Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-07-28

over the famous fights of the Alamo
and San Jacinto, where old Sam Hous-
ton beat Santa Anna and the Mexicans
and won the independence of Texas.
The Texas major is big man and the
Columbian guards are always polite
to him.
The Kentucky colonel is here, too.
He has fine opportunities for visiting
the fair, as Kentucky is only days
ride away. A Kentucky colonel, James
A. Mckenzie, now minister to Peru,
was one OF the early members of the
worlds fair commission. He is typi-
cal kentucky colonel. His vocabulary
{; unlimited, and so is his supply of
good nature and good stories. When
worlds fair officials grew weary of
planning and working, they would go
up to Col MchenZie'S room and find
solaee there. Col. Mckenzie has gone
now to teach the South Americans the
art of good living, but there are plenty
of Kentucky colonies to take his place
On warm day at the worlds fair,
when you are weary of walking, and
the glare of the sun, reflected from
the White buildings, makes you keep
your eyes half shut, the sight of the
Kentucky colonel is d refreshment and
delight. He knows how to keep cool.
He is dressed in white linen. A white
palmetto hat covers his head, and he
does not exhaust his strength and his
temper rushing about in the sun. He
seeks shady places. He lolls in wide
and deep-bottomed arm-chairs. Long
ago he became past master in the art
of preparing cooling drinks. The
name OF the Kentucky colonel is asso-
clated always with that Of whisky,
but in that respect he has been libeled.
He takes his drinks, but with more
moderation than is practiced in some
other parts Of the country. There is
u legend in Kentucky that when the
funny men of the eastern press run
out Of jokes, when the managing edit
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Tor something to make people laugh,
they turn as a last resort to the Ken
lucky colonel and his jug of whisky.
But the kentucky colonel is not angry
I ~ TACT, he half likes the joke and he
wholly likes the New Yorker who takes
a broad view of life like himself, and
is sure there is more amusement and
good in it than the moralsts would
have us to believe. Moreover, he is
always a gentleman, and the most
delightful OF companions.
The most eXuberant Individual you
will meet at the fair is the man from
the far west say from Oregon or
Washington. The term ''effete East
has a very significant meaning for him.
He regards the entire country from the
Missouri river to the Atlantic as the
east. To him Illinois, and even Iowa,
is old and decayed, while New York
and Massachusetts are merely syno-
nyms for time. He is full of grand
enterprises. He talks only of millions.
He is certain the United States will
soon tie up in the direction of Oregon
and Washington, and he cannot under
stand why any one can be so ObSi-
nate or istlesS as to linger east of
the Rocky mountains when there is
so much room west Of that barrier.
His figures for the wheat production
per acre in Washington and Oregon will
surprise you, and he can prove that
there is enough wealth in tie timber
there to make everybody rich. This
man is the true type Of newest Ameri-
ca. He comes from that part of the
country in which development began
the latest. His conception of the fair
is a place in which to advertise him
self and his section. He does not
bother himself about questions of art.
What he wants to do is to get the re-
sources Of his state before the world
and draw capital there. Possibly he
believes all he says, for he is most
sanguine as well as loquacious man,
and undoubtedly is attached to the
state whose horn he is blowing so
loudly.
You meet Interesting people on the
launches and gondolas. This is the
pleasantest method Of travelling about
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