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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-01-25

ITO be your sweetheart" I've promised,
my dear.
And your lonely life, "Trip" will be mine
to cheer.
So that your fate, unlike that Of Jones
Will be sunshine and happiness rather
than groans;
And though Funny Dreams" DER your
slumber play,
You'll awake to find mother in-law far
away.
Yes, dearest Rip; my (one) aim in life
Is 70 be your Spanish American wife.
Where on Cuba's fair shore, hand II
hand, We'll rove.
And live together, life Of Love"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-01-25
THE DEACON.
At City Hall Tonight.

The Union City Dramatic Company
will occupy the boards at City Hall, to
night, presenting the beautiful play,
The Deacon. The company is compos
ed of some Of the best talent and best
society young people of Union City. and
their performance is praised very highly
by the Union City papers. We fee
warranted in saying that our people Will
be given pleasant evening, and we
therefore, urge all TO attend.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1901-01-25

Mr.. F. S. Moore, promising young
attorney from Illinois, has located in
Hickman, for the practice Of his profes-
sion. He is highly endorsed.
Ia MCFALL 4 DIsHuRss, the painless
dentists.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

ing on these fertile lands immensely
profitable by going about it in whole
sale way.
Do not, however, imagine that it is
only the wholesale methods that pay
well in Western Canada. I saw men
who owned only the 100 acres of land
the government had given them as a
homestead who claimed to be making
better livings for themselves and their
families and saving more money than
they had ever been able to do in the
States on the same amount of land.
Practically every one of these compare
lively small farmers whom I met as
sured me that it was their ambition to
purchase more land as rapidly as they
could accumulate the means with
which to buy. They fully realized that
they could not get too much of what
they knew was a good thing. There
is a vast amount of difference in buy
ing productive land at SO to SIS an
acre and at $50 to $40 an acre.
The straight burrows and the long
ones are possible in Western Canada,
where, as 1 know from my own investi-
cations made during the past summer,
farming pays and pays well.
WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
CURIOSITY and love of travel

NURIOSITY and love of travel
u combined caused me to take an
extensive trip through the ag-
TicEltural sections of Western Canada
during the past summer, and while
there 1 was given the best of opportu-
mites of studying and judging for my
self of the conditions that exist in that
extensive section of our continent.
After 1 had travelled over few mil
lion acres of Western Canada, and
watched and studied what at first
seemed to me an extravagant waste of
land on the part of the farmers, be-
came better acquainted with condi-
tions and the very good reasons for
this seeming wastage.
had been used to the farming oper-
atoms of the more thickly populated
States, where to make farming pay it
was necessary to cultivate practically
every foot of ground; where it was the
rule rather than the exception to go
to the length of blasting out, if neces-
sary, heavily rooted trees or large
powders; where much of the farm
land was secured by clearing it of tim
Der and stones, which had been accom-
plished only after years of toll and
privation on the part of the first set
tiers. There travelled with me over
these millions of acres of Canadian soil
a gentleman who had been reared upon
just this sort of farm in Michigan,
and, as he expressed it, land was so
scarce and so valuable because of its
scarcity that we had to cultivate even
the corners of the rail fences"
But in my journey through the agri-
cultural section of Western Canada,
ranging from Winnipeg on the east to
the Rocky Mountains on the west, and
from the international boundary on
the south to the Saskatchewan river
and beyond on the north, saw moth.
ing that savored of our method of
''fence corner farming" and in time
I learned the reason for the little I'm.
cultivated tracts.
Time, rather than land, is the valu-
able commodity in Western Canada. In
country where the soil is sufficiently
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
jured in an Oil Tank of the New
ark, n. j., Gas Co.

New York, Sept. 27.-Six men and
possibly seven were killed and seven
injured by the explosion Thursday of
an oil tank of the Essex and Hudson
Gas Co., at Newark, n. J. Many wit
nesses say there is a body in the river,
as they saw it hurled high in the air
and thrown in that direction.
The tank which exploded was one
of a number of immense steel reser-
voirs which was undergoing its peri
odical cleaning, it having been emp
tied of its oil in the morning. The
tank was 20 feet deep, and two work
men entered through the manhole
first without taking precaution of hav-
ing ropes tied about them. They were
Immediately overcome by the fumes.
Foreman Newman saw this and start
ed down after them, after shouting
a warning to the other workmen in
the yard. He, too, collapsed in the
tank.
Nicholas Miller, a grocer nearby,
had once been foreman of the works
LIE was III Tic ydIuS duu dJ OuCC dS-
sumed charge of the rescue. Sum-
moning others the men began with
chisels to cut large ring in the tank.
1t is supposed one of the chisels in
striking the steel caused the ennis
sion of a spark, for instantly there
was an explosion like that of a can
non and then a sheet of fame Ten
men were on the top of the tank at
the time. They were swept away in
all directions. Three seem to have
borne the brunt of the terrific
shock. They were not badly
mangled, but not a bone in their
frames was left unbroken, says the
county physician, this fact being due
to their being blown many feet into
the air and the force with which they
struck the ground. The tank was
rent in twain and after all was over
the bodies of the three men in it
were taken out.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

fertile to produce thirty and forty
bushels of wheat to the acre from less
than bushel of seed; where the gov
eminent gives everyone desiring it a
free homestead of 100 acres of this
land, and where more may be bought
at from So to S. per acre; where one
years crop will much more than pay
for the land upon which it is grown, it
is wicked waste of time to cultivate
the "fence corners"
Before 1 had acquired this informa-
ton was on one farm where a road
way cut off a small corner of land from
the remainder of a field of wheat.
There was, should say, nearly an acre
in this little plat of neglected ground,
and asked the owner of the farm why
it had not been put under cultivation.
ITO undertake to pillow that little
three-cornered strip of land would
take far more time than the land is
worth, giving both the present market
value. To add it to the remainder of
the field would necessitate a longer
way around from the main road to the
house. Lying just across the road
there is $50 acres of as good land as
this upon which I have this year grown
more than 30 bushels of wheat TO the
acre, and I can buy that land of the
railroad for 81 an acre. 1t would take
as much time to pillow that small piece,
in its present shape, as it would to
pillow two acres of the land across the
road, aud so would be what we in this
country consider a waste of valuable
time"
Straight burrows and long ones is
the blowing rule in Western CanaGa,
and the gang pillow is the favorite meth
cd of turning the soil. The Western
Canada farmer, found, cultivates his
land upon wholesale methods. No
matter where he may come from, no
matter what the methods in vogue in
his native place may nave been, the
farmer in Canada soon learns that it is
wholesale methods that pay best there,
and for this reason it is Western Cana
da that is the home of every improved
agricultural machine that tends to
the speedy handling of great harvests
or the production of them. These ma
chimes are not always the product of
Western Canadian inventors, but the
Western Canadian farmers are among
the heaviest buyers of this class of ag-
ricultural machinery in the world.
The Canadian farmer never becomes
land poor as does the farmer in the
States. When he buys land he knows
that it will bring him adequate returns
upon his investment, and that his gov
eminent will not put burden of taxes
upon it. AS a sample of what is posi-
Bile with the progressive farmers in
Western Canada let me cite the case of
one living near White Plains, in Mani
toba. Mr.. Winslow by name. During
the past season this one man had 2, ZOO
acres of land planted in wheat, and har
vested $500 bushels. He makes faru,
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
A BATTLE FOUGHT.
Claimed the Colombian Troops Were
Victorious. But the Loss on Both
Sides Was Heavy.

Mobile. Ala, Sept. 2S.-Capt. Tore
stadt, of the steamer Banes, from
Bocas del Toro, reports that the bat
tie fought on September 10 and 13 is
claimed by the Colombian troops, but
the loss was heavy on both sides.
When the Banes left there were not
more than % government troops in
Iiocas. About 200 insurgents were
outside the place. but making no
serious demonstration.
From another source it is learned
that the insurgents get their sup
plies from Chinese merchants. For
eign firms experience trouble in get
ting messages to and from their
agents, some of the latter being in
prison charged with aiding the in
surgents.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Gala, of the Marblehead, concluded
his testimony, which was begun Fri
day, and the court heard the testi-
Inony of Lieut.. Commander W. II. H.
Switzerland. who commanded the
Eagle during the war with Spain, and
also that of Lieut.. Cassius B. Barnes.
The latter is a cipher expert in the
navy department, and his evidence
was devoted to showing that the dis
patch from Commodore Schley to the
navy department. of May %, 1898,
saying that he could not. much to his
regret, obey the orders of the de-
partment, as printed in the official
reports, was a correct translation of
the message as forwarded from the
Harvard at Kingston.
Commander Switzerland explained
the condition of the Eagle during the
campaign, and told of the part that
vessel played. He said the slow
progress made III the cruise to San
tiago was due to the fact that the
vessel was one-third full of water
lie told of signaling the Scorpion to
inform Commodore Schley that the
Spanish squadron was not in the har-
Dor of Cienfuegos. Capt. McCalla
said he had suggested to Commodore
Schley, after the battle of Santiago
that there was glory enough in the
victory for all.
Capt. McCalla testified that he had
been present during a conference OF
commanding officers on the Brooklyn
while the feet was off Santiago on
May %. Describing what took place,
he said:
'The commanding officers were or
dered on board the Brooklyn on May
%. It was with regard to the work
of blockade. I can only remember one
specific thing, which took place at
the close, and that was that Capt.
Evans asked Commodore Schley, if
the Spanish ships did not come out,
if he was going in for them. He said,
Certainly and then arranged for
a subdivision of fire from the ships
under his command on the Spanish
ships should they come out"
Mr.. Rayner, in his cross-examina-
ton, brought out the fact that Lieut..
Barnes had no knowledge whether
the cipher copy made on the Harvard
is a correct reproduction of the orig
inal Schley message.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

A Philadelphian tells the story of wait
er at restaurant in the Quaker city who
has, lately announced that he has begun to
study French.
"Do you find it necessary here?" asked
the customer
Not here, sir" said the waiter, "but I've
been offered a steady job in Paris at one of
the hotels If l can learn French"
But Paris is full of French walters" said
the gentleman. I'm afraid you're being de-
ceived"
'Oh, no, sir!" said the man, with much
earnestness and absolute simplicity. Its
a perfectly straight thing. The proprietor
of the hotel says the walters he has can't
understand French as we Philadelphians
speak it, and that's what he wants'me for,
you see. -Youth's COMPANION.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
TO DRIVE OUT NEGROES.
A Mob of Unknown Persons Attacked
the Home of Annie Meade at
Bond Creek, o. t.

Guthrie, 0. T., Sept. 2s.-An attempt
was made by mob composed of IN
known persons to drive the Negroes
from Bond Creek. the county seat of
Grant county, Q. T. They began by
fring a fusilade of shots into the
home OF Annie Meade, a mulatto, and
Jim Gillespie. Two of the woman's
children were seriously injured, the
bed in which they were sleeping be-
ing filed with bullet holes, and the
dishes on the tables were broken
into pieces.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
wisconsin Farm Lands

The best of farm lands can be obtained
now in Marinette County, Wisconsin, on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway al
low price and on very favorable terms
Wisconsin is noted for its fine crops, excel
lent markets and healthful climate. Why
rent farm when you can buy one much
cheaper than you can rent and in a few years
1t will be your own property. For particu-
lars address F. A. Miller, General Passenger
Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail
way Chicago
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

"Ah!" he sighed, after she had blushing-
~ whispered Yes" in his bosom. MY own
Mehitabeli o! that names so formal Sure
ly your friends use some shorter one; some
pet name"
We'll" she murmured, "the girls at
boarding school used to call me Pickles -
Philadelphia Press
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Several ladies and their children were
strolling through a cemetery reading in
scriptions.
'Oh, mamma" cried little Agnes, stop
ping at a grave, there's some one sent
G. o. D."
The mortified mother turned to chide her
daughter, but paused as she read: Games
Brown, Co. D., on the headstone.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
10 YOU
LOVE YOUR
HlESRAMD2

and than We make the best liver
or They are easy take eat them like candy Casos
pleased you can have back That's fair isn't IF We sold
Or the
c and SOC box soc box months treatment for the bad
c.
and the dealer offers something else good he LES guarantee Get
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
Fair Warming.

Time, l1:45 p. M
A sound resembling a distant peal of
thunder is heard distinctly overhead.
What was that" asked the young man
as he started up from the parlor sofa in
alarm.
''That?" echoed the fair pride of the
household. ''Oh, that was only papa drop
ping a hint"
And hastily gathering the hint unto him.
self the young man carried it out into the
gloomy night.-Chicago Daily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
Very Susnicionn

My daughter, you have been out with
one of those football players again., said
the watchful mother
Why, how do you know, mamma?'
'Why, found long hair on your blue
shirtwaist. "-Yonkers Statesman.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Pearl-But are you sure that he loves
her?
Ruby-Loves her? Why, he actually let
her sketch him in crayon; and she has only
taken a two-weeks' course, too.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
whore Benux Are scarce.

Mr.. Perkins, had to do five mems work.
Mr.. Simpson-Gracious! In your office?
"Oh, no; at that summer resort. DE
troit Free Press.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
A Doubtful Commitment.

Lady, always come out so plain in my
photographs palmer even than l ami
Photographer (gallantly)-Oh, madam,
that is impossible !-Moonshine
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

If man wants quarter for an article,
and you are not willing to pay that mrch,
don't haggle; let him keep it.-Atchison
Globe
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

II am tired of this monkey business" ex-
claimed the irritable citizen. Then he went
out and chased the organ grinder from the
door.-Indianapo News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infal.i
bic remedy for coughs and colds.-N. w
Samuel, Ocean Grove, n. j., Feb II, 1900.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Dropsy treated free by DR.. II. n. Green's
Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy
specialists in the world. Read their adver-
tisement in another column of this paper
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Race of the AustraIfan-LOndOnM Mail
is graphically described in No IL New York
Central's -Four Track Series" Every
person interested in the growth of our COM
merce should read it. Sent free on receipt
of two-cent stamp by General Passenger
Agent, New York Central, New York.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Every loafer hangs around some other
nan who would otherwise work.-Atchison
Globe.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

What loneliness is more lonely than dis
trust.-George Eliot.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

When fools speak out in meeting let wise
men hold their peace, lest the fools break
it.-Atlanta Constitution.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01
Crushed Again.

Drummer Tin train)-Is this seat en-
gagged?
Coy Country Maid-No, but am.-Judge.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

The oftener a man is sold the cheaper he
feels.-Chicago Daily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Sweat or fruit acids will not discolor
DYES. Sold by druggists, lOc. package.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Relieve WhOOpinG Cough
With Hoxsie's Group Cure. Nonausea. Scots.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

The early morning bath hath gold in its
Notwithstanding
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

The Public Awards the Palm to Hale's
Honey OF Horehound and Tar for coughs.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-10-01

Yes, Of course, you DO, and you want
him to live and enjoy life, the good thir-s
you can give him? Then help him I've
right! When his skin gets yellow ard
he looks bilious, his eyes red and water.
his breath smells bad, 99 times oct Of J
his liver is logy. Now, If you want a n.ea
to look well, feel well and be well, kesS
him IN regular habits! Give him pla.a
wholesome food, and make him take Cas-
carets to stir Up his liver. Big doses Of
salts and strong medicines make hin u1e,l-
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-04

Standing around the streets is not
the only way Of loahng.-Atchison
Globe.
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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-04
TOLD BY THE GROCER.
His Conversation With a Deaf Won.
an Lost Him a Customer.

His Conversation With a Deaf Won.
an Lost Him a Customer.
I'll tell you how l lost a good Gus
toner the other day." said the grocery
man. Il have one customer who is ex.
tremely deaf, and to make her hear l
have to just yell at her. 1t takes about
half an hour to get her order, and by
that time my voice is pitched so high
that can't get it down to earth again.
THE other day it happened that aft.
er she left in came Mr.. Oldboy. who is
a perfect crank. Was in the army once
and a great stickler for bowling and
scraping and all that sort Of thing.
Wants a fellow he trades with to sa.
lutte and present arms and do all kinds
of things. He came in and said. Good
morning. l wish you had heard me
yell at him. My voice made the win.
dows rattle. He looked surprised, but
went on talking to me, and l kept uI
answering him in a voice that could be
heard a block away. He got madden
and madden. but l never knew what
was up until finally he got red in the
face and said. Mr.. Black, sir, l am not
deaf. sir, and l resent your yelling at
me as if l couldn't hear a cannon fired
in my ear With that out he went.
"You see, l had been talking to the
deaf lady and couldn't get my voice
down again. You try it some time and
see If you don't yell at every one yor
meet. Funny. too. but I always yell al
blind people and foreigners. and l al.
ways whisper when | go in where any
ones sick."-Indianapolis Sentinel.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1901-01-04
DO cows cRYi
The Grief Of an Animal Whose Ca1f
Had Been KILLED.

The Grief of an Animal whose CAR
Had Been Killed.
A correspondent writing to Dumb
Animals says: Dumb animals are said
to have a sign" language Of their own
by which they make known the emo
tioas of pleasure or pain and a limited
catalogue of wants and sorrows. Re-
Gently l had occasion to dispose of a
6%-months-old calf which was taken
away about noon and butchered a
short distance from my residence.
When the COW came home at night,
she missed her calf, and although an
orphan calf was permitted to suck she
continued to call it by affectionate
mooing and looking. The COW, how
ever. only gave about n quart of milk
instead of a gallon or more, as former
ly. During the night she lowed fire.
quently for her calf, and the next
morning when it did not appear she ex-
hibited unmistakable signs of grief.
The orphan calf was no solace to her.
She was driven to the woods with her
mate, but came back and continued
lowing until moo She came inside
the Enclosure, but would not eat grass.
Just after dinner a great commotion
was heard in the direction Of where the
calf was butchered, made by a number
of cattle lowing, having scented the
fresh blood. The grief stricken mother
COW ran to the closed gate and looked
beseechingly toward me, as much as to
say, "Please open the gate" which
being done she started on a run to
where the other cattle were lowing.
In a short time she came slowly
walking back to the house and was
again permitted to come inside the in
closure. when she deliberately took up
q position at the kitchen door, wistful.
~ looking in mute despair at each
member of the family as they happen.
ed to pass her. The tears flowed copi.
ously from her eyes, and there she
stood the balance of the afternoon,
weeping necessarily, with the same ap.
parent grief that a mother would for
her dead child. 1t really caused me to
shed tears of sympathy for the poor
animal.