Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-22

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Kentucky offers more contradic-
tons than any other state in the en-
lire sisterhood- II is inseparably and
forever Of the Union, yet standing
apart and insisting always upon the
right to administer its own affairs IN
lis own way. Within its boundaries
are spots which breed more pizen
to the square inch than
Vermont does. Ten miles away, or
twenty, are other spots which in
thought, mood, custom and speech
are as typically Southern as though
they stretched along the Gulf, instead
of being, as they sometimes are, with
in the Mason and Dixon line. You
find towns where scarce a colored
brother abides, and other towns
where he constitutes thirty-hve to
forty per cent Of the population and
practically ali Of Inc i ,esS;s--cc class
When Gabrielstrumpet blows, some
of the dark-complexioned Kentucki'
ans are not going to answer, unless
they think it's adinner horn Marse
Gabriel will have to blow her again.
Of late, Kentucky has gone in less
/ for pistol toting.and more for better
schools for fewer homicides and a
greater number of good roads. Yet
| in her essentiaIsi she is what she al
WAYS has BEEN. She leads the planet
| and the subdivisions thereof in the
production of chewing tobacco and
Bourbon Installations, which age in
1.-THE woods, or would do so were it
mot for the demands Of the New York
Iclubs. Likewise, she leads in fine,
fast horses; in hemp, although not SO
lmuch hemp since the electric chair
lcame into common use and the lynch
Eings began to fall off; in corn bread,
without any sugar it in hog iowl and
Iturnip green's, in ancestors; in col
.lonels who inherited the title or had /
wished on them; in poets-not all o.
Jour poets write poetry, but all O.
Them think it; in silver-tOngued ora
Itors; in the preportionats number o
Ilatchstrings hanging on the outside
lin the use of doormats with the wort
welcome" on them; in pretty girl
with soft voices and. tiny feet ant
lfiirtatious souls; in men who believ
: THAT Kentucky has the fairest skies
: 1.-THE softest landscapes, the deepes
t waterways, the clearest rills, tn
) finest people and the greatest unde
4 veloped possibilitiesin natural wealth
D land are willing to fight to prove it.
II Within her OWN borders she excel
. in the ritualistic rIint julep and tn
t Ihigh-chunch ham 1t takes thre
f years to, cure Kentucky ham prof.
/ erly. The trouble is, that so fe'
people who have ever tasted one ca
:, wait that long.
e The. principal holidays are Chris
e mas, Election Day, ard the da
of tha County Trot. At Christmi
= Kentuckian serves in his hon
e an eggnogg made according to r
cipe dating back to the Revolutlo
n Indeed, some people think it had
Is good deal to do with bringing on d
" Revolution. On Election Day
rs votes early and claims late. On Cbn
~ Ety Trot Day he worships at the shril
a Eof the Hoss.
And at all times, he swears by t
I'd state that gave him birth. After he
be lucky, heaven is going to seen
KY mighty ordinary place to hir7. Ma
ITS be he has strayed afar and is nc
N, running for office in some other col
m monwealth. Maybe he viii never
ma back home again on anything short
ur requisiton,, but still his heart
ire where his state is. Maybe-mi
De- you, am not quite certain of Il
IN point-but maybe be will admit
ties you pull the census figures on hi
an that Kentucky of hate years has
EN- increased in population so rapidly
ty. some of her fellow states. But
al, answer he would bid you consiC
how much finer thing it is to
ars born singly in Kentucky than to
oh born triplets anywhere else on ear
om Down our way we can never !
ob- given Mrs. Harriet Peech rStoy
To writing "Uncle Toms Cabin"