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Kate Power's review., 1895-01-12

Z across hlDVlIR tlcdAlOHos "illIt dL tue
back Of the house there is small wood
in the edge Of which the novelist has
built a summer-house which he uses for
his study and oftentimes for a sleeping
room He has been twice married, but
is now widower. Besides the
daughter already mentioned, who pre-
sides over his home, he is fortunate in
having a son, fine manly young fellow
Of eOurtly presence.
The novelist's habits are quite similar
To many writer's of the time; that is,
hc writes for three or four hours early
in the day. say from LOO to 1,200
words. The afternoons he devotes To
study and translation of and from the
classic authors. He is a thorough lin
guist. and is saturated with the litera-
ture of many nations, especially with
that of Germany, where his education
was partly obtained. He was born in
Hampshire, was trained in the law,
bat abandoned it in the days of Dick
ems and Thackeray for literature. He
is special lover OF children. who often
flock to his house in the afternoons.
Ills latest story is an elaborate illus
tration of the philosophy which has
perverted Scripture so as to read,
What man has joined together true
love may put asunder.' For here is
the story of Aminta, Countess OF Or
mont who, having no love for her eld-
crly husband, leaves him ut last and
goes away across seas with his private
secretary, the old love Of her school
girl days.
In conclusion, let me give the plot in
silhouette. Lord Ormont is British
officer rapidly nearing his three score
and ten years. He is the idol of two
school, Il boys school and a girls
school. The lion Of the boys school
is Matey' Weyburn; the lioness of the
girls school is 'Browney" Farrell
These schools pass and repass every
day In the streets Of the town. One
day the eyes Of Browney Farrell met
the eyes of Matey Weyburn. That
began it, and they soon learned that
they were made for each other. But
an otticious aunt separates them Seven
years roll by and Browney weds the
old officer and becomes Aminta, Count
rss Of OrmOnt The old soldier carries
his discipline even to affairs of the
heart, aud Is the marshal even i'm his
emotions After while, Matev il in
troduced into their house as Lord Or
mants secretary. Then begins for
Amtnta the long struggle between duty
aud love Duty wins now, then love:
then u sense Of duty holds sway again.
The denouemcnt comes nj last, de-
noucment described as only a master
can describe It. They had parted as
romantic people usually part. forever.
Neyburn. Ell route to found an inter
national school In switzerland. II stand
ing ON the deck OF the Susan. out
ward bound, close in shore on the
southern coast. He sees Browney bath
ing, pointing for the sea. A grand
smooth swell Of the waters lifts her,
and her head rises to see the world.
The desire To be alongside OF her sets
hts fingers trctting at his buttons. The
Kate Power's review., 1895-01-12
GEORGE MEREDITH: THE AUTHOR
Al HOME.

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A. think all viii conccde, George
Mcrcdith.a fame has come 10 him rather
late In life Nearly all his contempo-
rarirs. such AS Mrs. Humphrey Ward
William Black Thomas Hardy, and his
special prntegp, Robert Louis Steven
son. have all surpassed him in popular
ity with the masses Of novel readers.
II popular novelist means "A widely
read novelist. then Mr. Meredith IN
certainly not popular. Ills novels are
an illustration of the pitiful fact that
the better the work iu letters nova
daYa the smaller becomes an authors
circle of readers
From Current Literature we learn
that many Of his readers wonder If
Nj Meredith In a@ much Of "a "stylist'
far hr has been called the greatest
"NtYlist' tu modern literature wonder
II he Il as much of "stylist' in pri-
vale life as be- tn In his public writings.
For the satisfaction of this wondering
IL might ua well br known that, accord
tuE tn one who knows him we'll. he il "a
delightful taltgrr but il never weari-
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rests YOU with bin ease aud hueucy of
thought and expression. Ills voice, too
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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05
DOVES MILL.

Just then some one knocked ut the
door and said that D. L. Miller, better
known as Daily, has been laboring
and toiling quite awhile under %unfavor.
able circumstances. He said that since
business is becoming more prosperous
financially, that so much to Daily's
own great need and desires that he will
in a few days be able to collect his Due
(laney.) Cherokee Literary Society is
in a thriving condition at present. Rev.
Bass preached an instructive and i'm.
pressive ermon at Union last Sunday.
~Speedwell Sunday School is improving
both in interest and number; may the
good work of Sabbath Schools grow
over the head of all opposition through.
out the land till every church can
boast of being the father and protector
OF a school, and till all public school
houses may deem it an honor to be a
near relative, if not a father of q Sab
bath School. Some of our citizens
spent decoration at Washington Col.
lege; they tell us that the program of
the day was well arranged and properly
presented. V. V. Fine, of Sullivan
county, is sharing the luxuries and
love of friends and relatives on Chero-
kee. While at the decoration last
Thursday, one of our young ladies
found o berry that was said to be sever
feet long and two feet across, was
strong and could walk, had a tongue
and could talk, Anyone wishing to
buy common sense straw berries will
save money and pies by calling on
Wess Burris. He has them from great
big berries down to little ones. Henry
Laws went to the decoration last Thurs.
day and through an accident, l sup.
pose, got a Thorn burg in his hand;
believing that it would not hurt him,
he went about three miles before he
had it taken out. We wish him q
speedy recovery. Mrs. Clabe Jones,
of Dry Creek, is visiting home folks on
Cherokee. The news is out that there
will be a post office established near
the summit of the Embreville railroad.
Aliquis, why hast thou been so busy
in thy garden2 Art thou preparing
vegetables and sass" to winter more
than thyselfS If it be thus don't you
think it would be expedient, right and
desirable that you should get you a
modern Eve to assist you in eradi-
eating the tares and tufts and the
thorns and thistles from your truck
and turnoversY If this is the fatal
remedy, take it and ask no questions.
jim.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

We would like to be released from
working the public roads. Our magis.
trates are SO kind to the INDECENT that
they will release any one that wants 10
get off. There is in this neighborhood
men who are able to work every day
for themselves, or hire to some one else
and Others can keep a team on the road
ten months of the year, yet they are
not able to work ON a public road.
Some Others want q release who claim
they are as stout as I can lift 40 much
or do as much farm work as any man
there is on the road. Therefore we
take this method of asking the Hon.
County Court to release us all or none.
We have been informed that there will
be a call for some releases by some
very poor men that can keep four horss
and run a two hundred acre farm.
Others will claim to be blind, yet they
can horse race and ride the tournament
and the night never gets too dark for
them to ride if there is an almighty
dollar for their pocket. Now, Mr.. Ed
tor, don't you think that the Hon.
County Court will release us fellows
that can see Larrance dancing every
time the sun shines bright. Without
discredit to any one.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05
tut ned from the material sourc of

TUNED from the material of
u greatness and wealth, and we have
nothing to exhibit save a violated COLI
stitution, the thwarted will of the peo-
pie, the temple of our libertiesin ghast.
ly wreck, a shameless Fraud and
Usurper in the Governors chair and a
choice job lot Of political rascals and
thieves in high feather roiting on the
spoils Of stolen offices.
The large contingent of honest and
reputable citizens are ashamed that
they live in Tennessee under such a
damning disgrace and do not hesitate
to say so, and worthy and respectable
people, seeking homes in the sunny and
healthful chimes of the South will give
Tennessee a wide berth as long as a
vestige of Turneyism remains in it.
What a sacrifice to the moloch of
greed, fra I'D, theft, yilliany and dis
honor.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05
LOCUST GROVE.

-
Probably a few dots from here may
be of interest to your readers. Our
Sunday School seems to be on a boom
just now; we had seventy four pupils
in the classes last Sabbath; all seemed
to be interested. Our superintendent
thinks we have the best organized
school now we have ever had and doing
better work. o what a gloom fell on
the community when the sad intelli.
gence was announced-"John Bacon is
dead" l write as a neighbor only;
greater minds must write his obituary,
but as a member of the community |
must say we have sustained a great
loss; the church has lost one of its best
members. John Bacon was a man of
the highest ideal of all those virtues
that make a good citizen; as a Chris.
tan he was firm and Jealous, as a
neighbor he was kind and generous,
and his acts of kindness will never be
forgotten; but he is gone, and we shall
never hear his hearty greeting and
"how is all" at the spring as he passed;
how sad the thought. In compliance
with a beautiful custom, originated in
Germany many years ago, the friends
met at Pleasant Valley cemetery to
beautify and decorate the graves of
the dead, June 1; though it was not
generally known yet quite a large
crowd of people were there to do honor
to the dead. Services were conducted
by Rev. Chas. Cox, and Rev. w. A..
Sherfey made a splendid address suit
able to the occasion; also old brother
Conrad Bashor made a short but touch
ing address. A more orderly and re.
spectful gathering is seldom seen. 1t
is well sometimes to turn from the
walks Of the living and visit the city
of the dead. Arrangements were made
to enlarge the cemetery on fourth Sat
urday in July. Corn is looking better
since the warm weather set in. Wheat
looks fair; grass all cheat. Samuel
Keebler is putting up a nice residence
near Pleasant Valley Church. What
has become of R. E. Porter Has he
Joined the COW boys? Come out R. E.
and give us a letter. Mrs. Mobler is
very low and her little grandson got
badly if not fatally scalded a few days
ago. They have the sympathy of all
the neighbors. Health of neighbor'
hood good. MEMO.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

that golbusted picture. Rev. VIM.
Sherfey will preach at Chaly beate
Spring on the 3D. Sunday of this month
at 8 Pm. N. H. Shipley and lady paid
us a pleasant visit Sunday evening.
Come again, we welcome You, There
is a grand enterprise on foot now that
will most assuredly prove to be a bless
ing, the managers of the scheme are
going to place honest old Pete in a
prominent place during the centennial
for the convenience of the dogs. The
followers of this noble man are TO be
stood in the hog pens O rrubbing posts.
Dick Leah cut q whalen swell Sunday;
but we'll forgive him since we see he's
right. Gosh to creased lightning, if l
didn't see some of the prettiest girls in
J%onesboro last week since ever | went
anywhere. If the traders kill any of
their sheep, I'm going to beg the eyes
of them so | can throw them at the
girls this summer. UNCLE FULLER.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

RAISE sheep instead of dogs, improv-
ed strains of stock instead of scrubs,
cultivate small fruits, vegetables and
orchards instead of exhausting your
lands raising "hog and hominy," de-
vote much care and attention to the
poultry yard, make all your own
fertilizers with the rich materi-
al you allow to go to waste,
change your agricultural methods from
extensive to intensive farming, and
then you will exchange poverty for
riches, dilapidation for elegance, igno-
rance for education and cheerless stay
ing places for comfortable and beauti.
full homes.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

The Limestone creamery isnow using
about 5000 pounds Of milk daily and
earning $40 a day above all expenses.
This is about % per cent. profit on the
investment. There is no industry or
enterprise in the county that pays SO
handsomely, and it leaves the money
among the people, where it is so badly
needed. Banking as q money making
scheme is no where. Comment is I'M
necessary. Go to work, raise milk
cows and SOW your lands to grass, and
no longer be a beggar at bank counters.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05
GOOD ROADS.

We publish this week Senate Bill No.
20, which is now a law, and wish to
call the attention of our readers TO the
relation it bears to the public road
question. By the provisions of this
new law it is possible for each county
to derive much benefit from working
convicts upon the roads that has not
heretofore been possible. Petit larceny
now includes the feloniously taking of
personal goods of the value of any
sum up to and including sixty dollars.
The provision of law give Washington
County sufficient labor to build pixies
in every direction if the proper dispo-
sition of the labor is made. The first
and most important thing to do is to
buy q rock crusher, then put the con
victs to work getting out rock and
grading the roads, under the supervis-
ion of competent supervisors. Com
mence at Jonesboro and finish, say the
Fall Branch road to the county line.
By the time that road is done the peo-
pie will have become educated to that
point where there will no longer be
opposition to the building of good
roads all over the county.
Since last August there has been
fifteen men sent to the penitentiary
from this county for a term of one year
each, all of whom would have remain
ed here and worked out their sentences
had the new law been in force; this
represents fifteen years of labor on our
public roads for one man. How best
to utilize this labor will have to be
determined by the county court, we
suppose, and we have faith enough in
the members to believe that they will
see the great opportunity now presented
to secure such roads as the county
should have. We were in conversation
a few days ago with one of our best
and most intelligent farmers, during
which we asked him if he had sold his
wheat. He said he had, but if it had
not been for the fact that he had to
haul it to market when the roads were
frozen hard he could have got at least
twelve cents more on the bushel than
he did. Now suppose this farmer had
500 bushels of wheat to sell, bad roads
cost him just sixty dollars. Suppose
the farmers of this county had but
$50, 900 bushels of wheat to sell in any
one year, the loss on account of being
compelled to haul to market when the
roads were passable, instead of when
the price suited, is $4,000, enough to
build miles of good pike over which
the produce OF the county could be
taken to market at any time the price
suits.
We hope our county court will make
every effort to secure good and sub
stantial roads, and at as early a day
as possible. We have the material, and
the labor will be forthcoming unless
a tidal wave of morality overtakes us.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

BUD, do you feel that you are all
broken up, an unpitied heir of misfor-
tune, and that the place where delight
should perpetually reign is On aching
voidp Do you feel that you would like
to crawl into a lady's balloon sleeve
and hide yourself forever from a per-
verse and loveless worldY Do you lay
awake o. nights and hear unutterable
sounds in the darkness of your cur
tanned chamber, and on the outside
tempests crashing through the moon
light and blades of lightning frescoing
the sky, whilst no speck of cloud fecks
the azure scroll of the silent starsY Do
you prefer to your present status of ex-
istence to be chained out on a point of
rock in mid ocean, with sharks snap
ping at your heels and a huge vulture
devouring your vitals as fast as they
grow? Do you feel a compulsion to
take an excursion through some vale of
tropical gloom, where green eyed aud
flannel mouthed hyenas crouch on both
sides the way, the air thick with beak
and claw of winged monsters OF prey,
and deadly cobras dart forked tongues
from every crevice of the rocks and
every space in the tangled thicketsp Do
you ever see the earth cracking around
you and sheets of flame leaping from
the assures, and Kissing, writhing and
dancing around your Do you seem to
be walking on the crumbling edge of a
crater and looking down on the red
devils that stoke the furnaces of the
volcanop Is it impossible to convince
yourself that you are not chained to
the foot of the Washington monument,
its apex swaying in the clouds 555 feet
above you and the whole granite mass
ready to topple over on you? Do you
imagine you are a pickle floating in a
lake of whisky with the horrible mon
sters bred in its fiery depths running
races for your bloated corpsep Is a
sword, suspended by a single hair,
hanging over you thirsting to fall and
cleave your head from your bodyp Are
you clinging over the brow of a preci-
pice to a slowly loosening shrub, while
the abysmal depths are yawning for
your mangled remainsp Are you tied
prone upon the track with a flying To-
connective rounding the curve just be-
hind you and no time and space to
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

stop the ponderous mass before it starts
you on the railroad route to the here.
afterP If you are experiencing any or
all of these sensations, my dear bud,
you have passed into the acute form of
of the free silver craze, and there is no
chance of recovery until you get a free
pass from members of the Legislature
and 60 visit the m%enagerie in the State
house at Nashville. Thousands of 9th
ers have tried it and are now well,
happy and rich.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05
LOCUST MOUNT

With sunny days and beautiful
moonlight nights, all nature seems to
be smiling. War has been in vogue in
the suburbs of Luke. Two of the fair
danes fought famous battle which
will be long remembered by Esq. L. H.
Shipley, Grimes and others. May be
women will make the old time practice
of fighting popular again, or disgust
the intelligence of the community.
White caps have appeared in the lower
end of Sullivan county. They claim
their mission is to discomfuddle men
and women of low grade and purify
the community. Several women have
been horse whipped and one mans
shoulder broken, Others relieved of
their fire arms and notified to escape
for life in o specified time. Two houses
have been burned down and two others
thrown to their foundations. These
white caps ought to have tried their
skill on purifying Pete Turney first.
s. T. Martin has over three hundred
head of sheep. j. s. Hunt and Dick
Leah have entered the business ring,
and as a result have one hundred and
two sheep on hand. J. E. Gibson and
VIM. Shipley have over seventy sheep
on hand. Robert Walker has a nice
lot of cattle. w. B. White and G. w.
Jones took a nice drove of cattle off
last week. We are proud to see the
boys taking up the surplus cattle and
sheep and at the same time scattering
money and sunshine in the homes of
the dear people. w. X. Martin has
sold his farm at Locust Mount to Jas.
Deakins. We welcome Mr.. Deakins to
our section and are sorry to lose Mr..
and Mrs. Fleenor. G. G.. Xix has bought
the old %eyaporator of G. F. Sylvester
and has torn down the Negroes holy
temple. It was too naughty of w. II.
Sylvester in sending old Pete Turney's
picture to our genial friend Frank
Cochran, of Blakely Creek. Mr.. Coch-
ran is a good citizen and a staunch
man in politics; suffice it to say, it
took hard work to save him from a re-
lapse of grip IN the presentation of
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05
THE INJURY NOT IN DOLLARS.

The itemized expense account has
been made out and the financial dam
age to the tax payers of the State on
account Of the gubernatorial steal is
near $4,000.
This is a mere trifie compared to the
assessed wealth of the people-an in
significant portion of the taxes extorted
in times of great monetary depression
and distress, yet when we consider the
object for which the Treasury was
looted of this sun and the vast amount
of good this sum would have done had
it been properly expended, the taking
of it becomes an indefensible, gigantic
robbery.
Did the injury to the State stop at
this loss, the needy and over burdened
tax payers would not be 80 swift 10
complain and protest. 1t lie the after
math that they dread and from which
they must inevitably suffer. A most
perilous precedent has been fixed in
our history, which will be available to
interruptions and daring ringsters and
jobbers when they think that the times
are ripe for another theft of the Gov.
ernorship and another foray upon the
Treasury.
Even this is not the limit of the evil.
A deep, black stain has been placed on
the escutcheon of the State that the
everlasting ages can not wipe out.
The gubernatorial theft has paralized
the centennial scheme, and to the in
tense modification of all who love and
honor the Volunteer State it is slowly
dragging to its death. All eyes are
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05
CHERRY GROVE.

Your scribe left home at 8 Pm. last
Thursday for a drive across the coun-
try to the vicinity of Washington Col.
lege; we went by way of Christie, Bow
mantown and Matuta. On arriving at
the Dunkard Church on Big Limestone
we left the main road and turned to
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

THE Republican convention in Ohio
nominated Asa Bushnell, of Springfield,
for Governor, endorsed Mckinley for
President and Foraker for Senator to
succeed Senator Brice. Gen. Bushnell
is a splendid man in all the term i'm.
plies, and will be elected by the usual
Republican majority.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

THIS was pre-eminently the free pass
Legislature. One member handled
1,700 of these convenient compliment
aries. AS a consequence the whole
country went on a jamboree, and thou
sands of our fellow citizens went to
Nashville to witness the Democratic
oruiaa
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

If you have credit and want to get
into debt everything is creased for the
occasion, but when you try to get out
you have to claw up a precipice that
leans over a good deal.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

BETWEEN the Populists rainbow
chasers of the West and South and the
gold mono.metallists of the East there
is a happy mean and the Republicans
occupy It.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-06-05

THE season of railroad compliment
aries is over and our honored and dis.
tinguished citizens will have to stay at
home until a new Legislature is elect
ed, when they a again enjoy otium
cum dignitate and other appurtensnces
Embellishments of a free frolic.