The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-04-09
BEADS ODDLY STRUNG
(By l. ID. Claire.)

(By l. d. Claire.)
The rich express their sympathy
with their pocket books; the poor
with their hearts.
Labor with its dollar an hour
wage does not see that it is blindly
approaching the precipice over which,
sooner or later, it must plunge, drag
ging the public with it.
When the pulpit bushes its mean
ingless denunciation of sin and sensi-
bly, unfolds to the reason of man the
memorable law of the wages of
sin being paid in the coin of death 1t
will have adopted itself to the ad-
vancing progress of the world-intel-
ligence.
The fool who thinks everything
happens by chance is after all wise
| enough to live by law, for after all
it is only by expecting things to oc-
cur much as they have always occur
red that our lives and actions are
possible.
In his isolation the man at the
pillow must devote many hours of his
life to solitary thought, and thought
| ripens the mind as the sun the fruit.
Wanting as such men are in the art
of expression, they possess an intel
ligence far higher than for what it
will pass current with his more cul-
tured but less philosophic city broth
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How one life may note marked
advancement. l am only fifty-four,
| and yet l once ate bread cooked in a
skillet, read my lessons by candle
light, went to a neighbours house on
\ occasion to borrow Goals of fire, stole
sugar from the cupboard that was re-
served for use on occasions of COM
pany, wore homemade trousers and
manipulated straw hats.
| 1 know Republican readers are
anxious to know who is going to be
nominated for president. Wish i
could tell them, but can't. 1t is
| part of my daily work to read the
large daily papers and the magazines,
| and yet the reader who has only the
Hartford Republican has as good a
guess coming as anybody. Such
condition of uncertainty never existed
at any time this near the National
| Conventions before. For the Repub-
licans, l think it is safe to say that
neither Wood nor Hoover nor John
son will be nominated. Wilson is
eliminated by common consent of
Democrats from third term nomina-
ton. Bryan's dry record makes him
impossible, and as to the rest of them
it is anybody's guess, but Maybe Cox.
| *%&
Faith is the virtue of religion, but
we approach ii from varied angles,
some from reason, some from au-
thority and some have faith just be-
cause they have it. Just now l have
interested a very bright lady of rare
culture and refinement, whom l meet
at table, and who, on account OF
chance remark, fears for my orthor-
doxy in the quality of my faith. l
am both interested and amused at her
earnest desire to confirm my faith.
have assured her that | was not an
agnostic, but only perpetual seeker
after reasons to confirm my belief,
but in her womans way she regards
my position a sort of sacrilege. And
still the best reason she can offer for
the firmness and constancy of her
faith is the simple fact that she has
it. But it is only the woman's way
and maybe the better way.
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Did it ever occur to you that hu-
man nature under like conditions is
about the same where ever you come
in contact with it? Franfort people
are very decidedly the most agreea-
BILE and congenial people it has been