In The Best

Kentuckians are always proud of their state in whatever department of human la'oor they niay hold. Npt long ago a widow wout to eee a mar ble cutter to get a tombstone for her late busband. She selected a plain one froru his stock and gave him an inacription to put on it. "Can't do that, nia'ani, " he said politely when be had read it. "Why not?" she asked in surprise. "I'm paying for it. " "Yes, but I can't put that on. 1 stretch my conscieuce a good many timen in what I put on a torabstone, but 1 ain't goiug to teil a plain lie when I kuow it. " The widow was greatly shooked and insisted on his explaining what he meant. ''Well, ma'ara," he said, "you've got here 'gone to a better land, ' and that ain't so, ma'am. There ain't any