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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-31
Crane Valve Co.,
bridgeport Conn.,
December 3, 1910.

just line to thank you
for placing me with such good Com.
pany. Am sure / will not rekrct
leaving the Erie Railroad Company,
whe- > YOU placed me two months ago,
to come hire.
Wish could show you that APP
preciate your placing me in New
York, and then when I wanted to
come back to Bridgeport, getting me
a position as soon as / spoke to You
about It. Placing me here is only
further proof of the fine oppoFtuni-
ties You have for your graduates.
Thanking you for past favors, ann,
Sincerely yours,
Edward j. EGan.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
y, Marrying for Money.

When Mr.. Jephson was think
Ing of marrying girl with mon
ey,' his friend Rogers advised
against it for reasons which he was
quite ready to give.
My boy" he said, before l was
married my wife inherited $500 from
her grandfather. The whole town
knew it. When built a store, they
smiled.
His wife's money! they said.
when 1 built house, the same
smile went round
His wife's money
AFTER a while 1 took stock in the
new gas and electric company.
"'Aha!' said the treasurer, L see
you are investing some of your wife's
money
''All my life that poor little $500
has received the credit for every
thing 1 have been able to achieve.
LAS matter of fact my wife spent
the money the day she got it for a
diamond ring and piano. She
lost the ring a week later, and !
guess some of the neighbors have
wished heartily that she would lose
the piano"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
His Choice.

There was nothing wild in the
callers manner, so the lady at the
employment bureau desk was rather
startled when he told his wants.
81 wish to engage a cook" he OBJ
served.
Fancy or plain?" she said.
"Plain-homely as SIM" he re-
piled. In fact, l don't care whether
she can cook or not. Any old thing
that looks like a cook will do
Really, Il
"And if she drinks, smokes, or
steals silver, so much the better"
Goodness me- What
: 81 specially desire that she is very
strong and in the habit of beating
her employer with club"
Upon my world"
Gin short / want a rampant, ath-
1etic rip-roaring terror, and I can
promise good wages
The lady at the desk was begging
Central to connect her with the pO-
lice department.
Hold on" explained the caller.
FAllow me to say that the domestic
1 seek will be in the employ of my
wife's mother.-Judge.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
KICKED A GROWN
OFF YOUNG KING
DANCER FOR THE LOVE OF.
WHOM MANUEL LOST HIS
THRONE.
GAVE HER HALF A MILLION
Portuguese Monarch Was More Inter
ested In This FootIight Fairy Than
in His People and Soon Became
Unpopular.

Lisbon.-When King Manuel as
cended the throne after the assassina-
ton of his royal father, King Carlos,
and his older brother, Crown Prince
LUZ Philippe. on Feb 1, 1908, he
found the kingdom in a state of peril
GUS turmoil. The young king had in
herited his fathers quarrels with the
clerical party, the adherents of the
pretender. Don Miguel, and the revolu-
tionary party.
1t VIII thus be seen that the spirit
OF revolt was ripe in Portugal and
while the direct cause of the uprising
that has resulted in the overthrow of
monarchy in Portugal was the assas-
sination of Professor Bombarda, the
most powerful influence leading to the
revolt was that of a woman who in
weighed the young King into extrava-
gance that brought down upon his
head the wrath of his subjects.
The siren in the case is Mile. Gaby
Deslys. Her dancing of the "jiu jitsu
waltz won the fancy of young King
Manuel, and 1t was she who figura-
lively kicked the crown of Portugal
from his head.
Mile. Deslys made sensation in
Berlin and Paris by her Japanese
dancing. Manuel, on a pleasure trip
to the French capital, saw the girl
and promptly went mad over her. He
brought her to Lisbon and was seen
everywhere in public with her.
This by itself might have done no
great. harm in his subjects eyes. But
he proceeded to heap rich presents
upon her, to load her down with Jew
els and to buy her everything her
tickle fancy happened to crave.
Times were hard. People were
clamoring for work. Hunger was
more than a mere name In Portugal.
When starving men and women be-
held the Kings sweetheart ablaze
with diamonds, whose price was
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
Mile. Gaby DesIys.

wrung from the state and whose equiv
a life, trouble set in.
The nation murmured. The King
was deaf to the growing voice of COM
plant and spent more and more
money on Mile. Deslys.
When Marie Antoinette was told in
1889 that the people were dying for
lack OF bread she asked lightly: why
don't they eat cake?" When Cleopatra,
on wager with Anthony, dissolved a
$250.000 pearl In vinegar and drank
it. and when Louis XIV. spent the pub
lie revenue on baubles for Nine. de
Pompadour the mob had mutte-ed,
but nothing had come of the discon-
tent.
Manuel, unluckily for his short
sighted young self, was living in a
later century. Members of the bank
rupt nation did not enjoy seeing $780,
600 worth of jewels given by king
to a foreign dancer. THAT is the sum
Manuel is said to have spent on Mile
Deslys' adornmeut)
But Manuel continued to perform
the world-old kingly feat of dancing
on a volcano. His favorite holiday
was Paris There, so riotously gay
was he that the French police were
forced to take him in tow and to close
various famous local resorts when
ever he was in the city.
AS in the case Of Henry III of
France and other royalties of the
same tastes, the fling" lasted just a
trif1e longer than did the sore tried
patience of the people. Manuel awoke
to find himself kicked off his throne
and to know he had thrown away a
kingly career at the feet of a dancing
girl.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
Nothing Doing.

An author who makes a speciality
of stories of 'our great middle
West" with a heart-throb in each,
tells of an odd character he met in
that region. This old chap, who af-
forwards served the author as the
main figure of a book that was
largely successful, lived alone in a
cabin. Woman's care being. of
course, unknown, the cabin present
ed the spectacle of the triumphant
reign of dirt and disorder.
Somehow the two CHANGED to talk
of cooking and cooking utensils. 81
had one them cook-books wunst,"
observed the old fellow, "but 1
couldn't do nawthin' with it,
What was the trouble?" asked
the author.
why. everything In the book be-
gan with, First take a clean dish !"
--Harper's Weekly.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
An Explanatory" Ailment.

A colored man in the employ Of
Representative James D. Richardson
of Tennessee was detailing to a
friend the particulars of a relatives
illness, when according to the
Congressman, the following dia-
logue ensued between the two
darkies:
Eyes, street" exclaimed tie negro
first referred to, "Mose is sure a sick
man. He's got explanatory rheuma-
tism."
You mean inflammatory rheuma-
tism," explained the better informed
colored man: .de word 'exclama-
tory means to YELL
Yes, sir, l knows 1t does" quick
ly responded the other, in a tone of
decided conviction, "and OATS jest
what de trouble is-de man Jest
yells all de time. Success.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
Public Sale
......OF......
Splendid Bourbon County
Farm Near Paris, Ky.

Owing to continued i'll health I am
going to give up farming and will sell
on the premises on ksa.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
"A MODERN FABLE.
It Comes From the West to Tnstruc.
FeoDle in the East

Once upon q time a Lively Bass
migrated from the Clear Water of
the River in which he was Born and
Raised and found Home in Mud
dy Pool where Catfish were his only
Neighbors
He was greatly Disguised with his
new Surroundings. He gave his
Neighbors, therefore, Daily Lectures
On their Filthy Habits. and an
Dounced his Determination TO clear
up the Muddy Pool So long as he
confined himself to lectures they en-
dured him with patient Resignation.
But later on he procured Supply
of Reform Alum, and began to Dis
tribute it through the Muddy Water
in order to clarity it.
Thereupon an old Catfish with
Long Horns waited upon him, and
said to him in a Firm, Determined
Tone of Voice:
Young Man, you are getting alto
gether too Fresh. My friends and my
family and myself have resided in
this muddy pool since the days Of
the Sea Serpent, and have enjoyed
the best of health, become Fat and
Corpulent, and Lived to Green Old
Age. If it isn't healthy place for
you I guess you would better Move
out to another Summer Resort. But
If you Distribute any more of that
Internal Alum around this Hole
You'll be Dead Fish, and my fam
lily will have you fried Crisp and
Brown for Our breakfast in the
Morning.
Moral: Those who try their level
best to reform the world are seldom
appreciated by the ones for whose
benefit they undertake the reform.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18

Doctor, have the strangest feel
ing. / seem to thing that wherever
/ go there is a man following me.
Madam, take one glance into
mirror and you will be completely
relieved of your delusion."
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
1t Was Not His FauJt.

District Attorney w. T. Jerome is
said to have told an amusing little
story Of certain minor boss" who
carries in the pocket of his broad
checked vest the votes of an east
side ward. AS the winter drew on
this boss was approached by one of
his retainers with tale of hard luck
and request for help.
Help you? Why, didn't 1 get
them to promise you a job with the
snow-shovelling gang?" the boss de-
manded.
Sure" the voter replied; "but 1t
hasn't showed this winter"
WELL the boss exclaimed, petu-
lantly, " l can't help that! Do you
think I'm runnip' the Weather Bu-
reau.-Success.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
ONLY ONE CHANCE FOR JASPER.
His Qualifications as Viewed by the
Young Girl and Her Mother.


81 should like to ask you one
question, Euphorbia," said her
mother, "Are you going to marry
Jasper Huxtable?"
There was a cold, steely glitter in
the young woman's eye, and her lin
curled in scorn, as she answered:
Il am not, mamma"
Yet he seems to be a perfectly
unobjectionable young man."
II am aware of it,"
He is in exceptionally good
financial circumstances.
Il have never taken the trouble to
find out whether he is or not
Your father has He says he is
independently rich"
We'll, what of it?'
And he is handsome"
Yes, but no handsomer than half
a dozen other men l know"
He is only five or six years your
senior"
"Oh. he's all right, SO far as age
goes"
Other girls find him attractive,
Euphorbia. What is the reason you
do not?"
l haven't said I don't find him
attractive
Yet you are not going to marry
him."
"No-not unless there is a decid-
ed reform in his way of conducting
himself in one particular" exclaimed
the naughty girl, crushing a bunch
of costly dollhouse flowers in her
Shapely hand and flinging them away
from her.
What is that?" anxiously in
quired her mother
He'll have to ask me to marry
him ?"-Chicago Tribune.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
Scientists Explain.

Little Willie (who has been pun
.ished for getting himself SO dirty
Boohoo, wish somebody'd tell me
how il Is that the same dirt that
makes my hands black will make my
shoes w..site.- American Spectator.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
The Farmer.

The farmer minds his peas tand
Qs),
He hives his bees, he tends his ewes;
Out in the field his gee and haw
Resound above the ravens cav;
Until the ground begins to freeze
He almost never takes his ease.
But still amidst his toll and cares
In all his work the old plow
shares.
SATURDAY Evening Post.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
The Minister and the Gamekeeper.

The Minister and the Gamekeeper.
A Scottish parish minister met the
laird's gamekeeper one day and said
to him, Il say, Davidson, why is it
never see you in church," well,
SIR replied Davidson, Il don't want
to hurt the attendance" Hurt the
attendance! What do you mean"
asked the minister in surprise
Well, sir, you sec," replied the
gamekeeper, there are about a
dozen men in the parish that go to
church when I'm not there and
would go poaching if l went to
church. Glasgow Herald.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
M. F. Kenney, Auctioneer.

| have an undivided one-half section
of land in one of the best agricultural
counties in Texas, free of liens of any
kind. all fenced, in a great alfalfa
county, on long time.
| am going to Texas December l..
and will be glad to talk to any one in
terested. The whole section can be
bought very reasonably.
CHAS. E. BUTLER.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18

Mr.. Monk-It's a duty you owe to
your family, sir, to have your life in
sured
Thomas Gait would if | knew
afford to insure the whole nine
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
Wednesday, 10

at ten O'Clock a. m. the Ogden farm
containing lS5 acres of splendid land.
near Paris, Kentucky, lying between
the Clintonville and Bethlehem turn
pixies. short distance from interur-
ban traction line. and within one quar-
ter mile of signal station on the l.. &
N. railroad.
The farm will first be offered in two
tracts. IS acres with tenant house,
fronting on Clintonvilie pike, and one
hundred acres on the Bethlehem pike
with good Louise, and all necessary
outbuildlngs, new orchard. new straw
berry bed of ope-half acre, splendid
barn with large hallway and eighteen
large box stalls. and large shed on
each side CT barn, and historic half
mile track near the barn on which
there has been trained three derby
winners.
The farm is well watered and the
water equally divided between the two
tracts.
1t will be offered then as a whole
and sold at the best bid made.
The farm is all in clover, rye and
blue grass, and have put over seven
teen hundred LOADS of good manure on
the farm since owned it.
Terms to suit purchaser or purchas-
ers.
At the same time and place | will
sell all my stock. crop and farm imple-
ments, viz:
35 yearling cattle.
70 fancy steer calves.
registered Jerseys,
2 fancy red cows to calve Jan. l,
1911,
l extra good half Jersey, none bet
ter.
pair four-year-old half Percheron
farm geldings, sound and as good as
auybody's team,
work mules,
l four year-old Shetland pony, a
beauty, gentle for children, a good
roadster and safe in foal to registered
stallion,
Also pony cart, harness and saddle,
aged black mare by Kirg Wilkes,
dam by Mambrino Patchen, safe in
foal to Locanda 2 :02,
Bay weanling filly by Fair Promise
dam as above,
One family horse. kind and gentle
for women and children,
55 fat hogs.
IL SOws and gifts Dred to big boned
Huffman boar,
l Southdown buck,
100 barrels of corn in crib,
$50 shocks of fodder,
ricks of hay clover and weeds,
l rick Of straw.
All kinds of farm implements good
as new. farm wagons, manure spread
err, plows, mower, binder, harness,
ETC.,
.l5O Plymouth Rock chickens,
100 Buff Orpington chickens,
Also ducks. turkeys, etc.
Should | not sell the farm it will be
rented to the highest bidder.
Ten acres virgin soil for tobacco,
and the crop is sold at IL 1-2 cents.
Forty acres for corn, balance in
clover. blue grass and rye.
Possession given at any time.
Sale at ten o'clock a. m.
TERMS-Six months time without
interest on farm implements, four
months time with six per cent interest
on balance of personal property
CHAS. f. BUTLER,
Paris. KY.
M. F. Kenney, Auctioneer
l have an undivided one-half section
of land in one of the best agricultural
counties in Texas, free of liens of any
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-18
Removal Notice.

Mrs. Mary A. Patton will open her
beauty parlors in the store room ad-
joining Bruce Holladay's grocery re-
Gently vacated by The Paris Democrat.
IL 81
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-01
PRICE OF STEEL
Will NOT Be CUT
Magnates Decide That Country's
Good Depends on Costly
Article

NEW YORK Nov. so-The price Of
steel will not be cut Forty of the
leading producers and their representa-
tives, who stand for approximately 95
per cent of the production of the coun-
try, met here today and decided it was
for the good of the industry to keep
quotations where they are
Among these were:
Judge f. H. Gary and W f. Corey. chair
man and president. respectively. of the United
States steel corporation; John A. Topping. chair
man Of the Republican Iron and steel company
Willis l.. King. vice president of the Jones &
Laughlin steel company: Charles VI. sehwab
president of the Bethlehem steel corporation :
+. A. s. Clark. president OF the Laekawanna
steel company: Alexis ". Thompson. president
OF the Inland steel company aud Wallace H
Rowe, president Of the Pittsburg steel company
all Of them members of the American iron and
steel institute. of which Judge Gary is presi
dent.
At the close OF the meeting Judge
Gary gave out the following state
ment:
The disposition of the manufacturers of steel
TO cooperate, so far It is proper, remains
unchanged.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-01
Marriage Licenses


The following marriage licenses issued in
San Francisco Wednesday, November 80:
BONNEL - MATHISoN ~ Maurice Bonnel, 81.
1899 Polk street. and Annie Mathison, Is 1851
Fortv-ffth avenue.
BoRELI.o-FERRoCoN Borelo 2s
and Maria Ferrocone, %. both of 620 Fflbert
street
BoWEN-DUSTIN- A. Bowen. 81. and
Flora a. Dustin. 81. both of San jose
CoHELAN-SCHWERIN Sylvester Cohelan. 23
215 Arcadia street and Olive Schwern 1S
12T Twenty seventh street.
COSNELLY- Y-SToFAN-M Michael J. Connolly. "a
Central hotel and Pauline E. Stofan, 10, A.
Clara street.
MARCH- -MARCHI-Alfredo Marchi. 2s, Ar
cata. and Giacintta march,, 10, 925 North
Point. street.
RoADHoUsE-JU UDAH-chester +: Roadhouse
% Berkeley. and Christine Judah. 25. Hotel
Yorke
ROsE-CMER- Frank Rose 2e, 81 Summer
street and Marguerite R. Caller. 10, 3739 Sew
enteenth street.
TILTON-ELW0OD-J. Wesley Tilton, 81 and
verna Elwood 20. both of Fresno
yARNELLr-GoSSNE Charles G. varneI. 40
Santa Cruz and Josephine Gossner, 81. Ner-
ced City.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-01

Of William and John Twyford. a native Of
County Kerry, Ireland, aged so years.
WALL-In this city, November 80 1910 Wal
Wall. and brother OF Ruth and Ethel Walt
native OF san Francisco, aged 3 months
and &c days
wILLIAMs-In this CITY. November 20 1910
Robert H.. beloved brother Of J. c. VIII
IaiTns, Mrs Francis Rice and Joseph viii
Hams, native OF Boston. Mass, aged 81
3. F. o. f
Friends and aequaintances are respectfully in-
yited TO attend the funeral tomorrow tFri-
from the parlOrs OF James McGinn $50 Fulton
street between Webster and Fillmore Inter
ment Cypress Lawn cemetery.
SAN FRANCISCO AERIE NO. 8 T. O. E.
officers and members are requested to attend
the funeral Of our late brother Robert n
Williams. tomorrow CFriday) December 2
1910. at 10 o'clock a. M. from the parlors OF
James Mcesinn. $50 Fulton street. By order
- ~ NEXBERT. Worthy President.
GUSTANE POHI.MANN. Secretary.
WRIGHT-In this city. November 80. 1910. AT
MS late residence. 1851 Potrsro avenue, Mlchael
u: Wright, dearly beloved husband Of Annie
MFlgnt ana loving father OF Marguerite aud
Estella Wright, and beloved son 0f the late
owen and Margaret Wright. and beloved
brother Of Eugene. Timothy and John Wright
months snd 26 DAYS. A member OF san
S9Ss F5Se fsse pss no: ? e o E. and San Francisco
Watsonville, Cal-- papers please copy.)
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
CARD OF THANKS
GRAHAM-We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks 70 our many friends for their comfort
ing sympathy and beautiful horal offerings ex
tended during our late bereavement IN tha
loss OF our loving husband. father and brother.
MRS. J. T. GRAHAM
YRS. $. CHAMBERLAIN
JOHN E. GRAHAM
FRANK GRAHAM
GEORGE GRAHAM
WALTER GRAHAM
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-01
WIFE USES CARVER
TO SUBDUE HUBBY
Divorce Suit Develops Dispute
as to Use Intended for Big
Table knife

That there was something doing all
the time in the home of Edward Dur
kin. an employe in the customs ser
vice who was sued for separate main
tenance by Eliza beth Durkin and who
himself sued for divorce in a cross
complaint. was shown yesterday in the
trial OF the case by Judge ,Seawell.
on his payday. Durkin testified. his
wife always flourished a carving knife
over his head and demanded that he
turn over every cent of his S129 salary
10 her. threatening TO chop him in two
# he refused From the sI2O she al
lowed him SO cents a day for car
fare. lunch and other expenses. She
has the throwing habit. TOO. the Gus
toms official complained, and among
other things hurled at him was a
cooked caulihOwer. an iron stove litter.
liver and bacon. and a chair.
WIFE DENIES CHARGES
Did YOU threaten to cut your nus
band in two with the carving knife?"
Mrs. Durkin was asked.
No. sir. but III ten you what he
Gid. she replied volubly. He tried
10 choke me tOAdeath and I chased him
with the knife-siX years ago Christ
mas highland the turkey on the
table"
y
face?'
You bet he did-and good hard
one, too I thought my nose was broke.
] hit him with a stove litter"
Madam, keep calm" counseied the
Judge Don't exhibit your temper in
court
All right, boss. but I want to tell
YOU all about it," she answered famil-
isrly- Despite the courts frequent ad-
vice 10 Mrs. Durln not 10 talk so
much she succeeded in getting into
the record many thousand words about
her domestic life The case was taken
under submission.
DENIAL BY CORRESPONDENT
Harry A Lowe, named as corespon-
dent in 4 divorce cross complaint fled
by Louis H Grunig against Ella NJ:
Gruntg yesterday filed an answer de-
nying all Grunig's charges against
him.
Elizabeth Siebe was granted a di-
vorce by Judge Cabaniss yesterday
from George Siebe nephew of John
Siebe. who was formerly assessor of
san Francisco, and son Of Fred Siebe,
wholesale liquor merchant
Mrs. Siebe testified that her husband
failed TO contribute anything to her
support. but she did not want any
alimony.
Divorces were granted as follows:
BY Judge Van Nostrsnd-Ells f. Martin from
Howard Gray Martin, desertion: Leatha McCaH
from Robert D. Mccall. desertiOn; Susie Hsvey
from II. y. HsFey. desertion
By Judge MUgan-Martin f. Dunn, from Car
RE Marie Dunn, desertion.
BY Judge Cabaniss-Kate Renner from HsrrF
Rpuner. deserrion.
Suits for divorce were begun by:
Sophie Gilbert against John L. Gilbert, hab-
irusl intemperance.
Irene Renesu against Humphrey S Reneau,
cruelty.