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Show THIS-MAN SSJiW Old General Buckner Loves the Life of a Mountaineer Ixniisville, Ky., Dec. 2. General Sl-Von Sl-Von lloliver Hur.kner, candidate for , vice president of Itic United States I on the Cold Democratic ticket in 16, says he Is happier than anybody ' in the world. General Huekner, former governor ' of Kentucky, now In his eighty-eighth Jar, was an honorary guest of the j governors yesterday. "I can't keep out of politics." he said last night. "I guess it is in my blood. I wish I could have kept out or politics all ruv life and probably I would have been a rich man. Itut I am happier than anybody in the world as it is. I came ail the way here from Hart county, tho best spot in the world, and 1 m going back there tomorrow because I'm homesick home-sick already. "I am living in the same log cabin on my farm In old Hart county that I was born in That cabin is 10'J years old My father built it and It is In as good a state of preservation today as any one could wish. I raise my own tobacco, I have a fine mint bed and my old dog, General, wags his tall every time I walk Into the front yard. . . . . . . "This is no ordinary log cabin. It Is all logs and good olJ red clay and fiery room has a great big fireplace, where in thf winter time we roast av pies, pop corn, broil game and make a l.ttle hot toddy. "There Is a good spring just out-I out-I side tlio door. The water gushes : from the rocks, and It is cool and pure 1 as any water in the world. Along the banks of tho little stream that trickles trick-les from the spring, grows th finest mint in the world. This water and I this mint, when combined with a llt-1 llt-1 tie of Kentucky's best spirits, makes the finest mint julep in the world. "Young man. you can tell everybody j In the world that I would not give up thin home for the palace of a king J Multl inllllonalres need never try to j make mc an oiler, because- I would j refuse all their property ior the los; cabin and that spring and that mint j bed." |