The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-05-05
BEADS ODDLY STRUNG
(By j. II. Thomas.)

Public opinion governs the world.
Statutes are useful only when they
conform to it
So far the greatest war in all his
tory has not produced a Wellington
or a Bonaparte.
Let me direct parental teaching
around the family hearthstone and l
will reform the morals of mankind.
The greatest depth of the ocean is
about six miles, and the oceans floor
is about as irregular as the surface
of the land.
The moon is dead world, without
moisture or atmosphere, and in con-
sequence is devoid of both animal
and vegetable life such as we know
on the earth.
We, in the United States, are pass
ing through an age of small men.
We have, just now, few masters of
their art, whether on the platform,
the bench or the pulpit.
The pelfish muckrakers and fool
reformers have held the boards for
nearly score of years but the coun-
try seems now to be open upon the
eve of returning sanity.
Because the minimum wage in
Henry Ford's automobile plant is five
dollars a day organized labor looks
upon Ford's crazy candidacy for the
presidency, with a friendly eye.
On the dearest night less than
four thousand stars are visible to the
naked eye, and to write in miles the
distance to the nearest of the fixed
stars requires fourteen figures.
One hundred and three Kentucky
counties have taken advantage of the
State aid road fund. Will Ohio coun-
ty push ahead with the one hundred
and three or lay back one of the
seventeen?
Hammer it into your boys head by
daily repetition that he must be hon
est and sober and industrious, and at
ten years of age he will have formed
character that will endure for a
lifetime.
1t has been carefully calculated
that if all the public roads in the
United States were made highly eff
cient it would increase our national
wealth by more than seven billions
of dollars each year.
In the museum of the public Ii
brary at Louisville may be seen the
real body (mummifed) of Thothmes
II, one of the greatest of the Egyp-
tian Kings, who lived nearly three
thousand years ago.
The beautiful colors of the rain
bow are but the separated strands of
the white light of the sun, the dense
vapor of the cloud performing he
office of the prism to resolve the
composite sunlight into its primary
colors.
More than two thousand years ago
Xerxes lead an army of million Per-
sian soldiers in the neighborhood of
the Dardenelles, and his was the
largestsarmy the world ever saw until
the massing of troops in the present
European war.
A travelling salesman, who makes
the writer's town at periodic inter-
walls, says the end of the European
war and the end of the world will
occur in about two years. The
The drummer is a preacher and is in
dead earnest in predicting the wind
ing up of the world. The end of the
world would no doubt put an end to
the war.
Many nervous people view the ap-
proach of the storm season with ex-
IRENE anxiety. Sheltered in sub
stancially built dwelling house one
in this climate is absolutely in no
danger from the hardest storm that
blows. Try to recall where anyone
so sheltered was injured by a storm
and you will convince yourself this
statement is true.
Twenty thousand volumes have
been written to prove that Sir Francis
Bacon wrote the Shakespeare dramas
and still a lurking suspicion remain
ed in credulous minds that they were
written by one William Shakespeare!
Now comes a learned Chicago Judge
who, in a solemn court decision, de-
clares that Bacon wrote them. But
until the case is passed on by the
Supreme Court we shall stick to
William.