The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-06-28


they got mad and il was moved and sec.
ondedthat the City Engineer be discharg.
ed. He was discharged. II was moved and
seconded that the people on the upper side
the creek be no longer compelled to grade
and lay sidewalks. 1t carried. Then it was
moved andseconded that the people onthe
upper side the creek, who already had
stone, brick, ETC., in the streets for the
purpose OF building sidewalks, be COM
PEELED to move it off the streets inside of
thirty days. The motion carried. Then
they adjourned in huff"
"Ha, ha, ha, did you ever hear of such
ridiculous legislating? They ought to
have resolved to turn the streets of Glow
export into county roads and work them
by 'wanin' In the hands, then rendered
their designations; and let the croakers
farm out the town
"Well, the Council are not altogether
to blame, Jerry. They are all good men
and are in favor of progress, but they
were disgusted at not receiving the prop
err encouragement by the citizens
Though it seems that that county
road proposition of yours might meet
with favor by many citizens"
"They didn't repeal that ordinance that
places such high license on auctioneers
and riding galleries, did they?"
"No."
"The very thing they ought never have
passed"
swell, don't know, Jerry. Our citi-
zens need some protection"
"Who does it protect"
''The merchants, of course"
"The very ones who virtually said, 10y
signing that petition to the Council, that
they did not want to be compelled to fix
their sidewalks for the benefit of the
other citizens"
"Wel-ll, yes, mostly"
snow, Tom, agree with you that the
merchants who are fixtures here, and
have their wealth invested, pay taxes,
etc, need some protection, and it is not
right to let strangers come in here in di-
rect competition with their business, re-
naming only few days, selling their
goods on the streets. They should pay
license, but it should be placed at reas-
enable rate per day. Then the city will
derive revenue, and if the people think
they see bargains in what an auctioneer
sells, let them buy it. 1t is right that
they should have. The present rate is so
high that it amounts to prohibition, the
same as high protective tariff, and it is
not democratic"
"What objections can you have to the
riding galleries being kept out OF town."
"As source OF revenue it should be
allowed. suppose one of the objections
to the riding galleries is that the people
spent money on them that they should
have spent elsewhere, but this looks to
me as their own business and not the
Councils. You should remember, Tom,
that a certain amount of amusement and
recreation is as necessary for the people
as it is that they should labor; and espec.
tally when it comes to young people and
children. 1t is absolutely necessary to
good health that this portion OF the human
family should have some innocent amuse-
ment, and what is more innocent than
riding flying dutchman, and how little
child does enjoy it. Why, Tom, 1 have
stood for hours watching the sweet little
unprecedented, bright-eyed children
riding the merry-go- round, their faces
all radiant with smiles, and their golden
curls flying in the breeze, the air resound-
ing with their joyous laughter as they
smoothed the names of what they imag-
ined were their noble steeds. / have
watched them till tears would dim my
eyes because of their happiness and
thoughts Of my childhood days. How
did long to be child again! Why, Tom,
the man that would begrudge the nickel
or dime, or half-dollar as to that matter,
that child would blow in in this inno-
cent manner has no soul. He is too
hard-hearted and stingy to pat dog on
the head that loves him and would die
for him; he worships but one God, and
the image that he has in his minds eye
of that being is that of a small, round
piece of metal with % on one side and
a shield on the other; he has no poetry
in his being-the seasons come and 60
and he knows it only as he calculates the
harvest of shekels that he may reap at a
certain period; the grasses grow, the flow
ers bloom, but he never sees them; the
brooklets ripple over their pebbly beds,
the leaves murmur in the breeze, the
birds warble their melodious songs, but
he never hears them. When he dies he
wants TO go to Heaven. And when he
gets TO the Eternal City he wants to be
elected to the Council and get on the
street committee. lie has heard that the
clay used up there in manufacturing Wit
ri6ed brick is pure gold, and when they
90 to repairing the streets he wants to see
| IL he can get few carloads OF bats
dumped over into the low places on his
lot--say, Tom, what kind OF amusement
have you here in Cloyerport any how
Have you any theater or opera house
here that Teller can so to and while
away few hours in instructive amuse
ment?"