Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02
FREE HILL.

The health of our people is good, in
fact we are too busy to get sick. A
short storm with rain and hail on last
Friday downed some wheat, 1t mostly
followed the river. Watauga is very
muddy but not much up. War is on
between the corr and clods. Last Fri
day near a dozen men were at work
widening the roadbed mentioned in
u last letter. This Is as it should be,
and If Dr.. Is. and Nat G. will set in
their fence 80 the narrow places can
be widened they will become public
benefactors-now let other road au-
thorities catch the spirit of improve
ment and soon these narrows on first
and second class roads will disappear.
The public have rights that citizens
and road commissioners are bound to
respect. The Cantata exercises man
aged by Miss Boring, Berry and others
at Boring Chapel were a financial sue.
cess. The voting for the prettiest girl
and sale of the cake aroused the dudes
and free silver reigned for awhile at
the rate of 12 to 2 and the SUI of pro.
ceeds was Lea "a we hear. There
was much effort and we are glad the
ladies were successful. Well, Jack
Rabbit is in the paper Of the 10Th and
says "Dhale is after the rabbitn that
1t takes a fast dog to catch him."
Brother Rabbit will learn that it is a
shotgun instead of a dog, and double
barreled and loaded to the muzzle.
Your subject Is Texas VS.. Tennessee
and some things we will concede YOU
now; you have some advantage in this
race as you claim to have rabbited and
inhabited each Statewide | have
tread the soil of fifteen States l never
saw Texas and never had the Texas
fever. Texas is larger and hotter than
Tennessee, but not healthier. 1t may
be the physicians Eden, Tennessee is
certainly not, but for pure air, water
and plenty, Tennessee is superior. az
for variety in diet we have no superior.
Tennessee in climate is cold enough to
quicken mental activities and physical
exercise. 1t is not the sluggard's para.
disc, neither do cyclones do us about.
and If we could ever release Tennessee
from the saloon Hades and cyclopean
demon of Democracy we might be q
more prosperous people. Tennessee is
a glorious mean, neither too cold nor
too hot-not given to extremes of
temperature. Just enough of the
northern element in our population to
keep US up and doing and about enough
OF southern stupidity to make us con.
tented. Our undeveloped resources
are very great, perhaps much greater
than we have ever dreamed. Some
have called Tennessee the Switzerland
of America, and we are sure the evil
dence justites the conclusion. True
we are said to be illiterate to a miser-
able and disgraceful degree, but with
the good common sense and natural
talents of the coming Tennesseans we
may expect great progress, when the
last old fogy and fool is dead. Brother
Jack Rabbit you have one money crop
i. e. cotton" Well we can boast our
many staple products and abundance
too. We have Tennesseans in old
Washington County who went to Texas
and experienced a drouth when water
was so carce that nan and beast
could scarcely find a sufficient quantity
to save life. People could hardly
travel for the deep %crevasses or cracks
on your boosted "black wake" soil.
Let me give my little farm as q sample
of Tennessee lands. 15O acres in Free
HillValley nearly in sight of Spurgin's
depot, on the Three C's. This farm
lies on the road from Yorktown to
johnson City, has ten fields and one
or more perpetual springs in each field
several of these springs can be tubed
to the buildings, four grist mills and
three saw mills almost in the sound of
a good strong voice; stores and post
offices plenty. and we are told such
blessings exist almost every where in
Tennessee. We.have school houses in
stead of still houses, as il was forty
years ago. We are not fully awake to
our possibilities. Ben E, Hale, of
Stonega, Wise County, Va, is visiting
homefolks at Free Hill. He has been
working with Mr.. Minor, the Coke
Oven contractor, and reports a good
time, plenty of work and money to an
industrious young man. But time and
space warns me to desist. DHALE.
Don't think because you are sick and
nothing seems to give you relief that
you cant be cured. There must be a
cure somewhere. If your doctor can't
cure you, perhaps he has mistaken the
cause. Anybody is liable to make q
mistake sometimes. One in three of us
suffer from indigestion, and one out Of
three d%yspeptics doesn't know it. That
is, he may know he is sick, but he
blames it to something else. Indiges.
ton is the cause of half of our danger
Gus diseases, Shaker Digestive Cor.
dial, made from tonic medicinal roots
and herbs, is the most natural cure for
indigestion. 1t relieves the symptoms
and cures the disease gently, naturally,