The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-31
HOME PAPERS,
Some one of our exchange papers very

Some one of our exchange papers very
remarks:
There is one class of men in every COM
muuiiy who do not take home paper be.
cause they got some eastern paper little
cheaper. Such are always foreign in their
thoughts and knowledge. lie in tact 10 an
tellectuaI point of view does not live in the
community where his body walks abroad
daily, but over the columns of The Elsleln
paper, he lives in the scenes Transactions
of The city and State, and is startled once in
n while by an i,em Of news, which his neigh
bors who take home paper, knew two weeks
before, and he MS he meets them bores them
10 death with what is news to him but old aud
stale 10 his neighbors. And yet, poor man,
I've is perfectly unconscious that he is bore,
and is laughed at behind his back, for being
behind the intelligence of the times. We
have been not little annoyed ourselves
with some of these men who do not take n
home paper Men who feel the greatest in.
terest in the election have come 20 our office
the day after we Published the news, and put
us to The trouble ortelling it all over to them,
by the word of mouth. We think if they
cannot afford TO take home paper they
ought TO wait two weeks until they can get
it through the eastern papers.
1t seems TO us il these men who do not
take home paper, were aware that every
body VITO meets and hears them converse,
know them TO be at least two weeks bcsind
the times and wondered at the mans igno.
rance, they would not sleep until they had
subscribed for some OF their home papers.
Such man is always behind the inteli.
gence Of the age in every respect. II he is
II farmer, produce goes up aud down before
he is aware of il. Banks fail and he takes
the money before he is aware Of it. lnsu-
rance Companies fail, and his house is unn-
snrcd before he is aware of il; aud perhaps
his house during that time buns down; and
when he eXults that he is insured he is told
by the man who takes home paper, that
the company failed Il week before. His
wild land is sold for taxes, while he is pour.
ing over the coums Of his cheap Eastern pa.
per: his cattle stray, and involve him in Il
long bill Of Keeping, when il he had taken II
home paper, he would have seen them adyer.
Used rs taken up weeks before. lie wants
TO sell farm, but his ncighbor, who takes
a nome paper, sees IN advertisement for one
and sells his at good price. And these
and thousand other ways, the man who
don't take home paper, is too late for sup.
per. Had he not much better subscribe?
JusT As WE SMD-Wheneyer our ncichbor
of the Cleveland Banner visits Knoxville.
Chattanooga, or Athens, and compares the
life activity and enterprise manifest in these
really prosperous towns with the dullness
and steriity from which he has Temporarily
escaped, he at once gets hufy, goes home in n
bad humor, and after q consultation with
that Factions old gentleman, 1.-THE Major"
drops down in his chair, and in spirit o.
sheer envy, writes a whole column, in which
his own little village is mngmitied into the
commercial Importance Of New York,
while the places above.namcl lWiudle into
the insigniAcancc of mere roadside villages.
To the former VIC certainly have no sort oil
objection if our neighbor thinks Cleveland
needs, or can be benefited by, that sort OF
putting, but We do protest against the attempt
TO depreciate the business interests and i'm.
portance of more prominent places. Instead
Of maniIesting disposition to drag every
other place down to an inferior condi.
ton, how much more common cable would it
be for the Banner to infusc into It's home read.
ers n spirit of enterprise aud go-aheadative.
ness that would enable them in the course OF
time, to compete successfully with the indus
try and thrift of their more prosperous neigh
bofs' We have a very kindly feeling toward
the Banner man, and we know he will par
don us the sug gestion that his co,tiauou
filings at neighLoling towns are in rather bat
taste for Il man having such large and com
prehensive interests under his special protec
ton; and that while Il little silly humor may
be endured now and then from those iuvcnil,
editors who are presumed to receive occasion
al visits from the ghost of some departed wit
such extended links as he threw off last weel
are calculated TO breed contempt in th,
mind OF the distant reader for the pace, Oh,
business interests of which, from their con
slant repetition, may be presumed by person
unacquaintei with the facts to require sucl
extraordinary appliances TO keep them up
From the last consideration, if no other, w
hope our neghbor will cease his puerilities
and 10y way of varying the monotony of hi
! editorial columns, favor us occasionally will
| pieces on the essentialties offoreign influence
the doctrine of the harmones us exemplife
| in the parallels between the Jeffersonian an,
Johnsonian democracy, and the patriotic pro
| prieties of Sag Nichtism as contrasted wit
the Nervousness and disloyal purposes of III
| Know Nothings. Or, if he has 10 appetit
for these a few practical essays on Trut
might do by the way of novelty. The las
might be incomprchensble to lis, but woul
be Ineligible, if-not really refreshing, to hi
! democratic readers.
The New York Evening Post says:
"The New flour that comes to market is c
remarkably fine quality, and in very supcri,
condition. Prices are now about two dollar
| per barrel below the highest Of the season.
| The lprliur Urnnrullv nni ipinntrl lntnr in II