The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-03-18
TfaFSDAY MORNING.. MARCH Il, 1915.

MN ApvgRrIsEMEYTs.-Co ED San
of Decherd, advertiscs Honey am
rs,Icu for sale. and We believe he viii sci
si,l,e ca, furnish. His honey cannot b'
M rbusscd either in quality or price. w
,,oxer saw or tasted nicer, and never eX.
pect to.
Montgomery & Tanning are keeping ~
wIth the weather and propose to fnrnisl
pure stimulants and innocent amusement
Their billiard tables are new and beautiful
j. l.. Baugh makes Il change m his al
v%ertisement 9
Jas. ii. Davis and NJ. NJ. Henderson a
Co, make an announcement TO the puolic
---e-
Editing IL newspaper is like unto Keep
ing a hotel. or private boarding house
The latter comparison Is better, we opine'
in view Of the fact that the Civil ltiShta
bill has abolished the former. But so II
Is. If the market is full Of meats, vcgcta-
blcs. &c, the landlord can purchase to
crafty the appetitcs of his boarders. lie
can give them the bost the country AZ
fords. So with a newspaper editor Ii inc
times are lively and stirring events crowd
mon ono another daily, 1t Is not much
trouble to cater to the mental appetites OF
his readers. Contrariwisc II there be a
dcaYth If the market Is not well-stocked'
he finds it a difficult task to get up any
thing original. This Is something ike
what we thought the other day in our ef-
forts TO find out something OF interest,
and rest assured If we were to furnish our
readers as good as the country affords, we
would not furnish anything. Times are
duh as well as ''hard," and just now our
vocation seems less desirable than any one
Of the thousand which men follow in Or
der to keep of yet a little while the iner-
liable "dust to dust proclaimed by Him
whom we all profess to worship yet daily
cruelty afresh, as If our profession was
sufficient without practice.
Yes, any profession now but that we
are condemned by fate to follow. Even to
be a lawyer with nevera client; 4 doctor
with never a patient, save one too poor to
pay; a farmer without implements or
stock; a mechanic with no regular work;
q merchant with a large stock of goods
carried over because he did not advertise
anything and anybody save what we
are, to run the gauntlet Of criticism If we
fall TO publish something to please I'M
pleasable tastes and p%rejudices.
But never suppose that we are troubled,
or that any trouble less than being sick
nigh unto death could keep off joy if we
were ensconced at ome romantic spot on
the river, with our reel pole and bucket
Of lively minnows. Thank God for this
philosophic turn Of our mind, that amidst
all the pangs and bitterness, the disease
and death, which were the fruits of the
forbidden tree, we can still be happy over
the little blessings OF this life which leads
to d%eatb-little blessings which creep in
like struggling sunbeams to illumine a lit
tie farther and farther the path we tread
towards the dark and unexplained future.
Thank God that as we grow older philos-
ophy comes in to mitigate the carkihg
cares which weigh upon the heart and
make long nights .'ineXOrablc to sweet
sleep" If all would think like us upon
these things people would never commit
suicide. By-the-way, how blessed the an
finals are. They must have eaten the for
hidden fruit, because. il they did not, tits
strange mercy and justice that they should
die. But they never commit suicide.
Perhaps they do not %think--but we don't
believe It. Yet we never hear Of them
committing suicide. Starvc them until
their attenuated frames become almost
translucent, but famine and poverty anu
DESPAIR never drive them to conclude that
ajump from this world into that which Is
to come is the lesser of two evils, and why
should men? We said this much to a
young friend not many months ago who
had been discarded by a fair and false
young lady. He said life was not worth
living for any longer. We said to the wa
ters OF disappointment and sadness that
were surging in the deep caverns Of his
heart, peace, be %still!' But there was no
peace, and our effort was rs signal Il fail
uric as that of Glendower to call up the
shirts, or that of Grant to administer this
government upon principles OF justice,
and we told him to leave his idol to better
destinies, if so she deemed them, and new
or nurse his trouble lest it grow larger,
;s babies do, by nursing. And still he
mourned, and we said: Blessed are they
who mourn, for they shall b. comforted. :"
But he couldn't see it.
Since writing the above we have sailed
forth in search of an item, but we have
found nothing. We might as well have
attempted to discover the source OF the
Nile, or, the passage round the North pole
which has been the dream OF so many
mavigators. All we could hear was lizard
times" and every other person has his
troubles to tell. Right here we want to
enter n solemn protest against any one
ever telling his troubles. We want to tell
him who INDUCES in such variations
that he is uncOnsciously making himself
a bore. People don't like to hear your
tales of distress. They may listen. but
are always glad when you get through.
and may express pity for you, but what
does that amount to? It is sounding brass.
and very cheap. For your own sake.
keep your troubles in your owl bosom
and don't intlict them upon the world,
Eemember that we arc all like leaves upon
q Lao ,,ao, IN ho Stirrpl md trpttpl awhile