The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-07-25

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onrself of clothing, and sighed that we
could not 90 AS Adam went bfore his fall,
We have wished that we could take of
our flesh and sit down in our bones" we
have thought If we had the power ofMer-
curry and other NEUROLOGICAL gods we
would change oursell into Il fish and swim
to some one Of the many cold springs that
gusli forth in Franklin county and there
try to be cool. Yes,
'Twould be our wish
: To be Il fish,
And we would change to one;
We'd seek sonc pool
And there be cool
Until this heat is done.
(This poetry Is entirely original, and we
would write more il it were not SO hot. Its
rs good poetry rs G. Washington Childs.
Of the Philadelphia Ledger writes, and
we'll leave it TO the New York Sun if il
isn't.( But we cannot change into any
thing else by any system of evolution yet
advanced. We must bcuy tie blazing sun
and this ~l0ng-cOntinued heat with that
calm patience and heroic tortitude which
we arc satisfied we do not possess. But
these essential qualities are possessed, we
hope. by the Home Journal readers, and
we hope they will find happiness in the
exercise OF them. AS for ourselt we 10
not care to exercise anything, especially
%oursclf. 1t is not our nature to do so, and
we never violate nature. We never blame
dogs for barking nor cats for caterwanl-
ing; nor snakes for biting. nor hogs for
wallowing in the mirc, because it is their
nature to do so. Upon the same principle
We do not blame human beings for acting
worse than these brutes, The only thing
that il Il stumbling block in our way Is
that God permitted his good work of crea-
ton to degenerate so lamentably y, and that
lie does not exercise some special power
in the way OF disease or accident to rid
the world OF them. Bigotcd persons; lazy
persons who 'livc by their wits" and feel
proud of such rascality; hypocritcs, who
Join a church in order to Withdraw public
opinion from their moral leprosy and
show their zeal by putting the tagot ID all
who dare to think tor themselves in re-
gard to the soul, the future, the past, the
present. and the dogmas preached by re-
~liwious fanatics,-wlO dare to believe that
God has given us reason for the express
purpose of keeping us from being the
worst slaves in the world-Slavcs to theo-
rics and creeds.
But we are of the subject. We have
said the Home Journal readers should eX-
ercise patience during this hot season, and
keep rs cool rs possible. And we would
add: BE careful to not eat too much. Let
your diet DC mostly vegetable, and eat on
~ what your appetite calls for. Do not
lose all your garden through fear Ofchol-
err and fever. We are no doctor, but we
do believe it is conceded that these terri
BILE epidemics are the result OF l%nfusoria
which are barely discernihle to the eye Of
the microscope. and they multiply by gem
nation (sec Wcbstcrl daring spells OF
weather such rs VI are now having. And
they will be destroyed by thunder, or any
great conclusion in the atmosphere, or by
Il change to cold weather. Let us thank
God, then. 70, thunder. But it is idle, in
our opinion, to say that cholera will re-
suit from the eating of vegetables. OF
course the warm weather rclaxcs the sys-
tenn, and renders it necessary for us to be
careful in our dict-tiat is all. The es-
sential thing now is: Be careful. Do not
unduly heat yourself. Keep clean, and
see that no vegetable or animal matter de-
Gays upon your premises. You must get
ali the fresh air you can. Do not let your
children stuff themselves with too much
food of any kind. andi II you have no chill
dren. w%hy-don't stuff yourselves. Be-
ware OF Il free use of spirituOus drinks
lust u little. as prescribed by st. Paul, Is
quite enough. BE sure to drink pure WA
ter. Inlusoria are found in impure water
And here in Winchester and Franklin
of every one. We have bad water. too.
but beware of the bad. Add to all this u
clear conscience, u cheerful spirit. and let
hope spring eternal in your breasts, and
we all can afford to smile at the prediction
of Prof. Tice that this hot spell will con-
tinue un.s-.be lst Of August. W. cannot
bring these id~Ipsyncratie scribblings to an
end without urging all our readers to be
kind to their stock. Not only have sew
eral thousand human beings in the United
States died within the past few weeks
from sunstroke, but thousands of horses
and oxen. DO not overwOrk your stock.
If YOU own stock yourself. your WI love
of mammom would surely make you care
tul, But kindness to the brute creation
should be the leading motive. Those ami
mails have souls as well us you, and We be-
lieye In the misty future this fact will be
an unwelcome one to those who are Will 8.
fully cruel to dumb brutes. That Is, If
this world Is ever to come to an end, and
that it will is foretold, and we have
thought to-day that instead OF the earth
getting colder from age it is getting
warmer. And suppose. in its PLANETARY
existence. it should wax still warmer, and
warmer-just degree or SO every century
why surely In the course of time it
would become u scorching, arid. repulsiye
solitude. Without some sort %Ofchangc in
mans capacity for the endurance OF heat,
ID would become an uninhabitable world
for human beings. fat ones especially.
AND why Is this theory not q plausible
one? Who knows but that 1t may come
to pass some millions OF years In the fu-
ture? 1t is quite probable IL 1t be true
that the earth Is rcceding from the sun,
whereby his rays will come with 4 con-
centrated force that will drive snakes into
their holes. The thought makes us shud-
der. aud causes US to be sad. But. let 1t go
we'll be dead, perhaps, before then.
Gentle reader. all we have to say Is:
Keep cool. Heed well what we have innO-
Gently suggested. cherish goo J feeling to-
ward all mankind, bear no malice, forgive
yocr enemies. love the right. eschew the
..o.. ,,ot, for mhnnn vntt plpasp. nay all