Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1907-01-24
Back to 4dam.


/ had in my mind a speech that was
known only to me and my God.
Now only one Of us knows it, and
that is Cod"
So warn you not to trifle with
me. If you hope to disconcert and
stop me by laughter or by throwing
things, you will fail and only force
me to prove to you that the pen
is mightier than the tongue.
Although 1 have done more or
less arduous labor in the preparation
Of my history, the hardest labor in
connection herewith is yet to be
done by you who are doomed to
listen. Now that ! have warned
you, as we say in secret societies.
Regarding it thus, are you still will
ing to proceed?" If any one pres.
ent knows of any good reason why
this speech and this cultured and
highly intelligent audience shuld not
be joined together in the bonds of
eloquence, let him retire now. or
ever after keep the peace.
BACK TO ADAM
In taking you Back to Adam"
l shall insert a tube of intellectual
radium into the darkest hour before
the dawn of antiquity, to explore a
subject that has come down to us
through 5000 years, allumined by
but single ray of sacred history,
and incidentally teach you your next
Sundays Bible lesson.
The theme is one that approach re-
luctantly land with a modesty charac-
teristic of my nature. am re'uc-
tant to dwell upon the achievements
of my ancestors, or to talk to you
about my own relations. But since
am to discuss my family affairs, l
shall endeavor to bestow upon my
distinguished forebear and his wife
a panegyric worthy of emigrants
who left Paradise when the first May
flower was in bloom.
With a reverence becoming
sacred subject and a respect due to
those wEo have passed away, in
vite your attention to a biographical
sketch of Adam and Eve, which,
owing to the fact that both parties
are dead, must necessarily partake
somewhat of the nature Of "a funeral
oration. r9'
We are told in Holy writ that God,
in the beginning of Time. fashioned
from the dust of the new-made earth
a creature in His own image,
breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life, and Adam walked the earth
in the Garden of Eden, located, it,
is said, in valley watered by the
Euphrates and its branches. Then
Adam slept dixie you will perhaps do
before get through, and while
he was in the arms of Morpheus one
of his ribs was removed by the Di-
vine Surgeon, and when Adam
awoke Eve was calling him to break
fast. Reused from his slumber
by voice he had never heard be-
fore, Adam rubbed his eyes and be-
held before him vision of lowell
ness, clad in a robe of purity and
wearing a smile of welcome.
They breakfasted from the fruit
that Eve had gathered, taking al
ternate bites from the same apple,
and were soon love-making in Eden,
with no third party to interfere.
Picture, if you can, courtship with
no father to ring the bell at 10l
O'Clock, with no little brother to
hang around the parlor, with no
other fellow to butt in at the wrong
time.
HIS FIRST LOVE SCENE,
Can you imagine that love-making
is the vale of Cashmere, when eyes
looked love to eyes that responded
with glance of alteration. when
the gentle pressure of one little
hand thrilled with ecstasy the whole
population of Paradise? And think
of the unutterable bliss, when Adam
first learned that woman's lips were
made to kiss. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
has expressed it in words that burn
with Goals of fiery fervor:
"The blue of the sky seemed tangled
In sudden silvery mist,
And the new made earth was shaken