The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-01-28

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The four-gament girls may get
more partners at the dance, but they
are not the kind who get life part
ners.
The Paris merchant who cuts down
his advertising appropriation in or
der to reduce expenses reduces'his
income a good deal faster than his
Liabilities.
Some people are rheumatic; some
are dyspertics, and others are just
naturally grouchy. We have all
three here in Paris. but there are a
few left who still smile and see the
sunshine.
The man who has been prudent
and careful with his earnings the
past few years is not crying hard
times" 1t is the nan who spent his
lnoney-Iike he could pick more from
the bushes like berry, who is the
biggest calamity bowler.
According to Martin Luther, wine.
women and song are mems chief cd
ucators. Prohibition has eliminated
wine and the musical comedies have
murdered song, but the modern wo-
man carries a triple burden as if she
liked it.
Why will some people continually
worry about things that may never
| happen in the future and let their
present affairs get into such a mlx-
up that some one else has to worry
to get them out? This from fail
Paris PHILOSOPHERS
The tobacco markets have reopen.
ed without decided tone in prices
There is much talk of this scheme
or the other to help the farmer. The
farmer, an excellent Judge of talk
has about made up his mind that he
will have to help himself!
Good tobacco is selling at price.
profitable to the grower who is no
operating upon lard worth $500 al
acre. That recalls an agriculture
axlmo of twenty years ago: Yo,
cannot make interest on land wortI
more than 800 an acre.
Income tax experience indicate
that only 5000 Kentuckiars hav
incomes above $1,000. Propert
assessment experience proves tina
nobody has any diamonds, but thes
facts are learned through taxation
and not otherwise.
There is so much talk about boost
ing Paris that we are bound to az
sumo that Paris needs boosting. but
if it does, wouldn't it be fair kin
of start to quit knocking it? An
mightn't another helpful effect b
occurred if people could be gotten on
of the comfortable belief that Their
is magic in a slogan?
IA living wage is such a one 4
not only enables the laborer to iiv
physically, but also permits the EN-
ployer to i've spiritually. "--(Bu
letin.)
And then, dagone it, they go an
fix 1T so the employer can't get til
Spirits to live the taway!
The trouble with this great cour
try of orr; just now. aside frol
many things like fanticism an
busy hodyism, is that all the evi. /
it, like rotton eggs, has floated to tt
top, and the good, like gold nugge
in pool Of water, has for the tin
! being, become submerged.
One Of the aims Of the "Sunia
= blue LAWYERS is to prohibit all aut
mobile driving on Sundays. They il
tend to make the penalty for viol
ton so severe that none dare di
obey the law. It has not been d
termined yet, however, whether Il
penalty shall be confiscation Of a
/ personal property Of the violator,
instant death. That will be decide
later.
II Of course, the inhibition as
cruel and unusual punishment do
not apply to our late gonists-
l it seems absurd to write of them
enemies at this date. On the 9TH
hand, even 1ow-grade Kentucky t
bacco crop, and the trash from it
that, it may be argued, is bett
smoking material for the German
than the wretched stuff from tt
Pfalz, from Alsace or from Hollan
which is commonly all the excuse
German needs for one of those loI
china-bowled pipes.
:. Lexington papers yowled in gre
glee because President-elect Hardin
passed through Lexington" one d:
last week. He wouldn't have dol
ii otherwise WOULD hep He also na &C,