The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-31

send to heaven the incense OF an hundred
clovcr-felds; shnll he voiceful with
the hum Of machinery, and the tongues
and dialects of other lands" At last
the clouds of war rolled solemnly, and
we hope forever, away the sun of
Pence shone down on dismantled fields
and broken homes, but the builders of
the future were coming, and coming
apacc. Bryant came with the first
evaporator to sweeten the palates of the
"coming man. Muther, with his
Chicago wagons, which the little dar-
kies thought were a Circus" with his
Yankee ways and "bad politics.
kascrman and Sharber came with their
great teams and big plows, which were
going to "ruin the soil"-with the ener-
gy and heroic endurance of races which
Caesar could not subdue nor the passing
centuries rob Of liberty, and which the
old fields Of Tennessee could not resist.
Then came German and Dewey with
their mills, and new houses and barns
and fences followed the wake of their
industry. One by one Others have
come, and school houses, and parson-
ages, and stores, and shops, have grown
into shapcly proportions. The old
fields wave with golden grain, the hill
sides and valleys rustic with corn, the
clover-felds send up perpetual incense,
and the cattle are lowing along the
wooded hills. The big plows have not
ruined the soil, but are now in all the
fields ofTennessee. The nicely-painted
wagon is no longer circus. The reap
ing machine is no longer followed by Il
crowd of wondering men and boys. The
"bad politics" have grown to be a power
in the State. With one hundred and
ten thousand votes it has elected the
Governor of the Commonwealth it has
raised her credit from prospective ruin,
has pointed out the path to honor and
fame, and set her name around with
stars.
We would respectfully dissent from
the views expressed in the eight lines
above, so far rs they allude to poll
tics. -ED.]
Thus, from the beginning till now,
Kings have moved on with a slow but
steady tread, and Belvidere has place
II the map of the world, and her wei
are is enquired after in the marts of
radc.
am often asked, when from home,
f Franklin county is not an lawful
Door county," Somehow it has got
hat reputation, but it is not and must
rot be so. Our soil resists drouth, and
$ capable Of the highest culture. Our
are full of wealth. Our
springs are the "wine of the Gods >
Even the airs of heaven are our her
tage, and we shall sell our mountain
breezes to the malaral plains and
cities of the South for
ever. In this year of unusual drouth,
when the cry Of want comes even now
rom many places, we are not empty
handed, but shall come with sheavcs
We have got wheat to sell, and shall
ave corn to sell, and oats, and clover
seed, and hay, and potatoes, and other
'ruits to sell. We are not poor The
,oa of the mountain goes down to the
,enters of trade, tar-otf cities call for the
lumber of our forests, the iron from the
furnace finds ready sale. And this is
only Il beginning of what there will be,
when Franklin county reaps the bene-
it of q good State credit, of the capital
md labor which will flow here when
the smoke of our furnaces shall shadow
the mountains when the sound of her
wheels shall wake the echoes now silent,
md her fields made rich by the strong
land of toll. Our institutions Of learn
ny are as good as any. Our young .
men are going out to SOW good seed Of
and truth, and our girls are
% fair and so good, and so many young
men trying to carry them off, that we
AN hardly keep any on hand. Our
county is rich in natural blessings, rich
IL applied industry, rich in its past his
DRY and its hopes for the future, and
'ich in distinguished sons. Who says
We are poor? | enter my protest that
,ur county is not poor!
We have had some small showers,
,ut no heavy rains We are looking =
or rain now-the almanac says so; but
he almanac has lied all the summer,
he barometer has lied and the camphor
,ottle has lied, and 1 believe the Their :,
nometer has lied. 1t has only called
Or 1O40 when we know it should have .
cen 200, thus swindling us out Of 96 ,
egrees. -
The Belvidere observator spends the 4
lights in watching comets. We are
;atching one now that sets, like a great
olden spur, on the heel of Ursa Major tn
t is the first instance of bear wearing OF
spur 1t is to keep off Cdnis MAJOR, |
oppose We have learned this about
omets-that we know as much about or
hem as anybody-that they are the IN
'tail.bearers" of the universe, and are =, ~