The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-11-15
Terms of Adyertising.
OUR gHnLvES.

shelf would remain silent unless G. A
Hunts 81 pound turnip should be
beaten. And it is. Mrs, George Sim.
mons sends us a turnip Weighing Seuen
pounds, full; decidedly the largest yet.
and quite sufficient for too meals for as
small On individual rs oursclf. But our
turnip shclfis broken this wcek-snap,
ped in two. This accident is owing to
the enormous weight Of turnips 1t had
to support, Coming down tho other
's+aning, we found u whole bushel Of
turnips, sent us by good friend, and
'on our table the following note, viz;
HICKORY GROVE, Nov. 10.
Mr. SLATER =
Dear Sir: / send you a mess of %turnips, the
largest Of which only measures 25 inches in
circumference, Tie seed was procured from
our old friend, VIM. Stewart, merchant in
Winchester, Compliments to your lady.
Respectfully,
j. D. ALEXANDER.
Compliments to our LadyH! Com
pl.i.m, e-n-t-s to u L-a-d-y!-
We'll! That gets us! What does Mr..
Alexander mean by sending compli-
mcats to our Lady, Agreeable to our
understanding of the English vernacu
lar, and if we tako that dyssyllable
according to its common acceptation-
no mcans--to be brief, and not to null
tiply words about so small q subject
.hc means-oW wye! Now, we thought
jhe knew that rs yet no pair Of bright
eyes, rose bud lips, and sn.w-whito,
heaving bosom, roseate checks, dimplcd
chin, and tiny hand--that none ofthose
charms wcro in u possession. Aud
unpleasant, uncomfortable, unwelcomc,
unsatisfactory, unpaIatablc, unaccept-
able, undesirable, untoward, unlucky,
unfortunate, unhappy, unblcsscd, unac-
~coriant, unpopular and unendura.
bic as the fact may be, still, "it is a
great fact" and VIC mention it as such,
not intending by the least letter, mark,
sign, or syllable, index, point type or
emblem, TO tell why il is SO.
Compliments to aoW Lady,! He
couldn't have meant our sister, else he
would have said so. He meant some
other fellows sister, and since some
other fellows sister amt our "Lady,"
Mr.. Alexander's compliments are 60
ing about without an abiding place,
ready to stake up" with any fellows
sister who feels disposed to assume tho
responsibilities of our'"Lady."
But our s~helves--poor things-wc
must write their obituary. 1t is a sad
thing for us to'do. We feel meal-and-
choltc in paying a-last tribute to depar-.
ted worth, but it must be done. SO
look for a brief eulogy in our next upon
tho exemplary life they led, and rood
load still if thoy were more carefully
attended TO. You may take the stout
est man inthe world, with q constitu-
ton elual to that of the United States,
and 'fecdhim altogether on turnips, and
hewalt''peg out" long before he would
~ish'a change of dict. But perchance
~ourShelvcs may survive the vicissitudes
'ofmany more weeks. Macedonia had
'aPhilip who for 81 years led his coun-
airy on Ito fortune and to tamc," and
who knows but our shelves may have
Jill up that will lead them on to for
tune and to fame for q years. Who
knows2 We thought last week we
would this week have to write the
downfall of our shelves, but you know
they thought when Philip was %assassi-
mated his country would go down. But
an Alexander saved it, and led it on to
glorious success. Perhaps an Alexan-
der has saved our shelves, and will
crown them with success.
Il. h.-sincc writing the above, W..
lib. Eskridge has lain on our broken
shelf two turnips, one weighing not
quite seven pounds, but which weighed
seven and a half, he says, when first Ia
ken from the ground. Lying in the
sun a few days, shriveled it, and thus
caused the loss of weight.