The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-08-16


editors are constantly working 10 make
the News a fmi-clam weekly and they
are succeeding every time. Now is the
moment Tor ils subscribers 10 lend q
helping hand 10 add 10 iis laurels. Let
each one respond chserfully TO the call.
Father Wbalen had mass last Sunday
morning, but did not pr sch, having
driven quite a distance 10 rosch hofe, he
was iatieued. A new priest will tskC
charge Of this church, % Father
Whalen's duties elsewhere forbid his re
naming We all (0i other denoinina
tions) dislike to give this kind nsn and
good minister up, as well as his Own
flock.
pity any one ia this world who l.
tied down, pinned TO a task that is re-
pugnant and feels that necessity is con
tinualy whispering in the care, DO
this, 20 ahead, or starve" II one does
not love his ealing or profession il
starves the heart, the soul, and fiually all
tue higher aspirations Of the being pine
away and die. Ones chosen duties in
life should be peace and q solace 10
every normal man and woman.
notice in the Louisville Times Of q
recent issue that Mr.. Lamar Herndon is
made to say that three hundred people
we're here on the first Monday in
August, County Court day and that not
one anti-Goebel man could be found
was on the street. about noon and there
we're not fifty men in town or my eyes
deceived me. / know of number Of
Democrats here and in the county who
will not support Goebel.
We all have three natures: physical,
mental and spiritual. So to work GER
tain number of hours in the day with
ones hands is the part OF wisdom, but
we must as well exercise the mental and
spiritual natures. To labor continually
at our work day and night means unrest
and ruin to overtaxed nerves a breaking
down Of all the machinery of natural
laws. If we become 80 absorbed in ouI
particular line of work as to forget to
cultivate our emotional and spiritual de-
mands we lose much of the music ant
beauty of existence. To cultivate love
for music, for reading, for the beautiful
is as essential as food and drink.
Hand made work is far more beauti
full than machine. more dainty, tn,
brain is more interested in exquisite
productions by the fingers. Once thu
Queen Of Italy wrote a letter to ever,
reigninG Queen Of Europe asking tina
the recipient make a promise to wea
on her clothing no lace except hand
make. Every one responded and Queer
Victoria was one of the first to answe
the appeal. Schools were establishe,
where girls were taught to make beauti
ful things with their hands. The Queei
Of Italy herself establish ed an exchang
for the sale OF the beautiful lace wher
poor girls found a ready sale for thei
work, Mr.. Browning followed tn
Queens example and endowed a manu-
factory, as loving monument t
his mother and father, for tn
making OF hand-made-lace. Each VIC
man was paid according to the qualit
not quantity Of her work, it is quality
or should be, not quantity that counts
then each has an incentive to do tn
very best. The nuns in the Middl
Ages did such rare, beautiful work, jus
as they do now at many institutions. !
woman Of wealth or refinement prefer
one piece Of really fine lace than yard
and yards Of lace made by machine.
this day and age the manufacturers {
everything haYe awaken to the fact tins
quantity usually and not quality ia d.
sired, hence they turn out wares accorC
ingly but they realize some people pr
, fer to have a few good things than
great many cheap ones. Some pieces
work done by the union of hand, hea
and brain never 20 out of style for thel
is always beauty in them. Hands thi
carve wood, to make useful furniture
print books, illumine and illustrate the
or that are skillful in working wit
leather, to bind books in a bCautitl
artistic way, need never lack employ
ment. Good things and beautiful thini
and artistic things are always in de
mand.