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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-02-03
MILLERSBURG.

Miss Dorothy Peed is visiting relatives
at Mt. Sterling.
F. T. Terry, of Cincinnati, is prizing
tobacco for VIM. Judy, Jr.
T. D. Judy and son will open a gro
Gerry next door to Clarke e Vimont's.
Mrs Ella Thaxton and son, Jack.
have taken board at the Bleeding House.
Mrs. James B. Cray leased 1900
acres Of oil land in Estin county last
week.
Mary Emery, we'll known colored
woman, died here Sunday, of pneu
monia.
Mr.. Wilson, of Mason, son of R. T.
Wilson, moved to John Hamilton
farm Saturday.
Mr.. Chas. Batterton, guest of his
sister, Mrs. John v Ingles, returned to
Eminence, to-day.
Misses Kate and Elizabeth Miller are
visiting their grand mother, Mrs. Robt.
Howe. in Covington.
J. G. Allen spent Saturday and Sun
day with his daughter, Mrs. Louis
Rogers, on Cane Ridge.
Mrs. L. G. Auxier and children, of
North Vernon, Ind, are visiting her
parents, DR.. Hurt and wife.
Mrs. G. D. Jacket, daughter and son,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. L. D. Harris, in
Paris, from Saturday to Monday.
DR.. F. A. Hedges, dentist, has moved
| iv1fn Mrs Con6nCIIu'S Hof tho
millinery store of Mrs Caldwell.
Mrs. Ed. Ross, of Lexington, and
Mrs. John Ross, of Carlisle, were guests
of Mrs Ed. Ingles, Friday and Satur-
day.
APardine & Bro. have opened first
class Restaurant, Fruit Store, Candies.
Nuts, Lunch Counter, fresh Bread
every day. Give us call.
Mrs. @. M. Best and Mrs. Thos. Saw
age are improving. Herbert Kearns is
not SO well. Thos. Jones, who was
dragged by mule, is some better.
Mrs. Lucy Harris Brown, wife of
Thomas Brown, died Sunday at his
home on Riddles Mills pike. She leaves
husband and babe, two months old.
Burial at Carlisle, to-day.
A vocal concert will be given at the
Odd Fellows Opera House, on Friday
night, Feb. 6, 1903. $40 in gold for the
best soloist. $40 in gold for the best
quartette. Tickets on sale at Smith g
Waddel's drug store.
DR.. Chas Vimont, eyed about 40,
died at his home in Chicago, Sunday.
Messrs Frank, Claud, Will and Miss
Florence, brothers and sister, attended
his burial in Louisville to-day, the
former home of his wife.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-02-03
Frank York Dies f.

FRANK YORK, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph York, formerly of this city, died
Saturday at covington. The funeral ser
vices will be held from the residence,
I7I6 Greenup street, Covington, this
morning, at O'Clock. Burial at Spring
Grove.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-02-03
Auction To-Day at 1 80.

Don't forget my auction sale to day
at 1:S0 o'clock, sharp, at the old
Christian church building. I have a
number Of bed room sets that will be
offered TO the highest bidder to day.
Also table chairs, carpets, mattings,
pictures. etc. Don't fail to attend.
Remember you set the price on them.
not me-Shey are yours at your OWL
price. 1T. HINTON
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-02-03

HEMP WANTED.-We will pay the
1ighest cash market price for hemp.
G.. S. BRENT g Bro.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-02-03

Mrs. Lucy Harris Brown, wife of
Thomas Brown, died Sunday at his
home on Riddles Mills pike. She leaves
husband and babe, two months old.
Burial at Carlisle. to-day.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-02-03

A.Pardine & Bro. have opened first
class Restaurant, Fruit Store, Candies,
Nuts, Lunch Counter, fresh Bread
every day. Give us a call.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-02-03

Mrs. c. M. Best and Mrs Thos. Saw
age are improving. Herbert Kearns is
not SO well. Thos. Jones, who was
dragged by a mule. is some better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
coNFIscATIoN OF GOAL.

The news that the railroads are al
ready confiscating coal consigned to re-
tail dealers is a surprise to the public
after the airing which the subject of
coal confiscation received last winter.
Then, however, the winter was half
over before the public suffered any
great inconvenience from the action of
the railroads.
The legislature last winter appoint
ed q commission to investigate the
cause of the shortage. which it did at
great length-and to no purpose. No
good whatever came of the investiga-
ton. A bill prohibiting coal confisca-
ton was introduced in the senate and
inadvertently passed by that body. but
it proved Objectionable to the railroads,
whereupOn after d conference with
railroad attorneys. it was recalled from
the house and amended to legalize the
confiscation of coal. Then it died upon
the house calendar.
A railroad company has no more legal
right to confiscate coal than man has
to steal bread if his family is hungry.
There is an excuse for the man with
the hungry family if he does not leave
some other family in the same condi-
ton. So with the railroads. there il
some excuse, providing they do not
leave other people suffering, but last
winter there was actual suffering in
some places because the people could
not get coal.
Such a shortage of coal on the rail-
roads as to compel confiscation this
early in the season, long before winter
has set in. is simply gross negligence.
1t looks as though the railroads thought
this is the easiest way to get their coal
and that the public can get along as
best it can. Is there no remedy on the
statute books to stop it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
CASE OF asMoKE" WILLIAMS,

Topeka is to lose Smoke" Williams
and it is not perversion of the facts
to say that he will be missed. He is to
go to the penitentiary, but that is sec
ondary so far as the public is concerned.
The thing with which the people are
interested is the fact that he is to leave
Topeka.
williams is little more than a boy
he is 10. But into the past three or four
years of his life he has crowded more
excitement than falls to the lot of the
average man of 60 In that brief period
he has become a terror of the police as
well as of the neighborhood In which
he lived. There was nothing too bold or
desperate for him to undertake and the
laws of the country or city never
troubled him except as he was held to
answer for some new depreciation.
1t would be a good plan for the boys
of today to give little attention to the
case of Smoke" Williams. His parents
are respectable people and his father
has been a minister of the gospel. No
doubt the son was the pride of the fam
lily But parents are often indulgent and
in this case little was ever required of
the son. He had nothing to do. It was
not long until his i11eness began to bear
fruit and the little offenses like playing
truant from school were succeeded by
more serious ones.
Now this boy Just entering manhood
must go to the penitentiary and his
fathers hair is prematurely gray and
his mothers heart is broken. If the boy
had found or been given some useful
occupation to engage his mind and his
hands he might have become a useful
and valuable member of the community.
AS it is he win leave the penitentiary
bearing the convict's brand and his
young life is wrecked beyond repair.
The boy who reads of Smoke Williams
ought to remember that he might have
been a good man if he had learned 10
work while he was young. Idleness is
the father of nearly as much crime as
intemperance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16

members of that body have dogs of
their own. The situation in a nutshell is
that the city needs the money. The
keeping of dogs in the city is really a
luxury and no doubt the people should
be taxed for the indulgence. But an
assessment of 81 year might be con-
sidered enough if the city did not need
the cash. The new ordinance will make
no distinction and the dog without an
cestry must pay just as much as the
dog with a gilt edged pedigree which is
scarcely proper recognition of the
canine aristocracy.
BY all means increase the dog tax.
for if this important tax measure is
neglected it is possible that some of
these days the mayor and even the
hard working members of the city
council may have to so without their
salaries. Even the dogs of Topeka
would not like to face such a terrible
calamity as that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16

the vision of God we shall see even as
we are seen.-Rev. Charles r. Maloy,
Catholic, Philadelphia.
USING OPPORTUNITIES.
Only as we use our opportunities, only
as we cheerfully submit to the DEGREES
of that power which is over us and
which makes for righteousness, shall
we succeed in working out our high
destiny. whether that shall be one or
poverty, obscurity and humiliation or
of wealth and distinction and all the
privileges of the highest social stand
ing.-Rev. DIR. E. r. Donehoo, Presby-
terrain, Pittsburg.
THE GREATEST VICTORIES.
Great victories come to action, great
victories come to an active world; but
the greatest victories do not come to
crown action or to reward an active
world. The greatest victories, the su-
preme conQuestS, come to the spirit tnat
is passive, to the world that IS CAIN.
God makes his most glorious discoveries
not TO the militant intellect, not to the
fussy conscience, but rather TO the spirit
that is placid, to the heart this IS stlll-
Rev. DIR. Joseph A Milburn, Congre-
gationalist, Chicago.
GOOD CITIZEN A GOOD CHRISTIAN
While we would not expect to redeem
a man by making his surroundings per-
feet, we should lead him so far tnat the
rest would be easy. For when you have
rendered to Caesar the things that are
his 1t is not so hard to lead on the re-
mainder of the path ana renoer 10 Goa
the things that are Gods. A good citi-
zen is a good Christian, and they ought
to be able to interchange terms. The
object of the church is to prepare peo-
nile for a world to come and a world that
is now here.-Rev. DIR. w. Z. PEARSON,
Reformed, Washington.
THE DIVINE INFLUENCE.
There is no moment in a mans life
from his cradle to the grave I'm which
God is not pouring his divine influence
upon him. There are instances in which
men are more profoundly conscious of
the influence than at others, but the
pressure itself is always alike If We
open our hearts to him his influence
will be poured into us: if we are ready
and willing to do his will, then the
light will shine upon us with all its di-
vine radiance, unfolding within us those
powers and capacities that make us
godlike and leading to a successful,
happy and triumphant life. We need
to keep ourselves under the genial In
fiuence of the great heart of Godfrey.
Dr. G. B. Vosburgh, Baptist. Denver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
PRINCE RETURNS.
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria Arrives
at Sofia.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 16.-Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria arrived here to-
day from Euxinograd.
A semi-official statement just issued
says:
THE details received here of the atroc-
tiles daily committed by Turkish SOL
diers pass the bounds of imagination.
The general opinion is that Adrianople
will soon be entirely depopulated by
the Christian element
Constantinople Sept. 16-The feast of
the cross passed off without disturb
ance at Beirut.
Contrary to the official reports, adj
vices from good sources say the Mace
donian insurgents are holding their own
at several points and are infiicting de-
feats on the Turks in the districts of
Morihova and Melnik, s. miles from
Salonica, where three Turkish battal-
ions have almost been annihilated. The
local authorities at Monastir are seek
ing to prevent the foreign consuIs and
correspondents from leaving the town,
under the allegation that their lives will
be endangered.
1t is said that the sultan was much
annoyed when he Earned that Albanian
troops had been dispatched to Adrian
Ople-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
CAUGHT IN STORM.
The President Has a Rough
Trip to Ellis Island.

New York, Sept. 16.-The president
and party on board the Sylph, on their
way to Ellis island, landed at Brooklyn
navy yard this afternoon On leaving
Oyster Bay the Sylph ran into a ter
rifle storm. The rain came down in
torrents and the wind blew into a gale
Off Willetts Point the vessel was in Sc
rious danger. On passing through He'll
Gate the gale increased in force, and
about a quarter of a mile from the
Sylph a tug towing a three masted
schooner went down. 1t could not be
ascertaine6 whether all of the crew
was saved owing to the intensity of the
storm, which forced all the passengers
on the SylDh below deck
On passing up the East river the
Sylph was hailed by the naval tug Pow
haitian, Lieutenant Commander Pound
stone, who told Lieutenant Preston
that it would be impossible and fool
hardy to attempt to follow out the
presidents plan of continuing to Ellis
island.
After a consultation with Admiral
Rogers the president decided to go TO
Ellis island and he started for there
shortly after o'clock. At that hour
the story had abat considerably. The
Sylph arrived at Ellis island about 1925
At that time it was so rough that a
landing could not be made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
HORSE KILLER HELD.
He Must Spend Year in Coun-
ty Jail.

In district court today Judge Hazen
sentenced Homer Woodcock, the young
farmer who lived near Pauline. one
year in Jail, beside a fine of $780, Wood
cock is the youth who killed or mutt
lated several valuable breeding animals
belonging to farmers in the neignDor-
hood.
THE law is defective. in this CASE
said Judge Hazen in pronouncing SEN
tence. Il will give you the maximum
penalty and regret that 1 cannot SEN
tence you to the penitentiary for a term
of years."
There are two other cases pending
against Woodcock. and the farmers
whose stock he MANNED promise to see
that he is again found guilty after the
expiration of his present sentence.
Anthony Peacher, the negro who last
spring fired a revolver into a passing
Union Pacific train in North Topeka.
narrowly missing a passenger was also
found guilty He has not been SEN
fenced. Peacher, while drunk, fired at
yards. and one bullet after going
through the window of a passenger
coach missed Attorney Joseph Waters,
who was a passenger, by a narrow mar
gin. There was no excuse for the shoot
ing.
This afternoon Tom Davis and Lennie
Williams, two young negroes charged
with burglary and larceny, are on trial.
Shortly after the flood, when the whole
of North Topeka was in a state of
chaos. they broke into Max Overton's
grocery store, west of the Rock Island
tracks One of them was caught in the
act by a Waterman. and the other lost
his hat while running away. He was
later identified by the hat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16

publishing the daily programmes for
the fair. He was to pay the fair man
agement $50. To make his money Mr..
Dunn explained that he would sell adj
vertising space on the programme to
Topeka business men.
Mr.. Dunn bought the programme
privilege. but he didn't pay anything
for II but was to pay before the fair
opened. Then Mr.. Dunn made a rour
of the town soliciting advertisements.
He got some merchants. and further
more Mr.. Dunn secured some money
in advance
He borrowed small sums of money and
secured fne suit of clothes from Nc
Manus, which are still not paid for.
Then Mr.. Dunn. being tired of small
game, went after the Santa Fe railroad
and sold a page of his programme for
600 miles of transportation. With the
thousand miles he made his escape AMI
went to Chicago He has not been seen
since.
Mr.. Dunn forgot to pay his bill at the
National and at the Oxford hotels and
he forgot to pay back any of the money
borrowed or advanced on the advertising
contracts by merchants. He was in town
two months, living on hot air and pros
poets. There are no official programmes
at the state fair grounds
The state fair management can now
sing Are you Dunn. Mr.. Dunn: are you
Dunn; for We are Dunn, Mr. Dunn, We
are Dunn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
GRAHAM COUNTY FARMERS.

A man from western Kansas has just
brought the information to Topeka that
a Graham county farmer has made $780,,
900 this year out &C his wheat crop.
Graham county is in the second tier OF
northern counties and in the fourth tier
from the west and it is distinctively
western Kansas county. 1t is not many
years ago that people thought that its
broad, beautiful slopes would never pro-
duce anything but the stunted buffalo
grass Certainly no one would have
then thought of ever seeing them cover
ed with waving wheat fields.
1t was less than twenty years ago that
people moved out of Graham county as
they did of others because they said that
they could not make a living But
there were a few who did not move
They turned firm face to their parched
fields and resoIutely went to work to put
in the next years crop. Sometimes they
suffered but at last there came a time
when the crops no longer yellowed I'M
der the burning sun and withered in
the hot winds. Then was the patience
of the man who had faith in western
Kansas rewarded.
The case of the Graham county farmer
who has a neat sum of $4,000 to his
credit from this years crop has many
parallels in the west. 1t may be thar
the amount is not SO large in a great
many cases. but nevertheless there is
scarcely a farmer in western Kansas
who has not now well filled granaries,
herds of cattle and plump well fed
horses to emphasize the prosperity he is
enioying
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
from the Chicago News.I

ltrom the Chicago News.1
No woman with a new hat enjovs rid =
Ing in a closed carriage.
If time is money that of some people
must be lead nickels.
No man can be a perfect cynic so long
as he thinks himself perfect.
Know myself" but don't overdo the
thing by being too exclusive.
Intuition is what a woman thinks she
has when she makes a good guess.
1t isn't so much what the college grad
uate IS going to he what he is
good many men would be poorer to-
day If their ancestors had left them
more.
The man who contributes to a church
Iund does so is guarantee of good faith
The man who considers himself brick
never boasts of being a common-clay spec
linen.
Pity the misguided amateur gardener
VINO tres to live on the vegetables he
raises.
There is no hope for the poor girl who
Is stone blind to the sparkling beauties Of
a solitaire.
The atmosphere of the home in which
the wife puts on more airs than her hus-
band can afford is never what it should
he.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings of
Ali Denominations.

1t is one of the most important things
of our lives to know if we are sons OF
God and how we may know it.-Rev.
DIR. B. p. Fullerton, Presbyterian, ST.
Louis.
AN AGENCY OF VICTORY.
Among all the victorious agencies i'm
planted in the soul hope is neither the
poorest nor the vaineSt 1t springs eter-
nal in the human breast.-Rev. DR.. Geo,
c. Lorimer, Baptist. New York.
A FIREPROOF MANHOOD.
We need a manhood that is fireproof
Temptations sweep like the flood and
burn like fire. No man is safe who does
not put into his life wealth of moral
earnestness and surround himself by all
wholesome moral infiuences-Rev.F 'ran nix
G. Tyrell, Christian, CT Louis.
THE ONLY WAY.
There is no other way to glory ex-
cept by the crucif1xion of Christ. Christ
came to earth and returned to heaven by
way of the cross. Every one on the
way to glory must go by the same route
The cross reveals the sure and safe way.
Indeed it is the only way.-Rev. j. F.
Blair, Baptist. Brooklyn.
SMILES AND TEARS
We are at our best when in trial and
trouble. Our hottest hours are those
spent in trial or bereavement. Our souls
profit more by smiles than by tears.
But we should not weep or smile always.
God sends SufferingS to make US perfect,
but he does not want US to suffer all
the time.-Rev. G. r. Van De Water,
Episcopalian. New York.
THE SABBATH DAY
Man owes it to himself to refuse to
work on the Sabbath. He owes it to
his children not to sell them into the
bondage of seven days a week of labor.
Six days may be labor. but on the
seventh it is appointed that we must
rest. We are not machines, but human
beings with life and feeling-Rev. w.
H Wilson. Presbyterian. Brooklyn.
AN AMERICAN RELIGION.
We can't expect all men to agree to
a single set of dogmas and opinions
but all the Christian churches can
without prejudice to their existing
creeds and ideas unite in an American
the principles and spirit of the Ameri-
can republic and the American people
Rev. DR. Charles F. Patterson, Epis-
copalian, New York.
THE WORK OF THE PRESENT.
Organization, unity, co-opera ton
these must be the words of the next
twenty years in the history of the
churches. The time has fully come for
business men, the preachers, the re-
ligious editors to realize this and to
step forward and say that the present
Rev DR. Newell Dwight Hills, Con-
gregationalist Brooklyn.
THE TRUTH TO BE REVEALED.
For a member of the church every
genuine discovery of science is welcome
as a new manifestation that the finger
of God is there. We rest secure in the
synthesis of the natural and the super
natural, knowing that in this life we
see as through glass darkly, but in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
DOWN TO III DEGREES
1t Came Within Nine Degrees
of Frost in Topeka.

The government forecast for Kansas
sent out today is: Partly cloudy to-
night with frost. Thursday partly
cloudy and continued cold"
Todays corn and wheat region bulle
tin says:
THE weather is still cloudy this
morning in Kansas except in the north
west, and the temperature is from 4 de-
grees to u degrees lower than yester-
day morning. Light frosts occurred IN
the central northern counties and killing
frost in the northwest. The temperature
has fallen in all but the Louisville and
Columbus districts"
The maximum and minimum temper
atures recorded over the state for the
"a hours ending this morning at I
o'clock were as follows:
Baker 81, So: Concordia SO, SO; Dodge
City So, 40; Dresden "a, 80; Fort Scott
g. as: Hays So. %; Macksville So, Sc:
Mcpherson IS. 3s; Manhattan 56, So;
Usage City Sc, 80: Sedan IS, ~; Topeka
So Al; Wichita Sc. AZ.
The wind at o'clock was north blow
ing IL miles an hour. The hourly tenn
peratures recorded by the government
thermometer TODAY were as follows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16

The interstate commerce commission
in its annual report notes a change in
the method of appointing railroad COM
missioners. In 1890. eighteen were ap-
pointed nv the governors Of the states,
as against thirteen in 1902; six were
elected by the people in 1890, as against
fifteen in 1902: and two were appointed
by the legislature in 1890. as against
one in 1902. In one case appointment
Is made by the executive council: in
once case. in 1902. is a railroad com
missioner an ex-officio appointee. There
is slight tendency toward an increase
In the length of the term of office: this.
however. is not marked. The salaries
paid railroad commissioners range
from $1,000 in North Dakota to IS 900
in the state of New York The typical
salary for a railroad commissioner is
perhaps $4,000. There seems to be a
slight tendency toward the method of
payment out of public funds rather
than by a special tax on railways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-16
FIRE AT CENTRAL!
Bell Telephone Station at X. C..
Badly Damaged.
Loss of $I5O,OOO and Service
Is Ruined.

Kansas City, Mo, Sept. 16.-Fire in the
five story telephone building at Sixth
and Wyandotte streets today burned up
completely all the toll boards and dam
aged the main switchboard so that for at
least 80 days and probably for two or
three months there will be no telephone
service in the business district and no
toll or long distance service between
Kansas City and any outside town or
city for the same length of time. The
loss upon building and apparatus will be
about $150,00O. fully covered by insur-
ance. The origin of the fire is unknown.