The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-11-19
As Others SEE US
Interesting WritG-upby q Re-
cent Visitor.
A Newspaper Man From Indiana Tells
His Readers About His Trip
to Louisa.

The Times man and his wife last
week spent four days in Kentucky.
which, as every school boy knows.
stretches across 1l9 counties from
the Father of Waters on the west
10 the Big Sandy on the east, dis
tance OF ass miles. From the Queen
City OF the West. just across the
Ohio from Covington, the most
northerly city in the State made
historic by Daniel Boone and as the
birthplace OF Kit Carson, not to
mention Henry Clay and the Breck-
enrldge family. to Cumberland Gap
II Ill miles. its greatest width In
area Il is something larger than the
state kept on the map OF war and
statesmanship. OF song and story.
by Harrison and Hendricks, by Egg
gleston. Wallace and Riley, by John
Clark Ridpath and Joaquin Miller,
who has touched the hills to beauty
and sang the sea TO sleep.
Kentucky has a history all its
own. II stands out with an individ-
uality. physically and anthropoligi-
cally, as bold and conspicuous as
Gibralter or the cliffs OF Ben Venue
immortalized by Scotia's greatest
descriptive bard, There is a rug
gedness In It's hills. 4 sublimity In
Its mountains, a sleeplness in some
OF It's streams. beauty in the col
orlngs OF its forests, a charm and
grace In It's winding valleys and its
hempen and tobacconized landscapes,
that bid the traveller tarry; cor
dial greeting, a hearty pressing Of
the hand. that allays the timidity OF
the wanderer. that throws an oasis
about the tired feet OF the traveller.
that at once puts him at rest within
her social gates.
had been in the blue grass state
before, several times in fact along
the III miles above mentioned, and
eighteen years ago both OF us spent
delightful two days at Mammoth
Cave, one OF Americas greatest nat
ural wonders, the details OF which
were given In these columns. Even
at that time ! had been In the
scribbllng business long enough to
get my hand in, all OF which tells
me now that | am almost veteran.
And there is q fascinating something
in this pencil pushing that appeals
TO me. and yet the exigencies OF the
situation has lessened this writing
from year to year In quality as well
as in quantity ! fear. Really. in
so..e respects there is a deeper sat
isfaction in newspaper work than in
the handling OF notes, mortgages,
stocks, rentals and bonds. And ac-
cordingly. with your permission, !
am this week devoting this Money
Column of mine to Four Days in
Kentucky instead of matters COM
mercial.
II was little after two Sunday
morning when we crawled from un-
der the covers at 18th and Spear
and 3:l0 when we heard the con-
ductor's "All-aboardp at the Penn
sylvania station. and s o'clock when
we arrived at 0hio's metropolis,
where we spent four hours. Then we
boarded Chesapeake & Ohio car,
crossed the murky and sluggish
Ohio, which l understand furnishes
the water supply for Cincinnati; and
sometimes, when in forgiying
spirit, have thought II any people
should be forgiven for drinking
lager beer, II is these Cincinnatians.
Their water in the river is as dirty
as the politics OF their Boss Cox.
And yet drank It In preference to
tea and coffee. And why do | not
drink these beverages? Because
both are poisons. God made the
water, but there is no record of his
ever brewing coffee or sleeping tea.
And yet | have no pique with my
fellows who drink either or both
and Ia addition rub snuff or smoke
q pipe.
The Chesapeake & Ohio hugs the
south bank Of the Ohio river prac-
tically all the way to Ashland, KY,
145 miles, where we waited twenty
five minutes and we're off on one of
its branches for Louisa, thirty miles,
the seat OF Lawrence county,where
they burn what Logansport has long