The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-03-23

Wnat prompts tue niibsilesi Such Guar.
acters are clothed, as It were, with an ar
NOR Of mail, and can stand fusilade Ia
come out-victor
see my cousin, Senator George ALI
ander, is quite III at Frankfort. No won.
der Voting for th,t Goebel Bill was
enogh TO lay him low Who would have
thought that he could have advocated
slch an undemocratic measure, 10 CEN
ira z power and establish clique which
Is bound to be obnoxious TO the people
IL Ia such nice law to unity Rspubi-
cans and farther divide the two wings OF
Democracy Sic trancit gloria mundi!
When armies are fighting on land they
can retreat or surrender, hut so long az a
ship can H ,at and has gun TO fire, she
will fight. An encounter between Spain
and American battltships would be fero-
cious and fatal in the extreme. No won
der our President falt-rs. No wonder he
feels that IL will be blow for blow, ~ n
II our navy is superior. He knows the
havoc to our own brave men, aud that
death and destruction await. Even the
wounded cannot he cared for in the con-
fusion, carnage, fire aud terror, and yet
honor must be kept, and Cuba's cries
needed.
In Saturdays Courier OF March 18th.
"Bab" descants on enthusiasm. A friend
OF mine has sent me The article saying
"this reminds me Of yuu." 'Bab"
endorses enthusiasm, 80 do l. | wouldn't
give copper FIR a solid, cold, fshy indi
yidual These people may go through
life smoother, but they don't get bali the
pleasure an enthusiastic woman does.
don't care for enthusiastic men, not a
cent, but give me an enthusiastic woman.
Dab" likes Richard La Gallienne's
"Prose Fancies;" like his "Quest OF the
Golden Girl" He had intense likes and
dislikes, and Bah has too. have in
tense likes aud dislikes, and woudn't
give fg for the friendship OF any man
or woman who declares he or she likes
everybody. 1t is false-false as can be.
,iod never made His creatures TO love an
unworthy object. 1t does my soul good
to cordially dislike such. Bah quotes
many Of the sweetest passages from the
"Golden Girl. did not, OF course, in
dorse much in Gallienne's strange book,
there was much, as Bah says, that was
interesting, beautiful. He is man that
is enthusiastic without being silly-usu-
ally they go together in the male per-
suasion-"Bab" says, and she knows.
Tomorrow Thursday the proud States
naval nam sake will oe christened, She
is one OF the most powerful battleships
ever constructed aud e.nbodies all the
latest naval ideas Her equipments make
her the most formidable shoat. Her sis
ter, the battleship Kearssrge, will plunge
into the sea shortly afterwards We of
this proud state are fully appreciative
and Justly alive with keen emotion when
we think OF the Kentucky" as verita-
BILE thing of life, plunging with terrific
power into the waters of our navy. We
feel our veins of patriotism tingling with
renewed pride when we view in vivid
imagination the fair young daughter Of
Kentucky's Governor elevated above the
surging, seething sea Of upturned faces"
surrounded by her maids of honor, all
beautiful as mermaids and sea nymphs
just arisen from the blu waves. Prouder
still do we feel, with our renowned PEN
chant for Bourbon, to know that our fair
daughter will break a bottle of pure
spring water over the bow OF the newest
boat in the navy, and that the pure, bub-
bling, limpid liqrid came from Kentucky
soil and from the home OF one of her
greatest statesmen ami patriots. "Pdde
of the Union," we feel our State to be.
May her naval namesake ever be 'Pride
of the Deep" Safe now in the arms of
the ocean, We bid her God speed in the
mission of her high career.