The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-22

IN, weep 10 more today,
{ viii sing one song of my old Kentucky
home
Not one time but many hundred times
the kentuckians i'm Louisville this week
have heard Fosters old Kentucky
Home All the brass bands from all the
country round are here. and their bTaZen
threats bIare forth the strain over and
over again a quartette of negroes at the
corner of Fourth and Walnut streets
sings Weep no more. my lady with
variations i'm d high falsettO. A blind fid-
oler by the custom house building saws
patiently at The sun shines bright in
my old Kentucky home" some boys
swinging over the excavation where the
new Mary Anderson theatre is going up
were whistiing it. and a little further
down the street q photograph parlOr told
she same story. And still they smile.
these keutuckiaus. and even cheer. when
q very happy people, Home is spelled
nIth very large H. and My Old Ken
lucky Home. with its Dlaintive words
and melody Is the audible expression of
their emotion.
Stephen Fosters memory has lived with
his song and one Of the occasions Of the
week was the unveiling of a bust of the
dead poet with the proper flight Of elo-
uucncC III his honor. The bust is to go
10 tho new capital building a Frankfort.
There have been a lot of occasions made
for the homc-cpmcrs beside the Foster
aftCrnU0u, Daniel Boone day. a Lincoln
gay. floral parade. "a night pageant,
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been good ones. but the people have been
he real show. On every side the soft
southern speech. the dTaWl the resonant
quality OF voice. the siuTred consOnants.
\ family group passes-a sweet-faced
Young mother. the big COod-IOoking
ather. q troop of white-clad youngsters.
negro nurse bringing up the rear with
he baby in her arms.
The street cars stop while two groups
meet and minEie. ''HoWdv. honey how
~ When did YOU come: How are all
ne folks Tom Dick and Harry And
women kiss, while men clap one another
IN the shoulders. They come from ali
over the land. and some from other lands
They are of all ages and conditions. ON
The dining car l met an old lady coming
home after forty years on a California
ranch. She was bringing her clothes in
basket, and she had a sublime conf
denCe in the Louisville Commercial club
and its hospitality. Her homecoming in
viIation she had received had been a per
SOndl one to her. I have faith to believe
she was taken care of. for the hospitality
pf these Louisville people was most gen
erOuS. There was an atmosphere Of fried
chicken and ham and all that savOrS of
good cheer floating from the fine Old
homes along the shaded streets and per
vading the town.
The portrait of Lincoln occupied the
most prominent place in the aTmOry. the
great hall where the crowd gathered and
an afternoon was set apart TO do honor
10 the great American.
And the most prominent figure in the
WUttG CHlEDIdllDu was IlaL OF Henry
'Marse Henry they call him
here; so when it was known that Wat
JerSOn was to talk about Lincoln a great
crowd gathered in Central park To hear
the speech II was o clock in the after
noon and the sun had just dipped below
the tops of the old beech trees when the
orator rose. There stood facing us a man
Jf incOnsideTable height, stout Of build
his short arms brought forward across
his body, and his big, hOmely head lifted
toward the people, who yelled and shout
I'd and huTrahed- as they did every time
he appeared throughout the week He is
Z rugged leOnine type and when he shakes
the white locks back from his big fore
head and lifts his arms in gesture YOU feel
at once the power Of d born leader of
men.
Very deliberately. in a splendid big
voice he rounded his periods. The rough
heWn cabin in which Lincoln was horn
was just beside the platform in which
Watterson stood With that poor howell
within the range Of his vision he was in
SpiTed to elOquence, the OId-fashiOned
eloquence of the school readers. the roll
ing periods Of Webster and Patrick Hen
ry and Clay-the kind that brings the
tears and stirs the emotions "Narse
Henry was the orator of the occasion
and aroused more enthusiasm than any
other individual. but there were others
Old Governor Leslie. nearly % years old
was shown much honor as the One-time
governor Of Kentucky and later on of
Montana Then there were Adlai Ste
veusOl and Governor Francis and hand
some young Beckham. the present gov