Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-25

REAL COUNT IN DISGUISE.
man; but their aspirations are higher
So that, when communities are formed
the women commence to establish social
customs for their own bettelment, and
5 Tor the general welfare of their hus
bands and sons. First comes the prizes,
and the preacher to aid the women in
founding church, which is primarily
asocial nucleus and ultimately school
of religion and morals. Women found
churches everywhere, and half-civilized
man pays the preacher, but generally
does 1t grudgingly, until his soul is
touched by love or fear, or both. And
then he tries to outshine woman in the
feryor of his devotion.
But in all communities, no matter
whether they are new or ivy covered,
society breeds excrescences and barna-
cles. Even among the twelve apos-
ties there was one wicked one. But of
all cities ON earth it seems that Wash
ington has not only most of the social
nuisagd Us which affiict other cities, but
we havSa select assortment peculiarly
our own. Here is, for instance, the in
dividual who moves in the society of
foreigners--or tries to do so-not be-
cause foreigners are intelligent or in
teresting, but simply because they are
not Americans. The American who
has married the Italian count--that
char, cinE Ywavthy macaroni eater, who
hasn't aJSs2ny to bless himself with,
who hasn't fh6 fn;nteSf Yestige of a
family n Italy, except, pvsssibly, e
former wife from whom be haE run
away, WIG takes to beating the poor,
deiiidel, falsely ambitious girl who has
married him, and who ends his career,
after she has wrecked her life and has
hEally been divorced from him, by
going back to the sweet melodies of his
hand organ and the conpenial company
q ms monkey-the American gill who
marries the count because he lisa G{;Snt
q rather, says, he is, is d Nuisance na,
tiohS1 ID character, and Is syen fonnd Z,
tho great and boand..ess west SsSa.a
life Is supposed 10 be truly AmAriaan '
But shss y DOT rhs only tyos Of foFs sia.
l9ylAE Nuisance that betheys Us here.
Our foreigners Are pen of position Ia
their oYp Country and are entitled ta
consideration IN oyss, and adoring them
Is NOT Quite sucd blind folly with us as
y ID In other places, where they are 50
often adventurers about whom 10th,
ing whatsoever is known, Ne;eerthe-
less we have little band of H1isances
here who follow the foreigners about
and accord to THEN a devotion that is
laughed at by no people, more than for
eigners themselves.
One of otT most lafnenta BILE nuisances
is the Social vagrant. OF course the
man who has no visible uleans OF sup
port, the tramp who wanders inso
town, coon finds himself tete-alNte
with the prosecuting attorney in the
j,poKce court; but the young man of
family, who has nothing TO do, is an
1nassailable social pest. He Is proud
of his family, but does nothing to make
his family proud, of him. Fessefnately
he = not yet very numerous here.
When other people. are betsy in their
Offices or on the. street ,oh business
pyramids, In theip work-Ssy clothes, he
sauntera laxily along s!lothed like a
Bridegroom, He goes 10 his club in the
morning and he sloafs there alone, for
there are few peopAe there at shat
hour except servants; he walks Tire
street alone when Everybody else is
busy; he is In reality f6he Of the most
solitary and misceable Of individuals,
but he thinks he Ii if1rtunate, did,
many other yetihg ihen, whb don't