Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-04-26
(By George W. Pcck.)

 who is traveling in the South studying the Prohibition Question for the Graphic and the Milwaukee Sentinel.)
 Louisville, Ky, April 25.--The op
 portunity comes to every man who is in his right mind to occasionally visit dear Old Kentucky, and he usually be- gins to do Kentucky by doing Louis vile, and it must be said that too many of us never get beyond Louisville, and they get all that would come to them in the whole state right here in this
 little old town. If he knows many people who live here, he does not want to get away, and if he does not know a soul in town, they find him before he has wandered far, and they soon make him feel that he is a long lost relative who has come into his own. If man takes one drink of ten year old whiskey, he wants to stay, and the next citizen who treats him, will give him twelve year old brand of Whis- key, and he wants to buy home here, and when the third citizen springs the fourteen year old kind, right out of the wood, that has never seen a drop of water since it left the disti- lery, he picks out business block that he wants to buy, and when the six teen year old brand strikes his vitals, he gets an opinion on the whole town, and they carry him to 'bed, and he dreams of moonshine heaven, where all the angels are Kentucky girls. That is what they tell me have been coming to Louisville oecasioE- ally for a quarter of a century. and nothing about the old town seems to have grown any older except the whis- key Every year the same Whiskey is that your llJst has braeged abous Il dozen years ago, when it was eight years old, has become so precious That a smell of the cork is worth twice the price of admission, and if you will drink ii without water you are his friend, but if you put one drop Of water in a glass. the host feels that you have run a knife into him and he does not like you any more. The practice that has been in vogue Of every man having Whiskey year old CT than that of his neighbof, has gone out. as compromise has been effected and all whiskey is now l6 years old every where. and if a man wants to claim greater excellence for his par ticular beverage, he tells you in a reminiscent way thai it is quite old, sah" and leaves you to guess it's birth day after il is in you.
 But every thing is not old ill Ken lucky. The ladies are all as young as they were years ago, and they look it, for your true Kentucky girl is never any older than she was when you first knew her, and though her hair may become gray, or even White as snow. her cheeks are red as cher ries, her eyes sparkle like diamonds, she dances like a fairy, rides the horse like a West Point cadet, and will tell you in conferences. that her mother s hair turned gray before she was thirty. It is fine provision of nature that a beautiful woman never grows old whatever else may happen i'll Ken lucy. But while a Kentuckian is hon est in everything else, l have some thing else. I have sometimes had my doubts about him when it comes to talking about horses. Every mans
 horse is the best, and the youngest until you meet another man with horse Sixteen years ago l was look ing for saddle horse here, and man showed. me fine saddle horse, head and tail up with all the galts, a perfect beauty, and only seven years old. I knew that all horses in Ken lucky were either two years old, or three years old, or below seven, but did not buy that horse, though Joe Blackburn and Colonel Watterson told me could take the word of that man on a mess of bibles, for he came of one of the best families in Kentucky. Do you know, yesterday l saw that same man riding that same horse and when he refined up in front of the store, the proprietor said if any gen tleman from the North wanteda per tleman from the North wanted per gain. I looked at the horse, spoke to the owner asked him the age of the horse. He thought a moment, eXpec- torated through mustache that had grown gray riding that horse, petted the proud animal on the neck ana