The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-10-04

road 10 victory in subsequent oombats.
OF courBo pupils become discouraged,
but 10 press on is the way TO overcome
defects. Demosthenes when he spoke
for the 6rst time was greeted with hisaes
owing to weak, imperfect articulation.
He shut himself up in a cave and re-
manned three months, 90 history records,
continually laboring TO overcome de-
ieots; thus he became the greatest orator
the world has known.
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Gov. Mount, Of Indiana, was In Chat
tanooga during dedication week. He
and his party visited the battlefelds
Coy. Mount will, by direction Of the In
diana Legislature, return to the Texas
Rangers the Confederate flags captured
from them during the war. Gov. Mount
expresses himself as glad that his State
is the first to return flags captured in
anger, am mad TO think they we're
ever captured and still "madder' to
think they were not returned twenty
years ago. wish had it in my power
to gather up the last fragment of each
and place in a museum Of the beloved
South.
tt
Lord Byron's married life was a mis-
cradle failure There was no Wooing,
no winning. Edison neither Wooed or
courted, but won. His ooniugal yoke
has rested easily, and save that he was 30
absorbed in electricity as to forget the day
set apart for the contamination Of VOWS
until reminded, his life has been like
Growers and Frances'-"One glad song"
Is it a lottery Not on your life. It
takes affinity. There was none between
Lord Byron and Lady Byron. There is
between Mr.. and Mrs. Edison. Con-
geniality, mutual tastes, and mutual in
terest must exist to make the "glad
song"
tt
am not an imperialistl No Ameri.
can favOrs Imperialism. Neither do 1, OF
any other true born American, wish a
great standing army and a grand, ex-
pensive navy. None Of us wishes either
to be larger than is necessary
for the needs of the times. I am
an expansionist and 1 have been
from the very first. We are all
bound to be, in one sense of the word,
or be anti-Americans, for it simply now
means to grow, to enlarge. We we're
expansionists way back yonder when
we added different parts to the Union.
We have gone on expanding and we will
90 on, we must for we are great nation.
tt
People who can afford to dress beau
tifully and wear diamonds, rubies and
pearls, are Just as humble, or can be and
often are, as those who shun plating
the hair or adjoining the body" When
1 read the life of Charlotte Bronte ]
came to where her father, Rev. Patrick
BrOnte, (think Of it, clergyman, mar
ried and his wife, a little, shy, sensitive
thing, had a silk dress given to her
Patrick cut the dress into strips before.
her eyes and then threw them and heI
little slippers into the fire to teach her
humility. said, ga despot." People
who bother about triaes and foolish de-
tails are usually despots in some form.
tt
This column in the News is ever intro
ducing interesting but comparatively
personal strangers to me. Last week
received a beautiful and most compli-
mentary letter from Thomas James de
la Hunt, Cannelton, Indiana, who has
established my identity through charm
ing Uloverport friends, Miss Mamie
Murray NOW in the Vest Mrs. John
Allen Murray and Mrs. Jennie Jabine
NeWsom. This kind unknown friend
has sent me the August number of "The
Editor" journal Of information for lit
eraTy workers, which was recommended
by Mrs. Sallie Marshall Hardy, or that
talented, entertaining writer, catherine
Moore" Of the Courier Journal. am
delighted with the journal and know it
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