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days of sixty yearspleasant recollec

they bring Does thehave an opportu

nity to enjoy the diversity

of wholesome outdoor sports

pleasure jaunts or oldfashioned cir-

cuses Its a trout to imagine such

springtime days now rney were thedays when the heart of youth was

Dr Edward Everett Hale grandold man of Boston Senator William

Boyd Allison Undo William as ho

Is called by a score of

other old men become enthusiasticnow in recalling boyhood Incidents

The spring days they spent away backIn the forties were full of Interestingincidents How they made love to

the sweethearts of their teens therowings and dances they en-

joyed thera were Innocent pleasuresthough they were genuine springtimeinfatuations

Not as now were the boys and girlssticklers for formality A bow anda smile made an introduction In factthe way the old faces brighten theeyes sparkle and the smiles beam

when the days of fifty sixty and sev-

enty years ago are recalled Indicatesunquestionably that they were ones

that can never be duplicated

Can you Imagine n springtime Inold Kentucky With its balmy sun-

shine its shady nooks and its lovers

lanes fair old Kentucky gives theyoung man in the springtime the

of his lire Senator Joseph

Clay Stiles Blackburn recalls manyof the Interesting incidents that mark-

ed his days before the civil warMy boyhood days were speat In

playing soldier With a company ofmy playmates I used to emulate thedeeds of heroism of Daniel Boone Ibegan as a private In the ranks Itwasnt many days before I felt theimportance of my position and attainedthe command of my company sevenboys At the age of ten probably even

oarlicr I laid the foundations though

probably In a peculiar way of the life

I have led since the civil war was

Horseracing hunting and fishing

were the chief snorts There is noth-

ing I enjoy more than seeing a goodbqrsorsco In the old Blue Grass Stateyou could see a horsorace clmost any-

where The racing blood of a

Js quick to start The love of

that sport h followed me throughoutmy It has followed me becauseI hogan to love It aarly not that itwas a gamble but because it producesa exhilaration no other form of sport

The country dances in the littlehuts In the blue grass mountains thecircuses that to to our townthe fishing parties the driving partiesand occasionally the walking partieswhen we gathered flowers are Incidents to early days that I can neverforget Kentucky girls then as nowwaro girl any young man with thospirit of love in his heart could nothelp but admire In Kentucky a girlcan nwnlnttiate a gun fishing rod ortackle or rifle a horse as well and asfast and probably with more style than

same of their ardent admirersSpringtime days In Kentucky are daysof love a d rapture They were when-

I a boy and they are today Theugly regret I sow te that I can-

not five those days uver

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heart it also reminds me of the daysthat 1 began the only vices that I evercultivated One vice Is carrying a redbandana handkerchief The other Is

playing poker I the ban

dana handkerchief vice because n my

boyhood days a width handkerchief or

a linen handkerchief was a novelty andluxury I was a poor booy I could

buy three red ones for the co of alittle white ono Being scrupulously

averse to contracting obligations lcultivated tho vice of carrying a r lhandkerchief It stuck to me Idont regret It The poker vice Is my

pastime-

It has been a long time since my

spring boyhood days seventy years I

dont recall anything extraordinarilyinteresting that happened In the

I was between ton and flf nyears I went to school asboys did In the winter I played inthe summer as other boys did I wontcourting girls as other boys did butthere was one thing I did that otherboys didnt road the Blhlo andI cultivated a love for flowers

Early I took a liking for militarylife I WHS captain major amtcolonel of my home regiment I Furposo other boys do that some thingnow it Is a sport that ic wholesomestill It Is a profession that we allshould make something of It Is u

training for both mind and may thatboys of today do not appreciate a

they did and seventy yearsago But then time clwmsoH and Ipresume that the environments ofyoung men change with It The mostInteresting incident of my youngerdays was the ride in 1S on horeeba kwith a company of forty other Altbamlans from GsiaesviUe Ala toCalifornia That ride toughened MP

fiber in my physique and Is a ratthat not boys of today couldaccomplish

Uncle Joe Canaon speaker of theHouse says that to dhronloie all tillhappy events of the springtime of hisboyhood days would require a dozenvolumes The snringiiwa of his lirebegan at the age of four at GuilfordN C It takes him along through Ken-

tucky Indiana and up into Illinois

I can recall with pleasant recoilstlons my first visit to a country

and my first acquaintance with achimpanzee I went with my fathersold oolorad coachman to see Van Amburgs Show and Menagerie of Train-

ed Animals Wo wandered aroundJIoso and myself paying particularattention to the elephants and thebears and the lions and other wild

They all appeared too vicious

for me to become on friendly termswith except the elailhants To those Igave poanuts and became so attached-to old Jumbo as the big olontmnt wascalled that I walked up to hint addpatted him on the head and trunk or

as far up his hood as I could roach

At the end of our tour around themenagerie we came to a cube containing a chimpanzee Old Moae evident-

ly lead made up Ills mind to have somefun with me He did He began talkIng to the chimpanzee He said How

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Id monkey seemedto understand what Mote was sayfng but dMnt answer Ftaallj afterseveral minutes conversation ea UMpart of Mose with sMent repUac fret

my new friend the rMmnsmqijdose right aOTarou talk You Just keen your month

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li me that OBftckoAr brought toa dance or plods or potty I wmd-dhe happy for a anti Iwas bacfewacd IK tettte th otherfdlow abort It I oettera they nmmW

have the mm thJsig hot wetsa JlUte bit afr M Ihack aad s ond nxthar King

those I was bstof twelve and ctpfctssa

ages

Way dowa te UM M 3tt-

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preyto tkov tv of lore very

Hipliabte At lea tit tJHht

1 Senator Joseph WcMo BaiteyI was BOTH on a fanv to Goptefe-

uiity Mtos Hy nrtaglhsM dayshiss of

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and probably nthnslaatically lodvl od ta by onr youngschool eoapeateac with whom ofcourse a ConoUry boy SXVKS yery

The aprtegthna rscottsetloa ofevery Mains insn who ws a 3daB

boy are vtvfcL AM UM dttep wintersnows dteanpowr Bryttnt fetnrm r

the spring t raw of th esmttry

cmes opened In tbsna acsidajniea

gathered bright boys and girls

f m all the surronnditog townsTVhen hogs sod

i untry is aJtve spring farmingEvery one of these boys rangingfrom twelve to ftfteea years of age

knows how drive a team of horsesor oxen to hold the plow and t

sow and plantThere were no modern axWetics

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of sixty years lose were spent

Cromwell Oot-

Tbsy were the days I can n0get tow befogs

With the en rg a d

I drive 1 iithe good wbsltsoma outdoor invogue back before the age of tiir sratstrife

Dr BdwjLWl Bvorett HaJe tike Lapplain of the United States Sena

bspsy wits be talks of i thood days ofsays that the experience of tl t r

the f t

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of those days that they do boat tm UM e air ail they ean He d j

sot mean by that however Jyt-tve there idly bk that theylire there UB learn wha

arDUe ie an gxnmniiflcaikm of t

good wholesome life of MassachusettsHe most of Ida life In that

streets ever though he limps a tr ip

man of a physique nrf a

of strength energy andhealth He says that these ess ntralato the bNigevit of man T n

ferred by Ut goad wholesome ou I v rsports that be Indulged in In

springtime of his boyhoodUnete Wiittani Boyd Alls n j

soother oxemniMcatlon of what It s toOn a farm n

Perry eoooly Ohfc Uncle William

The incidents

be regalia of those days remind himbe says of lays of hilarity and Infa-

Ufitton fc the country lasses of the

rides throughtry to ebnrch said picnics

about the only sports and amusementsthat provided Cor the young Ljy-

on the frontier stxtyAve and severAH I can remember of t a-

sprtncrtlnm hi my boyhood days was

getting out in the fields at 6 o k-

in the morning and following the pwatt day bmg Saturday nights we wc U-

nrobabiy go to town or to dareSunday to a ptente Occasionally

would be a aebtng or hunting trip but

the most of my days wore spent on the

farm in the serener sad the country

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