Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-10-01
THE ENDURING HOME.


According to "Gafh." Personality IL Nos
| to he Found In tho tIty.
| II Is city property which Is porlsh-
able thing. and not property In the
country. Hardly house, which Is
preserved. which has historical Or.
pious "reminiscences remains In any OF
oar cities. The John Ha cock house
OF Boston had to go at last; the old
South Church might us we'll DO torn
down as to be what II Is, a kind OF ped
ding bazar The Hamilton House In
Now York barely escaped sacrifice by
being turned over TO church. But
country houses nre generally found
whore they stood when tho man OF his
tory put them up. Ils
You never could find Shakespeare's
house In London II he ever had owned
one there. The bard OF nature returned
TO his cattle market town and there ac-
quired and altered one OF the bost resi-
dences. and to this duy IL stands owl
dence which. like tho old mans tomb.
pulverizes the small beings who would
get days fame by explaining Shakes
peare away. hayc u ways noticed
that when went to hunt up the evi-
dences OF men OF celebrity found them
nearly perfect In tho country and hard
ly ever recoverable in the city. II you
want to see where John Jay lived so
much longer than his contemporaries.
60 to his ihrm at Bedford. forty miles
above New York City. -
II you sock for Dewitt Clintonis roof
tree. do not asx where It Is In New
York. but go out to Maspeth. In Long
Island, and thore. close TO the big cem-
eteries and oil relneries. stands exactly
as 1t was the statesman's home, where
no doubt he had more self-rospect than
In all his political victories. He died
very young for such man. occupying
the offico OF Governor. which Is seat
OF nettles. You will find Oliver Perry's
birthplace still standing among the
rocks and sand-hills In Rhode Island.
Men who only lived In towns left no
more footprints than are to be found
upon the bricx pavements Hence the
a place In tho country. but TO build ono
and see 1t nodded 10 ones own images.
Garfield had house at Mentor. which
will probably stand for two hundred
years, In some OF Its parts. even though
Gre should consume most OF it. He
said that In order TO work of the men,
tai fatigue OF Congress he had TO go
back and pitch hay upon the wagon us
he did when a boy. You can locate
Garfield for tho next several centuries
by his country home, but whore can
you locate Chester A. Arthur. who al
ways lived In a town. and whose house
merits glance on Lexington avenue.
New YORK., being lndlstinguishable from
thousands Of others, having not one
feature that Is distinctive or ornamental
about IL
But Mt Vernon remains all that wo
can put our hands on OF Washington.
except his old buckskin brooches.
Postcrity no had not; the painters like
Stuart sublimatcd the naa TO their
conception OF what tho public expected;
but when you go TO Nj Vernon you
have only 10 oil up chair with living
man somewhat worn out In tho general
service. you can smell him. handle
him and criticize him. You can not |
say. "ln this closet he kept his whisky; |
here he turned and expressed n suspi-
cion to the servant that somebody had
been tamperlng with the whisky. This
nrc place he poked up with that old
shovel. Here on the porch he sat OF
evenings and heard tho chatter OF
some French or German traveller. who
expected before he went TO bed. at the
risk OF his eyo-Sight 10 put down
every thing that Washington gruntcd
and assented TO. or II he tilted back his
chair and crossed his egs. Gath In
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