Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-19
COLLAPSED.


Disappearance OF the "Naming" and Court
Martial Dugbears.
The collapse OF bugbcar is IN event
Few American children come to mans
or woman estate without experiencing
a thrill of pleasure ut the discovery that
some terror to which they have been
paying the homage OF fear for years is
a pure creature OF the imagination, in
vented for their express benefit. 1t may
be the comparatively innocuous "sand
man." whose worst fear is putting sand
in their ewes to drive them all too early
to bed; or it may BE- the grim goblin OF
an hundred names and ten times rs
many shapes whose predicted coming 20
swallow or otherwise DESTROY has sub.
dued their widest tempeSiS of infantla
rage and sent them covering t. III
nurses arms or some other hiding
place. Whatever il is, soon or late its
harmlessness or non-eXstenca is d ScOv-
cred and the disenthrallcd youngSter
revels in a joyful sense of freedom
which few experiences OF aft. life par
allel or approach.
There are grown up bugbears. how.
ever, before which the adult world trem-
bles as unhappily as the child Dies be-
fore those invented for his reprcSS on.
There have becl two. in part GUAR,
which have long enjoyed dominion;
and by singular coincidence they have
both fallen from their high estate in the
same week-almost on the same day.
One of them was the awful bugbcar
which had done duty for generations in
the British Parliament. the awful bug.
bear of being named by the Speaker.
1t was a remarkable illustration OF the
power which an unknown terror pos.
sesses. Nobody within the recollection
of any human being now living ever
was named" bv the Speaker. Nobody
ever had the slightcs. idea what the
consequences would be of being
named" But for this very reason the
bare threat of II Speaker TO 'name" Il
member has always bccl sufficient 10
reduce the most turbulent to subsection.
The effect not being defined. the imagi.
nation pictured the threat as full Of all
the direst poss biit cs from the
anathema maranatha to humiliation;
and no one, consequently, dared to
brave the operation. But during the
past week venturesome Irish member
what will not an Irshman ycnturc?--
drove the maddcnCd Speaker into
spotting out the venerable bugbear and
actually naming the member. For n
moment the House held its breath with
a feeling that chaos might possibly be
coming. Then, as nothing happened,
they began to inquire what naming
actually amounted to, only to find that
it simply involved suspension from the
floor for week. And the venerable
bugbear was dead past all hope OF
resurrection.
About the same time, on the other
side OF the ocean, in the land of the
free, etc. (see patriotic songs, another
venerable bugbear yicllel up the ghost.
Like its British cousin it had held its
place for generations, exercising chiel
sway over the men-at-arms who serve
their country on the tented field and
occasionally in Office at Washington
1t was the bugbear called courtmart,al
For untold years it had been held NJ
before the militlrv eye as u frghtfui
awesomo cOntingency wh'cd must Oh III
| account be dared. But IN IN evil hoiu
: a court-martial was actually called il
, the case of Judge Advocate Genera
Swain and by the time the proceeding
, were brought to a close the time-hon
, ored bugbear had ceased to be service
: able. Ii will be trotted out again. per
:. haps, with its tattered garments patched
and its hideous lneaments outlined it
a CHASTITY color,. But It's power to in
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