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CORRESPONDENCE.
WALKER’S CEEK.
Mu. Editor: —As you was so kind as
to print our litt'c bits of news before,
and as my wife, “Jerusha Jane,” has
been in a good humor the past week,
owin’ to tho “big mootin'’ and a now cal¬
ico dress, I feel sorter inspired in my ex¬
uberance of spit its, to write some more.
Yes, big mootin’ at Providence has
broke. They had si real good time 1
guess, so my wife sind daughter, “Pa
l ienee Ami,” says. 1 didn’t git to go any
myself. I had to stay at homo with the
kids.
• The preacher said once when lie came
home with Joriuslia Jane that hi) thought
a man ought to stay at home so., e times
and let his wife go to ineetin’., I
1 bought, though, that he onghten’t stay
at home all the time and lot his wife
i un around with the preacher, hut I
didn’t say so, as Jerusha Jane was by and
i knew better. I tell you, Mr. Editor,
Jerusha Jane and my oldest daughter,
Patience Ann, don’t treat me right. They
a re just always scoldin’ except when the
parson is by, then they are mighty kind
and lovin'. Why.Mr.Editor, I went up to
town tother day and when i got back I
\\VUS kinder weak and shaky in my knees.
I guess it was beka.se I was tired and not
feelin’ very well, but they up and says
I was drunk. And then they let in to
.scoldin’ and crying like hurley, and the
old woman banged me over the head with
the tongs. 1 tell you, Mr. Editor, I wasn’t
drunk at all. 1 went into a place with a
friend and got some eider. It was a lit¬
tle strougish, Out the man said it was ci
ider and I guess it was, but 1 know I
wasn’t drunk. I was just tired and fcel
in' bad.
Now, Mr. Editor. Jerusha Jane and
Patience Ann says if I don’t stop givin’
’em away in the papers, they are going to
write you a letter to be published and tell
just what for man I am. If they do, don’t
you print it, bekase they are prejudiced
against me. Their opinion is biased.
They won’t tell the truth aiul the people
will think I am a holy tenor on wheels.
Don’ t you print it, Mr. Editor, please
.don’t. • Don’t you have anything to do
with ’em.. You don’t know ’em like I
do. Why, nieetin’ won’t be over a week
till they will lose all their religion. They
may not cuss any, but they will talk aw
ful rough.. Patience Ann is an awful
purty gal, just like her ma was, and she’s
got a temper just like her ma, too. The
young sprouts of boys aie all goiifi crazy
arter Patience Ann. Well, I hope some
of ’em will git her and take her oil my
hands, and maybe when they are as old
as I am, tlicjCjl have more experience
than the’ve got now.
Purty gals is all right as long as they’re
not vour wife or daughter. My expe¬
rience with ’em has taught me to exclaim
with the poet :
Oil, boys keep away,
From the gals I say,
And give them plenty of room,
For when you are wed,
They will bangyou till you are dead,
With the ball-headed end of a broom.
Mr. Editor, I think that poet must have
had a wife something like Jerusha Jane,
or he never could have been inspired to
write such sublime and glorious lines.
Mr. Editor, I think some times I could
write poetry. IIow is this:
My wife she is dead and for her I do
yearn; for
1 know she’s with tlic angels now,
she’s too tough to burn.
I don’t expect that will hardly do, as
Jerusha Jane is a most too lively fora
dead person, and then if she was dead 1
don’t think I’d do mflcli yearning, but the
rest of it is about true I think. I guess
I’ll try and write you some poetry some
other time when 1 feel more inspired,
I "Ties - I’ll have to stop as I hear Jerusha
J.ine callin-fm-stt-vewood. MM it,
1 don’t see why she couldn’t cut it her
a0 f. Jakk Tatti.br.
Mr! A. B. Laforme, Boston, Mass.,
says : I ordered and distributed one do
zen large bottles Bradycrotine among my
friends afflicted with headache and in
every case it has afforded almost instan¬
taneous relief.
DEMOCltAT’S REPLY.
Mb. Editob.—I am glad to seo tho peo¬
ple expressing their opinions so freely
upon the groat issues of the day. It
shows that the people are taking an in¬
terest in what concerns them, and that
they have been studying on these ques¬
tions and forming opinions for them¬
selves. This is, as it should be. I tkac
much pleasure in perusing their letters
and from them obtain many new and val¬
uable ideas. But I notice that “Moses”
and “Old Boh” have misunderstood me,
or they have willfully misconstrued my
meaning. They seem to think that I am
bitterly opposed to the Alliance. I am
not. I never have said one word against
the Alliance. I have spoken against tho
sub-treasury and I firmly believe what I
said is true. I don’t care whether it is
constitutional or not, that makes no dif¬
ference with me. I belive it to be ruin¬
ous iu its tendencies, and to the poor la¬
boring classes of our cities I know it
would be ruin and starvation. “Old Bob”
classes Col. Brock and myself together as
politicians. Now, I assure friend Bob
that he is doing me too much honor, as I
am not a politician and never expect to
be, but am an humble laborer and eat my
bread by the sweat of my brow. God
forbid that I should ever say one word
against the pool laboring classes, of
which I am one, but I have an opinion
entirely my own and I have a right to ex
press it and stnud by it. “Friend Bob’’
also states that he is satisfied Col. Brock
and myself will each contend that our
vespeetive parties have fought all the
hard battles, wou the bloody victories,
etc. I say Col. Brock may do as he pleas
es, but as for me, I make no such claim.
What is a party? My idea is that it is
the people composing the party. Then
if a party win the victory, it is the peo
ple composing the party who win and is
so understood. I agree with the Alliance
in all their demands except the sub-treas
ury. When it couies to that I say in
God’s name, give us something better,
As for the rest of their demands I advoca
ted them before the Alliance ever did.
And now as to the third party. I again
repeat I*see no use or call for it.“Moses,”
says the democratic party is corrupt and
that they, (but he don’t say who “they”
is) have tried the democratic party and
found it wanting. Now, I have this to
say, and no intelligent man will deny it,
tliat oppression and monopoly is tlie off
spving of the late war. That it has been
fostered and nursed by the republican
party until it lias grown fat and become
a giant. And every intelligent man
knows that the democratic party has
been lighting it for thirty years, and they
aiso know that the democrats have not
been in power in ail that time, and con
sequently could not make a change. It
is true that once iu a while the house
was democratic, but there, in their path,
like a wall of adamantine rock, stood a
republican president and a republican
senate. Once, for four years, we had a
democratic president and a democratic
house, but the senate was republican.
Now, 1 say the democrats have had no i
show and I don’t feel disposed to c(m . |
demn them because they have not as yet j j
gained the victory, for 1 know they j
fought a noble fight. I have the same j
faith in the democratic party that “Old
Bob, y> t i Moses” and others have in the
third party. I never shall forsake her, or
see any need for a third party until
democracy has had the power to re¬
deem her promises and refuse to do it.
Exclusive of the sub-treasury, there is
but very little diffmmcc between the
democratic party and the third party. It
is just as reasonable to suppose tho dem
ocratic party to be honest and earnest in
their demands as the third partyites and
if so the benefits accruing therefrom
would be the same and would bo as will
i»S for lb.
anybody else.
“Moses” would like to know who I am.
Wei;, “Moses,” I shall hereafter sign my
own name. Will you do the same? You
talked mighty * big in your letter and
danced , , and , pranced , around ... “rough ,
shod ’ but that don t make any difference
with me, as I always consider the source,
and not hold people responsible when I
seo they don't know any better.
Now, Mr. Editor, I hope you will ex¬
cuse all mistakes as I am in a hurry. I
have plenty of work to do and no timoto
spare.
Cuai:i.ks Cbkmkan.
A LADY SPEAKS.
Mr. Editor. —Please allow me space
for a short letter in your paper, as I have
never written a letter before, thought I
would write a few lines.
I think Buchanan is a lonely place to
live.
I think Buchanan has some good mar¬
ble players. They play from morning till
night—it seems as if they were making a
living at it, blit I think it would boa poor
living. The ladies would like them much
better if they would employ the time that
they play marbles working and fixing
nice side walks It would look much
better. What will you all think when
you see ladies coming through tho mud
oi dust, ruining their new shoes ami nice
dresses? I don’t think the' young mill
have much respect for tho ladies, or they
would quit playing marbles and goto
work on the side walks.
A Lady.
Watchman, What of The Night.
yin. Editor. —Crops in this part are
good as the land can make them. There
is some corn here that promises fifty or
sixty bushels per acre. Fodder pulling
is ripe and cotton picking will soon be.
Watermelon eating and selling is clos
ing out.
Hoad working has been on the rampage
for some time.
Protracted meetings have been an ah
absorbing element in society .Neal Mun
roe once said that they always flourished
most of a good crop year. One in Alabn
ma about twenty-live miles ftom Home,
Ga., has just ended with washing their
catch.
On the 5th .Sunday, nit., and Saturday
night some parties went from meeting to
the house of one that is commonly styled
“old Holcombe,” who has some women
of ill repute and a fusilade was gotten up
some how and shooting of a very grave
nature was done. One it an named W. J.
smith was shot in the breast with a toad
of buck shot, and Tims. McCormick was
shot three times with i pistol, twice in the
breast and once in die back, but in the
ribs. There was a rucus there last wiu
ter some time, and now the people say ohl
Holcombe must leave the country,
Tho shooting above named was done
by one Bob Beall. No arrest at this writ
lug.
Morality on the face of this earth is at
a very low ebb now, deplorably so. Poor
recommendation, when young men, sur
rounded as they are everywhere at this
day with religious opportunities and
Sunday school literature, pursue drunk
eness, pistol carrying and card playing.
Nice young men, with Sunday school lit¬
erature in one pocket and a pistol hid i:i
one and a deck of cards concealed in an
other. What is to become of our couit
w the future with such as that in the
»«ing generation? Who is to blame? Is
it the courts, the preachers, tho teachers,
t,: the publiclie generally? What do our
landlords care for the moral condition of
their tenants and employees if they can
do the manual label? Their morals may
go to the ducks. They don’t associate
with them no how. Remove money from
off the face of the earth and that upon
which the hearts of all men arc set is
gone, and the material world would be
as insipid as dish water. But w.’ i get
through our part of it by ami by, and
then we will not he concerned about how
it may go.
Simon Cordwood.
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