The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-04-19
CURRENT TOPICS.
Mrs. HATTIE B. GRILLELL

The Third Kentucky will be mustered
out in about twenty-one days.
Mrs. T. B. Fairleigh, OF Paducah, has
been quite i'll, but is reported some
better we are glad to say.
There's bran new little girl at the
home of Mr.. and Mn. Proc Mslin, in
Ashland, KY, Adelaide Elizabeth.
We are glad to know the "dollar"
dinner at Grand Central Palace New
York was simple and transformations,
and hope the dollars" we're all sound.
May will be banner month for Louis
vile. The crowds will run up to COM
pare with the throngs of the g. A. r.
encampinent. We rural inhabitants Of
the globe will have a chance to play
Samantha at Saratoga"
Cora Tanner, the pretty actress, has
received a box of poisoned candy, the
combat thickens, west now, east once,
after while candy, through the mail or
from an ardent .admirer" will be re-
garded suspiciously.
Kiplingism has reached stupendous
pitch in America, anyhow, America can
always go wild oyer somebody across the
waves. We all admire much that Mr..
Kipling has written. His short stories
are especially good, but am opposed to
hero worship.
The Baptist churches in Louisville are
taking very decided stand with their
members on the whiskey question. Any
member in any way connected with the
business must either relinquish that or
his membership. Members interested in
the business are given year to wind up.
L admire Dewey very much Tor his
candor on the subject Of politics, but l
admire him still more for saying if he
had been raised in the South, instead OF
Vermont, he would have been a Demo
crat. 1t shows honesty, and it shows.
too, that he considers politics pretty
much going with the current, or a mat
ter OF education OF. example.
- don't think there is anything worse
than a lt.hnder-habitual chronic
Nothing ever suits such individuals, OF
ever could be arranged to please. Usu-
ally critics and fault-fnders are the most
poorly equipped, mentally, to pose as
such. Their object seems to be to AFRO.
gate good deal to themselves and to de.
tract from others, and it is universally
reversed.
cannot agree with the Yellow Lake
correspondents old friend who thought
this world "cold, hard and unteeling."
l have not found it 80, at least. l have
never for one moment in my life become
cynical or misanthropicsl 1 think this
world has treated me beautifully. l an
as much in love with it to-day as in my
youth. l have found so many more
true people than false ones, never
doubt or suspect any human of wroni
till am forced to do 80.
Efforts are being made by Women'l
clubs for correct speech among children
Prof. Halleck says a child's spoken Eng
lish is powerfully affected by his early
home surroundings. He says, too, it il
a herculean task to teach him to speak
correctly, Well, have a tremendous
struggle with my own children. 1t il
simply wonderful how they fall into
incorrect English and bad pronunciation
l could never become accustomed tc
gross errors and l simply think it out
rageous for individuals of whom any.
thing at all is demanded 10 fall into q
careless manner OF speech. Prof
Halleck tells US association has much to
do with it. Yea, verify He tells us
too, that the only way to speak eithel
English or German correctly is by con
slant practice in talking, this we know il
true A strict mother Il am not one
can do more than a teacher or books
My mother was Virginian and a rigiC
discipliDarian we dared not talk but al
We were taught. Ny father, like me
only begged aud insisted in any matter
and was often vanquished.
Governor Roosevelt's Chicago address
was strong and clear. 1t will find al
echo in the hearts OF the majority O
Americans. Il don't like Governor
Roosevelt in some things, but in tina