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The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
The Fortune Hunter at Lexinf.
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"The Fortune Hunter" heralied as
Americas best comedy. is announced
for an engagement beginning Friday
evening. March :, for two nights only.
at the Lexington Opera House. with
Saturday matinee. with Fred Nil 10 in
the title role. supported by the same
original copmany which pre- sented this
famous comedy in Chicago for years
engagement. and includes Alma Bel
win. Allyn Marshalle. LeOna Fulweli,
Regina Connolly. Frank Bacon. Shelly
Hull, Phil Bishop. Frank Boumon.
Harvey Gibbs, Avon Brayer, Edward
Saxon and James Spelvin. For two
years this delightful play filled the
capacity of the theatre in New York,
and in Chicago the same state OF
affairs existed for season of one
year, and was praised by the press.
the public and the clergy alike.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21

Miss May Mackey, of Maysville. is
the guest of Paris relatives.
Mr.. Frank p. Carr. of Lexington.
was visitoriin Paris Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. George Alexander
will return today from New York.
MIR. VIM. Doty is quite i'll at his
home in East Paris with pneumonia.
MIR. and Mrs. B. A. Frank return
ed Saturday night from New York.
Attorney C. A. Mcmillan was in
Covingten Saturday on legal business.
Miss Martha Ferguson has return
ed from visit tv friends in Lexing-
ton.
Miss Kate Alexander is visiting
Mrs. Arthur Hancock at CharlO ties
vile, Va.
Mrs. Robert Gogein will entertain
the Woman's Club of the Christian
church this afternoon.
Mr.. Charks Randolph, of Knox.
vile, Tenn. is the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. F. Adcock.
Mr., and Mrs. Wallace Mitchell are
in Cincinnati for the week ATTENDING
the Automobile Show.
Miss Louie Bruer left Friday for
Enterprise, Fla, to accept position
in the Mission School at that place.
MIR. anG Mrs. G. G. Thompson and
granddaughter, Miss Frances Champ,
returned Saturday after spending the
winter in Texas.
Misses Edna Earle Hinton and
Helen Hutchcratt attended luncheon
given by the Alumnae Of Chi Omega
in Lexington Saturday.
Miss Bette Barrow, a member of
Miss Mary Fithls Hutchcraft's house
party. entertained with dance at her
nome in Lexington Monday night.
Col. and Mrs. John Cunningham
and Mrs. Laura Estill Francis have
returned to their home at Escondida
after spending several days in Rich
;nond.
The Richard Hawes Chapter. u.
D. c., will meet in their room in the
court house, Fridav February "a. at
2 O'Clock. Hostesses will be Mrs.
Russell Mann and Mrs. Laura Perry.
MIR. and Mrs. w. H. Renick had
rs their guests Sunday Hon. Abe Rem
ick, of Winchester, Col. Morris Rem
,ck. of Middletown. o.. Scott Rerick.
Of Clark, and i. M. Renick., of this
city.
Miss Mary Fithian Hutchcraft is
entertaining house party at her home
! N Houston avenue in honor of Mrs
! Alice jacobs, of Danielson. Connect
/ cut. Other guests are Miss Elizabeth
Adamson, of Maysville. and Miss Bet
! tie Barrow. of Lexington. the four
having been classmates at Wellesley
College. The party was joined Satu
lay by Messrs. John Vance. Matt S
Walton. Clinton Harrison and Shelby
Hart. Jr., of Lexington.
The Dayton, Fla. Daily New
says: Among the visitors IN Day
tona at this time is Swift Champ. edi
tor of the News at Paris, Kentucky.
This is MIR. Champs first Jiist to Day
tona and he is delighted with the city
He has been in Florida before. bu
considers DaytOna the best'Of all th'
resort towns. Mr.. Champ is stoppin;
at the RidRewood and will remain her'
for couple Of weeks"
A number of Kentuckians are spend
ing the winter at Dayt0na among then
being Mr. Vic Bloomfield. of Winches
ter, and James NJ. Fesdele. of New
port.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
fimbroush and Baker Trial
TODAY,

The trial of Smith Baker and Megib
Kimbrough, of Lexington, charged
with OBTAINING woman against her
will, continued from Saturday. Feb
ruary Is. will come up before Judge
DuDdon this morn ng at ten o'clock.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Attend the Sale.

Attend the public sale of that splen-
sid Bourbon county farm belonging to
Mrs. S. @. Clay that will be offered on
The premises, miles from Paris on
The Jackstown and Tarr's Station pixies
It / . clock this afternoon.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Resigns Position.

M.. Lewis I. Lilleston. who for
several years has been connected with
tie Paris Democrat. has resigned his
position, effective about the first of
March. Mr.. LillestOn will remain in
Paris.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
D. S. Jordan RESIGNS.

Nr. Dan Jordan. who for the past
ten years has been city ticket agent
for the Louisville < Nashville rail
road. has rendered his resignation,
effective upon the appointment Of bis
successor. Mr.. Jordan will take a .po-
sition with the Metropolitan Life In
sUrznce Company. Mr.. Jordan makes
tie change for the benefit of hi 5
kealth
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Bank Stock Sold.

Auctioneer NJ. F. Keuney sold at
puhl,c auction at the court house door
Saturday five shares of Agricultural
Bank stock TO John B. Grimes at S229
ner share.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
BUYS Town Lot.

Mr.. G.. &. Thompson purchased yes
terday of Wartieid Gratz a lot on
Pleasant street adjoining the Govern
ment Building. fronting 2i3 feet on
Pleasant and extending back 90 feet.
The price was private.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Addresses Debating Club.

The Boys Debating Club held an
interesting meeting In the Public Lii
brary Saturday night. The meeting
was addressed by Attorney p. A.
Thompson on the subject Trial BY
jury
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
All Day Meeting.

The all-day meeting of .the Pastors
Aid Soci ty of tine Presbyterian church
is Monday next. 1t is the day for the
mite boxes for mountain missions to
be opened So be sure and bring your
mite box with yOu
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Cow Lilled by Auto.

While Matt Long was driving sever
al head OF cows on the Lexington pike
Cae night last week an automobile
driven by an unknown party struck
cne OF the cows killing her instantly.
A bulI in the herd was badly injured.
The cow was valued at S35.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Will Return to Paris.

~. Hatt Thornton. of Cincinnati.
will arrive about April to take charge
Il tne SIX hunrded acre farm of his
aunt. Mrs. Nellie Highland, adjoining
The ciry OF Paris.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Modernly Improved.

The farm of Mrs. 5. G. Clay. to be
offered at public sale this afternoon at
| o'clock is modernly improved and has
thereon an excellent ten-roOm dwell
ing. Be sure and attend.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
rVrth Middletown Judge Re-
Sims.

Police Judge C.. w. Skillman. of
Eurtn HiddletoNn. has resigned from
.ast Office effective March /. Judge
Ssllman and family will locate in
Lexington.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21

Iars. Mslin0s Myers celebrated last
week az her home in Newport her 99th
rirthday. Mrs. Myers was born in
has city
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
IHE BOURBON NEWS.
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HFFesT. LAST. AND ALL THE TIME
NOTICE.

Shire & Fithian's annual
yeduchon sale is now going
or. Great bargains in China,
Brass, Leather Goods, Pict.
res, Art Ware, Umbrellas,
eir. All reduced prices are
positively spot cash only.
SHIRE & FITHIAN.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
At Public Sale.

The sale of the farm of Mrs. S. &.
Clay on the Jackstown and Tarr's
Station pike will take place today al
1 o'clock. Be sure and attend.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Farm Rented.

George Burke has rented the Lee
i'eun farm on the Bethlehem pike,
sDntaining ,l3S acres, fof $1,000 per
vear.
The Bourbon news., 1911-02-21
Read the Ad.
Was Born in Paris.

Read Fees cut-rate ad in this issue
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
An EIopement Fifty Years Aao.

Married in La Crosse fifty years ago,
the elimination of a pioneer day ro-
nance of the sort that is read about
in fiction, Mr.. and Mrs. r. E. Dough-
erty celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary at their home at Rodeo,
N. M.
But one witness of the marriage is
alive, and he James w. Young of La
Crosse, told the story of the wedding.
which follows:
William Dougherty was born in
Vermilion county, Ind, and so was his
wife, whose maiden name was Mary
Catherine Hiler. 1t seems that at the
time of the wedding the girls parents
objected to the young mans atten-
tions, which made it necessary for
several other young fellows and my
self to help the prospective ride
groom out of the difficulty.
1--WE got a skiff and rowed up the
river to the girls house, where we
quietly got her out of the house and
into the boat We then rowed down
through French Slough and up to the
north side where Mr.. Dougherty was
waiting for us. We soon had Justice
of the Peace Winston on the scene
and the necessary ceremony was per-
formed. La Crosse correspondence
st. Paul Despatch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
FACTS ABOUT SUICIDE
eAxoNY LEADS IN NUMBER AND
IRELAND Is LAST.
Self-Murder Far More Prevalent
Among Men Than Among Women
Former Seem to Prefer Hang
ing and Latter Drowning.

Modern conditions in all countries
are such that the subject of suicide
must occasionally come under discus.
sion in every community of any size
Not that suicide is of modern origin,
for history shows that it occurred in
very ancient times, but those who
have made study of the subject
maintain, any probably with reason,
that the highly organized conditions of
modern society and the social abnor.
malities and nerve disturbances Incl.
dent thereto, promote and strengthen
the suicidal tendency. This may be
mere theory, but statistics do show
that it is more prevalent in some
countries than in others. Statistics
covering a term of years show that
during the entire period of observa-
tion Ireland had the fewest annual
number of suicides, seventeen to the
million of inhabitants, and Saxony, the
largest number, 1872 to the million.
Denmark showed 251 per annual to the
million inhabitants; Switzerland, 239,
Wales rs. The Swiss people are COM
monty supposed to be happy and COM
paratively free from care, and it seems
strange that the average suicide rate
should be several hundred per cent.
greater in Switzerland than in Ire
land
On another point statistics are more
conclusive, for they show that in all
countries the proportion of suicides is
three or four men to one woman, and
that this proportion continues from
year to year. The fair inference would
seem to be either that men are more
subject to the suicidal tendency than
women or else that they yield to it
more readily. Either supposition opens
field for biological and metaphysical
speculation. Anther curious fact dis.
closed by the statistics is that suicide
is much more common among Protest
ant than amongst Roman Catholic
communities, while Jews have a small.
er suicide rate than Roman Catholics.
1t is also demonstrated that self-mur-
OSl, do oulCluC ID SlylSu ny OuTlSIldu
ethics and law, is more common among
the educated than the illiterate class
es, and more prevalent in city than
in rural districts. These facts might
be accounted for on the theory that
educated people are more sensitive to
misfortune than the illiterate, and the
nervous strain of city life greater than
that of country life. The suicide rate
is higher in certain occupations and
professions than in others. 1t is high
among soldiers and doctors.
AS to the modes of suicide they are
found to vary but slightly in different
countries. Hanging is the most CON-
mon among males; then drowning,
firearms, knife cuts and poison. in the
order named. With women a different
order prevails, viz, first drowning,
then poison, hanging and knife cuts
and firearms.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
Johnny Defines a Good Boy.

A distinguished visitor was making
short address to the Sunday school
Il am glad to see so many nice
boys and girls assembled here today"
he began. "You are the kind of boys
l like. You know there are several
kinds of boys. There are boys that
are always punctual at school, always
have their faces and hands washed,
always know their lessons and never
play hockey. We call they good boys.
"Then there are the boys that like
to torture cats and rob birds nests
and bully boys that are smaller than
themselves and steal apples from the
grocery stands and smoke cigarettes
and all that sort of thing. These We
call bad boys. Yes, there are several
kinds of boys. Now perhaps you can
tell me what kind Of boys go to
heaven?"
Up went Johnny's hand like a flash.
'Well, my little man, said the
visitor, smiling complacently and nod.
ding his head at Johnny, what kind
of boys go to heaven?"
Dead ones!" shouted Johnny at
the top of his voice.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
Strong Man Story.

"You may talk about Gotch being a
strong man." said gentleman from
Butte, Mont. who is visiting in the
city, "but met fellow in Minneap-
oils who had the prize strong man
champion of the world story.
ut came out in a discussion of the
ch-Hackenschmidt wrestling bout.
One man made the assertion that
Gotch was about as strong man as
there is in the country or the world.
The Norwegian was quiet for mo-
ment, then interposed:
"Ay got bruder in woods, he ban
better man than Gotch."
"Better than Gotch? How do you
make that out?"
"Well, my brudder he drive log
team, One day team he balk and my
brudder he got so mad he TAX one
log bout ten foot long and three foot
thick in one hand, and he TAX nodder
log bout ten foot long and three foot
think in odder hand and he smash
dem together until all is lef is saw
dust"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
PICTURES OF OLD FRANCE
La vaIliere's Brilliant Youth and the
Contrasting Scene of Few
Years Later.

The festivities and intrigues of Fon-
tainebleau and Versailles may seem
a far cry from this old Chateau Of
Blois, but, standing this afternoon in
the rooms that had echoed to the
light footsteps of Louise de La VAL
here in the days of her youth and in
nocence, distance and the centuries
between that day and this seem to
fall away, and we picture to our
selves the court of honor and sale de
reception as they appeared on the
night of the arrival of the court at
Blois. The fast-fading light lent a
semblance of reality to the scene, as
the torches and candles used in those
early days could not have brilliantly
lighted the vast hall. We see the
chairs placed in a half-circle for the
accommodation of the royal guests,
the kings not an inch higher than
that of Mazarin or of the queen, Anne
of Austria. The astute Italian prime
minister is seated, his body bent, his
face pallid, the hand of death is al
ready laid heavily upon him; but his
mind is as keen and alert as in youth,
his eyes as penetrating. The cour-
tiers are grouped around Mazarin, the
real king.
CASTOR, the indolent father Of an
energetic and courageous daughter,
is talking to him, and chroniclers of
the day tell us that the duke of Or
leans was an admirable raconteur.
The Grande Mademoiselle, now over
thirty and in the full flower of a
beauty which, according to Petitot's
miniature and her own rose-colored
descriptions, was not inconsiderable,
is in another group at one side of the
hall, with her half-sisters and the
other young girls of the house, among
them Louise de La Valliere, whom
Madame de Sevigne likened later to a
modest violet hiding beneath it's
leaves; but not so successfully con-
cealed as to evade the eyes of roy
atty.
In strong contrast to this scene is
another and later picture in a far diff
ferent setting, in the dim, religious
light of convent, where woman still
young and in the. full maturity of her
beauty is taking the veil, which is
held for her, the former royal favor
lite, by Queen Maria Teresa, the neg
lected wife of Louis.-Lippincott's
Magazine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
Too peen for Men.

The fact is that women are un-
comfortable if they are not fashion
ably dressed, relates Katherine F.
Gerould in Atlantic. No man under
stands the subtle and complex sig
nificance of the phrase nothing to
wear'-witness the distressed but
utterly puzzled expression that over
spreads a mans face at the words.
He knows that his wife or his sister
looks charming in 'the blue one" or
"the lace one," or ''the one with the
jet" She has looked charming in it
often enough for him at last to iden-
tify it--and that, unless he is an ex-
ception to his sex, is very often. He
is cheerfully getting into his evening
coat for the fiftieth time. No won
der he does not realize that some
frock which, the first time it was
worn, made for triumph, should, the
tenth time, make for humiliation.
But the most strong-minded woman
the woman who will, if necessary go
to the opera on gala night in
coat and skirt-at heart exonerates
the woman who so foolishly, for the
reason mentioned, stops at home.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01

"a little color from the Potrero"-
so genial friend informs the San
Francisco Chronicle.
Far out on the very edge of town
is a little school house, the first and
second grades of which are com.
manded by pretty little normal
school graduate.
''Her pupils are all sons and
daughters of the warmer sort of i'm.
pulsive foreigners and have all reach.
ed a state of alteration for their
queen and vie with each other in
ways to please her.
"One day she had dwelt especially
upon loving and caring for dumb ami
mails. The next day little Pietro re.
mained in his seat when his school
mates dropped out to play.
Teacher was busy at her desk and
did not notice him until she felt
little fist tugging at her sleeve.
Why, Pietrol' she exclaimed,
what is the trouble?'
'Nothin', teacher. | just wanted
to tell you how l was good to dumb
aniWals yesterday he promptly re-
piled.
Why. isn't that nice Pietro, just
what did you dor
'Pietro drew himself up to his full
three feet and proudly asserted:
81 kissed the cat"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
Ruskin as a Grocer.

Ruskin was once grocer. In 1874
he opened a shop in Paddington
street, Noting Hill, in order, as he
announced, ito supply the poor with
pure tea in packets as small as they
chose to buy. without making a profit
on the subdivision, large orders being,
of course, equally acceptable from
anybody who cares to promote honest
dealing" The shop did not attract
Ruskin complained in Fors Clavigera
that "the poor only like to buy their
tea where it is brilliantly lighted and
eloquently ticketed, and as resolute.
ly refuse to compete with my neigh.
boring tradesmen either in gas or rhet.
oric, the patient subdivision of my
parcels passes little recognized as an
advantage by my uncalculating pub.
lic." The shop soon closed down and
the grocery trade lost the most dis
tinguished representative it is ever
likely to possess.-London Chronicle.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
Calendar Reform In China.

From Peking it is announced that
the Chinese government is about to
drop the troublesome moon from its
calendar and follow the practice of
western nations in using only the
sun. The present Chinese year began
on January 80 and is the year 4S of
the seventy-sixth cycle, a cycle con-
sisting of 60 years and the first year
of the first cycle occurring B. C. 2637.
But owing to the use of the moon the
number of days in the year varies con-
siderably. Ordinarily there are IL lu-
nations or months, but once in 80 lu-
nations thirteenth lunation is added
to the year, as result of which the
year can be as short as S54 days or
as long as 3S4 days. The months are
more regular than our own, alternate
ing between 20 and 80 days. The Chi
nese year completely fails to keep the
seasons within proper bounds.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
The Man They Admired.

Several senate clerks and stenog
raphers were gossipping in the Cap
itol building the other day, telling
"reminiscences of statesmen past and
present when Senator Cummins of
Iowa passed them. "Ah, there's the
best of all of them," one remarked.
Fright you are" asserted another.
Foraker was great, but, in some re-
spects, this man even surpasses
him." Il doubt if this old building
ever forgets his memory" sighed a
third. Wonderful in debated" was
the fourth mans contribution. mo
man was ever his equal in the hula
balloo of a hot fight on the floor" A
stranger had listened to the praises,
following Senator Cummins with his
eyes as long as he could. 'Who is
he?" he asked eagerly, "Some famous
orator? The country's leading states
man, perhaps? A political genius?"
Genius nothing!" grunted one of the
stenographers. "Why that mans the
slowest talker of the senate and the
easiest to take in shorthand"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
SLANG BY NO MEANS NEW
Familiar Phrase "Get the Hook" Has
Come Down to Present Times
From Long Ago.

I'VE are accustomed to having 40,
cepted ideas about the freshness and
originality of our slang held up to the
scorn and mockery of the initiated"
said member of a group of amateur
archaeologists and antiquarians which
meets regularly in one Of the New
York clubs.
How often we have seized upon
some newly coined phrase, some ap-
parently unique product from the
great popular language mint, and ad.
vanced it as a genuine invention OF
the day, only to discover that it was
known to generations past in almost
identical form and is truly an old
coin restamped.
Everybody is familiar with the
phrase get the hook 1t has been ess
tablished in current speech as slang
expression of peculiar vigor and terse-
ness. Almost anyone could tell you
that it originated in the amateur
nights at popular vaudeville theaters
where aspirants for fame are given
a chance to try their powers upon
implement with which the stage man
ager brings about the actors forcible
exit when the audience can stand no
more. Cat calls and jeers falling to
extinguish the ardor of the performer,
there is demand for the hook and
the unhappy artist is dragged into
the wings, willy nilly.
From this application the phrase
has come into general use for all oc.
casions when one is bored or wearied
Of anything or anybody.
Nov on the face of it this looks
like a truly modern bit of slang. It
can be traced, apparently, to a mod
ern custom and a modern method of
entertainment. You would say, of
hand, that the hook is a genuine
Americanism if ever there was one.
"Not at all. 1t is at least 10 centuries
old, possibly older than that.
among the most interesting dis.
coveries in the ruins of Pompeii, de-
stroyed 7g A. d., are the inscriptions
scratched upon the walls by idlers and
street arabs, 'grafltti,' they are called.
Zone of them reads as follows:
Puteolanis feliciter, omnibus Nu.
cherinus felicia, ct uncu(m) Pompei.
ianis (eD Pitecusanis.'
(Which means, 'Hurrah for the Pu.
teolaneans; good luck to all Nuceri.
ans; the hook for the Pompeiians and
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-12-01
Cochineal Scarlet.

It is the opinion of Leon Diguet,
who has been studying the state of
the cochineal industry in Mexico for
some time, that before many years
have passed cochineal scarlet will
have become a thing of history only,
like the Tyrian purple of antiquity. ]
wonder how many people are aware
of the method Of manufacture of this
well known dye. 1t is made from the
dried female of the cochineal insects
(Coccus cactD. They are gathered by
brushing the branches of the nopal
cactus, on which the insects feed as
soon as they begin to lay their eggs.
They are then desiccated in ovens or
filed with boiling water. 1t has been
estimated that one pound of cochineal
contains no fewer than 10000 distinct
insects. The color is brought out and
fixed by chloride of tin. Only a few
plantations of the nopal cactus now
remain, hence the fear that the dye
will soon become a thing of the past,
at any rate unless some other sub
stance is found on which to feed the
insects.