Show GOOD STORIES bowie anecdote anecdotes told by artor knot and adial st ren n I 1 it is lg not net easy to reproduce produce in print the I 1 pleasing c effect ot of A good story it is is like trying to convey by whistling the rare mcl mel I 1 exly that baa has thrilled one or telling a friend of a delightful glass of wine recently en joyed whether or not the staple products of 0 tho he blue grass country have ha e anything to do with now powers era of humorous narration ibba bertain that X kentucky en tucky has b is produced many gentlemen ent lemen of e exceptional noto note aj eurs the most distinguished humorist of whom the house has record Is isa J proctor knott kliott tho the genial governor ex of kentucky one who could pre presen preserve serve e it calm and aigul std demeanor during knotts relation of f wine of his experiences e is its county prose pator in fu the bad w of kentucky would eardly smile if it ho he unexpectedly fell heir hel r to 5 undivided estate knott used to know an old bead headstone tone cutter up in the kentucky mountains who made viade his living in ing by chiseling epitaphs of more or less truthfulness about misguided people who would leave the blue grass re apons ions for a bourn whose climate and prod 0 u o in justly atly celebrated and well known this fellow bad had it stock of ma nia mine cut headstones bearing the ame reg elation inscription sacred to the memory ot of who died k eod one day it widow called for fora a stone but having baving a little more style than the mountaineer mountaineers she b e required something poetic and pathetic waal wital mistress reckon weve aa as fine as they la Is undre and we can put on a is little extra extras ef yo can pay tor for cm em how ilow would ye like gone gono within the gates ajar no that suit too common I 1 think you ou can make it gone to ton a better laud tand the old fellow looked at the woman o 0 in amazement and indignation A kl laatu aam he said sternly ive ben cuttin em for thirty years and pye told some mighty big onea ones in that biml but I 1 dont put no do euch such stuff as that on a buono for no one gone to a better land why they aint no better land than old kaintuck and I 1 wont say my there is for no ance vice president elect stevenson proves his birthplace bythe by the genuino gen aino evidence of story telling there may be something bom hom ething bout about christian county that inclines the me men a to make their meaning clear by indi arec tion stevenson was bom a stones throw from lincoln birthplace and both in early life acquired the habit of pointing a moral by quaint illustration T this his trait la Is a very marked one in us character it is said wd that when be was w as in the postoffice posto post flke office department where the c crush rush of people and the rush of work combined with the trying summer summers of washington agton would try a it mans patience to the utmost lawas he was never heen u in ill temper and would ofin get others into good humor by a timely yam yarn if be had occasion to offer a re buke be had a neat wity of making his feelings feeling known without injuring another self esteem on one occasion just im a the department was wa s closing and when steven stevenson on still had a good batch of work unfinished is reporter a newcomer in washington strolled languidly in ostensibly inquest lu quest of news the general glanced from the paper papers on which he was engaged and said there was none the 1 I he youth pulled an evening paper from his pocket pockets se seated himself on the sofa sota lit ht it n cigar and began reading sund sundry ry items aloud for ste ansons benefit making running comments at the samo same time as its to ansons fatal fatall error in bending sending such a battery in on the fifth and whether or not the gut ten burgs were belll being pulled to any great ap eat extent when his perfecto was burned out the young man suddenly arose and said well general I 1 think ill have I 1 to be going now us its ive got some important to attend ta looked up and eaid said quietly by the way mr jones of con course arse you yon know governor Go vance I 1 just happened to think of what happened to III him m oncel once you know he was w as governor go arnor of north carolina shortly after the war and one day an old woman came vane into bla his office at raleigh when be he wa was bard hard at work on matters of pt prea tv sing importance and said she must see the governor at once bhe bad come a good many miles from up the mountains to get a pension for the loss of her husband well of course the governor told her kindly nil all about the difficulties in the way how bow t tye e government go was not granting pension pensions vo those on the wrong bide side and that the slate state was in no condition to do it and when he lie had bad explained everything fully returned be turned about in his chair and went to work again the old lady however had bad come to spend the da day with the governor anor and she took out her ball of yarn an and d began to knit the I 1 toe of an immense red stocking all ali the time when the governor was hard at work with bis his back turned toward her I 1 she kept talking on about out all the latest gossip p how the new schoolmaster got the liest of bedge fioke in discussing john brown along about dark she got ap abruptly and eaid said in a sort of injured tone to the governor waal mr air vance likely yon biose I 1 got no nothing thing to do but sit here bere bowrin with you all day but I 1 reckon ive pre got some work to do ef you good evenin Y yea es sir the governor told me that actually acy took place in his office in fu raleigh mr jona jones I 1 aaa As a good illustration of bu his ready facility for conveying hia his meaning by illustration one day when he had him written and arid signed an order relative to observing holl dayi days on a certain day he used the word employees spelling it in the go good old aci way with eee em A clerk brought it ft back and nd suggested that it should be without the final e why 11 said stevenson it little inist irritated its n he took hi his st pen and made the second ie e a little more full and emphatic yon are worse than old john dark clark out in my town everybody knows old john pleased he need tobe to be justice of the peace one ono day be elgner it warrant for the arrest of a fellow for stealing it n horse which be he spelled horce and when the sheriff got the paper he was having some fun tan showing it about he wae in my office when old john came iu an and naked asked what the joke was why john I 1 believe they R are AM amused AMI I at the way in which you spell horse home how do I 1 apell horce said the sheriff with a it grin wonder bow how in thunder I 1 happened to do that course you boy boys know that was a adial take your pen and arid scratch out the stevenson bt evenson told a it story about his friend joe blackburn that is eald said to hae have nettled the senator because it came too near to the facts acte for mutual enjoyment in early manhood it Is said the senator waa was not conspicuously retiring or reticent to such a degree that it required more than one yoke of oxen to draw from him an opinion upon any public question ort at time whatsoever mr stevenson bald 0 id that once when n 9 celebrated desperado was to bo be publicly ex muted in kentucky joe blackburn then at rising politician chanced to bo be amon among g the before tho the sheriff adjusted asted the noose e to abo of the condemned man be tendered end ered him the customary privilege of making any dying he might desire to for the benefit of bis his heare be arera 1 I dont think thin klIve ive got any remarks that hat the man inan began to say when be he was cue cut short by a loud cheerful voice shouting say bill it if you halat got ady anything thinG special to talk about I 1 wish you would give me about fifteen minutes of your time 0 just to let me MID say to these good people that I 1 am a candidate for their r and to show some reasons why hold on eaid said the desperado dea She sheriff rift who is that maur man blackburn what blackburnn Blackb Black uror burnt joe blackburn yes 1 I thought give him my time LIMP give him bim all pt of it cut r 0 head end nd bang me tad 1 I 11 0 11 aa fiert 1 I 1 rn talk rL bew york herald |