The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-02-11
STRAY STREAKS
(By Fluke McFluke. }

Good taste in short skirts depends
altogether upon the appearance of
just what the exposed portions of the
hose contain.
In about nine cases out of ten,
wherein man is ashamed of his son,
the son has grandfather who was
ashamed of his son.
go
Moonlight on dark night or 9TH
erwise, is welcomed and enjoyed by
both saint and sinner, but moonshine
in either day or night is liable to
Jail the enjoyer' thereof.
Our good friend billie" Schroeder
brought us a couple of nice twists of
fine old tobacco yesterday, and bless
goodness he didn't say word about
us giving one to nobody, neither.
| 49,
II some man could, and would in
vent a rootless hog and a flyless
chicken he would undoubtedly be
blessed by a host of pestered neigh
bors Of chicken raisers and pig grow
ers.
This game we are trying to play is
interesting, many-sided and loaded
with work. 1t is simply a question
of how much one can and is willing
to stand. The hours one keeps may
be clearly noted 'twixt the column
rules of the pages sent out.
| go
We've been feeling sort o. queer
here of late and our Doctor diagnosed
our case as being an affliction of
candidateitis. It's a malady that
bores in, making the patient wish the
germs were all extinct, or bound up
with his worst enemy, or something
or other.
II we make a mistake and note in
our personal columns that Mr.. so
and so was in town on such a date,
and it finally turns out that the afore-
said Mr.. So and So was just one of
the many candidates. We hereby and
in advance humbly ask that we be
pardoned for the error.
I'D. Claire pears to be bit rum
pied cause we corrected him as to
what he alleged Father Adam said
about man being alone etc. Now,
listen, come up close Claire, I'm 60
ing to make a solemn confession: l
didn't know a thing about that bu-
siness, the Devil told me how it was,
so blame him, for, this too.
*&%
Fonza Midkiff, of Sunnydale, vows
he believes every thing he sees in
this sheet since John Henry severed
his connection with it, and, as Fon-
"a reposes so much confidence in us
at present we wish to call his atten-
ton to an article in another Column
hereof, entitled Freak bird, Hunt
ing Hog and Housed Frog" that he
may tell it to his Sunday School Glass.
| We also wish to assure Kiff of<our
deep appreciation of the justly plac-
ed trust repOsed in us.
Uncle Bill Keene, of Shreve, fotch-
| ed us four mighty nice looking
twists of tobacco last Monday, but he
nearly broke our heart, for the time
being, when he aXed us to send
brace of them to John Henry. We
hid our grief as best we could an
told him we would gladly comply
with his request we took it as a re-
quest instead of a demand, but
spects as how that tobacco will be
right smartly aged afore Thomas
Jams any of it in his old cob. To start
out with, I'm not goin to say moth
in about gettin the hacker and if j.
Henry don't know nothin about it
he won't have no reason to feel hurt
and like he has been laid down on.
Psychology, we believe, often has a
lot to do with newspaper making,
perhaps gloomy, depressing elements
sends one into state far below nor
NAL. It's true that for days but lit
tie seems to happen for the news
gatherer, and there are other days
] when much may happen and the self
same news gatherer can't, for the
life of him, whip it into shape so as
to be readable. We have periods
when nothing seems to appeal to us,
everything is commonplace and with