The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-06-16

have missed It is neither circuit nOi
discredit to any section but 1t comes
from "Chaucers purest well of Eng
lish undefiled," and blossoms all
through our King Pames version Of the
Bible. "Unless we become as these
(liNle) ones, etc. "You (young)
ones be ready for school,. I'VE (youn
shall perish If the boat capsizes.'
You-ens and we-ues. abound down
there yet unless some fantastic school
marin has run them out. If so, she
has broken down the purest English
while trying to correct an alleged
error of speech.
Ignorant mounnineers," indeed!
The wdsest and the best of our great,
strong Anglo-Saxon blood inhabit
there. They may not all be "cul-
tuned
knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of 9th
or men.
Wisdom in minds attentive to their
own
The stranger there will meet with
more generous hospitality, more un-
affected courtesy, more devotion to
good neighborship Tin its broadcast
sense,) more of the real Christ! The
writer, on bitter, cold February day,
having lost his gloves was riding
barehanded from London to Manches-
ter. A mountaineer, shivering on the
roadside, rushed out into the mud
and forced upon the horssman
pair of thick, homemade gauntlets,
which Left his own hands exposed.
He would hear to no word of protest
or proffer to pay.
The gloves are yours stranger you
need 'em more'n do, and all charge
is, pass EN- on to the next man."
For any incidental kindness the morn
taineer may bestow, his invariable
injunction is, Pass it on; pass it on
to the next man who may need it,"
Of course we all rejoice in every
movement for better school system
in the mountains as elsewhere in Ken
lucky, but the hope remains that her
noble people may never become too
cultured to be civilized. Some few
of them QH times past) would kiln an
enemy for revenge, but not for rob
berry. Educate EN- to the point not
to kill--they know how not to rob by
instinct. Then, as rule, the noun
tains will show Rsbler population
than the Bluegrass or the sedge grass
Far out in a mountain county, thir-
ty mihs from. a railroad or school
house, lived a tsw-heeded boy ten
years old, in an humble log cabin this
parents were poor, which had no YES
sige of book or printed page-not eve
a bible. At last little log-kouse
was built nearly in which a sweet,
young lady consented to teach a pub
lie school Sammy, wilaeyed, came for
ward to ''matIsculate."
Samuel" the teacher asked, in her
gentle way, "haye you ever been to
school before?"
"No-o-ome," he hestated; then
proudly lifting the uniSempt head
but seed a book oneetl'
Look out for the mountain boy who
seed a book Oncet! He's coming
Father Abram, three hundred thous-
and strong, and when he gets there
he'll be heard from. He comes OF
a race purar than American-of rae
untained as yet with any alien mix
tlre-the pure, unadulteratsd Anglo
Saxon.
In the mounatlns, songs are sung
that you can hear nowhere else
There is Tor was only a very few
years ago. an absence of the rag
time stuff which tickl5s the ears OF
civilized groundlings. Ia most of
these songs there breathes the weird,
far-away meloay-the tenderness of
words and music like the wailing of
the winds in mountain caves-lhuman
sympathy for the hero OF the story
whom misfortune (og cl'ime) has ever
taken. The hero may be wicked be-
yond all conscience. but IL is he.
not the dirty policeman" who gets
the sympathetic tear.
caught the WORDSWORTH ! could
write the music alsol--of John aIardy
from pretty and petite Miss Rachel e
Hayes, youngest sister of Douglas
Hayes, Brea.hitt county-fame, who
bears the UNIQUE distinction OF having
earned tafter serving time) two par
dOns, one each from Gov. j. G. w.
Beckham and Gsv. w. r.. Taylor. Lit
tie Rachel sang the wild songs OF
her dsar native laIsi," accompanied
on the melodon, ian a natural, not
cultivated voice. soft, low sweet and
siHery-the voice with which. Jenny