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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-11-18
MCCALL JOLLY
Engagement of Prominent Young
People AnnOunced--WiII be
Married Next Week.

Announcement is made of the en-
gagement and approaching marriage
of Mr.. Edwin H. Jolly to Miss
Bette Lee Mccall. The wedding will
be solemnized Wednesday afternoon,
November the twenty-fifth at 300
o'clock, at the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Irvington.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-11-18
Mr.. Lyons III.

Foster Lyons was taken critically
i'll Sunday. He and Mrs. Lyons had
expected to leave for Florida within
a few days.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-11-18
Another Treat.

Mrs. Susan Walker and Mrs. Henry
France, (colored) compimented the As
istant Editor Saturday with jar of fine
chop pickle.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-11-18

A character that has been pure and
beautiful ever since she played IN the
mountains of Vermont, is Mrs. Lucia
Aun Tucker. IN the year of 1912 she
came to Kentucky with her husband and
though there were many shadows cast
around their family hearth during the
Civil War, her heart was never darken-
ed with hard feelings toward the South
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-11-18

Sterling, Kan.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1908-11-18

VIM. White has returned home from
college.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20
CALM AND PROUD. THOUGH
ALITTLE PALE. he STARTED
OWARD TIE RAILROAD STATION

the morning he rubbed them with sur
prise. Instead of finding himself in
desert he found himself in a kitchen gar
den. His African plants of the night be-
fore became plain cabbages and beets in
the light.
Nevertheless, he knew that lion had
been there. On a cabbage he found the
brute's blood. Bending to the trail,
with his revolver ready, he followed
slowly and suddenly came upon his
game. But a disappointment awaited
him. 1t was only little donkey.
Common men might have been dis
couraged by such a first adventure.
especially If they had been beaten, as
he was, by the Infatuated female of the
slaughtered beast, in other words the
donkey's owner who was an Alsatian
peasant woman and collected 200 francs
tribute besides the beating. But Tar
tarin was not common man.
Having inquired. and discovering that
lions did not dwell in the suburbs of
Agiers, but might be found in the
south, he cried, ION to the SOUTH"
Not at once, you understand. There
was a Prince of Montenegro who was
of the most charming affability. And
in addition a Moorish lady of radiant
beauty had succumbed to the hunters
manly charms. Between them they
kept the hero of Tarascon in Algiers
through two months of inglorious
languor. 1t also cost him money. The
Moorish lady needed much of it to
bribe her dependents not to betray her
to her high-born and fierce relatives,
and the Prince was often short of
natural with aristocrats.
What could Tartarin do. what would
the Tartarin of Tarascon do in such
circumstances but tender his purse with
"Prancel Prance You do me proud"
It was Barbassou, captain of the
Zouave, who reused him from his I'M
manly luxury. He came upon Tartarin
one day and showed hi ma Marseilles
newspaper in which a dispatch dated
"Tarascon" told of the sorrow there
because nothing had been heard from
him and that his admirers feared that
he had succumbAd to one of the mon
sters which he had set forth to hunt
so intrepidly.
At this Tartarin was ashamed Of
himself. He would have wept had he
not been a hero. He leaped up and
Numbered:
1.-THE lionl The lion! Down with him."
The next day saw Tartarin Of Tarascon
in a STAGE numbering to the south, to
the lions, to glory, perchance to death.
At Blidah a little old gentleman, dry
and wrinkled and formal, in a brown
frock coat, the rery picture Of a village
notary, got in. Tartarin's shelter tent,
revolvers, guns and knives took up a
great deal Of room and incommoded the
prim old gentleman, who showed his
annoyance.
Tartarln felt the necessity of Impress
ing on him the fact that one does not
go lion hunting with only an umbrella
Lion hunting" said the old gentle
man with bland smile. You are Mon
sieur -"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20

moreover, he knew now on what the
favor of the people depends. Calm and
proud, though a little pale, he started
toward the railroad station. followed by
the brave Commandant Bravida, Judge
Ladevosze, Costecalde and all the sports
men of Tarascon.
While they were waiting for the train
his friends put down their names in his
memorandum book for a lion skin each.
He spoke to them simply, affably. The
sportsmen felt tears coming. Even Coste-
calde was stung with remorse. 1t was
we'll that the train came In before they
broke down.
Tartarin made an immense sensation in
Marseilles. He would have made an even
greater one on the Algerian mail steam
ship had he not unhappily succumbed to
the sickness of the sea almost as soon
as he set uls foot on deck of the Zouave,
Captain Barbassou. AS it was, he made
his impression only when at last he
escaped from the accursed ship and land
ed in Algiers.
There, indeed, he became the object of
all eyes. Somewhat to his surprise, he
found himself the only Turk in the place.
Gentlemen and ladies dressed in European
costume were everywhere, and everywhere
on his way to the hotel they followed him
with respectful admiration, noting his
guns. his knife and his revolver
In the hotel he was received with the
same enthusiastic interest, but he was de-
termined to waste no time in basking in
70 hut
that he might sally forth into the desert
early.
AS soon as darkness came he was up
and dressed again. Hurriedly he armed.
attached the shelter tent with its long pole
upright to his back and descended to the
street.
He walked out of the city until he came
into waste place bristling with odd AZ
rican plants. On the right doomed a dark
mountain. On the left the invisible sea
rolled heavily. 1t was just the place for
a lion. Tartarin laid one gun down be-
fore him and with the other ready for
| Immediate work he went down on one
knee and waited.
, He waited an hour, two hours. Moth
| ing appeared. Then he remembered that
| the great lion slayers never went out
| without goat or a kid along to attract
! the beasts. Not having any goat, Tar
taris set to work crying in a somewhat
shaky voice, "Ba-a-a!''
| He had hardly "ba-a-a-ed" thrice before
a gigantic black thing appeared in front
of him. up went his gun. Bang! Bang!
and the deed was done.
] The lion raced off with q scream that
| told the hunters practiced ear that it had
been fatally wounded. He was too well
versed in lion lore to attempt the mad
task of tracing his victim before daylight.
| So he decided to spread his parent tent.
But the tent proved to be of so very in
| genious a construction that he could not
| open it, though he toiled an hour over it.
| At last, fairly exhausted from struggling
with it, he dashed it down and went to
| sleep on top of it, swearing the favorite
| Tarasconian oath, "Tar. rar, rar rarw
When the lion-slayer opened his eyes in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20

to his glory as the Chinese expedition, had
it not been for an infamous person. This
was Costecalde, the gunsmith. He repre-
scented type rare in Tarascon. He was
man yellow with chronic, constitutional,
ever-present envy. With him 1t was a
disease of which he was proud. as other
people are of other diseases. With his fine
Tarasconic temperament, he used to say:
You do not know how bad 1t ISL
This Is going to turn out like the
Shanghai expedition" said Costecalde,
smiling bitterly, after three months had
passed. 1t was a winged sentence. 1t few
through the town. when is that trip
coming Off" people asked Tartarin when
ever he appeared on the street Judge
Ladevose wrote a poem about it. Tartarin
had the humfliating experience of hear
ing it sung through at safe distance.
He was aware that Tarascon was slip
ping out OF his grasp. Only Bravida, the
brave soldier (of the government cloth
ing factory, remained faithful to him.
Hes gamer he persisted In saying.
At last, however, the public clamor grew
day he buttoned himself up to the ears,
put on his black gloves. and thus, in his
most military manner, went sternly to
Tartarin's house.
"Tartarin," said he, authoritatively,
sTartarin, you'll have to goF
Tartarin looked around him at his cosy
room Then advancing to his brave
friend, he said stoically:
1T am going, Bravida."
And 80 he did; not at once, of course,
for II takes time to prepare for lion
hunt in Algeria
He had to order two immense BRASS
bound cases, inscribed:
Tartarin of Tarascon.
Firearms, etc.
He also ordered noble album, gilded
and rich, for diary. Next he ordered
from Marseilles timed foods, pemmican,
a. wonderful tent that would open out
Instantly. sea boots, umbrellas, blue spec
tacles. a medicine chest and ammunition
and apparel
At last all the preparations were COM
pleted and Tarascon gathered all its life
and windows were crowded. People cam
even from Beauclaire Two great trucks
waited before the door, and the sports
men of Tarascon proudly explained to
the populace what the cases contained
as they were brought out of the house.
Finally Tartarin himself appeared, hailed
, by a universal "Ahl'
He wore full Algerian costume, white
trousers. small tight vest with metal
buttons, red SASH two feet wide, the
neck bare and the forehead shaver, while
on top of all sat huge red fez with a
| long blue tassel.
He had one heavy gun on each Shout
der, broad hunting knife in his sash,
| a bandolier across his chest and re-
volver swinging on his hip. His un-
| daunted eyes were hidden by blue Cog
giles.
Hip. hip, hurrahr' cried the people.
The great man smiled. but did not sa-
lutte. Tho firearms hindsred him, and.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20


among our prejudices on tiptoe; they
take off their hats to our bigotry II
we call it religion; they accept our
squeamishness for refinement; and
they grow gray before they discover
that with certain women fit of tears
means no more than fit Of profanity
from some men. They surely are pa
tient in their own way. But neither can
it be denied that in their choice of
friends they are sometimes stupid to
heartrending degree. In the main, an
Anglo-Saxon mans friends are as little
of his choosing as the shape of his
nose. One can run over the list in the
dark His family friends, his wife's
friends, the wives of his friends. Then
come the inconsiderable residuum Tin
size), lie friends whom/he has chosen
for himself. Here will be where the
blunders will show, But the worst are
like to be birds of passage. Perhaps
ne made them during his college days
when the haze was over every pretty
girl whom he met. 1t is too much to
saecA :, lad to pick the girl of really
fine nature and sweetness Nor does
he; he admires the girl all the other
lellows admire--a pretty flippant lit
tie creature who isn't afraid to talk
CASUALLY he isD and can dance like
dream. But will men continue to adj
mire Missy? trow not.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20

When Daudet surprised France with this
book, Frenchmen hardly knew whether
to laugh or rage. The people of Gaseony
soon decided in favor of the latter. Quite
unconsciously, they perpetrated extraya-
gance of action and language that gave
an added and delightful touch to the
writer's story. They debated seriously
about the feasibility of going in bodies to
Paris and furnishing that Doudet.' They
shook their fists in the air on the streets
when his name was mentioned. Book
sellers of the south of France refused to
sell his books. But they could only IN
crease its sale It is one of the jokes OF
modern literature
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-20

Next Sundays one-page classic will be
'eThe Story of the False Prince" by
Wilhelm Hauff
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11

at the Plumed Knight group. A new
hoist has been installed and numer-
GUS other improvements made that
will facilitate the work of removing
the ore and preparing it for shipment
to the Douglas smelter:
Last year, in a period Of so days,
500 tons of copper ore were taken
from this group by Mr.. Chillson, be-
ing shipped to the smelter at Douglas.
The ore is OF medium grade and a
good profit was derived from the ship
ments. At that time the price of cop
per was soaring away up in the
clouds, ond it was possible to ship
every shovel full of ore taken out
without sorting. Mr.. Chillson yester-
day stated that he intended to wait
now until the price of the metal has
again reached a point where he. can
ship all ore with profit before he
will resume active operations. How
ever, he is not of the opinion that
copper will again reach the same
height as it occupied a year ago.
Mr. ChiIlson also stated that prep
arations for the beginning of work
was also now going on at several 9TH
er properties in the Pima district and
that a great deal of assessment work
is being done. So far about a thou
sand feet of work has been done on
the Plumed Knight group.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11
TAFT FAV0RS A LAW
DEFINING INIUNCTl0N
But II WodId Be Confined To
District of Columbia,

MARTINS FERRY, Ohio, Jan. 10
Taft's views in regard to the use and
abuse OF injunctions are stated in a
letter in reply to questions PROFOUND
ed by Llewellyn Lewis, secretary OF the
Ohio Federation OF Labor, given out
today. Taft prefaces his statement
with the declaration that he believes it
highly beneficial and entirely lawful
for laborers to unite in common in
terests.
81 see no objection to the enactment
of a statute which shall define the
rights of laborers in controversies
with former employers. As this
statute would fix the full limits Of &C
ton, it necessarily would furnish
definite rule for determining cases in
which injunctions might issue, as well
as their character and scope. 1t should
he stated that this statute, if enacted
by congress, could relate only to the
District of Columbia; or some place
within the exclusive jurisdiction Of the
federal government. Speaking gener-
ally. see no objection to statute
which shall as far as possible define
the rights Of both parties in such con-
troversies more accurately"
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11
OUTLOOK FOR BIG DAM
VERY FRIGHTENING
Supervising Engineer Estimates
Work viii Be Completed
at Flood Time 1909.
yuma SUM-

A representative of the Sun yester-
day called on l.. c. Hill, supervising
engineer Of the reclamation service
for the Arizona and Southern Cali
fornia projects, and, in the course of
an interview received most satisfac-
tory assurances with regard to the
work on the Yuma project. OF the
dam Mr.. Hill says 5000 feet measur-
ing lengthwise is now completed This
amounts to a little over three-fifths.
Immediately after the high water of
the coming summer preparations will
be begun for closing the gap between
the two ends, and it is expected that
before the May rise of 1909 the dam
will be completed. AS soon as the
Golfer dam is trown across the gap,
and this will require but short time
after the river falls, irrigation can be
commenced on the California side
and on the Arizona side above the
ella.
The force at the dam is to be dou-
hled as soon as the railroad is COM
pleted. 1t is expected that the ievee
between Fort Yuma and the dam will
be completed early in February, and
laying of rails on it for the railroad
win begin in time to be finished
about the time the grading is fin
ished.
Bids for the big pump to be erect
ed on the river bank below the pump
now in use which is to raise water
into the gravity canal were opened
on the Bird instant and it has been
recommended to the secretary OF the
interior to award the contract.
II is intended to have this pump
ready for operation by the time the
river falls so that water will no long
ar flow into the Gravity Canal I'M
aided Thus continuous irrigation
from the Gravity Canal is assured
The capacity of this pump is suffi-
Gent to supply water for 10000 or
nossibIy 1000 acres. Added to the
water supplied by the present pump
there will be sufficient to irrigate a
strip of land two miles wide from
Yurna almost, if not quite, to the FISH
ranch Mace, twelve miles below. -
THE levee below town, which is now
.o1snIeted to a point just below Mig
ger Bend, viii be extended 70 Ine IN
ternatfonaI boundary line and thence
along the line TO the mesa A num-
ber of teams with scrapers nave Deen
so,, down to this work already, and
the number will be increased II nee
esSarv TO complete the leVee before
,he Nav high water Of the present
Saar Mr.. Hill expects to remain
Sere tin near the last OF this week
living two or three days to trip 70
&c dam and win then leave Tor
Roosevelt.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11
MITCHELL TELLS OF
RESTORED CONFIDENCE

DOUGLAS, Jan. 10.-(SpeciaLl-
George Mitchell of Los Angeles,
president OF the First National bank
OF Douglas, is at the Gadsden for a
few days visit in the city and enter
tains most encouraging views concern
ing the return OF good times, not only
for the whole of the country, but for
Douglas and vicinity in particular.
Mr.. Mitchell has Just returned from
New York City. where he was in the
thick of the recent furry when the
financial giants of the country were
handling sums way up in nine figures
and conferences were in progress at
all hours of the night He has many
interesting stories to tell of his own
personal observation of the big. deals
as they went through one after anoth-
er until finally the high tension was
relieved and things began to assume
a fact that today 1t can be said that
the trouble in the east Is entirely over
and everything is cleared up.
Douglas has no dea," he saiS, "of
Just how tight money was in the
larger cities Of the country which
seemed to suffer most. Take 1t in
".
no matter If you did have a FIVE or six
figure account in the bank. nor no mat
ter now badly you needed the money,
you were politely informed by the
bank that you couldn't get it. There
never was time when business men
of Douglas were seriously embarrass-
ed in transacting their business. Large
sums were not paid in cash, but al
ways some cash was available.
DO you know great praise is GER
tainly due the character of the Ameri-
can people who have met the condi-
tons at more than half way. Take a
man with all he has saved for years
in the bank and the officials of that
institution politely, but firmly, refusing
to let him have his own, and in any
other country it would have meant all
kinds Of riots if not civil war.
But that is all over now. While
the banks over the country are not
advertising the fact, there is no trouble
In getting all money that is actually
needed. Money has come for moving
the crops and produce and it is not
going to take 50 very long for its eff
fects to be felt.
I'm regard to the copper situation
tneFe is now no doubt that-the ware
houses are empty and the people are
finding out that the stories of the big
surplus store of copper was all a hoax,
With the warehouses empty and the
big factories starting up throughout
the east, as you read Of now every day.
1t will not be long before the price of
copper will reach a price when the
smaller producers, which have mad to
close and have had such a bad local
effect, will again be in operation and
you know what that means for the
west. l can't help but think there will
be a great increase in the rni2ing bus
mess brought about by the troubles of
the industrial companies and their
stocks. II People have lost confidence in
railroads as an investment, and | be-
lieVe mining will meet with more favor
as an Investment by big investors than
ever before" --..,..
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11
chi,tren u LIZ.

Quite goErishing trade Is done by
the poorer classes OF Madrid. who LEI
our their children TO be-gayz af 50
much per hour. The intending hirer
applies TO the parents OF likely child.
the price is agreed upon. snail
smount paid down as 6 guarantee for
the return Of the little one. snd the
beggar forthwith sets ont with his hu-
man Implement Of trade to impiore the
public charity. The children whose
task it is TO soften the hearts OF the
passersby are required to possess
special qualifications. They must have
hungry looking faces. be first rate
criers and not very ugly. for good
looking child is more likely to earn
extra pennies on account of its pretty
face than a less favored competition
Madrid Herald
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11
Limit of Human Strength.

Experiments upon a number of men
have shown that man feet nigh
and weighing 126 pounds will lift. on
an average, 156 pounds through a YER
teal distance of inches or 217
pounds through height Of IL inches.
Others CT feet high and weighing 1873
pounds could lift the 156 pounds to
height of IS inches or PIT pounds to a
height of inches. Other men 6 feet
3 inches high and weighing 1SS pounds
could lift 156 pounds to a height of 16
inches or PIT pounds to height of o
inches. By great variety of expert
ments It was shown that the average
human strength is equivalent to rails
ing 30 pounds distance Of 25z feet in
a second.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11
The Ground HOES SIoep.

The wooGchuck's is curious shift.
a case Of nature OUtdOing herself
Winter spreads far and fast. and
woOdchuck. in order to keep ahead out
of danger. would need wings. Must
he perish then? Winter spreads far
but does not so Geei,-down only about
four feet. and wooGchuck. If be cannot
escape overland, can perhaps go under
land. So down he goes through the
winter. down iaeo a mild and even
temperature. f-e long feet away-but
as far away fran the snow aud cold
as boboliak among the reads of the
distant OriHoco. Indeed wOodchuck's
Is a farther journey and even more
wondeTfui than boholiaE's. FOR these
FIVE feet carry him beyond the bounds
of time and space into tha' mysterious
realms OF sleep. OF suspended life. to
the very gates of death. That he will
return with bobolink. that he will come
up alive with the spring ont OF this
dark way. is very strange. - Dallas
Sharp in Atlantic.