The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1900-01-17


ration for better educational facilities.
He says the public schools are OF too
short duration. We will agree. He
proposes local taxation besides the State
tax and thinks each county could best
determine the how aud the when,
Again am with him on insisting that
our ei-ls as we'll as our boys have right
to whatever the State College can afford.
Let our girls go right along and have the
advantages presented there education
ally. They deserve and will appreciate
it. OF course, we, as all true Kentuc-
kians, want those old State houses at
Frankfort pulled down and have more
creditable ones erected. LIE, us not go
beyond our means. not be too ostenta-
tious in our desires but have such build
ings as our sister States snd which our
treasury iustifss. We might have more
ambition in architecture than our
fnancers would admit but we could cur
tail that feeling. Altogether the mes
sage is an excellent one from Alpha to
Omega and one that the most humble
citizen can comprehend fully. His plea
for home rule for the cities of the State
is admirable. Surely each city should
be allowed to determine and decide
about its local taxation. The recon-
msndations are all good and the only re-
greet is that they did not emanate from
the brain and hand of p. Wat Har.
din. Bnt let's not be so partisan as to
reject any policy that assists our own be-
loved State.
Sala says that the art OF conversation
is not only to say the right thing in the
right place. but to leave unsaid the
wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Burke has said that the perfection OF
conversation is not to play a regular
sonata, but, like the Aeolian harp, to
await the inspiration of passing breeze.
We all know that prepared speeches in
ordinary conversation are rarely apropos
and that their preparedness sounds
forced note. Some people completely
monopolize the conversation. l believe
Edison has a patent ON a talking
machine. A good listener frequently
gets the credit Of being fine converse
tionalist. Napoleon, Washington, Grant,
Lee and Stonewall Jackson talked little
I but listened well. Queen Victoria has
little to say. Mrs. Cleveland is retite at
but is considered very affable in CONVEX
sation for she listens attentively. A
long time ago one wise man said to ano-
ther, Give thy thoughts no tongue"
1t is well enough to heed this sag ad.
vice often and st. Paul has warned us no
little about the tongue. Still pleasant,
fluent, well-informed person in convex
sation is a Joy forever. The art OF enter
tanning is rare and iG does not lie in
brilliant repartee, nor is learned dis.
sertations, but in talking to the point and
on general subject or topic OF mutual
interest. In ones circle OF friends one
has to learn to discriminate. To one we
hiBhb uioOuoc pOltlC5 Whiio W dnOtucI ~
would be bore. We would discuss lit
erature to one, dress and fashion to
another, religion, science and art to
others. 1t seems to me that the selec-
ton OF a congenial theme is the most i'm
portant point and then not to become
tiresome. Not a hundred years ago
was on nettles on account of a friend
who kept saying the wrong
"thing at the tempting moment"
The person we were entertaining
was entirely practical and knew
a thing or two in his own Jurisdiction.
Heree the gist OF my would b. enter
tainer's conversation. No. "Sousa's
last ma CHI is fine. He is making hit
abroad" No. 2 "Who is sousa, where
does he liver" After we settled that
No. continued, clan Maclaren has a
serial story in McClure's that will win
him new laurels." mo. p Does he live
in Louisville and does he write for the
BREcKENRIDeE NEws?" fixed up that
to the best of my ability and after foun-
dering or Iund No continued "Have
you read David Harum or Richard
Carvel?" mo. 2 al knew man once
named David Herndon, may be you mean
him because he has gone way up yonder
and l expect there is book about him."
l actually got desperate and turned on
farming, gardening, Goebel, Blackburn,
free silver, which loosened No. 2's
tongue and it clipped. Now that's the
idea. Whist do you want to make people
uncomfortable for and embarass them
Select subject OF their field aud within
their scope no matter il You are bored
yourself.
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