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Show SAD FATE OF THE KENTUCKY BUSHWHACKER ,- In tho American Magazine,, Colonel Colon-el Irvln S. Cobb contributes nn exceedingly ex-ceedingly amusing nrtlclo on his na-tlvo na-tlvo State, Kentucky. Among other things ho mentions tho fate of the Kentucky bushwhacker. "Tho eastern end of the Stato Is tho mountainous or perpendicular end," ho Bays. "Here, from tho beginning be-ginning of things, until comparatively comparative-ly recently, resided the 'congenial feudist nnd the lncurablo moonshln-1st. moonshln-1st. Tho latter still exercises his hereditary calling In a cavo on a creek up a cove with n measure of corn to feed his still and a mossy place under a treo for tho customer to Ho down on afterward; but the gentlo bushwhacker has almost vanished. van-ished. Either ho is taking a post graduate course In chair bottoms at tho Frankfort penitentiary or ho has been fatally forty fourcd nnd now sleeps In tho family burying ground on the slant of tho Cumberland hills with his still booted toes sticking up at tho lower ond of tho mound to savo cost of foot stones. In his placo, that happy child of optimism, tho Eastern capitalist Is boring for oil nnd delving for coal and hacking for bard wood and meanwhile dreams sweet dreams of eighty per cent dividends." |