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The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03
PARIS KENTUCKY FRIDAY DECEMBER 3. 1909
Bourbon Circuit Court.

Special Judge C. C. Bagby, COM
pleted the call of the criminal docket
in the Bourbon Circuit Court Tuesday,
most of the cases which were minor
infractions of the laws going over 20
the March term of court on account nf
the illness of Judge Harmon Stir, who
represented some of the defendants.
Judge Bagby gave peremtory IN
structions in favor of the defendant IN
the case of the Commonwealth VS.. VIII
liam White.
He called the ordinary docket and
assigned a number of civil cases for
trial. the most important being the
Prescott will case, in which Nathan
Bayless and others are seeking to have
the will of the late Mrs. Mary Pres
cott set aside.
The case was set for trial Wednes-
day, December 8, and supoenas issued
for nearly 100 witnesses. The plain
tiffs are represented by Talbot q
Whitney and the defendants by +. Nj.
Dickson and Judge Denis DundOD.
The case of Lair Brothers VS.. Lyle
Jacoby was set for trial on Wednesday,
and that of Paul Haniy vs. Bouf bon
Tobacco Warehouse Company, for FRI
day of the second week of the term.
Attorneys Ines Ross and John Nor
gan, of Carlisle, were In attendance
upon court the former in the divorce
case of Hall VS.. Hall and the latter IN
the case of Barton VS.. Barton.
On Wednesday James Myers, ,colored,
of ClaysVille, vas charged with selling
liquors without license, was fined $20O
and costs, and $40 and costs in another
case on same charge. James Hawkins.
colored, was tried on same charge and
acquitted. After disposing of the
criminal docket Special Judge Bagby
granted divorce in cases of James Hall
VS.. Mary Hall and w. A. Miller VS..
Mary Miller
The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03
Base Ball Notes.

Fred Ochs. who was drafted from
Paris by the Norfolk, Va, team has
been sold to the Rock Island, Ills.
team. This is another advance for
Ochs as the Rock Island team is in
class B.
The Paris Baseball Club has purchas-
ed from Whaley & Boardman three
lots, in White Addition. adjoining the
ball park, which will give the club the
opportunity to enlarge the grounds and
seating capacity. The price was $500
cash.
The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03
No Deal On.

The American Tobacco Company an
nounced officially that there was no
truth in the reports that the company
was negotiating with the Barley To-
bacco and Insurance Con pany Tor the
purchase of the pool crop of Kentucky
tobacco for 1909.
The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03
Strike Paralyzes Business.

Paralysis of many lines cf business
in the Northwest is gradually follow
ing the strike of the switchmen on the
Northwestern railroads. Very light
freight was being handled. and the
announcement came from Minneapolis
that all of the big flour mills in Min
neapolis would be closed. In all about
$4,000 men have been thrown out of
work by the strike.
The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03
Good Investments.

If you are looking for good garden
farm, residence or an investment in
business property in the best part of
Paris, don't miss the sale of the Ras-
senfoss property Monday, Deem
Der 9. ct
The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03
Useful Presents.

Get your Christmas presents at J.,
T. HInton's. No trash. Something
useful and ornamental.
The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03
Public Sale Of Residence.

Having ru = II a place in the
country ! ciier sale at public auc-
tion on
Tuese.ay, Ecee mber IL, 1909
at 2p = :. nv use and lot located en-
South Iii u ) ret nrw occupied by the
owner. h. lvi s 45xl47 we'll fenced.
1ouse is al.p5t rev with six rooms,
hath, nice veraHd two halls. electric
lights. xSs lsne4 and sink in kitchen.
laIge kasem 1T slways dry. House
equipped ii n Mp, res air tight double
heaters with registers up stairs. This
is one IF he n st locations In Paris
and will be pi.e sed TO show those in
terested. J. j. VEATCH.
Geo. D. Speak. S. Auct. 3-3t
The Bourbon news., 1909-12-03

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New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
TAS. SHOOLBRED & GO.

protected cruisers and strong hotilla or tor
pedo destroyers and submarines. There was no
idea of challenging British supremacy on the
sea. A navy OF superior fighting power was
needed for the defence of the home ports and of
commercial interests. 1t the logical sequel
10 the occupation of the Danish provinces. the
construction OF the canal and the creation Of a
merchant marine.
This is the way sober minded North Germans
talk about the so-called Dreadnought duel
They dsclaim any thought of irritating or at
tacking England by competition in naval con-
struction. They emphasize the right of the
Fatherland to build in its way defensive
navy which will answer hhe requirements of its
commerce. They also hope that by the i'm
provement Of their plant they will soon be able
TO take orders for battleships and armored
cruisers from Austria Hungary. South America
and other countries and to compete actively
with England in every branch of shipbuilding-
Four of these costly Ieviathans are now under
construction at Kiel one has been launched
and another laid down at the Germania works;
a third is under contract at the Howaldt yards.
and a fourth has been undertaken at the i'm
periaI dockyard. The actual construction IS
less significant than the potential resources OF
these Yards. At least eight m1re Dreadnoughts
and Invncibles can he built at short notice IN
the covered slips of kie Harbor and the yards
If Bremen Hamburg and Stettin in an
equally advanced state for rapid constructions
and the krupps, after investing t2,JtnOpo III
a new plant. are In a position 10 supply suns
mountngs and armor plate expeditiously as
anv English rival. Kie does not want war. but
naval orders from Berlin and other capitals
Its population has trehled since the completion
of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, and the rivalries
of nations help to keep 1t employed. l. N r
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
A CEREMONIAL AT ST. PETERS.

Suddenly from very far off a disturb
ing and indehnabIe rustic, II like the
dropping of mast in beechwOod. the mimic
clatter and gaop OF some fairy Cavacade be-
hind the scenes at a pantomime. People looked
inquiringIy at each other. but in the
dense crowd could make out whence the noise
came Everybody craned necks, everybody
strained ears. A distant suppressed hummng
and rattle came nearer. like an in1owing tide
Then l saw swaying along on a golden lifted
chair above the bare heads of the kneeling sol
diers and peasants, the white headed and white
robed old man; u bowed and seated figure, like
one ltneeling below in the central vault; man
heavy bodied, round shouldered, with square
boned pallid obdurate honest peasant face
The eyes were frank and very pale gray, the
brOws knitted. a weary. kindly, stubborn face
under a white skull cap. He rode. swayng
along between the snowy tribuneS filled with
young girls in his sacred chair of cloth OF gold
with swinging golden frInges, on crimson litter
poles shouldered by twelve Vatican Guards. AS
he passed, not arms length away from me-
he raised IN salute and nCessant benediction
hftherward thitherward. even upward toward
the thronged galleries OF the dome.
It was certainly strong face. AS Leo XIII
excluded all Mexico from the Roman communion
till the Papal dues were paid again properly. so
Plus will exclude the Able Loisy and his like
till they shall have paid intellectual tribute But
was it the face of initiator of vital person? 4?
or no more than the sanity Occupant of
Chair? could not say.-Herbert French, in
The Fortnightly Review.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
IMPERIAL PORPHYRY.

Those who have travelled in Italy and in the
museums and in the ruins there have studied
the sculpture and the architectural accessories
OF the Roman imperial age Will be familiar with
that magnificent purple stone known as impe-
rial porphyry. 1t one Of the most highly
prized of the ornamental stones employed by
the great artists and architects Of that age of
luxury; and the great distance which II had to
be brought, over parched deserts and perilous
seas must have sent its price up beyond the
reach of all save the rulers OF the earth.
The quarries from which this porphyry was
obtained are situation in the region known as
Gebel Dukhan. the HIS Of Smoke" in the
eastern Egyptian Desert. some twenty-seven
miles from the Red Sea opposite the southern
end of tbe Peninsula of Sinai The
Quarries cut here and there on the hillside
without any regularity. The blocks Of porphyry
were priced out Of the rock wherever the work
could most easily be carried on, and the action
OF the years has dulled the broken surfaces
that they now look almost like those of the nat
uaI mountain. The blocks were carried down 10
the Nile, and in fact TO Rome. in the rough.
without even q preliminary dressing; for the
work in this distant place had TO be shortened
as much as possible.
Looking in the European museums. at the
fine capitals, the polished basins. the statues
porphyry has admired the work of the
mason the genius Of the artist. But here IN
the Hills of Smoke one thinks OF these antiqul-
ties with a feeling bordering on veneration. II
the workmanship tells Of an art that is dead,
how much louder does the material cry out the
praises of an energy that is also dead? Each
block Of stone is the witness of history Of
organization and activity almost beyond thought
This purple porphyry was not known TO the
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25

Barton the Heath is a few miles from STRAIT
ford. stephen Sly and Joan Sly are both men,
toned in Stratford Records.
Il beseech you sir" says Davy to his master
Shallow q Henry ". Y. -, "to countenance
William Visor OF Wincot against Clement
Perkes OF the Hill": Wincot being the local
pronUncia tion Of WilneCote. a WarWiCkshire
town. while the Perkes was well known
in the neghboThood Of Stratford, and the fam
lily became allied to the poet. The men-ser-
wants In Petruchios Italian country house, with
the single exception Of Grumio bear thoroughly
English names. The three serving men OF Au-
England in their language and their thoughts
and their weapons Of office, in the case OF
Petruchio's retaners, cudgels. one of the
chamberlains IF StratfOrd in 15S5-'8S Bar
doph~ and his name figures often in the
pOratiOn records in company with the poets
father and william Fluelen. When Justice
Silence talks Of goodman Puff of Barson," he
knows the correct way to pronounce Barches-
ton a village Stratford. The three soldiers
in Henry W John Bates Alexander Court and
Michael williams, all bear surnames belonging
to Stratford at the poets day and it is not a
little remarkable that in the original Chronicle
Historic" on which this play founded the
three soldiers are there. but without names
Jacques. too. and many other names OF Shakes
peare's characters. were common at the time in
and around Stratford. In 3 Henry VI. " H.
the action is laid in "a plain I'm WarWiCkshire," ."
and shortly after at Coventry and the towns
mentioned in these scenes in connection with
the movements Of the army display most
curate Typographical knowledge. Even in dis
tant Pentapois two fishermen introduced
sprGuting Midland prOVerbs.-Sir Edward Sulli-
van, in The Nineteenth Century.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25

who decidedly did not walk crowned with any
outward glory Within doors his appearance
must have been. If possible even more gro
tesque. He was bald unshaven. sallow checked
trouble TO make his toilet. but sat all DAY IN
his dressing gown-that dressing gown which
Mrs FitzCIerald had considered unsuitable af-
ternoon or evening wear for man In his posi-
tion-lounging on a low chair with his feet IN
the fender. Together with his dressing gown ne
alwavs wore his hat-that ancient and battered
silk hat with the black band round II. When
he removed II. Il only for the purpose or
getting red silk handkerchief which he kept
stored in its recesses.
That is the picture-the ludicrous ana sad
dening picture Of baff1ed, futile man whom lie
has worn down rather than defeated VINO mas
Iivad cIeanly but ineffectvely, who has not gone
forth 70 look for pessimism. but has simply
sat still until pessimism has come to him one
does not know whether TO laugh or 10 cry at
II. and perhaps the enthusiasts who stolidly
refuse to do either are in the right rahcls
Gribble, in The Fortnightly Review
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
CHINESE DW4RFS FOUND.
ancestry Dates Back to Building OF
Great WdU

Pvrrnv human beings who live Ike animals and
seem lower in the scale than African baboons were
discovered in the mountain solitudes of Northern
China by DR.. w L. Cell. an American explorer and
writer who has lust returned this country. The
discovery was made in the course of caravan
tourney along the entire extent OF the Great wall
Of China 1880 miles. and II confirmed the legend
that far In the interior dWelt a race of hairy
dwarfs-the kind of beings described by Marco
Polo and Baron MuHchausen with damage TO their
regulations veracty But the dwarfs exist. and
ancient inscriptions the Great Wall, deciphered
for Dr. Cell by Chinese scholars. profess TO explain
their origin Back in 30 B. c. the Emperor Chin
decided that his country needed protection from the
fierce Tartar tribes on the west and north. and
he ordered the building OF a horseshoe SNAPPED
barrier thousands of miles in length inclose the
empire from sea work more monumental
than the of all the Egyptian pyramids and
temples was begun. Millions of Chinese tOlled at
the Great Wall. cutting and laying granite blocks
for the first and making brick for the
superstructure. The towers were built first. and
they served military blockhouses while the con-
Meeting walls were put
Kept their job by strict compulSion, the mill
ions Of labOrers inspired by the fear OF an un-
usual penalty for error or rebellion. The workman
who made a mistake listened 10 agitators was
promptly incorporated in the wall much
building material Burying alive proved to be good
discipline with majority OF the laborers, obvtatng
strikes and discomfort, but of them away
TO the remote forests on the Tibetan border They
took their wives and chlldren with them so auect-
ed they by their terrible experience that some
of them went crazy. and the rest had such a hard
fight for existence that they deerorated physically,
transmitting dwarlshness 10 their present day de-
scendants The Chinese legend to this effect may
be entirely astray. since il Is likely that desert
ers from the army OF labor fed TO the forests and
that the hardships OF a Wild isolated life should
have had effect on them after many genera TONS
The dvarfs have long nails. terrible faces and
semble apes DR.. Cell believes that the Great Wall
has never been entirely explored in modern times
previous 10 his expedition last year He found a
stretch of two hundred miles that had not been
mapped. At places the Great Wall climbed 10 a
height OF miles above level There were
evidences of monumental barriers antedating En-
pror Chins celebrated inclosure.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
IN THE WOODS.

/ turn from life's familiar ways
To tread the forest path again.
The friendly silence Of the woods
Seems wiser than the speech Of men
In language I have learned to hear
There comes a message on each breeze.
How could / feel myself alone
With the companionable trees?
And as two hearts in unison
Can hear a thought-though unexpressed;
So J. akin unto the woods,
Find speechless sympathy is best
How foolish seems our wisdom here,
How small the trivial thing that grleves!
Who would not cast his care away
Who hears the laughing OF the leaves?
And miracles by myrlads
To ewes anointed to behold
Each little beech leaf that the frost
Has touched and turned TO palest gold.
Georgia Davies, in Chambers's Journal.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
KISSING THE BOOK.

When the clerk in an English court Of justice
administers the usual oath he finishes with the
words Kiss the Book" spoken in an imperative
MOOD. and IL the witness shows any hesitation
= carrying out the unsavory ceremony he does
ms best TO compel performance. The impera-
I've mood Of the clerk has not, TO my thinking,
any legal sanction. kissing the Book IS not and
never has been. far / can learn, neces-
Wy legal incident of the oath OF Christian
snnsss juror. Why, then, does the twen-
leth century Englishman kiss the Book by way
q assuring his fellow citizens that he is not
gong to lie II he can help it? The answer TO
.Ast riddle is probably akin 70 the answer given
% The question: why does dog walk round
tno round in a circle before he filings himself
upon the hearth rug?" Naturalists tell that
4 Is because the wild dog of prehistoric days
made his bed in the contemporary grass Of
- sus forest after that fashion. Both man and
~ og are victims % hereditary habit Probably
- 1e majority Of men and dogs never consider
- moment how they came by the habit But
t-,ell, as in the of kissing the Book the
, ,eot is SO insanitary. superstitious and obJec-
a. Nsoe, II is worth a few moments TO consider
q, history, origin and practical purpose. ana
~ 70 further consider whether mankind is not
~. enough 10 give II up. and whether we should
make an effort at reform In the healthy spirit
- q growing schoolboy approaches the manly
S-1gsien OF ceasing 10 bite mis- nails.
!. "a modern English encyclopedia OF law ii
"a sesgested that the habit of kissing the Book
rr.a Iot become recognized IN the English courts
81 ine middle Of the seventeenth century and
a became general only in the latter part
na, ,tlsnteenth century. For my part l can
q Subscribe to that view. II is true that there
t1a's lttle direct authority in any ancient law
ths on practice which enables one 10 say what
pfacace was. But that is because the old
rs,.ssIs Old not consider kissing the Book" es-
% the oath, and the practice was so uni
scr1l followed that there was no need to de-
De @ Kissing the Book Is directly evolved from
rei,eapeFsttlors but reverential worship of holv
rl.s.Ss sen scarcely be doubted. When Harold
crssso bis solemn oath TO William the con-
Rsns We learn in the old French Roman de
1osv 20" 70" William piled up a reliouary with
es and put pail over them 10 conceal
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25

ancient Egyptfans; a Roman prospector must
have searched the desert to find it One would
have thought that the alOofness of the VaLey
from which il is 10 be procured would have kept
its existence the secret of the hills; for on tne
one side a winding pathway thirty miles IN
length separates the spot from the little known
main road, and the other side a Darrler u
steeD hills shuts it off from the Wady Bileh.
The quarries were worked until about the nttn
century A D. for the Byzantine emperors de-
rived from their Roman predecessors an affec-
ton for this fine purple stone. There is a Greek
inscription on the path leading up to one OF the
workings which reads 'kathOleke Ekklesla ana
which is perhaps the latest example Of Old World
activity in the Eastern Desert There is no
other place in the world where this porphyry IS
to be found and when the quarries at last
ceased to be worked some time previous TO the
seventh century, the use of that stone had to
cease also nor has it ever again been procurable
Arthur E. P. WeigalI, in Blackwoods.
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
OLD BOARDING PLACES.

Il was the common opinion of writer's on
economics in the seventeenth century that much
CURRENCY was hidden in ceilings. behind wains
cots and in secret drawers. Hogerth, IN his
print OF The Inheritance" forming one Of the
SET of The Rake's Progress, has depicted e
shower Of coins falling from the ceiling Of the
room where q workman has accidentally dis
turbed the moulding. Old cabinets and secre-
faires Of any size have usually one or TWO secret
drawers or cupboards, often most ingeniOusly
contriyed. Il is surprising how we'll these secret
corners elude detection, even when their eX-
isrence may be expected inferred Some
years ago the wife Of a kentish laborer was
breaking I'D an old chest Of drawers when she
discovered a secret compartment nearly hiled
with gold coins Of the reignS OF William III ana
George II. The chest had been purchased for a
few shillings about twenty years previously, and
the fact that this little store OF coins had not
been discovered earlier was all the more strange
because IN all probability the drawers had been
several times repaired.
L curious list Of hiding places for money IS
s9orded by two old books of memoranda and
receipts relating TO the Fulham Pottery Works
In 1893 and 1898. There are two hundred and
forty zuineas in a wooden box in hole under
the fireplace in the garret. There are four hun
erec and sixty more in two covered receptacles
Under the fireplace in the old laboratory Be
hind the door Of the little parlor there is a can
containing some milled money TWO boxes full
o. money were placed in two holes Of the great
furnace, from which they were to be drawn by
iong crooked iron standing behind the Kitchen
door In all ten or q dozen such hiding places
ere named. and the money was variously con-
tstned in boxes. bags, cans, pots and purses
There can be little doubt that the practice OF
boarding money and valuables in private houses
gave great encourag cement 10 crime. 4 glance
through the pages Of early volumes Of The
Annual Register largely devoted to the chron-
ices Of crime reveals a number Of apparently
hastily planned robberies, which resulted IN rlch
hsuls out Of all proportion TO the occasion. Some
thieves get in at the garret window OF house
in Devcnshire Square. and cary OFF from the
opner's bedchamber an iron chest containing
cash. notes and other valua bes TO the amount
of ten thousand pounds Two men enter the
Custom House al Limerick. and in few min
rtes carry of cash TO the amount or about
elghteen hundred pounds. Such is the charac-
Ter Of the crimes which were then most success
ful-a bold, quick til for the treasure chest
which was almost certain TO be well stocked,
and very often convenient for removal by two
or three thieves acting in concert-W. A At
In
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
OMAR" FITZGERALD.

His trousers. we are told. were Of baggy blue
cloth. and always too short. displaying
stockings which were white long as they
were clean; in hot weather he took off his boots
and carried them over his shoulder. slung from
a stick While in cold weather he .trailed rather
than carried a green plaid shawl. His high
staud-up collars We're always crumpled, and the
bow of his large tie apt to come undone.
He strOde along with a remote, almost a
naughty. air. though he guarded his own Sc
cret": but his headgear was weather beaten
and antique top-hat. with q black band round
II, secured IN its place by handkerchief
Such FitzCierald out Of doors-a sage
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
NAMES OF sHAKEsPEARE's CHARACTERS

NAMES OF SHAKESPEARES CHARACTERS
Some remarkable evidence in favor of Shakes
Ueare's authorship is found in the fact that pro-
vincial life, language and manners, more par
tiCuarIv those of WarwiCkshire and the adJoln-
ing counties are forever cropping up all through
the plays. introduced in and out Of season Win
a persistence which would have been inconcelv-
able had Bacon or some such other writer peeh
the author Who but Shakespeare would have
introduced troupe of Midland villagers TO play
a tragedy before the duke of such n place as
Athens? In the Induction to "A MldsumIneI
NIGHTS Dream" too. the chief characters are all
from Stratford. family of the name or Sly
resided there in the poets time. Chrlstopher
himself is old Sly's son of Burton Heath and
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
In the Current English Magazines
The Mysterious CucLoo-Old Hoarding Places-Kissing
the
the Book.

them, and having persuaded Harold to take the
oath upon these hidden relics. he afterWard
showed Harold what he had done, and "Heraut
Torment s'espoanta," Harold was sadly alarmed.
Curious but interesting is the form of oath mere
described Harold first of all SUI main
tendi" held his hand over the reliquary then
he repeated the words of his oath. and then
Ii sanz beisiez kissed the relics. 1t is almost
the same. ceremony that we have to-day. and IN
the same order The Book Is held in the hand,
the words of the oath are repeated, and then
the Book is kissed.-Judge Parry. i'll The Con-
New-York tribune., 1909-04-25
LETTING THE CAT OUT.

Say. grandpa, make noise like a frog coaxed
little Tommy.
What for. my SOM?
So O0O. Success Magazine