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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-03-10
Day LabOrsrs, Skilled Workmen,
and especially Farm Tenants.

Parties with small capital, seeking an oppor-
tunity to purchase farm home; farmers who
would prefer to rent for couple of years before
purchasing; and day laborers in fields or facto-
ries should address a postal card to Mr.. J. F.
Merry, Asst General Passenger Agent, Dubuque,
Iowa, who will promptly mail printed matter
concerning the territory above described, and
give specific replies to all inquiries.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-03-10
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Established 1881 90 Year Of
Continuous Publication.

Display advertisements, @1.00 per inch
for first time; 90 cents per inch each
subsequent insertion.
Reading notices, 10 cents per line each
issue; reading notices In black type, 90
cents per line each issue.
Cards of thanks, calls on candidates,
and similar matter, 10 cents per line.
Special rates for big advertisements.
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-03-10
SOUTHERN CONDITIONS and
POSSIBILITIES,

In part of the United States has there been
such wonderful Commercial, Industrial and
Agricultural development as along the lines of
the Illinois Central and the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley Railroads in the States of Tennessee
Mississippi and Louisiana, within the past ten
years. Cities and towns have doubled their pop
u1ation. Splendid business blocks have been
erected. Farm lands have more than doubled
in value. Hundreds of industries have been
established and as a result there is an unprece.
denied dernan nd for
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-03-10

The s.Clay Scalp and Skin Food" win
be found on sale at w. T. Brooks Drug
Store. The manufacture of these reme-
dies are directed by Dr. E. Lafonf Stone
IIoct3mo
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-03-10
Frankfort & Cincinnati Railway.
"THE MIDLAND ROUTE"
LOCAL TIMR CARD

IN EFFECT JANUARY II, 1904
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Their Hatred " IrnrlnnR.

Ferdinand de Lesseps used to ten
how a Frenchman came to his aid when
he was struggling against Palmerston'g
opposition to the SueZ canal. The man,
who was total stranger, walked into
his office one day and drew out of his
pocket wallet stuffed with bank notes.
Monsieur" said he Il bE the priv.
iege of being allowed to subscribe to-
ward the railway of the island of Swe-
den" But, monsieur" said Lesseps,
1T is not railroad; it's a canal. It's
not an island, but an isthmus. It Is
not in Sweden. but at Suez" Il don't
care what it is or where it is" said the
capitalist, so long as it worries Eng
land. Put me down, l say"
But Lesseps had little reason to make
fun of this episode if the picture his
own son draws of HIM be true. Becom-
ing incenSed at some attack made on
him in the British parliament and be-
Ing inadeQuately provided with means
TO express his rage. his mind suddenly
reverted to his linen collar. which was
Of English make He tore 1t from his
neck, dashed it upon the floor and
danced on it, all for hatred of the is
land it came from.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Eagles and ChamOis Fight.

A desperate combat between two ca
giles and chamois was witnessed on a
snow covered mountain hear Flush.
One of the eagles attacked young
chdDols, when it was charged by the
sire of the herd, which was some dis
lance away. At this point another
eagle appeared. but the chamois re-
peatedly beat them both off by fierce
thrusts of its antlers
The struggle continued for half an
hour, after which the birds took to
flight. The chamois remained immova.
BILE, with head erect, gazing defiantIy
at the soaring birds until they were
lost to sight.
Some sportsmen next day found the
spot where the heroic combat had TAX
en- place Uttered with feathers and fur
and the snow was splashed with blood.
Geneva Cor. London Express.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Timely Advice,

When certain financial panic broke
out the senior editor of a trade journal
published in the interests of business
men and hnanciers was on a visit to
mining town. Fearful lest his junior
IN the office at home might give edi-
torial utterance to pessimistic views
and weaken public confidence still fur
Their, he h2stened to a telegraph Office
and dispatched brief message of adj
vice.
1t happened that the junior partner
on this particular day had just become
the father of pair of fine twin boys.
While his friends in the office were
congratulating him upon this event
messenger entered with a telegram.
He opened it and read the following
message from the senior partner:
Dear George-Things look blue but they
will brighten up soon. Take a cheerful
view of the situation. HIRAM.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Deaf Persons Don't Get seasick.

Strange thing, but do you know that
deaf persons never get seasickT" said
an old surgeon in the employ of one of
the transatlantic lines recently. This
was found out" he said, when whole
class of deaf mutes went abroad some
years ago. and, despite a particularly
rough passage, none of them wanted
to lie on the deck and beg somebody to
heave them overheard.
THAT'S the seasick feeling, you
know. A little investigation proved
that the stomach nerves are mostly
controlled by those of the ear, and that
deaf persons are not nearly so liable to
the nausea that comes from the rolling
motion of ship as are others.
THE experiment of saturating ball
of cotton with cocaine and thus dulling
the hearing has been tried by ship sur
geons since. 1t gives relief to those who
dread any sort of sea voyage; but,
after all, the best way to do is to feed
the fishes and get over it."--Philadel.
phia Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

Toward the close of the reign of
Elizabeth, when the Spaniards were
frequently lowering about the south
west coast of England, a party from
their ships landed in the neighborhood
of where Falmouth stands today, with
the intention of burning the borough of
Penryn. 1t CHANGED, however, that that
same evening some strollers had set
up in Penryn market place a repre-
sentatioa by puppets of certain Incl,
dents in the life of Samson, including
his victory over the Philistines.
At the point of Samson's onset upon
these with the jawbone of the ass the
strollers beat drums and sounded trum-
pets indicative of an alarm, and the
Spaniards, who were at that moment
about to rush the town, believing it to
be full of soldiers, bolted for their
boats.
This probably occurred in 1885, when
there was Spanish squadron on the
coast, which landed troops and burned
PenZance.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
ASTROLoGY.
One of the Most Ancient Forms of
Superstition.

One of the Most Ancient Forms of
Superstition.
Astrology means the science of the
stars" The encyclopedia calls astroI-
ogy zone of the most ancient forms of
superstition" Chaldeans, Egyptians.
Hindoos and Chinese were given to it..
The Jews became addicted to it after
the captivity. 1t spread into the west
and into Rome at about the beginning
of the Christian era. Astrologers play
ed an important part at Rome. where
they were called Chaldeans and "mathe-
maticians. Although they were often
banished by the senate and the emper-
ors on pain of death and were other
wise prosecuted, they continued to hold
their ground. Even Ptolemy the as
tronomer did not escape the infection,
which in his time had been universal.
Mohammedanism was we'll adapted
to astrology, and the Arabs cultivated
the science with great ardor from
the seventh to the thirteenth century.
Some of the early Christian fathers ar
gued against astrology in its earlier
form and others received it modified
to some extent. There is a hint of as
trology, some critics think, in the story
of the visit of the three wise men from
the east to Bethlehem at the time of
the Nativity.
Probably the palmiest days of astrol-
ogy were the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. AT two of the oldest univer-
stiles in Europe chairs were founded
for its teaching-at Bologna and at Pa
Qua. No princes court was complete
without its astrologer After the renais-
sance the study of astrology was Wig
orously opposed, though for centuries
many men continued to believe in it,
among whom, at least to certain ex-
tent, was Napoleon. The merciless
ridicule of Swift had much to do with
its discredit in England.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Cardinal Neymnn's Gentleman.

In telling what he thought gentle
man should be Cardinal Newman once
wrote He has his eyes on all his COM
pany. He is tender toward the bash.
full, gentle toward the distant and mer-
ciful toward the absurd. In his con-
yersation the gentleman will remem-
Der to whom he is speaking, have
thought for all the company and avoid
illusions that would give pain TO any
of them, steering away also from top
les that irritate. When he does ia
vor to another (and he does many the
gentleman will somehow make it ap-
pear that he is receiving the benefit in
stead Of couferring it. He is never
mean or little in his disputes. More
over, he shows that he has an intellect
far above the average in the fact that
he never mistakes personalities and
sharp sayings for arguments. Most Of
mankind do. When grief, illness or
losses come to him he submits to pain
because it IS inevitable. Bereavement
he takes with heroic philosophy be-
cause it is irreparahle. He goes to
death without a murmur because it is
DESTINY"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

What comfort, what strength, what
economy, there is in order-material or
der intellectual order, moral order. To
know where one is going and what one
wishes-this is order: To keep ones
word and ones engagements, Again
order: To have everything ready under
ones hands, to be able to dispose of ali
ones forces and to have all ones
means of whatever kind under COM
mand. Still order: To discipline ones
habits, ones efforts, ones wishes, to
organize ones life, to distribute ones
time, to take the measure of ones du-
ties and make ones rights respected, to
employ ones capital and resources,
ones talent and ones chances profita
bly,. Order is power.-Amiels Journal.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Girls as WOOers.

"Where did the idea come from that
boys are the wooers? Do any little boys
have the early education in love that is
given to little girls? When little girl
starts to school here are some of the
things the big girls teach her the first
year: When she eats an apple she is
taught to count the seeds, while she
thinks of some little boy and repeats
rhyme. In the spring the little girls
gather daisies and pick off the petals
one by one while they think of some
little boy and say another rhyme.
When a little girl sees the first star in
the evening she repeats another verse.
When grown people take wedding cake
home it is never the boys who ask for
piece to dream on and see whom
they will marry. 1t is the girls.-Atchi-
son Globe.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
GLOOMY BRlC-A-BRAC.
c"mn Plates Once Used as House Or
naments In Maine

namentS In Maine
In New England 100 years ago it was
oy no means uncommon for neonIe IN
provide their collins long before their
death and keep the same in their
houses, where they could see them ev-
cry day. 1t was perhaps custom hav-
Ing the same purpose and significance
as the skeleton at the feasts of the an
cient Greeks, to remind the living in
their hours of levity of the seriousness
OF life and the certainty of death.
This was not the idea, however. of a
man named Lindsey, whom people now
living in Leeds may rememb@, or at
least have heard of. He built his own
collin many years before he died and
used to keep it in chamber of his
house. He used it generally to keep
beans in. 1t was very fine coffin.
made of mahogany and nicely finished
and polished. Mr.. Lindsey made it
with his own hands and gave as reason
that if he left the task of providing
him with coffin to his sons it would
be just like them to put him in hem
lock one. Perhaps the boys did not
relish the implication At any rate.
they did not like to have the coffin
about the house and took it away one
night and threw it into the river. 1t
was found several miles below, consid
erably broken and battered as it went
over the rips, and old Lindsey heard
about it, drove down and got it and
was finally buried in it.
Another queer custom that prevailed
in this section of Maine down to
comparatively recent date was that of
removing the plate from the coffin after
the funeral and just before the body
was lowered into the grave and keeping
it in the best room in the house among
the ornaments and bric-a-brac. The
writer saw one of these grewsome ex-
hibits on the mantel of Il Lincolnville
parlor not more than twenty-five years
ago, and we shouldn't be surprised if
quite number of them could be found
In the old houses throughout Maine.-
Bangor News.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
Lawful Debt Legally Collected.


When Mike left the employ of Broth
er Bubbles, who keeps a country store
and also farms it, in Washington
county, Me-, he owed a considerable
balance to Brother Bubbles. Mike
seemed quite willing to forget about it,
but more intimate acquaintance of
Brother Bubbles never lost faith that
the account would be squared in due
time.
After Brother Bubbles had ceased
even to drop gentle hints about the
little bill Mike became the owner of a
single lusty hog, of which he was in
ordinately proud. He Dragged about
it increasingly, and Brother Bubbles
made friendly call one day to see it
and praised the hog in way that de-
lighted the heart of the lucky owner.
Cant see how We got him SO fat,
Mike" said Brother Rubbes "Mine
don't fill out that way. | guess it
takes an Irishman to bring up a pig"
Then after a pause Brother Bubbles
added: I've got shote I'll give We if
you want it. should like to see what
ye can do with my stock"
There is an old saying that sets
forth the danger of trusting the Greeks
even when they offer gifts, but Mike
had never heard it. At the first op-
portunity he went over to Brother
Bubbles barn and brought away the
sorriest looking shote that ever lived.
The next day Brother Bubbles ''lev.
ied' on the big hog. The law would
not have permitted him to do that So
long as Mike was the owner of only
one pig. ..,-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

The leaves of the common clover give
good example of what Linnaeus call
ed the sleep of plants. At sunset the
two side leaflets of each set of three
bend forward until their edges nearly
meet, when the middle leadet droops
downward to touch them ami completes
The picture of repose.
Some of the bean family assume as
perfect postures of rest The wistaria
hangs the end and central leatlet of
each cluster directly downward. point
ing to the earth, while the side leaflets
drop in double rows, back to back The
leaves of the scarlet runner have a
similar habit. The willow foliage
twists into a position that is almost
vertical, and the leaves of the vine are
raised slightly at their edges and de-
pressed toward the center.
All such sleeping foliage is singularly
rigid and retains the position which it
has assumed. This persistence is due
to the presence of water in the tissues
of the leaves. At dawn of day the
plants awaken, and their leaves re-
sumo their ordinary attitude.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

A traveller says that one of the first
things which struck him on his arrival
in Russia was the enormous quantity
of sunflower seed consumed in that
country The seeds, which are olea-
ginous and have an agreeable taste,
are constantly chewed by the people.
The outer husk is detached with the
teeth and spat out. These husks are
seen scattered about on pavements and
garden walks, in railway carriages,
tramway cars and cabs, on the floors
Of restaurants and private rooms. On
days of public festivity the ground
everywhere is covered with them. At
every street corner brisk trade is
done in the seeds by old women.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
AN HERB FOR EVERY PAIN.
Old Fashioned Remedies That Were
Used by Our FOrbears.

In the village of Greenwich, England,
in a quaint old street where the build
ings are 50 thick that they tangle them
selves together in a knot, there is a
queer little shop with a sign over the
door that reads, "An Herb For Every
Pain"
On the shelves of this shop are to be
found hundreds of different kinds of
herbs for the cure of all bodily all
ments. There can be found all the old
time herbs that our grandmothers used
to have hanging around the walls of
the kitchen and stored away in the at
tic, ready to be made into teas and
sirups in case of sickness.
People who still have old fashioned
ideas about health and sickness go
green, sassafras, camomile, horehound,
yellow dock, catnip, cherry bark, mul
lein, extract of oats, lobelia, and so on
All these herbs have the reputation of
being good for some one or more all
mentS-catnip for nervousness, sassa-
fraS for the blood, horehound and bone
set for colds, sumac for sore throat,
wintergreen for rheumatism, lobelia as
an emetic in case of poisoning, mullen
for consumption, etc.
Nearly all of these herbs are made
into teas. Sassafras tea, boneset tea
and catnip tea are brewed and served
either cold or hot Among the many
hundreds of herbs that are sold in this
little shop are some that are deadly
poisons, and they are labeled and sold
under the same restrictions as other
posons.
The good old remedies that our grand
fathers hunted and dug in the woods.
those that our grandmothers planted
and tended in the garden, have given
way to harmful remedies, to drugs that
leave the patient in a worse condition
than when he began their use. We be-
lieve it has been a mistake to give up
the old remedies Medical Talk.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
The Great 1mcrIcnn Novel.

The great American novel. of which
so much was once heard, does not
come, but the work is gradually being
written in departments. The country
is too vast. as the novelists have per-
haps seen, for one novel to cover the
ground as they used to hope. They are,
therefore, specializing, and some of
them are writing so conscientiously
and observing so well that those of our
own practitioners whose tendency is to
repeat a convention rather than return
afresh to life with each book ought to
be feeling uncomfortable - London
Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

why is it that some men will not
give Il direct and unequivocal answer
to even the simplest and most inconsC-
Quential questions put to them?" asked
a thoughtful citizen. 1T is curious
thing that you will find a great many
men who simply will not give you a
direct answer to the question, though
there may exist absolutely no reason in
the world for quibbling or for hesitat-
ing to answer without equivocation. I
was just reading Il story of Il well
known lawyer who is so in the habit of
qualifying his answers that he will not
tell friend the time of day without in
some way putting in a saving clause
n remark that his watch is probably
little slow or a little fast or something
of that sort. One of the presidents, |
think it was Van Buren, was of this
type and on one occasion refused to
say whether the sun rose in the east or
the west, remarking that east and
west We're purely relative terms and
what might be east to one man might
be west to another. Personally l have
known many men who dropped into
this habit, and, singularly. some of
them have been the most positive and
most aggressive characters l have ever
known. They would assert things and
back them up ignorantly. But ask
them a question. and forthwith they
would deal you out Il qualified answer
or often what would amount to no an
swer ut all."-New Orleans Times
Democrat
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

On one occasion, when Dickens and
Ja+-es Payn were swapping" stories,
re, tes James Macarthur in Harper's
Weekly, Payn told the following Gu
riOus incident to the author of "Da-
vid Copperfeld:" Payn, it seems, was
returning to his home one summer
night through fashionable street near
Piccadilly when a sudden thunderstorm
caused him to take refuge under por-
tico which commanded view of one
of the fashionable houses across the
street AS he stood looking into the
lighted drawing room a lady dressed in
a ball gown appeared at one of the
open bow windows, and at the same
moment a man who looked like beg
gar ran across the street and stood I'M
der the window. The lady threw out
to him her bouquet He caught it and,
nodding twice to the figure above him,
ran off at full speed
Dickens was greatly interested in this
story, and the question is asked wheth
err he ever made use of the incident In
any of his novels.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24

Tie wife Of New Zealand mission
airy once had an interview with ma
tive matron, who confessed that she
would die with shame at the Idea OF
permitting her boy to run about witt
an undreSsed face. e., with cheeks
free from tattoo marks. The attempt
to save native youngsters from the
nartyrdom of the absurd custom
caused repeated riots and disagreeable
scenes with the indignant relatives,
and with similar emphasis the east
ern Hindoos protest against the abol-
ishment of infant marriages.
In Calcutta alone the indignation
meeting of the priests was attended hx
$4,000 natives, including hundreds "
rajahs, merchant princes and scholars,
besides tradesmen and peasants. The
women of Bengal observed a general
fast on the day of protest. shrieks
and bowls filled the air. The population
of several cities seemed to have gone
crazy en- maSse. One fanatic offered
to sacrifice his life to propitiate the
wrath Of heaven.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
The Tower of Pisa.

The famous leaning tower of Pisa is
a campanile or bell tower. The build
ing, which is cylindrical in form, is
1871 feet high and fifty feet in diameter.
made entirely of white marble. 1t is
called the leaning tower from the fact
that it inclines some thirty feet from
the perpendicular, and it is not general
ly known that this inclination, which
gives the tower such Il remarkable APP
pearance was not intentional. At the
time it was about half done the error
in measurement was perceived. 1t was
guarded against by the use of extra
braces in the further construction of
the building and an adaptation of the
stone in the highest portion. There
are seven bells on the top of the tower,
the largest of which weighs 1000
pounds, and these are so placed as to
counterfeit as far as possible the lean
ing of the tower itself.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
County Names.

County names iii the New England
and middle Atlantic states are almost
exclusively of English or Indian origin
In the border states of the south they
are chiefly English, in the gulf states
English and Indian, with French in
Louisiana and traces of Spanish origin
in Florida and Texas. In the Missis,
sippi valley they are again of English
and Indian origin, with some French
names coming down from the Jesuit
explorers. In the Rocky mountain
states they are again English and In
dian, with a larger proportion of the
latter than elsewhere. and on the Pa
cific coast Spanish county names again
crop out. Texas has a Deaf Smith
county. about the only instance of
nickname having been fixed upon an
important political division. pretty
fair history of the political and social
influences at work in the early develop.
ment of a state could be written from
a study of county names.
Cranky Patient.
DIR. Bailey docking at thermometer.
Hum-m! | don't like your temperature.
Sick Student-Then why did you take
it?-Haryard Lampoon.