The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-11-04
How Slater Tells 1t.
From the Columbia Journal.

FROM Jle COluilDld JOuTnul'J
Being "sentinels on the watch-tow--
err" las it were," we feel it to be our
solemn duty to vindicate the truth OF
history wherever and whenever it has
been violated. The editor of the Win
chester Home Journal is our friend, we
are proud to say; in fact, he is a tried
and q true friend, and never have we
known him to deviate for words to
that effect) until now. But truth is
m ghty" and friendship is but a
name" ct hinc lila i%achryma. In the
last number of the Home Journal ap'
pears the following:
"Last week our carrier was sick, and
no one appearing to supply his place,
we, ourself, returned to first principles
and played the devil But we tiled
to not forget any subscriber, and to this
end secured the companionship Of Cap
tain II. W. Newman on our route. His
Falstafian proportions. added to our
own, presented q grotesqne appearance,
and his Falstatian wit and propensit'es
enlivcned u pedestrian movements
This is the way Slater tells it. Now,
"see how plain Il tale can put him
down" Slater and Newman started
from the public square, Slater promis-
ing to take in the Northern part OF the
town, Newman the Southern. Slater
weighs over two hundred pounds, and
Newman over-anything. Slater pro.
ceeded one hundred yards and looked
back Newman stopped at seventy hve
Yards and looked back. Slater took
the first left hand street, Newman took
the first right hand street. Slater coon
turned South, Newman North. Slater
entered a certain house at the South
ern door, Newman at the Northern
one. They met, looked ashamed, and
smiled, and then Slater returned to his
office a sad and wiser looking man and
wrote the following:
ave would be glad to have all our
subscribers, who now receive the Home
journal from the carrier, to let US send
their papers to the posi- office. They
have to send there for their mail, any
way, and as there will be no postage to
pay. it seems to US the arrangement
would suit them. Besides. when the
carrier leaves u subscribers paper in
tue yard it is frequently misplaced, sto-
len, torn up by dogs, blown away, or
rained upon. So, next week we will
send to the Postofice all our carrier
now takes, unless otherwise ordered"
Magma est verttas ct vale6at."
We have no words at u command
by which an answer to the above could
be made, nor do we believe any other
person, not ever Shakespeare in his
palmiest days, could, in our fix, find
words. DC. We publish itjust as Gen.
Marcus j. Wright wrote it. We have
laughed over it, and 30 has Newman,
and so have several of our intimate
friends. "And still the wonder grew
how Wright could have found out so
much-especially that Newman looked
back at rs yords and We at 100. The
only defect here is, that Newman look
ed back at a considerably less space
than rs Yards, but of this we propose
to be q~uiescent. OF one thing we are
satisfied beyond all pe%radventure, to-
wit: That the editor Of the Columbia
Herald can remember localities better
than any man we wei knew. He was
only once in Winchester, and yet he
seems TO know the exact route a per-
son should take in order to-to-
smile. Others may 60 wrong, under q
relaxation of austere qualities, but he
oh! he always goes Wright.
And when he goes Wright he often goes
wrong, $50.
For Wright is not right, If you let him go
long, .,.
But what he has said, as publish'd above,
Attribute at once to Spirits and Love.
fFrem the Macon (Ga.) Daily Citizen.I
D.SpopTu,s SAyATIyE DENTRIFICE.-