Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1869-09-30


help her. The Cubans wish one of two
thin ings-indepepdance or annexation.-
Our government, by its own experience
and by the claims of justice, must help the
CubaHs to the one or the other. With
General Grant as President we must not
allow any European Power to dictate to
-usa course of foreign policy. Surely we
can, if need be, fight our way. The best
English papers say wecan. Let us, then,
be true to ourselves. Cuba must not be
crushed. If she cannot win her indepen-
dence we are willing to say she ought to
to be willing to say we will do all things
to secure annexation. One or the other,
General Grant, think ef it. We are a great
people. Europe.says so. Let Us prove it.
o sTtcrnal Dish yyaslling.''
The Rev. L. X. Beecher' has had an ex-
,perience With dishes, and has ''dished" it
up for the public in this characteristic
way. "s t-r Ai '. ' 80 '
sThe quiet fidelity with which .Sshe'' will
'dish-wasli her life away for sshim'' is mar
vel of endurance and grace. Just here is
the servitude ofwoman heayiest-no SOON
er is her work done than it requires to be
done again. Man works up jobs, ends
them, and takes his pay. This pay can be
translated into osomethingelse desirable
A man works all day, and draws pay for
his days work. This pay alIures him, as
oats horse homeward bound. Thus snen
work by terms and jobs and although
work is endless as to quantity, yet when
=, ;,tA ,Nl
go heartily on our journey and count our
mile stones.
Not so with our mates. She menas our
socks, and we put our irrepressibIe toe
upon the darned spot, and She darns it
again. s'She'' washes for the family, and
the family makes haste to send back the
same garments to be washed again. .'Sho'.
puts the room in order, and we get ready
20 be Grid up'' again. The same socks,
the same washing. the same rooms every
time She has no successive jobs, no
terms. no payday, no tally-stick of life
She washes the same dish three hundred
and siNty-five-yes, three times three hum
dred and sixty-five times every year. No
wonder she breaks it and is glad Of it =
What a relief tossay,e ri have done that
dish ~ ,ssF-- Ok .ffe9 ls0oyorE3 #
= Not only have we washed dishes, but
also we cooked and served and helped cat
"a meal with bated appetite because. of
coellingl, and now We are astounded at
the. number of Thoughts and steps, and
acts, and processes involvedin avery plain
slipper. Only, two of us, jolly eronies,
caring nothing for style, and needing only
"a very plain supper. .Andw had it. and
With it came WISDOM tasl2s - zffl }tEl
Gentlemen,o oaH! We gointo a room and
see. table ready set. 1t seems to us one
'thing-a supper. 1t is, in. fact, from fifty
TO two hundred separate things, taken
down one by one for us to use, and for
ssher'' to wash and put back whence they
came THERE'S a plate of biscuit. TO that
plate ofsimplcity we, with our own hands
and feet; brought together new quick
lire for baking, viz: kindling wood, raking
out stoye,7 and hod of coal. Flour from
.thesbin,s shortening from the gravy drip
down cellar, salt from one box, sugar from
another, soda from the jar, ,aacid (muriatic)
from bottle, a spoon, "a pitcher of wtter,
a dripping pan,' and a tin pan for mixing
up these Ingredients; and after all. hap
PENN 9 toforget the things for ten minutes.
We burned the biscuit half through in a
way which we men reckon quite unpar-
donable in cook. Meanwhile that one
plate of biscuit added to the eternal dish
wash,two spoons. two pans, one plate, and
atlittle cup. just a little piece of steak
contributed eight pieces to the dish-wash.
a few strawberries sent in six pieces to be
got ready to soil again. Fonr eggs inI-
pressed themselves on six separate arti-
eles.' tJ5 base aEt+z ezS l;eN
Gentlemen, we began at ten minutes of
six, and a quarter of eight we found our
selves riumphaat-every thing cleared
away except the dish-cloth. Yeu see we
washed upthe bread-pan, the disii-pan and
the sink, scalding them all, and our fin
gers too, and dried them off with the dish
cloth. Now, where on earth can we go to
wash out that dish-rag? Not ia the pan
Not over the cleans dry sink! We stood
aghast for five minutes, and then Waddcd
up. the rag, round like ball, and tucked
it into the far corner of the sink, and shut
down the cover. Our sink has a cover
But the rag, though hidden, Was on our
conscience. s.She'' never would have
done SO. We have seen clean dish-clgths,
but how they wash them passes our skill.
> And SO, as we said, ssshe'' is away, 1eav-
ing US to thought and good resolutions
We shall be awiser and better man for at
least two days after her RETURN And
wheneyer7we stopvto think. shall raak a
successful housekeepcr lapd home-maker
as a worker second TO noife Oh a scale of
achievements and deserving. Her seryi-
ces arc. like the air, the rain and the sun
shine, indispensable, yet too often enjoyed
without thanksgiving .aa4siJ .sivas1 81
B1sHoP .SIMPsoN, assisted by Bishop
AMRs, will officiate at the dedication cer-
enionies Of Grace Church, in Richmond,
Indiana, ON Sunday, September 26, Pre-
parations are being made for grand affair-
REV. Mr.. LORD, free Methodist prea-
cher of Paterson, New jersey, did four
days full time, last week. with a pick
shovel and wheelbarrow, excayating for
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