The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1911-07-14

existed for him, comes in and settles
here, and thus ale personality of our
land is ever changing, and when the
wanderer returns, it is to greet strange
faces, and to see people who came in
since he went away, and who have
made for themselves fortune in the
land which he forsook, because for the
reason given by him, that it would not
yield livelihood for him and his.
But we have no quarrel with those
who have left Lancaster and Garrard
county to seek fame and fortune among
strangers, for as a rule they have
made good, and many is the man who
is now famous and well up among the
"big men" of our country, who looks
back with pride to the fact that this is
his home.
Kentucky has sent men from home
into the west, into other states and
even into foreign countries, who have
be:ome Governors, Senators, Judges
of supreme courts, and have become
famous in every walk of life. In the
west there is not state that at some
time or other since its statehood has
not had a Kentuckian for Governor,
a member of its general assembly or
upon its supreme bench. Why at this
very time brilliant son of Kentucky,
and one who formally was a member
of the Lancaster bar, is writing the
statutes and code for the new state of
Oklahoma. What better evidence
would you have of the esteem in which
We are held away from home, no
greater mark of respect could be shown
an attorney than to ask him to formu-
late the laws that in future shall
COVE IN a state.
As these people go forth among
strangers and make good at their va
rious callings, their success casts its
reflection back over their old state,
not only are they proud of their birth
place but the state is proud of their
success and proud of them. Had these
people stayed at home and devoted
their energies, the same energies
which they have devoted in a distant
country, to the same line of business
here, perhaps they would have achieved
an equal amount of success at home,
but ever impatient as we are and ever
will be, we cannot await the coming of
success, but must go forth and seek il
for ourselves.
AS for those who come to us in place
of those who leave, it is the same
story, too achieve success and great.
ness, but only as usual thing they
are not as prone to leave us as our owr
sons are to return from the land OF
their adoption; they settle among us
and in time grow into the ways of on
people, and this becomes home tt
them. This sounds little egotistical
but one may be pardoned for being &
little egotistlcal about as good a coun.
try as this, and besides it is true, ask
anyone who has come to this town anC
county and adopted it as his home.
And when we come to die, well just
find me Kentuckian who does not
want to die at home, and home to g
Kentuckian is always Kentucky, anc
next best if he cannot be allowed the
blessed privilege of spending his last
fieeting moments, at home, then his
next dearest wish is that he may be
buried there. Next to the love OF
mother, mans breast can be inspired
with no nobler feeling than the love OF
home, a feeling that should be respec.
ted wherever found, for the man who
is at home wherever he takes off his
hat may be jolly good fellow, but he
is but of little account in this world
and there is no better man than the
one who wherever he may roam may
often be heard humming:- "Be it ever
so humble, there is noplace like home -