The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . d the judge on the bench. It is to be greatlyfeared his noble type is dying. The stain of venali-ty has soiled his homespun ermine, and the trail ofthe office-seeker passed over his rough-hewn about this time the new constitution of the com-monwealth comes in, to make the autocratic ancientjustice over into the modern elective magistrate, andwith the end of the half-century to close a greatchapter of wonderful county court days. But what changes in Kentucky since 1850! Howhas it fared with the day meantime ? What devel-
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . d the judge on the bench. It is to be greatlyfeared his noble type is dying. The stain of venali-ty has soiled his homespun ermine, and the trail ofthe office-seeker passed over his rough-hewn about this time the new constitution of the com-monwealth comes in, to make the autocratic ancientjustice over into the modern elective magistrate, andwith the end of the half-century to close a greatchapter of wonderful county court days. But what changes in Kentucky since 1850! Howhas it fared with the day meantime ? What devel-opment has it undergone ? What contrasts will itshow ? Undoubtedly, as seen now, the day is not more in-teresting by reason of the features it wears than forthe sake of comparison with the others it has singular testimony to the conservative habits ofthe Kentuckian, and to the stability of his local in-stitutions, is to be found in the fact that it shouldhave come through all this period of upheaval anddownfall, of shifting and drifting, and yet remained. COUNTY COURT DAY IN KENTUCKY m so much the same. Indeed, it seems in no wise lia-ble to lose its meaning of being the great marketand general business day as well as the great socialand general laziness day of the month and the one feature has taken larger prominence—the eager canvassing of voters by local politiciansand office-seekers for weeks, sometimes for months,beforehand. Is it not known that even circuit courtwill adjourn on this day so as to give the clerk andthe judge, the bar, the witnesses, an opportunity tohear rival candidates address the assembled crowd?And yet we shall discover differences. These peo-ple—these groups of twos and threes and hundreds,lounging, sitting, squatting, taking every imaginableposture that can secure bodily comfort—are they inany vital sense new Kentuckians in the new South ?If you care to understand whether this be true, andwhat it may mean if it is true, you
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