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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17
FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS.
THE Henderson Route Always First
Both Phones

The travelling public will be pleased
to learn of the latest innovation In the
way of comfort in travel for its patrons
which is now being offered by that
most popular railroad, the Henderson
Route" which road has been rightly
termed the I" Kentuckian's Official
Route to the West and Southwest"
1t has Just been announced from the
general office of the Louisville, Hender-
son & st. Louis Railway that they now
have in service on their night trains
between Louisville and St. Louis, Free
Reclining Chair Cars, which have just
been received from the shops and are a
revelation in the Car builders art.
The cars ere strictly up-to-date, first
class ''palaces Of travel on wheels, and
this is only one of the many surprises
which arc promised the public for the
Worlds Fair travel by the Henderson
Route.
Among other advantages offered in
these highly finished cars, few of the
most important points only are men
toned:
They are solidly vestibuled and are
furnished with sixty-four reclining
chairs, which are upholstered in beauti-
full green plush, in addition to smoking
and toilet rooms, the smoking rooms be-
ing finished throughout in leather
They are also fitted up with triple
trucks, which feature will do away
with the jerk, jar and strin incident to
travel in the ordinary railway coach,
and insures a smooth. comfortable ride.
This should prove more than a popular
feature in train service to the travelling
public, and you can only suggest that in
travelling you "get the Henderson
Route habit
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17
DECIDED NOT 10 WORRY.

I've decided not to worry any more;
An I'm Twin jest as easy as before;
What's the use to fume an furry?
What's the use to alters worry?
I've decided not to worry any more.
Jest go long an alters mind your own af-
fairs;
Look for laughter an for joy, an not for
tears;
Keep a-grubbin' an a-hoein'
Thatll stop the weeds a-growin';
Jest determine not to worry any more.
What's the use to lie awake an rack your
brain
Jest because the crops are thirstin' for a
rain?
It'll come eff it's a-comin',
An it's boun' to come a-hummin',
In the same OF way-dont worry any more.
When you come to cross a hill that's hard
to climb,
Take it easy; rock along an take your
time;
Try to keep the welkin ringin'
With your shoutin' an your singin'
An you'll clean fergit to worry any more.
Lawrence Porcher Hext, in Lippincott's
Magazine.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17

HAYAND RYE WANTED = Highest
market Price paid for hay and rye.
u. w. STUART.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17
COPPER WITH A HISTORY.
Cent That Was Used to Determine the
Name of the Metropolis
of Oregon.

F. w. Pettygrove, son of F. w. Petty
grove, one of the founders of Portland
and the man who named the city, has in
his possession the copper cent with which
his father won the right to select the
name He is commercial traveller for
San Francisco house and naturally sets
great store by this cent, which he has
shown to many here on his visits to this
city, says the Portland Oregonian. Some
of his friends have besought him to turn
this cent over to the Oregon Historical
society to be preserved, but he has not
been able to make up his mind to do
this. George H Hines, secretary of the
society, has been advised to wrestle with
Mr.. Pettygrove, and it is not unlikely
that he may succeed in securing this
historical COIN Mr.. Pettygrove has also
in his possession the Bible used on the
occasion of the first sermon ever
preached in Portland, which with the
cent was presented to him by his father
as a keepsake.
1t was in the summer of 1916 that A.
L. Lovejoy and F. w. Pettygrove, who
owned the claim on which Portland was
located, employed Thomas A. Brown to
survey their property and lay it off into
streets, blocks and lots, and when he had
completed the plat the proprietors under
took to choose name for the newly born
city. Mr. Lovejoy desired that 1t be called
Boston in honor of the capital of his ma
tive state Mr.. Pettygrove contended
that Portland was more appropriate, as
it was at the head of navigation and the
port where would land all the freight
intended for the valley of the Willamette
and all the southern produce of the ter
ritory. In order to decide the question
it was proposed by Mr.. Pettygrove to toss
a copper cent, which he had brought with
him as a souvenir Of his eastern home.
This was agreed to by Mr. Lovejoy. The
cent was tossed and, Mr.. Pettygrove
proving the winner, Portland was
adopted as the name of the embryo city.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17

"'Twas Kittie, who wanted to save
the passengers and to give me warning"
said Black Mike, and in this belief he
persisted. He would not take out anoth-
er engine, and died within week of
heart disease.
"The engineer of an express train is
particularly liable to the attacks Of heart
disease" said the company's doctor.
But Dan Meagher, who has an engine
of his own now, never passes the spot
where the Cannon Ball was brought to
so sudden halt without crossing him
self, unostentatiously and in all rever-
ence
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17
What Black
Mike Saw *
By w. w. HINES

BECAUSE he was surly, the men
called him 'Black Mike" Riordan.
Yet those who knew him best swore his
heart was one of the kindest
Whatever the verdict of others, it is
convincing enough proof that he had
his good side, in that Kittie Donoughue
loved him better than all the world.
They were to have been married just
before Lent, and Black Mike wore his
scowl no more. Kittie was never strong
and cold just snuffed her life out, so
Black Mike became blacker than ever
before.
Some would have tried to comfort him,
but his fireman, Dan Meagher, who knew
him better than any one else, said:
Leave him be- He likes it best So"
And after period of moDEping, Black
Mike, with a, blsokar scOwl than ever,
came back to work on the Central di-
vision. There had never been but one
love in his life, that for Kittie DON
oughue, who was dead, but there was a
sincere liking for young Dan Meagher,
who had been his fireman, and for en-
CINE 126, on which he had pulled the
throttle.
With silent hand-clasp Meagher well
coined him back, and he could feel that
No. 126 was glad again to feel the touch
of his hand at the throttle. So he
climbed up on the right side Of the en-
CINE and the Cannon Ball express pulled
slowly out of the brilliantly lighted
station, with it's first stop SO miles away,
and IL minutes of time to be made up in
the worst storm and the blacklist night
of the year.
Rain came in sheets, driving before
the heavy gusts of wind and beating
against the glass sides of the cab as
though it would drive them in. Even in
the yards it took sharp watching to
make out the signal lights, but there was
time to be made up, and even engineers
have to take chances of the safety of
their train in such an event. Schedule
time is sacred thing in the eyes of the
men of the Central division.
On the whole, Black Mike was CRATE
full to the storm. There was wild tu-
multi in it that struck responsive note
in his heart, where pain was eating like
a live, mad thing, gnawing and rending.
The Cannon Ball express has the right
of way over everything, and only acct
dents can cetain her.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17

The DOING operator at Mertonsville
was aroused as the Cannon Ball swept
by, and walked to his instrument to re-
port her as passed.
mil MI! Mi" his station call, came
over the wire, and when he signified
that he was on hand, came the message
from the chief train dispatcher:
Flag express all hazards. Bridge
down"
Express passed before message re-
ceived. Trying to report her when you
cut in on wire," he answered.
There was no other station between
Mertonsville and the bridge over Ben
son river, so the chief dispatcher had
done all in his power to prevent theim-
pending catastrophe Immediately up
on receipt of wire from the operator
at Ordway, on the further side of the
Benson river, he had wired to Merton
vile in the vain attempt to stop the ex-
press. The dispatch from Ordway
read:
Track walker reports bridge down.
Cannot get flag man across"
With quick, sharp orders, the dis
patcher had special made up to carry
doctors and nurses to the scene of the
accident he now regarded as inevitable
They were ready to start in an hour, and
a wrecking train was only few mo-
ments behind them.
Picturing the track in his own mind
the dispatcher could see no escape for
the express. There is sharp curve and
a heavy cut just before the approach to
the bridge, and, with orders to make
I'D lost time, Black Mike would be run
ming at the utmost speed of which his en-
CINE was capable.
It was the fault of no one. Everyone
had done his duty-but it is horrible
thing to sit impotently in chair and
feel that over hundred people are ap-
preaching their death.
Darkness and storm around them, the
beat of the rain against the windows OF
the cab drowning even the noise of the
engine, Black Mike and Dan were both
trying to keep sharp look out ahead OF
them.
For a little distance the headlight half
penetrated the rain and darkness, which
closed in black and impenetrable hun
dred feet away.
Black Nike is not on his seat. He is
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17

will be in Bourbon county for thu
mkt II 'rthklu'lIe lin Ter. I will
pay the highest market price for Wal
nut, Oak, Ash and Hickory.
St WILL FORSYTH.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17

SUGAR CANE will stand the drough
and now is the time to sow. 1t is one
of the best of stock foods. For pure
feed so to Geo. w. Stuart's.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17

CAUTION Beer put up in dark color
ed bottles is not always Wiedemanu's
See that it has the Crown tin stopper
branded Wiedemann." If
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-11-17
FALL 1903
~ Trees By the Million. *

Fruit and Ornamental, Grape Vines,
Small Fruits, Evergreens. Rhubarb,
Asparagus. and everything for orchard,
lawn and garden. No agents, but best
prices to the planter. Catalogue on ap-
plication to
H. f. HILLENMEYER g SONS,
Lexington, KY.
Both Phones.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07

Rows and young men have been hurt while playing football this year. anu several deaths are laid at the door ol this most violent of pastimes., The de lenders of the game do not attempt to argue that it is without danger to llIe and limb, says a sporting writer. It is true. however, that such danger IS often exaggerated, and that rumor IS substituted for fact to swell the llst of injured in newspaper dlscusslon' But the record of the season now closing is like those of past years, Ill that grave mishaps are reported only among young and untrained players and that in the great struggles or the football leaders there have been no la mentable casualties. and no deaths. It is no longer a debatable question that football can be played without serious damage, if the players are properly prepared for hard campaigning. There has been much opposition to running two-year-old colts in hard. races, and for precisely the same reasons it is folly for youths whose bones and muscles are still in the formative stage to attempt to play football according to the methods used among college teams where the sport is highly spe- cfalized. No school boys should be allowed to play match games save un- der the watchful eye of a competent physical director. Until recently, the logical distinction due to youth and in- experience was not clearly recognized in football chances of mishap, and all injuries were charged up to the vio
 lence of the game in a lump sum. Mike Murphy, the Yale trainer, man eligible to speak with highest au- thority in this field, has hit the right note in recent warming: "A boy should not be allowed to participate in interscholastic contests, or in any foot ball game demanding long continued strain, until he is over sixteen. The greatest evil in the developing of uni versity football players is that so many promising players are strained by hard work before they are strong enough to endure the sport in other than friendly and boyish games under the inte1li- gent direction of their elders. The danger lies in the keen spirit of rivalry inspired by competitive football"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07

Waterbury merchants have tried the trading stamp scheme in the, balance of New London have arrived at the same conclusion by similar process. TNhey find it easier to adopt a bad habit, however, than to drop it when once acquired-New Britain Herald.
 Guess you're not scanning the Wa terbury papers very closely of late. The local merchants may have found it wanting on former occasion, but nevertheless they are going into 1t again with 8 vengeance, A number of them are now giving away the little things that have caused so much trou- ble.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07

President Roosevelt's message to con- gress is pretty bulky document, and it will require considerable patience to read it all through. AS was to be ex- pected the president takes a whack at all the subjects now before the people, as we'll as a few that are likely to make some trouble for Congressman Lilley and his numerous colleagues. The president makes big bid for the good will of the toilers, although he speaks pretty plainly about unionism printing office. He says unions are all right in their place, but they have no place in the government print shop, or words to that effect. A man or wo- man can, if they choose, work there whether they belong to union or not, and the labor organizations must not say boo. There is no mention of his row with the Honorable Marcus Han na, but it is presumed that he has that in mind, and in some of his recon, mendations will try and offset the Ohio senator's efforts to place him on record in regard to some of his ap- pointments, particularly that of Gen eral Wood to be at the head of the army. The message will be fouad in full in another part of this paper,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07

from Mount Pleasant, and is living with an uncle. Belle the kisser, is only 17 years old, and rather good looking. She has 8 mania for kissing the boys
 and as she is big and stout, she kisses them in spite of their screams when
 ever she wants to. The police say that Belle, the Kisser, has been chasing" Arthur Horn, but that there are three other young men in the neighborhood she is fond of.
 It is an evidence of persistence of the human mind in running along a single groove that many people are at trfbuting the result of the New York election to the influx of uneducated foreigners. It is the big ignorant vot- CTS who put bad government into pow CT, say these critics. This cry is pc culiarly inapposite to the New York election. It was not in the districts peopled by Italians and Slavs that the change was made from the vote that elected Low. It was in the districts where the population is made up Of well-to-do, educated, native-born Americans, who stayed at home and did not take the trouble to go to the polls and vote for good government.- Pittsburg Dispatch.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07

Timber tests which shall determine the strength of the principal American tfnbers used for construction purposes are now in progress at Washington, Yale university, Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind, and at the University Of California, Berkeley, Gal The chtef timbers now being tested are the southern pines and the red fir of the Pacific coast In the laboratories at Washington tests are now in progress on Gobqolly pine sticks seventeen feet long and eight by fourteen, eight by eight, and eight by four inches. Spe. cial attention is given to the effects of moisture on the strength of wood. In the case of lobIolly pine which has grown rapidly, the strength was found to decrease 50 to 60 Der cent after the dry wood had been soaked several days in water. The fact, however, is not proved by further experiments. The timbers tested are of the usual grades purchased in the market and are not selected pieces. At the laboratory Of the Yale forest school in New Haven small selected pieces of long-leaf pine, without knots or other defects, are being tested so as ito dearn what is the ultimate strength of the fibers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07
FOOTBALL ACCIDENT.
Em phaSixes Fact That Only the Strongest and Physically Fit
 Should Be Allowed to Play.

So many accidents have been laid to the game of football and so many lads have been crippled thereby that we sel- dom hear of the injuries and deaths that might have been avoided. The death of a young medical student of Baltimore during contest, but at 8 time when the ball was not in play, says the New York Herald, affords striking instance of an easily prevent ible accident.
 The victim had been sufferer from heart dise2se for long time and yet was allowed to take active part in the game. His condition should have been, if it was not, known to his med- tcal associates.
 There is no account of his having received any injury previous to the time he was stricken with collapse. No better proof of his unfitness for ahy extra physical exertion can be given than the suddenness of his death while he was merely resting The lesson of the sad story is emphatic and con- vincing. &
 There is no game that requires more careful and systematic training than football and only the strongest are capable of bearing the strain. If there Is any physical weakness in the can didate it becomes quickly manifest as he goes on with his exercises and why such incapacity could not have been discovered in time to have saved the unfortunate youth is difficult to imag- ne.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07
/. MONDAY, DECRMBRR 7, 1903.

A Boston paper says that at a recent dinner at the country's most. fashion able and exclusive resort, Newport, ten persons were at dinner, and of these five had been married and divorced at least once. Also at the dinner was the minister who married one of the cou- ples an hour and half after the di- vorce court had given dts decree So they could marry again. No wonder those New York ministers are up in arms over the marrying of divorced persons, and that they would like to adopt rules preventing regularly or dained ministers from performing such a ceremony.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07

ture, or, what is more likely, in his bringing up. The worship of the self made man, which was rife genera tion ago, has disappeared, and the principles which make it well for boy to have money spent upon his edu- cation also make it we'll for him to have the advantage of some money ill beginning independent life, provided he is strong enough to use it to enlarge hls opportunities instead of diminishing his responsibilities. Nevertheless, although that truth can hardly be denied, the general influence of a will like MT Mc- Rays is good, in as far as it raises tue banner of public spirit and inteAectual aurdor against the too rampant splrlt ol private wealth.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07
HEARD IN PASSING

senator Morgan of Alabama has been trying his voice in the night air Of West Virginia, and it has been demonstrated that he can eat up the extra session of congress raw.-Cin. cinnati Enquirer.
 An Atchinson bride had printed on her calling cards, At home Wednes- day afternoons" After six months marriage, she has added: ''And every day in the week, and can't get the work done then."-Atchinson Globe.
 The average marriage for men does not differ materially in those coun- tries where they keep accurate mar riage records. It is the highest, 31 years, in Sweden, and lowest in the United States, 261a years. Among wo- men it is also highest in Sweden, 2S years, and lowest in Russia, p years. Exchange. ">
 Toronto, Canada's city of churches possesses one church which Is probab- ly unique throughout all the realms of the king. The Jarvis street Baptist church, although legally exempt from civic taxation, like all the other churches of the city and province, in- sists upon paying its taxes.-New Ha-, ven Union. .. A reform in this matter of legal technicalities would not only promote the speedy administration of justice, but it would besof value in elevating the standards of the bar. Lawyers would no longer find it to their ad- vantage to devote their best brains to tricking their opponents into "error" and the merits of the case would be given better deration--Chicag go Record Herald.
 Uncle Jerry Smith, an ancient negro servitor of the white house. whose honor and delight it has been for more than 30 years to raise and lower the l American flag that floats from the presidents residence whenever he is there, is to perform this ceremonial no longer. Uncle Jerry is getting old and his sight is not good. A few weeks ago he raised the white house flag with the union down, the conventional sign of distress. He convinced the white house authorities that no refiec- ton on the administration was intend l ed and was Washington l Special
 An "eminent scientist'-too modest | tO give HIS OuL -lhSy dI0 all eminent thinks that radium may become the corn cure of the future.
 He is of the opinion, worked out in 8 long and laborious process of pure ratioc1nation that the application of a few hundred thousand dollars worth of radium, consistently followed
 up, will greatly relieve if it does not cure a corn. We shall expect Boston scientists to object to this on principle. 1 but doubtless the demonstration will l be made which will silence even the
 constitutional objectors of Beacon
 Hill- Bridgeport Standard.
 Arthur Horn complained to the po- lice to-day that big girl grabbed him
 last night and kissed him. Horn lives in northwest Atchinson, and the as I sault occurred near the corner of
 Ninth and Atchison. The police say T
 big. girl known as Belle. is under sus-
 picion. Belle lately came to town
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07
SOME QUAINT PROVERBS.
Collection of Curious Ancient Max inns Bearing Upon the Subs
 ject of Prudence.

Take any collection of proverbs and it will be found that they group them selves round certain important points of conduct, says the Liverpool Post. Maxims of prudence, for instance, will form good proportions: "Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy;" Bet ter live within compass than have large comings in; Beware of no man more than thyse1f;" "A fool loses his estate before he finds his folly" "A grain of prudence is worth a pound of craft"
 The wise saws of economy are out of fashion, but some are worth remem- befing: '"The back door robs the house," Good cheap is dear at long run;" "A hog upon trust grunts till he's paid for" ''Frugality is an estate.'
 Proverbs relating to gifts and favors are often happy "He that asketh a courtesy promises kindness;" "He that asketh faintly beggeth denial;" Gratitude Is the poor mans pay ment;" "A favor i'll. placed is profu- sion;" "A favor long waited for is sold, not given" So are some of those relating to worth. "A hog in armor is a hog still; "The truest gentleman is the son of his own deserts'' Or those referring to covetousness: "A covet- ous man does nothing he should do until he dies;" "A man has no more, goods than he gets good by.''
 Many old English proverbs are very quaint "A dog will not howl if you. beat him with a bone;'' "A feast is not made of mushrooms only;' "A full cup must be stirred steadily" "A crowd is no company" "A wager is a fools ar gument::" ''He who leaves early gets the best hat;' Fraud is in haste but honesty can bide fair leisure Ca max i'm which shows "pushfulness'' in rath- CT a bad lighD; A willing mind makes light foot;" "An old physician and a young lawyer" An oak is not felled at one chop" "A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt" "A mans folly should be his greatest secret" "A little of everything is nothing in the main;' "A mole wants no lantern;" "TIe has a good judgment who relies not wholly on his own;' "The quarrelsome man has no neighbor," and the odd but sen- sible saying that Cooks cannot be taught in their own kitchen