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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-07-19
NUMBER 20.

have answered her without the quick
sob and the low "Yes'm."
The carriage stopped, and the mon ;
ument again accomplishing descent,
opened the door, and stood staring in
blank amazement.
/ am not going III John, said hi,
mistress. Drive home again. And
she added, smiling. This little boy
crept in out Of the cold while the car.
riagc was waiting. | am going to
take him home. Drive back as quick
ly as possible.
As the bewildcred coachman shut
the door and turned to his perch the
boy made Il spring forward.
Lemme outl he cried. | don't want
to so home. Lcmme outl
Not your home, said tho lady gen
tly--nly home, where you can get
very warm, and have good dinner,
and a long, long sleep, on soft bed.
Will you like that?
Tom drew long slow breath but
did not answer. 1t was too wonder
full! lie -one Of Nanny SAILS boys
Ito 60 to the-lady s house where the
children lived whom he had seen go
in that EVENING" lie looked up sud-
denly. Were those children youm?
he asked. With sudden movement
she drew him very close to her, an,l
than answered softly:
No,not mine. ! had little boy once,
like you and he died.
When the carriage stopped again
Tom was fast aslecp-su list asleep
that the still b.widcred coathman
carried him into the house and laid
him on bed without waking him.
The next morning, when the boys
eyes opened, he lay looking about him,
hardly daring to speak or move Best
OF all, the lady Of the night before was
standing by the bed smiling at him,
and, smiling back, he held out his
arms to her.
wish you could have seen him a
little later, when arrayed in jacket and
trousers that made him think with
disdain of certain articles Of the same
description, which he hal but yestcr-
day gazei at lovingly as they dangled
before little table by the sunny
window taking short, very short,
preliminary view Of gigantic beet
steak still Indignantly sputtcring to
itself, mountain OF smoking potatoes,
an imposing array of snowy rolls and
golden butter, and a pitcher of creamy
milk. And | wish, too, vou could
have seen the same table still later,
for tue table was about all that was
left,
That was tho first time that | ever
saw Tom. Since then | have seen
him very often. And now will tell
yon, only am afraid you will hardly
believe me, about the last time, and
that was not long ago.
l was riding along one of the pret-
liest country roads you ever saw, aud
when came to a certain gate, IN.
horse, without waiting for Aign
from me, turned in. AS we drew
near the house | caught sight Of two
| fipnroe sfand,nu amonu tho Hnvprs
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differences Of Noted Men

at looks like rain. Plato,
"Cold day. amt it?"--Nartin Lu-
ther.
"Yon can stop my paper" Ma
poleon Bonaparte.
"My head aches fit to split.
George W ashington.
"Here's another button off THU
shirt" Daniel Webster.
"Send me up two pounds ofstcak.'
Thomas Jefferson.
"rhcse potatoes amt more'n hall
done. "Socratcs.
Iou're fuller than you were before
dinner .,'--Confuscius.
"Call around next week and III
pay it.".--Edgar Allen Poo
Cant you keep your cold feet oui
Of my backf"-- Brigham Young.
"You needn't sit up for me; shan
bo home till late" Thomas AIKEN
,pis.
Cant you lend me S. till uex
Moniay?''--John Howard Payne.
Il suppose I've got 10 so out ant
shovel OF that sidewalk. "--Charlcl
Sumner,
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-07-19

ny MISS KATE GIVEN, OF DIXON, KY.
When tho Greater said Let there
DO light, and there was light" how
beautiful oil must have beenI The
starry armament rolling in silent
grandeur and beauty and countless
orbs wheeling in solemn majesty
through regions so immense that the
mind recoils from measuring them.
The palo moon TO shed a soft silvery
radiance by night; the glorious sun
TO flood all with mellow light, by
day. The last, the noblest ofall these
works, was Man, upon whose brow
was placed tho crown of Empire, and
into whose being lie has struck q
spark from his own divinity. The
work was finished, "Tho morning
stars sang together for joy" mo cloud,
no sorrow, all brightness, beauty, and
happiness unalloyed But the temp
ter came, man sinned, aud tho scene
changes. Dark clouds o'erspread
the Heavens. The sun was yelled In
darkness. The beauty was gone. man
was forever expelled from that abode
Of purity aud love, an exile, TO wan.
der upon thoface of the earth, with
Gods curse resting upon him and
the doom pronounced that "5y tho
sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn
thy bread" Since that fatal day
Blight has always followed Bloom
no created thing SO bright but Il
must fa,le; no liie can bc cloudless,
for Unto all lives some rain must
fall; Some days be dark aud drcary ;
But the Creator In llis wisdom or.
daincd that these .'daik days" these
clouds Of adversity should refine and
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-07-19
MACEDONIA.

Last Thursday the 3Oth, ult, Mr..
James Thomas was riding near the
residence Of Mr.. James Miller, near
Friendship, in Caldwell county, his
attention was attracted by a very
angry looking cloud that was rapidly
approaching, thinking that storm
would ensue, he rushed to Mr.. M,llcr's
house; but not until he had disinoun-
ted taken off his saddle and walked
to the door, did he discover that there
was no one at home. BY this time
the rain was beginning to fall. Be.
ing a near neighbor and verv intimate
with Mr.. Miller, he resolved to take
shelter in tho porch until the storm
subsidod, His footsteps gave alarm
to the watch dog and before Mr.
Thomas could rctrace his steps, the
surly beast was upon the threshold.
Seeing that escape was impossible
Mr.. Thomas drew his knife hoping ia
frighten the dog off, but it was witt,
much difficulty, and not until both
parties had received serious injuries
that our friend put his fierce aniagon
ist to fight Mr.. Thomas received
several serious wounds about his body
but is able to so about again,
RouaH AND READY,
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-07-19
JEFF Davis On the Attempted
Assassination.

In the course Of reply to letter
from Mr.. +. s, Collins, Of Indiana, in
regard to the attcmnted assassination
Of the President, Jefferson Davis says:
al will not, like the telegram you
cite in regard to the attempted assas-
sination Of the President, say | am
thankful the assassin was not
Southern man, but | will say | regret
that he is an American. The crime,
black enough in itself, has deeper
dye from the mercenary motive which
seems to have prompted it. sincerely
trust that the President may recover.
and that the startling event will arouse
the people to the consideration of a
remedy for the decentralization which
n wild hunt after Offices is creating.
With best wishes for your welfare,
/ am very truly yours,
JErfERsoN DAVIS.
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A PARODY.
BY ROY.

Oh! were you nc'cr candidate,
And did you never strain,
And feel that swelling OF the head
You nc'cr shall feel agaiLr
Did you never meet, far down the street,
a crowd Of voters gay,
Who took drink, and rad no chlnk,
And left you the bill to pays
Did you never rave and saw the air,
And not once think TO prny,
When you went among the colorcd boys
To lght the mimic frayf
Did you never grasp with friendly clasp
The hand OF all you meet,
The beer saloon slip softly past.
For fear ysu'd have TO trcaty
Did you never feel like bars Of steel.
Or corns upon your feet.
a hand laid on your arm. and turn,
To face . strapped dead bcat'
Aud did your hand your pocket seek,
Aud turn 1t inside out: .l
And when he found you'd nothing left,
Diti he hit you on the snouty
Did the boys In fun ~ your loriship dun
For the money that got the call,
In the weekly piper you had to shun,
For fear your cash would falY
Did the Bro. who took up collection at church
Passthc hat 10 you with grin,
AS he gently trod on your fayoritc corn,
And sad you'd better ''chip iuy'
Did ere the 10y who wal dressed In blue,
Approach with nod and winkS
Say he was raising barbecue
Aud you'd please pass over the chinkS
Did the man just out OF big street light,
Come up with pitiful tale,
or how his OLD mother would set up nllAlght
Ani-did you go on his Dails
II you didn't. Justopcn the listof tho votes,
That you expect to get without doubt,
Run down the row and scratch his namc OF,
For you'd just as well count him out.
And then, to be plain do you watch for tho
man,
Who longs after liquor, and pcif.
Dhlyou slip round the corner and give him III,
dodgo
And take u big snort bv yoursclfs
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AN ESSAY.


The following essay, which VIC pub
lish by special request, was read by
Miss Kate Given, OF Dixon, Ky, at
the commencement exercises Of Bethel
Female College, June 10th 1881. II
was only at the urgent solicitation OF
many of her friends who desired to
have the essay in print that Miss
Given consented TO allow il to be
published. ED.
INTO EACH LIFE SOME
RAIN MUST FALL,
SOME DAYS BE DARK AND
DREARY."
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purify the soul of man, as the friction
polishus ana refines the rough stone
into the beautiful gem with its many
brilliant hues. When we think OF
the consultations OF great minds that
have risen upon the horizon Of hi.
lnan Intellect; tho great men who
have left the impress of their genins
upon the face oil society, and whose
names shall endure when thropes
shall crunble and Empires shall have
vanished, can we think of one
whose lie was unshadowed? !? No, ho
who won the proudcst victory that
genius ever won, the conquest ofna-
tuie, OF ignorance, of snpcrslltion, all
ut q single blow, and that blow by o
single arm; ho who thus raised him.
self 80 imineasurably above his race
who must have Dcen regarded by his
fellows as little less than god; who
inscribed his name OIL the very
Heavens, aud wrote II on the sun,
"wiih pen OF iron and the point OF
a diamond" even this one has per-
ished from the earth, name, age.
country, all are swept into oblivion
But his glorious achievement re-
,uains the monument reared TO his
memory stands and although the
touch of time has etiaced the lettering
OF his name it cannot destroy the
fruits of his victory. The names and
works OF such men as Socrates,
Homer. Dante, and Angelo will last
as long as wisdom is reverenced,
genius admired, or poetry, eloquence
and art slir the human heart with
their wondrous witchery and power.
Nor are individuals alone subject to
this great law OF change but whole
nations also. Where are the toasted
triumpns OF mans handiwork in ages
past Time, The mighty conqueror, has
touched them aud their proud heads
have been hunbled to the very dust.
They TOO must have ielt that dark
days will come to all. Should one
point to the Egyptian Pyramids and
say, "Bchold the successful fortress
reared against Your all powerful
KingW Can we not bid him look
upon the ruins of knriac, more glo-
rious in their ialIcn pride, far greater
in extent, and even now after a
thousand centuries have beaten upon
their ruined grandeur. lar surprising
in inagniticence The Great Pyramid !;
aud yet arc not Its moulIcring tenn,
pies prophetic record that Chcops'
too shull iall ut his own appointed
timer What lesson does Ninevcli
teach 7 the once proud capitol oina-
tions who boasted that its laws were
eternal aud its temples immortal, or
ancient Memphis with her piagnili-
cent duncs and columns? Tyre,
whose merchants were Princes aud
Palmyra OF tho desert? passing
away" is tho dirgc chanied BY the
desert winds over their fallen gran.
dcur. Athens from her ruined aero.
polls looks down upon broken COL
unn and frieze ; and Rome shorn OF
her spendor mourns amid the silent
wastes OF the colisium; Carthage, no
longer mistress OF the seas, exists but
in story, aud Thebes with It's hundred
gates lies buried beneath the burning
desert sands. The ancient empires
of the world, where are they F? The
Macedonian whose chief wept that
there were no inore worlds TO con.
ourr? Tho Roman that spread "rrom
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-07-19

Last year California sent $l,0l0,001
worth OF fresh f,uits to Stats east ut
thvI,ocky Mountaihs.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-07-19

In vulais. Switzerland, ope house
was fired by lightning, aud the entire
village 800 houscs burned.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-02-27
KEW YDHK WEEKLY HERALD
ONE DOLLAR a YEAR.

| FETHE SIfSFUGATEsN D@ THIS pOpULAR
| IL NEWSPAPER has more than trebled during the
past year 1t contains all the leading contained in
the DAILY HERALD, and is arranged in handy departments
FOREIGN NEWS
Embraces special dispatches from all quarters of the
| globe Under the head Of
AMERICAN NEWS
Are given the tcegaphc dispatches Of the week from all
parts of the Union. This feature alone makes the
AfGEKhY HAIR LID
The valuable chronicle in the world as it is the
cheapest Every week is given faithful report OF Pot
cal News, embracing complete ard comprehensive dis
patches from Washington including fun reports OF the
hour. The
THIS ROME.
Giving recipes practical Dishes hints for making cloth
ing and for keeping up with the latest fashion the
est prices Every item of cooking cOomy suggested
in this department is practically tested bv experts before
publication Letters from our Paris and L0ndou
pondens the very latest fashions The Home Depart
men OF the WEEKLY HERALD will the housewife
tereSts OF
FARM DEPARTMENT
Of the WEEKLY HERALD gives the latest well the
of the farmer, hints oI raising cattle poutr, grains
trees vegetables, etc with suggestions for keeprg build
ings and farming utensils in repair This is s,lcnentca
ny "etedlted department, widely copled under the
~5sEG.l.gs, ,tIsoG
Are looked after, and everything relating to mechanics
and labor saving is carefully recorded. There IS page
devoted Toe the latest phases Of the business inarct
the specially reported prices and conditions the
PRODUCE afaE&GGV.
Sporting news at home and abroad together wish
Story every week, q Sermon by some eminent divpe
Literary, Musjcl!, Dramatic, Personal and Notes,
There is no paper n the world Which contains much
news after cFery week the WEEKLY HERALp which is
sent postage paid, for Cne Dollar You subscribz at
any time
The New Yor76 R5erss,i in q Weekly Perm !
0m& rCEL&R 4 YEAR.
Address,
EZsv YORK HERaEB,
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

To STICK CLOSE to your desk and never
80 'see" may work very we'll in the
navy, but in the dryer business of great
land companies and such like, it is not al
ways SO commendable. A large English
company some years ago found upon inves-
tigation thatan ovcr-faithful treasurer who
always refused holiday, had done so to
insure that his books should never be ex-
amined. Since that experience, the subor-
dinates of that company and of many
Others are urged with great earnestness to
take a little yearly recreation abroad, DUR
ing which time experts arc given the op-
portunity fora thorough examination.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
why we Grow Rich.

1t was only in 1880 that the first cheese
from America crossed the Atlantic From
September !, 1880 to September, l. 1881, the
quantity of cheese sent across frem New
York has been l27.3ll boxes, but the grad
ual ldiminution of the export for the last
four months has caused great uneasiness
among the hotel keepers and restaurateurs
of London. OF late years rows upon rows
of gigantic American cheeses might be seen
piled upon the shelves of the dining-hal of
every great London dining.house More
there than here. clerks and commercial
men are cheese devourers, and the bread
and cheese lunch and bread-and cheese
suppers are the very ne plus ultra of cpl
cureanism to these classes of consumers.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

A REMARK by Revivalist Harrison I'm a San
Francisco meeting: "5ometimes / think shall
not die hut, when my time comes angels will
me gently away. Ifit is true, as stated. that
@ brother Harrison charges 500 aweek and ex-
fact may act as a handicap, so to speak--Chi.
cago Inter-Ocenn.
II Is not true, and the Inter Ocean could
be In better business than repe iting allega.
tions of this sort TO give aid and comfort to
tnose VINO are never so comfortable as
When they can sneer at anything that Is
good. This remark applies to politics as
wei rs religion Erchdn0c.
What is not true2 Not true that Brother
Harrison made the above remark, or not
true that hc charges for his work? If he
made the remark, the cranks will find room
for him In their society, and if he gets 800
Q week a different question presents itself.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
Well Mafclneal.

A statistician has lately published some
interesting facts concerning the use of
matches, which shows that Germany sur
passes all other countries In their con-
sumption, which is attributed to the un-
usual habit of smoking. In that country
the average daily use Is from ten to Il ifteen
for each person, In Berlin about nine. In
England eight and in France six. The
total dhly. consumption of matches In
all Europe IL estimated at 100000.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
The Rolnnnce of Renl Estatc.

New York Evening Express.
John Murray, the only son of John II.
Murray, the original owner of Murray Hill,
died at Mount Morris yesterday aged 20
years. His death calls attention TO the
wonderful advance in the value of property
in the metropolis. There are men living
who were sold lots by Mr.. MuiTay's father
Mt from $l5O0 to $1,000, which have since
been sold for 100000. The value of real
estate has increased in no city so rapidly as
ii has in New York, and II Is believed that
had Mr.. Murray held all the real estate left
him by his father he would have been the
richest man in the city.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

THE INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATIoN AND
PEACE ASSOCIATION, sitting in London, has
patted America OH the head most patron
izingly in approval of that polite salutation
to the English flag at Yorktown. The
peace men consider that cannon shot as a
kind of an echo of the millenial silences; a
sort OF sulphurousan and dovc-like harbnger of
universal amity-as it were.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
That New Jersey Examiner.

Moying about from bank to bank, inves-
tigating critically, he should have shifted
the rottenness Of the Newark concern in
the very air months and years ago, That
he did not do so shows that the bank exam
amtned very particularly, OF else that the
whole system of this pretended ofiicial es-
pionage should be wiped out altogether.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

IN ENGLAND it has been established that
bicycler on the highway indulging in a
rate of progress dangerous to passers-by can
be convicted of furiously driving carriage.
But in the absence of any express lcgisla-
tion upon the subject, bicycles have the
same rights upon the highways as other
vehicles, and prohibitive enactments from
municipal authorities cannot have any eff
cienCy
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
The Dead Issues.

NhhVIIIe WOrIu.
The Southern people have had enough of
war; enough of slavery; enough of seces-
sion. These questions were settled after
an appeal to arms, and with us they are
issues tully, and we think rightfully, de-
cided and forever dead. In all the South
since the war there has been but one paper
the Okdiond States Mlssissippi--that was
foolish enough to undertake. to revive
natural death, which was creditable to the
town and State in which 1t was published.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

The WoMAN's SILK CULTURE AssocIA-
TIoN of the United States has sent fine
exhibits of new and reeled silk to the exhi-
bitions held in many of the States. 1t is q
domestic industry worthy of attention, as it
is directly suited to furnish remunerative
employment for the unoccupied moments
of women and children who are debarred
from seeking work beyond the thresholds
of their own homes.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
Tuesday, November 8, 1881.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR received his friends
and other ofllcc.scekers at the Fifth Ave-
nue Hotel in New York yesterday. or course
the soft-murmuring Conk. sat- next the
Presidents ear -Courier-Journd.
Henri should be careful to state which
ear, because he can't reach either.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

"WHY DID POOR NELLIE DIE?" will
be the song for Forestvillc, N. Y Miss
Nellie Record, of that town, had invited
all her friends, by card, to see her join
herself in marriage with Warren Hooker,
but on the very day of the wedding she
eloped with Dell Dye
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

PROFESSOR GULLIvER, of Andover Theo-
logical Seminary, is making survey of the
religious tencts as they are now held by the
various religious communities of New Eng
land. He will probably find the Lillipu-
tians, Brobdingnagians, and even the
Houyhnhums during his travels.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
WArrERsoN states :

A story to the effect that the editor OF the
Courier-Journdt is about to remove to New
York to edit the World of that city, with
sundry fantastic additions, published by n
Nashville paper and extensively circulated
here, makes 1t proper for us 10 say that
neither the story itself, nor any part of 1t,
has the slightest foundation in fact.
Nobody supposed it had. If Watterson
has any forte, it consists in abusing people
north of the line, and this is not popular in
certain localities.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

BLAcK.JAcK, according to tho big die
tionary, may mean either the sulphurct of
zinc, or leather can used for holding beer.
They probably decide the derivation by in
dividual taste out in Missouri, where they
have selected the harmonious dissyllablc as
the name for town.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

FLIppER, says the Atlanta Constitution,
is before his court-martial confronted by
two sets Of charges. He is graciously per-
mitted to elect under which set he shall be
drummed out of tho army. 1t is usual in
such cases for the court to take advantage
of all it can get. But if Mr.. Flipper has
been SO remarkably versatile he has prob
ably managed to cover the bill.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

IT HAS BEEN ASKED in Paris, as ques-
tion of etiquette, whether man should
bow on entering q railway carriage. The
custom might be introduced out West. If
he raised his hat perhaps even one of the
James family would be recognized.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
western, EstheticIsn.

Umhha Republican.
Mrs. Templeton says she could sec that
her Omaha audience was cultured one.
Yes, we're some on the cult. Mrs. Temple
ton struck us as being quite too ravishly
Intense. Taking Mrs. Templeton and us
(that Is to say, Omaha) together, we're just
about the very thing.
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

A BAND OF GIRLS of a pretty cream and
coffee color appear nightly in two of the
Chicago theatres. In one they are well
coined as the dancers from the tea gardens
of Toxic and in the other as damsels from
the last hair-raising of the Comanches.
The mulatto complexion serves equally
well for both parts
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08
The Diirerence.
Atlanta Constitute

Atlanta Canstitution.
Mahonism Will have to swap ends when
IL reaches Georgia. In Virginia 1t is based
on an effort TO repudiate AN honest debt,
but the Georgia Malone viii have TO de-
vote himself TO legalzing a lot of bogus
such O conflict
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

THAT there is nothing new under the
sun seems to be again proved by the dis
covery of rihed cannon in the old museum
of Bale. The weapon is more than three
hundred years old, and the bore furnishes
certain evidence that an effort to increase
the effect of the shot has been made by a
rude attempt resembling the modern pro-
The Evening critic., 1881-11-08

In THIS COUNTRY when an orator uses
the expression, The father of his coun-
try" he usually explains by adding, / "al-
lude" to George Washington. In England
they have improved upon allude by sub
stituting advert. The term might be i'm
ported with advantage free of duty.