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and abide as q stranger man as long
as you please. You may live in
Chicago until your hair whitens. and
be a citizen and still pirate of beans
if Boston mothered you. and without
rebuke You may become a civic
pillar in any other town but Knick-
erbocker's, and all the time publicly
sheer at its buildings, comparing
them with the architecture of
Colonel Talfair's residence in
Jackson, Miss. from whence you
hail, and you viii not be set upon.
But in New York you must be either
a New Yorker or an invader of a
modern Troy, concealed in the wood
en- horse of your cOnceited provin-
cialism. And this dreary preamble
is only to introduce to you the unim-
portant figures of William and Jack
They came out of the West to-
gether, where they had been friends.
They came to dig their fortunes out
of the big city
Father KnickerbOcker met them at
the ferry, giving one a Highlander
on the nose and the other an upper
cut. with his left. just to let them
know that the fight was on.
William was for business; Jack
was for art Both were young and
ambitious; so they cOuntered and
clinched. / think they were from
Nebraska or possibly Missouri, or
Minnesota. Anyhow, they were out
for success and scraps and scads,
and they tackled the city like TWO
Lochinyars with brass knucks and a
pull at the City Hall
Four years afterward William and
Jack met at luncheon The BUSH
ness man blew in like a March wind.
hurled his silk hat at a waiter, drop
ped into the chair that was pushed
under him. seized the bill of fare,
and had ordered as far as cheese be
fore the artist had time to do more
than nod. After the nod a humorous
smile came into his eyes.
BILLY" he said, you're done for.
The city has sobbled you up. 1t has
taken you and cut you to its pattern,
and stamped you with its brand
You are so nearly like ten thousand
men l have seen today that you
couldn't be picked out from them if
it weren't for your laundry marks"
"Camembert." finished William.
What's that? On, you've still got
your hammer out for New York.
have you? Well, little old Noisy
MISUNDERSTANDING is good enough
for me. It's giving me mine. And.
say, 1 used To think the West was
the whole round worId-Only slight
~ flattened at the poles whenever
Bryan ran. used TO yell myself
hoarse about the free expanse, and
hang my hat on the horizon, and say
cutting things in the grocery to little
soap drummers from the East. But
I'd never seen New York then, Jack.
Me for it from the rathskellers up.
Sixth avenue is the West to me now.
Have you heard this fellow Crusoe
sing? The desert isle for him,
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.AH0ANE DE- ZHIE6EG

ought TO know within Il few hundred
miles just where ii IS. TO occur.
How VIII the seeress' admirers ex-
plain the failure of their priestess TO
toresee the dissolution of the late dual
kingdom of Sweden and Norway? And
Il she SO clearly realized the ending of
the long struggle in the Far East, why
did she not let the bankers knew that
Japan was 10 come ouI victor7 And did
her mind have no f1rewarning Of the
remarkable revolution against graft
which was to SWEEP this country from
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all outside values and virtue, II is
the narrowest. Give me the pure air
and the open heart Of the West coun-
try / would go back there tomorrow
il ] could"
Don't you like this flet mig
nom" said William. "Shucks, now,
what's the use to knock the town.
It's the greatest ever. | couldn't
sell one automatic pump between
Harrisburg and, Tommy O'Keefe's
saloon, in Sacramento, where 1 sell
twenty here. And have you seen
Sara Bernard in Andrew Mack
YETI"
The towns got you, Billy" said
Jack.
"All right" said William. I'm
going to buy a cottage on Lake Ron
konkona next summer"
AT midnight Jack raised his win
dow and sat close to it. He caught
his breath at what he saw, though
lie had seen and felt it a hundred
times.
Far below and around lay the city
like a ragged. purple dream. The
Irregular houses were like the
broken exteriors Of cliffs lining deep
guIches and winding streams. Some
We're mountainous; some lay il
long, monotonous rows like the
basalt precipices hanging over de-
sert canyons. Such was the back
ground of the wonderful, cruel, en-
chanting, bewildering, fatal. great
city. But into this background were
cut myriads of brilliant parallelo-
grams and circles and squares
through which glOwed many-color-
ed lights. And out of the violet and
purple depths assembled like the
city's soul sounds and odors and
thrills that make up the civic body.
There arose the breath Of gayety
unrestrained. OF love. OF hate, of all
the passions that man can know.
There below him lay all things.
good or bad, that can be brought
from the four corners of the earth
TO instruct, please, thrill, enrich, de-
spoil. elevate, cast down. nurture or
kill. Thus the favor Of it came up
to him and went into his blood.
There was a knock on his door.
A telegram had come for him. It
came from the West. and these were
its words:
Come back home and the answer
will be yes"
DOLLY"
He kept the boy waiting ten
minutes, and then wrote the reply:
Impossible TO leave here at pres
ent" Then he sat at the window
again and let the city put its cup
of mandragora 10 his lips again.
After all it isn't a story; but 1
wanted 10 know which one of the
heroes won the battle against the
city. So ! went TO a very learned
friend and laid the case before him.
What he said was: please don't
bother me; I have Christmas pres
ents 10 buy
So there it rests; and you viii
have to decide for yourself.
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invariably have been true of her pro-
nuhciamentos: They have been unfalter-
ngly threatening, and they have been
most vague and mystical From this
last il follows that they have occasional
" hit close to the mark-clever gossip
could readily translate some very gem
eral expression into a definite pTedic-
ton of that which had later come TO
pass; but De Thebes' record shows these
lucky guesses TO be the exceptions
which rather prove the rule Of the eyed
OWNERS unTeliability
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"She is right Was it not she who
foretold that fearful fire at the time
of the charity bazaar"
Yes. and the assassination OF the I'M
happy CarnoL'
And remember she was the diviner
accredited at the court of the second
Empire.
So do the boulevards bolster up their
faith i'm one OF the strangest characters
i'm Paris-a city of strange characters.
Madame de Thebcs lives today as link
with that yesterday when the third
NAPOLEON ruled a brilliant court; when
Eugene was yet in the prime and power
of beauty and happiness. De Thebes
was name to conjure in the sixties.
but Mother Shiptons are scarcely taken
so seriously nowadays. and the vener-
able paImist-seeress is heard Of seldom.
save as she marks each recurring jan
uary with another prediction-alway
gloomy, and seldom right in the retro
spect
Dumas and Zola used often 10 consult
her, say the gossips, adding that Bern
harit and CalVe place confidence in her
representations. that Rostand has been
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ress-daughtsT" make her final exit from
the stage. Nine. de Thebes was not
quite right on that count
Death, indeed, was not ODE iient to
her f0rebodings. II see the rIost i'm
roFtant persOnages Of the nation" she
wrote Of England, ''plunging that land
into a deep grief. I see flags at half
mast, ana The cities dFaped in oIacI. e
This is enthusiastically vague, out Il
could have meant nothing but the death
OF king EdwaTd-and at last reports he
was still in excellent health and spirits
A8 If one monarch's passing was TO be
not enough. January saw the fOreteIling
OF the sudden end of Wilhelm II and
Franz Josef Comment on these ex-
pTessious IF the 'is-to-come'' is IN
necessary
II these guesses fell wide of the mark
of actually, 50, too. did these: "A
great happiness for France I prophesy.
1t concerns Alsace and Lorraine" and
Affairs in the Eternal City are to oc-
cUpy the entire attention of that world
which likes to call itself civilized" and
a most vivid account of an earthquake,
the scene of IT unquestionably laid in
New York city France seems as far
of as ever from recovering the provinces
taken from her in 1877 Rome has sell
dom been less in the public eye; and
the nearest any earthquake got to New
York was a diminutive tremor which
knocked some colonial crockery off the
shelves of the Maine housekeepers last
I1Iv
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Some Facts Overlooked.

The de Thebes following might claim
her accuracy in this last item, in that
the world really was visited by two
great earthquakes during the year lust
passed-but Italy is pretty nearly a
hemisphere away from the American
metropolis. and British India is quite
that distance. and. besides, if a prophecy
is 10 be OF any material assistance, one
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let ii get the best OF US? We were
going to be Just the same fellows
We had always been, and never let it
master us. 1t has downed you. old
man. You have changed from a
maverick into a butterick"
Don't see exactly what you are
driving at" said William. q don't
wear an alpaca coat with blue trous-
ers and a seersucker vest on dress
occasions. like l used to do at home.
Yen talk about being cut to a pat
tern-well. amt the pattern all
right? When you're in Rome you've
got to do as the Dagoes do. This
town seems 10 me 10 have other al
legged metropolises skinned to flag
stations. According TO the railroad
schedule I've got in my mind, Chi
cago and Saint 10 and Paris, France
are asterisk stops-which means you
wave red flag and get Ju every
other Tuesday. I like this little
suburb of TaTrytOwn- -LhC-itudsOn.
There's something or somebody do
ing all the time I'm clearing 5000
a year selling automatic pumps. and
I'm living like kings-up. Why, yes
terday / was introduced TO John W.
Gates. l took an auto ride with
wine agents sister. I saw two men
run over by a street car, and | seen
Edna May play in the evening. Talk
about the West. why, the other
night / woke everybody up in the
hotel holleriug. I dreamed l was
walking on a board sidewalk in Osh-
kosh. What have you got against
this town, Jack? There's only one
thing in 1t that I don't care for,
and that's the ferryboat."
The artist gazed dreamily at the
cartridge paper on the wall.
This town." said he. is leech.
Ii drains the blood Of the country.
Whoever comes to il accepts a chal-
lenge 10 a duel. Abandoning the
figure of the leech. it is a juggernaut,
a MoIoch. a monster TO which the
innocence, the genius, and the beau
~ of the land must pay tribute.
Hand 10 hand every newcomer must
struggle with the leviathan. You've
lost, Billy. II shall never conquer
me l hate it as one hates sin or
pestilence or-the color work in
ten-cent magazine. / despise its
very Yastness and power. II has the
poorest miIlionaires, the littlest great
men, the haughuest beggaTs. the
plainest beauties, the lowest sky
sCrapers, the dolefulest pleasures OF
any town / ever saw. 1t has caught
you. old man. but I will never run
beside its chariot wheels. 1t CLOSES
itself as the Chinaman CLOSES his
collars. Give me the domestic finish
] could stand a town ruled by wealth
or one ruled by an aristOcracy; but
this one is contrC lied by its lowest
ingredients. Claiming culture, it is
the crudest; asseverating its pre-
eminence. it Is the basest: denying
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ocean to ocean? Or of the worId-part
which President Roosevelt was to play
in July and August? Or of the deaths
of such worid-hgures as John Hay and
Sir Henry Irving and Baron Alfonso de
Rothschild?
"A strange, mad. ineomprehensible
year, this 1906 is to be- says the Boule-
warbler. Nine. de Thebes predicts il.
Grant the prediction by all means.
One may doubt its fuldnment.
WARWICK JAMES PRICE.
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INTERESTING STATISTICS

There are now in this country 4.2O7
institutions for the shelter and relief
of the DOOR the sick. the aged. the
homeless and the afflicted. This num-
Der includes orphanges, hosnitaIs.
schools and homes for the deaf. dumb.
and blind. and asylums for the poor
and friendless. The number of in
mates on December 81 last was 264. 352,
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and the number admitted and cared for
from time to time during the year 1905
was sZ,O40'3t2- During the year 1903 $751;
577. 6S3 was expended in the support of
these institutions. The money came
from public taxation private endow-
ment. donations. subscriptions. and
other forms of gifts; and S14 .S4s. sos from
fees paid by the inmates themselves
Detroit News.
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"%4E gods, lying beside their
nectar on 'Iympus and
peeping over the edge of the
Il cliff, perceive a difference
in cities. Although it
would seem that to their vision
towns must appear as large or small
ant hills without special character
istics, yet it is not so. Studying the
habits of ants from so great a height
should be but mild diversion when
coupled with the soft drink that
mythology tells us is their only So
lace. But, doubtless they have anus
ed themselves by the comparison of
villages and towns; and il will be
no news TO them (nOF, perhaps. TO
many mOrtals), that in one particu-
larity New York stands unique
among the cities of the world. This
shall be the theme of a little story
addressed to the man who sits smok-
ing with his Sabbath slippered feet
on another chair, and to the woman
who snatches the paper for a moment
while boiling greens or a narCotized
baby leaves her free. With these |
love TO sit upon the ground and tell
sad stories of the death of kings.
New York city is inhabited by T.
100000 mysterious strangers; thus
beating Bird Center by three mil
lions and half a dozen 9's. They
came here in various ways and for
many reasons-Hendrik Hudson, the
art schools, green goods. the stork.
the annual dressmakers' convention.
the Pennsylvania raiload, love of
money, the stage. cheap excursion
rates, brains, personal column ads,
heavy walking 81 Is. ambition,
freight trains-all these have had
hand in making up the population.
Butevery jack when he first sets
foot on the stones of Manhattan has
got to fight He has got to fight at
once until either he or his adversary
wins. There is no resting between
rounds, for there are no rounds. 1t
is smuggling from the first. 1t is
fight to a finish.
Your opponent is the city. You
must do battle with it from the time
the ferryboat lands you on the is
land until either it Is yours or it has
conquered you. It * the same
whether you have a million in your
pocket or only the PRICE of a weeks
lodging.
The battle is to decide whether YOU
shall become d New Yorker or turn
the rankest outlander and Philistfne.
You must be one or the other. You
cannot remain neutral You must
be for or against-love or enemy
bosom friend or Outcast And. oh.
the city is a general in the ring. Not
only by blows does ii seek to sub
due you 1t woos you to its heart
with the subtety Of a siren. 1t is
a combination of Delilah, green
Chartreuse, Beethoven, choral and
John L. in his best days.
In other cities you may wander
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hlown to ask her advice upon his plans
Tor the future, as do, too. the monarch
"i at least two 1f the continental DOW
e'S-0Iermany and Spain. Then is re-
Ieated the latest advance bulletin of
woes TO come, and French superstition
takes another lease of life.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
JUDYS' CLEVER WORK.

AS a result of some clever detective
work on the part of Jailer George Judy
the notorious negro Herbert GatewooC,
formerly of Mt. Sterling, was arrested
at Maysville and brought here by Cher
of Police H. A. Ort, of that city, yes
terday. Last summer GatewoOd came
here and tried to clean up with some
CIaysville negroes. In a running fight
down Main Street GatewoOd fired
several random shots, number of per-
sons making narrow escapes. He was
finally run down by the officers and
landed in jail, receiving $25 fine and
thirty days on two different charges.
In October he made his escape from
guard Savage and in November was ap-
pretended at Mt. Sterling and arrested
by Chief of Police Chas. Wills n of that
place. He was brought back and In
Judge Smiths Court was assessed an
additional heavy fine. He again afCer
a few weeks of Jail duty made his es-
cape, this time severlng the heavy iron
chain with which he was manacled.
Guard Savage fired several shots at the
fleeing negro and nothing was heard OF
him until yesterday morning.
When Gatewood made his last escape
Jailer Judy remembering that he cor
responded with woman at Maysville
sent one of the letters to the authori-
ties there, who after locating the
woman kept close watch on the prem
Uses with the result that Gatewood
walked into the trap. He will be tried
before Judge Dundon and if the limit
of ten times the former penalty is
melted out, he will do service for the
county for something more than two
years.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
K. M. M. S. MEETING.

The fortieth quarterly meeting OF
the Kentucky Midland Medical Society
will convene in this city Thursday
April 18th, for two sessions 10 a. m.
and p. IN. Dinner at Crosdale's Cafe
at IL 80 sharp. A representative OF
the News is invited to attend the in
formal repast.
Morning Session.
The time Factor in Appendicitis
]. B. Bullitt, Louisville, KY.
Discussion opened by DR.. E. E.
Hume, Frankfort, KY.
When to Operate in Appendicitis
DR.. N. M. Garrett, Frankfort, KY.
Discussion opened by DR.. w. 0. Bull
lock, Lexington, KY.
General Discussion.
Announcement of Committees.
Afternoon Session.
Report of Committees.
Summer Diarrhoea in Children-J.
w. Crenshaw, Versailles, KY.
Discussion opened by DIR. C. w.
Kavanaugh, Lawrenceburg, KY.
General Discussion.
The Doctor, His Patients and the
law-Dr. R. C. Falconer-Lexington,
KY.
Discussion opened by DR.. S. M.
WOrthington, Versailles, KY.
General Discussion.
Balloting on Petitions for Membership.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
BACKAcHE AND SICK KIDNEYS

are quickly relieved and permanently
cured by the New Herb Cure
Father Williams Indian Tea,
Nervous Remedy, gathered in the
Rocky Mountains. Pure and simple
but sure and certain. Acts like magic
on the Kidneys and Bladder, cures
Back Ache, Congestion of the Kid
neys. Rheumatism, Gout, Jaundice
and Bright's Disease. Give it a trial
and be convinced. Put up in Tea
and Tablet form, 20 and 35 cents a
package.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
SWELL MILLINERY.

We have sold more hats so far this
season than ever before and we believe
the reason is. because our hats are pref
tier and more stylish. We have lots
ones every day Every day is opening
day with us, and the ladies are invited
to call whenever it suits them-we are
always e dy to show them something
new in stylish millinery.
= Come in to-day and buy your Easter
Hat.
ct MRS. CORNE WATSON BAIRD.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
CONCRETE WORK.

For all kinds of concrete work, pave
ments and foundations. and all kind of
stone work, see Woods Bros. before
placing your contract. We are prepar-
ed to furnish crushed rock, and build
ing stone on short notice, including free
stone and trimmings for houses. Work
guaranteed. See the pavements around
public Library and Court House put
down by us. If
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
DEATHS IN FLEMING COUNTY

Major Enoch Burns, aged eighty-one
years, is dead of old age at his home
in Fleming county. He was a native
of this county, but lived many years in
Fleming and had represented that
county in the Legislature
Mrs. Mary J. Atchison, aged seventy
three years, died of pneumonia at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. W.
H. Ratliff, in Sharspburg.
Mrs. Ellen Vice, aged eighty-four
years, died of old age at the residence
of Moses Hendrix, near Bethel.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
BLOOD POISONING

Results from Chronic constipation,
which is quickly cured by DR.. King s
New Life Pills. They remove all pois-
onOus germs from the system and in
fuse new life and vigor; cure sour
stomach, nausea, headache, dizziness
and collie, without gripping or discom-
fort. 25c. Guaranteed by Oberdorfer,
the druggist.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
Stockholders ueetiDg.

There will be a meeting of the stock
holders of Deposit Bank for the purpose
of electing directors for ensuing year
on May Z, 1906, at the office of the
said bank.
JOS. M. HALL, President.
P. l. MCCARTHY, Cashier.
3-1mO
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10

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FOR SALE.

One P. P. Gasoline Lighting Machine
of six lights with all piping complete
and eady for use and first-class order.
Will sell at a bargain. Address
THOS. KENNEDY,
Mt. Sterling, KY.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
BLOCK LIGHTS.

have a large stock of the famous
Block Gas Lamps. Lamp and mantel
complete, only so cents.
If j. J. CONNOLLY.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1906-04-10
EASTER HATS.

Don't fail to see Mrs. Cornie Watson
Baird's Easter Hats before you buy.
Every day is opening day at her store.
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FOR RENT.

Five nicely furnished rooms for rent,
for gents. Central location.
If M. L. WOODS.
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FOR RENT.

Residence on Mt. Airy avenue, of 8
room, and bath room, and all modern
conveniences water in house and lawn /;
cellar; good stable; garden. For par
t1culars and terms, apply to
MRS. HENRY SPEARS.
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LOOK HERE.

See us before you buy your seed pc
tatoes, onion sets and garden seeds.
If BAIRD & TAYLOR.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-02-03
Prominent Denver Man

Special to The sentinel.
Denver, Feb. ST. d. Miller. the
Wholesale butcher. was taken in with
dysentery at am. this morning and
died at nine o'clock Coroner Raw
Inns has the body but has not decid-
ed whether a postmortem is neces-
sary. DR.. f A. Greeley was called
but reached the Miller home about
five minutes after his death.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-02-03

This afternoon James L. 1
ilton. the popular travelling MAJ
his fine REQ auto to Frank d
the Palisade fruit grower
Brunswick Billiard and pod
lors. Unexcelled accommoir
artistic equipment. modern
date in every particular 1
building. Open Friday.
J. F. McHugh. conductor Z
Rio Grange Western. who b
past month has been at tn
pital suffering from a sever
of pneumonia is now able 10 4
his work.
Burnett and Franklin viii
Friday their handsomely fad
pool and billiard parlors at III
street. Have you visited them
ern in every small particuhr
the new quarters.
The pictures of Robert A. d
b. A. Smith. the big Mesa
fruit growers who attended ihs
ing of the State Horticultu1
ciety in Denver this week, Al
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-02-03
I'm Married Says
Mrs. Yerkes

Special to The Sentinel
New York. Feb. 3.-After con
firming in every detail. the report of
her marriage and the explanation OF
her denials of it. Mrs Wilson Mizer,
formerly Mrs. Charles r Yerkes.
made the following statement: BE
fore I say anything else want you
Mizer. give him nothing. Did l.
TO correct the assertion printed. that
Wilson," She turned her head tow
ard her stalwart young husband pac-
ing the floor Of her library in her
Firth avenue mansion. NO indeed"
answered Wilson between puffs of a
Russian cigarette You never asked
for anything. did you. Wilson," 81
did not replied the young gentle
man and Mrs. Yerkes Mizer shook
her head, as if to say that settled it.
The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-02-03

Fred G. Holmes. assistant manager
of the sugar factory. Went to Fruita
today at noon on a business trip.