Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-23
FREE HILL.

Ebert Hale's twin children were
both buried in the same grave in the
Adams graveyard on the 18th. Har-
vesting and rain don't>very we'll agree.
more reapers on Cedar Creek than ever
before. The old grain cradle is being
last superseded as the cradle did the
old reap hook of fifty years ago. l saw
a fiax patch the other day on Snider's
land-where is the fax break aud
Switching knife; the young people
sometimes ask what such things were
ever used for. What will be the sur.
prising inquiries of the young fifty
years hence. We have the last spin.
ning wheel that Mr.. Maupin made; il
will soon be a relic of the past age.
Jack Rabbit, of Texas, is giving a his.
tory of the staying qualities OF his
Texas johnson grass and don't seem to
want the Tennesseans to have such a
luxury. Why our oxeye daisy, plantin,
wild onion and parsnip can lay the
johnson grass in the shade for stay,
and they won't make hay either, and
so the prize belongs to Tennessee in
such things. True Brother Jack | was
In that little johnson City gust, and
later heard the earthquake. While
such things are not very destructive
here, YET they are 40 uncommon as to
excite attention and even get into
newspapers. 1t was more of q summer
whilwind than our idea of a cyclone.
Brother Rabbit don't think my little
farm is a fair sample of Tennessee
homes, and | assure him his former
home here Is far from an average: but
you ARE not going back on your rails.
ing" well, don't think you should, il
you were raised on clover hay growing
on such steep land. There are yery
few such farms as your Tennessee
home in Washington County. You
musthave lived in the mountain regions
OF Unicoi or johnson Counties. l reckon
it was a sled and OK team that O
hay on in the, hollow; no wonder
you prefer Texas black waxy. And
have white men, negroes and Dutch,
and what color are they? Not a single
white man in your Market" aud there
were Dutch in control of sixty five
wagons. You are a strange soul of a
Jack Rabbit. Our best whites here are
Dutch. And you think Dhale is a Re.
publican. will inform you that | am
a Prohibitionist, and think both old
parties are afraid to offend king
alcohol. You seem to think shylock
reigns supreme and Swings the parties
to suit ITSELF" In this you and | agree.
and that is one of the very many
reasons why l am a Prohibitionist.
Remember, Brother Rabbit, a voter is
better than the party he supports at
ballot box, and if there is any corrupt
money power swinging" in your
party you are to some extent RESPONSE
BILE. You next astonish nue.. You say
they (voters) all sell for MONEY
enough" Shame on such an idea.
You must be Intoxicated or non compos
IN NUS; an unpatriotic instructor OF
young voters. | dispair, Brother Reb
bit, OF making onr letters in the Herald
and Tribune interesting to the best
lass of readers. l say emphatically
would no sell my vote at any price;
and God knows it is 80. Such nonsense
by you, will be relished by few, and
Inc Herald and Tribune will discard US
A correspondent in the Herald
ina tribune thinks Dhale might not
get many bridges built on the north
,lde OF the county by his plan, ''inuen.
Ices" and filings. We only meant to
there was n way and we had as
we'll resort to il as Others. While the
money power may and doubtless is ex.
'rtlng a corrupting influence when 1t
ian ind those corrupt enough to be
bought and sold like negro slaves used
be, yet there is a vast deal more
harm done by the saloon, and some
men are so regardless of true manhood
patriotism as to acknowledge their
,wn weakness. 1t is said a drunk man
links every other man present is as
trunk as he, and so pretends to think !
because they get drunk and sell their
and privilege for unboly pur.
'oses that all Others are alike weak or
Something stronger than bur
es1ue is needed in such cases as above
efered to. 1t provokes the solemn
question, whittier are we drifting as a
'eople? Echo answers drifting from {
that is good and pure or safe. Let I
people keep sober enough to be ,
lonest, intelligent and patriotic even
+ politics must go. DHALE.