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The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Umbrellas and Parasols.

Fashions change in umbrellas IS well
as in clothes. We find on visiting the
London museum that George ~ used
to carry a green silk umbrella frinGed
with gold and about twice as large as
the umbrella of today. Parasols, too,
have diminished in size since they first
came into use. Henri Estienne, writ
ing in 1878, speaks of parasol as ca
pable generally of sheltering four per-
sons from the sun. And when they
diminished in circumference the ma
teral remained Of the heaviest Red
velvet parasols. with heavy gold
fringes, were carried by ladies' of fash
ion in the days of Louis XIV. At that
time it was possible, when crossing
bridge in Paris, to hire a parasOl at
one end and deposit it at the other. the
charge for the accommodation being
a sou.-LOndon Chronicle.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
THE ORDINARY MAN.

Some of the Snass He Struck In His
Journey Through Life.
The ordinary man walked into a for
lists shop and. pointing to a beautiful
Towering plant, asked its price.
'gThat Duodecimum foriatumT ask
ed the florist as nearly as the ordinary
man understood him. 'sIt is worth
dollar"
He dropped in at his physicians Of
fee and requested that gentleman to
tell what was the matter with him.
"Oh, you've just got slight mani
festation Of Nasopharyngeal comblom-
merus," the doctor said. or words to
that apparent effect.
The ordinary man stopped to look at
an automobile, and the agent said:
"You see, the differential is set at
tangent to the assimilator, and that
brings the obloid paralleling chute in
diametric connection with the swivel
ing trunnion," as nearly as the ordi-
nary man caught the remark.
The ordinary man consulted his law
yer.
1--WE will appeal to have the decision
reversed" declared the attorney, ION
the grounds of lex judica tum non con-
tendre posse comitatus." At least that
is what the ordinary man gathered.
So he became so bewildered over the
way things are told to ordinary people
that he was careless when he crossed
the street and was run down by an au-
tomobile being demonstrated by the
agent and was picked up and carried
into the doctors Office and called the
lawyer to make his will, and later the
florist got an order.
And, to pursue him still further, they
carved on his monument. "Requiescat
In Pace."-Chicago Post
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AN UNPUBLISHED NOVEL.
6urnaby's Handwriting Was So Bad Il
Could Not Be Read

1t was stated at the time of Colonel
Burnaby'S death that he had left be-
hind him the manuscript of novel for
which there was considerable competi-
ton among the publishers.
This is quite true. The manuscript,
a bulky parcel, was handed to me
with discretionary power either to pub
lish it myself or to use it in connection
with the proposed biography.
Here a singular and. as it finally
proved, a fatal obstacle presented it
self. Familiar for many years with
Burnaby's handwriting, l could not
after diligent endeavor make out more
than a sentence here and there on the
crowded page of manuscript.
Burnaby's writing was. possibly with
the exception of Dean Stanley's. the
worst | ever saw. 1t looked as if be-
fore sitting down to write letter he
had pulled a tvig out of the hedge,
mixed a little backing and then gone
ahead.
He wrote the whole of his Ride to
Khiva" and his "Ride on Horseback
Through Asia Minor with his own
hand. But before they reached the
printer they were fairly written out by
a cOpyist.
The hapless man used to make out
as much as he could, then leave blanks
for filling up which he had to seek the
assistance of the author. Sometimes
4. =. -
words.
Despairing of making anything of
the manuscript of the novel. it was
submitted to a publisher, who turned
upon it his most skillful decipherist.
Neither head nor tail could be made
of the manuscript. and the intention
Of publishing the novel was cOnse-
quently abandoned.-Sir II. w. Lucy
in Cornhill Magazine
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
CEMETERY OF SUICIDES.
The Dreary Plot In Which Monte Carlo
Buries Its Victims.

Matilda Betham-Edwards in her book
'Tn the Heart of the Vosges" advises
all visitors to Monte Carlo to go to the
suicides cemetery before those other
places for which Monte Carlo is ia
nous. She describes the small inclo-
sure, walled in and having a gate of
open ironwork, always locked.
Here, In close proximity to garden
rubbish" she says, broken bottles
and other refuse rest the suicides of
Monte Carlo, buried by the parish
grayedigger, without funeral and with
out any kind of religious ceremony.
Each grave is marked by an up
right bit of wood, somewhat larger
than that by which gardeners mark
their seeds, and on which is painted a
number, nothing more. Apart from
these are stakes driven into the ground
which mark as yet unappropriated
spotS.' The indeScribable dreariness of
the scene is heightened by two monu-
mental stones garlanded with wreaths
and surrounded by flowers. The first
records the memory of a young arti-
san and was raised by his fellow
workmen; the second commentaries
brotherly and sisterIy affection Both
suicides were driven to self murder by
play.
'The remainder are mere numbers.
There are poor gamesters as we'll as
rich, and it is only or chiefly the poor
ones who are put into the ground here
The bodies of rich folks relatives, if
identified, are Immediately removed.
Many suicides are buried at Nice and
Mentone, but the larger proportion fur
Their off still"
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Paris Postage Stamp EXCHANGE.

"A curb market in Paris" was writ
ten on a picture postcard received
from that city by Wall street broker.
1t showed an open space thronged with
men, women and boys, many of whom
held books and portfolios. A letter by
the same mail explained that this was
the postage stamp exchange" where
dealers and collectors assembled once
every month Ito do business and to
regulate prices" ''Heretone may lind
schoOlbOys, great lawyers. society wo-
men. shrewd traders, writers. mer-
chants and men of all professions ex-
changing, buying and showing stamps,
and. although there is no organization.
all seem to follow unwritten laws, and
the gathering is as interesting to look
upon as that stock market in your city
which has no roof over its head
New York Tribune.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
SHAKESPEARE AS AN ACTOR.
He Evidently Was Not Player of Any
Great Power.

1t was probably in 1898 that Shake
the elder Knowell, and it was probably
in 1902 that he first personated the
ghost, being then thirty-eight years
old, says Brander Matthews in the
North American Review. He was to
remain on the stage ten or twelve
suppose that the parts he played in
later life were any more important
We do not know what characters he
undertook in the plays which he wrote
after Hamlet" nor do we know what
parts he assumed in the many pieces
by other authors which made up the
repertory of the company. That he
continued to act we need not doubt.
For instance, he was one of the per-
formers in Ben JonSOn's "Sejanus."
probably produced in 1902 or 1908.
But the absence IF specific informa-
did not impress himself upon his con-
temporaries as an actor of power. AS
Lewes declared, THE mere fact that
we hear nothing of his qualities as an
actor implies that there was nothing
above the line, nothing memorable to
be spoken Of" The parts which we be-
lieve him to have played did not de
mand or admit various excellencies."
Shakespeare may have had lofty his
trionic ambitions, but probably he was
not allowed to crafty his longings, and
certainly we have no tradition or hint
that he ever failed in what he at
tempted in the theater. Perhaps we
are justified in believing that he had
gone on the stage merely as the easiest
means of Immediately earning his liv-
ing, that he did not greatly care for
acting and that he was satisfied to as
sumo the responsible but subordinate
parts for which he was best fitted.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Standard of Persian Beauty.

Great care is taken that the Persian
girl shall conform to the recognized
standard of beauty. which requires her
to have a cypress waist, a full moon
meet" says a traveller Her eyes,
brows and hair must be black as night.
her lips, cheeks and gums as red as
blood. her skin and teeth as white as
almonds and her back, limbs and fin
gers long. If these conditions are nat
urally absent they are supplied as far
as possible by art. Persian women are
always painted. their eyes darkened
with khoI and their fingers stained
with henna." Chicago News.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
whv Madoe Declined Tea.

Madge, three years old. is of a posi-
tive nature and always ready with in
dependent opinions. A woman visiting
Madge's home sat next to the little girl
at table and offered her a spoonful of
her tea. which was declined with an
emphatic shake of the head.
''Take n little" urged the visitor
lust Il little for your stOmach's sake"
Il ain't dot no tummick ache" was
the Indignant reply. indianapolis
News
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Hindu Weddings and Burials.

The expenses of Il Hindu wedding
come upon the brides father, and they
are so great that family sometimes is
ruined or impoverished for many years
by the marriage of a daughter The
next most costly affair to the Hindu
is the burial services. Should the
head. Of the family escape bankruptcy
when his daughter is married the eld-
est son is almost sure to be ruined
when he buries his father
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Cannon Ball Trees.

One of the most remarkable plants
in the world is the cannon ball tree, to
be found in British Guiana The nat
ural height of the tree reaches to
eighty or, a hundred feet or even tall
er. The fruit is a hard globular cap
sule. seven inches or more in diameter.
containing numbers of fat. circular
seeds rather larger than a dime 1t
resembles 4 thirty-two pound shot, is
brown in color and very rough
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Send YOUR SUBSCRlP.
TON RIGHT AWAY
Program.

Program of Fifth Sunday
Ministers meeting to be held
with Fair View Church Nov.
30 and Dec, 1st 1912.
SATURDAY MORNING NOV. 50.
Song service by choir conduct
ed by W. G. Shepherd.
Devotional exercises by Pastor.
District mission work by NIL.
Shepherd, w. A. Breeding and
W. T. Mitchell.
Ought the minister to be COM
pensated by D. C. Hopper.
Intermission
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Music by the Choir,
Temperance, by Rev. nj. T.
Grimes and E. G. Wilson.
Cooperation of the church and
pastor by Rev. w. F. ]. Wilson.
Sunday Morning Dec. 1st 1912
Devotional exercises by NJ. T.
Grimes.
Music by choir.
What has Baptist principles
been worth to the world, by
Revs. j. S. Wade, and C. F,
Breeding.
Value of Sunday school to
church by Rev. B. F. Walls and
Aaron Wilson.
NOON.
Afternoon Session.
Music by the choir.
Spiritual betterment of the
church by Rev. j. r. Order and
]. M. Williams.
Music.
Adjournment.
W. A Breeding.
s. T. Hopper, Committee.
" 7. MITCHELL, }
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
LiNCOLN'S MOTHER.
Inc Family Pedigree Of the Hanksss
and Their Early Deeds.

Inc Family Pedigree Of the Hanksss
and Their Early Deeds
A frieno requests me to give for pub
fcation. if can do so, Sketch of the
family of Nancy Hanks. the mother Of
Abraham Lincoln. She tells me she
Lincoln and considers it very strange
that nothing has ever been written by
the historians of the presidents moth
err, except that her name was Nancy
Hanks
The historians never made any eff
fort to trace the pedigree of the fam
lily. Raymond. in his Life and State
Papers Of Abraham Lincoln" declares
nothing is known concerning her an
cestry or early life. He merely men-
tons that she was q VirginiaI by birth.
The name Hanks is rare in America,
yet we have straighter line on the
pedigree of the Hankses than we have
of the LincOlns. Beyond the grand
father of Abe Lincoln, we know abso-
lutely nothing of the family pedigree.
The earliest account we have of the
Hankses is their first appearance in
Gloucester county. Va. in 1913. In
deed book No 6. land grants, page
472, 1913. is recorded the grant OF 264
acres to Thomas Hanks. And on page
476, same year. 1913. is recorded n pat
ent to Thomas Hanks for 500 acres In
the early colonial history Of Virginia a
person who paid for the passage of a
person who came to settle in Virginia
was entitled to a land grant of several
hundred acres. This was why he was
given a grant of land. The INT of
paid for in cash or tobacco. which was
the circulating medium in Virginia. In
course of time the family increased
and emigrated westward. We next
hear Of them in Orange county, 40
miles west of Gloucester. Among the
marriages recorded in Orange court
house on March 26, 1903. is Rodney
Hanks. son of Reuben and Elizabeth
Hanks, TO Alice Chandler. But they
didn't stop at Orange courthouse We
find family of them In Rockingham
county. Va. in 100. and another in
Shenandoah county. In 1870 Abrnf u
Lincoln, grandfather of President Lin
coin. removed to Kentucky from Roc &
ingham county. Va. and we are GER
tain that the Hanks family was with
the LincolnS during that journey. The
next account We have Of the Hankses
is in 1906. In that year. in Kentucky.
Thomas Lincoln, father Of the pres1-
dent married Nancy Hanks.
The next account of the Hankses was
at the battle of Tippecanoe. in Indiana,
Nov. Z, 1911. We find the names OF
Peter and James Hanks. Peter was
killed He was member of Captain
Berry's company of militia from Ken
lucky. James belonged to a company
of mounted ri1emen and was from
Kentucky. They may have been broth
ers, and If so 1 am certain they were
the brothers of Nancy Hanks. In six
years after the battle Of Tippecanoe
Thomas Lincoln removed from Ken
lucky to Indiana.-Des Moines Regis
ter
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Sure II Was Safe.

You say that your airship is abso-
lutely safe" said the Investigator.
Now. how can you make that state
ment?"
I'VE haven't been able TO get it to
cave the ground" replied the in
ventor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Bound TO Please Her.

I've tried for ten years to please my
wife," said the married man. land I've
never yet succeeded"
Impossible" calculated his friend.
"No, don't think it is" said the
married man I'm going to shoot N.Y.
eelf."-Satire.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Learned by Experience.

Hes thp most careful man ever
knew"
That so:''
Yes. asked him if he could change
SO bill the other day, and what do
you suppose he did:'
Il don't know"
''He made ME show the $40 bill be-
fore he'd commit himself Said he'd
been touched for So that way before"
Detroit Free Press.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Her Exclamation of Il.

What are you laughing atY'
"Maud's letter. She writes that they
had foggy weather all the way across"
81 don't see anything funny in that"
"No. but she adds that the captain
must have neglected to take out clear
ing papers. Boston Transcript.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
That Loaded Revoluer-

"And you didn't know it was ioaded?'
mo. Judge, | swear didn't"
But before pointing it at the de
ceased, why did you not look into the
barrel to see whether or not it was
loaded?"
"Why. judge. that would have been a
fool thing TO do. 1t might have explod
ed and killed Houston Post
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Naturally

Belle Cholly told me last night that
/ was the hope Of his after years and
the chance of lifetime. Delle-Good.
What happened after that? Belle
Why. he very naturally embraced the
opportunity Philadelphia Record.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Drew a Crowd.

Il once woke up, if not to find my
self famous, at least to find myself at
tracing considerable attention"
How was that?"
Il had fallen asleep on a hotel We
randa with my mouth wide open."-
Washington Herald.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
A Chance.

.Why did you change physiciansT
IL had read all the books the other
doctor had in his waiting ROOM
Louisville Courier-JournaL
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
A Midnight Scare.

Knicker-Did your wife hear a bur-
glar in the cellar: Bocker-No: she
heard burglarette in the cellarette-
New York Times.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13
Defined.

II say. what's call money!
81 guess It's the kind you pay tele-
phone bills wi.h."-Baltimore Amer
can.
The Adair County news., 1912-11-13

Be a philosopher. but amid all your
philosophy be still man Hume.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
Too Deep.

Joseph E. Widener was showing a
group of visitors his fathers incom-
parable picture gallery at Lynwood
Hall, the Widener residence of white
marble near Philadelphia.
The talk turned to forged Raphaels
and Mr. Widener said:
There is an American who bought
a Raphael in Rome some years ago
The Italian law prohibits the expor
tation of masterpieces, and the Amer
lean had the happy idea of getting the
Raphael painted over. This was &C.
cordingly done. The rare old paint
ing reached New York in the guise OF
a modern snow scene.
"Then restorer, under the watch
full owners eye, set to work on. it.
With sponge dipped in turpentine
he proceeded to rub the snow scene
off. He sponged it off readily, but he
sponged a bit of the Raphael off, too
and, behold, underneath the Ra-
phael a portrait of Marconi was re-
vealed."
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
No More Fox Hunts for Him.

Arthur B. Suit, sheriff of Prince
Georges county, Md, says he never
again will indulge in fox chase. He
always was fond of the sport, but on
the occasion of his last chase he had
such an unpleasant and exciting ex'
perience that he concluded to go after
smaller game in the future.
1--WE had been out but a short
WHILE" he related to friends, before
we were on a trail, but it took us
some time to dig the fox from his
hole. A skunk was the fox's compan-
ion and both came out together"
Both animals were killed and taken
to Forestville.
with our party was a daredevil
sort of fellow" the sheriff said, land
he rode his horse through the village
store, the skunk hanging to the ami.
mails side.
"The store was quickly deserted, u
he added, 'and i resolved to partici.
pate in no more such hunts"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
NEVER ALLOWED TO 'INF0RM''
Point Of Military Etiquette That Is
Impressed on Youngsters in
the Service.

mo matter how much a second lieu
tenant in the army may know, he
must never presume to inform his
superior officers" remarked a captain
in one of the organizations of the Ma
tional Guard of the District of Column
bia recently
81 found that out long ago. Col. o.
B. Mitcham, in command of this ar
tillery division, sent me request for
information along certain lines, and
I dug out the material and wrote out
letter in reply which 1 thought was
strictly military. I took it down to
'Sergt.' Drew at militia headquarters.
Drew has been post quartermaster
sergeant In the islands, and has had
more experience in the formality OF
military correspondence than any one
know of.
"Sergt. Mike looked at it one sec
ond and nearly tainted. Great Scott
he gasped, you'd be shot at sunrise
If you sent that along
81 had written, Sir, have the hon.
or to inform you, and so forth
ct looked good and military to me,
but Sergt. Mike Drew, when he had
recovered from the shock, wept on
my shoulder and said:
"'My boy, don't you know in the
army nobody is ever allowed to in
form a superior officer? You may
have all the information in the world,
but don't presume to inform anybody
that's even one inch over you. 1t will
get you in bad. Just change that let
ter so it will read, l have the honor
to report
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
MINCE PIE FINDS CHAMPION
Barring of DeIectable Dessert From
Female Seminaries Held to Be
Libel on Pastry.

Mince pie has endured from genera
ton to generation and is not cast
down. 1t has suffered long from the
attacks of critics for whom it is
strong meat, but it still is kind to
those who love it and whom it loves.
1t gives and needs strength. We note
without dependence the attempt in
various New England colleges for
girls to give this delectable dish a
new bad name and hang it.
at is ruinops for the complexion, D
says one preceptress. And another
prates of technicalitles OF digestion
But at good old Wellesley they have
mince three times a year for the
girls who cannot go home for the
holidays" and there you have the
whole case for the libeled pastry in
a sentence. Mince pie is the home pie
1t spells Thanksgiving and Christmas
and a happy New Year and back-to-
the-farm and good-for-the-old-folk and
all sorts of things that keep together
the families in which the nation is
great.
Compilations! Why, the country
was full of them before any food critic
drew the hot air of life. And It will
be full of them still when the last foe
of mince pie falls under the crust that
mother makes. AS for the girls col
1eges-well, if the higher education is
raising a parcel of daughters that
cannot stand mince pie, it surely is
not bringing up band Of sisters en-
titled to the ballot.-New York World
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
So Ihouuhtful of Him.

Bridegroom (two days after we'd
ding)-"I haven't seen anything yet Of
that $4,000 check from your father"
Bride-"Well, you see, dear, papa
heard that your father had already
given us one, and he knew we
shouldn't care to have duplicate pres
ents."
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
In the Interests of Art.

How ugly those railway coaches
are!" exclaimed the critical young
woman. Couldn't you adopt some
suitable color scheme?"
Well replied the railway Official;
so long as We are compelled to OPP
crate on Jim crow lines, maybe it
would be neat and appropriate to paint
chem black and white.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
CheerfuIIy Subscribed.

Mrs Noopop-"Charlie, what co you
think? Dad just sent US a $1,000
check for our new baby! Wasn't that
good of him?" Mr.. Noopop-'I should
say SO! I'll write at once and thank
him for his contribution to the Fresh
Heir Fund.y-Judge.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-28
Great Piece Of Luck.

An English laboring man took Q
mezzotint Into Christie's art rooms in
London the other day and was aston
ished to be told that 1t was worth ST.
7S5. 1t was the Children Bathing"
of j. W~-d, famous eighteenth-cen-
fury engrayer and. painter.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-11-01
They Never Learn.

Draw poker IL q fne game. full Of
skill and scisAce. and the Q who
knows Whist to draw to and whom to
do It IL the fsllow who gets8th money.
Harris Dixon. tho author, VA explain.
Ing ono day that every man who
makssia practice Of trying % al q
four-card flush u doomed 70 bank.
truptcy.
There II 40 use talking. said Dix
on. Drawing to . four-hush u bad
business. I knew IN old man down
IN Nississippi who lost three planta,
lions drawing to thsm. Two Of the
plantations hs lost BY drawing and
nsysr nlling tho Aush, md ~ throw
away thu third ~ AnallyAnaktng the
hush talslpaioat nm Aoaaas-PollDulas
AAGasins.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-11-01

When the king Of Sweden command.
ed the presence at the royal palace a.
the Indian athlete who won the Ill.
around athletic championship at tho.
Olympic games. the winner refused q
60. Tho situation IL unprecedented.
and the winners bashfulness hae.
thrown the royal encourage into :
near dt at the idea Of . mans allow
ing his own tnclinations to take IT,
precedence Of royal pleasure.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-11-01

Sometimes the happenings sof -,
life must sound stranger than nctionnt
I'VE to the writer's Of fiction. HoNsa
this for instance: Proposal BY cabiS
from London. acceptance ~ cabs
from Chicago; engagement ring -
BY messenger from London g ~
cago. and-seyeral years later-oSg
for divorce on the ground Of de0Aftt36na11I
Was the enchantmsnt dus q -
tance7a g.g@sas