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BQUIBS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE.
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Rain—let her rain.
We have had copious rains which
did much good.
J.A.Darr began a protracted meet
ing at Cole City last Saturday.
Beware of the editor, sonny un
less you have plenty of money.
When will people quit asking
each other “if it’s hot enough.”
The negro question—“ Where can
I find debiggest watcr-millvun?”
Riding on a hump-back mule
this kind of weather is rough busi
ness.
Capt. Thos. R. Evans made us a
flying visit from Birmingham this
week.
Trenton has been full of life tuis
week, and we are glad to say it is
spirtiual life.
Obbyßryan is thinking seriously
of moving to Trenton. What’s the
matter, Obby?
Misses Nallie and May Cole left
to-day for Cordell, Ala., where they
r emwin until Sunday.
How many candidates will be
elected to attend to their private
affairs, and not official.
Clements so far is sweeping the
county. We do not see a ghost of
a chance for any one else.
Miss Lulu Case made a flying
vis: tto Greenwood, Ala., last. Sat
urday. returning Monday.
Miss Fannie Beese, a sweet and
charming belle of Chattanooga, is
visiting Miss Lizzie McLean.
Mrs. R.S. Rodgers, acccompanied
by Miss Florence Pace are visi
ting at Jasper, Tenn., this week.
Dr. F. H. Field, Dentist, will he
in Trenton Court week. Those wish
ing his services will please, call
early.
Mr. R. E. Cross who was cut by
Charley Sutton is improving rapi
dly and will soon be intirely re
covered.
Uncle Marion Tatum will have
attained his three-score years next
Tuesday. Come up Uncle Marion
and we will treat.
Mr. and Mrs. 11. E. Watson, nee,
Miss Jennie Lovelace arrived in
Trenton yesterday. The people
are glad to welcome them.
Mr. J. M. Sutton, of Chattanooga,
spent last Wednesday in our town.
An hour’s conversation with Mr.
Buttons is pleasant and of great
benefit.
The young, and a great many of
the old folks had a very pleasant
time at Morganville last Sunday
learning and practicing their do,
So moes.”
The mooting being conducted at
the M. E. church by Rev. J. L.
Prater, is making better progress
than was hoped by the most san
guins.
John L. Case, who has been for
sometime clerking in the docu
ment department at Washington,
D. C.,House of Representatives,has
returned home.
Two of our young men were sore
ly disappointed last Sunday, be
cause their'‘best girls*’ didn’t come
from viile to attend our pro
tracted meeting.
Dr. Max Corput was in town
Tuesday and Wednesday. The
doctor is looking well, and many
‘sheop’s-eye” glances were cast in
his direction by the pretty maids.
Some of the girls in this com
munity are as shy as the Corean
girls. They never show themselves
to an outsider unless they have on
their Sunday go-to-meeting clothes.
Landon Jackson, a very small
negro boy stole a couple of very
valuable gold rings from Miss Ida
Pierce. He was detected by Jim
Williams, when he tride to trade
the rings for a chain . The youth"
fui criminal was given a uight’s
lodging in the county jail, and
turned out next morning.
We are indebted to Mr. S. B.
Austin fora basket of nice pears.
Jerome Williams was kicked by
Bob Smith’s mule yesterday THs
thing is r little too infectine
Legislature canidates take the
stunp at Rising Fawn to-daj Let
the fur fly boys
We acknowledge the receipt of
some specimens of sweet potatoes
from Mis. Pete Whitt, which are
undoubtedly the finest of the season
Two of them being sufficient to
make a meal for the editor. You
can guess how large they were
Mr. S. A. Philips has removed
his family from Trenton to Cordell
Ala. The people of Trenton regret
very much their departure from our
little town, bur wish them prosper
ity and happiness in their new
home.
Bob Smith deserves a chromo or a
brass button for the biggest lie on
the heat of the sun this year. Bob
came to town bare-footed, and on
being asked where his shoes were,
replied, “that the sun had burned
them off . while coming down the
road.
DIED.
On last Friday morning, at Ris
ing Fawn, little infant daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Theuford, of
whooping-cough.
On last Thursday, little infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Keteher
side, aged two years lacking twenty
four days. The remains will be in
terred in the Allison family grave
-yard to day.
The new board of Town Com
missions meet and were qualified
last Friday. The organization was
perfected by electing J. P. Bonds
President, B. T. Brock Secretary,
and B. P. Majors Treasurer. An
order was passed and published on
the court house door, for an elec
tion to fill the vacancy in the board’
occasioned by the tie of T. H. B.
Cole and T. J. Lumpkin. Said
election to he held on the 7th day
of August. It was determined by
the board to suspend fujhcr busi
ness until the election of the fifth
commissioner, and a meeting was
called for the Bth of August to
transact hither business.
Here is something interesting for
a good many young men of our
town :
A New York oculist says the
greatest enemy to the eyes of young
men is a cigarette. Recently a dis
ease has appeared among smokers
which is dangerous, and after care
ful investigation, the best authori
ties, who for a long time were at
loss to understand the peculiar
malady, have traced it too small
covered tobacco sticks. It is now
known as the “cigarette eye,” and
can be cured only by a long treat
ment. Its symptons are dimness
and dim-like gathering over the
eye, whicn appears and disappears
at intervals.
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YOUTHFUL PUGILISTS.
Johnnie J and Bobby S
had a rattling five minute bout last
Tuesday, in which Bobby tried to
steal Johnnie's shirt, and Johnnie
tried to put Bobby’s head in an
oyster can. Johnny got first blood
and Bohbv made the first hair-pull,
securing a nice tuft of Johhny*s
golden locks. Johnny intended to
blind-fold Bobby by placing a
can over his head, but the hole was
too small to let Boby’s head in.
At this moment the different
judges called a foul, and during
the dispute the young amazons
were taken away and sported off,
but were not allowed ,o continue
the second round, therefore, the
light.was declared a draw. Both
of the young combatants were in
terviewed by Mr. Jacoway, who
act as referee on evidence. It is
not known whether the young men
received a prize or not.
lU’.IIOl! SHOTS
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TAINING SOMETHING.
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\V th regard to sparking over the
garden gate, ngood deal can be said
on both sides.
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What a world of change this i u a d
yet how very little small change is
left-over after paying expenses.
When the world is made again
and the millennium comes, other
people’s children and other peo
ple’s cats will certainly be abol
ished.
It seems to be the master-work
of some of our modern'politicians,
how to qualify and mold the suf
ferance and subjection of the people
to the length of that foot that is to
tread on their necks.
It is amusing to see men who
have made failures, not only in
their chosen avocations, but in
whatever they have undertaken,
expatiate upon how a newspaper
ought to be run without knowing a
shooting stick from a hand-press.
Hon. T. J. Killpatriek. is feeling
his way among our people, and
making many warm friends. “Un
cle Tom,” as he is most familiar
known, is hut one mightv growth,
—a huge statue of an honest man,
as big and compact in virtue as in
body.
We feel quite rich this week.
Having received the happy news
that we had been raised to the sec
ond degree of uncleship. In other,
wo.tds wo have two nephews now,
where we only had one, and “that
he is the very image of his Uncle
Ed.” We sympathize with the
parents in their sad bereavement
and the unfortunate mishap.
Lay aside your personal preju
dices, and lot reason and intelli
gence be your guide as to whom
you shall vote for. This is one of
the most important elections to the
people, both .National and State,
ever known in \ho history of our
country and men <vf strong, well
grounded' principles, and of a firm
and true religious faith should be.
chosen, to perform the duties that
will be involved on the next legis
lature.
An old proverb says: “All
things come to£ him who waits.”
But this is not very consoling, for
death sometimes comes to a man
who is waiting for something else
before the thing he is waiting for
starts in his direction. At least
this is (he statute of affairs w r ith
the people of Trenton. The thing
you are longing and waiting for
will never come for the want of a
little warmth of heart and con
centrated action.
When the citizens of a town be
gin to feel assured that it is their
interest to do something for it
advancement, in the same degree
that they study and labor for their
individual prosperity, then there is
a hope of that town; but just as
long as they feel and act as if they
would squeeze out of it the last
dollar to put in their own pockets
then it is a dead town. A commu
nity without pride of place is dead
as the mound-builders.
When the preacher inveighs
against sin in which we do not in
dulge we think he is doing his duty
and applaud him for it. But let
him preach a sermon condemning
our besetting sin or sins and we de
cide at once that he is to personal,
and that le would do well to preach
nothing hut “Christ and him cru
cified,” and let special sins alone.
When he hits others he is doing
exactly right. When he hits us,
ho is too personal, and, of course,
is doing wrong. Reader, does this
hit you? We guess it does.
The opening of the Dade Nor
mal, Monday, August 6 th, will
mark the progress of the public
mind m regard to educational in
t • rests, and especially of litis con.
munity, and we hope parents n::«•
children wilt all bo present on the
day, as we have no confidence i
the old saying: “That a bad b<
ginning makes a good ending,” aim
are satisfied many failures could be
attributed to it. While we have
no special desire to mark out a pol
icy of set rules in the coining school,
but wo do wish to make mention of
one important study and art that
has not been made use of in on
schools heretofore. That is decla
mation. It is a very useful art.
and one that will almost surely he
of service to many in life. There
ought to b“ in every school some
one who can teach declamation.
Ease of carriage, graceful and ap
propriate gestures, distinct utter
ance, emphasis, modulat ion, and all
the paraphernalia of deelamatio
can be acquired by training, mm
more attention should he paid to it
than heretofore.
Keep your boys on the farm if
possible, lest they sink into the
gulf of poor shifts—cheap offices,
clerkships, tree, book and picture
agents—oven, perhaps, school di
rectors. Show them how much
easier is to hoe potatoes and feed
pigs than to try to keep from work.
Cultivate their eyes, sharpen tl •
•perception of the beautiful. V
'bushy, briary oh.
fence row some young trees growing
show the boys how to train and
make them look pretty instead of
slashihji them down as if to make
the whole world a prairie. Trees
are beautiful and useful. Manna,
to have your farm better each yea.
I will have it bet tear each year,
and cheaply too. If wo can make
a living while Congress is making
nabobs for us to keep, and can
have our farms improving] we are
laying up capital, we are plodding
on the same road that Gould i.
thundering over sixty miles a;,
hour.
Bacon and pease form one o
those simple and wholesome disha.
which every well-balancou appetite
can appreciate and enjoy. Indeed,
it looks like farmers ought to he ;
more contended class of people
than they are. In the midst m
millions, peaches and gardeiwveg
etables, with the crops
and not much to do—that, is no
urgent, pressing work on hand—
we ougfr to be thankful our
free anff easy life. I use the terra
“free and easy” by way of compar
son. Up in town there arc several
hundred lalxrrs employed in the
railroad shops. Many of those
men have families to support, and
ail are dependent upon their daily
labor for their daily bread.
To a country man who can only
get one dollar a day for labor, this
seems like “big pay,” but when we
count the dilfereneoof the expense
of living in town and in the coun
try, we will see that the country
dollar will go a great deal farther
than the town two dollars. In town
there is a monthly expense of ten
dollars or more for hose eent, a
heavy fuel bill i n winter, vegeta
bles, milk, eggs, butter and fruit to
buy—all ot which the countryman
gets “free gratis and for nothin’,”
as old pet:-leg Bates says. If a
poor ’ man in town gets sick
his heavy expenses goes on
just the same as when he is well,
and the loss of a week’s time is a
serious thing with him.
The home and farm gives the
following novel method of making
cabbage head. It says that “when
the plants are about eight inches
high and have formed woody stalks,
make incisions in the stalks with
the small blade of a penknife, in
sert small peices of wood of the
size of a match and break them off.
This cheeks the growth and hard
heads are formed.”
Some of these days, a far time
off toward the millennium we shall
become truely civilized, and agree,
in this latitude, to keep our stock
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off the public roads and save the
manure for our famishing farms.
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