The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1893-01-28

ance.
"In fact" as gentleman remarked
the other day, frankfort is no less
a village than Bagdad and still more
of a cosmopolitan city than Louis
Vile. 1t is a village in its quick
spreading news, its social amenities,
kind solicitude of the inhabitants for
the welfare of each other and the air
of CONFINEMENT and general repose
which is breathed over the place and
causes the visitors from the large
cities to look on in astonish at
the tranquility in such close proxim-
ity to never-ending effort and agita-
ton. But it is a great city i'll the in
flux of strangers, all of whom, unlike
city of greater magnitude, may be
seen here and brought into direct
contact with the people. AS the
| Capital of the State, drawing visitors
from all parts of the State and also
the country, the citizens are con-
stantly required to sink self out OF
sight and learn that there are people
and places of equal, if not more i'm
portance to the government than the
people of Frankfort. This unceasing
flow Of fresh blood, fresh ideas is
bound to invigorate the whole system
and enlarge the scope of the view of
the people. In Louisville, now, where l
have lived all my life, there are really
more narrow, confined, routine, pro-
vincial people in every three blocks
than you'll find in this whole city.
They think that all Kentucky is CEN
tralized and exists in Louisville; that
outside of it, there is nothing worth
the living. If you were to ask one in
what part of the State certain town
or county was situated, it is most
likely he could not tell you positively
that there was any such town or
county in the State. AS for any
points of history concerning the
State and the illustrious names that
every boy in Frankfort is as familiar
with as the names Of his daily COM
panions, that is something wholly
out of their line of thought or read
ing. The love of home is commend
able, and quality that cannot be too
much encouraged, but have travelled
a good deal in my life, and l know
that the world is filled with broad,
cultured and growing people every
where in the cross-road precincts of
the country as well as among the
surging and struggling masses of
New York, Paris or London. and it is
viewing the world at very short
range that would lead one to suppose
that the highest development Of
mans powers can only take place in !
the large cities of the land. Many
parents in interior and small towns
make that mistake in the weakness
of vanity to have their son obtain
the advantage, as they call it, of city
life, and frequently pass away them
selves before the unhappy sequel of
disappointment and the undistin-
guishable mass become their sons
future. Even if they are obliged to
live in a less pretentious style in
their native town, they preserve
their identity and are looked upon
with esteem by their fellow citizens
and by people who may visit the
town, and who is it that does not
swell with pride in the thought that
he is of some consequence in the place
where he lives? But in Frankfort !
especially, where there is every ad'
vantage, physically, socially, mental
ly and morally, everything that lifts |
the man and gives him the stamp of
nobility, I often wonder why there
should ever be seen drifting away |
to the large cities Of the country
in search of few more paltry dollars
than they might earn at home, so
many of the sons of the most worthy
and esteemed families. 1t is a pity
that the field here is not large enough
to furnish employment to all, but
Pm sure that wherever they may go,
there will come a time when they
will look back upon their happy life
in Frankfort, with its development
Of mind and character, with the
warming of a captive in foreign