand until every lady is
seated.
Look people straight in the face when
speaking or being spoken to.
Let ladies pass through a door first,
standing aside for them.
In the dining room take your seat
after ladies and elders
Never play with knife, fork or spoon.
Do not take your napkin in bunch in
your hand.
Rise when ladies leave the room, and
stand till they are out. II all g out to-
gether gentlemen stand by the door till
ladies' pass out.
Sperial rules n the mouth are that
all noise in eating, or smackIng of the
lips should be avoided.
Cover the m nth with hand or napkin
when obliged to remove anything from
it.
Use your handk, rchitf ~ oht'u lively
always
Away knock at any private room
door.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08

every WE'LL And then, with
change in his tone, he turned to the
negro and said, 'Nicodemus, throw this
boy out Of the window
"The passengers shrieked with laugh
ter, but got out Of that car pretty quick
can tell you. That fellow was thor
oughbred, and believe he would have
done it, even il the niger had refused,
which was not likely"
And the face of the inventor wore a
hali-amused, half-regretiu smile at this
vision OF his train-boy days.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
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A WORD OR TWO !
TO THE GIRLS. ,
ItSFSSSEStSE FSFFEi

Girls in the country sometimes
" grow tired of the quiet routine Of
farm work and long for the excite
ments and attractions Of city life. But
life in the city is not the public holiday
it seems to the girls on their occasional
visits to town.
Believe me when tell you that work
ing girls in the city have an infinitely
more monotonous existence than the
country girls ever dreamed Of. You
get up early and work hard, it is true,
but the picnics you attend in Summer
and the sleigh rides and parties that
enliven your Winter, give you social
recreation and change, while there is
always the keenest enjoyment for those
who know how to read Mother Natures
book.
Think of spending every working
day in a dipgy office, writing and
figuring constantly, with but half a
days vacation in three years, as one
girl l know of has done! Think of
spending all the hot, dusty Summer
days at sewing machine in a factory
with the ceaseless clatter of hundreds
of other machines all about you
Think of walking two miles to work,
standing behind a counter all day,
forced to smile and smile, though
you feel as a william ought to feel,
and again walking home at night
All these things thousands of girls in
the big cities do. Consider these things,
and when you would leave the so.called
monotony OF the country, think better
of it and don't.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-08
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them, also Old, Running, and Fever
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Warts, Cuts Bruises, Burns, Scalds,
Ctapped Hands, Chilblains, Best Pile
cure on earth. Drives out Pains and
Aches Only % cts. box Cure guar
anteed. Sold by Short < Haynes, Drug
glsts.