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Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Another chapter in the Breathitt county
troubles was the filing Of a suit at Winchester
by Sam Jett against Judge James Hargis and
Ed. Callahan of Breathitt county, and B. F.,
French Of Winchester, asking damages in the
bum of $4,000.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Are your bones aching, nerves tired, nights rest.
less, kidney and liver trouble, energy low These
are signs Of low vitality. Eollister's Rocky noun
tain Tea will make you we'll. Tea or Tablets, 35
cents. J. j. Wood Il Son.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

The Power Grocery Company has asked the
Paris City Council for a permit to build a
,room factory on their lot in that city and will
,egin work in few DAYS.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03
WALLINGFORD.

Born. last evening, to Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ.
Walingford of Osawatomie, Kan, fine daugh-
ter. Mrs. Wallingford was formerly Miss Mat
tie Rudy, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. N. c. Rudy Of
Forest avenue
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

There was a big chivarri at Washington Sat-
|rday night, in which the old and many new in
|truments of music and noise we're brought into
[se to produce a din
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Last week Mr.. R. K. Hoehich, Treasurer Of
the Mason County Building Association, YVES
kept busy paying out $9.4OO8O in dividends.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

The vets won by majority of over 1000 in
he twelve Precincts outside of Louisville in
which local options we're held Saturday. They
carried every Precinct by overwhelming MAORI
.ias
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Mr.. J. Will Ginger on Saturday moved his
family and furniture to Ashland. Sorry to lose
you, will; and you'll be welcomed when you come
back
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Senator Thomas H. Paynter was in the city
saturday, but very few were aware Of his pres.
Ence. He kind o slinked in and slunked out
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel ]. Smith Of Columbia,
Cincinnati, are spending several days with Mr..
md Mrs. ]. c. Pecor Of West Second street
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03
gs-Cartmell extracts teeth without pain.

The McKibben house in West Third street
was sold at auction Saturday for $7O5. John
Duley bought it.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

The Olive Hill Chsutauqua Company will
hold their Chautauqua meeting out at Olive
Hill, Carter county, September 9th, 2Sth and
Doth.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Mr.. Charles F. Reed, Deputy County Assessor,
has been assigned to duty in the city and is
around taking in tax lists and dog taxes.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Within fifteen minutes of the time the bill
vas filed, Mrs Kathleen K. Stevenson, Ken
uckan, was granted a divorce in a Chicago
Court
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03
es-Bargains in Pianos at Gerbrich's.

The Mayssille School Of Photography reopens
its night school tonight at 7 o'clock.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

pB-An matter Tor publication must be
handed in before o'clock n. m.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Ed Horrocks, the Ashland contractor, has a
force of men repairing the Jail and Courthouse
at Grsyson.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Ex.COuncilman R. R. Frost is quite i'll with
dropsy at his home in West Second street.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Gzs-Miss JohnsOn's School of Photography
begins its l4th annual session September 3d.
Positions guaranteed its graduates.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

gs- Must reduce our stock Of Monuments.
Special prices for fall and spring work.
MURRAY G. THOMAS.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

The Washington young folks gave dance
Friday night at the new home Of Mr.. Bland
kirk
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

ES~School writing uppes-stationer tab.
let's, pencils, pens and ink at Ssllie Woods.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

The Cincinnati Travelling Salesmens Associ-
alton will give its annual banquet to customers
tomorrow evening at the Business Mems Club
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Ge-Best Coal in the market. Call on L. T.
iaebke & Co. Phone PIG. Free stable.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

GS-Kiln Dried Poplar Kindling. Telephone
30. The Ohio Valley Pulley Works.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

ES- Town Talk is the best. Try it.
WINTER & EVERETT.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

Mrs. Vincent Holt, who was so badly burned
at Portsmouth Thursday. died Friday afternoon.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

1z1-Mss Gordon's Training School will open
Thursday, September sixth.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03

gzs- Get School Supplies at Rays Drugstore
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1906-09-03
WITHIN REACH or ALL,

"Faultless" Patent Flour $4.25 a barrel.
NJ. c. RUSSELL Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

in this matter is impregnable Mrs.
Bowser- absolutely impregnable. Why
do we eat three times a day?"
Because we are hungry"
There you go without reference to
natural philosophy or fact. AS a mat
ter of fact, we are not hungry. We
simply imagine that we are. If we
had been routed out of the house before
breakfast this morning by fire would
we have wanted to eat2 Not a mouth
full. We were not routed out and so
we went down at the usual hour and
stuffed ourselves. A week ago I came
home and found you with a headache.
At least you imagined you had a head
ache. You didn't want any dinner, and
you limited that I should telephone the
doctor I did nothing of the kind On
the contrary, I suggested that we go to
the theater. What was the Tesult2 You
began to grin and smile and = Ike notice
Of things. and half an hour later you
were dressing to go. As I said, my
position is impregnab le-a bsolutely i'm
pregnable."
And wher I was ready to go you
backed out" said Mrs. Bowser with
considerable bitterness.
Il had proved that your headache
was all imagination, my dear. and what
was the use of dragging off to the the
ater2 As a matter of fact, you or any
other woman can sit right in your chair
at home and imagine all that goes on
at a play It saves money and trouble
and answers the same purpose"
How much do you pay a box for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17
IMPROBABLE MR.. BowsER-
He Proves to Mrs. Bowser That It's
All Imagination.

The Bowser family sat reading the
other evening when a SILVER passed
over Mrs BOwser and she said:
AS the girl is out this evening and
the fire seems to have got low, won [
you go down and see about it?'
My dear woman, you don't mean to
say that this room IS cold, do you?'
he queried in reply.
1t IS surely is. If we had a Their
mometer I don't-beheve it would show
over so degrees above"
Il am glad you introduced the sub
ject at this time" said Mr.. Bowser,
as he laid back in his chair and pre-
pared to argue the matter. Il was
reading an article on Imagination the
other day and it was mighty interest
ing As human beings we imagine ten
falsities to one fact. Half the ailments
of mankind come from pure magma
ton. You imagined just now that this
room was cold. III venture to say
that the temperature is at least sum
mer heat"
When it's cold It's cold, isn't it?
demanded Mrs. Bowser.
But is it cold That's the question.
Is it cold or do you simply imagine
that it's cold? I believe that we have
burned as many as three tons of extra
coal every winter for the past ten
years because you imagined that it
was cold when 1t wasn't It is the
same way in dog days. A man will
be walking along as cool and placid as
can be and meet a man who tells him
that the thermometer marks 100 de-
grees in the shade. It may not mark
so, but that man begins to stew and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

cyclones could stop him He went
scooting right to the top of the tree,
and when he got there he held on
with tooth and toenail and couldn't be
shaken down. He kept swelling and
swelling as commander-in-chie of the
army, and then he put in eight years
more as president. They wanted him
Tor third term, and most any man
lIVlng would have taken it. but what
ala the Father Of his Country do
He goes out behind the cider mill one
day and sits down for a talk with
himself, and says:
Say, George, you are the biggest
oak in the woods. You are the only
pebble on the beach. You are the
fattesr blackberry on the bush. You
are at the top of the tip-toppers. Now.
then, look out. A bladder can hold
only just SO much wind You have
bust" "
That's the gist of what he said. nv
SUI, ana what was the result? He
goes IN and sits down to the kitchen
taD5e ana writes out his little document
4ecilnlhg third nomination and saw
ing that he could hereafter be found at
MI. vernon, y. S. A, by any one want
ing potatoes, onions and cabbages fresh
grown ana at reasonable prices, and he
STUCK 10 his word. He DIDN'T bust He
retired with a cart load of honors. and
no American is ever going to forget
that ms last name is spelled with q
dplldI w.
I'm telling you, sonny. that If Won
get ahead as you should you are going
10 swell up. YOu are going to think YOU
are the smartest, cutest thing on earth
Even II a corporation pays 50 apiece for
votes TO send you to the legislature you
are going to think that it was all on
account OF your smartneSs and pOpu-
larlty, and you will pity the defeated
candidate for a fool. FeIlers will come
70 you with their hats in their hands.
Fellers viii come and pat you on the
back EellerS viii whisper in your ears
that this old earth didn't amount to
shucks until you were born. You'll swell
and swell, and some day you'll reach
the pint where you'll have to unbutton
the top button to get an easy breath.
That's the turning pint. Go out and
commune with yourself. Do a little
kicking and cussing. Look at things
square in the face and make up your
mind that it's either stop or bust
I've got the single all Whitfield up,
my son, and I'm going to pocket my
Jackkn1fe and go down TO Snyder'S gro
Gerry. Thirty years ago, when 1 was
constable of this town, had a mortgage
on the Widow Simpsons house AMI dot
and a hundred dollars in the bank and
L was on the swell. I walked in there
one day feeling that 1 was It and I
tried to bluff tin peddler. That was
my day for busting, but I wouldn'
heed the signs. I bet him a hundred
dollars and lost. and since that time
I've been as humble as a goose at the
bottom Of d rain barrel Come along
with me and see. They look upon me
as a busted man. and if tell EN- that
Jim Goodhue's boss has case of the
bolts they'll look down on me IN pity
and wonder why hain't been sent to
the idiot asylum. Copyright, 1906, by
Z. c. Purcells.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

1t was while General Lee was maxi
ing his preparations for the invasion Of
Pennsylvania. The federal commander
was suspicious that some great move
was in contemplation, ana sentinels,
scouts and pickets were instructed to
use the utmost vigilance. In charge OF
a picket post numbering seven or eight
men was Sergeant Joe Wise, who was
called the best-natured man in Com
pany G, and who had proved his BRAY
cry on three or four battlef1elds. The
sergeant was thirty-five years old ana
unmarried but back at nome in Michi-
gan a red-cheeked farmers daugh-
ter had said that she would be his wife
when he came marching home from
the war.
on this night, as the sergeant sat by
the fire with his men out on post, one
of the company came along and hand
ed him a letter received at regimental
headquarters two hours previously. It
was opened to be read at the pickering
flames of the fire It was from stay
at-home malone of those malicious
minded gossips who delighted in telling
all he knew and much more of affairs
back home. According to his epistle,
many things had occurred in the little
village in the last month, and one of
them was the engagement of JOe's
sweetheart to a merchant who had fur
nished a substitute for the war He
put it strong to the sergeant that he
had been made a fool Of and closed
Dy hoping tudt ne WOutu 30 dilSeo anu
die for his country and not feel bad
over the woman's perfidy-
Hes a LARA miserable, contemp-
tible liari" said Joe TO himself as ne
cast the letter from him; and yet, five
minutes later he was porting over the
lines again and wondering if there was
truth in them.
His last letter from Jennie had not
exactly satisfied him; it had been three
weeks since he received it; he remem-
bered of hearing some one say that she
was tickle Once he started on that
train of thought he became doubtful
and ready to believe the worst, and In
an hour he was in a black mood.
Had he been surrounded by COM
rades-had there been chum to read
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17
UNCLE sILAs. HE SAYS.
He Tells OF a Danger in the Paths OF
Men.

Ny son, do you know why the state
Of Michigan was admitted into the
Union, and why every old bunker with
a Jackknife continues to swear by it?
It was the pine tree business that did
1t, and is still doing it. There are other
states with pine trees but none like
Michigan Nature grew that pine for
the man with the jackknife. It's soft.
and slick and easy. When you want to
fgger on politics, you just get a 9Iichi-
gan pine Single, and sit down on the
sunny side of the barn and Whlttle away.
When you can't make out why you and
your wife quarrel, sit on the top rail
Of a fence and white. When you have
made an ass of yourself in some way
or other, and want consolation, get out
under an apple tree and white. Don't
let Maine, New Hampshire, Wisconsin
or Canada work off a Just as good"
pine single on you, but stick to the old
reliable.
What I want to say to you as we
white isn't what the books are always
saying-be honest, respect truth, obey
the Golden Rule, and so forth and so
on. In this day and age you can get a
chap to sit down for SIS per week and
write you out whole columns OF books
advice and give you hundred different
notices and watchwords to choose from.
What I've got on my mind is this;
Don't swell up and bust. If I was Of
fered a hundred dollars word to give
you better advice, I couldn't do it.
1 don't care how smart and how slick
a young man is when he starts out in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17
TRAMP TALKS.
The story That Was Told in a Corn
field.

zone fall, four or five years ago, %
said the c. o. d. man. after he had
been financially encouraged to talk. II
came along to q farm in New jersey
where the farmer and his hired men
had just begun operations. / needed
food and was willing to work for 1t,
and 7 elm bed the fence and accosted
the farmer He waited to tie up a
shock II corn before answering m =,
and then said:
WAL. / dunno. You don't look
very lefty.
But can cut corn I answered
I don't want to say nuthin TO hurt
your feelin S, but you look to me as IL
you had been a pirate. If you nave
you needn't be afraid to own up. No
body here Is goin' to say anything
about it. Jim. you won't never tell,
Will yOu2"
The query was addressed to the
hired man, and after thinking for
m plent he replied:
nc, I won't never tell, but I've allus
said that if I ever met a pirate I'd give
him a gaul-darned good bastin'.'
Thus encouraged. [ sat down on
stump, the farmer and his hired man
sat down on a log before me, and I
proceeded to say that at the age of %
I went out of New Bedford on a Whal-
ing ship. After being out a year or
so. and taking about a dozen whales,
we touched at Valparaiso. and as I
was a very sick man I was sent to the
hospital while the ship continued her
cruise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

4
SO you ketched whales. N 29 ouer-
led the farmer. with sudden int crest
But he don't look like it, added
the hired man.
" Yes I've helped to catch whales
'Bigger'n this log?
es. far larger. As long as from
here to the fence and three times as
large around as an OK
BY thunderi Then It must be true
that the whale swallowed Joner?'
Not a doubt of it. Well as I said.
j was sent to the hospital and for a
month I was q very sick man. Then
] began to mend, and in a month more
I was able to walk out in the hospital
grounds. One day. while 1 was sitting
ON the bench in the sunshine I was
accOsted by another cOnvalescent He
had been IN hospital to be treated for
tnree dlterent wounds He was a
soIt-spoken man. as smooth as oil and
at first I took him for a church dea-
con. After three or four days he grew
more confidential, and then he betrav-
ed himself What do you think he
-. a living pirate. by thunder!' ex-
claimed the farmer
a boss thief, mebbe. added the
Yes. he was a pirate He was
known al along the South American
coast as Bloody Dick suDnOse he la5
captured and burned hftv different
ships and put a thousand people TO
death before met him. At first. when
ne told me he was pirate drew
away from him. but the longer he
talked the more I liked him He had
been robbed of his ali when an OrDban
and that's why he had turned pirate.
lie wanted me to go with him. but I
reused However, the next day after
nad refused got letter from home
that my sweetheart had married an
other. my old mother was dead and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

sweat and feel that it's Internally hot
Then if a person were freezing to
death in a blizzard out on the prairfes
all he'd have to do would be to imagine
that he was taking hot bath at
home %
THAT is going a little too far, per
haps, but 1 win say this, that magma
ton has certainly aided many a one to
freeze to death. You imagine the tenn
perature in this room is at about so
degrees. Your Imagination. unless
checked. viii reduce It to so, 40, 80,
and finally blow zero"
You are talking nonsense. Mr.. Bow
ser"
Nothing of the kind. Nv position
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

Dying Uncle-I'm sorry. nephew, that
you are not interested in religion and
charities.
I ami There's nothing 1 am so wrappes.
.sp IN.
Dying Uncle-That's good-thats good.
Then you won't be hurt when / tell YOU
that I've left my entire fortune to the
church.-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

ed for an instant to say
old man, you must be in love with
frostbitten nose to stand out here. Don't
you know enough to go IMP
''W-what did I tell y'you?' queried
the non-imaginative man as he re-enter-
ed the house with shivers shaking him
from head to heel and his teeth playing
a time
You found it balny. did you?"
Mrs. BoWseF, the weather out doors
is just hke-just like"
Go on
Mr.. Bowser's hand went up to his
cheek and he uttered a groan. Some
thing gave a twitch and he yelled out
and jumped up and down. He ha62n
old tooth that ached on the slightest
provoeation, and the cold wind had set
it jumping and twitehing.
Il see" said Mrs. Bowser. well,
the medicine chest IS in the closet. You
win find laudanum, paregoric, creosote,
peppermint and a dozen other things.
and if none of them will do try a mus
tard plaster or hot ashes. I imagine it's
cold here and am going to bed to get
warm. You'd better imagine that tooth
is in some one else's head and come
with me Your position is impregnable,
Mr.. Bowser-absolutely impregnable. -
Copyright 1906, by c. ]. Hirt-)
Ne said Borroughs, Il don't like Mr..
SharpIeigh much.
But said Guseher.a-twhen you get
hi mimic a reminiscent mood Isn't he
really de1ghtful2''
HUH got him into that sort of mood
once and he recalled a hve-dollar loan he
had made me. ''-PhnadelDhia Press.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-01
New Officers Honored.

." The active, student and associate
members Of the Thursday Musical met
this afternoon in most delightful way
at the reception: which was given in
honor Of the new officers and the, new
members. The membership Of this pop
ular organization is SO large that it Is
seldom that it comes together socially,
and today the friends Of the club had
also been hidden, SO that the First Uni
tartan church was filed with women in
terested in musical affairs. The recep-
ton, which was a most informal affair,
was preceded by a reading of "Paoli
and Francesca, by Miss Frances Ney-
in Of Cincinnati. Miss Nevin is "a
talented young reader and her rendi-
ton Of the different characters was
clear cut and distinctive. After the
reading the guests were received by
Mrs: W. O.. Fryberger, the new presi-
dent, and the other officers, and tea
was served from fowe1-decked tables
by the members of the house commit
tee, Mines. Charles Robinson, H. l..
Robinson and Don FITZGERALD, assisted
by group Of young women. Palms
and ferns with a profusion of flowers,
chrysanthemums, roses and carnations,
made an attractive setting in the audi
forum and in the parlors. -,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-01
New England Women.

:s .ts.,E NO" 1AS4dAu W. meu. =
1. A. preliminary meeting Of what prom.
Uses to be q strong organization was
held yesterday in the directors room
Of the Public. Library building when d
group of women Of New England birth
and ancestry gathered to form a colony
Of the National Association Of New
England Women. : Mrs. E. M. La Peno-
there, who has had the matter in hand
ever since the biennial, was elected
chairman pro TEN and Mrs. S. R. Child,
secretary. Among those who took
membership blanks to be filed were
Mines. M. B. Lewis, R. F. Goodwin,
J. A. Brant, J. Guilford, Robert Enc
grin, J. H.. Johnson, Ada Wakeman,
D. Crary, Mary Smith, Robert L. Pen.
ney, Jesse Moore, Fremont Jaynes, G..
S. Allanson, R. T. Bowe, L. M. Crafts,
j. s.. Crandall. So many women who
are interested in the new organization
were unable to be present yesterday
that it was decided to meet again
Tuesday, Nov. 49,. and the charter
membership will not be closed until
after that gathering. Committees were
appointed to draw up a constitution
and bylaws and to outline plan. of
work. Mrs. Robert Enegrin will tell
something of the day, New. Fl, on
which the new colony hopes to perfect
its formal organization and elect
officers. -