Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-03-27

with charity Tor all-and ma
ice toward none" we kindly draw
the veil of forgiveness over the
wrongs committed by our mis-
guided fellow citizens.
To return to our theme. "Our |
Old Kentucky Home.
Our State rightfully boasts of
some of it's finest farms of broad
and fertile acres of Blue Grass.
the native home of some of the
finest horses in the world, and
the adopted home of Short Horns
Attorney, Holstein and Jersey
herds, Kings, queens, princes.
and pridcesses of theB ovine king
doms of the earth.
1t is almost beyond belief that
thousands, yea millions of those
mammoth specimens of the bovine
species, being from one hundred
to one hundred and fifty dollars
per head at three years of age.
Surely here is a Banana, to
the Blue grass farmer with his
hundreds and thousands of broad
fertile acres as fine as the sun
shines upon.
We shall not undertake TO est
mate in tons nor train loads lis
wealth of coal nor il millions of
feet of lumber, nor its valuable
resources in sand, shale and clay
Kind readers indulge us, looi
kindly on us, while we assume
the role of prophet, and look wa,
head, at a picture that arises
before our vision. Behold, 70,
long range of foot hills" of tn,
Cumberland mountains known Ii
Kentucky Tarlance as ''Th'
knobs" See beyond them, arts
ing in their majesty the forest
covered peak. and plateaus ant
still further in the dim hay dis
lance the majestic ranges of tn
Cum berland mountains stretchin,
up to the sky. Beneath thes
Everlasting hills, lie undreamed {
millions of mineral wealth, too vas
for the comprehension of the OF
binary mind.
/ Looking more closely we OF
serve, scattered along the stream
o and valleys, farms and farr
houses, orchards and meadows,
4 perfect picture CT rural life in til
hill country. Aye truly thes
q are Kentucky Homes.
!, lift my eyes again and VOL
e derful to tell the majesty of INTEL
p gence has transformed the.
II sparsely settled and imperfect
q titled sections into a veritab
IS paradise of Kentucky Homes.
n The log cabin has been col
n signed to duty as shelters tor ca
tie ard sheep, while beautif
frame and brick dwelling dot tt
S landscape. On the hill and moul
e tain sides the plateaus and peak
6 are orchards and vineyards, viii
Is the air laden with the fragrance
'. orchard and meadow is filed wit
a bees humming, while they stol
e the precious sweets with which IL
" region abounds.
e The screech and screams of tt
e locomotive have been substitute
W for the scream of the panther an
2 the howl of the wolf.
J.. Crossing and recEossing, ar
IS parallel to the various RAILROAD
: and spurs of this region is %
work of mountain roads, no
cadamized or gravel with ca.
y grades reach various trade cente
y where towns, villages yea Cit,
have sprang up sin the night"
: in the magic days of "Arabi'
D nights" fame.
y Looking along the broad ferti
D valleys we see town after tow
10 with church spires, and bell TO,
h ers of colleges and Graded Schoo
n glittering in the rays of the Sc
= ting sun. Yonaer comes a
), auto truck laden with the produ
of the farm to be distributed
parcels post, to the consumer
factory, shop and mine.
/. Beloved State, Nmy own, 20
native land"
Is this all a dream? Is the pi,
|. ture visionary impracticable, an
impossible?
ii Nay verify. it may be. it ougl
to be, it can be-unless-.
el The scene has shifted, I Sc
- anothee picture. which seemingl