The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-01-28
BEADS ODDLY STRUNG
(By I. ID. Claire.)


: honorable privileges just because h.
: gets married. But such is the pun
) ishment Fluke undertakes to NEE
: out to my dear friend, Battle Nall
In my puny and feeble way | helped
make Bat famous. | wrote him uI
, and wrote him down until his name
was household, aye. byword, In
the home of every family that reads
the Republican. Finally went
away, as all of us must sometime &c
' away from everywhere, and left Bal s
. fame In the hands of Fluke. For a
time Fluke performed his duty with
faultless diligence, until Battle de-
Gliding, like another Adam, that ii
was not good for man to live alone,
went joyfully, hopefully, gladly to
the hymenial altar, and then Fluke
| fluked. But here is to the resurrec-
ton of Battles fame. May it never
grow less.
l am just now wondering what ir-
treparable injury Claude Smith thinks
have done him, that he INDUCES in
such singing retaliation. For a
quarter of a century, IL l may say it
without exposing Claude's age, don't
care to expose mine-Claude and
have maintained the most congenial
relations, and time had seemed to
csment our mutual goodwill Never
until Monday did it dawn upon me
that so fixed friendship would be
broken except by a stroke of light
ming, the wreck of an aeroplane or
some similar catastrophe. But Mon
day. shall always remember it as
fatal day-Claude gave the boy at
my boarding house a dog. Now he
knew, or could have on reflection re-
called, that have an instructive hor-
ror of dogs. There are a few folks,
chiefly women, who will go into con-
niption fits at the sight of cat 9th
er folks can not bear the sight of GER
tain cloths, as linen or sales.--future
antagonists, little understood but
none the less real. Now that is my
experience with dogs. / can account
for 1t only upon the theory that in |
some previous existence 1 was o cat |
and happened to live with family
that kept dog, or perhaps a whole
kennel Of dogs. Anyway, the sight of |
dog, especially about the house, in
stinctively impels me to do something
awful. In the old days at the sight
of dog about the house l would kick
and scream or perhaps take drink,
but times have changed and can
only kick. would escape by chang
ing my boarding house, but boarding
houses are so darned hard to get in
Central City that nothing short of a
kick by the landlady will dislodge a
boarder. l thought / would solve
the problem by buying the dog and
shooting it, and offered the boy ten
dollars for it, but he demanded a cool
million. I'd poison the burned dog, |,
but that would mean sleeping with
nothing but winter sky for a COW
ering. Driven to desperation, am
seriously thinking of committing sui
eide just to get out of my misery and
touch Claude's sense of remorse. And
then think maybe that is just what
he intended, and I'll live thru it to
spite him.
was over in Ohio county Sunday,
and my heart was moved to pity by
discovery of the number of my friends
who are going to run for office.
There is to me something pathetic in
The spectacle of friend of mine be-
coming candidate I'd much rath- 4,
sr see him, If he must take a chance,
get into crap game. His losses /,
would be smaller and sooner over ,
with. Running for office takes all {
me milk of kindness out of the hui
nan breast. The defeated candidate
IAN never suppress his sorrow for the
people for the good service they miss ]
~ not electing him. He never af-
erward believes the people are ca
Fable of self-government, and this
discovery of their stupidity hurts him,
lurts clear down to the marrow in l
lis bones. Occasionally he forgoes {
Judgment and is willing to give them e
mother chance, but second defeat h
mikes his faith in the good sense of 1
But the fellow who wins =
licits my sineerest sympathy He A
mt prolongs his slavery For four S
ears he must play the hypocrite by ,
lay and cuss and grit his teeth by
light. II is not natural for man 1
@ love everybody, and only saints
nd candidates try to. Chains,
hackles. hang like leaden weights
bout the candidate for office. He
) no longer his own master. but ev- 1
nv mans man. evaryhodv'c friend 4