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with a start along toward o'clock, The
snorting sounds from downstairs were
still in progress. Mrs. Jobson got out OF
bed and called down from the top Of the
stairs:
MY dear. do you know what time it
is? Aren't you ever coming to bed?"
Yes. gosh-hang it. 1 know what time
it is. and I'm never going to bed again
as long as I live until l untangle the
meaning Of this ding whoppIed, SON ola
sea cook of a ten-cent gag that you
sprung on me- Mr.. Jobson growled back
Whereupon Mrs. Jobson, knowing the
futility OF argument in such circu:..-
stances. went back to bed.
1t was past ) o'clock in the morning
when she was awakened by the gas be-
ing turned up to its full haring height in
the room. Mr.. Jobson his hair standing
on end and his whole appearance dis
heveled stood before her. with the little
metal puzzle box tightly grfpped in his
hand.
so you've got a new idea, heyc" fercely
breathed Mr.. Jobson. as he deliberately
placed the puzzle box on the rug and
ground it with his heel. Failing in your
and by nagging me to the verge OF the
grave, you've conceived the notion that
you can get me into the bughouse by
springing things like this fraudulent
puzzle on me- have your
Did you do it," mildly inquired Mrs.
Jobson.
mo 1 didn't do .it"' howled Mr.. Jobson.
What's more. it was never meant to be
done. There never was and there never
will be human being on earth who could
do it. It's a plain case of a swindle on
the public, that's what it is. But that
isn't the question. Fhe question concerns
this deliberate attempt of yours to get me
into a condition where You can railroad
me to the BOBBY hatch. You knew all the
time that the DANCED puzzle couldn't be
done, and you know what your purpose
was in pulling ii on me. But look out.
madam look QUIT I'm onto your curves.
and this kind OF game can't 60 on al
Ways."
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first instalment on that lot or he'd know
the reason why-and that was just the
Same as threatening to murder her.
wasn't it? No woman could be expected
to stand such vile words and treatment
as that. of course. and-well, if he got a
few little inconsequential scratches on his
face it was his own fault. wasn't it?
"Of course. she didn't mean TO scratch
him but she was only emphasizing her
remarks when her hands got too close
to his face, and that's how it happened.
And then the way that Dubbalong man
did do the theatrical. He didn't say
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ELL. it's my opin-
ion that men who
live in gl a S S
houses should pull
down their vests"
snappily observed
Mrs. Bangsmith to
her caller the other
day. Yesterday,
going down in the
elevator. I heard
that sneaky Giddap
man sneering to
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ance of theirs who beats his wife. Gid
dap didn't know. of course, that know
that he is a perfect brute beast to his
own wife.
THE Giddaps' washwoman told me
about it, She's a good Christian woman,
this washwoman, and the goings on that
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Il may not be an intellectual headlight:
may not be a human wonder: l nay not
be the most brilliant man in the whole
wide world: / will concede that [ an just
ordinary garden variety of congres-
sional dub but IL couldn't have handled
this Knox mix-up better than il has been
handled I'd resign, kiss my constituents
goodbye and get job pushing an I'M
loaded perambulator along the main
street of Linden, Tenn.
That's the attitude a good many MEM
bers hold with respect to this whole prop
osition. Whether they could have done
any better or not, in view of the various
unforeseen nk-you-ma'am in the road
from the Senate to the State Depart
ment. is a question.
incidentally there was one observer OF
Wednesdays proceedings who had a bet
ter time than anybody else. And that
was William Wolff Smith. inspector OF
constitutions. who discovered the fact
that Senator Knox was ineligible. and
who may be said to have started all the
ensuing racket. Mr.. Smith sat in the
press gallery all of Wednesday watching
the rumpus and chuckling. Then when
his emotions overcame him to an extent
that rendered his parliamentary status
questionable ne would leave the gale
and retire to the back room, Wher6 he
could have pleasant fit in peace and
undisturbed.
Oh, it was a grand day. II it had been
put to me I wouldn't have snapped the
chance of being there for a weeks vaca-
ton.
TAM glad 10 see that after all these
! years Congress is thinking about
raising the wreck of the Maine. 1t
will put a quietus on the stories that the
United States government never intend
ed to raise or remove the remnants of
this martyr ship because of the notion
that it would involve some unpleasant
discoveries as to the original explosion
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HE big looking
glass in the room
OF the committee
on appropriations
still reflects the
hopeful. expectant.
innocent faces OF
the members OF
that great body OF
the House as they
pause to gaze at
the number on the
little slip of paper
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Special Correspondence Of The Star
NEW YORK February 10, 1909.

In this
correspondence, 1
gave a New York
hotel mans views
as to the need ex-
listing here for a
hotel for suicides.
Yesterday another
New York hotel
proprie tor-this one
rather famous as
an after = dinner
speaker-voiced the
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single, solitary word but he just strutted
down to the basement locker and has his
trunk brought up in the elevator. and
then he began to pack his clothes. OF
course. lie was just tickled to death to
have his face scratched up that way for
it gave him an excuse. She asked him
what he was about, and he told her that
he was through-that she could have the
flat and the furniture and the bank ac-
count and the whole works: that he was
through with the whole business and that
he was going to dig for some place where
he could have a little rest and content
men can throw at their suffering wives
'Of course, then, like fool. she began
to blubber-rny, how it does enrage me to
see how some women give in to their
hlIsbands!-but he went right on packing,
and when she saw that her tears didn't
have a particle Of effect upon him. of
course, she was angry all over again.
Who wouldn't have been angry. She
that were scattered around the trunk
that he was packing, and she tore the
shirts to ribbons What did the scoundrel
do then but lift her up bodily and thrust
her into her bedroom and lock her in
there, Just as If she were a Jailed pris
oner. my dear.
ITO make it worse. when she began to
scream in her misery he called to her over
the transom that If she kept up that
noise he'd telephone to the police that
there was a crazy woman in his apart
lnent, ant. have the hurry wagon brought
around for her. Did you ever in all your
born days hear Of such perfect fiendish-
ness? When he'd finished packing his
duds he had the elevator boy help him
downstairs with the trunk. and then he
took cab and went away-the plainest
and baldest case Of deliberate desertion
that ever I heard of! He stayed at
hotel downtown for three days, and
didn't even write her a postal card. At
the end of the three days. like perfect
simpleton-my. how it did make my blood
boil when 1 heard Of it-what did she do
but go down to his Office and see him
and apologize for getting into tantrum
come back home and promise to be good
forevermore-the silly. jelly fish. spine
less creature! Apologizing to man, and
especially a husband. whether in the
thing. And begging husband to come
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In the slndry civil bill now ready for
consideration by Congress is a provision
for the creation of commission 10 m
ouire generally into the whole question
AT various times members OF congress
have urged that something he done, and
one day this week Representative VII
liam Sulzer OF New York made speech
scolding Congress for its attitude on tins
subject.
He thought that the wreck should he
raised or removed and that the remains
Of sixty-three sailors who went down with
the ship and whose bodies never were
recovered should be brought back 10 TINS
country for nterment.
The commission created by The suncry
civil bill Is directed to study the project
from every angle. including poss'ole
diplomatic complications and other pos
sible embarrassments and TO report 10
Congress its findings and recommenda-
tions. The charge has frequently been
made that the Maine was not blown up
from the outside. but went down follow
ing an explosion of her own magazines
Mn CHARLES F. MckIM seems 70
lNA De still peevish as result Of
the criticisms to which he was sub
ject at the time OF the selection o.
the site Of the Grant memorial by the
and OF which he was one of the leading
advisers. Just the other day Mr.. McKim
wrote a letter to Representative Mccall
of Massachusetts. chairman OF the
House committee on the library, declin-
ing to serve as a member of the commits.
sion provided for by Mr.. Mccall In
bill introduced in the House a week
so ago to report on the acquisition OF
a site in the District OF Columbia for a
great Lincoln memorial. Mr.. McKin
evidently doesn't care to stir up any
such hornet S nest as he poked his opin-
ion into on that Grant statue PROPOSE
ton. IRVING c. NORWOOD.
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she sees and hears in these apartments
where she washes. hurt her terribly. She
tells me about EN- because she says it's
such a relief to her to get the load off
her poor mind.
But the very idea Of that Giddap man
talking about another man beating his
wife-after the way he acts in his own
home! The washwoman was finishing up
evening when something dreadful hap
pened. and ! should think that Giddap
would be ashamed to meet his neighbors
in the halls.
1T was this way: Giddap brought
home a couple Of theater tickets for that
evening. He showed them to Mrs. Gid
dap at dinner. She inadvertently told
him that she didn't care to see the per-
Torrance again and asked him If he
wouldn't change the tickets and go to
didn't know that she had seen the show
for which he had bought the tickets;
that she hadn't said anything to him
about having seen it-just as II. hoity-
toity! married woman should be obliged
to make a father confessor Of her hus
band and tell him every single. solitary
thing she knows! 1 suppose married
men tell their wives every thing they
do-oh. yes.
a couple days before, though. of course.
she hadn't considered 1t necessary to say
anything to her husband about It, and.
of course, she didn't care to see the
same show twice. But, would you be-
lieve 1t, Giddap got as grouchy as could
be over it, He said that he wanted to
see the show himself anyhow-the selfish
brute! He never stopped to think for
moment that there were other shows In
town that his wife wanted to see
''Yes, and he told her that he was go
ing to see that show. for which he had
the tickets, too. and that IL she didn't
want to see It second time, why. he'd
60 alone and she could stay at home. He
fatty refused to run downtown ahead of
her and change the seats for some other
show-the miserable. callousy inconsider-
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r. JOBSON had

/. JOBSON had
just finished read
ing the Stah-yeah-
pape after dinner
the other evening
when Mrs. Jobson
picked up a little
metal puzzle box
that had been
passed along TO
her that day by a
visiting " o m a n
friend. The box
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back to you. I'd rather be thrown into
molten lead or burning oil. deed I would!
Well. he came back. with a lot Of sticking
plaster all over his face just to get sym
patty. and now I hear that the imbeoile
woman has drawn the 5000 out OF the
bank and given it to the brute. and he
goes up and down the elevator looking
just sweet pie and as IL butter
wouldn't melt in his mouth, the vicious
scoundrel. / haven't a particle Of SYM
pathy for women when I see the way they
surrender to men, I can just see myself
giving in to my husband. oh yes. in
deedy, ! can, | wouldn't care ono bit
whether | was the wrongest ever and he
the rightest. do you think for a minute
that I'd degrade my sex by cuddling
up to and apologizing to any man? Well.
guess not! I'd see every man on the
globe dead and buried and turned to dust
first. that would, yes indeedy!'
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in the corner Last Wednesday 1t was
u. Thursday IA. Friday Is and today it
is IL
Incidentally. March 3 will be great
day in the committee room, though tbs
only fair to mention that such cere-
monies as will mark the occasion will
be informal. purely informal. But red
globe will replace the white incandescent
that now hangs near the glass, illumi-
mating the number and the slip. and in
stead of bald and unfeeling figures, vii!
bear the legend:
Cur hearts arc right.
Though poetry be rotten
He's out of sight:
Gone, but not forgotten
During the day of March = several
fuIes-informal, but strict and binding
ilevertheless-wil mark the con.uct of
members of the committee on appropria
tons. Members will kiss on sight and
meet at noon and at :; and 6 O'Clock in
the afternoon for chants of praise. Red
fire will iilumine the room at dusk, and
before disbanding for the day the com
mittee will adopt resolutions eulosistic of
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-01-08
$1.OC

the hills. the fishermen's huts edging
the very beach. In all these luckless
places the tidal wave must have re-
peated upon smaller scale the horrors
OF Messina and CataDia.
The Sicilian east coast had already
suffered one disaster in this i'll starred
month. Early in December torrentiaI
rains poured down upon the bare,
gaunt, stripped mountains of the IL
terror, swell to huge torrents the dry
brook course of a six-months drought
swept away roads and railroads
drowned many people and covered the
streets and houses of the low coast vii
lagos with mud often many feet deep
The work of reparation had scarcely
begun when the greater calamit,
swept the shore.
AS when Vesuvius last broke loose,
people will wonder why men choose tt
dwell in such scenes of danger. But
between the great disasters that make
so portentoUs a printed list are lone
periods when the slopes are.golden with
lemons ripening and the rich soil smiles
with double harvests. A volcano is not
such bad neighbor. 1t always gives
warning, and in its worst fits enriches
the soil. The earthquake in its appall-
ing fury and unacceptable suddenness is
different matter.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-01-08
Encouraging Figures.

Democrats have every reason to feel,
encouraged by their showing in the
national election figures. The COM
plete official Canvass of the popular
vote for President gives plenty of ba-
sis for rejoicing even in defeat.
The comparative increase in the total
vote for Republican and Democratic
candidate is so strongly in favor of the
latter as to make that of the former
unconsequental.
Bryan polled l.3l5,211 more votes
than did Parker in 1904, whereas Taft
was able to increase his vote over
that of Roosevelt 1904 sby only IA
100. Bryan's increase over the Demo
cratic vote of four years ago nearly
ebual to the total increase in the whole
number of votes cast over that of 1904.
Furthermore it is the largest Demo-
cratic vote ever cast in the United
States.
The election returns are Illuminating
also as regards the figures for the
minor parties. Neither the Socialists,
the Prohibitions nor Hearst's private
party cast any where near the vote the
anticipated, while the Populists lost
heavily compared with 1904.
The figures demonstrate conclusive
ly:.that the great political battles for
many years to come will continue to be
fought between the Republican and
Democratic parties. The Figures show
further that the Democratic party is
gaining while the Republican remain
nearly stationary.
Four years more of Republican rule
ought to insure decisive democratic
victory in 1912 if the Democrats Keep
their powder dry" their enthusiast m
strong and their organization effective.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-01-08
The Calamity in Italy.

The great earthquake zones of the
earth lie generally in long lines of
gradual curves, following mountain
chains Of volcanic rock. In the often
harassed Sicilian Calabrian region, the
scene of Mondays calamity, the fanci-
fui might trace upon the max a sickle
Of death, comparatively narrow, curv-
ing slowly from the East to the North
east, It's beginning is in the mountain
of Central Sicily, las end in the narrow
instep of the bot of lower Italy.
In this stricken region Sicily and
Calabria are join. The mountain rock
merely dips under the water at Mes
sina Straits. Etna, two miles high,
the greatest volcano of Italy, is in
modern phrase the power-house of the
ungovernable force that kills men so
pitilessly. The old fable held that En-
celadus was here imprisoned, breathing
flame and shaking the earth with his
struggles to be free. Vesuvius to a
slight extent only, Stromboli on it's
island between usally in a somewhat
greater degree, sympathize with the
giants's throes.
Messina is almost at the centre Of
the earthquake zone, but its greater
foe is the sea. Here are ScylIa and
Charybdis of the ancient navigators.
The car ferry that connects Sicily with
the mainland is often interrupted in
winter. Three days of south wind, the
dreaded "sirocco," and it must stop.
The narrow funnel-like strait, that
piles a winter storm into such danger
Gus waves, pinched up the tidal wave
o: the earthuake into the wall of water
that overwhelmed Messina and Reggie.
The water killed its scores where the
earthquake had slain one and fire and
pillage followed, as if humane men
were merely making war.
Along the stricken shore of Sicily
and on the western shore of CaIabria
the railroad follows the sea at low
level. At every station villages have
huddled on the fat land at the foot of
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-01-08
Source of Poison Dancers.

The action of foods and liquors on
their recept&cles may produce deadly
pOisOns. Acid fruits cooked in copper
or zinc pots are particular source of
danger. A man who was taken i'll in
the hunting field with symptoms of
mineral poisoning learned that the fine
old brandy he carried in his back
pocket had dissolved some of the cop
per in the sterling silver TASKS.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-01-08
Inhabitants Of the Museum.

Little Dorothy had been taken by a
friend to visit the museum and was
very much interested in the stuffed
animals in the glass cages, and also
in the statuary. On returning home
she ran eagerly to her mother, say
ing: "Oh, mamma, we saw some real,
live, stuffed animals and some sam
pie people"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-01-08
Health.

Bad as conditions are to-day, great
progress has been made during the
last 20 years. People are growing
more careful as to what they eat and
drink. There is no city that is not
bestirring itself to improve its water
supply and its system of sanitation.
most a fad in progressive communi-
ties.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-01-08
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Stockholders Notice

There will be meeting of the stock
nOiders OF the Bourbon Bank at the
once OF said bank On Monday, Jan. 4.
l9U9, for the election of Directors for
the ensuing year.
p. F. CLAY, President.
"a st b. WO0DFORD, Cashier.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-28

If woman is blessed with tact, she
mas the supreme gift. 1t will bring
her all the things she needs. To her
1t is a much more valuable asset than
beauty, or even genius Tact is GER
tainly the greatest of all gifts to a
woman.
The girls school in some far dis
tant Utopia Is going to include a
course in tact to correlate with it's
curriculum from the primary grades
on through the postgraduate work.
For, when the day of enlightenment
does come, the sensible mother and the
astute father will realize that a work
ing knowledge of how to get along
with people Is more to be desired than
much wisdom In so-called higher
branches. Tact is more important than
place Of beauty; 1t takes her further
than talent; it brings the world to her
feet to do her homage
Tact-Speed the day when we shall
appreciate the Importance of this un-
considered trif1ei Help us to realize
that with II woman can wheedle the
world out of anything it has to give:
but, with her feeble strength, she can't
wrestle with 1t and get anything.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-10-28
A Secret Signal.
of one.

did you ever notice how the tailors
while measuring man for a suit OF
clothes mix in few letters occasion
ally among the numbers?' asked / a
downtown lawyer recently of friend.
Whenever / have been measured for
suit of clothes the tailor always said
s. B. L. In a subdued voice as he took
the measure for the length of my trou-
sers. / often wondered what this Sc.
cret signal meant and on one occasion
aside in some casual way, which plain.
Iy showed me that the tailor did not
wish me to know the mea ming of the
mysterious S. b. L.
well, never knew what these let.
ters meant until one day not long ago.
when l stumbled across the solution
quite by accident. l was waiting to
have my measure taken while a strap
ping big fellow was on the rack. AS
he measured the length of the trou-
sers leg the tailor said, '33. s. B. L.
"'Yes,' came back the reply from
the big fellow. and - bowlegged,
too
"All these years tailors have, been
accusing me of being slightly bow.
legged and / had never caught on
until I was practically told the answer
. in the accidental y."-Philadelphia
Record.