The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-12-12
w ednesday, Dec. r., 1893.

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zone is ut ndcd. Aye, as easily as Il
.attling town can add ole hundred per
cent. Of ialschood to every repetition Of
something that was innocent de noro.
It is Il nervous sheet Now, the editor
I If the Home Journal would be glad to
20 on, undisturbed, in his efforts to dis
;uss questions Of general interest. lie
has no assistance in his editoyial5, but
he is indebted to his General Business
Manager and friend, Mr.. II. II. DuIin,
FOR selections and general local items,
me of which appeared last week in re-
gard to concert at the Mary Sharp
I College, in which, We saw upon reading
proof, there was compliment paid the
News in saying (undcr belief that it
was owned principally by the Faculty
# the Winchester Normal, } that it was
taking 80 much interest in the Mary
Sharp College Of late. The News, in
reply, snys it is not owned, principaly,
by the Faculty Of the Normal. Very
well, We don't care far,hing who owns
il, but thought that if it were true, rs
several have told us, it evidenced a.
Kindly feeling on that papers part TO-
manifest sincere interest in the other
school. But the words d" of late seem
TO haze irriialcd the News, and IT,
wants us to explain, which we will do
+ by saying that the item did it injustice
that it has NOT taken more interest Of
late" than it did before viii this
suffice?
But the News. which seems to be ai-
iecled with gangrcnc, or chronic diar-
rhea, or mental ntrophy something
that needs attention could not reply to
The little, innocent item without calling
upon us, still again, TO define the Home
Journals temperance policy, IF it has
any; and also adds please give us
a few more Sunday Thoughts"
Well, the holy News is very intcm.
peratc in exercising itself so much as to
7 The views Of the Horne journal. It is
actually drunk on Prohibition, for men
get drunk on other things than whisky,
nnl such drunkenness is terrible In Il
few hours the man who has imbibcd too
much whisky is "nimsclr again." like
Richard, Bat To get drunk on fanati-
cIsm, dogmatism, vanity, vainglorious
mess, &c Ooh!--. We are no doc.
Tor, but we would inquire of the mcd
cal fraternity if there is not some dia
phorclic We could give the News, to Til,
end that il might @ccm out the poisol
in lis system, from head to foot. Wants
and wants, and still wants to know
our temperance policy" Have We
not told You that We are opposed TO all
7 sumptnary laws, MS principle, but
that if the majority Of the people vote
for Prohibition there will be no com
I plant from us? But we tell you now,
that you might AS well expect to
NW hold fire in your hand,
by thinking on the frosty Caucasus;
n Or clny the hungry edge Of appetite
"A by bare imagination Of II feast
Il Or wallow naked in December snow,
4 l'y thinking ON fantastic summers heat"
as to try by purlnnicnl, or old Scotch
Presbyterian cnactmcnts, in this en-
frightened age. to make men think an,
net just as you wish. Your appetite il
not theirs, and if they do not modest
you, you arc II mcddlcr. This is Il time
\ when the people rule, and since univcr-
tal good is, and always will be, admixed
with partial evil. you 60 on in your
, way and We will go on in our way with
The Home journal. AS to trying to
satisfy you as to our temperance policy
-umph ! We would as soon attempt
40 Hoat green cow-hide upon the icint.
est summer zephyr, as to try to cnlighten
,flIyour occult brain in this respect.
{f But you wan. few more Of our
- Sunday Thoughts " Ha Ia In
may seem to some that we ought &c
4 he JlaSe' (as the French would say up
On This repetition, and crcpeiillon and
ro-re-repellion Of your anxiety as the
religious views OF hccdiior Of the Home
/ lJournal But We are not suricited not
n DIT Of it. We feel, in fact, inclined to
laugh equal TO Pcgotly, in one of Dick
ems novels, who laughed so heartily
that she shook the buttons from hcrI
ldresscs bless her l-and we in
liend, one Of these rainy SUNDAYS, lust
For youl especial benefit, when we have
""'h'ng else to do, and our mind is ON
ARRIVAL mas'crs-@c intend to sit down
ianu give you n column or two of Sunday
thoughts. But they will not be the re.
suit OF bigotry-" that accursed spri,
WHICH whenever it has had the power
I, has punished even to the death those
who dared to differ with it; and which
pnow that the power has passed away
'sI'il continues to dogmatize ON the most
mysterious subjects, rampcr with the