Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-07-26


| feather duster over n cleaned-oh desk.
This is very hard life for man who has
lost both legs aud who almost al
ways wakes with pain IN the smallest
hours OF the night aud lies awake Vainiy
irving TO bring Nepenthe into those dis
tracted members. IL he expects to main
tain his health through these four years.
he must learn TO shut the door reso-
lutely to all but those who have import
mt errands 70 which he Is MI Indispensable
party. ,,,..
He has appointed his daughter, Miss
Ada, as his private secretary. but, as sne
IL amiable and pretty and Just from
school, she will probably not be an I'M
penstrabls brsakwater against the intru'
slye tides OF curiosity and acqusitiveness
that sweep around the Corinthian columns
of the great carnvanser and submerRe
the galleries and dash against the hosplta-
ble PORTALS Of the Commissioner once.
In n recent letter | announced that the
Commissioner's wife, Mrs. M. l.. Tanner
would be recognized ~ the poet laureate
of the Administration, AID Indicated the
spirit Of her versificd lecture on Womans
SufIrnpaL l have since heard her lee
ture to IA Grand Army Post, and i have
secured some versus OH tho soldiers anu
otflcebol,lers that will be regarded as
genuine poetry ofthe heroic type. Listen
To tho scream OF the old eagle
"Aro Republics all ungratefuf MUST we
soldiers ever hear,
Whom wo ask TO earn our living, oniy scon u''u
taunt and jccr;
And those buys get ail the places VINO hre ircn"
fiom public school.
: For ansverinu more questions under Clvii
Service rulesf
81 IA not the earth uo'ro wanting; no -1ust u
little space
! | To earn an honest livelihood, a ohahce 10 Ro'
; place a..
/ That wc'te capable OF lllins, cen though tho
i boys from school o..,
!. Give ten psr cent more answers, under Civil
4 Service rule.
2 ..Tho height OF Chimborazn, perhaps we may
i not know,
@ put we measured Lookout Mountain, wher
G our hearts were all agiou;
4 Nor tell the longth OF rivers-o of the Amazon O.
y Thames-
4 But ask US what we KNOW ABOUT 'ne hap4u"'
or Jameei
n "At the age when lads tho pruiscs OF their Aim
" Mater chant, a.,
], We found that our curriculum was one 'a'
s nd A. paIi RUN and Antietam our diplomi
IN did we get,
- Writ in blood and punctuated win inc pom
:, of bayo0e
Il .The stars up on our banner. thoushsome wei
m IN eolipse,
!, Formed tho lesson 10 nstfohohy' INC oi'o""
on our lips;
n Ara inc brightest stars we saw there show
NJ with feeble light,
r For tho heavy smoke OF paiue nun niu 'ncl
10 from our sight
20 .pes,ies tho solid branches, we'd accompis
Inentsas well;
iIear.,e ,ed the music of the bullet, knew tho sin
I ing OF the shell.
Hoard the deep bass OF the cannon and u
j trumpct's notes sublime,
In an orchestra OF muskets whore the drur
where beating time.
| .rhat was our cducauoni Twas all we cou
Il obtain.
Md burst OF battlc-olamor and reoeilious WI
4 A,a when our term was ended and we at ID
); wc were ,oa old In other schools To try for
Il degreel"
III Mrs. Tanner has melodious but pow
ri ful voice that will reach ten thousal
n people from platform, and she has alrea
\ made the oratorical hit Of the administl
tion.
Eighteen years ago, In the chair
j managing editor of the Chicago Euent
Post. / gave their first positions in Chica
a.. 10 Alexander Sullivan and to tho you
.oA lady who was shortly to become his wi
she was much more adaptable and yer
tile than he--abler, too, l thought /
.ap 10y frat salary was SIS a week and his was
III III and when l left the paper she had b
promoted to t40
lie had had some trouble before conn
hack from Now Mexico, but he seen
'aee ouiet aud unaggressive, though earn,
'on' He was irascible, but 1t never occurred
iot, me that he was revenReful. IL his ann
or nropre sometimes eclipsed his prudei
x IL could only he said that he shared
Din, mercurial qualities OF his race. and I
heo he nossessed also their virtues. Even
that early day he showed masterful gu
man ties, and IL was an amusing feature Oh
are newspaper work that he had the knacl
ne being chosen to preside over meetings
tlns I sent him to report. John Finerty, 81
lne' very much OF q Congressman, bottle
son, Ne'y % 49, ..n,a vay mixinn the fore
- OF me ,u .uo s"s .,;,hic IN an embarras
and manner. W. A. CRoFFU