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Title: My own story; an account of the conditions in Kentucky leading to the assassination of William Goebel, who was declared governor of the state, and my indictment and conviction on the charge of complicity in his murder
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Powers, Caleb, 1869-1932
Subjects: Goebel, William
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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while my heart cried, Iwant her, I want her. As time went on, and as the first keen edge of mygrief wore off, I felt the necessity of directing my lifeinto some more natural and less morbid channel. Iturned again to my work, and threw myself into itmore zealously than I had ever done before. I had adouble object in view: first, to divert my mind frommy grief, and keep it so fully occupied that I shouldhave no time to brood; and, second, believing that mydays of social and domestic happiness were at an end,I determined that disaster should not overwhelm meon every road, and that my life, as far as it was in mypower to make it so, should not be a failure from abusiness standpoint. The sure cure for all privategriefs is a hearty interest in public affairs, said Burke.I tried to profit by his philosophy and, therefore, keptevery hour in the day occupied with the study and prac-tice of law and with my duties as school superintendent,except such times as I set apart for exercise and sleep.
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My boyhood home on Brush Creek Court-house at Barboursville, where I began the practiceof law in 1894. The cross indicates the office Ioccupied as Superintendent of Schools My home in Barboursville during my brief married lifeIN MY EARLIER DAYS MARRIAGE 65 I took my daily walks with as much regularity as I tookmy meals. I found this essential to my health, whichI had foolishly impaired by overwork at college. I have never married again. While it is doubtlesstrue that the human heart can more easily love whenits depths have once been sounded, still it is furthertrue that arduous labor, intense thought and weightyburdens require such a concentration and taxation ofones energy that there is little left for the soft senti-ments of love, and a man must admit that after henears the age of thirty, he becomes more parsimoniousof his affections. CHAPTER X AGAINST ODDS I am again a successful candidate — I take a post-graduatecourse in law at Center College, Danville — Stump-speaking The fi

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