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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

We had won, We had won; with my brain
all aswirl,
But my heart most blissfully singing;
For through all the desperate rush and
whirl
knew that that dear little, sweet little girl
Was close to me, close to me clinging.
OF course. I was tired after the race,
And my heart in a terrible fiutter.
So pulled down the blacks to a moderate
pace
And sat, while my right hand held them in
place.
With my left on the back of the cutter.
And then. as the heavens were not quite
clear,
And the chains of love were clanking,
Myarm crept along on the seat by the rear
And slyly, with doubling and many fear
Strove to capture my captOr, by hankng
Bat Claire was awake with her videttes out
n And soon had the enemy routed.
Twas merely a whisper, have no doubt,
But it seemed az if earth and air about
With a thousand voices shouted.
do you think It quite safe Qn tone very
grand),
"single handed to drive with a lady?
I'm sure, sir, you'd better take two-and-
and
think that perhaps-I could-lend you a
hand,
AS see you have only one ready"
AS that last low whisper flew off into space
And my darling grew scared into GOODNESS.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
Tho Hand.ome.t calendar

Of the season On ten colors) six beautiful
heads ton six sheets, l0xl2 inches), repro
auctions Of paintings by Moran, issued by
General Passenger Department, Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, viii be sent
on receipt of twenty-five cents. Address F.
A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chi
cagO.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

possible comfort This is the condition of the
farmer in Western Canada-PToyince of Manitoba
and districts Of Assinibo'a, Saskatchewan and
Alberta. Thousands of Americans are now settled
there. Reduced rates on all railways for Ome-
seekers and settlers New districts are being opened
up this year. The new forty-page ATLAS of
WESTERN CANADA and all other informa-
ton sent free to all applicants. +. PEDLEY,
or TO JOSEPH YOUNG, SIN State ST.. East. Column
bus. Ohio; e. II. Holmes Room g. Big Four Bldg,
indianapolis, Ind; Canadian Government Agents,
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
Trials of Christmas Turkey

Corn is becoming so valuable, says
the Chicago RecordHerald, that the
Christmas turkey may as well prepare
to be fattened on something else.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
Special Holiday Notice.

The c., H. & d. Ry. Co., will sell tickets
at greatly reduced rates, account of the
Holidays, on December Oath. 25th, 31st and
January lst. All tickets will be good re-
turning, to and including, January 2, 1902
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
Stops the Cough and Works on
the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c.

We all know how unselfsh we are when it
is a question of our telling people things for
their good or Of keeping still for our own
n Y Sun
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
The "White Housev Now

1t may have struck you also, says the
Chicago Tribune, that he didn't call it
executive mansion" but white
house,
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

What is the use in employing some one
to do your dyeing for you. If you use
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES you can do
it just as we'll as a professional.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
Ave, n, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
Advancing.

Tourist-Are the Indians around here
making any progress?
Westerner-Sure! Their medicine man
is a patent-medicine man-Puck
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
children of Larger Growth.

Don't laugh at the children for writing
letters to Santa Claus. Some grown people
write letters in answer to green goods ad
vertisements.- Wasnington Star.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

The dime museum man doesn't mind hav-
ing a skeleton in his closet, especially if it is
alive-Harlem Life.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

Fortify Feeble Lungs Against Winter
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

Sarcasm-AIrs. Fuss-'I have kept my
last hired girl a MONTH" Mrs Flip-''Dear
me! Do you keep her locked up?"-Ohio
State Journal
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

Love is not necessarily plant of slow
growth, but many a mushroom of this kind
has turned out to be toadstool.-Puck.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

A girl admires extravaganza in the young
man she isn't going to marry.-Chicago
Daily News.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

To err is human, but to rub it in that we
did is inhuman-Puck.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

iii, Ronald! Come down from that dance in the airl
aey Lars! Have done with your frolicking therel
come! show us your best for the Lady Claire!
Gently, there! gently! Now steady! &c. So!
An grandly my beauties! Well let the boys know
what 1t means to come up with pair that can 60
Ha! Ha Lady Claire the bays are in air!
hey never could rot with the blacks, fair and square,
And there go the grays off their feet over there
Great Scott but they're both coming up on the run!
Hold tight, little Claire, this things just begun;
They shall have all the running they wish ere they're done
Go, RonaldL Go! Go, LasLAway!
Great heavens! Just see Willie Ford's cutter sway.
Get on my black beautes Get on there l say!
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

AND never dwelt soul so white and fair.
With the sweetness to love and the courage
to dare,
In form so fragile and slender.
had loved little Claire since long ago
But never word had spoken:
The dear, winsome creature she frightened
me so,
For feared that, perhaps, she might ar.
swer me, No,
And the charm of my life be broken.
scarcely could fancy it really true
That there at my side she was sitting,
In my gay little cutter all fresh and new
With its golden stripping, and built for two
Through the Christmas moonlight fitting
L was driving along in quiet way
With never thought of speeding,
Trying to think of something to say,
Though the horses were fresh ard full OF
play,
And the blacks. as usual. leading.
The lights shone out on the glittering snow
With Christmas cheer and gree ting,
Giving a glimpse, in the firelight's glow,
Of silvery heads and heads of tow
Ger Christmas bounties meeting.
We were just turning into the Norfolk Pike
Where it joins the road to Pentlever,
Where 1T stretches away to the Cambridge
dixie,
Broad and level and arrow-like
And smooth as a frozen river
I was furtively watching the radiant flush
Up into Claire's cheek come creeping.
When the bays and the grays drew up with
a rush,
And the six all abreast, for bit of brush
came into the wide road sweeping.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24
JUS! think Of II!

Every farmer his own
landlord. no encum-
ORANGES. his bank account
increasing year by year,
land value increasing,
stock increasing. splen-
did climate. excellent
schools and churches. low
taxation. high prices for
cattle and grain. low rail-
way rates. and every
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

Hi, Lais! Look out Look out you'll slipl
AS | live, Lady Claire, it's a two minute-cIp;
And see! do you see? Roys using the whip!
All, steady there, Ronald! Cling close, little one
We're making beautiful, beautiful rum
And the blacks blood will tell before we are done
told you'll told you! Wills out of the race;
My soul little one! that bad place.
Those bays cannot when the blacks set the pace
Now carefully Claire mind, child how you Sit
I'm going to touch up the blacks just bit.
Not afraid, my brave girl? Not whit mot a whit?
Hi you black phantoms Get away-Get away!
My life how they go This has passed beyond play
hope-I-yes, Claire-that this cutter-wilI stay!
See! little one-see! Look back at that gray!
He's done, and hurrah we've carried the day.
Hurrah, you wild beauties Hurrah, there say!
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-12-24

l read in the beautiful, blushing face,
It's story of trust and of loving grace,
And my heart thrilled up into holiness.
"And what happened then in the soft moon.
nght?"
Well, certainly did not borrow.
is 1t anyone's care if 1 seized that night
1hat dear little hand by my loves strong
might
And kept it through JOY and through sor.
row?
And never one tonight shall know
That those bells to my thought seem
weeping.
with sobbing cry, as they swell to and fro
Over the beautiful silent snow.
Where the unblossomed sou1s lie sleaninc,
All, mellow 1 long for the years nv eonet
Alas! that their glory is ended
Wien horses were horses, and knew how tn
run;
When the girls, pure and true. were mt
like a nun,
By she-dragon always attended.
Ny Willie goes out with his girl, goes he.
And his coachman fine as fiddle.
And his footman arrayed most gorgeouslv
In Il sleigh that was built with a seat for
three, "a
And chaperon sits in the middle.
oh, my heart and my temperboth are wruna
For the ancient days so golden,
When lie was royalty sweet and. young.
AnG love was never a trio sung.
with the third part cracked and oldeA-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
American Locomotives.
From the Engineering Magazine.


The comparative performances Of Ameri-
can locomotives and those Of other makes
are not to be established in a magazine
article, or. for the matter of that, in any
article. Dispositions and assertions are
worthless in the face Of train-sheets; they
are the only arbiters, and time and again
American locomotives have been compared
with foreign locomotives and have shown
themselves first in the rank of railway ma
chimes in all that is essential. Pound for
pound, both in the load drawn and steam
carried, over the same route, equal skill In
driving being assumed in both cases, is the
only test which can be made of two en-
gines by different makers regards their
capacities. The private or public opinions
of more or less disinterested parties upon
either side have nothing to do with the is
sue.
The enormous mileage of successfully
operated railway in the United States,
much of it through thinly settled districts
where the traffic has only fraction Of the
density found in Britain or on the CONT
nent; the comparative cheapness OF Ameri-
can railway freight rates-stated by Mr..
Phillips in the Engineering Magazine for
May to be only about one-sixth of what
they are In Britain, while f1rst-class Amer
lean passenger fares are barely equal to
third-class English fares; the phenomenal
performances in transport also described
by Mr.. Phillips In his study of ore move
ment in the United States-all these afford
SO substantial proofs Of the efficiency and
relative economy of American railway mo-
tive power that no other answer need be
made to critics of the American engine.
Locomotives which can contribute to such
results, when working over roads which
are in the main far inferior to the average
British standard, show by their own record
the ignorance or prejudice of those who
would cry them down as costly failures
and worthless at any price"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17


The concentration of the energies of
France In the one great city Of Paris Is a
potent agency in the impoverishment Of
the blood Of the rural districts. All great
cities are destroyers Of life. Scarcely one
would hold it's own In population or power
were 1t not for the young men Of the
farms. In such destruction Paris has ever
taken the lead. The education Of the mid
die classes In France is almost exclusively
a preparation for public life. To be an off,
cial in a great city Is an almost universal
ideal This ideal but few attain, and the
lives of the rest are largely wasted. Not
only the would-be official. but artist. poet,
musician. physician or journalist seeks his
career in Paris. A few may find 1t. The
others, discouraged by hopeless effort or
vitiated by corrosion, faint and fall. Every
night some few of these cast themselves
into the Seine. Every morning they are
brought to the morgue behind the old
Church of Notre Dame. 1t is a long pro-
cessfon and a sad one from the provincial
village to the strife and pitfalls of the
great city. from hope and Joy to absinthe
and the morgue. With all its pitiful aspects
the one which concerns us Is the steady
drain on the life blood of the nation-its
steady lowering Of the average of the
parent stock Of the future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17

part of the damage done annually, or
which has been done In past years in the
United States, it is interesting and Inn
portant to note that eight. and possibly
are certainly native. Our bot fly (hypo-
derma lineata) and our buffalo gnat prob
ably fed for centuries on the American
bison, just as the army worm and the
chinch bug have always fed on our wild
grasses; but the Hessian fly. the fly
weevfi, Cor Angoumois grain moth. as it
Is sometimes caiied), the coddlng moth,
the wheat nudge, the hop plant louise and
the gypsy moth are-all importations from
Europe, most of Them old-time introduce
lions established IN our territory early in
the century or before; while the San Jose
scale came to us from Asiatic regions and
the cotton worm from the West Indies.
The origin of the pea louise Is still prob
lematical.
1t is safe. therefore, to say that the
greater part of the damage to our crops
from insects is done by imported species.
and that nearly all of these came to us
from Europe. We have our restriction
laws. which apply to unwelcome human
immigrants, but we have never had gov
ernmental regulations providing for the
inspection of our borders of living plants
or fruits or other substances which may
harbor insect pests Curiously enough.
most European countries. following the
lead or Germany, are now quarantined
against the United States in this respect.
and curiously enough, also. they have lit
tie to fear from US. even without the quar-
antine. as there is but one American in
sect. the grape vine Phyl1oxera, which
seems to thrive In Europe.
Devising Remedies.
There can be little doubt that accurate
as the estimates given unquestionably are
"a an estimated summary of individual
losses, their effect upon the prosperity of
the country as a whole is hardly compar-
able to the withdrawal of sum of money
of this amount from circulation; but the
fact remains that an enormous amount of
money is lost every year from the work
of insects, and that the successful iabors
of the government and state entomologists
In devfsing remedies against Injurious in
sects are worth to the country at large far
more than the public funds, which are
spent In their support. This. government
supports work Of this class more literally
than any other government in the world,
yet even with us the whole government
and state appropriations together do not
reach 100000 annually. AS opposed to this,
1t Is safe to say that the amount saved
from the investigations of these officials
and from the following Of their recon-
mendations runs far into the millions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH IN AFRICA

The French Are Now Trying to In
trOduce 1t Into Their Colonies.
| From the New York Sun.
The French government has been encour-
aged by the helpfulness that the British
derived from the wireless telegraph in the
Boer war and by the results of the ex-
periments made by the Prince of Monaco
| to take steps in tentative way to intro
duce the system into the African colonies.
Arrangements have been made to carry out
the experiments simultaneously both in the
| moist tropical regions and in the dry Sa-
| hara. The work Is to be advanced only SO
far as its success seems to be assured be-
| tween the stations where the apparatus is
placed
The experiments in the moist tropical
regions will begin in Senegambia and Ga
boon, on the west coast of Africa They
will be under the charge Of NJ. Magne, di-
rector Of the postal and telegraphic ser
vice in the French west coast colonies.
He has recently left France with apparatus
sufficient to equip several stations.
/ His first endeavor will be to establish
wireless communications between Rufisque
and Goree. The latter town is mile and
half from Dakar. the excellent port Of
Senegal, where large ocean vessels ride
safely in deep and smooth water and where
the Atlantic cable from Europe first reaches
the mainland. About twenty miles to the
east is Rufisque, separated from Goree
only by water surface. Magne's second
experiment will be further SOUTH In the
still more humid climate Of Gaboon. where
he will test the practicabilty of the wire
less system between Libreville and Denis.
These towns, about twenty-five miles apart.
are also separated only by a water surface.
the purpose being in both these expert
ments to have the most favorable condi-
lions as to surface and thus be able to
study under the best of circumstances the
meteorological influences that may deter
tropical Africa. If wireless telegraphy
proves to be success at these stations
the next step will be to extend it inland.
Meanwhile the project Of establishing
wireless communications across the desert
Of Sahara is under way. Two missions,
equipped with modified Marconi apparatus,
are to start, one from Timbuctoo and the
other from Tuat, the termini Of the pro-
posed line across the desert. They are to
follow the usual caravan route along a line
Of wells between these two points. The
advantages of this route are that 1t offers
a considerable amount of grazing for cam
els is far to the west Of the hostile Tua-
regs and is inhabited here and there by
friendly natives. a part of whom will be
employed to protect the line If 1t Is put into
operation.
The two parties are to establish stations
along the route. it being, of course. neces-
sary condition that each station is able to
communicate successfully with the one es-
tablished behind it. The parties will adj
vance only as fast as this end may be at
tanned. If they are successful they will
meet in the middle Of the desert, and wire
less telegraphy will have been established
across the greatest waste in the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
Early Communal Recreation.

From the Contemporary Review.
Since the calendar first divided life into
working and non-working days. the holiday
holy day. as Its name implies-has been
controlled by the priestly caste. Before
the abolition Of slavery as an institution
the congregating of large numbers Of peo-
pie for worship and it's attendant recreative
delights presented no great danger to the
ruling caSteS which, of course, Included the
priests But as the half-freed people in the
later middle age grew In numbers and
knowledge, and as they filed the priest
more and more acute. AS We might have
expected, on the decline Of the priestly
power the other ruling classes, at first
feudal and then commercial. did their best
to restrict the number of holidays in the
calendar. In the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries city would deliberately arrange
to take months holiday under the aus
pices Of the church. during which work
and war would cease, and the whole city
would turn out to enjoy itself. 1t was at
this time the guilds found their chief recre-
alton under the direction of the monks in
the performance Of mystery and miracle
plays, and these festivals continued right
on into the sixteenth century For in
stance. in the Mystery Of the Acts of the
Apostles, which relates in verse the his
tory Of the apostles. from the death Of
Christ to their own martyrdom. the whole
population Of Bourges turned out for forty
days to witness the spectacle. In these
performances, 1t will be remembered, the
the authors. and. probably, always the
stage managers-the stage directions being
written In Latin, the rest Of the mystery in
the vernacular.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17

the delicacies Of every celestial feast A
large part of the shipmens of beche de
mer are from Thursday Island. There are
companies here which are engaged in the
business. employing hundreds of men.
They boats Of five or six tons each
and travel from place to place gathering
the sea slugs and preparing them for the
market. They are caught by diving, the
best divers coming from the various
islands. some from the Louisiade group
some from the Solomon and some from New
Guinea. Some are men and some are wo-
men, the latter being paid as little as $1.25
month The men divers often receive as
high as $ month, but on the average
about $3.50. The wages are often paid In
tobacco and clothing instead of money.
The Cacumbers Of the Sea.
The beche de mer are called the cucum-
bers of the sea because they look so much
like cucumbers as they lie in the water
They range In length from one foot to
four feet and from the thickness of your
wrist to that Of your calf. They are found
upon the coral reefs and are picked OF at
low tide or obtained by diving down to
depth Of from Twelve to eighteen feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
Last Of the BuHaloes.
From the Baltimore Sun.

A recent estimate places the number Of
American bison remaining alive in tho
world at 1.024. of which 6S4 are captive
But it is not possible to be exact in such a
statement. inasmuch as the wild survivors
cannot be rounded up and counted. In the
denseiy wooded region between the Sas-
katchewan and Peace rivers. in British CO.
lumbia, are several hundred buffalo; there
are twenty or SO perhaps in the desert
Panhandle region of northwest Texas, and
In the Yellowstone National Park there
are fifty or sixty more. 1t is believed. There
are none at liberty anywhere else. These
few remaining Wild bison are being stead
ily reduced In number. In British Column
bia they are being killed of gradually by
the Indians. while those in the Yellowstone
Park are potted by poachers whenever a
chance offers A mounted head Of one of
these animals is today worth from $50 to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17

come patron of the National Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in
England.