The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1859-08-18
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Now dear Mr.. Slater,
Pray tell US tho matter,
Or tho reason our paper don't come.
not paid in advance
You still have the chance
70 augment that little sum.
We arc all so we'll pleased,
We fall back and sneeze
Whenever the paper comes to town;
ir for want Of the pay,
Just come out and say,
And we will try to send II down.
subscribed for q year.
iAl,hough it was dear.)
The time, ! think, is hall out,
And If you don't send the journal,
You little Internal
You will cause your subscrlbersto
pout.
PnILosopHus.
We've almost a notion TO reply to
you, Philosophus, in a little rhyme,
oursel', but as we concluded long since
that unless we could BIZ II poet num-
Der one, we'd be none at all, we've &C.
ted upon the second intention, and
therefore shall never attempt to put
in verse that which can be said in
prose. And now as to the failure of
the Journal to greet you weekly, we
cannot account. The Pelham pack
age leaves this post Office regularly
every week. Now, if you will get
us some five or six more subscribers
at your place, they would so enlarge
the package that it would be cOnsid-
cred more important by the post mas.
tiers and more attention given to it,
Just get US five more names, and sec
if 1t don't work as we predict. Get
them, and then tell of your success in
another rhyming letter. Won't you3
And while we are intruding upon
the Letter Box with letters of rather
u business nature, we would say a
word to friend NJ, at Anderson, Tenn.
He really seems in "a bad humor be.
cause the Home Journal has not reach.
cd him regularly. He goes on TO say:
al, has been three weeks since ! re
coived a Journal, ! sentyou the pay for
it and have never heard of my money
nor paper
lie says that we a act AS we
choose about his money and paper too,
buff we keep both back we will hear
from him in tones of thunder through
the Belief nte Era-that he has many
friends and relatives taking the Jour
nal-that he got seuen of the "boys"
to take it, and threatens to make them
all quit if we don't toe the mark bet.
ter in the future, that they will all
look upon US with contempt, &C., and
ends off by saying that he is not "has.
ty" in what he writes, but will give
his views in full, next time, unless
the Journal or money n comes.
Now, dear "fricnd and tickle pitch,
er," you must excuse US. We re.
ceived the dollar you sent, and was
under the impression that we had ac-
knowledgcd its receipt. We admit
that inadvertently your name was
changed to the wrong place, and we
have sent you the three back numbers.
and in the future all will be right
Come, don't fly into a passion, but re-
member that TO err is mortal, and that
mistakes will occur in the best of
families" And now, after you have
talked so hard about US, and almost
wounded our sensitive nature to mend
the matter, you procure more of
the boys-won't you? And if we
don't tote fair" by them it will be
because we don't know how.
Here is a letter from a young lady
who lives at ShelbyvilIe, Tenn, and
who seems to be q woman of leisure /:
DEAR JOURNAL:
1t is about IL o'clock and | have rot
yet arisen-in fact, ! have been reading
in my nice, downy couch for Two hours,
and now address you from the same lux.
urious position. have been reading the
Home journal, for, although / am not a
subscriber, yet it is taken by a friend OF
mine who lets me have it. am going
10 subscribe, though, il ! live to see
Christmas. | want TO see if you will ad.
init me as a contributor TO your Letter
Box, and if you should. | promise to
write often, and may be ! will send you
some subscribers. Your friend,
NJ
OF course your letters will be nc.
ceptable and we hope to hear from you
often,
Here is a letter from a young lady
living in Franklin county. who sends
mer letter by hand. We know she is
one of the sweetest. and most indus.
trious girls in the world. See how
cheerful she writes:
,'l'ye been roaming, I've been roaming