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PROCTOR KNOTT, OF KENTUCKY Appreciation of Noted Statesman, Jurist, Wit, Humorist. Louisville Courier-Journal. The death of James Proctor Knott, a former Governor of Kentucky, but in many ways the most famous among Kentuckians of semi-modern times?a statesman, a jurist and a wit?recalls at once the stirring days of reconstruction and the orgies of corruption which followed the close of the sectional war. Proctor Knott entered the national legislative aerena at an opportune moment for the exercise and display of his exceptional talents. Like his colleague Beck, a sturdy lawyer, and his'colleague Winchester, an unflinching follower of the Jeffersonian philosophy, he posssessed a faculty shared by neither of them; that of an incisive, death1 ' ' 1 -1vu..us huu.y. rie uenvered more than one killing blow at "subsidy," the word, then used for what we now know as 'graft,' reaching high House rank the while as chairman of the judiciary committee, to which he brought conspicuous profession and intellectual equipment. He died at his home in Lebanon, Marion county, Sunday evening. If he had lived to the 29th of August, he would have been eighty-one years of age. He had been in failing health and his death was not unexpected by his neighbors. To the present generation of readers the name of Proctor Knott conveys a tradition rather than a memory. It seems indeed as far away as the names of Randolnh r?f Roanoke, and Thomas Corwin, with whom in Congressional annals, he will always be associated. Each of them had the misfortune to unite to serious aptitudes and rare gifts a too obstrusive fancy. Each had to wrestle with an unruly temperament, which, by turns melancholic and flamboyant, resented alike the familiarity and the fame invited by their powers of eloquence and satire. None of them could resist his bent. To eat his cake and have it is vouchsafed no man and this trio of American celebrities? earnest men and scholars, learned in legal and worldly lore, of mental and personal dignity much in excess of their tendency to enliven and illustrate the occasion and the subject! matter by a resort to the devices of 1 tne farceur?found, when it was] too late, that humor is a danger- i ous mistress. Those who knew them made the 1 requisite distinction. Their public \ never did. The multitude was daz- i zled by the shining quulities and j did not clearly see and fairly esti-1 mate the jurist and the statesman in the orator and wit. In most men of real parts two natures are embodied. Pr^/etor Knott, the official, was o?*e of the severest of men; fVoctor Knott, the ^ompanion, ^ "was one of the merriest: subdued in manner? temperate in habit?he could'set the table in a roar by a word, by a glance: but, next day, it would not be safe to confuse the man of affairs with the commedian of the night before. Oddly enoligh for a long time he winched under the memory of the Duluth speech. He had not in his early life the discipline of college training, nor the easy companionship of a house full of books. But he was a scholarly, as well as a diligent student ?a voracious reader ? and he repaired the deficiency, attaining both as a writer and speaker, a style far and away above the average of the most accomplished favorites of fortune and the schools. If Proctor Knott had first seen the light in London, or Paris, he would probably have taken to the world of art?altogether an artist | in his essentials being?even his political vaticanations and perspectives taking their character from ai dogmatic sense of form and tone | ana color. He was, for all his many-sided talents, the least adapt- j able, or adjustable of men. He nursed the idealisms of the poet; and the painter. He was fastedi-1 ous to a degree in his opinions, resisting the inevitable even whilst he admitted it. He took little in politics, or law for granted. He valued his friends; was indifferent! to money; loved human coinpan-' ionship and rose to its requirements; but his convictions, adman- j tine, immovable. Yet was there nothing downright or aggressive in his personal intercourse. On the contrary, he was the gentlest and most sympathetic of men. As a consequence he soon abandoned ambition and dropped out of political activity. He was unequal to the increasing hurly-burly, the lowering demands, of public life They offended his sensibilities. He preferred the quiet ways of the college professor and the country gentlemen, and was as happy in his retirement as he had been when a star of the first magnitude in the halls of Congress and the society of the national Capitol. He had a certain love of solitude and was never accessible to strangers. As a humorist he shone only amidst the unconscious gayety of his familiar friends. He w; clever equally as a reeonteur and a comedian. His dialect talents were extraordinary. He krew the people among whom he had lived, the country-side in Kentucky and Missouri, and could reproduce with minute and startling effect their peculiarities of action and utterance. "Why," said Joseph Jefferson, relating an experience, I could actu ally see the old man blowing out the candle," referring to one of Knott's famous stories, and to another, "I. really thought he held dog in his arms." If ever mortal led a chaste and and lovely life that mortal was the wise and artless man of genius and affairs, the brilliant recluse, who lies dead yonder amid rustic scenes where he was born and passed his days. The Missouri episode was the merest tour-deforce. Dreamer though he was? scholar ? ascetic ? he was still a Kentuckian; of the older school, and the rare type, but undoubted, a Kentuckian; picturesque even in his simplicity. With Corwln, his feilow-Kentuckian, he steeps at the close Kindred spirits, tho wide apart in life, they are united at last in death, leaving behind them the aroma of a whole man- ; | hood and a gracious memory. The world will not forget them. Kentucky. may be equally proud of both of them. SENTIMENT HIS BANE. That's Why "Easy lloss" Was Up \ Against It. He was a man of sense, but he 1 had fed on sentimental literature ' | and nursed on golden texts and 1 j survived a romance or two until | his business talents were not what I they seemed. In short, he was the | sentimental boss who was up > I against it. 1 I His help adored him. but as same things are too good to be true, or 1 too good to last, the "dear fellow" wasn't there long to be adored. The superintendent said the busi- 1 ness was sliding down hill ever sinee he took charge, and these wer 1 the charges against him: He hasn't the nerve to lay off the girl with the dreamy eye. The girl having a mother dependent, j etc., he couldn't do it. He would rather cheat the firm than offend one of these little ones in the of- ( fice. I Here are two distinct incidents ] that brOUellt the sentimental lir.au i into the quicksand of disfavor. ] He raised the Gibsonian beauty ] three dollars a week because she i wept into his inkwell. "Mother 1 must have a sea voyage, the doc- i tor says?and I really don't know how ? O. dear, me, everything's ( such a problem!" Her sweet con- < vincinghints about the difficulty of l making both ends meet on $12 t a week drifted right into the core 1 of the soul of the manager. t The daughter of the minister of i church to which he belonged ask- t ed for a chance in the office. There f was no room just then for Minnie, but he thought he couid make an j opening by and by. When the first rush came along . he created a new position. When the rush was over he couldn't abolish it, and think of Minnie pattering up and down the pave- i ments and applying to the brutes t of managers! 1 Minnie enjoyed her snap, plus t ten dollars a week, and one day t she innocently padded the figures < on pay roll so you couldn't see how t much extra pin money she took ' out of the office. > The sentimental manager was in i the meditative mood for a w?ek and ' then out of his own pocket covered up the $20 deficit and never said a word to the minister, who was 1 strong on the home government, 1 and t'nrough his own influence got 1 Minnie another position with anoth- 1 er firm where she could not re- ' peat the same offence, and then < gave her only one little hint as to * being more honest hereafter. Noble act of friendship from the ' standpoint of the minister?foolish 1 act of a chump who wasn't cut out for business from the standpoint of I the firm. s | And the firm policy of the firm 1 will prevail against the Tunatic 1 I lover and the poet" combination. That's how a sentimental boss got weary of the boss and is now a J successful piano tuner. EIGHT NEGROES K1LEED. ; By Two White Men Whom Iliey ' Had Murderously Attacked. j i Eight negroes were killed at La- 1 branche, La., recently as a result j of an attack by a gang of railroad section negroes upon Foreman i Boutwell of an Illinois Central i bridge force and Conductor Green j Storv of a worlr trnJii awnrtHno I reports. The negroes conspired to kill , Boutwell and when the attack was ] made the latter is to have shot three of the negroes dead. Con- : ductor Story, it is said, came up ' and together he and Boutwell killed five more negroes. The negroes attacked Boutwell with rocks, whereas the two white men used modern revolvers. The negroes attacked Mr. Bout- ' well and knocked him down with a shovel. As Boutwell fell he drew , a revolver and his steady aim 1 brought death to three of the blacks. Attracted by the shots Story ran up, armed with two re- 1 volvers, and after the fusilade of shots was over eight negroes lay dead on the ground. uei a map 01 soutn Carolina I showing Dillon county for 15 cents j at The The Herald Book Store. I MyDoci I "Try Cardui," writes Mrs. 2 H " I was in a very low state oi I be up and tend to my duties. I began to feel better. I got at I housework. 1 continued to ta I am able to do my housework I and I feel aa though 1 could I for the beneflti I have receive I .TAKE JlARDUi Cardui is successful, beca I women, and acts specifically < I Cardui does one thing, ana c I the great success which It has I in helping thousands of weak I health and happiness. 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He is about 35 years of age and if of good appearance. STATE'S WITNESS PERISHES. Negro Figuring in Illarknion Murder Trial Burned to Death. Darlington, June 20.?Special: Cicero Byrd. colored, was burned i to death in his home in the New] Providence section of this county last night. It is supposed that lightning struck his house, killed ! lini and then the fire cremated his remains. Only a few bones could be 'ound tv s morning. He lived by limself. Byrd was the principal witness in he case against Coit Blackman, :harged with killing Ed Bozeman ast December, and whose second .rial was to have taken place this ' Horning, but on account of the j I leth oaf B-yrd the case was contin- | led. Blackmon was tried in March, | 1 iut a mistrial resulted from the j ailure of the jury to agree. DONATE JUDGE DISQUALIFIEDI Unusual Situation Exists in Marlboro Will Case. i . Columbia, June 24. ? Special: Jinder the peculiar circumstances of ??. t..j_ - -- me juuge 01 trooate or Vlarlboro will not be able to sit in he H. H. Calhoun will case, and lie Judge of Probate of Darliugton ; jounty will be appointed by Gov-' jmor Bleasc to preside. The anlouncement of the unusual, tho lot unprecedented, proceeding was nade this evening at the Executive office. According to a letter from J. 5V. Legrand, attorney, there is a proceeding to have the will of H. H. Calhoun proved in due form of law. Milton McLaurin is Judge of Probate for the County of Marl-1 boro. He married a daughter of Capt. LeGette. Mrs. McLaurin is still living. H. H. Calhoun also ! married a daughter of Capt I>e-1 [xette. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cal-1 houn are dead. The Calhoun Heirs. H. H. Calhoun, the testator, left surviving him, as his heirs at law, liis widow, who has since died, and the following children: Sallie Calhoun Stubbs, John C. Calhoun, H. L. Calhoun, Jim C. Calhoun, H. 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