The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1900-01-17
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HATTIE GRINNELL
BY MRS. HATTIE dRINNELL

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Easter comes late-April the 10Th.
DOES that mean winter lingering in the
lap Of spring. Easter dresses and Easter
han can be airy and springy sure
enough.
War balloons and telephones are get
ting in good work in the Transvaal war.
o
On the day after Christmas 10000
copies OF "Dav.d Harum" had been
sold since the date OF its publication. l
annot for the, life OF me see why that
,ooE should be 80 popular.
%
The popularity OF Anthony Hopes
Rupert OF Hentzau remains unabste1.
In that romance the author struck his
deepest chord. 1t has now gone to press
for the tenth time. His Prisoner OF
Zsnda" alone exceeded it in popularity.
o.
The author of "Quo Vadis" Sienkie-
wicz, has new novel, "The Knights OF
the Cross" 1t will be published shortly
here and abroad. 1t is to be hoped some
people will understand it more fully
than they did ".Quo vadls."
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The Whallen-Harrell case at Frankfort
shows CAMPAIGN of corruption. AS in
cidents progress more corruption and rot
tenness from top to bottom are revealed.
Fraud and force have been rampant
from the first-partisan rancor on one
side and aggregated capital on the other.
WrSfed passion Corrupt transactions !
Think what influence this evil campaign
will cast over commerce? Votes in the
Legislature come high-don't they :?
Where does the money come from? l
wonder il the Honest Election League
furnishes any of it? And vet there are
honest men in politics and no one could
convince me to the contrary. Whallen
and Harrell-one is as deep in the mud
as the other in the mire.
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The editions OF our Sunday Courier
4 Journal are devotiDg a good deal of their
space to paintings. "Master Works by
Modern Painters" in last issue was
worthy OF many hours meditation, study,
and reflection. We may not be connois-
seurs, very few are, bnt we can cultivate
an eye for the beautiful in art just as we
do in nature, dress, music. Cupid and
4 Psyche" we have often seen before-but
II is q study supreme. What could be
more enchanting than the pose OF Can
4 dor" or the uplifted profile Of " A Paris
ian Beauty? The =" Madonnas," few
issues back, showed great triumphs in
art and the subsection OF brush and easel
to the mind of man.
DIR. Whitsitt, recent President Of the
OF the Baptist Theological Seminary, in
Huntsville, is much pleased with the
-~knner in which the Baptist ministers
eondact their services in London in
preaching for ten or fifteen minutes to
The children before their sermons proper
or adults. / hope DIR. Whitsitt's pres
mt discoveries may not prove as danger
JUS as his former delving did. He is
here in the interest of truth, not to
make against his denomination or doc
trine.
Every conscientious person, especially
arefned female, should exercise great
self-denial in social pleasure. She should
possess much discriminating power and
use II to define the line between that
which is harmful and that which is in
nocent. Conventional restraint is abso-
Iiutely imperative at times and one must
have the moral courage to denounce
anything that is pernicious in its inhu-
ence, even II 1t Is the progressive nine
4 teenth century-and we are preparing
for Edward Bellamy's still more progress
sive one.
Our reading club for 1900 is small but
ware starting out pretty well equipped
Kmagazine quantity anyhow. We
ave "Munsey's," Cosmopolitan"
1.-THE Quaker" THE Puritan" Prank
Leslies," metropolitan" Ladies'
Home Journal Literary Digest" and
"The Philistine," all monthlies except
the Digest which is weekly. We win
share plumber Of good late works with
one another besides the New York and
Chicago papers Brandenburg Normal
to add to its excellent library takes a
number Of magazines. A book should
be chosen with even more care than
friend because what we read has really
more effect and makes either good or
bad impression which is more lasting
an the conversation OF companion.
navar had In all If INV life the eliOhtpat