Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-01-26

s 'prised as is at gitti1' ketched "
II you, my kind friends. are sur
prised to see me on the talking line
again tonight, | assure you that you
are not more surprised than | am
myself.
But | recall the fact that DR..
Powell once lived in my home town.
the beautiful Pearl City of the
Pennyrile," and this honor comes to
me. not for any merit | possess, but
because in the heart of our host is
that sentiment of Goldsmith,
"Such is the patriots boast.
where'er we roam
His first, best country, ever is
at home
| am honored for my country's
cause.
My subject is one upon which |
shall not make labored argument.
OF course Unjust say something. but
! the tired feeling will be felt more by
the hearers than by the speaker.
The first time | was here | told all
about The City and Country" The
second time took you Back to
Adam" and brought you up to the
present time. That leaves me a
somewhat restricted territory to
cover in taking you through this
third degree.
Like the chameleon that sat upon
the lap of the girl with a checked
dress, may have to "bust" myself
trying to make good.
Just think of my subject, The
Cat Came Back and Others"
This beautiful sentiment is one
that should inspire sublimest efforts.
"Ye who have listened with ere
dulity to the whispers of Thomas and
pursued with eagerness his phantom
FORM" have no doubt asked your,
selves whence came this nocturnal
visitor, so elusive of your projectiles?
| wish could train the search-light
of brilliant intellect upon this OBJ
scure point. but 1 cannot. Back in
Egypt when Rameses was boy, we
find him calmly seated on the back
fence blinking at the moon. He was
used as a household pet in Italy a
thousand years before the Crusad es.
From the earliest ages cats have
been objects of superstition. Tenn
Piles were erected in their honor and
we are told that when a cat died the
whole family shaved their eyebrows.
In the middle ages they were asso-
ciated with witches and they are
still supposed to have nine lives. |
Conway says;
Cats preserve enough diabolism
in tradition to make some people,
even to this day, tremble when they
see black cat at night"
Do you know there once was a
man named Cats?
How he got his name history does
not tell, but Jacob Cats, a Dutch |
poet, who was a contemporary of |
Shakespeare. attracted attention in
literature and had his picture paint
ed by Rembrandt; but it is not of
the poet | would talk, but of the
pugnacious musicians of the same
name, that are still making the man.
ufacture Of bootjacks a fiourishing
industry long after boots have given
way to tan slippers and spike-toed
shoes.
1t is of this gentle quadruped, so
little understood. that l would sing
a swan song to you tonight.
In the words Of La Fontaine:
This person was hermit cat,
A cat that PLAYED the hypocrite,
A sanity mouser. sleek and fat.
An arbiter OF keenest w.t."
We may not always see the humor
In his plaintive song but we must
that we can't always even
zee the point to funny joke.
The cat has done more than sere-
lade the moon. His very name has
our language.
II in delving into natural history |
Use the wrong word. it is a cata- {
.hresis. If | deluge you With a flood /
# oratory. it will be a cataclysm.