The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-05-11


would bring to the celestial gate
that thing most holy in the sight of
Heaven, it might regain admission.
The spirit wondered over the earth
until it found battle field where a
handful of men fought to death
for thor country and homes, and
when the last martyr fell pierced
to the heart it gathered a drop of
his blood and flew with it to the
gate-but the gate opened not. Re-
newing the search it found a mother
kissing her plague stricken babe and
snatching a sigh forced from the
mothers heart it again sought the
gate, only to be denied as before.
In disappointment the spirit search
ed the earth. to learn at last that
the thing most holy in the sight
of Heaven, is a human life saved
from degration and sin. And now
for the application. There is a de-
cent, healthy industrious young girl
fifteen years of age in this county
who is homeless. Her father and
mother are each dead and she has no
kins-people. Her estate consisting
of few hundred dollars is almost ex-
hausted, and unless a home can be
found for her at once she will be
committed to the comfy poerhouse.
To lasting stigma and reproach in
the eyes of the world, and to a life of
degration for herself. A personal
call or a postal card to Judge w.
B. Taylor will bring full partic-
ulars. Is a young girls happiness
and character precious in the sight
of the word, and do christian people
think it worth saving? She is home
less and no one has offered to take
her in.
The gloom that overloaded the
Court House crowd when they learn
ed of the death of Uncle Nicholas
Barrass last week was real and pro-
found, Now that he lis gone. his loss
is felt most keenly by his lodges, his
laborers and his party. Many a sick
man has been furnished the necessa-
ries of life by Uncle Nicholas until
he could resume his work in the
mines and no good cause failed when
it appealed to his generosity. I'm
like others he had no cause to COM
plain of the worlds ingratitude, as
he had been repeatedly rendered any
office his party could give in Western
Kentucky, but refused them all I'M
til he accepted the nomination for
Magistrate in a Democratic district
last fall in order to assist his friends
on the County ticket. His over
whelming victory was a surprise
even to his friends. After life's fit
full fever he sleeps, and if the re-
spect of the rich and the gratitude
of the poor united together in his
praise might sweeten his slumber,
he sleeps well.
With this issue the Court house
chat will end. 1t was ever a thing
of shreds and patches, begun in the
dark hours of the writer's life, and
whether or not it helped others, it
helped the writer to forget for a few
moments his painful past, his disap-
pointed dreams and a dreary pres
ent. In all that he has said the wri-
ter has written without malice. If
we have called attention to the fact
that w. S. Tinsley breathes short
it is because he is too lazy to get a. long
one; that Oscar Midkiff's head has
only one function-to keep balanced
his body; that Ernest Woodward is a
coyote wolf in donkey's skin; that
Jim DeWeese "can smile and smile
and be-himself-stil. IF we have
done any of these things we did so
like the country teacher for their
good and not for our pleasure, and
because we think the world needs.
"A little work, a little play,
To keep us going-and so, Good
Day!
A little trust that when we die.
We reap our sowing-and so Good
Bye!"