Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-07-20
AS OTHERS SEE US.
Mt. VERN ON, Ky, july IS, o6
Mr.. Editor


ing i'll your midst has been mine,
have been asked often and bv SO
many the question Of How like
Kentucky in general and Mt. Yer
non i'll particular, that l crave to
day the use of your columns for
my humble answer.
Ever since my boyhood days
when reading history, fascinated
with the glorious and wonderful
tales of America, the wish was in
me, strong and intense, to learn its
language. to tread it's soil, to know
It's people. and to grow up with
them. My admiration, / may say,
my hero-w worship of George Wash
ingtou and OF Abraham Lincoln
was second only 10 that which l
ertained for the liberators of nv
own native country. Wilhelm Tell
and Arnold Won Winkelled. And
the thrill that lifts one into patri-
otto ecstacy at the sight of that
most beautiful flag in the world,
he striped and star-bespangled
b inner is akin to nothing else in
the world
Coming closer home, Kentucky,
proud daughter Of Virginia, he
nome of your Daniel Booze, and of
hat greatest of parliamentary
fighters and orator. Henry Clay,
the mill boy of The Slashes, had
always for me'a special charm, and
| was ever anxious 10 feel it's TAM
Gus blue grass beneath my feet.
When we are young. and the
enthusiasm of youth is nourished |
by alluring romances and endless
hopes, our imagination IS apt to /
take boundless flights. filling our
minds with visions of adventures
nd conquests in the realms of love,
science, and in all the achievements
II inge NOUS humanity. We are
also told then, that when those a e
nut youths illusions, and that
when we come to meet with stern
realities, we will find them vanish
ng into the spheres Of hobgoblins
and empty Dreams
Intuitively l always dispu I'd
that doctrine, and now, since the
same realities have given me the
privilege, through a serie of sue
cessive. delightful human events,
to be welcomed among you as
Home conner, kinsman and
friend. l am glad to emphatically
Ill the stern realities far lovelier
I'd far beyond the dreams of youth.
Kentucky! God has been par
ial to it. Te breathe the air of it
is luxury 1t has climate; it has a
FERTILE and generous soil; it has nat
ural scenery which charms the eye.
1t has boundless possibilities and
unexcelled opportunities for the
development of its natural ..resourc-
es and industries. 1t has manu-
ficutures of world wide fame. Its
bloc d ID horses are no less famous
in Europe than in America. 1t has
a remarkable reputation on &C.
cunt of the unusual number of its
sons noted for their legal acum en-,
executive ability, oratoIy and
craftsmanship.
True, it has not as many Col
onels as reported. but the world
knows the product of its rye and
its min; aieps.
What is more dramatically real
than the enjoyment Of the fruits of
hard and honest labor, be it men,
tai or ply steal, backed and sustain
ed by a patriotic core ,ption of duty
to ones country. bv the strong
wishes of clean heart, as shown
by the numerous achievements of
men for the benefit of mankind,
and exempli6ed in this ideal COM
munIty by its we'll kept fields and
carefully husbanded orchards, by
the love and devotion in the family
circles, and in an abundant and gen.
erous hospitality and good will?
If you will pardon a new
comer's criticism, 1 would say that
your State. and especially your
county and town, need good roads.
These would increase trade tenfOld,
the value of property in town and
country threefold, and commerce
| 6vefold.
AS for Centucky's fairest flowers,
its women (and of course, what is
said of Kentu cky in general ap-
plies with equal force t, Rockcas-
tie county,, it is no wonder that. po-
cts have sung their praises for a