| Show politeness PREVAILS it Is extremely gratifying to cultivated people to know that the disposition in man which prompts him to be courteous is not falling off but rather advancing frontiersmen mining prospectors and the advance guard in whatever lines of life are disposed to lose sight of the more technical forms of politeness and to forget piece by piece the lessons in correct deportment department which they acquired in their earlier days but so long as the native instinct to be civil until incivility is called for remains the more substantial forms of good conduct remain and in most cases are ineradicable kentucky is a state which is noted for the openhanded hospitality of its people and this is generally generalli dispensed in an unostentatious unaffected min manner which is the soul and substance of good behavior but we read that even lynching lunching lyn ching which is also tolerably common there is done in so courteous a manner that the subject is left noth i ing to desire for instance last de cember a vigilance party at owens boro did not violate the sanctity of christmas day by their act but considerately sidera tely waited till next day before addressing themselves to the disagreeable but necessary task even then great consideration is said to have been shown for the religious needs of the prisoner the report says that he was given ample time to pray but when he had finished his petition the lyn chers proceeded resolutely and he was strangled to death even during the operation of choking the alleged murderer to death no dise disturbance e tur bance occurred the dispatch dis states that the lynching lunching lyn ching was the moot quiet and orderly perhaps ever conducted in the state and few persons save those having business on the public square at the time knew anything of it the regard for decorum and the manifest disposition to keep in line with the proprieties seem so thoroughly ingrained with the social fabric of Ren kentucky tucky that the occasion becomes merely an incident it would seem there Is nothing like going about things in a quiet orderly and peaceable manner even though the thing done happens to be an outrage upon the law and a mockery to the mame jiame of justice |
