Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-07-19
LETTER FROM OHIO.
GRATIS, o. July 8, 1898.

GRATIS, o. July 9, 1898.
1t has been so long since l wrote
anything for the Herald and Tribune
that hardly know whether to put il
Dear Friend or not. have been
waiting to see if somebody would moi
ask why IA. G. c." does not write any
more for the paper, but waiting seldom
gives opportunity for great minds to
expand or explode, SO here goes.
have been Ditying our dear old South.
ern friends through this hot weather
who are compelled to spend a good
portion of their time in fighting flies,
mosquitoes, bedbugs feas and the
like, while we are up here among the
lakes with our doors and windows
screened to keep out the winged tribes
and the bed insects unheard of.
We sometimes get little steam from
somewhere down there, that fairly
bursts the thermometer but then our
farmers say that makes the corn grow
and we grin and bear it. It tickles me
when read of any of your folks 60.
to Chicago, for I just imagine I see
them standing on Lake Shore or wand.
ering through Jackson Park sucking
an orange and wandering if it did not
hail out there the day before. I met
two Washington County boys al
Muncie, Indiana, during the conference
in May, and they were troubled to
know when that little whit" would
be over, II any of our old friends
shoul ! go via Cincinnati to the World q
Fair we are within four miles of the
line of travel and the latch string out.
AS you pass up the Panhandle R. R.
you are on Anthony Wayns trace, and
only on the border of the finest coun try
on the globe.
Wheat harvest is about over and
Thousands Of bushels will be threshed
from the shock this week. Oats is
turning and gives promise of an un-
usually large yield. Corn is being
worked now for the last time. 1t is
correspondingly good.
Our Ohio Mug-wumps are beginning
to realize the meaning of Tariff Re-
form" and Free Trade" and like the
Children Of Israel are already tired OF
oppression and long for the Land of
Caanan. McKinleyism is gaining
grond wacth for results, I admire the
advanced position taken by the Herald
and Tribune's editor on the important
issue of the day. am forced to the
conclusion that it requires a vast
amount of backbone to defend any de-
parture from the old weather beaten
trail along which many priests and
corses of dead issues have been drag.
ged for more than century. If one
would listen to the croakers who
imagine the eagle on the dollar is to
bear them away on its wings to the
new Jerusalem there never would be
improved roads, high schools, manufac'
tories or any thing else in Washington
County. Speak yonr sentiments, Bro.
editor on these needed improvements.
There is a grand army of dear young
soldiers now under drill in your town
and surrounding country who will
come to your rescue by and by. The
W. G. T. U. is doing work that youl
cowardly sons would not dare attempt
and yet will want to come up and say
like Philander whose wife killed TIE
bear. "Aint we brave Patsy"
discover some good talent among
your list of correspondents going tt
waste. / do not mean to be persona
when I refer to such expressions as
John passing through this section Sun
day guess calico was the attraction }
or Samuel riding the bob tailed mule
to see his dinah."
Our editor no doubt desires informa
tion about marriages, death, meatings
new buildings, improvements, &c.
for we see that such is the character O
the local department; but these littl,
jokes are not elevating in their ten
dency nor interesting outside of those
concerned. Pressure of circumstance,
forced the editor of our leading coun
ty paper to devote column to the sub
ject "Speak Your Sentiments" and al
though the writers are incognito, i
has brought about good results. You
County Superintendent has done
good work for you in an educationa
point of view and it has been al
arduous, thankless task. was one o.
your county teachers when change o
text books was proposed by R. L. Pat
ten, Superintendent, and my schoo
was one of the last to adopt the course
but now we see the good results of tb
change. The time will soon be here TO
the tea chers to go to work again and
unhesitatingly say that no teache
should be hired who is not better pre-
tpared for his work this year than last
If | was local director / would nc
favor any teacher who does not atten
Normal Institutes and read education
al journals. Pardon my long letter
A. G. G.