The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-09-13


down deer IN Arkansas and out there
acquired an unerring aim. A running
fox nerves him for death shot every
time.
Little Harry Norman found $50 In
gold several days ago, and succeeded in
finding the owner and restoring the Ices.
Another pleasing case Of honesty in q
noble boy. This world is pretty good,
lots better than many people think :
and there are multiplied thousands Of
boys and girls who are growing up only
10 make it better than it eyer has been.
The writer haa the utmost confidence in
children and 6ods them all good. He
can't end the bad boy" that teachers
and other people talk about
Billy Mattingly owned the boss pair Of
mules in this section Of the state, but
los. them one day last week by a tree
falling across them, killing them almost
,s.anly The driver narrowly escaped.
NJ were filling the tree, and an unexs
e. ct wind took it in the contrary de
icc..,n, causing it to fall across the team
hicn wss considered in a safe position.
Mr.. Msttingly had repeatedly refused
$500 for the mules. No blame lie given
to anyone, as the accident was not due
to carelessness.
Styles Howard, one Of the best teachers
in the county, is teaching perhaps the
best paying school Breckenridge has.
He received the appointment this year
to the State College. With the begin
ming Of the new year he will go TO Lex
ington for full course in Mechanical
Engineering. Utopia will then have
two boys at the A. and NJ, two fellows
any county would be proud to claim. If
we are judged abroad by the works OF
Robert Norman and Styles Howard, old
Breckenridge may safely feel that she is
reckoned as good as the Bluegrass OF
any other section,
l agree that it's right to ask questions,
but how many people ask about things
which are really none of their business
And how pertinaCiously they do it, too
They will force you to answer or to use
an evasion that has a close kinship To
talsehood. One Of my new year resolves
at the close of '9S was "I'll ask no I'M
reasonable questions, nor will answer
any that, in my judgement are better
unanswered" 1t is a hard resolve To
keep, and the first part is harder than
the last. found the other day a list o.
ten questions l wrote out a good many
years ago. wrote them the day before
was to meet Frank James, as then
thought. was going to interview hin
you know, and write it up for the NFws
1 failed, luckily failed, to see him. Only
a saint could have endured those ques
tions without running me out of the
state (Texas) or fixing me up 30 l coulC
never get out alone. Often when we dc
not know how to deport ourselves luck
is on our side and we get through fairly
well, and no man needs a constant mer
Ciful, protecting, saving good luck any
more than he who unfortunately anC
persistentlY and constantly asks abou
the private affairs of others.
The August number Of Home anC
School heads a column with the startling
words, Man a Habitual Liar and quotei
two eminent ministers in proof of tn,
heading. One says Through its EN-
phasis of the superlative our age is il
danger of losing all power to tell tn,
truth" The lively school girl can't fine
an adverb that expires SEES the degree sh'
wishes to state the young orator find
no appropriate adjectives short of thu
multiplied superlatives; the good ole
farmer must depart from reason just
little when he tells the yield of his sol
or the size of his best potatoes or beets
the good talker wants his statements Il
be superior to what the other fellow sal,
and he stretches truth; the write
for the political paper-but why tall
about him? He never could hi
the truth and is missing it further al
time. A candidates paper lies for him
the opposition paper lies against him
What's the difference ? But seriousl
why not call a halt2 Let's watch tn
tendency toward exaggeration, check il
be reasonable, be truthful, even thougl
our statements do not make people opel
their eyes and cape in wonder. Here
for truth, plain and simple. Truth il
talk. Truth in writing Truth in al
thinps 40 far as we can know.