The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-11-29
SIROCCO.


The Highland prayer meeting has
"busted."
Prevalence OF humps IN the neighbor-
hood has caused some of Mn Althea
Morgan's scholars 70 quit school. a
Tom Thornsberry is out again shifting
the northwest breeze with greater
relish for, 40 cent overcoats"" than he
had last winter. Tom is gaining pound
each day and looks as happy as stage
horse In a green pasture. IcyJhi
Mr.. Leander Bruner and sister, of
Hancock county, after spending a week
with Miss Gertie Neafus and other
friends, have returned home. biiJ 1
r. s. Abel, of Oak Grove, and Miss
Rosa Brown, OF Cold Spring neighbor-
hood, were united in the holy bonds of
matrimony the 4th inst. Rev. j. G..
Argabright officiating.
No, Brandenburg, am one Of those
unfotunates who did not get to the
Fair, but please don't place me on the
potion round OF the ladder.
"For of all sad words of tongue Of pen,
The saddest are these, it might have been"
Mr.. Will Coleman, of Sulphur Springs,
on his return from the Worlds Fair pre-
sented his wife with a handsome
present, souvenir of the great Column
bian Exposition, a cover for a center
table OF Turkish design. Each corner
representing man and woman in the
the act OF gathering potatoes. AS we see
them the church bell across the way is
Ginning the hour of vesper, work sus-
ponds, while our worthy couple of ser.
vial toll bow their heads in humble de-
votioD. The man has dropped his fork,
the woman has set her basket brim full
of the fruits of their toll down on the
ground. Numerous potatoes are scatter
ed about here and there, while to one
side stands a little two-wheel vehicle, a
hand propeller, which conveys their little
crop to the store house. nIl l
And Rev. Salem, OF "Sweet Owen,' is
preaching in Cloverport When l first
noticed the item in the Plaindealer, hav-
ing overlooked it in the News, / was
thrilled with an indesc. ible feeling as
though messenger IRON home, sweet
home, had suddenly doomed up before
me and was about to recount scenes
of by gone days. Not that Owen
county was my former home, but Fay
cite county was, and oft have Il passed
Silas church just across the fine III Bour,
bon county where Mr. Salem preached
for years, and where time and again ]
have heard him expound biblical truths
to kindred and friends, many of whom
now .eAdAAaA
"Sleeps the sleept knows no waking,
BY the golden river shore"
And my heart yearns with sadness
when familiar name in print causes my
thoughts to revert to the halcion days Of
yore, .aise 1Ol mIE7 9idGulss ,
.when life seemed as fair, as the ny edged
Floating over "a home by the sea-" b.taa
Mr.. Salem is a converted Jew,and used
to tell little joke on himself to the
effect that when he first came to this
country he had never seen any corn
bread, though he had heard much talk
about it and had great desire to partake
OF the toothsome food Taking passage
on steamer at New Orleans, / think, as
he was on his way TO Kentucky, the
bread his mouth had watered for so long
was passed to him for the first time at the
dinner table. He thought il was pound
cake and took pretty good size slice.
Imagine his surprise when he had taken
bite to find Gas he thought) its constit-
uent parts were made up OF sawdust
He had been taught that II was sign Of
ill-breeding to leave anything on his
plate at the table or in other words Ia
!. take more on, bis, plate than be could eai
consequently he found himself in a d.
lemma 10 get out % which taxed his
mental powers, as be iels that Il woplc
be impossibIe for him 10 swallow Tx
gritty mixture before him, and really y
have forgotten which Of thetwo evils he
eschewed. Suffice it to say that the first
place he stopped after reaching terri
firma he was askedif- he would have~s
piece of cornvbread., He certainly youlf
fore orn-breadh had been indelibly impress
ed ON his mind ever since he had gotter
in sight of the "Corn-cracker State
W.. 80 s,adaruata m axnraaa hi