The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-07-30
aOME JOURNAL.
tennessee Press.

.,,orth. Alter the trahsactioh oI such
illness as was thought to be necessary,
w. members of the Association were
' through the city and its
,hurbs in carriages furnished by the
,,.ui,obIe citizens; and if there was n
.;,i,or who was not delighted it must
h,ye been because he was not capable Of
.npreciating wha; is beautiful in ma
,nre in art, or in humanity. Wehav
an a former occasion published our
,houobts of the lovely city of Knox
,ilo and the big.heartedness of her
neople. Especially do We again refer to
,ho editors and publishers of Knoxville.
70 they Democrat Or Republican, they
male us forget p"lilics in our admir-
linn Of their urbanity and kindness.
They appeared to us as men who make
no,;tics II side.show, but nobleness.
Greatness and goodness the first and
cuwning act.
At night there was a magnificent
,ouonet at the Lamar House. The
u,uu embraced everything good, pala.
table and delicious, whether of solid or
liouil nature. The special tvasts were
Ms follows;
"The Tennessee Prcss"-J. W. Cald-
we'll, Esq, of Knoxville. Respone by
Vice. President X. ii. Yancey, Of Clarks-
vile.
"The Press of the Past Gen. Ira
p. Jones, of Nashville.
"The Press of the Future "A l..
Lands, of Nashville.
"The Trcachcry of the Human Mem.
ory"-W J. Slater, OF Winchester.
"The Ladies Frank Avent, of
Murfrycsboro.
Saturday morning We left for North
Carolina and the seacoast. But Gen.
Ira p Jones, w. a. Wade, DR.. X. l..
c. White, ourself and Mrs. $. detached
ourselves from the main body Of the As.
sciaton, who went on to the Atlantic
We spent night and day at Warm
Springs, ENJOYING the water and scenery.
The warm spring here is Il wonder. The
water gushes from the earth, too warm
for comfortable bathing, at least for one
Of the writer's obesity, whose prefer
cnce is for coolness rather than heat.
They claim that this warm water, be.
cause it comes SO from the earth, has
curative qualities. And some contend
that its warmth is impaired by the in
hcrcnt heat Of the earth-our belief.
Others say it is due to the action Of wa.
ter in union with great beds of mineral
and chemical matter in the earth, and
therefore it is good for the afflicted. As
for our.elf, we believe pure water,
heated artifcially, would be MS bencf-
cial if used as regularly and copiously.
Our little detached party proceeded To
Asheville, arriving in time to have II
night of cool, refreshing slumber. En-
route we met Maj. All. ). Horsely, Of
Columbia. lie has made fortune suf-
Il lent for bachelor, aud, like wise
man, is enjoying it. But he is big
hearted aud loves to fish He met Il
boon companion in the person of that
grand old ornament to the Press-Gcn
Ira +. Jones, whose modest moral worth
is only cquaIed by his intellectual capac'
tiles as n writer of pure English. Gen.
Jones had with him his wade mecnm'
IA minnow-pot and angling rod. And
then, to make pleasure d"nbly sweet, as
it were, we met IN Asheville Maj. Hciss,
whose editorial ability on the American
and other journals has won for HIM Il
reputation the most worthy might envy.
lie, too, is a fisherman. And thus we
had splendid little hand-Jones,
Hciss, Horsely, White, Boyd "a noble
editor we have not forgottcn) Mrs. s.
and-well, we'll not speak of the las,
one. And all of us, save Maj Helss
whose health is not 50 good as he de
serves, went up about daylight, rount
and round, circliny round the cone Of n
mountain, until we were at the top
And there we saw the sun rise. 1t wa
sight that we wish every one Who ha
sonl could have witnessed. There ant
then, as we have done when out upoI
the sea with only rolling waves in view
we sent silently but none the less earn
estly up to God alone, the worship o
our whole heart for the manifold bless
ings that temper the regre
which we feel in knowing that ere loni
We must lie down and die and not b
moved again to grand thoughts by tn
lovelincss which then cntranced on
vision. Away up there on this mount
in this "Land of the Sky" as it
called in novel by Miss Fischer u
there while the grass with the dew wa
wet, looking down upon the beat
tful town of Ashevlle so far below, an
gazing upon "Pisgah" and hundreds
peaks in the distancc-all seeming
loom higher in one universal effort
welcome the rising sun then it WI
our heart was what God made it-a
mcontaminated, unhardcned and una
greSsive.
And He has done much for the Ian
of which we write. Oh, if we only ha
the brain. the time, and the space, thu
we might try to tell the Home Journ
leaders how grand and lovely a trip
is to 60 up the French Broad river al
see how the skill of man has engineer'
n railroad NV such tortuOus course