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Show tier P Q-tTie Kentucky's Historic . Idols Slowiy Waning... Famng, I nothing else will take him to a racetrack race-track he should be bound and gagged and carried out to one and made to lose all his money on the long shots. Exchange. One by one the idols of Kentucky are slowly falling. First, the great battleship named after the state was christened with plain, cold water instead in-stead of with the red and fiery liquid for which the commonwealth of Kentucky Ken-tucky is so celebrated in song and etory. This baptizing of the battleship Kentucky with water instead of whisky, and which is generally referred re-ferred to in Kentucky as the "crime of the 19th century," was the first great prop of tradition knocked from under old Kaintuck. But now comes another, and if anything, a harder blow. Col. Henry Watterson, the guardian angel of the only original star-eyed goddess of reform, declared in an interview at Saratoga Springs recently that he had not seen a horse race in fifteen years. An old Kentuckian on hearing of this statement relapsed into the following follow-ing soliloquy: Shades of the old Kentucky Ken-tucky home, whither are we drifting? In every one of the three great geographical geo-graphical divisions of Kentucky viz., the blue grass, the b'ar grass, and the pennr'yal there has always been a feverish idolatry of the trinity of Kentuckygood Ken-tuckygood whisky, fast horses and pretty women. But whisky was scorned, scorn-ed, suh, yes, suh, scorned, when the battleship Kaintucky, suh, was christened christ-ened with water, suh, instead of good old licker, suh. And now, suh, Henry Watterson, ouar Henry, suh, the greatest great-est man, suh, since Thomas Jefferson, such, and fast horses at that, suh, by bragging, suh, that he has never attended at-tended a horse race in fifteen years suh, The next thing and somebody will stand up and declare that the beauties beau-ties of Kentucky squint and that they have big feet. Then what will there be left of the commonwealth of Kentucky? It is rumored that Henry Watterson, upon his return to his native na-tive land, will be called before a court-martial and tried for heresy' If |