The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1895-07-18
tear on the stia,it WINGED and sleepy

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director suggested that they try another
injection Of ginger. The other twelve
wiped away Il tear and cooked up one
ear each. There wasn't enough ANNA
tion to get up both ears at once. Some
one proposed that they play another in
nings and then they set to work and
mapped outthe great eanvassing week to
be wound up with circus parade and
grand cake walk at the tabernacle |
at night, That was the dose of ginger
The papers were made red-hot, the peo-
pie urged, men sat on the street corners
to howl, 4 great bleating of trumpets
and rattle banging of tom-toms made,
and the eighty-odd canvassing commit
tees were expected to sack Nashville on
that great day and empty the booty in
the tabernacle that night, About
eighty ont of the eighty-odd canvassing
committees put in the great rushing
week rampageously attending to their
own private affairs. The parade paraded
and the meeting met and the tabcrnac-
lie was filled with women and children
and boys. 1t was most magnificent,
victorious, hamboyant failure. But out
of it grew the germ that blossomed last
Friday night to respondent success.
Nashville walked up the next day after
the parade to the realization that she
had made an ass OF herself and she sat
about mending matters. 1t was too late
to go backward. Nashville had bowed
her boasts and she must toe the mark.
Then the work commenced in real ear
nest,
The parade week did it at last. Now
everything is lovely and the Centennial
goose hangs high up in the blue en-
pyrean. The magnates and the million
aires rushed in where they dare not
tread before until they saw the big show
coming without them, and now there is
no lack of means and mounting. We've
| got enthusiasm to sell and subscription
to throw at the birds, and the Centennial
is not onlyW go, but great gorgeous,
| glorious, ground swelling done-gone!
When the big show is over and Tonnes
see is gloating over and digesting the rich
results, the men who bore the brunt in
the heat of the day when the skies were
dark will be passed over to honor and
bestow plaudits upon those who rushed
in to seize the helm when the reefs were
passed. But its to be big blessed good
thing for all of us no matter who did it,
and now let's set about making it big
ger and blesseder good thing.
There is no governor talk that is new.
1t seems to be settled that Bob Taylor is
to be drummed in to save things and the
fellows who had ordered bOoms made
for themselves have countermanded the
orders. II your readers want to know a
little more of what they already know
about the Taylor family and Bob and
Alf's new venture on the boards, say so.
| don't want to gorge you, but it is in
teresting, and | have some data that
reads well. Drop me card.
think it incumbent upon US wise and
great men who mould public thought
and teach the unkempt farmer how to
shoot his ideas off on a projection of pa
triotic sentiment, to deal fairly with
them and tell the truth when it cannot
be helped. Now / want to say that al
this NEW woman" and "bloomer" talk
you see in the great newspapers is all
bosh, at least as far as Nashville is con.
cerned If there's bloomer in Nash,
vile it bloomed to blush unseen an6
! waste its bfurcated sweetness in some
back yard. am firmly persuaded thai
the Southern women, at least, are not q
pack OF flabbergasted idiots and never
intend to be. Your rural readers may
rest secure that their wives and daugh,
ters will never demand their breeches
There is no sign of it here, and if the
disease should break out, I'll advise
your readers in time for them to drown
all the giddy girls who might forget thai
nature horned Southern women. to ride
sideways forever. There are scores OF
women cyclists here, but they set theil
studs like they do the sofa.
went out to the slaughter house last
Tuesday. If your readers want to know
anything about what / saw and smell
they must pay for 1t. ELDEE MACK