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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

For SALE. - First-class mandolin,
good as new. Will sell cheap. Inquire
at The NEWS office for name of owner.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

You should not postpone buying your
Christmas presents until everything is
picked over Come in and look at my
stock now. Have your present set
aside. J. T. HINTON.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

Olga Nethersole, the famous English
actress. will present her new play
"Sapho" in Cincinnati next week at the
Grand
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

Maude Adams, who was voted al
automobile in New York for being the
most popular actress in America, begar
an engagement last night at the Grand
in Cincinnati, presenting "The Little
Minister
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05
THE ArRICAL AND OTHERWISE.
News and Comment of Stage Matters and
other Gossip.

"Just BEFORE Dawn" Lincoln Car
ter's newest successful melodrsma, will
be the attraction Thursday night at the
Grand. This successful author and pro-
Queer has d number of companies on the
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

has ever appeared at the Grand, and re-
fleets great credit upon Manager Borland
for his efforts to give the public first
class amusements His efforts should be
appreciated by the people of Paris. The
way to secure the best of attractions for
our opera house is. for the people to pat
rOnize them. 1t is very difficult for a
manager to secure good attractions
when the travelling managers know til
those companies which have been here
have played to poor houses. Let the re-
port go abroad that Paris is a good
show town, aud there will be no diff
Guilty in securing the best there is on the
road, Timely notices will be given OF
the advance sale. and we hope to see
the house sold on aud the IS. r. o.
sign out for the FIRST tune this season.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

The production of the dramatization
of Gen. Lew Wallace's famous novel
"Ben Hur" in New York last week was
witnessed by enormous crowds. The
critics all agree that from a scenic
standpoint it is the greatest specta lie
ever produced on the English stage. 1t
rises above the melodrama and the play
is interpreted by an excellent cast. The
chariot race was successfully reproduc-
ed by two chariots, each drawn by four
thoroughbred horses running on tread
mills, and was very realistic, even to the
breaking of the wheel of Messala's char
lot. The race was the most popular
feature of the play. 1t is predicted that
the play. will run fo- two years in New
York.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-12-05

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Y With al the latest faces In Job !
g Type, and the mechanical abil- Z
ity to use them. we are pre- I
Il pared to furnish First Glass Job
e Work at the same price that you
pay for inferior work elsewhere. s
B4o@J3kc aosbI1
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
GERVANT TO SEWARD.
aeed Retainer oe the Famous Secretary
 Leaves Fortune.

William F. Butler. who served Will liam H. Seward for more than forty years in the capacity of body servant, has died in Brooklyn, worth some $75,- 900. He was slave in his early life. but managed to buy his freedom. Com ing to Washington he took eookship in a restaurant, where he was when the secretary came across him. There was a certain quaint philosophy about the black man which was charming to the white Butler was with Seward during the greater part of his public career. and on his death had saved sufficient to retire. The tips he had received from his master have been well followed. He purchased land in that part of the capital which Stewards knowledge of the city led him to be- lieVe would Soon be valuable. His small investment grew until the sum mentioned above is easily procurable. The fortune Is left entirely to Miss Evangelina z. Walker, of Brooklyn. Miss Walker is young negress of 19, described as being of light color, as straight as poplar, and of a Cauca- sian cast of countennce She was godchild of Buffers, and having lived in the house with him since babyhoodt regarded him as a second father. She nursed him tenderIy through the last two years of his life. in view of which those immediately interested are prone 10 believe that she is justly entitled to the bequest. Butler was not mar ried, but has several sisters, who may contest the will. Miss Walker Is well educated
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
WHAT THE LAW DECIDES.

The right to use the name of cor poration is held, in Huntingdon vs. Pal mer (R. I.), 43 L. R. A. 95, to be dis tinct from the right to use the name of articles manufactured by it, and not to pass with the latter on a purchase of the plant, machinery, stock and yis- lble property of the company.
 The enforcibility of a stockholders liability in jurisdiction outside of that in which the corporation was ere- ated is sustained in Bell vs. Farwell nl9, 42 l.. R. A. s04, in case Of Kan sas corporation, on the ground that the stockholders liability under Kansas law is not penal, but eontraetuai.
 The suffieieney of presentment and demand of payment made on a receiver pendente lite of an insolyent bank, and of notice of non-payment by him. to bind an indorser= of a negotiable cer- tifcate of deposit issued by the bank before its insolvency, is denied in Jack son vs. MeInnis (ore), 4S |. R. A. 12S.
 The right of a married woman to maintain an action in her own name to recover damages for the alienation of her husbands affections is sustained in Beach vs. Brown (Wash.), 45 l.. R. A. IA, under statutes abolishing disabil- ities of married women, and 1t is also held that procuring a divorce will not preclude the action.
 The liability of a lunatie on his con- tract is sustained in Flaeh ys. Gott schalk company (Md9. 42 L. R. A. 745, If the contract is fair and reasonable in it's terms and was made with one who did not know of the lunacy, when that had not been judiciously ascertained, and where the parties cannot be re- stored to their original situation.
 The constitutional provision against ex post faeto laws is held, in Murphy vs. Com. tMass), 43 L. R. A. 154, to condemn statute which alters or may alter in substantial manner the posi- tion of those who committed offenses before its passage, even if in a partic- ular case it might operate more bene- ficially than the prior law would have done. And this rule is applied where a statute changed the provision as to de- ductions for good conduct and permits to be at liberty.
 The evidence of expert witnesses as to the value of services is held, In Hull vs. St. Louis tMo), 42 L. R. A. 75S, to be merely advisory, to be given by the jury such weight as they deem it en- titled to, or to be altogether disregard ed by them, if, from all the facts and circumstances in evidence, they believe the testimony of the experts to be un- reasonable. A full review of the au- thorities on the conelusiveness of ex- pert testimony is presented in the ex- tensiYe annotation to this case.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
SPANISH oARRoTE.
Relic of Modern Barbarlsm Unearthed
 from an Old Havana Prison.

Relic of Modern BarbarIsm Unearthed
 from an Old Havana Prison.
 Among the many relics of the Span ish war taken to the governors palace for eataloguing, none is attracting more attention in Havana just now than the old official garrote The ma chine has been in active service for more than century, the last exeea- tioner, an aged negro convict having presided at 70 ceremonies. The gar rote itself is a shabby enough old trap, consisting mainly of rusty iron and an unplaned board or two. The dons are awfully punctilious in regard to form. but seandalously careless of ap- pearance. A judge who might have seven kinds of fits if he should omit one syllable of the interminably long harangue delivered at the scene of the judicial murder, would calmly officiate at the same in a condition which to the untrained olfactories of the ignor- ant Yankees might savor of the hum- ble animal the dons have declared we resemble. Thus. it is that the garrote is simple to excess. It is about 10 feet high all told The platform, which is four feet from the ground is some six feet square. Attached to the iron column which runs through and sup ports this is an iron chair. Two feet above this is the fatal screw. The cul- prit CD is seated in this chair with his hands and fact firmly tied, and his eyes blindfolded At the proper mo- ment. twirl is given the screw, which penetrates his neck and breaks his spinal column. The operation may or may not be very painful. If it were not for the peculiarly fiendish manner in which the affairs were conducted there is reason to believe that the gar rote is less inhuman than either the rope or the chair. It is the Spanish who have thrown the method into odium
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
Strange Animal on Dey,l.. rsland.

Devils island, made famous as the prison of Dreyfus, has strange spe- cies of animal found nowhere else on earth. This odd animal has been called the coati, and is a peculiar combina- tion of mammiferous, carnivorous plantigrade. It is about the size of a cat when full grown, with long head shaped like a pyramid. a tremendous nose, making it the Cyrano of ani- mals. The jaws are long. like those of a young alligator, and it uses its fore paws to carry it's food to it's mouth, as monkeys and squirrels do. Henri Loustan, the superintendent of the penitentiary at Guiana, has sent a specimen to the Museum of Natural ss.t sY at Paris. where it is attracting eas=slaer rakle attention.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
Time Regulator At Greenwich.

The clock at Greenwich, England, which records Greenwich time,' used by navigators-an in this country by the railroads, with allowances for diff ferences in longitude-has dial with three circles. One circle is for seconds, one for minutes, one for hours. It Is twenty -four-hour clock, but does not have the numeral XXIV. The time starts fro 0 in all eases-seconds, minutes. hours. Scientists and thosa who have to mark the lapse of seconds accustom themselves to count "Naught, one, two" and so on. The first second is not complete until Is reached.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
CARRYING MONEY.

1t is amusing to notice the various methods in which men of different na- tionalities carry their worldly wealth. The Englishman carries his change loose in his right hand trousers pocket gold, silver, and copper all mixed up together He pulls handful of the mixture out of his pocket In a large. opulent way and selects the coins he has need of
 The American carries his "wad O. bills' in a peculiar, long, narrow pock- etbook, in which the greenbacks lie fiat; the Frenchman makes use of a leather purse with no distinguishing characteristics, while the German uses one gayly embroidered in silks by the fair hands of some Lottchen or Nina.
 The half-ciyilized capitalist from some torrid South American city car ries his dollars in a belt, with cum ningly devised pockets to baffle the gentlemen with the light fingers. Some of these belts are very expensive.
 The Italian of the poorer classes ties up his little fortune in a gayly colored handkerchief secured with many knots, which he secrets in some mysterious manner about his clothes. A similar course has charms for the Spaniard; while the lower class Rus- sian exhibits preference for his boots or the lining of his clothes as a hid- ing place for his savings.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
i-ssssiSIssiie.' Ooo 1fs Er.

An otherwise lovely toilet can be ruined by freak parasol.
 4 house with It's curtains down looks ike a person with no eyelids.
 It requires more moral courage to keep ones troubles to oneself than to bear them.
 The wrapper habit makes some women look as bad as the liquor habit some men.
 It really doesn't matter whether q woman is really pretty or not so long as she thinks she is.
 The woman who can look pretty when she cries and romantic when she sneezes is yet to be born.
 Some women are not to blame for spending more time in looking after dog than in looking after a baby cause why? they haven't any baby.
 Some women's idea of hopeless idiocy is created by men who insist upon singing the praises. of other women.
 Why is it we are never so hungry when there is a full meal set before us as when there is a little uncertainty as to whether there is enough to go round?
 An English publication devoted to women is having a discussion on the most attractive age. Not one of the hundreds of correspondents has sug- gested marriage, though they undoubt- edly think so.-Philadelphia Times.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
A Chance for Tame.

Communicative you an idea that co4.d be worked up into a play where by I might make decided hit?"
 Plawryte-"Got just the thing for you, my boy; a military play in whicf as the Spanish spy you will win rount after round of cheers and applause.
 Hammond" Really! And what dt I do?"
 PIawryte-"You get killed in th first act"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
. rrust

If nan boards his flour in famine times and charges eSho,bitant prices to the starving people, he is a cruel miser If a man who owned boat were to refuse to permit it's use to rescue a shipwrecked crew unless he were paid tor it he you'd be denounced as little else than q murderer. But when a combination Of fnaaciers takes advantage of low supply of coal (which it has brought about by it's own evil machinations) to transform the sufferings of the poor into pro fits, 1t is-a Trust Was ever an hon. est English word so basely mjsused-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-07-03
Not Empty Then.

Not Empty Then. Tell us not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream, When, at night, we eat cucumb mbers And then top on with ice cream.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
THE SHOPLIFTER'S DOG,

A fine white collie with a bushy
black tail is the hero-together with
Partisan detective-of a charming
little shoplifting drama" which was
begun, continued and ended the other
day in Paris. A bale of sportsmen's
Waistcoats had been stolen from a
large Partisan diapers shop. The
suspected thief had been in the shop
for so short a time that none of the
attendants could recall his appear
ance, while several remembered thai
he had been accompanied by mag
n1ticent long-haired shepherd dog, per-
fectly white, except for his tail, which
was quite black. It seemed hopeless
to get on the track of the thief, when
a police inspector discovered among
the stray dogs shepherd dog answer
ing the description of the one which
had accompanied him on the day
the bale of waistcoats was stolen.
line inspector now made the
dog his constant companion, hop
ing that on his tours about the streets
he might one day find the master. Nor
was he mistaken, for one day the dog
rushed with mighty bound toward
a elegantly dressed man descending
the steps of the Hotel du Rhin, to-
gether with two ladies' Both master
and dog were delighted at the meeting,
and the latter followed the party,
while at a respectful distance the in
spector also moved in the same dl-
rection. The party of three turned
into diapers shop and were arrested
a few minutes later in the act of lift
ing" a piece of silk. 1t now appears
that these worthless belonged to a
band of thieves, the head of which,
Malizet, has long been the respect
able inhabitant of a villa at Auber-
villers, whence, as wholesale draper,
he sent the stolen goods all over the
country, not infrequently, as he told
the court with a contemptuous smile,
selling goods to the very diapers from
whom they had been stolen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
CHAPTER XXXIV.

1T hardly seems four years, auntie,'
said Agatha to Mrs. Lynne, one morn
ing as they walked along the smooth
green lawn Of Lynnewolde. How
much older and wiser we are than
when we left here for London, on
that bright spring morning I never
thought SO much sorrow lay before
u.s."
-Four years is long time when one
is young replied Mis-. Lynne; "even
to me, each year has seemed an age.
| have longed so earnestly to see my
son again"
will he be much altered, do you
Think asked Agatha; land oh,
auntie, will he have forgotten herr"
NO" said Mrs. Lynne; my poor
boy will never forget her: but he is
young and naturally light-hearted l
have great hopes for him. l trust yet
to see him settled at Lynnewolde, a
happy husband, with children growing
around him, for he has suffered
enough"
But not as bitterly as l have done,
I1iouSA1l Tue y ouuS SIl1 W u6ISSlI
They will be here this evening"
continued Mrs. Lynne, land we must
give them a grand reception
When evening came, and a tai
| bronzed man with saddened eyes
stood before her once again, Mrs
Lynne was perfectly happy. No one
| could look at Lord Lynne withou
| seeing that he had suffered acutely;
but -four years is long time wher
| one is young" and the anguish of hi:
pain was over now. He would never
forget the beautiful girl who had loved
him so passionately, but life had still
many blessings in store for him.
Warm was the welcome given to tn,
! wanderers. Friends We'd with eacl
other in kind attentions. The frs
| visitors who came to Lynnewold,
were Lord and Lady Harrington.
| And now, Allan" said Evelyn tt
her brother, when do you intend fol
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
AN EDITORS BED.

i'' ( ce-aln village the editor of
local newspaper had room at hotel
Being absent one night, and the house
being crowded, the landlord put g
stranger in his bed. Next morning the
following lines were found in the
room:
l slept in an editors bed last night.
And others may say what they
please;
say one editor there is in the world.
That certainly takes his ease.
When I thought of my humble cot
away,
| could not suppress sigh.
But thought, as l rolled in the featherv
nest,
How easily others lie.
Whereupon the editor. after some in
formation given by the landlord. wrote
under the impudent screed the fol-
lowing retort:
Inc chap whose form has rested here.
And left his copy behind,
For bad impression should be locked
up,
AS the cut is most unkind.
Behold proof of how he lies:
In the morning he went away,
And, like many that use an editors
sheet,
Has forgotten the bill to pay,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
THE BABY WASP'S FOOD.
1t is Provided by the Mother in a Won
derful Way.

The wasp is not a vegetarian like the
bee, and our cement-maker has before
her the problem of supplying her
young with meat rather than with
bread. AS her eggs are laid in
hot weather. and as enough food must
be stored in the cell with the egg to
mature the young insect, the question
is how TO preserve the meat fresh for
so long time. She meets the diff
Guilty thus: After a tube is finished ex-
cept one end, which is left open, she
flies off on a hunt for spiders. She
finds fat, healthy one, pounces upon
it, stings it, and carries it off and
places it in the mud cell. She repeats
this process until she has placed as
many spiders in the tube as, according
to her judgment, will be needed. She
then lays an egg in the cell and walls
up the opening.
The remarkable thing about this
performance is the magic effect of her
sting. Whether it is the result Of a
subtle poison or whether it is a special
spot in the spiders nervous system
where the sting is inserted we do not
know. Certain it is that after being
thus stung the spider lives on in a
paralyzed condition for weeks and even
months. 1t can move only slightly
and remains helpless in its mud
sepulcher until the wasp egg matches
into a vOracious grub, which at once
falls to and eats with great relish the
meat thus miraculously preserved.
Whether the wasp sting renders the
spider insensible to pain or not is a
question not yet settled However,
the chances are in favor of the theory
that it does. Anyway, we need waste
no sympathy on the spider, the most
bloodthirsty of all the little people of
the fields and woods. There is a
sense of retributive justice in the
thought Of a spider helpless and at
the mercy of a small insect which it
would have mercilessly devoured had
it been able.
So we need not accuse our alert, in
dustrious cement-maker of any I'M
reasonable cruelty if she, like us, in
sists upon meat diet for her young,
nor need we have any fear of her sting,
for she seldom uses it as a weapon of
offense or defense.-Chautauquan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
CONDENSED SMILES.

Hoax: II thought you said that man
was a musician" Joax: Nonsense -
"You certainly told me he wrote melo-
dies. Il told you he was a composer
of heirs. He manipulates soothing
syrup."-The Rival
Uncle Silas: us it fact tibet they
hev roof gardens down to the city?'
CITY niece: why, yes, uncle. They
have several of them Uncle Silas: 'It
must seem funny to go up on the roof
to dig pertaters an SIGH. New York
Journal
My daughters music sighed the
mother. ''has been great expense. y
"Indeed?" returned the guest who had
just heard her play. "Some neighbors
sued you, I suppose? "-Answers.
A circular has been sent to very
many clergymen by a wine firm, set
ting forth the merits of its wines and
liquors, with prices by the case, etc
The end Of the circular reads: IN. B.
To avoid suspicion, every case sent
you will be marked canned peaches
-Tid-Bits.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05
ORIGIN OF MINT tULEPS.
How They Were Made i New Eng
land Over Two Centu es Ago.

A number of newspapers throughout
the middle western and upper south
ern states are at present discussing
with much cleverness and warmth the
genesis of the mint julep, and the
Baltimore Sun, in particular, seems to
be very much wrought up over an at
tempt to ascribe the credit for the in
vention of the national drink to J. C.
S. Blackburn, John G. Carlisle and
other moderns. Of course, II scouts the
idea that Kentucky is entitled to claim
an honor over which some of the most
eminent scholars and statesmen dis
puted long before Daniel Boone pene-
trated into the interminable forests Of
that state. The Sun invites at
tention to the fact that Nc
Master, the historian, in one
Of his books, quotes from the diary of
AN Englishman who travelled in Vir-
ginia early in the eighteenth century,
and who makes mention Of a drink
favored by bruising mint. This was
long before J. c. S. Blackburn or John
G. Carlisle had attained prominence.
But those who are interested in the
subject need not pause here, for in the
memories ofJeremy Lane (Salem, 1649)
reference is made to a drink COM
pounded Of mint herb and heating
spirits, which is grateful to the palate
when cooled in stone jug at the
spring." while the Boston Gazette of
August II, 1897, contains local item
in which occurs the statement that the
"droWneded man was known to have
drunk several goblets Of a mixture
composed of Hollands favored with
mint before he fell off the wharf, -
which should be an example to those
who have lately formed the habit of
what the publikans and tayernkeepers
call MINI dewIip." "Julep'' is evidently
a corruption of the proper name, and
one which is due to the heaviness of
the pronunciation Of those who
formed the "habbit'' of ordering it,
According to The Sun, the subject is
an engrossing one, and the controversy
should be settled without .elay, that
Americans may know where to erect
memorial to the monumental genius
who gave the country the enhancing
and seductive beverage in question, "
not with the view of encouraging it's
use, however, but in order that a ques-
ton of great historical interest may be
settled. The west has already taken
pains to fix responsibility for the 1nven-
ton of the high ball" in the right
man and the right locality, and the
east, where the mint julep had it's
origin, should spare no pains to fix
the credit where it Chicago
Inter-Ocean.